[SPOILER] Ending explained?

[gwartooth]

So I finished the game and it ended with me giving the cloth to the red man. I don't remember if Amber reached him first. Anyway, the final scene was someone (the mother?) looking at a photograph of the whole family and crying over it, in front of Ted.

What I understood is that Amber died in the fire.

Do you think that's what happened? I just want closure. This game is awesome. I'm not even into point and click adventure games. Anyuway

[The Reef King]

Hey gwartooth, BIG SPOILER AHEAD:
It wasn't Amber who died in the fire, she was in the emergency room when the fire happened. It was her brother... The last scene is Amber crying. I wouldn't want to go into more details, but if you're interested I could explain it a bit more. Cheers, hope this clears things a bit , and thank you for playing our game :)

[gwartooth]

Hi mr. King! Thanks for the explanation! I understood that Flint died from the CO concentration due to the fire, but I thought that Amber went inside the building to find him? And that’s when she met the Red man. At least that’s how I understood it. As for the last scene, I hoped it was Amber and not her mother. It was a late night session and maybe I wasn’t fully able to realize what was going on 😅.

Congrats on the game! The collectors edition is awesome. I’m looking forward to playing more of your games.

[tuxdelux]

Not sure that I liked the ending. Red actually being a fireman? Doesn't really make sense, and it seems tacked onto the story. Why would he be burning the city? Why would he have made a deal with the mayor?

Anyway, I really enjoyed playing through the series. Thanks for sharing your story.

[The Reef King]

Hey tuxdelux, maybe I can give some insight. HUGE SPOILERS AHEAD, tho.

Red wasn't really a fireman. He's more of an amalgamation of everything that happened on that night. Amber was there and out of this confusion she remembers some details. Red was just the name of one of the firefighters who wouldn't let her and her dad close to the building. She remembers the name and assigned it to "the red man" later - making it into a "bad thing".


Red's choice of burning down her imagination is also a tie in to how her brother died, reminding her of what happened. So, all these bits and pieces she remembers, but is actively trying to forget, come represented as Red in her imagination. Red is trying to make her remember - and she sees this, again, as a bad thing.

Red making a deal with Mills is just Mills trying his best to save the city from an unstoppable force he doesn't really understand. (Presumably, Red gave him a choice: Bring me Amber or burn with the rest of your city) He fears Red a lot and made a deal with him thinking it would put him off of Red's radar. Red's part of the deal is for Mills to bring him Amber, so she can face him - as she did in the end. Sooner that happens, the sooner Red will stop destroying PC. Glad you liked the game despite the ending and hopefully this helps a little bit :)