**SPOILER** video I made about a certain NPC

[Soren]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiqjwOylxI8
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Description attached to the video:
Ginger will die after you stay married to her for five years. I slept through a few years to get to this point. Every year is calculated the 1st day of the 4th month, the mission will start on the 12th of the 4th month every time.
Anniversary Date: Year 2, Summer 2, Day 2
Death Mission Start: Year 6, Month 4, Day 12

Basically you don't need to be worried about this happening to you. I've played 146 hours and I'm on year 3, month 2, day 4. You have enough time to 100% the game before this event even happens. If you are one of the very very few who have gotten to this point legitimately, you can give her a broken mirror to divorce her before the missions start and she will live, skipping the string of death missions. Would romancing her again restart the timer or resume it? I do not have the time to test that myself.

Also please ignore my main character's voice, I started him before the voices for him were implemented so I couldn't tell what I was getting when I created him. My home is also empty because I am in the process of decorating. We're not bums I swear.

I tried to cover all the dialogue I could find throughout the mission. I think I got it all.
Everyone resumes their lives as normal afterwards.

(and I would have given her a ride on my horse but it wouldn't let me initiate dialogue at the time T.T)

[Lucis]

Ah... So they finally finished that bit of story, eh?

All of the people who snooped around game files and all knew about this long ago, to finally see it in game... Oh man.

This is such a sad part of the game... but... A certain someone's voice just ruins it. Seriously, why does he sound so happy go lucky all the time? YOUR WIVE IS DYING.

[Soren]

He was probably thinking "I'll just reload the save file from three years ago." Heh. It is definitely jarring, unfortunately I was unable to tell what voice I was getting when I made the character because his voices weren't implemented yet.

[Lucis]

Originally posted by Nesdude:

He was probably thinking "I'll just reload the save file from three years ago." Heh. It is definitely jarring, unfortunately I was unable to tell what voice I was getting when I made the character because his voices weren't implemented yet.

His voice is the main reason I switched to Chinese voices permanently.

I don't want to say he's a bad voice actor, but the characters he voices in the game just don't fit him because he's fit for a joyful character that's always cheery and cracks jokes at every turn instead, so when he's supposed to be serious or sad... He still sounds like "Aw yeah! Let's do it! Haha!"

Marco (Voice 1) and Mint are pretty much ruined because of the nature of his cheerful voice. I could not take Mint in his A Near Departure mission seriously. He was supposed to sound super sad because he has to leave Portia and break up with Marco/Linda but he just didn't that's why I decided to switch to Chinese and went "Wow, he's totally different in Chinese and he sounds so sad, holy moly". Never switched back since.

*Sigh* But I digress.


Makes me wonder how this all sounds like in Chinese, now... But I don't want you to experience the whole thing again, either.

[Soren]

I normally keep voices off outright, just because of what bad eggs are there. I'm used to not having voice acting in my farming games anyways. I turned them on because I figured people would want to hear them. Some are good but not enough for me to keep it on personally..

[EureVerbrauchtheit]

That's a complete showstopper for me now as I wanted to marry Ginger in this playthrough...when I want to see beloved characters die...I play "The Last Of Us" and not a colorful "we all love each other" game...especially as you have to play a couple of in game years to get to this point...

[Frey]

Originally posted by Data:

That's a complete showstopper for me now as I wanted to marry Ginger in this playthrough...when I want to see beloved characters die...I play "The Last Of Us" and not a colorful "we all love each other" game...especially as you have to play a couple of in game years to get to this point...

Agree, I said my farewell to this game. Same here, if I wanted to see people die I will play rimworld and hurl molotovs at them.

[EureVerbrauchtheit]

Originally posted by Frey:

Originally posted by Data:

That's a complete showstopper for me now as I wanted to marry Ginger in this playthrough...when I want to see beloved characters die...I play "The Last Of Us" and not a colorful "we all love each other" game...especially as you have to play a couple of in game years to get to this point...

Agree, I said my farewell to this game. Same here, if I wanted to see people die I will play rimworld and hurl molotovs at them.

Maybe a slight overreaction :D ...but compared to the effort, you have to get her to marry you in this game....it is a hard punch in the face...

[poppetshadow]

Thank you for uploading this.

It was going to be a long while before I got around to this storyline (for the achievement) and I was curious how it played out.

[JVC]

Thanks for uploading the video.

Based on what we know now, it seems that she succumbs to her illness several years after the player finishes the main storyline, so very few players would reach this storyline at all.

While that timeframe isn't enough time for Ginger to become an old woman, it is enough time for her to have a life with her spouse and start a family. That's not a bad result for a person with a terminal illness. It would have been worse if she'd been hospitalized permanently.

