Telltale gave us the greatest choice we never knew we made!
Hahaha this is rich! This has got to be the greatest orchestration I've seen. I'll get to the point. We have two theories running around on the forums correct? Nerrisa is Faith, Faith is Nerrisa. What if these aren't theories but in all actuality a choice? A choice of how it ends. So far there are so many details to back up both theories but it almost seems like these theories open ended. This ending is open ended but with so much detail that it justifies both theories but never giving you full fledged conclusion to either of them.
I'm not going to post up the details because I'm sure so many of you have seen them or you posted them yourselves but why is that when playing the game over and over and looking into every detail you cant disprove either theory? Because it was by design. Telltale left it open ended on purpose. It's our choice.
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I certainly hope... hope that the community gets their answers some day. Long down the road, when we think we're so close to actually getting the right answer.. and BAM. It was actually Bufkin the entire time.
Seriously? Source, please!
Haha! I think this is actually a way to give something to the people who both read the comics and who haven't. This story answers some questions for readers but there are a lot of elements that are quite trivial, like a lot of characters involved with the Crooked Man story to be more exact.
Oh no! It wasn't actually Bufkin! I was just kidding! My Bad!
Well I've noticed in some playthroughs it said Faith was "deceased" and in others she wasn't even mentioned.
That's kind of lame. It would literally permit them to create any ending whatsoever and then it's "your choice" what to make of it. I think snow was glamoured as crane the entire game and vice versa.
God dammit Bufkin!
It only shows characters you've interacted with in your playthrough, so if you only played episode 5 you would see the crooked man, TJ, Toad, Georgie, and Snow. I got a weird glitch on one of my playthrough so it had that I'd only played episode 5 after finishing the whole game, but after changing my save file it showed me all the characters and Faith is always marked deceased
No not any ending. Just a choice between whether or not it was really Nerissa or it was Faith at the end. We all know what happens next because of the comics but with this its different. We know Nerissa/Faith gets away with it in the end. All of what has been done is done. All the evidence pointed to either/or one of the major theories and just like we choose what Bigby says or does next, we choose whether it was Nerrisa the whole time or it's Faith the whole time. This has no effect on the story because that's already waaaaaaay established. As a matter of fact, the comics are ending soon at #150. It's on #142 right now I believe. This entire plot has little to no effect on that and it pretty much stands on it's own. This isn't really lame, it just falls on to person playing the game to choose who they want and they wont be wrong.
Like I said, saying "it's your choice" would permit them to create any ending and excuse it that way. What if TWD had stopped after lee got bit and peoplesaid "it's your choice whether he died or not, it's your choice whether he rescued clem"? That would have sucked. You don't read or watch other people's stories just so that you can make it up wholesale yourself. I mean, a story could literally have no ending, cut off mid game and that could be justified by "you choose". If I wanted to daydream an alternate ending or series of events, I can do that anyway.
Edit: By the way, I'm not saying it was a bad ending, I'm just saying this, as an "excuse" is a lame one. If it can be used to excuse no ending then it's not a good defence as to why the ending is good.
That's a good way to think about it. And wouldn't you know, when you ask "Faith" what her name is in the beginning of Episode 1, she replies "Whatever you'd like it to be, handsome." And when you ask "Nerrisa" what they call her now, she replies "Whatever makes them happy."
The thing is there is no excuse involved. Telltale games are all about giving the player the choice. This is just an ultimate choice. While yes I would agree leaving a story open ended is lame, this isn't a normal case. It's a prequel to the comic books and whatever happens to the characters like Nerissa, Faith, Toad, or Jersey Devil are trivial at best. Not to mention they didn't just get lazy and leave an ultimate cliff hanger, they created a paradox. That's actually hard to do in terms of story writing. We have evidence that can confirm either theory but not deny them. Even if you were to go with one the other has a possibility of being true because of the evidence but cant be true because you would have to believe one character had to die for the other to survive. It's not your typical cliff hanger.
So you're just saying "everyone is right, gold star for everyone"? Ok then, fair enough.
Great observation! I never really realized so many similarities between Faith and Nerrisa. It really puts the whole series in another perspective.
And I know, I once said that I thought Nerissa might be the one who manipulated the events, now I am leaning more to Faith.
Pretty much. Welcome to telltale games! Where the games are determined by how you play them.