You would have to be morally incapable of time traveling, then. Any amount of time travel, no matter how trivial, automatically ends the "existence", by your definition, of every other person in the world and replaces them with their past selves.
Is this really your stance?
What are you even talking about? This isn't what I said at all. This isn't even remotely the issue I had wi... I need to reread what I typed to figure out where this interpretation you have came from.
I also felt that all of our choices and how things panned out (up until the ending) were still totally valid. The game didn't invalidate everything we did by giving us a binary choice in the end. The journey was still fantastic and still affected us and made us consider every choice. That's the point.
OK, answer this, during the week, what validity did the the choices you made regarding Dana specifically have to Dana? I am well aware things still happened to Max, but Max isn't the only one who exists.
You seem to be really digging for a linear, conclusive follow-through on all the choices in the game. You want the game to validate your choices, to make them important.
Not even important, just somehow (even mildly) relevant to the outside world external of Max. Everything was erased from reality in the sacrifice Chloe ending.
That's the thing, reality isn't simply subjective, things you do actually do have consequences to real people outside of yourself.
But it doesn't, and that's the point. The game is about the fact that your choices don't matter (or make things worse). It makes that pretty clear, and on top of all of it, the journey is what the experience is all about ("coming of age") and it absolutely nails that.
A game that made a big point in its promotion about how your choices matter was really a game showing your choices don't matter...
All the things that happened - Kate living or dying, euthanising Chloe or not - all those things still really happened. That is how they would happen. It's just in the end you overwrote them. They still happened and that is still how they went down. Subjective experience is king in Life Is Strange's time travel narrative. That's the point - Max is the only one who sees all sides of the cube at once, it's all real. It's not invalidated by the final choice.
Obviously I'm not explaining things right. So let me try this. With the way the developers promoted the game, and with the method of Time reversal of the main game, think of the week that the game too place like a lump of clay.
Using her time powers, Max meticulously molded the clay, correcting mistakes, building an elaborate sculpture. Each choice you made shapes the sculpture as you progress. And that's what the game was promoting. And then at the end of the game, when there was a decent variety of different shapes that you could have molded your sculpture into, you're left with the option of smashing it with a hammer, only to collect the broken remnants, or dissolving it into a lump of clay again. No matter the memories you have, that sculpture is no more. I would have personally liked to feel that my sculpture continued on. I fully understand you're satisfied with the act of making the sculpture, I enjoyed that aspect too, but I'd also have liked an ending where the actual
shape your sculpture took was relevant, and lived on in the narration. Objectively anyway, not just in your fond memories of building before you were given the binary choice.
