Let's talk about the ending and some features - Obvious spoilers

[YoungZer0]

Man, I feel like I missed something. The ending came out of nowhere and left me kind of confused.

Are there alternative endings? The achievements make it look like there are decisions I could make.

What was the point of the point system - at all? Is it just teasing me?

Did the devil leave her alone in the end? Because she lost her faith? I think he implied something in the dialog at the end.

[Leon96]

put the spoiler black tags so the mods don't ban :P

Like this

[Datura Plays]

Point are collected through "faith" interactions, like when you pray or find icons. Right at the start the game tells you not to waste time on collecting them cause "they are pointless", meaning there's no great goodness or evil. There's no satan or god, Indika heard her own thoughts and thought it was devil because the religion forced her to think so.
At the end you can shake the Kudec for as many points as you want (cause it's a relic that's supposed to spawn miracles, but as we can see, the whole journey for this was... pointless

[DNCE Knight]

For me, the game's ending was a logical culmination leading to the main character's atheism. As Indika's Devil said: "I will disappear only when you stop wanting it." For her, the Devil exists on the same level as God, so the disappearance of one means the disappearance of the other. The creators' position in the game seems to be atheistic, but personally, as an agnostic, the ending seemed frightening to me because the main character's emptiness well demonstrates that nothing is scarier than atheism.

[火木火]

The perspective change probably means that nobody's looking over your shoulder anymore and that you're on your own.

[menasfactory]

Don't forget that moment when you light a candle for Karl Marx and it doesn't reward you in any way - as opposed to all the saints and mother of gods that have given you stars-. What matters, the practical effects of your everyday labor, do not impact your salvation. Au contraire, you can jerk off to salvation, like the devil at the end of the game - salvation's an empty promise, an empty, self-absorbed world, and its rules are fake. Salvation exists because of the devil and the devil because of sanctity. Do you need to choose, then? Not really, you can just leave this mindset/framework and live your own way.

But what struck me as genius was that salvation is seen as coins and stars from a Mario game. Religion is like capitalism, or like a videogame: a process that doesn't relate to anything but itself, that answers to its rules and its rules only... unless it is lived fully, deeply. When you're truly religious you leave Marx's materialistic, real world of labor and become schizophrenic, autistic or on a different level of existence. That is not the case for INDIKA. She learns that her devil is only her rebellion against a hypocritical, self-absorbed way of life, chosen - or suffered- because she didn't have a choice. She doesn't believe and punishes herself for not doing so, but no as much as society. It is the sense of unfairness that wakes her up.

[reniferziolo]

In my view, the concept of the devil was merely a manifestation of psychosis, particularly considering that it would emerge during moments of intense stress, and the world seemed to unravel further as the game progressed . I'd assume it started after her father killed that ♥♥♥♥♥ guy?

[Beardo]

Originally posted by 森木森:

The perspective change probably means that nobody's looking over your shoulder anymore and that you're on your own.

This answer is on point. Has nobody noticed yet that when you look at Indika with the camera, she regularly looks directly at it, then averts her gaze?

The player camera is an entity into itself, meaning SHE is aware of it, and it's something that is looking AT her.

[zero hope >:(]

Originally posted by 森木森:

The perspective change probably means that nobody's looking over your shoulder anymore and that you're on your own.

Now consider this: The whole game long devil watches her from aside, commenting and judging her actions as an observer. In the end he looks right from her eyes, like she finally gave up on struggling for her soul, embraced devil's presence and is ultimately possessed at that point

[Delta]

Originally posted by zero hope >:(:

Originally posted by 森木森:

The perspective change probably means that nobody's looking over your shoulder anymore and that you're on your own.

Now consider this: The whole game long devil watches her from aside, commenting and judging her actions as an observer. In the end he looks right from her eyes, like she finally gave up on struggling for her soul, embraced devil's presence and is ultimately possessed at that point

The devil was never real though, just the parts of herself that she refused to acknowledge and convinced herself were an evil. By the end she's learned that her journey for salvation was meaningless, that no amount of "good person" points will change anything.

To quote Philip K. ♥♥♥♥: "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."