Unnecessary, you say? Well that’s imagination for you. And throwaway? I’d say that’s a bitter representation of not having noticed such an obvious hint yourself.

Indeed, I would posit that the designers placed little hints throughout the interactive story they wove to add detail and flavour. However, only those designers could tell us that for sure, and until then I admit that this is thoroughly subjective.

However, I’d say that the safe money would be with thinking that the designers would tell you the same thing. After all, this is a game that authors have been playing with their collective audience across various mediums for years; dropping hints at things that could be, so that an observant individual will spot them, and speculate about their nature. Thus leaving elements of the story open to the imagination and interpretation of the observer.

So to reiterate: I would imagine that the result would depend on which of us is correct; whether it was a hint added to the story to help the audience further extrapolate the nature of the World in which the story was set, or whether it was an amateurish mistake which had been overlooked (this, I would assume, would have to be your position).

I’m an optimist, so I’d rather believe it was the former, and that you’ve got egg on your face because you were looking for something to complain about or criticise, simply for the sake of doing so, and in the effort you picked something that I dare say anyone could have explained away easily.

With an effort like Little Wheel, I suppose one would have to scrape the barrel to pick out something wrong with it. But the problem with scraping the barrel is that you usually only get worthless scraps that really should have been left there.

But as I said, this is all subjective. I have my opinion, you have yours. Though I do hope that we get word from them, just so I can giggle about it.

First of all, I have to say that I do hate cinemas, but not cinematic work. A hearing condition has left me unable to enter something as noisy as a cinema without passing out, lots of fun that is. I wonder where that puts me?

Regardless of that, I looked the title up on YouTube and here it was, there were a few visual observations at first, such as that it seemed like a gothic version of Skies of Arcadia (with some elements being eerily similar) and that I loved Morello’s hair.

The more I watched it the more sylistic similarities I saw between that and Little Wheel, and it took but a few minutes to get me completely hooked right up until the end. I’m also so very, very pleased that it didn’t force an ending on us, and instead left that to the imagination.

For an ending probably would have been some forced tragedy in most cases, and that would’ve been depressing in such a way that it would overshadow the film. But the way it ended means that everyone can write their own epilogue, as did I. In mine, Morello survived and brought the creature back, and examination yielded a synthetic way to reproduce the cure, his wife was saved and they lived happily ever after. With no need to propagate the creature itself around the living colonies, there was no danger, and their World was a little better for it. Morello was vindicated from his past, accidental crime.

Predictable? Certainly, but I’m fond of predictably joyous endings.

Thanks for sharing, Stompbox.