It only yeilds more questions though.Īlice quotes can only ever help us understand the brilliance of that work, and to me at least, come across as weak when used (especially so frequently) in other people's work.
You can piece together what it was supposed to have been if you work from the ending backwards, but in its present form it mostly just confuses anyone who watches it. In short, one aims too high and misses by a mile, while the other gives the audience a cop-out and undermines the narrative's major theme.įar Cry 2's narrative actually manages the reverse of this: the game never gets around to telling you what it is supposed to be about, but if it had, its ending would have knocked it out of the park. One ending expects you to go immediately from killing pirates and human traffickers to murdering your friends, while the other ending leaves Jason suggesting that he can overcome all the violence inside him. The endings fail because neither manages to properly tie the gameplay into the story. The conversations you have with other characters establish, but it especially ties in nicely with the tattoo system (in which you are measurably becoming a better warrior) and your own progression as a player. Perhaps someone who is better at reading codex entries can enlighten me?įar Cry 3 is supposed to be about a meek young man who is permanently transformed by the violence of his surroundings. I jsut feel a bit uneasy because I can't reconcile the difference between the endings. Who's to say that Citra is not acting out of some understanding that this is what is prescribed in Rakyat culture? So you kill VAAS because he killed you big bother, and you kill Hoyt because he has your little brother, and the rest of the game is a treatise on why cults are bad? It's not really a cult though. I do like the whole part when you realize that VAAS had told you all of this previously, but as the player you can't really feel much more than "hmm.guess he told me the truth about that" because there is no player decision involved with that part of the game. If you instead choose to murder your Ex-GF and best friends, then after some lackluster sex on a stone slab she kills you in classic black widow fashion.ĭo these two outcomes seem disjointed, as though they are not "all else being equal" with your decision being the only differing factor? This occurs after a monologue about how Liza will blimp out after having kids, and your friends will be boring, and how she loves the real you and always will. So if you choose to save Liza and your friends, then Dennis ends up killing Citra because she body-blocks a dagger meant for you. I am having some trouble with the ending of the game, specifically the two options you can choose, and their outcomes. Hopefully this will have more success, because it is still bothering me. I posted this in the wrong reddit a couple days ago.
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