'Saving Charlotte' part of the 'good ending' is a figment of Kristina's imagination, it's a delusion her mind cooked up because she was too fragile to cope. That's why the ending is called 'Denial'. Hearing the screaming, is facing the truthĪlthough it may **appear** you've saved Charlotte in one of the endings, it's actually a figment of Kristina's imagination. The reason you don't hear Charlotte scream in the denial ending is because Kristina wants to pretend it didn't happen, and deludes herself into remembering a nice, sanitized version of what actually happened. So the two outcomes are really 1) Charlotte dies, Kristina lies to herself and pretends she saved her, because she can't accept the truth OR 2) Charlotte dies, but Kristina accepts the truth that she abandoned Charlotte and owns up to the reality of what really happened.

In the denial ending, the point is that Kristina is blocking out the truth, and pretending to herself she actually saved Charlotte when she didn't. Did anyone else look at it this way, or is it just me? I just found it kind of odd that the intent for the endings seemed to be backwards from how I perceived them. Not leave them to be killed and then convince myself that abandoning them is what they actually wanted. Maybe it's just me, but I think if someone was screaming my name while they were being harmed, it would mean they wanted me to help. In Clear, you abandon her while she's screaming in pain and/or terror, including literally screaming your name, and then you're supposed to accept that she wanted you to leave her. In Denial, you're able to save her and escape. But if not, that would mean the Clear ending isn't fully explained even if you do play the other story path.Īnyway, speaking of Charlotte screaming, that leads to another reason I thought Denial was the better ending. So is the motive even actually supposed to be the same between the two stories? I don't know. In the Clear 'drugged in a bar' path, she is. And you get that in Denial without having to play the other story path.Īlthough in the Denial 'kidnapped and killed for organs' path, Charlotte is drugged and isn't screaming the whole time like she's being tortured. But a group of people (including a woman) working together to kidnap and kill women is unusual to the point that some kind of explanation for what's behind it is appreciated. One guy drugs you in a bar and kidnaps you, you don't necessarily need to explain everything. But it's different with a group of people. That's not to say that a random encounter with a psycho is unrealistic or anything. It's only by playing through and seeing the alternate story on the Denial path that you gain some context about the abductors (at least two of them anyway) and what their motives are. You're seemingly just abducted by a group of random psychopaths who drug women in bars and kill them without any point or purpose behind it. If, as I did initially, you're just starting the game and play to a Clear/End ending, that's not the case. You know who the bad guys are and what their motives are. I thought Denial was the best ending (and story) while Clear was the worst.įor starters, a playthrough that gets the Denial ending tells one self-contained story. And the worst ending is 'Denial' because she can't accept what happened and is still haunted by it.īut for me, that's the opposite of how I saw it. So from what I gather by their achievement descriptions, the best ending is 'Clear' because Kristina manages to accept everything and move on. Whatever you choose, you’ll get Denial ending.I'll put the whole thing in spoiler text, just in case. I believe that the following decisions do not matter.

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Here’s the list of decisions to help you boost Denial as fast as possible: Choose options that give you Denial points and avoid options that give you Acceptance points. Whatever you choose, you’ll get Clear ending.ĭenial Kristina is in denial, Emily still haunts her (during the last visit to Alexander) Emily But if by any chance you don’t get 100%, there’re a few more choices that could help: These choices give you +85 Acceptance points, and by this point you should gather another unmissable +15 for free. Here’s the list of decisions to help you boost Acceptance as fast as possible:

Choose options that give you Acceptance points and avoid options that give you Denial points.

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