The Cynical and the Dead: 11-11: Memories Retold’s Fascinating Bad Endings

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Yoan Fanise’s second game flew under the radar, in spite of the success of Valiant Hearts: The Great War. I suppose that’s the difference between publishing with Ubisoft and Bandai Namco. Nevertheless, it turned out to be a far superior story, albeit an inferior game.

Its endings, in particular, proved to be one of the rare occasions where the bad endings were logical and satisfying conclusions to the narrative. One, in particular, was also (perhaps unintentionally) one of the most cynical explorations of war in any medium.

So I, Tom Towers, wrote something about it, which you can read here.