[Lucis]

Seeing some disdain for this so I thought to share my opinion.

This happens after the main story and a few years later where a lot of people stop and start a new character because there's nothing left to do.

My opinion is controversial and many will disagree, I know, but I don't entirely dislike that they did decide to add it to the game proper after not doing so for a long time, despite it being already mostly done for a while (The files were already in the game and everyone who snooped around knew).
This game does take place in a post apocalyptic world and despite its cutesy look, it deals with some heavy subjects like forced marriage, war, being a refugee, poverty, being orphaned, losing friends and family, and terminal illnesses that you learn about as you interact with the people of Portia. Sure, they didn't really put much effort into properly addressing these topics (except the mayor's family's background story as well as Phyllis'), but they're still there and part of the background stories of all these characters.

The game gives you more than enough hints and missions concerning her illness that Ginger is terminally ill (And she says it multiple times herself), they intentionally made her the hardest character to befriend and marry because of this. But even then, you chose to marry her, even after she lays in bed for a solid week after making you that charm and her condition getting noticeably worse and stops seeing you because she doesn't want to become a burden and make you sad.
Could they have maybe added a method to cure her magically despite the current world not having the means to? Probably and this would make everyone happy. But they chose not to and I respect this decision and I think this makes her as a character that much more valuable as you cherish her a lot more. It's not as sudden as the famous death in a certain Final Fantasy game, the game prepares you and I belileve it does it well.
Would you deny her your love because you know she'll die? Will you stop liking her because you know her death is inevitable? I don't think that's fair. Despite her death, she died happily. She had a happy ending. You, the the new builder, gave her that happy ending.

[Soren]

Originally posted by Frey:

Originally posted by Data:

That's a complete showstopper for me now as I wanted to marry Ginger in this playthrough...when I want to see beloved characters die...I play "The Last Of Us" and not a colorful "we all love each other" game...especially as you have to play a couple of in game years to get to this point...

Agree, I said my farewell to this game. Same here, if I wanted to see people die I will play rimworld and hurl molotovs at them.

You two must not have read my description on the video. As I said there, I've played 146 hours, on year 3. I have enough time to 100% the game with Ginger and then some. An *INCREDIBLY* miniscule percentage of people will be affected by this. Not only that, it's PREVENTABLE. You can divorce her right before the string of death missions starts and negate it entirely. Not that the very vast majority would have to resort to that anyways. It would be unfortunate to drop such a great game for not liking the 0.002% of it that you almost certainly will never see.

[Soren]

Originally posted by Mystic:

Could they have maybe added a method to cure her magically despite the current world not having the means to? Probably and this would make everyone happy. But they chose not to and I respect this decision and I think this makes her as a character that much more valuable as you cherish her a lot more. It's not as sudden as the famous death in a certain Final Fantasy game, the game prepares you and I belileve it does it well.
Would you deny her your love because you know she'll die? Will you stop liking her because you know her death is inevitable? I don't think that's fair. Despite her death, she died happily. She had a happy ending. You, the the new builder, gave her that happy ending.

*APPLAUSE*

[Adesanya]

Thanks for the video .... just ... holy ..... moley ......

I am actually tempted to start a new save for that .....

[Adesanya]

Originally posted by Mystic:

The game gives you more than enough hints and missions concerning her illness that Ginger is terminally ill (And she says it multiple times herself), they intentionally made her the hardest character to befriend and marry because of this. But even then, you chose to marry her, even after she lays in bed for a solid week after making you that charm and her condition getting noticeably worse and stops seeing you because she doesn't want to become a burden and make you sad.
Could they have maybe added a method to cure her magically despite the current world not having the means to? Probably and this would make everyone happy. But they chose not to and I respect this decision and I think this makes her as a character that much more valuable as you cherish her a lot more. It's not as sudden as the famous death in a certain Final Fantasy game, the game prepares you and I belileve it does it well.
Would you deny her your love because you know she'll die? Will you stop liking her because you know her death is inevitable? I don't think that's fair. Despite her death, she died happily. She had a happy ending. You, the the new builder, gave her that happy ending.

This .. absolutely this ... I think it's frikin BRILLIANT they put this in this game.

[Soren]

You're welcome guys I saw a couple people recently saying it was implemented but there was no proof. A nice guy in the MTAP Fandom Wiki discord pretty much confirmed yesterday that it was indeed implemented from looking at the files. He had it down to the date it would happen. So with that information I made this so it can be settled for good. Wouldn't have done it without that guy's info. Thank the illustrious BakedPotato.