Interesting thought: The Last of Us and Life is Strange came out in the same era roughly, both revolve around a trolley problem where the gay woman is the one to be sacrificed, but the one where you control the MANLY DUDE is the one that actively rejects sacrificing her
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I'd argue LiS does also, it just does it within a choice-based framework that lets you make the textually "wrong" choice
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Replying to @hyperdriveprof
I think that DONTNOD expected us to follow the Donnie Darko plotline and see the saving the town ending as better, but they adapted when they realized who their fanbase was
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I disagree. Granted it's been a while since I played through, but I remember being very surprised "Save the Town" was even a thing that anybody wanted to do, and I have no particular connection with the property or characters, so that's where I arrived from text alone, AFAIKT.
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Replying to @hyperdriveprof
I mean I've never played it in the actual game, but 1) it's the only ending where you get a final kiss with Chloe and 2) it's like 3x the length of the other ending, and wraps up plotlines that the other one doesn't. I don't like it but I think it was meant to be default
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
I think being a neater (as in less ambiguous or more totalizing, not more interesting) ending doesn't necissarilly make things more complete or satisfyy from like a narratalogical-thematic standpoint.
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Replying to @hyperdriveprof @BootlegGirl
I mean, the Sacrifice Chloe ending *does* make more sense, in the sense that it restores the universe to "normal" and implies Max's mysterious powers were always the result of her having witnessed Chloe's death and developing a delusional fantasy to cope with it
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There's a live action fan film of the game that basically runs on this interpretation, it starts after Chloe's funeral and has the whole plot of the game as a flashback
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Replying to @arthur_affect @hyperdriveprof
That's interesting, given how hard the official EU leans on fanservice by resurrecting everyone and getting into the technical details of Max's abilities
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