I didn't understand the ending

[BucketHead]

Loved the game but the ending was confusing and abrupt, waiting for the next part tho

[★ FmNey ★]

Let put it this way, if a person dear to you having an excruciating illness and it pains them (him/her) a lot, they fight every day to sleep, to eat... or just to breathe. Will you keep them living to suffer or will you let them go?
The ending is the latter option, but with first-person experience.

[caguamo110111011]

I know what you mean, seeing my 4090 going from stable 60fps on 4k, ray tracing on, DLSS off, everything else on max settings, PC drops to low 10 fps just didn't make sense and it made me feel very sad, I couldn't even hit the boss once, I will never understand!!!

[Snipesnippydiznipsnipzipndidip]

Seems so far in the next Part she has gathered a whole loony bin behind her ^^
As long as she was going alone through this it was acceptable to have this illness to underline the Story to a degree, but in the next Part it becomes a whole new quality of beeing mentally ill.
She seemed to have to understand to let go to leave her illness behind her but for monetary purposes her struggle must go on.

[Mav]

Originally posted by Extinction Level Event:

Seems so far in the next Part she has gathered a whole loony bin behind her ^^
As long as she was going alone through this it was acceptable to have this illness to underline the Story to a degree, but in the next Part it becomes a whole new quality of beeing mentally ill.
She seemed to have to understand to let go to leave her illness behind her but for monetary purposes her struggle must go on.

Agreed, they could have focused on another character with MI for a completely different game and experience. Why they're beating a dead horse is beyond me. I would have been far more interested in experiences with a different MI since I know what psychosis is like now for the most part. I'm not sure if I'll be buying the second one because now it's obvious they are after money more than spreading awareness about other MIs.

[Snipesnippydiznipsnipzipndidip]

Originally posted by Uni:

Originally posted by Extinction Level Event:

Seems so far in the next Part she has gathered a whole loony bin behind her ^^
As long as she was going alone through this it was acceptable to have this illness to underline the Story to a degree, but in the next Part it becomes a whole new quality of beeing mentally ill.
She seemed to have to understand to let go to leave her illness behind her but for monetary purposes her struggle must go on.

Agreed, they could have focused on another character with MI for a completely different game and experience. Why they're beating a dead horse is beyond me. I would have been far more interested in experiences with a different MI since I know what psychosis is like now for the most part. I'm not sure if I'll be buying the second one because now it's obvious they are after money more than spreading awareness about other MIs.

Not saying its a bad thing, dont get me wrong, the one thing comes with the other, but i think the fact that shes halluzinating from her illness gets a bit lost in the Game because its nearly to real what we play, by playing it, simply beeing a Game. It uses the characteristics but doesn't really do them justice, by beeing a Computergame which often picks up those Fantasyworlds, not neccessarily having the need to use this sickness.
There is no one else around her taking her back to reality. So this continous condition she is in is hard to differ. Now seeing her fighting with her Companions makes it even more intense.
But so far i liked the Teasers..

[Bucky]

Hela isn't really "real" she's just a representation of Senua and her conflict. Hela is the side of Senua that is willing to let go of Dillion but "Senua" is the result of her trauma from the burning and her fathers abuse. Her mind is constantly fighting iself. The ending is the Senua accepting the loss of Dillion and "Hela" is the part of her that has already accepted it and is welcoming this side of Senua

[Zebedee]

Originally posted by Bucky:

Hela isn't really "real" she's just a representation of Senua and her conflict. Hela is the side of Senua that is willing to let go of Dillion but "Senua" is the result of her trauma from the burning and her fathers abuse. Her mind is constantly fighting iself. The ending is the Senua accepting the loss of Dillion and "Hela" is the part of her that has already accepted it and is welcoming this side of Senua

Just so. Have finished my replay this evening and have been thinking about the ending since. I think some of the ambiguity to it is possibly that the intent is always to respect how altered perceptions of reality are real to the person experiencing them so there's no obvious signal given to the player about what they might see if they were stood next to Senua.

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Couple of comments have questioned why Senua again, and I think the reason is that this ending is the beginning of a recovery for Senua and the sequel will take that on further. Recovery here isn't a severe mental illness miraculously vanishing but something like learning to live with it in a way which is more tolerable. To find those moments of beauty in an altered perception more frequently than being relentlessly harassed by the furies. And that's the journey the player is invited to join Senua on right at the end.

[pizza4life]

I interpret it as the ending that her boyfriend telling her that part of life is embracing and accept the inevitable loss of love ones such as him, so that she can start her healing journey. which she did by accepting his death.