Author: Wile E Daigo
Date: (PT)
Subject: Ouroboros (Major Spoilers)
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I've just finished the game and I've got one question: Would Sam Monroe not have better spent his time in the past trying to stop Bella (And the others) from ever going to Hanuda in the first place, instead of spending his time e-mailing Howard Wright?
I'm sure there's a plot reason that I overlooked why this couldn't have happened, but on face value, going back in time with foreknowledge of a disaster that claims the life of your wife and child (To all intents and purposes) and spawns a hideous zombie-insect subdimension, it seems like you'd try and prevent that from ever happening in the first place? He says at the end he involves Howard so that Bella can exist forever, but surely if Bella doesn't ever go to Hanuda, Bella doesn't go back in time and become Amana, Amana doesn't eat the flesh of the alien god, hence no blood curse to begin with?
Author: Seeker X
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Ouroboros (Major Spoilers)
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Maybe he felt guilty about what happened to HIS Bella. He probably felt responsible when she went through the time rift, I mean...she DOES go all the way back to the 6th century by herself and Sam did bring her to Japan. That way he can make Bella/Amana exist forever while stopping the ritual/Kaiko at the same time.
Author: Wile E Daigo
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Ouroboros (Major Spoilers)
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I see what you mean, but if he felt that bad, why not stop his future self from taking Bella to Japan? She would still technically be 'his' Bella, so preventing her from going would be the same as saving her from falling into the abyss at the end of the game, just without the massive psychological trauma caused by shibito hide n seek lol.
I know that would sort of create a paradox (How could Sam be in the past if none of the game events happened), but since the game's events are based on a temporal loop that shouldn't have existed to begin with (Bella shouldn't have existed in the past to eat the alien), wouldn't the timeline resolve itself back to what it should have been to begin with?
Lol, sorry, I'm getting a bit too scientific I think, and it's not really in the spirit of the game. I need to go back and get all the archive items and study them to see if anything clarifies.
Author: Seeker X
Date: (PT)
Subject: re: Ouroboros (Major Spoilers)
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I understand what you mean and I wondered the same thing too, but that's probably the only thing that makes sense. His Bella went down and he feels responsible...he loses focus on everything else and becomes fixated and obsessed with the whole thing...basically he loses all rational thought about the situation for the sake of HIS daughter. He's not thinking about the upcoming Bella, he's thinking about HIS Bella alone.
Not only that, but the game makes it pretty clear that the whole thing was predestined to begin with. Reading through Howard's blog, before he visits Hanuda, while on summer vacation, he visits a temple and reads his ill fortune which is foreshadowing the end of the game.
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