We’ve set up the signal using the lighthouse, and help is on the way. All Acharky and I need to do is survive a little while longer. Just a little… longer…
I’ll be honest. The more I think about this ending, the more something feels missing.
I don’t expect to get all the answers from the ending of a Dark Pictures game, but I don’t feel like I understand anything regarding what happened in the Murder Castle. There’s no sense of resolution regarding the killer and his motivations, methodology, or even identity. We both even know if Du’met is his real name. And the post-credits scenes actively work to undermine our understanding by having someone pick up where we left off despite the fact that we killed the person here on this island.
And that might be okay, but the actual also feels like their character arcs got dropped at some point. Admittedly, it’s hard to tell how much of that comes down to the choices we made along the way, but so many plot threads regarding our central cast get completely dropped. What about the friend that Kate supposedly let down? What about Jamie’s texts or the conversation that Charlie allegedly had with the killer? Did our survivors learn anything or grow from this experience?
It’s not that any one thread got dropped. It’s that almost every hook or thread remains unsolved. Our adventure just kind of ends without tying anything up. It’s disappointing, especially from this studio.
Still, I enjoyed the adventure as a whole despite all that. Next time, we’re going to beat fools up as Sora Kingdom Hearts in The Bouncer.
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