“The ‘true’ ending is the one you got and experienced.”
Spoiler warning: This piece contains spoilers for Unsighted.
Every once in a while, along comes a game I just can’t stop thinking about.
Or like how Nier slowly lets you in on its story through multiple playthroughs.
More often than not though, it’s because of how the world is realised.
And I don’t think 2021 had a more fleshed out world than the metroidvania Unsighted.
Techland clearly believed that Dying Light 2 taking 500 hours to fully complete was a good advertising point.
Unsighted is absolutely a game that challenges the triple-A ocean of standard game design.
That timer is one of the most anxiety inducing experiences I have had in a game in years.
It’s not like the timer prevented the LGBTQ+ Brazilian developer from stuffing the game full of secrets.
In fact one of the biggest secrets of all is an incredibly difficult one to find.
As mentioned, every character in the game is on a timer.
But there is a way to undo it all.
And to find those parts, you gotta find areas that are essentially not signposted at all.
But that’s part of the point.
The ‘true’ ending is the one you got and experienced," said Pixel.
But I was pretty determined to get a so-to-speak ‘good’ ending, for one particular reason.
And they’re also right; there are plenty of sad moments in the game.
Unsighted presents a very complicated world, one where truth is what you make of it.
While I do still play the big budget titles, I am definitely burnt out on them.
