[Spoilers] Is the great big blue thing evil or not

[vladulenta]

I just finished the game (on family share) and I'm left confused about the end-game content. The blue mother figure, how she talks to you while you do the arena, I fully assumed she'd be the true final boss or some-such, showing she's corrupted in reality or the true evil under your nose.

Especially when you do the final boss fight against the last chosen (previously the unchosen but it's rude to still call him that). He was blue, uncorrupted and I thought, in my mind, that it wasn't some apparition of him but the ship himself. And your character would win, and it would turn out you'd have been tricked to kill him without realizing it. Especially after the ominous "that's how the fight was, wasn't it?" message. I went back out to check if he was still there and... he was there.

And then the ending happens, where the blue mother carries out her duties rightfully and both of you selflessly sacrifice yourselves for the good of a world you won't live to see. No hints of evil in any of it.

So am I insane, reading it wrong, or is the plotpoint completely dropped? Just curious.
Amazing game btw.

[Hariman]

I find it refreshing, and I have theories:

1: I think YOUR power as the player is what is given up. Minishoot lives on, and returns to their family/friends, but with the memory of your help from outside.

2: The Unchosen is purified, with the stolen power being released when you defeat them, and I was SO happy to see that, because I was sad that I had to "kill" him.

3: Yeah, the mother scarab/living demigod is a good guy. It's really refreshing to me because SO MANY OTHER GAMES make the god figure a villain.

4: It's a very happy ending to me. Instead of finding out that the prophecy is some trick, you prove your worth as the savior and you DON'T repeat the sins of the past.

I love it.

Also yes, I did get the feeling that the ending would be a twist "fight the god thing" moment... but then the ending happened.