So . . . The end video means what? (Spoilers)

[wongojack]

The game was an illness induced typing fantasy? Any explanation?

[MrZany]

My interpretation is that she woke op from a coma. I think she had an accident but that is not really clear to me (it's been a while since I played it). The journey we went through is the fighting she had to go through, the fighting for her life.

[darkdisciple1313]

If this is the case, then my previous glowing review will likely have to be changed. How mundane to make it like about twenty other games out there doing the exact same thing, rather than just making it an enjoyable, artistic typing game with a cool style and interesting story, and nothing else.

Also serves me right for doing up a review before completely finishing the game. Lesson learned.

[MrZany]

I am sorry you feel that way. Apart from that the game is unique in many other different ways.

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by MrZany:

I am sorry you feel that way. Apart from that the game is unique in many other different ways.

Oh, it's not your fault at all, just that I like the game for what I thought it was, rather than being something I was not expecting at the end. It is like eating a chocolate eclair, and loving it, only to discover at the end that there was a mushroom in the cream filling. Kind of ruins the taste after that.

[wongojack]

I wasn't terribly impressed by the ending, but it is so short that it hardly ruined the experience for me. Just keep playing dude.

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by wongojack:

I wasn't terribly impressed by the ending, but it is so short that it hardly ruined the experience for me. Just keep playing dude.

I'll just close my eyes and think about baseball. :D

[Shadowgirl00]

I found the ending disappointing as well. I suspect the shattered pages may paint a better picture, but I haven't managed to find all the pages.

Especially since it left too many questions, I suspect through out her life she had found love and lost them (due to death). There is the implication she moved from her home to another location (from somewhere small to a big city) and found the adjustment difficult. There is also the implication she felt lonely in college, and she and a friend/partner/lover may have started something like a business. The fact it showed she was an artist might mean she had gone freelance at one point or another in her career.

The other thing is, I sort realized that the story it took may have been bouncing around in her life so it's not at all clear when something happened or what the result of that was. I'm a bit morbid to think that maybe she hadn't had an accident but may have done something to herself, because a lot of the story was about love and lost. However the ending wasn't clear and it never gave a full clear picture of what had occurred.

Which I find strange because it was designed and written very well in all other aspects.

[Shadowgirl00]

As an add on to my last post, I had actually expected because of the narrative and the game over screen that she was writing a children's book as a way to get over grief so I was really surprised that she was in a coma.

[wjousts]

Yeah, the ending was a bit anti-climatic for sure. I also wasn't expecting it to hit me right when it did either.

[wongojack]

I honestly couldn't make sense of the various times in the game when the voice would change from giving you a description of the scene to what I guess was story dialog. For example, there was one voice that would say something like "She found the living quarters." Then another that would say something like "I can't fail my classes this semester."

The voice describing what was happening ("living quarters") made sense. The other voice could have had its dialog written by a computer. I could never make out any kind of coherent story to that dialog or to the "meta" story behind this game at all.

I think it would have been better as just a little adventure game about a girl on a fox exploring. The outer story just kinda didn't work IMO. Still a fun game for the most part though.

[Shadowgirl00]

Well that's why I thought that this person was writing a story, that reflected their life in a way. You were reading a story, but under that were things that this person was really experiencing under all of that. This little girl's fight through the dungeons was a person's way to work through things like grief, sadness, and isolation.

I think the outer story could have worked, if the ending was more put together. Like I said, that and the game over screen make it sound like someone was writing a story, to me her being in a coma didn't make much sense.

And to fair, this idea of a narrative story representing a parallel story in real life was a common trope in movies when I was growing up as a child, so this isn't something too far out field.

[MrZany]

Originally posted by Shadowgirl00:

Well that's why I thought that this person was writing a story

That was also my impression.

Originally posted by wongojack:

I honestly couldn't make sense of the various times in the game when the voice would change from giving you a description of the scene to what I

I have the script of the story in pdf file, can't remember where I found it. But if you want to get a better look into the story I can look where I found it.
I too had some problems with following the story exactly but I loved the narration


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[TheThibz]

The script was released as part of the 1 year anniversary.
http://steamcommunity.com/games/398850/announcements/detail/236843283496970489

[darkdisciple1313]

I'm guessing I'll probably end up liking the game anyway (when I get back to it, too busy to do much excess gaming at the moment), but I'll probably treat the ending like I treat the aftertaste of a wonderful pasta dinner that had just a little bit too much garlic in it. Bad taste in the mouth and all that. It's still a fine game, all ending matters aside. But boy has my typing accuracy gotten slacky as of late. Must do better.

[TheVigilante]

I thought the ending was great and made complete sense. Just my $.02