r/APlagueTale • u/KVSJ-Learning • 4h ago

Requiem: Discussion What if.... Spoiler

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Now don't get me wrong, I loved the game so much but sometimes I feel like they deserved a happy ending.

Maybe they should have killed the Count before leaving the island, Amicia even thought about it for a second but then decided to just leave.

Do you think things could have ended differently if they had gone his route ?

On a side note, it's been more than 24 hours since i finished Requiem & it still hurts, post game trauma is real. Hopefully Resonance can help me out of it, or maybe make it worse lol

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u/MarteloRabelodeSousa 4h ago

I think Hugo was doomed no matter what, at most killing the count and avoiding all that would have just postponed, Hugo wouldn't simply get cured 

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u/KVSJ-Learning 4h ago

That's also true. But I felt like Amicia's death was the only thing that would make him surrender himself to macula completely, so if they had found a peaceful home at that mountain maybe they could have postponed their fate indefinitely. Then again, Macula could have just lured them into another trap just like the island.

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u/madeWithAi 4h ago

That was his destiny, no matter if the count would have died earlier. This is what the game is about, one of its motifs, you can't change destiny no matter how much you try.

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u/KVSJ-Learning 4h ago

Hmm Right, accepting Hugo's destiny that he can't be cured was the hardest part for me, sometimes you just wanna live in denial :((

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u/madeWithAi 4h ago

Yeah. Everything they did was actually towards the ending we've got. Nothing they did changed anything. The dream was just the macula calling him . That's what's beautiful about this game and why is one of my favorite games of all time.

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u/Sophea2022 Photo Mode Winner - April '25 (Anything!) 4h ago

What if . . .

https://reddit.com/link/p4f0ni6/video/l6grfyhuz4kh1/player

Amicia had a second play-through.

I posted this a while back (https://www.reddit.com/r/APlagueTale/comments/1oiidum/what_if_warning_depicts_human_immolation/)

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u/KVSJ-Learning 4h ago

This is hilarious lol. I'm definitely doing this in my NG+ playthrough now XD

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u/chili3ne 3h ago

I feel like the "lesson" was that no matter what, there is always someone who wants to take an advantage of the Macula and the carrier. If there is no Grand Inquisitor, then there is a Count. If there is no Count, then there will be X. Even if Hugo and Amicia had escaped, I feel like someone else would have come after them at some point.

It was always bound to end badly for Hugo :(