Love this pairing. Therefore, I refuse to play the sequel.
ninryu
May 21, 2025 11:04AM
^ What happened in the sequel?
KiraQueen
May 21, 2025 4:35PM
@Ninryu Chloe leaves her in spite of everything because Max was too much for her.
But the worst part is pretty much that though you can save Chloe in the first game, it just leads to a doomed relationship where the two of them hate each other. Pretty much everyone hated this direction and it probably would have been better to just not have Max in the sequel at all and not make any of the endings explicitly canon.
last edited at May 21, 2025 4:42PM
herenowforever
May 22, 2025 12:33AM
The thing is that none of the endings or anything are true canon, because it's an infinite multiverse franchise now. There's a comic book that has entirely different story line, and it's "canon" as well and the story itself already involved two+ timelines. You also experience different timeline in the original game in one scene where Max goes to see a different future Chloe could experience if things went a little bit differently.
All of those timelines exist simultaneously, nothing disappears or appears from nowhere. It's just that Max, for some unknown reason, gains ability to "unmoor" her consciousness and travel around different timelines and go back and forth in one as well. This is also the reason why her so called choices in end of the first game are actually a pointless moral trap. Max isn't saving anyone by leaving, things still happen as they are.
This latest game is written by a bunch of people who dislike Chloe, so it is what it is. Just take a very negative route based on Chloe's reaction of Max not saving the town and her mother, and there you go. But the other "ending" of the original game will inevitably loop back to start of the first game. Max still has the butterfly photo there, which means there will be many timelines where she goes back to make another choice, not to mention its just a cruel torment for Max to experience like being toyed by some kind of intangible "spirit of universe" that hands her the keys to universe and tells her to struggle until her mind breaks and she gives up.
tredaeci May 19, 2025 11:59PM
Love this pairing. Therefore, I refuse to play the sequel.
ninryu May 21, 2025 11:04AM
^ What happened in the sequel?
KiraQueen May 21, 2025 4:35PM
@Ninryu Chloe leaves her in spite of everything because Max was too much for her.
But the worst part is pretty much that though you can save Chloe in the first game, it just leads to a doomed relationship where the two of them hate each other. Pretty much everyone hated this direction and it probably would have been better to just not have Max in the sequel at all and not make any of the endings explicitly canon.
last edited at May 21, 2025 4:42PM
herenowforever May 22, 2025 12:33AM
The thing is that none of the endings or anything are true canon, because it's an infinite multiverse franchise now. There's a comic book that has entirely different story line, and it's "canon" as well and the story itself already involved two+ timelines. You also experience different timeline in the original game in one scene where Max goes to see a different future Chloe could experience if things went a little bit differently.
All of those timelines exist simultaneously, nothing disappears or appears from nowhere. It's just that Max, for some unknown reason, gains ability to "unmoor" her consciousness and travel around different timelines and go back and forth in one as well. This is also the reason why her so called choices in end of the first game are actually a pointless moral trap. Max isn't saving anyone by leaving, things still happen as they are.
This latest game is written by a bunch of people who dislike Chloe, so it is what it is. Just take a very negative route based on Chloe's reaction of Max not saving the town and her mother, and there you go. But the other "ending" of the original game will inevitably loop back to start of the first game. Max still has the butterfly photo there, which means there will be many timelines where she goes back to make another choice, not to mention its just a cruel torment for Max to experience like being toyed by some kind of intangible "spirit of universe" that hands her the keys to universe and tells her to struggle until her mind breaks and she gives up.
last edited at May 22, 2025 12:33AM