After Credits ending

[CallingCawl]

May I begin by saying, congragulations. You, the developers, have successfully pulled off the story telling medium in game form. The game makes you attached to the characters, something of which is hard to find in this day and age.

So, yah. Kudos.

Anyway, moving on from that. Spoilers ahead children! If you've not played the game to it's climax, don't bother reading this!




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There we go. Anyway, read beyond this point at your own risk.

As the game ends, and after the credits roll, you're given a scene. You find that the house has been willed over to the caretaker, and all is well. Another case is presented, and you are just about to head on your way.

But as you do, your character pauses for a second. The screen reddens, and darkens, almost like the scene where the memory was nearly destabilized when the rather odorus ran over squirrel was introduced. Then, it clears up. Character has no idea what just happens, moves on.

But, this scene brings up a rather important question, and observation. Remember the Pain Pills, back when you go out to the car to recover the Squirrel.

Could it be the one character taking the pills is actually in the simulation, on his deathbed? What is with the strange destabilization effect?

Come on, Bird, don't be tightlipped about this. Ye' open a can of worms, best be ready to least throw someone who's thought about this a bit a bone.

Thoughts? Observations? Head-Canon?

[Catalan Blade]

I also realized the strange effect with the screen at the end. I just finished the game and I was looking for somebody talking about it, and so far this is the only post that I found.

I totally agree with you that this should mean that one of the characters is on his deathbed, and I think is Dr. Rosalene. I think is her because I disagree only in one point, I don't think that Dr. Watts doesn't know what is going on, because he realizes what just happened, turns his body and takes the pills (because are the pills, right?). Also this could be link with the last scene, when the rocket takes off and he tries to hug her. So, from my point of view she is in her deathbed, they are a couple in "real life" and now he is trying somehow to confort her... or he is the one in his deathbed (that's why he takes the pills), he is aware of it and he is trying something, I don't know what. I think that is the first option, so she is in her deathbed, but the second option seems plausible too.

Finally, if it is true that one of the main characters is in his deathbed (and I don't have a doubt about it), this means that each episode of the series will be like 1 hour of "To the moon", to say somehow, just a little part of a big work done to make true the last wish of the one dying.

[colin caesarman]

I think you guys are reading into it a bit much. I think the developer was just trying to tell us Neil was starting to get withdrawl symptoms, and he used a previously introduced (and therefore familiar) indicator to do so.

Basically he's addicted to pain pills and if he doesn't take them he probably freaks out. But anything's possible.