Thinking some more about Elsinore

There are a lot of games where one ending is the fulfillment of the game’s themes, and the other is you rejecting the themes and telling the entire game to go screw itself. Normally, the selfless ending is the fulfillment ending, and the murder-everyone ending is the screw-you ending. Elsinore is the first game I’ve played where the selfless ending is the screw-you.

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(The other game where the selfless ending might be the screw-you is Harvester, but I don’t think I’m emotionally equipped to analyze Harvester beyond “That shit nasty, bro.”)