MacintoshPlush

There are sad endings in a game about a war 0/10 Of course there's going to be sad endings they're there to show the trauma of what everyone went through and that real life doesn't always have a happy ending with everyone skipping off into the sunset. It's a harsh and cruel world and even if you achieve your goal that doesn't fix everything. As with Faye's ending I took it as more of a metaphorical ending showing that you just have to move on sometimes and not giving the player a way of really changing this just ensured that they could understand that sometimes things don't go your way and that's just something you'll have to deal with. ChibiToastExplosion made a really good point about how limiting the endings and keeping them similar to the original is because these characters are a certain way and you can't just pull a sudden 180 on how a character is and have them change into a completely different character in the end because that's just bad writing and destroys the characters because they were written a specific way but we can just change that. As for a lot of the characters endings being the same e.g. just joining the new army it's also done for a reason, not because of laziness, it's almost as if people who come out of a traumatic event that they were in for a long time don't know what to do with their lives and can, in many cases do anything they can to go back to it because for the time it was their life and having it taken away so suddenly destroys them.