Most of us probably know someone like Lewis, a kind young man with a keen mind who just couldn't find his way in this world. Yet while their demises grow less fanciful as their lives become more familiar, the impact of their losses strike much more powerfully. Early tales like Molly's may have only the thinnest basis in reality-or maybe not!-while those of her uncle Gregory or her older brother Lewis are firmly rooted in fact. The family stories told in What Remains of Edith Finch are filtered through the lens of time, and the closer they come to Edith's own life, the less fantastical they seem. But that, like so much of the game, was a deft bit of misdirection. By the time it was over, I honestly believed that I'd been faked out, and that What Remains of Edith Finch was in reality a straight-up horror tale about a 'real' family curse that only comes out at night. Molly's story is as out-of-left-field as anything I've ever encountered in a videogame, and it ended on a note of completely unexpected, and thoroughly disturbing, darkness. Molly's story is as out-of-left-field as anything I've ever encountered in a videogame.
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