[SPOILERS] So, what did you all think of the story overall?

[Shady Boots]

Those of you who have finished the game, sound off here and share your thoughts about the story, maybe discuss theories even. Those who have not might want to look away for now, since there will be spoilers included.

I actually really liked the whole infinite time loop thing, especially when it was revealed at the end that it was still going. The end left me with a bunch of questions still, though. I feel like I'm going to have several more playthroughs of this game to try to figure more things out. But besides the story I think the characters and dialogue are what shine the most in this game.

By the way, out of curiosity, how do you get Clarissa to not hate you? xD I tried, but it was a futile effort. I didn't even know you COULD get her to not hate you until I saw the choice roundup at the end.

[jecomans]

I'm not so sure about the infinite loop at the end. I think maybe it would have been more satifsying if you just escaped. But I'm happy either way. Not sure what exactly it was that made me and Clarissa make up, but I was generally positive towards her, and tried to save her.
I need to do some more thinking on this game overnight. My general impressions though? Well, I put it on to play a few minutes before bed, and it is now 2.30am and I just finished.
I was into the game and those characters enough that when I woke up on the boat at the end, I first sat down on the bench, which made sense for a tired person. But as everyone talked without even thinking about it I got up and walked over to stand next to Jonas, whom I had spent the whole game with.

[byc616]

I think this game have many endings, and I got the ending with Alex's dead brother come back to life! I was like wtf?? this is not the true ending! I think my Alex got stucked with the ghosts. btw what's the problem with those ghosts can't they just move on?

[Marshmallow]

So uh.. Correct me if I'm wrong, but..
The sequences when the reflections are talking to Alex.. Are.. Are those other players who have finished the game choosing dialogue for the reflection in other peoples games?

If so, I'm genuinely impressed; Like, my mind is blown by this idea. Genuinely - this is a genre I've always thought of as set-in-stone, but that inclusion is REALLY interesting.

[Ian]

I'm pretty sure News Dog is correct. We seed those for future players, which is pretty great.

As for the ending, I got off the island with everyone (other than my brother, which I didn't pursue at all), got Ren and Nona together, and made Clarissa hate me. I'm pretty sure I know when I got Ren and Nona together, but I'm really vague on where I stood with Clarissa. I didn't try to be mean to her, but I also didn't take her ♥♥♥♥. I also collected EVERYTHING.

[Pro_Ice]

Well, this is surprising. How do you even bring Michael back to life?!


I've got the ending where I closed the hole and woke up on the boat. Didn't take Clarissa deal with the ghosts and everyone escaped. Apparently I messed up on Ren+Nona thing. Is it because I brought that up on the beach? With Clarissa I tried to be cool through the whole game, and got her and Michael together in a dream. Didn't get any end stats for Nona though.

P.S. Is it worth letting Jonas contact his mother? My ghost prompted me not to.

[Marshmallow]

Originally posted by Ian:

I'm pretty sure News Dog is correct. We seed those for future players, which is pretty great.

Well whoever gets my reflection, I apologize but I just hit dialogue options randomly.
I'm so sorry.

[jecomans]

I only had time-warps with Michael, so I encouraged him to stay with Clarissa and get an apartment with her. But there wasn't any indication that I was actually saving him by doing so. Sounds like I got the same outcomes as Pro_Ice. I told Ren to go for it with Nona, and left them alone together a lot, but it said I stopped them getting together. Maybe it's because he ate two brownies and got annoying? RE: letting Jonas talk to his mother, I did, and it didn't seem to have much impact, he just disappeared, then was waiting on the boat and had dialogues about it!

[Tokyo Banana]

Does anybody know the best ending? I got Nona and Ren together,Made up with Clarissa and accepted Jonas. But the last 5 seconds made me feel like I got a bad ending with the whole thing resetting. Is it possible to bring michael back to life and peacefully escape with all 6 people?

[Pro_Ice]

Originally posted by jecomans:

RE: letting Jonas talk to his mother

Thanks. It's surprising how Ghost Alex choices apparently don't impact the narrative that much. Or there just needs to be a specific combination of choices before/after we haven't got.

[jecomans]

Everyone seems to be stuck in a time loop, from what I can tell? Not sure about this whole bringing Michael back to life, byc would have to comment about what happened there. In terms of the group of 5, I thought I got a good outcome.

[Marshmallow]

Originally posted by Onision is a Cuck:

Does anybody know the best ending? I got Nona and Ren together,Made up with Clarissa and accepted Jonas. But the last 5 seconds made me feel like I got a bad ending with the whole thing resetting. Is it possible to bring michael back to life and peacefully escape with all 6 people?

You got the same ending as me.. But now that you mention it, maybe you need to find all anomalies/messages?

Just a theory.

[Shady Boots]

Originally posted by jecomans:

Everyone seems to be stuck in a time loop, from what I can tell? Not sure about this whole bringing Michael back to life, byc would have to comment about what happened there. In terms of the group of 5, I thought I got a good outcome.

I got the feeling the time loop was a given, like no matter what ending you got. Like, it's the big reveal that all of it is happening over and over again.

[Pro_Ice]

Did anyone choose to go public about the story, when chatting on the boat? Wonder how that impacts the final round-up.

[Marshmallow]

Originally posted by Pro_Ice:

Did anyone choose to go public about the story, when chatting on the boat? Wonder how that impacts the final round-up.

I didn't personally, I might do another run tomorrow or sunday and pick that option, see what happens.

If somebody else already has, please feel free to post it. Ofc, spoiler it.

[Kappa]

From what I got of the ending, Alex was just sent to another dimension of timeloop, where everything works out for her. The timeline of the game still exists, but she's not in it. Tragic, but its the only way the ending actually makes sense to me. Sorry original dimension.

The storyline wasn't really engrossing for me. The 'final battle' lines that I KNEW would help me out involved characters that I barely remembered or didn't really pay attention to sadly.

Wish there was a way other than screenshots I could use to mark all the endings I got. I got the second to last Jonas ending (as you can see from my screenshot). Really wondering what that small sliver is that's the lowest percentage...