General Video Game Thread
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My thoughts … spoiler if you haven’t finished the game obv.
I initially chose to fight as Maelle because I didn’t think it was right to erase all the other people in the canvas. I didn’t feel any oozing malice from that ending, just the stark reality of what it meant, and once I sat back and thought about it, I changed my mind. Verso wanted to die, she’d let everyone else go but couldn’t let him go, and instead she forced him to grow old in a life he did not want, while she painted everyone else’s perfect happy ending. We also know Maelle isn’t the painter that real Verso was - so when she repainted the expeditioners, were they really the ‘same’, or were they just versions as she remembered them? Did they actually have agency in the end, or were they just sims living out Maelle’s grief-stricken fantasy life? And I think that the ‘sinister’ face of Maelle’s you saw wasn’t really sinister … it was her facing the grim reality that her fantasy didn’t make her happy, either.
‘For those who come after’ is about the people left behind. It’s about Maelle, Clea, Aline and Renoir. I think erasing the canvas as Verso had painted it would have been wrong, but the canvas already wasn’t what Verso had made - it was destroyed by the family’s grief. They had taken what he left for them, a beautiful reminder of life and love and happiness, and had ruined it. And I don’t think the people in the painting had any agency in the end, certainly not as Maelle had repainted them. I don’t think she’s meant to be depicted as evil, but I do think the message of the game is about coming after and not living with ghosts. And I don’t think it’s about “sometimes it’s okay to let go” but … you still have to live, even when the person you love is gone.
And I thought about it as someone who lost her father a few years ago, and I wondered about the choices I would’ve made if I could live in a world where he was still alive, and there’s still a big part of me wrapped in grief that would’ve made Maelle’s choice. But there’s also a part of me that knows that living in a fantasy world where my dad’s still here wouldn’t be real, and living in a delusion doesn’t help anyone, and it’s not that I need to MOVE ON … but I still need to live, and remember him as he was and had been, versus continuing his life in a way I would’ve envisioned it.
Anyway, just my thoughts. I think the endings could be interpreted in so many ways, and for that I give it a 100/10, and I’m going to wrap here because I am sad again.
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On a different note, I love the Enshrouded team’s patch notes writer. The little comments make me lol
I kid you not, this is in the official patch notes from today.
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@dvoraen said in General Video Game Thread:
I need to know what everyone who has finished Clair Obscur — Expedition 33 felt about the story right meow.
(No spoilers. FEELINGS ONLY.)
I had a lot.
33/10 story.
I loved it. I had to walk away and compose myself before I could finish it, because it’s really hard to hit that perfect parry when the tears stream.
Again, thanks for the recommendation, @dvoraen
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I really enjoyed Deltarune Chapter 4. An unexpected amount of character depth and some great music. More fool me for thinking there were only 4 chapters, though. Guess I’ll be waiting for the 5th chapter in 2026! (And… for 6… and… 7…)
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In honor of Grounded 2 launching into Early Access today, I present another continuation to the saga of –
(Spoilered for those who want to see the new critters fresh/blind.)
s. Because I’m committed to bringing @tsar’s snails home:||
Also I was really surprised it’s Tier III, but I’m glad they put Salty as a weakness. lol
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@dvoraen Can you tame the snails in Grounded 2?
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Unrelated to Grounded 2 (though I’m very excited about that!) is The Demons Told Me to Make This Game. It’s early access and only the first chapter is available, but it’s a Disco-like wherein you’re a demon(?) who possesses a couple different people to advance a storyline. Here are some screeners!
And (spoiler for plot stuff)
It’s so funny and very well written.
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@somasatori said in General Video Game Thread:
It’s so funny and very well written.
…Did…did the demons also tell you to write that review? Blink twice if you need holy water.
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@MisterBoring We can hope. But as of EA launch, no.
They’re not evil, though. They are just “oh no, danger escape into shell”
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