Tell honestly, did you cry during this cutscene?
Those who really played
No, but being performatively emotional isn't my job.
I got choked up. Only ever “cried” during the Shadow Moses flashbacks in MGS4.
I can understand people crying with Gustave's death if they are very emotional people, but the Gommage? You can appreciate how artful the cutscene is with the music and everything but man... to cry? Is it a woman thing?
No because I already watched the trailers and knew already i'm not a retard
crying? that's for girls
when they see my dick
I'm so sorry, anon
That is the most Celtic woman I've ever seen.
I went into cope mode when Gustave got wrecked.
there's no way he's dead
it's a fakeout
v-verso is future Gustave!!
Good scene but no.
The only scene that really got me a bit was, very oddly, just him plopping down beside the pile of Expeditioner corpses and preparing to kill himself.
same
why? they cry because they know how much it will hurt
Only time I remember crying during a game was with Bastion first time I played it when it came out.
I almost cried here
I cried during the Gommage scene at the start, multiple times when rewatching it. But Gustave's death did nothing to me.
Verso's ending had this scene and their ghosts at the graveside. Both fucked me up.
i skipped the cutscenes
Only at the end of the game (verso), that was really fucking moving throughout.
The only time I cried while playing vidya was when Aerith died, back in FFVII, but that I played it like 20 years ago.
i mean, not really
but i was like "dont tell me gustave fucking dies, ffs"
i skipped almost all cutscenes. They were cringe af
yea I got bit teareyed here, have to admit
ain't shit
I was expecting him to awaken some super special secret power since up to that point half of his skill tree was still locked and his weapons had no special attributes. It wasn't until I saw Verso used the same weapons and had a lot of the same skills that I realized my nigga was well and truly dead.
Literally me
I did not care for Gustave
yeah laughter can hurt
Saddest part for me was when François cried and said Esquie was his friend, I did this right before doing the final boss so it felt like Majora Mask when the lovers meet just before dying.
Esquie and Monoco dying was sad but they knew it would come and were ready for it so it didn't hit as hard in my heart.
Shed a little tear during Sophia's gommage
Didn't cry during Gustave's death because I was kinda tired of his ass by then anyway
Then hit me like a truck
For me, Verso's ending felt he was sacrificing his life again to save his sister again. It was Alicia screaming "don't leave me alone AGAIN" that hit the hardest in the ending.
On one hand, I understand why Maelle wants to preserve the Canvas.. but ultimately, it will inevitably lead to Aline coming back in and Renoir following which will start the cycle all over again, or with Alicia's death from over use, this making Verso's sacrifice moot.
On the other hand, I can understand why Verso want's to erase the Canvas. The family can't heal and move on as long as it exists. Yet in doing so, they are destroying what is left of Verso along with all the souls within the painting.
Both endings are valid desu. It just depends on perspective.
He doesn't show feelings that often so when Monoco goes for the hug too and just with the way he did it and everything I cried like a total fag.
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Maellejunkie cope under the guise of muh perspective
Never trust a junkie
Honestly, Maelle/Alicia's reason makes sense of you take into account that she literally lived a whole second life in the painting because of her initial fuck up. So that, mixed with her guilt when she remembers everything checks out.
No, the only time I cried was during that cutscene where Alicia transitions into Maelle. I dunno why during this cutscene exactly, but this was so beautifully well done I choked up.
My #1 issue is that someone who wants to die, should be able to die. If Verso wanted to die, and Maelle granted him that she could live in her fake life all she wants. By bringing him back and forcing him to live a life, again, her ending is objectively bad.
No
To be fair, Alicia wants to die as well. Or at the very least doesn't want to live that kind of life.
So, Verso is doing the same to Alicia.
No, I just felt empty.
Gustave and Expedition 33 storyline
SOVL
Verso and Dessandre family drama
SOVLLESS
No media made me cry ever. I guess I can't get that involved and I'm more interested in the execution.
