I descended into hell for a face-off with the devil herself, and once again, the fight was a little nonsensical and not that difficult at all, just hack the terminals and you're golden. Then, my game went back to the title screen because the cutscenes don't work (for some reason they worked at the beginning of the game, but not now. Ugh.), so I looked up the ending on YouTube, and I could not believe what I had watched.
At first, I thought it was a joke, a cheeky edit by whoever had uploaded the video and was playing some SilvaGunner-esque prank on whoever thought this was the real ending, and I found another video hoping it would be a little more sensible. This was no prank. This...thing was the real ending to the game I had just completed. I was floored. I was shocked. I was in pure disbelief. I couldn't believe all the tension, all the fear, all the worldbuilding and character development that the game had built up over it's 20-hour runtime, culminated in something so lame and cheesy it makes the average Gmod video look like Shakespeare by comparison. I was insulted, saddened, and angered: I felt like I had been stabbed in the back. I took the game so damn seriously, expecting to be rewarded for my commitment, and this is how they treat me? This is the ending I get after 20 hours of hell? These were the thoughts that ran through my head as I closed the video. These were the thoughts that ran through my head as I read the video's comments, perused forums, and even learned the development history behind this atrocity of a conclusion. These were the thoughts that ran through my head as I began to type this. What I had just experienced almost invalidated everything I had been through. The amazing atmopshere, exciting gameplay, engrossing story: all of it was eradicated from my memory because of this one awful moment, this two-minute cutscene in a twenty-hour game.
At first, I thought it was a joke, a cheeky edit by whoever had uploaded the video and was playing some SilvaGunner-esque prank on whoever thought this was the real ending, and I found another video hoping it would be a little more sensible. This was no prank. This...thing was the real ending to the game I had just completed. I was floored. I was shocked. I was in pure disbelief. I couldn't believe all the tension, all the fear, all the worldbuilding and character development that the game had built up over it's 20-hour runtime, culminated in something so lame and cheesy it makes the average Gmod video look like Shakespeare by comparison. I was insulted, saddened, and angered: I felt like I had been stabbed in the back. I took the game so damn seriously, expecting to be rewarded for my commitment, and this is how they treat me? This is the ending I get after 20 hours of hell? These were the thoughts that ran through my head as I closed the video. These were the thoughts that ran through my head as I read the video's comments, perused forums, and even learned the development history behind this atrocity of a conclusion. These were the thoughts that ran through my head as I began to type this. What I had just experienced almost invalidated everything I had been through. The amazing atmopshere, exciting gameplay, engrossing story: all of it was eradicated from my memory because of this one awful moment, this two-minute cutscene in a twenty-hour game.
