Ending Disscussion [spoiler warning]

[Rodentball]

Warning Spoiler ahead !!!!!!!!

So i just finished the game and i commited to the sacrifice ending. I am happy with my own charateristion and how Anne's fate played out, despite how much it hurt. I cried. Well played game.

However i am curious what other people got or chose, and whether it felt the endings provided where fufilling (emotinally and narrtive wise).

Given the game has not Telltale style percentage system which tracks community choices, i am curious about what people did differently.

[Pay Child Suport]

killing herself is definitely the best ending. her parents abandoned her, bonku was consumed with greed, all the forgotlings are just living in vanity, trying to survive and just get whatever fun there is in "real life". isn't that just real life?

I'll just youtube all the endings since I don't wanna start from the beginning and that'll be it for me. and now to actually buy the game (I'm sorry wallet-kun).

[MekaDovah]

While a lot of the story was predictable for me I didn't see that ending coming cause I didn't think about it. Once it came though I wasn't really surprised by it. Still, it does work just fine narratively and emotionally: it fits the story. It just happens to be one of those kinds of stories and whether or not that does it for you is all down to personal taste and I'm somewhat on the fence about that.

That I was able to predict a lot of the beats well in advance wasn't a bad thing; it was interesting to view a story that way for once instead of never really thinking about it like I usually do.

I will say personally I think Forgotton Anne does this kind of story better than most. There's a better balance. I was getting tired of games where every decision you make leads to doom and gloom seemingly just for cheap shock value and then lazily handwaved as "real" or "gritty" afterwards because apparently a tragic element alone is supposed to be praise worthy instead of actually writing well.

At least Anne actually gets to accomplish some good, life can go on, and her choices and actions have meaning instead of everything she does being invalidated because someone got obsessed with swinging the drama hammer around because they somehow think it makes them stand out when everyone else is doing it too.

[khermerker]

Originally posted by Rodentball:

Warning Spoiler ahead !!!!!!!!

So i just finished the game and i commited to the sacrifice ending. I am happy with my own charateristion and how Anne's fate played out, despite how much it hurt. I cried. Well played game.

However i am curious what other people got or chose, and whether it felt the endings provided where fufilling (emotinally and narrtive wise).

Given the game has not Telltale style percentage system which tracks community choices, i am curious about what people did differently.

actually my experiense was like you... and well actually for me is not a game for play twice... at least in the form i think game should be played... not as a plataformer.. not as a puzzlers.. not as a collector... but as someone that take my choices if i will be in that position... i had too that ending... cause fulfill what i had should done.. trying to recover my mistakes.. like when i distill the first forgotling... the only one i distill pre join rebel... and when i go back to house... i restore it too.

Sadly the other is not an ending.. but fills well (i suggest see it.. is easy before read more). in the other ending you not go back, you can't go back. You can't change what happens in the ether. You will be always forgotten and come back there to repeat your history... why she don't say it... well i think and is only my opinion... is for that jim says... never forget you always had a choice. That is the reason you start again from begining... maybe anne dont have a choice but you had.. you can do the other choices you didn't take and in the end accept that you can never go back to ether... and accept than that world is your place now... and you are just sacrificing for keep it alive.

[JapanGamer29]

I also chose to save the forgottlings, but I found it a very difficlut choice to make.

[Angela]

Did we really die tho? ;)

[pbrummel]

After completing the game when you have access to the Bridge, it felt to me as a kind of "afterlife" prepared for Anne by the Caretaker, where she's been permitted to live out in a sort of heaven. Or perhaps she's still alive, and merely living out in the world of the crystal, or where all the forgotlings go after they're crystallized. Which I guess would also be a sort of heaven.

[v00d00m4n]

basically both endings are egoism vs altruism, you save yourself or others, and game is like a psyhic test - real egoists save anne, real altruists save others. But both endings equally frustrating.

