04-12-2015, 12:53 PM
Stage 4 Day 24
Spoilers for video game Bastion inbound. If you haven't played it and you want to (and believe me, you want to!) don't read this. Thank you.
So, this weekend I've completed Bastion. It's a cool little game, made me rage once or twice but that's beside the point. I want to talk about the ending. In short you have a choice. One is to undo all the damage that was done before and during the game (sort of go back to idyllic past, when the grass was greener and the sun was brighter). The other one is to accept what happened and live on. First one is obviously more positive even if a bit shadowed by the idea that old mistakes might be repeated. However I chose second one. Why? Because facing the past and letting it go is the right thing to do. And I'm not even talking from perspective of wannabe alpha male, I'm talking as a human being. Truth is past was never perfect, even if we want to believe it and if I was given a choice I'd rather look for hope somewhere else. This decision would haunt me, sure, but that would be better than living in the past.
Spoilers for video game Bastion inbound. If you haven't played it and you want to (and believe me, you want to!) don't read this. Thank you.
So, this weekend I've completed Bastion. It's a cool little game, made me rage once or twice but that's beside the point. I want to talk about the ending. In short you have a choice. One is to undo all the damage that was done before and during the game (sort of go back to idyllic past, when the grass was greener and the sun was brighter). The other one is to accept what happened and live on. First one is obviously more positive even if a bit shadowed by the idea that old mistakes might be repeated. However I chose second one. Why? Because facing the past and letting it go is the right thing to do. And I'm not even talking from perspective of wannabe alpha male, I'm talking as a human being. Truth is past was never perfect, even if we want to believe it and if I was given a choice I'd rather look for hope somewhere else. This decision would haunt me, sure, but that would be better than living in the past.
For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided.
~Belisarius, the last Roman
Certitude is for the puzzle-box logicians and girls of white glamour [...]. I am a letter written in uncertainty.
~36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 4
~Belisarius, the last Roman
Certitude is for the puzzle-box logicians and girls of white glamour [...]. I am a letter written in uncertainty.
~36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 4