The story as written doesn’t really justify either one - I was pretty confident which one was going to be the good ending but I wouldn’t fault someone who tried the other one first. That might be reasonable if the endings were equally valid and just let you choose your own story a la Heavy Rain, but here one ending is unambiguously good and the other is unambiguously bad. The game doesn’t seem to want you to be able to watch both endings without forcing a full replay of the same damn puzzles. But here you just have “New Game”, as though your save file had been deleted entirely. Or a “Chapter Select.” Q:DC had both of these, letting you jump right back in to the ending sequence or revisit any chapter of the game. Once you’ve chosen your ending, seen your final cutscene, and watched the credits scroll by, you get put back to the main menu - without a “Continue” option. Making it worse is that the game seems designed to lock you in to an ending on a given playthrough. There’s no “other way” to play the game a second time - there’s just the same puzzles you’ve already solved. 2? This isn’t like inFAMOUS 2 where each ending is the natural culmination of its own story. (It could almost function as an indictment of the way ME3’s final choice obliterated all choices before it, since here there are no choices before it and it still works the same way.) In an unfortunate and presumably unintended echo of Mass Effect 3, you choose between the red ending and the blue ending. And then at the very end, you have to make a choice.

It’s a game about manipulating cubes to solve physics puzzles. I’ll avoid plot details, but structural spoilers follow. 2 serves as a sterling example of how badly it can go. It’s something a lot of games do, but Q.U.B.E. I wrote an overall review but I also want to talk about something it does structurally. When I played it, I was unsurprised to find that most aspects of the game are polished and improved over its predecessor, but the story is (unsurprisingly) worse. I expected to be disappointed, but had to give it a chance anyway. 2 - even though my favorite thing about Q:DC was the story and Q.U.B.E. 2 and Binary Ending ChoicesĪfter how much I loved Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut, it was a foregone conclusion that I’d be playing Q.U.B.E. 2 and Binary Ending Choices - Pixel Poppers Thought

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