Okay, so I've looked around (if a brief glance on the forums counts) and I haven't seen anyone talking about this so I feel it should be safe enough.
Oh, and in case you want to play the game...
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I recently finished Everybody's Gone to the Rapture after a friend of mine "recommended" (read: demanded) I play it and give my opinion on the ending. He was a big fan on the whole philosophical bent but I couldn't agree with him.
In short, I didn't like the ending. The story was well crafted, but the ending just grates at me.
As you can probably tell (if you hadn't read an earlier sentence) from my summary, I found the ending irritating. To me, Kate has decided that it is time for humanity to die on the unexplained promise of happiness after death in the "light" which she justifies by saying she saw everyone with their loved ones. I can only say "bovine excrement" to that.
There was more to this post, but looking back I have deleted most of it because I am struggling to explain myself coherently. I will instead put this as bluntly as I can and hopefully this thread will allow me to expand on what I am trying to say as people post. To me, this sounds like the rationalization of the straw nihilist [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrawNihilist] with a more optimistic bent as they justify genocide in the worst case scenario and in the best case the removal of choice, free-will and growth by effectively placing the entirety of humanity into stasis inside of the light.
Oh, and in case you want to play the game...
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[/HEADING]I recently finished Everybody's Gone to the Rapture after a friend of mine "recommended" (read: demanded) I play it and give my opinion on the ending. He was a big fan on the whole philosophical bent but I couldn't agree with him.
In short, I didn't like the ending. The story was well crafted, but the ending just grates at me.
A "pattern" comes down and results in a small British town in Shropshire turning into living light. The people slowly disappear after accepting their fate having suffered from headaches and nosebleeds one by one until only a woman named Kate is left who appears to beam the pattern out into the world while she waxes philosophy about life where it presumably continues to "ascend" humanity till everyone is gone.
As you can probably tell (if you hadn't read an earlier sentence) from my summary, I found the ending irritating. To me, Kate has decided that it is time for humanity to die on the unexplained promise of happiness after death in the "light" which she justifies by saying she saw everyone with their loved ones. I can only say "bovine excrement" to that.
There was more to this post, but looking back I have deleted most of it because I am struggling to explain myself coherently. I will instead put this as bluntly as I can and hopefully this thread will allow me to expand on what I am trying to say as people post. To me, this sounds like the rationalization of the straw nihilist [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StrawNihilist] with a more optimistic bent as they justify genocide in the worst case scenario and in the best case the removal of choice, free-will and growth by effectively placing the entirety of humanity into stasis inside of the light.