[Ghostel]

Whether Bridge is a Heaven or not is questionable at best... To be fair it is closer to being Purgatory with flowers where Anne can eternally relive one cycle after another... Never truly free still confined to the cycle the same as when she chose "Escape" endings... Never ending cycle but now you can chose when to enter it... Yay...

I still don't get why the heck Anne didn't simply... Turn the damn machine off, gave Arca module to her adoptive Father, while keeping hers and just... kept on living in Forgotten World trying to fix the damage Bonku did - nothing was preventing her from it - the whole prolem was that Bonku was to USE the Portal - so simple solution is NOT TO USE IT and dissassemble... Also Bonku can't use it without Anne's Arca stone... And Cornerstone was fine even while stuck to Portal Machine, Anne had power to restore Forgotlings to life... Why the heck she decided to go to Extreme Measures right here, right now is strange to say the least... But I suppose we needed to earn "self sacrifice" badge... When she would be able to do so much more to help Forgotten World alive.... But nope let's fix Cornerstone... For a reason of restoring world to how it was? When it clearly doesn't do it as tower's library is intact after the end which means it didn't remove anything including inactive Portal? The only viable explanation is that it was a very roundabout way for Anne to take Bonku with her... But it also doesn't make a lot of sense because who the heck will kill themselves to also kill their beloved parent figure that you so despereately tried to help...

Welp anyway... Don't get me wrong... I got teary eyed at the end... But in the end writers didn't explain properly why there was no other way to save the realm aside from going that far which kinda makes Heroine's Sacrifice a noble but a really extreme move while she could've achieved even better results in a long run if she opted for a "slow" way of fixing situation w/o self-sacrifice.

[kalirion]

"You have two choices Anne:" A) Murder this world and everyone in it B) Commit suicide and refresh the world.

Um, what's with this false dichotomy the game's forcing on you? What about the blindingly obvious C) Deactivate the Ether Bridge, keep the Arca, and stay alive in this world as it currently is? Can even give half the Arca to the Crystal to make things a bit better while still staying alive with the other half.

[Stabbey]

Apparently if the parts of the Arca leave the world, the world disappears. Okay... but could you not walk close to the Ether Gate, take the Arcas off and then cross over, leaving the Arca's behind?

[SnowFlame]

The endings in this game where absolute sh*t. There is only the illusion of choice. Then make it a fixed ending and don't give any choice at all i say. Not to mention if a mom abandons a kid. He does not INSTANTLY forget about the kid. Heck, even the guy that said she should abandon it will remember here for a long time. So Ann might have ended up there, but at the very least when she was a bit older. Come to think of it, even then it would not make any sens. But nothing in the game does. It is a story for the sake of having the story and to hell with any logical explanation. And yes i am aware it is fantasy. But there is logic in fantasy. Like, is some one is thirsty they wil want to drink. But this game's logic is "you are thirsty? Here you go, i have given you wings" And your character is no longer thirsty. That kind of BS is the logic in this game's story.

[cmykabuser]

Originally posted by Lureahawk:

The endings in this game where absolute sh*t. There is only the illusion of choice. Then make it a fixed ending and don't give any choice at all i say. Not to mention if a mom abandons a kid. He does not INSTANTLY forget about the kid. Heck, even the guy that said she should abandon it will remember here for a long time. So Ann might have ended up there, but at the very least when she was a bit older. Come to think of it, even then it would not make any sens. But nothing in the game does. It is a story for the sake of having the story and to hell with any logical explanation. And yes i am aware it is fantasy. But there is logic in fantasy. Like, is some one is thirsty they wil want to drink. But this game's logic is "you are thirsty? Here you go, i have given you wings" And your character is no longer thirsty. That kind of BS is the logic in this game's story.

I.. 100% agree with you.

The game itself is quite good, its mechanics, puzzle elements and the art style, they are nice. But the story and the stupidity they called "choices" are not that amusing.

In my opinion, this game is trying philosophically makes the player miserable. By putting us in a condition where the fundamental of the story is already unfounded:
"You are forgotten. You'll be teleported to a fantasy world where other forgotten things are living. Including your blanket"