>>718595494
No one's (or at least very few are) pretending that what Renoir (and Verso) do to the canvas isn't a great tragedy, most of the Verso support comes from understanding that a lot of people would do terrible things to protect their families. That we spent all of act 1 getting to know those people, all of act 2 continuing their struggle, and all of act 3 thinking we could still save them is what makes the ending so tragic and conflicting.

>>717816178
There's a schizo interpretation of the game's plot where the writers are the actual writers of Expedition 33. It's actually a neat idea, and would have cool ramifications like "if the painters, creations of the writers, can fight the writers, why can't the lumierens fight the painters?" Ultimately though there's nothing that supports it being the case and it falls apart since actual game writers would be omnipotent and wouldn't need to use something like trickery and fire to kill Alicia/Verso.

>>716306382
The best single player game of the last 10 years according to the only person who matters.