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Overall I fucking loved it but there was a few parts of the ending that felt a bit anti-climatic. I get they wanted to structure the story is such a way that even players who fucked the investigation up could find the killer, but it is weird that there’s really no way to really solve the case before shit goes down and then you just, find the guy. But I guess that feeds into the narrative that no single person is really in control of much outside of themselves.
Also didn’t like there wasn’t a “I’m turning I my badge” option for Harry (if there was one I didn’t see it). That seemed to fit the best into my RP. But idk maybe Harry wants to sober up entirely before he makes such a decision. I did get Kim to agree to be my partner tho which made me happy. I also also expecting as sort of “trial” at the end where my psyche makes an analysis of what kind of cop I turned out to be, but we just got in the motor carriage and left.
Kinda tempted to reload a save from before I encountered Ruby cuz I’m pretty sure there’s shit I missed, I was playing things kinda safe cuz I was sorta RP Harry as trying not to fuck things up and I think that bit me. Also I’m bummed I never got to meet with Steban again, don’t think I timed that right.
Anyway I’ll probably do a fash play through in a month or so.
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So I actually tried to uncover as much about Harry as I could, to the point it nearly killed me when I found his Ex's goodbye letter. Thing was I was a bit shocked in the end when your partner tells you she left you like 6 years ago, I had assumed it was recent and that's why Harry went over the deep end, but it took six years for that trauma to ruminate in his head to get this bad? I left thinking there must have been some other element to Harry's story besides his ex that made him lose it, something I missed in the story.
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That also struck me as odd. There’s also a point where the necktie talks about how you used to have a good “work-drink balance”. My guess is that Harry threw himself into his work post-divorce. He definitely had an obsessive streak and a kind of unrelenting drive no matter what he’s doing. So it may have just taken that long to get as bad as it did.
But then there’s the issue of pale. Harry’s obviously been exposed to the pale, probably extensively. There’s a chance that his case notes act similarly to the ancient rituals that sailors would use to survive the pale. But this series of events in the game does seem to be Harry’s rock bottom. Not sure if this is canon, but I always assumed that he tried to kill himself and that’s why the tie was on the fan. It’s never quite explained how or where Harry was exposed to pale, but given his reputation for being as crazy as he is, it doesn’t seem recent.
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If you compete “ruthless self criticism” it says Harry once permanently disabled a man with his gun, and once got physically violent with a woman during a drunken argument (leaving it ambiguous as to whether it was his wife or not). I kinda assumed Harry did something fucked up while drunk and the tried to commit suicide, or maybe tried a few times. Him driving out into the sea was clearly a suicide attempt.