nature of choice now before I go on this is a heavy spoiler alert we're covering everything from the game so if you haven't watched any of the hundreds of Let's Plays and still want to experience it for yourself turn back now but if you want to completely change the way you look at the game well spend another few minutes with me we all clear good now this game is a blast not only to play but to discuss you see the game not so subtly points out that it's built around the butterfly effect where decisions you make earlier in the game have significant ramifications down the line it's a game about choice and what makes this game endlessly discussable and watchable is seeing how different choices different gruesome murders for our yeast their eighteen and nineteen years old man now I feel really creepy about trying to get Jess into her underwear I was just afraid yeah no no it is not when some of these kids are literally under the age of consent cool creepy revelations about everyone's true ages aside make the right choices nail each QTE and miraculously you may be able to keep everyone alive until dawn roll credits well not everyone meet Josh older brother of both Beth and Hanna we see in the game's prologue that one year prior to the events of the game Beth and Hanna were killed accidentally after a prank went wrong yes you can roll the clip one last time fast-forward to the present day we're halfway through the game you learned that Josh is the psycho a masked madman setting up a lab result wraps for his quote unquote friends to make them pay for the deaths of both his sisters well that and to get them all a few thousand clicks on a certain video sharing platform god everyone is a vlogger these days now outside of the supernatural and cannibalistic Wendigos josh is the villain of the game putting his friends through torture as such it's only fitting that he's the only playable character who will never survive the night regardless of your choices he only has one of two fates either getting his head crushed by a Windigo or if you find enough clues turning into a Windigo himself a fitting end to a crazed maniac except hold on Josh's story isn't so cut-and-dry true the torture of his friends is extreme and he is an adverse to going so far as to punch Ashley out cold but none of his actions directly lead to anyone's death his traps are only there to scare not kill fake bodies fake bullets saws that don't go all the way down now compare that to Mike aka the village bicycle where anyone gets a ride you can kill Emily in cold blood and the world rejoices or how about Ashley when some scenarios can choose to kill Chris while he pleads for his life simply by keeping the lodge door locked then in the final scene Sam can actively choose to blow up the lodge early killing everyone in there and then Matt who can basically leave his girlfriend Emily for dead when a tower Falls I mean seriously the game gives you a lot a lot of opportunities to kill off Emily in short pretty much every playable character in this game can take an action that will directly lead to someone else's death except for Jessica and except for Josh but unlike all the other characters Josh doesn't get a happy ending and sure I get it he tortured his friends and yeah
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