Quote Originally Posted by aTanpopo View Post
I found it emotional even though it was rushed just because of the overall storyline between them. She's seemingly rarely around for much of his childhood, grows up lonely and shunning the company of other people, but Cahcuia fills him with this hope that he can go with her one day if he just finds the golden city. He can't find it and gives up, thinking its just some fairy tale she told him to get him to go touch grass. He's left feeling she never takes into account how he feels, just goes off an enjoys herself and leaves him behind time and time again.

Cut to DT, he finds the City is real, finally finds it and right when he's about to actually go home and maybe get to go on that adventure with his mum that he's always wanted, she dies. And then before he can even process that, there she is standing in front of him as an endless and telling him that he has to delete her. He gets to spend time with her like he wanted to as a child, but only for a moment, because once again she's made all the decisions for him- she'll have fun going on this last little adventure then she'll leave him behind, and this time she's not coming back.

Yeah it was rushed and i wish there was more time spent actually exploring all of the implied tension between the two of them. I think the very quick turn around on being angry at her to deciding to take on her dying wish was a bit too quick, but the overall idea of this relationship really broke my heart tbh and I couldn't help but get emotional.
At that point I was so mad at her for being the mouthpiece of these people's dehumanization so that we could get through the zone without thinking, she was the only Endless I wanted to delete. So by the time I got to that point, I was just like, "Off your mom, Erenville. We're on the clock here. Formatting is almost done. Sure your heart is breaking but she's the happiest she's ever been and given she never cared about your tears all the other times she left you behind, why do you think she'll care now? Just delete her and be done."

Then he devotes the rest of his life to making HER dreams come true.

Imma need a stronger delete button.

Quote Originally Posted by arstoka View Post
It might be a little off topic but, they honestly should have taken away the aspect of 'erasing peoples memories of the deceased' from the story and made it so that Living Memory was accessible to every citizen who had lost someone. What better way to reinforce the carelessness of the the citizenry with their lives due to being able to, mostly, cheat death then to come with the gut punch of 'you don't actually die when your body does, you go to Living Memory, we'll see you tomorrow'.

The only other way to really go into the 'protect my people from harm at all costs' would be to go full tilt for Sphene in which she's full on brainwashing / running a dictatorship regarding their memories, using the Regulators to silence out anything that would cause conflict, robbing the citizens of their freedom but perpetuating their ""eternal happiness and safety"".

Either would have been a much more impactful inversion of Wuk Lamat's ideology and a possible moment for her to reflect on what keeping her people's Peace and Happiness actually means and, well, how far she would go to do just that.
I agree. It's crazy how often I've watched players write a better story than what we got with guesses and wishes.