This is were the ending actually doesn't feel like a gimmick because it gives a plausible reason to play the game again. SPOILER WARNING FOR A VERY DIFFERENT NEW GAME + If you reload the game you get the option to "continue timeline".which tells me it should be the same Alex, my Alex, and not an alternate reality one.
If you haven't played this game a 2nd time you absolutely should. This makes New Game + so valuable and my SECOND SPOILER warning. Is this Back to the Future rules or alternate universe rules? Is my Alex distinguishable from other Alex's? And.is this even a question worth asking? Is it a question without an answer?
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What is the time frame of the time loop if you can revisit the past on the island? Maybe Alex is free for a while and gets looped to before Micheal dies but Alex only noticed when she goes back in time on the island and ahhhhhhh.Is it. Is this a Bioshock Infinite ending? Are there "constants and variables". Like, holy shit, is it my Alex stuck in a time loop or all possible Alex's? If my Alex is free, then some Alex's would be trapped, while others.wait. How do you know what you know Alex? When does the loop start/end?
There is also Alex's monologuing at the end where she knows what her friends do for a significant time frame, like if they go to school out of town, which makes me think this Alex and friends is free but the time skip is for an alternate reality Alex who hasn't escaped.? Or, does the time loop happen just a bit later, like the gang escape for a while, then are sucked back in at an indeterminate time? I say "may not" as other "Alex's" in the game that give you advice are other people who have played the game hinting at multiple universes (which you also get to do in front of mirrors at the end to give other players advice.or be evil and give them poor advice). The whole thing is a damn time loop that Alex may or may not be stuck in. But then as Alex starts to monologue about her future life, the glitches start up again and Alex talks about leaving to Edwards Island for the party. Ren and Nona get together, convinced Micheal not to leave in the past so he is alive, he is still together with Clarissa so she doesn't hate Alex, and Jonas is friends with Alex. I got what I thought was the best possible ending. Ana got pulled into the ghosts "time realm" and sadness ensues. You can find letters from her which explains her attempts, with her friend Ana, to communicate and even try to help the ghosts on the island. *For those reading who didn't play, Maggie Adler is the only permanent resident on the island who recently died. Hence me calling it kind of a gimmick in the review, but it led to a fan community asking the question, is leave possible? It's a twist that I haven't really seen in a game that makes you want to explore all the other details of the game, as well as looking online, which leads to the ARG.
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Plus there are other time loops in the game (something I couldn't mention in the review because the mere existence of the mechanic is a spoiler) that cross over into full blown time travel when Alex goes back to the past.
It's vague enough to not give it away but clever enough to make the twist ending not feel completely out of left field. The ghosts give clues about Alex having "tried to do this before" or "this is not the first time". It's pretty excellently foreshadowed too. The whole island trip is a time loop?!?! Whaaaaaaaaa? If you don't want to but still want to know what the hell I was talking about at the end of my review about a gimmick ending, read on. It's only 5 hours long (it took me 7 cause I stopped a lot and wandered around looking for one missing anomaly for over an hour only to find it where I started!). If you want to play the game, go do that, and come back.
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