Finding Paradise

Finding Paradise

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(SPOILERS!!!) So what about Dr.Watts machine?
If I didn't misunderstand anything, Dr. Watts was testing out his self-build machine on Colin, instead of using the one from the company.
I think this is actually the reason he decided to hand over full control to the imaginary Faye from Colin's fantasy.
I believe he is working on some automated process, that fullfills the last wishes of the patients.
Meaning in the case of Colin, the machine produced Faye as a person, who fixed some regrettable moments in Colins life.
Otherwise I can't explain myself, why he told Rob and Roxxie at the end of the game, that "This is the solution" pointing at the shape of Faye on the screen of the machine.

Does somebody have the same opinion? Or am I talking trash?
Please share your thoughts here.
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Sun_S Dec 14, 2019 @ 2:01am 
Yeah, that machine is Neil's own modified version, and that is Faye on its screen.

But she wasn't made by the machine; she was a product of Colin's own imagination.
He had invented her in his childhood because he was utterly lonely, modelling her character on a bird he once found (that story is told in A Bird Story - that's also why when they say goodbye, she spreads out wings).
Neil's machine only allowed for the process to be taken over by her. The original machine would have had a safeguard to keep something like that from happening (the stabilizer Neil removed).

Of course that still doesn't answer what Neil's modified machine is ultimately meant to do. It seems like stumbling upon Faye was really a stroke of luck in reaching that goal though, because he manages to incorporate her in the machine. There are two alternate scenes that show how that comes to be:
1) If the player fights Faye until they win every battle, Eva can freeze her and stop her from interfering. Then before Neil hops into the last memory, he makes a copy of Faye.
2) If the player gives up on fighting Faye, Eva can only freeze her temporarily. She breaks free and runs away. Then Neil goes to search Faye and makes her an offer - we don't hear what that offer entails, but just as in the previous scenario, she ends up on the machine.

Oh, one more addition: The thing is, Faye doesn't actually fix the moments that Colin regrets. All she does is make him forget about seeing the Sigmund commercial. Because he had actually been content with his life, until the commercial reminded him that if he wished, he could make everything perfect. Colin was old at that point, and when he had said goodbye to Faye, she had suggested they should meet again before his death and he would tell her about his awesome life - back then, he had worried his life might not be that awesome. In the meantime, he had built a life he was content with, but this reminded him that maybe there were things still to make better so he could present her with perfection. In the end, Faye just allowed him to come to peace with the imperfections in his life.
Last edited by Sun_S; Dec 14, 2019 @ 2:18am
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