Game Ending (Spoilers)

[Xyrlian]

Why is no one talking about the cat dying? Did I miss something? I 100%'ed the base game, and Ch 5 just ends with the girl sobbing because the cat's gone.

I understand that there's some metaphors in there and that the girl/cat story isn't the "real story" or whatever, but that doesn't make it okay to just kill the cat you spent the game growing attached to. Its a cat! You just don't do that, especially in game that evokes a lighter tone like this one.

Does the DLC address this? Or is the message of this game that sometimes the cat's just dead?

[gooooood mewing vietnam!]

sometimes the cat was never real in the first place my guy

[Xyrlian]

Originally posted by Rawhide:

sometimes the cat was never real in the first place my guy :timeliecathello:

Ripped my heart out regardless

[Bojack Jorgeman]

DLC Address the Cat & Girl names.
Game Message i think it is: "even if time & fate break us apart, i will cherish the moments together. (reliving the "last eternity"= restarting the game, the power to turn back time)
That's what i can get from Eng Translation of the Thai version of the credits song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISKqDfcvZz4&ab_channel=AishaChannel (Turn on the Eng captions)

[ComparisonWorld]

I just completed the game and felt really confused by the ending as well. I remember someone interpreting it as the whole thing was a dream and the cat is supposed to represent the boy with orange hair you see in the secret ending. The girl and the boy seem like they're being experimented on, which is why they have powers. The cat representing a human character could be why the cat had intellect on the level of a human and is implied to be able to see into the future like the girl. The girl being attached to the cat could represent the girl having some kind of fondness for the boy but is sad that she can't be with him for whatever reason.

But yeah, I'm sick and tired of the cliche of having a pet die in media. Should've had somebody else in place and not an animal. But maybe they had the cat character in place of the boy character just so that the audience can feel more of an emotional connection since people tend to feel more for animals than humans.

But if the cat was supposed to represent the boy, why do we need to sacrifice the cat to escape? And why did it turn into some kind of spirit and forces us to replay certain levels?

[FAT CONTROLLER]

What's the problem with them killing a fictional cat?

[Xyrlian]

Originally posted by FAT CONTROLLER:

What's the problem with them killing a fictional cat?

it made me sad and i didn't like it

[RLach]

Thanks for the spoiler.

[SotiCoto]

Originally posted by FAT CONTROLLER:

What's the problem with them killing a fictional cat?

I would definitely sacrifice you in real life to save a fictional cat.

[SheepWithHammer]

Just finished myself and come to talk about it, with part 5 there's something caught on my mind. First we have to make it meow one time and the relic says [I'd like to have that in writing], second it only meows when we touch it (not by command), third it hide in a vent but still comes out for her, forth she's out of time after the cat disappear in the main world.

After all these hint I think this cat represent another superpower "tunneling", meowing is only making noise not actually it's power, part five might be the part where the clock is fixed and the cat regain all its power but have to leave to open the doors you go through from the first place(part 1 to part 4)(also leading you back to make itself meow), after all those door (and the last one for you to leave) it lose its power and become normal again, sadly stayed in the vent that you first found it ready for another cycle, but you want it to come with you and it did, yet the faith didn't agree... the cycle needs the cat to function or thing won't play out the way it did so the cycle takes the cat (and the cat knows it will happen so it accept its fate) and Elie wasn't buying it, she tried to brute force the cycle back but she failed, the last door showed up, it's the only way out, it's the perfect path, everything you been through lead to this moment, you are the only one that can make it out of the cycle.

[UpInFlam3z]

Nice spoilers in the reviews

[Saint - Huesito de chabacano]

I think the cat dying is sad...but maybe it was done to add depth to the story...don't remember much of the ending though...gotta beat the game again, I have been playing it again recently...and I still find the girl quite cute and attractive lol xD

[Klem]

I just went through the DLC looking for the names of the characters, in hope that they would shed some light to the story, and I think it really does.

The girl is Elie, and the cat is Tim. Together they form the title of the game: TimElie. Her name is of French origin and means The Lord is my God. And Tim, being short for Timothy, means Honoring God.

With this new information added to what we've already seen, we can speculate that the evil organization keeping the girl confined, are enemies of God (yes, satanists). If so, that would explain some things.

In the game, the girl brings various objects to a sort of altar with a recipient. They're like the ingredients of a spell, which reinforces the idea of occultism being the main function of the facilities.
When Elie comes out of the fourth door, Tim goes towards the altar and waits for her to bring the fourth object (Why that interest?). And when she does, the cat walks towards the clock, before glowing and levitating, and then walks away from her in level 5-1. The clock is shaped like an eye. A single eye is often plainly used to represent the devil, not only in "certain circles", but also in pop culture, cartoons, movies, other games etc... Sometimes mockingly, but not always. I don't think this game is an exception. That eye takes away her cat after all.

Regarding time travel, the living God is able to make people do it. In the book of Revelation, John sees the future tribulation, the second coming of Jesus Christ, and more.
In the book of John, Jesus said, "Before Abraham was, I am", which gives more depth to the word "omnipresent".

So then, are the antagonists in the game, worshippiers of the devil in his Chronos identity? What was the cat, and what did it become after the fourth ingredient?
The answers to those questions and others depend on the developers' views on the spiritual realm. Sadly, seeing that the player is basically forced to complete a witchcraft spell in an altar, probably not quite biblical. Bad theology at best.

But in my wishful thinking of this fictional story, God is helping the girl escape, and she only failed for now because she disobeyed him by doing the pagan stuff that people teached her, and because she also has to save the boy. There you go, -Good End.

[Xyrlian]

That's an interesting esoteric reading, though I don't think any sort of biblical superimposition is going to help me here. Doesn't change that I don't like that the cat died.

[Saint - Huesito de chabacano]

Still thinking the kitty dying is sad...and I still find the girl quite attractive, lol...

[TLWO]

Originally posted by ComparisonWorld:

But if the cat was supposed to represent the boy, why do we need to sacrifice the cat to escape?

i think the reason we have to sacrifice the cat to escape is to symbolize that if the girl were to escape, the boy would have to take her place. they both would be sacrifices for her to escape