*spoilers* Ending discussion

[tendogamerxxx]

Am I over thinking it?! I’m so confused. I played thru the whole game and the ending is so confusing. Is the main character the king? Why does the sister see the brother in the window? Is he dead? I loved the game but I want to understand the story and I’m too dumb to piece it all together 🥲

[Nederbeest]

It could be that just as it is shown, sister gets kidnapped and brother rescues her and they go home to live happily ever after. Fairytales are not supposed to be Inception level storytelling...

Although... speaking of a dream within a dream... perhaps it's the sister dreaming the entire thing. Their mother keeps reading them all scary bedtime story's and one night she dreams about being kidnapped and her little brother rescuing her. It would make sense in the end. All the creatures are creatures from the storybooks their mother reads them before bedtime. That would explain the woman's voice narrating the story... It's the mothers voice. Or the sister's when she is older, telling the story to her children.

What I'm saying is, don't overthink it :P

About the King, read the two storybooks about him in the library. That's his story. Olle is not the king, that's clear.

[vex]

Olle reminded king Nils of his late son, which is why he stopped attacking him and had the will to break free from his curse. Olle threw his light of courage into Nils' mouth, allowing his sister to use it to escape. The orb brought Olle back to life because the girl he met in the forest towards the beginning of the game (Tuva) put some sort of life energy into it. The end is just a replay of the beginning, only with the sister waking up from a nightmare and her brother being right there for her.

[darkling235]

The story isn't very tightly woven together. It's an exploration of Scandinavian folklore which is fine but the way they told it isn't much of a story. Most of the Ollie's journey just kind of happens instead of steadily building to a climax. The Mountain King is clearly causing tons of problems in the lands but these problems aren't really personal to Ollie so the final fight feels lacking in pathos. We only find out about the connection between the King and the trolls at the very end. The King eats Lillimor but this kind of comes out of nowhere and we're not even sure if we can still get her back during the fight with the King. There was more build up with the kidnapping troll as the primary villain than the king. There are a lot of dream sequences in the game and it's not clear how much of the story was supposed to be 'real' or if all of it was or if none of it was.