His main character suffers from depression and anxiety and this fact has resonated with hundreds of fans. Steve is aware a lot of his fans are A) Young teens to young adults B) Struggling with mental illness. But one of the BIGGEST no-nos suicide prevention networks will tell you when consulting them about mental illness and suicide in media is NOT to show a graphic suicide in progress. Again, I want to hug her, but I have to watch her hurt herself instead, cause Steve doesn’t let us have nice things. Because apparently that’s the only way to complete the ritual, and also because she feels really bad about not unbinding Larry’s soul and about not fixing Sal. Did we ever find out why his body was never found? No? Ok that seems important.Īfter each puzzle, Sal’s body is restored a little bit at a time, but even after turning on all the pyramids and solving the mysteries behind all three doors, he can’t make it back to the “real” world. Meanwhile, Ash tries to unbind Larry’s soul from the tree house he died in, which doesn’t work. I genuinely applaud the man for the work put into this endeavor I’m assuming all by himself. Steve probably worked the hardest and longest on drawing out and coding these scenes. Each door has a different art style, and I really liked seeing these alternate realities. Sal can enter various doors in the House In The Void to step into alternate realities, and this was my favorite aspect of the game. I guess it makes sense as a way to wrap up why he’s been able to drift between worlds but… if he doesn’t care about any of that anymore why help Sal? And what about Rosenberg? Is she like Jim, or do we just have to assume she’s magical because her family helped found the cult? (Explained in an easter egg later on, because this game doesn’t just drop its lore. His entire character arc for four episodes was “Loved his family so much he sacrificed himself to save them”, and suddenly he’s just some glowy dude attached to Magic Spirit Tubes who doesn’t give half a shit. This is, narratively speaking, weird as hell. We meet Jim, or what’s left of him, and he doesn’t give a fuck about anything anymore but agrees to help Sal anyway. ![]() Sal’s spirit is apparently revived by those pyramids, and he can dimension warp. When Ash tries to resurrect Sal, we get even more insight into her character, and unfortunately a lot of it is “Grieving, distraught, and full of self-blame”. We knew he had some good in him after all. We get to see Travis again! I was excited that a lot of us were right about him being indoctrinated but also working to fight the cult from the inside. I enjoyed the task of planting the C4 in the temple… catacomb… thing. I really enjoyed playing as Ashley and getting some insight into her character. Because why wouldn’t Indigenous peoples be in a story without being part of some mystical occult backstory, portrayed as mysterious historical props who worshiped something dark and evil instead of being portrayed as human beings.īut I continued. Unfortunately, this series has a way of getting darker and darker as it progresses.įirst thing that bugged me was the lore drop about how the cult was founded.Ī Native American tribe. Maple was possessed by whatever fucked up the souls of the other apartment tenants, but hey! At least her and Neil weren’t in on the cult like so many fans predicted. Todd had apparently escaped the hospital, and that had potential to be either a very very good or very very bad thing. It seemed likely Sal would be resurrected. Neil and Ash were still working to bring the cult down. The chapter started on a dark but nearly hopeful note. ![]() ![]() While playing, I genuinely enjoyed some elements of the game. I’ve had a couple days to digest the ending to Sally Face. But I’m also just some dude online with an opinion, and you can stop reading at any time.Īlright ya’ll. I am however disappointed in the ending as a whole and in some of the very harmful tropes included in it. Under a read more for obvious reasons, includes heavy spoilers and potentially triggering subjects.ĭisclaimer: I might miss-remember some parts of the story or have missed a piece of lore that would settle minor complaints.
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