Random Gaming Talk

[MJBarret]

I loved the game overall, I've only really got two issues that kinda bothered me. Endgame spoilers:

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Scratch wasn't the demented psychopath his prior appearances made him out to be, but just a snarling monster, which I found kinda boring in comparison.

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I felt the narrative got a little muddied in the end.

It had seemed to me like Alan was trapped because he couldn't be both The Author and The Hero. He was a prisoner of the Dark Presence and tormented and manipulated by Scratch so any attempt to save himself would ultimately be thwarted. 

His solution was to write in a new Hero and make himself the Author trapped in tower for the Hero to rescue.

That felt like a strong narrative through-line, until it fizzled out when they went "We're both the Authors and the Heroes!" which I don't think really made sense in context and felt a little Sesame Street to me.

Otherwise loved it, looking forward to Control 2.