Some questions - SPOILERS!

[Danny_G13]

Needless to say, this post will be filled with spoilers, and I'm not concealing them.

I'll carriage return to avoid anyone still being ruined despite the headline!













Ok, so I have a few key issues and observations about this game, which, btw, is the best game I've played this year and has single handedly restored a lot of my faith in the gaming industry which is saturating itself with garbage and regurgitation endlessly. So this original IP was gloriously refreshing.

ANYWAY; my points.

1: Obvious easy one - what DID happen to Isaac? He put Sarah's body in the deep freeze and was never heard again? Was that deliberately left open ended?

2: Where was the decision to kill Rolf made? I'm not sure it was necessary. It was powerful and poignant, yes, but it made his staggering journey to find her all a bit too self-sacrificial. It didn't seem necessary.

3: Was Rolf in love with Sarah? That journey to help a mere colleague was insane if he wasn't in love with her.

4: Who on earth was Maria Gonzalez? Saw her name credited but I never encountered that character.

5: Sarah was clearly dead - Isaac killed her in a moment of madness, so why was he 'saving' her? You can't revive a corpse.

6: Relating to 5, was the implication that the cryobay was capable of resurrecting the dead in the year... was it 2054?

7: What was the point of turning on the MPT in the end when Isaac had already confirmed it won't work? Won't sustain.

8: Was McArthur meant to be a H*tler-esque figure, carrying out genocide in the name of practicality and considering it a means to an end, by, in his mind, carrying out the greater good?

9: Where WAS Outward going? A plan to leave the colony and earth etc - but where the hell were they going?

I know a lot of these might have been confirmed in the lore in the game, but I didn't find absolutely everything.

Great game, made me think and really enjoyed it. Short, true, but very sweet.

[Lithurge]

The questions I can answer or give a view on

5/6) From what I remember he stabbed her in the stomach, Stable isn't the same as being fully healed in medical terms, so it's entirely possible she had just passed out from the wound when we see the incident.

This would suggest that whilst left untreated she would have died the cryo chamber does enough to prevent further deterioration so she could be saved with proper medical attention. Much like putting people in intensive care on ventilators etc...

7) The triumph of hope, the alternative was to sit and watch the earth die as the last person on the moon. At least with power to Earth it gives people the option of trying to find an alternative even if it is ultimately hopeless.

8) His actions and the various logs you find make it clear he was unstable. Whether it was a greater good view or last and desperate gamble to save the human race is up to you.

9) I can't remember if the game provides specific destinations, but there are radio signals that can be collected and decoded in game. These suggest that the ships got into trouble and were not going to reach their destinations anyway

[Swanny]

1) Issac appears to have made it to the third Ark, where his daughter and others were in cryo.

2) We are to assume he's dead. Even with power Earth would take 12 months to send Claire Johanson and another team up. You just dont know.

3) No. I dont think so. Sense of duty. He left her behind in the evac. It likely f**ked his head up. Personally I think he went back to deal with demons.

4) Gonzales was part of the Huygens detail and had more experience of the Moonbase than anyone left on Earth. Natuarally she'd lead a recovery mission.

5) No, cryo life signs indicated Issac Johanson got her to cryo before she expired.

6) I'm assuming Cryo simply pauses the decline. 2050's tech could likely repair severe laceration and puncture with immediate attention. Johannson as a scientist probably deduced it was a time thing.

7) Good point and spot. Only some of Earth could ever be satisfied. Less than 100%, but more than 20%. You dont know, only it gives Earth more opportuinty for an alternative source.

8) No McArthur is pretty numb to individuals. Correct. It was always for the greater good from what I could tell from the storyline. He did have a secret service backstory so likely picked for humanities survival above all costs. There is your sequel on Europa moon or Alpha Centauri imho.

9) Anywhere with resources I think. Helium-3 is around Saturn and its moons in abundance and we know Earth has the technology in 2059. Europa likely, Alpha or Proxima Centauri if the tech is better than the storyline suggested.

[Danny_G13]

Thanks both, and especially Swanny. A touch of conjecture in there too but food for thought.

Never been massively into filling in plot holes with conjecture but hey ho.

[Swanny]

Having just achieved full Encrypted Signal access.

Which planet did Ark 1 attempt to slingshot?
Ark 2 appear to have attempted to go beyond

I think moons of Jupiter and Saturn

[Suriv9]

Just wanted to add on #7. I got the idea that it was sustainable for Earth but they were taking away most of for their nefarious plans. Maybe I'm wrong but that's the impression I got.

[MechLen]

I have to say .. that I don't like unclear ends though.
The game was full of details - books, journals, notes, emails, sounds, and holovideo.
So for me everything was connected, explained, and obvious.
... except! The end :-(

In my eyes ... the end do not fit with the whole game itself.
Personaly I don't like to discuss about meaning of games, books, and films. I rather have open ends or plain one.