Talk:Without the Stars/@comment-24915956-20180227074433

This story is pretty well written out as far as the game's depiction goes. Well, aside from the beginning bootleg song and dance, it avoids cliches for the most part, which is refreshing. Since the story is mostly a narration of the game, without really any real world consequences (like "the game was haunted by the ghost of a murderer, ooooh") it comes off as more interesting than actually creepy. I was also kind of bothered by the lack of any closure, any clues or revelations of what was going on in the storyline. It obviously seemed like some sort of doomsday device that went haywire.

If this were an actual game, I think a lot of us would be pretty eager to play it.

Going on a bit of a tangent here regarding the ending, it really reminds me of the end of the universe scenario "The big rip". In which dark matter in the universe expands exponentially faster and faster, even outpacing light speed. In the end, no light from celestial bodies could reach earth, which would result in this actually terrifying dark universe scenario. It would be short lived, however, as dark matter would tear apart the atoms themselves, and all matter would cease to exist. I'm doing a terrible job explaining it for sure, but it is an actual theory you can look up. That makes it all the more scary, that it's something that could actually happen.