Picked the wrong ending in Until Dawn and didnt realize how bad it was until 3 AM the next morning

I was playing Until Dawn last weekend and had to choose between saving Mike or saving Josh near the end. I went with Mike because he seemed more useful to the group. Turns out that choice locked me into a scene where Josh gets turned into a Wendigo and you see him shuffling around in the mines. It didnt hit me until I was trying to sleep that night. The game never shows you what happens after. He is just stuck like that forever. No cure. No family ever finds him. That one decision made his whole story way darker than I thought. Has anyone else made a choice in a game that backfired emotionally like that?

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lane.joel16d ago

Does that mean every Wendigo in the game was once a person someone gave up on? Like, all those monster designs are just normal folks who got abandoned in the mines with no hope. Makes the whole "kill or save" choice seem way more brutal when you realize you're basically cursing someone to eternal hunger instead of just ending it.

kai46316d ago

Wait, @lane.joel that is such a dark way to think about it but you're totally right. I never considered that every single Wendigo you fight was probably just some random guy who got left behind by his crew or something. Remember that one early in the game where you find the little camp with the half-eaten journal? That really hit me hard because the guy was writing about how he thought they were coming back for him, but they never did. It makes the "save" option feel almost cruel since you're just keeping them alive to starve and suffer down there forever.