Well he actually died once, which gives it more weight.
That's likely just neurodivergency. Literally.
While both endings are valid, I think most people agree neither are truly satisfying and that we need a third ending where Maelle leaves the painting after everyone dies of old age.
What is this gay shit? Everyone can imagine 3D objects.
Verso inherited all his weapons, his levels and pictos. I then got a haircut later that was just labeled "Gustave" so I fully thought he'd be Gustave "reborn" like the Gestrals are. But nope, he just straight up died.
You can oversimply her love of the canvas with fallacious drug to your heart's content, it will never be true. This only applies to Aline who created facsimiles of her family in the canvas and lived a genuine escapist fantasy. This is non-applicable to Alicia who lived an entire life in the canvas for 16 years as Maelle and merely refused to return after a logical cost benefit analysis, One can argue she is "running away from grief", but the fact she is willing to let Painted Verso die (unlike Aline who kept him immortal) already moots the erroneous escapist rhetoric. Her being faced with confronting her grief is inevitable. She just wants to grieve on her own terms as opposed to it being imposed on her expense of the death of everyone she loves in the canvas and living life as a silent one eyed Crunch bar.
As much as I'd like to believe that's what she ultimately did after the ending.. it's more likely that she made them immortal. What I can see happening is Clea coming in after some time and just wreaking her shit.
Yeah seems she made all of them immortal (with Verso being forced to suffer for eternity) which is supposed to be the bittersweet part for that ending to balance against Verso's "everyone in the painting dies" ending.
Gustave's burrial was the saddest part for me.
She made them immortal
Do either of you have a single fact to corroborate this aside from "I think" or "I feel?" Not even trying to be an ass. There is just nothing I see in the game even vaguely suggesting this.
Given that Aline recreated her family, minus Clea and made them all immortal I'd say it's highly likely that Maelle did the same with her 'family'. Yes it doesn't say it, but her reason for wanting the Canvas to remain mirror's her mother's reason. She can't let go.
Same. My eyes got so misty during it, and the music score and voice acting were impeccable.
I will finish what you started. The Paintress. Renoir. They will pay.
I'll save them, Gustave. Emma, your apprentices, everyone.
Another reason I would never under any circumstance side with Verso.
Aline=/=Alicia, but I digress. Thanks for explaining your thought process.
Verso was the only old person in Maelle's ending after she enabled him to grow old. We thought the theatre ending was set a few months after the ending (and that Maelle made Verso grow old instantly), but then her face cracked in a final plot twist. Considering her parents almost completely transformed (or degraded) after they spent 67 years in the painting, it means Maelle had also spent decades there. And yet Lune, Sciel, Gustave, and Sophie didn't age one day. Why? Because she made them immortal. She intended to live there until her powers are exhausted and she degrades into a monster.
I would say the ending is too ambiguous to draw these conclusions definitively. Lune's hair is visibly greying, and so is Sciel's. No arguments on Gustave and Sophie, however - they're identical as far as I can tell. We do not know how much time has passed. We just know that Alicia has already been in the canvas for far too long already (which Renoir pointed out.) But I would not say the avatars Aline and Renoir assumed necessarily correlate to the time they spent in the canvas. Renoir could revert at will from the Curator and Aline came back as "herself" during the final boss fight.
That said, my interpretation of the end scene as not that her face was literally melting, but rather reflecting her impending death and physical state outside the canvas.
who's the snowbunny
Given that Aline recreated her family, minus Clea
She did paint Clea.
Is that the opening?
Why the fuck would you cry at the opening when you dont know anyone of those people or the world?
Women lmao.
That's valid, honestly. Not everyone connects emotionally to media the same way. Some people get pulled in by narrative or characters, others are more invested in aesthetics, themes, or technical craftsmanship. It's like appreciating a painting for the brushwork rather than what it depicts. Nothing wrong with that.
No, because everything is confirmed fake.