I don’t buy this game because ugly male characters who look like boomers

Just finished this. What's the /v/ consensus? Also which sibling was in the right?

Imo both were wrong. The ideal situation would be Maelle and her mother being mature enough to realize they shouldn't stay in the canvas any longer and just leave, wiping out the painted Verso and thus allowing Verso's world to exist without issues or interference (if possible).

In any case, I think the narrative absolutely stumbles in the 3rd act. Some might like the twist of "it's all fake", so might not, but the issue is what comes after.

We spent 80% of the game caring about Lumiere and the struggle of the Expedition, and then suddenly the story acts as if they don't exist. We don't get to see their reactions to not being real and instead playthings for the Dessandres. The game doesn't even properly explore their "humanity" or free will or consciousness, instead making an abrupt switch to melodrama between Maelle's desire to live in the fairytale world, and fakeVerso's desire to stop her from killing herself and making the real Verso suffer as well.

No one even cares what the Lumierians want. In fact in Maelle's ending it almost feels like she's mind controlling them or repainted them to be exactly like she wanted which raises questions about how human they were in the first place.

Just finished this. What's the /v/ consensus? Also which sibling was in the right?

Imo both were wrong. The ideal situation would be Maelle and her mother being mature enough to realize they shouldn't stay in the canvas any longer and just leave, wiping out the painted Verso and thus allowing Verso's world to exist without issues or interference (if possible).

In any case, I think the narrative absolutely stumbles in the 3rd act. Some might like the twist of "it's all fake", so might not, but the issue is what comes after.

We spent 80% of the game caring about Lumiere and the struggle of the Expedition, and then suddenly the story acts as if they don't exist. We don't get to see their reactions to not being real and instead playthings for the Dessandres. The game doesn't even properly explore their "humanity" or free will or consciousness, instead making an abrupt switch to melodrama between Maelle's desire to live in the fairytale world, and fakeVerso's desire to stop her from killing herself and making the real Verso suffer as well.

No one even cares what the Lumierians want. In fact in Maelle's ending it almost feels like she's mind controlling them or repainted them to be exactly like she wanted which raises questions about how human they were in the first place.