Spoilers ahead for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 , and Life is Strange.

I recently finished Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 , an experience I would compare to having my soul scraped out with a rusty ice cream scoop by a methhead I had deeply offended in an earlier life. It's the sort of game you don't beat so much as survive. After the credits rolled, I just stared into the middle distance for a while until the existential angst left me.

The game has two possible endings that you choose from. In one, Maelle continues to live in and maintain the painted world, resurrecting all the dead characters who congregate at a concert. However, the final shot implies that this process is slowly corrupting and killing her, dooming her to rot away in a fantasy world rather than face her grief. This is

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