I did play the game and I am just pissed, because why these ultimate objects if none of them are going to work, why all of these choices of weaponry if the ultimate is that there is nothing. I get the meaning and all because you know "It's so that the player is given false hope and bla bla bla" But these are multiple options, and yet none of them are even useful. If they have the ability to create what they can see, they can create a lot more other things like a kitchen knife, or other common household objects they can use. Such as a literal glass vase or any vase, everyone knows a vase is or better yet a literal tool or shovel. There are multiple common household or common objects and I think for the theme "It's so the player can feel hope but it's thrown away" can be put into different uses since instead of hope it feels annoying because there are actual ways to go around it.
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Dude why you pissed lmao?? Like Jasmine said, that choice wasn’t even in the OG demo, it was added specifically in the updated one cuz players asked for an illusionary choice. Literally in the devlogs, go check if you don’t believe it. The whole point was to give some exposition, it shows how her powers are limited, like yeah she’s technically called a god, but only cuz she created the painting. She’s using her powers for the first time, it’s not supposed to be god-tier right away. Do you draw like a pro the first time?
And about the item options, a vase? a kitchen knife? Be serious. Which college student even has a random vase in their dorm lol The story clearly sets up the items she's spent actual time with/has experience, like the scalpel and the injection with Shyloh. They were even shown at the start of the story, so it makes sense they'd come back. Pulling out a knife or vase outta nowhere would just feel super random.
Also like... why would you want to use that stuff? No matter what you pick, you’re still OP with all those pixies around. Even if you summon a machine gun or whatever (??), okay cool you wiped them out, now what? The game’s a dark romance, not Doom Eternal. The whole point of the pixies switching up is so we get those yandere vibes. If they didn’t go crazy, then what’s even the genre?? And if they do and you just nuke them right after, congrats you just finished the game (And if you come back with “oh I’d just romance Shyloh instead”, but then what? There’s literally no opposing force in the story anymore, no tension, no stakes, just a flatline. That’s boring af. Dark romance needs drama. You can’t have a fire story without conflict.)
And Sev could only think of medical items instead of idk a shovel or a kitchen knife to show how much medical school have permeated every aspect of their life, from childhood till now. So much that even in situations of great danger the first think they think of is a scalpel
When someone is mentally ill they don’t tend to think « clearly » and that’s what the scene was also trying to show