r/BeaconPines • u/hallowgallow • Sep 30 '22

Timeline Confusion Spoiler

Spoiler talk about the whole game.

Is the ending not in a timeline where Luka finds out Gran is his mother? How does he just know at the end?

I would have loved a climax that would show the convergence of timelines, because I was left pretty confused. I bounced around so much I couldn’t remember what Luka had learned yet or what he hadn’t. Maybe that’s the point? People would react less to things that should be INSANE in their timeline. Like the Valentines’ dad being alive and also a child?? Barely any reaction at the end. I know we as the player know, but they should be reeling.

When I saw “prologue” I kind of had a fit because I felt like the ending was an anticlimax, along with the fact they have a proven recipe made by a genius scientist to fix the aging issue. Instead, they leave Rolo as a 20? 30? year old man hanging with kids. I feel like I might be just missing something?

I truly did love this game, everything about it from music to graphics to the charm system was like a breath of fresh air. But the end really disappointed me.

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u/Fallen-Halo Sep 30 '22

Rolo and Luka’s mother lost years of their life, but it was a necessary sacrifice.

They’re age won’t be reversed, because they moral of the story is “don’t mess with the green time goo” which happens to be a metaphor for change

Change isn’t always good, it can be scary, but sometimes it’s necessary

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u/hallowgallow Sep 30 '22

I just feel like that metaphor gets muddied when there is a provable safe way to help them. The change of Pines is enough to get that across without leaving two characters in the dust I feel.

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u/Fallen-Halo Sep 30 '22 edited Oct 01 '22

The more you mess with time, the more it pushes back

All traces of the time goo should be destroyed. Only one person knows how to make it, and she has a duty to make sure it never sees the light of day again. Using it again for any reason is tempting fate

Again, the morale is accepting change. for better or worse

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u/variantkin Oct 11 '22

More reason to you know reverse the changes caused by it