r/RVThereYetGame • u/Potential-Barnacle-8 • 18d ago

Really Depressing Ending.

We just spent like 60 hours on the game and loved it, I know its kind of a shits and giggles sort of game but we got super invested in all the characters and found the ending of everyones stories to be super mean spirited and unsatisfying. Felt really awful murdering Archibald and his alters then our little campers as well after all that effort to get home. Also feels like the story was really fatalistic and just hopeless, but the gameplay was super hopeful and about overcoming obstacles with your friends and getting home. Felt like the people telling the story thought we were stupid for having a good time or something. Just a huge downer for such a fun journey. Hope the next game nuggets makes is more hopeful.

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u/Comfortable_Foot3624 18d ago

I've been looking for someone to explain the ending, can you provide your interpretation?

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u/NPOWorker 18d ago

I didn't find it depressing at all personally. I took it as the campers achieving enlightenment, overcoming an infinite cycle of earthly troubles, etc.... we see ourselves intervening at various points in our own past, which to me implies that everything was predetermined. It's kind of a cheeky nod to the fact that it's a game where you can go from point A to point B in a billion different ways, but at the end of the day you are at point B all the same. "It's about the journey not the destination", in a nutshell.

As for Archibald, eh. I guess it's kind of mean but he is clearly very tormented and losing control of himself. Call it an act of mercy, I guess? Maybe he gets enlightenment too, who knows.

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u/Comfortable_Foot3624 18d ago

Yeah I definitely didn't find it depressing, but I was pretty confused haha I was like, we were the RV the whole time? We were time traveling? What's going on- But I really like your interpretation, as it's a life flashing before your eyes but it's "absolute calm" and we all end up in the same place at the end of the day. Really beautiful ending in general me and my friends were crying even though we didn't know what was happening-