Also the hotel you pass by encourages this thought since a hotel is not a place to live forever. Still there is this faint distant hope ! And this hope is your fuel for trying to reach your sister no matter how difficult and dangerous it may be.
You dont know whether you can leave this realm ( reach your sister ) and enter heaven or not. Since the ending does not clarify if you truly reach your goal or if your sister simply disappears ( or if you get trolled by a brainslug again -.- ) it leaves you with the same feeling that you live through the whole game - uncertainty. ( Note that for example the Spiders that chase you very often look like giant black claws of a hand reaching for you as if they want to grab you in order to put an end to your journey - also note that spiders are a symbol for eternity and fate maybe displaying YOUR fate of staying in the Limbo realm for all eternity which you actually overcome since you always escape the spider and eventually even kill it ! - in other words maybe destroying/changing your fate ? ) It seems to me as if your sister in this game acts as a symbol for Heaven since its the only thing you're working towards and as if the all surrounding permanently present possibility of failure ( which in this case means death ) is either a symbol for hell or a symbol for the rules of the limbo realm which do not allow you or any other soul to reach heaven. I feel like the game really lets you feel like those souls since you in fact are really disoriented being thrown into a forest with giant spiders and weird strangers who for some reason want to kill you. I personally regard the ending aswell as the game as a very good display of the religious limbo - a place between Heaven and Hell where souls of the dead travel along confused and disoriented not knowing where to go. There indeed are a lot of possible interpretation of the games ending. The puzzles where quite interesting and hard sometimes to figure out and I have to admit at the end I quite lost my patience, however I finished it and overall liked this game :-) It was beautifully done and created emotions of horror, sadness and loneliness. :) All I can say is that I really liked the game, the art, the sound, the atmosphere. I have to say I finished the game really just now and I wanted to post the same thread so I guess I'm not alone with this empty feeling at the end of the game. However this is my opinion and I guess as I said everyone may have their own thoughts/interpretation on this particular ending. I interpret that maybe the girl and boy died and that their dead bodies maybe lying in the grass on the floor. When the credits end, you as a player can see the exact location in the woods with the tree house on the right side of the screen and approximately in the middle of the screen you see 2 spots seperated from each other, where flies are circling around. Then the screen goes black and the credits begin to roll down. She is kneeing down on the floor and she's stroking something in the grass, which isn't clearly visible. The game ends at the point where the boy for the first time really meets a girl. ! *SPOILER ALERT* Please don't read any further if you want to play to the end yourself ! I would say it is for everyone to interpret on their own.
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