Quote Originally Posted by jameseoakes View Post
I might be problatic but deleting them doesn't fix anything, they could have been left to run down there reserves of energy until maybe a better solution could be found but the game just jumps strait to removing them. As I said before it feels really strange we have really humanising interactions with them and then the game just goes now it's time to remove them, it just feels terrible. The life energy stuff mostly seems to be Sphenes arc it seems to have very baring on the Endless active in the zone (or at least the first part)
It really does feel terrible to not even have tried or questioned the situation at all, fully agree!

Why bother reuniting a couple to only seem to say 'hope you have the best 5 minutes of your lives before we destroy you'. 'Hey kids, you liked that play? Wait till you see the pretty lightshow as you vanish forever in a cloud of gold sparkles!' If they're not alive in any sense, there is no point to making their final moments better. If they are, then, well... it's not a great look for 'heroes' to have coldly killed them all without even thinking how to possibly save them.

And the fact that deleting them did nothing to Sphene, what was the point? Both from writing and player perspectives none of it means anything.

But then again, we're putting more thought and care into this story than the writers and/or producer/director did it seems.