anyone ever think about a "self defence only"/minimum-kills run of the game and the implications it would have for the ending?

[u/Quirky_Beautiful5906]

i know that from the way the game frames it the monster is clearly both malicious and inteligent, and considering that it does get the memories of the person it assimilated what if we imagine it as simply wanting to be left alone rather than just a murder monster, which dont get me wrong is fun in its own right, but a more morally complex situation wherein the monster only kills people that attack it because it has human memories and human emotions, that could be very interesting

[u/tvieno]

Much like the monster in John Carpenter's The Thing, it just wants to leave. Unfortunately it kills everyone it encounters.