It's played like a 2D side-scroller, but there's a 3D element to it as well. Unfortunately, the game still finds a way to stumble over itself. The commands are simple to understand and laid out in a way that's comfortable, without ever getting in the way of the onscreen activity. This bond is mirrored by other relationships you discover in the game, as well as the duality of innocence and hope in contrast to guilt and despair.Īs intense as the story in Endling is, the gameplay is anything but. Getting caught and killed by the crazed furrier, for example, sends a chill down your spine as the realization hits of the fate that presumably awaits your cubs. That's what makes it all the more intense when things go wrong. As you move though the remnants of the world with your cubs, watching them grow and learn, adapting to the environment they were born into, you can't help but get emotionally invested in their safety. The game's story is both beautiful and bleak, heartwarming and heartbreaking. As the mother of the last generation of foxes on the planet, it's not only your family's survival at stake, but the survival of your entire species.
Endling – Extinction is Forever spotlights this and amplifies it against the backdrop of a global ecological disaster. Yea, and badgers are your bros.Being a parent can be rough, especially in the animal kingdom. So the message of the game is to stay strong, be kind to the animals and not let the mad axeman kill you for the said kindness and for your sniper rifle. They can make a sequel about other animal species trying to survive, but they will not tell anything new through it, so no point (but can actually do Endling 2, 3 and so on to repeat the same message, why not, but to be honest foxies are the best choice for the species extinction theme, and the only animal i can see for sequel are dolphins with option to befriend octopus, but will be not as fun and cute as foxy).
And no Endling 2 is possible, because this game is not maden to make you feel good about saving foxies - it maden to make you feel bad about billions of animals being murdered for human greed, so this is exact the thing you paid for. I don't think any other endings are possible in this kind of game, only this one and some ways to slightly improve it by saving all foxies and finding them a foster mother (could be more to be honest, like teaching babies all the skills, befriending humans and other stuff could improve ending as well but we got what we got and all humans who was kind to us are dead as well).Īnd since the game is strictly about the message of mass extinction and is absolutely story focused - there is no reward at the end like "congratulations dude, you saved 4 baby foxies which are exactly enough to restore the fox population, and since you collected all the collectibles your foxmom will not die as well, get cookie!".
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