The Ending [spoilers]

[Chameleon_HG]

Efficient but devastating. All those purely-human moments with mr. Tillett and mrs. de Plancy and the others... just to end in a nightmare. I mean, that's expectable since the game clearly inspired by The Wicker Man and lovecraftian horror stories, but, man, i wish there was two different endings. I felt attached to Thomasina a little too much.
Anyhow, the game moved me in many ways. Respect to the devs. Thanks for a great story.

[Yiggy]

Fully agree with this. Being a fan of Lovecraft I really enjoyed the bleakness of the ending. Bravo.

[Sombrelust]

Yeah, the one thing I felt like I wanted more info on at the end of the game is what happens to the remaining villagers? Like Mrs de Plancy, Father Roache, Jane and Douglas, Mr Farnaby (I think that's his name? The old grumpy guy who is always telling you to leave and/or leave him alone), Mr Briden & his wife, the little blonde girl, Mother Mildred and the blacksmith? Its nice to know Arthur and his wife escape, but so many other people's lives just go unaddressed :(

Is the assumption that either everyone who wasn't at Lord Panswycks chapel died, or just that everyone in the village joined them to worship Abraxas ?

[Chameleon_HG]

Originally posted by Sombrelust:

Yeah, the one thing I felt like I wanted more info on at the end of the game is what happens to the remaining villagers?

I guess only the nearest months are shown, where only part of the villagers joined the cult, while the future of remaining world is uncertain. It's part of the horror

[Quoth the Raven]

Well, personally, I would like to have had a choice at the end. I mean, I understand the narrative and such, but personally, :

My impression from the story was that her father was a decent man who worked hard to contain some great evil. While he obviously paid a huge price for it, it seems, he knew what he was doing. I (Thomasina) on the other hand have only a vague idea what's going on.

Also, when Arthur told his story, it became obvious who the bad guys in the story are.

So, for this reason I would never have used the knife in the final szene. I would go against the grain for me.

One could even twist the ending in this case:
a) I don't use my blood: The evil spirit possesses me, I kill my father and go to prison.
b) I free the spirit and basically nothing bad happens to me or my father. The little village on the other hand ...

[Wakane]

While many things are suspicious. The protagonist should recognize the super big red flag after Arthur told his story in the alley

[Dr4gonst4r]

Originally posted by Wakane:

While many things are suspicious. The protagonist should recognize the super big red flag after Arthur told his story in the alley

The red flag is obvious to us, as we have an omnipotent view of his flashback and know what he says is true. But to Thomasina, friendly as Arthur is & much as they've bonded, is aware of the fact he is the village drunk and has already proven an unreliable narrator at times.

You also have to keep in mind how desperate she is to believe what Saxnot has told her about being able to cure her father.

[Nedly Dedly]

Originally posted by Dr4gonst4r:

Originally posted by Wakane:

While many things are suspicious. The protagonist should recognize the super big red flag after Arthur told his story in the alley

The red flag is obvious to us, as we have an omnipotent view of his flashback and know what he says is true. But to Thomasina, friendly as Arthur is & much as they've bonded, is aware of the fact he is the village drunk and has already proven an unreliable narrator at times.

You also have to keep in mind how desperate she is to believe what Saxnot has told her about being able to cure her father.

Quoting a comment from YouTube:
"While part of me feels bad for what happened to her, I can’t help, but feel she brought all this on herself. There were so many warning signs and red flags and coincidences that even an extreme sceptic would question all of this. Ultimately, to me, she did it not out of genuine ignorance, but out of a selfish desire to free her father regardless of horrible consequences to others that was clearly present."
As for Arthur, I dunno. He is a drunk, sure, but he never came off as someone who would tell Thomasina something like that for the sake of bullshitting her. Both Wakane and the guy who wrote the comment are right. There was so, SO much ♥♥♥♥ telling Thomasina to stop, but she didn't.

[voidofopinion]

I loved everything but the actual barrow portion. The Wickerman/Innsmouth vibe throughout the entire game was fantastic. The ending itself very classic Lovecraft. But I feel like the Barrow portion tried to touch upon the Dream Cycle/Mountains of Madness and instead of endless worlds of ancient wonder we got a stilted puzzle section where the color purple was supposed to make for creativity and imagination.

Again, fantastic beginning and middle, fantastic end, I just wish the barrow section pulled me in and captured my imagination like the rest of the game did.