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Gameplay / Weak Hidden Ending
« on: July 07, 2008, 07:22:40 am »
Alec, the two of you have created a damn smart piece of interactive art, intelligent, personal and interpretatative. You did just the thing that makes Psychonauts the *best game ever*, i.e. you used level (world) design to depict an internal conflict of it's creator's psyche, and did that quite well. So kudos for being intelligent and enthralling.
So one thing bothers me even more: The hidden ending with Mia is weak and derivative. Basically, it's "Join me, and we shall rule the galaxy as father and son!" There is nothing secretive about it, it's, well, vulgarly explicit and direct, to say nothing of the cliché (nevermind those, every story has been told already).
The final inward spiral into ultimate darkness was meanignful and functional, if cryptic. The added scene with Mia slaughters the mistery and obscures Naija's own role in her fall. Also, Mia's personality has no style, no drama, if I may, she's just a cheap bitch, there's no pull in her. If she didn't have mind manipulating powers, she would merely be your average annoying carreerist female. This unveiled image of Mia is highly incongruent with The Creator's mystic vision of perfection (howevr misfigured) and her former enigmatic representation.
The last confrontation was a major dissapointment, all the more since everything else was great.
So one thing bothers me even more: The hidden ending with Mia is weak and derivative. Basically, it's "Join me, and we shall rule the galaxy as father and son!" There is nothing secretive about it, it's, well, vulgarly explicit and direct, to say nothing of the cliché (nevermind those, every story has been told already).
The final inward spiral into ultimate darkness was meanignful and functional, if cryptic. The added scene with Mia slaughters the mistery and obscures Naija's own role in her fall. Also, Mia's personality has no style, no drama, if I may, she's just a cheap bitch, there's no pull in her. If she didn't have mind manipulating powers, she would merely be your average annoying carreerist female. This unveiled image of Mia is highly incongruent with The Creator's mystic vision of perfection (howevr misfigured) and her former enigmatic representation.
The last confrontation was a major dissapointment, all the more since everything else was great.