Quote Originally Posted by PaleYonder View Post
It's insensitive, too, especially if we take the game's word that these are not the real people but just AI programs.
Especially for Erenville, who's just processing the fact that his mother is dead, which has been obvious for hours and he knows it, this is just not something he should have to go through. And if they're not real, it's not even proper closure. One can have a nice conversation with the AI, but in the next sober moment it would sink in that the conversation didn't happen with the real people anyway, and one's just dug too deep and made oneself more miserable.
It's very human to want to try anyway, and I relate, but I also think making them go through with this is unconscionable as a friend.
I'm in the camp "they are just programs" and the whole last zone was utterly ridiculous and bad storytelling. Why are we parading around entertaining an AI? Just shut it down. Why are we trying to remember the random AIs so that they can live on in our memory when they are not even people? Why are we letting AI mom condescend to Erenville, who is already in pain from the loss of his mother?

It's like they came up with a concept of separating soul from memory but failed to show how nonhuman the memory AIs are. They should have felt like soulless computer programs just adhering to their programming and running their memories in a loop, unable to form new emotional connections or react with feelings. Then Wookie's maid-mom-AI wakes up from the loop and starts talking like she's really there and the whole concept falls apart. There was also nothing about Erenville's mom's personality that suggested she did not have a soul, unlike Otis.