Has anyone made sense of that book in the bathroom?

[Thorofare]

The book with the strange drawings and text, surrounded by candles. I tried to decipher the symbol and read the text, but alas, nothing. Has anyone figured it out yet?

[violentlepidoptera]

Basically, the point of it is to look like a summoning circle to suggest supernatural activity. Just like the duplicates of occult books scattered around Leonard's spaces. It's either a deep-cut horror movie reference or simple obfuscation. The game is gun shy about confirming whether or not this is a supernatural story, so I'm inclined to think it's the latter.

Example: The ending implies (but doesn't confirm) that there IS a spirit haunting the hotel, but based on the dialogue it's the spirit of Claire, not Rachel. This suggests to me that the writer was more interested in vague ambiguity than constructing a solid story. Or something was lost in translation.

[Thorofare]

I agree with what you're suggesting, and I've actually tried to take diagrams Leonard had scattered about to try and translate the book. I've got some of the diagrams translated, but to me the book looks like a sigil (again, probably something to do with summoning circles) but I wonder if its just mumbo jumbo or if there's actually a meaning.

I've never thought that the spirit could be Claire before. That's an interesting theory.

[3lives]

I felt the game's director had no idea where they actually wanted to go with the story - there's an audio tape in one of Irving's rooms with a title suggesting the christmas sounds were artificially made to lead Nicole forward.
And he threw in everything that's creepy in other games believing that's all it takes to evoke scares.

[Savas Yıldırımı]

I really wonder what happened at the end. It didn't make any sense to me. Has she gone crazy or been possessed or gone through some inter dimensional transformation set by her physicist father?

[3lives]

All of the above :D

[blackmantaray]

Originally posted by Savas YIldırımı:

I really wonder what happened at the end. It didn't make any sense to me. Has she gone crazy or been possessed or gone through some inter dimensional transformation set by her physicist father?

LOL, the ending really did squander some great voice performances.

[zaphodikus]

I thought the sound "color" on the end as spot-on - some of the subtitling was off, but the room "feel" and depth was perfect for the last scene.

[AllTracTurbo]

I assumed the book and candles were left by the ghost hunter people that left all their stuff behind including the camera, tapes, and the microphone thing you use to listen for sounds.