nice profile

btw how did you feel about the Another Code remaster(s)?

once i found out that they shifted more from the originals than expected i decided to replay the first game and play the Wii version of 2 for the first time before i get to the new ones.

sorry, i just noticed your comment.

i had mods delete everything so i could start over again. wasn't pleased with my formatting (or some of the stuff that i put in my backlog) and didn't want to have to edit everything.

will be slowly chipping away at adding the stuff i've beaten and whatnot back in a bit at a time.

oh thank god, you are so valid. i knew you would have good thinking with this. the "redemption" endings are hot trash and like not to sound messy but i had a stronger negative reaction to that than even the lone wolf ending when i looked them up after playing. i'll have nothing to do with them (or the lone wolf ending).

it's definitely either blood brothers (both in puerto lobos), maybe parting ways, or nothing for me. i got the parting ways ending in my playthrough and like in concept it's possibly fine (or as fine as can be with what there was to work with), they both get what they want i guess but upon further thinking about it i'm not feeling it. i know they probably could only do so much with the ai and branching paths but i tried to ~raise daniel to not use his powers to hurt/attack people that weren't assholes but didn't intend for that to result in any trust for justice from the same system that resulted in everything up until this point? and to top that off if daniel was insistent on not hurting anyone or crossing the border i'd rather he didn't break them out/thrash the station adding god knows what else to whatever charges sean was gonna be facing afdskj;lsfajdl;k;jaskdf. like since there was obvs a morality system/level in play i wish they also factored in the brotherhood between sean and daniel. maybe they could've still crossed the border with daniel choosing to not completely destroy everything and if they brotherhood was high enough he would've still went??? idk again it was probs a bit too ambitious of a concept and i don't make games so i don't know shit but it would've been nice lmao. i'm also a bit bitter that in the parting ways endings sean just gets a photograph. it reminded me of how bare the chloe ending felt in LiS1.

beyond the actual endings themselves i did enjoy that it wasn't so much of a binary choice this time. like yeah you made your own choice but that isn't the end all be all and other stuff def mattered. the actual execution left a lot to be desired. i'd love to see a similar system attempted again with probably more budget/time. maybe not an episodic format with painful episode gaps.