I hate that Verso literally threw away the good ending with that letter, though. What a dick.Wdym?
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Is it possible Lune lived on in Verso's ending? Everyone was gommaging because they entered the painter area, but Lune stayed out and never visibly gommaged. She might've lived the rest of her life with the Gestrals considering the time dilation in the canvas.
Is it possible Lune lived on in Verso's ending? Everyone was gommaging because they entered the painter area, but Lune stayed out and never visibly gommaged. She might've lived the rest of her life with the Gestrals considering the time dilation in the canvas.
It was so clear the Verso soul fragment was suffering that ending it all was the right thing to do to finally let the family move on.
The title of that letter, IIRC, was "A Life to Dream", wherein painted Alicia begged for Verso and real Alicia to find common ground between the painted and real families so they could live in peace.That slid past me, damn
And Verso symbolically tosses that letter in the ocean because he just wants to end it all.
It's pretty clear to me that the Canvas went kaput, along with her and the Gestrals in it. I have little hope she survived, but I hope she did.I mean we know next to nothing about how the Painters work but there's nothing to say that Alicia can't work through her grief and maybe paint a new, better world with her old friends in it again someday, right?
I mean we know next to nothing about how the Painters work but there's nothing to say that Alicia can't work through her grief and maybe paint a new, better world with her old friends in it again someday, right?That sounds like the Paintress 2.0.
That sounds like the Paintress 2.0.Ehh the Paintress was a unique set of circumstances, and a lot of that stemmed from the grief and trauma the Dessendre family was trying to work through.
Ehh the Paintress was a unique set of circumstances, and a lot of that stemmed from the grief and trauma the Dessendre family was trying to work through.The circumstances are actually worse for Alicia. Aline lost her son Verso and she retreated into a canvas because she couldn't overcome her grief. What do you think Alicia will do if Verso's canvas is destroyed? Alicia effectively lived a second life in the canvas and her friends and family reside inside the canvas. Destroying the canvas literally puts Alicia in the shoes of Aline. Alicia is highly likely to create another canvas and recreate Gustave, Lune, Sciel, etc., just like Aline recreated her family.
They've mentioned before they've painted hundreds of worlds before and most of those are probably not... quite that bad I imagine
The circumstances are actually worse for Alicia. Aline lost her son Verso and she retreated into a canvas because she couldn't overcome her grief. What do you think Alicia will do if Verso's canvas is destroyed? Alicia effectively lived a second life in the canvas and her friends and family reside inside the canvas. Destroying the canvas literally puts Alicia in the shoes of Aline. Alicia is highly likely to create another canvas and recreate Gustave, Lune, Sciel, etc., just like Aline recreated her family.If you take an optimistic outlook on the Verso ending, particularly with how the family behaved at the funeral, then you could probably imagine that Alicia comes to some sort of acceptance and resolve down the road.
If you take an optimistic outlook on the Verso ending, particularly with how the family behaved at the funeral, then you could probably imagine that Alicia comes to some sort of acceptance and resolve down the road.There is absolutely zero reason to have an optimistic outlook on Verso's ending through the lens of Maelle. You cannot force someone through the grieving process. Maelle does not want the life painted Verso forced upon her. And if you truly looked at the family during the funeral, you will notice Maelle is completely alone, with no one to support her. The other family members may overcome their grief, but there isn't any evidence to suggest Maelle will suddenly overcome grief after her second family was taken from her.
Who's to say she doesn't create a new Canvas, not as a way of avoiding her grief, but as a way of celebrating her brother?
It was so clear the Verso soul fragment was suffering that ending it all was the right thing to do to finally let the family move on.
The Verso ending has Maelle left alone by her family and shes hallucinating the friends she lost in the painting with Gustave beckoning her over to them. The whole family is full of terrible people who dont know how to talk to each other and they give you no reason throughout the entire game to care about any of them. The characters you do care about end up dead.
The Verso ending has Maelle left alone by her family and shes hallucinating the friends she lost in the painting with Gustave beckoning her over to them.
The whole family is full of terrible people who dont know how to talk to each other and they give you no reason throughout the entire game to care about any of them. The characters you do care about end up dead.
Can't even fathom why there's a choice when the developers clearly wanted one to be "right""Life forces cruel choices"
I wouldn't say either is the "right" endingThis falls apart when you recall the painted world dies when Maelle dies. If the painted world is doomed either way then the decision that doesn't prolong Verso's suffering is clearly the correct one.
I didn't take that as a hallucination. I took it as her biding goodbye to her second family. She accepted her grief and moved on. I mean, they faded out and all. Yeah, Gustave was beckoning her, but Esquie was very clearly waving goodbye.
IMO, she made her peace.
Suicide by Canvas isn't much better. Alicia slowly deteriorating while puppeting the worlr around her.Except who cares about Renoir, Clea and Aline. Were never given a reason to care about them over Lune, Sciel, Esquie, Monoco, etc. I view both endings as bad because Alicia is left completely disfigured with a family that doesnt know how to talk or listen to each other and all the characters I actually cared about were genocided. For all we know Alicia ends up committing suicide.
Then she dies, the Dessendres are down two kids now, the Canvas and everyone in it is erased anyway.
At least in the other ending she and the family a CHANCE, however miniscule and flawed it may be
Except who cares about Renoir, Clea and Aline. Were never given a reason to care about them over Lune, Sciel, Esquie, Monoco, etc
Shouldve had a middle ground ending.There was the possibility of a middle ground ending. Maelle's is a "A Life to Paint", Verso's is "A Life to Love", and the third one would've been "A Life to Dream", but it became unachievable because of some certain decisions the characters made. By the end there was no middle ground left to take. That's part of the whole tragedy of the story.
That's part of the whole tragedy of the story.
Maelle's ending is cruel and straight up selfish. She essentially gives in to what is described as a drug addiction and the family is forever torn apart.
Renoir is a good dude who was just trying to get his family to heal and back on track, he did nothing wrong.
Renior is a control freak. He's 100% correct in this one instance, but he's not faultless.
But Aline? Aline is honestly the true villain here for just being a shitty, controlling mom.
Somebody gets the shit stick no matter what ending you pick. Picked Maelle's cause I really didn't care much for Verso. Just let her stay in the painting and keep all the homies alive.The only people who get the shit stick in Verso's ending are a bunch of fictional characters, destroyed by their creators. As pointed out Renoir probably would have eventually destroyed it anyway after it took Maelle.