![]() From Back to the Future to Bioshock Infinite to 12 Minutes, science-fiction stories about time travel seem to love including the “oops, you’re related” trope. Deathloop makes this discovery unsettling, even if you guess it ahead of time, because Colt spends the first third of the game flirting with Julianna. ![]() Then there’s the game’s big twist, which manages to be surprising while also failing to reveal anything fundamentally interesting about the game’s main characters: Julianna is Colt’s daughter. I never got an answer to my question about Colt and Julianna’s duplicates, or Colt’s messages from his past self, or how Colt and Julianna retain memories. ![]() It’s a puzzle box, and it’s satisfying to solve - but the narrative doesn’t wrap up nearly as well, since several puzzle pieces appear to be missing outright. This requires tricking each Visionary into showing up at the right place at the right time (to get murdered). Now that I’ve beaten the game and seen all of the possible endings, I wish I hadn’tīreaking free of the loop in Deathloop requires Colt to kill all of the time loop’s leaders, called Visionaries, in the span of one day. Now that I’ve beaten the game, I can’t get over the disparity between my intense satisfaction with my perfect end-game loadout and my dissatisfaction with the messy end-game storyline. I wish someone had told me that Deathloop wasn’t going to answer all of these questions in a satisfactory way, because then I could have sat back and enjoyed the ride rather than trying to follow its bread crumbs. For example, why do Colt and Julianna retain their memories, while other residents of Blackreef don’t? Why did Colt begin Deathloop with a case of amnesia, even though in the past he apparently could retain memories? Why do Colt and Julianna run into duplicates of themselves from other timelines, when no other characters do, and their duplicates seem to exist outside of the time loop? Otherwise, shouldn’t the entire island be full of duplicates? How did Colt’s past self write all of those magical hovering messages for his future self to find? And why does Julianna hate him so much? If you played Deathloop, I bet you had a lot of the same questions I did.
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