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SPOILERS
Here's all the endings:
1. None of them dies: They will mourn you but forgets you in a short while.
2. The parents die*: The boy will leave but the girl will sit next to you forever.
3. The girl (& boy) dies: ? (I haven't been able to figure this out; the kids stay too close to the parents)
4. They all die: Nothing. The soldiers will just eventually overwhelm you and you'll die alone.
* I suppose the same will happen if only the mom, dad or boy dies. The parents will forget about you quickly for sure, and so will the boy.
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The fact that they walk away at the end doesn't mean that it's "forgotten." If someone dies protecting you, you don't forget that. It doesn't mean they stop caring either. People will stop crying about things after a while, even if they are extremely sad about it. Also, to Cobra Lionsfist, that heroic looking guy would die for nothing if he charges the enemy (or if the alien moves out of the way.) Nothing is accomplished whatsoever, his life is just thrown away. Good thing he hid behind the alien. Great game, it was really sad though.
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This was really depressing. I wish I knew what happened to the family after I died though.
I mean, since the soldiers weren't shooting at you specifically, I'm assuming the war wasn't about OMFGALIEN. Does the family survive the war once you're gone? D:
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This is a beautiful game. The mere aspect of it, a girls extra terrestrial friend protecting her family from their own kind. Such a beautiful and moving game. I don't care what all the people have said bellow, all they want is violence and endless onslaught. This is definately getting a 5/5 as the idea and beauty of this game is amazing. It's also a real eye opener, of what we are actually doing to ourselves. Bravo!
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Did anyone else cry? I chose to play this game just once and save them all. Even when the lil girl is going offscreen, she is still mourning.. That was sad..
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There is an alternate ending. When the family dies except the girl, she will stay instead of running away from the dead alien.
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This game puts a spin on the "aliens crash to earth and kill everyone" plot. In this game, aliens aren't the bastards here. Its the soldiers,tanks, and planes shooting at you. This isn't your typical game where you can shoot all you want. Its a game about defending the family, and survival. Eventually, you die, and the surviving members of the family mourn you as it starts snowing... The game is awesome when you put some thought into it.
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this alien has the best qualities of humanity. along with everything everyone talked about, it shows another virtue: pacifism. The alien did not show any aggression towards the enemy soldiers, just bore it and trudged on, always protecting, always being there. In literature, this alien would be called a christ-figure.
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Touching. Good job on making me cry man. One of the best art games out there, there should be a tag for games like this.
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This was a very nice and moving game and it made me cry. You did what many people have attempted to create with words but failed horribly. Great job and very good insight into humanity. 5/5
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If only the girl survives in the end she will not leave the body of alien when snow starts raining, instead she just cries there as she got nothing else left and gets burried by the snow.
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This game is so great. For people who think this game is boring because your not fighting I don't care This came is great! Truely Great I give it a 6/5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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You know you can survive right?
If you go back after the first time a soldier appears, you can board your ship and leave; three of the family members run away, and the little girl kneels there crying; it breaks my heart, but it's one way you won't die. + to let others see this.
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Father who spots an alien four meters tall and has his son riding on top of it while chasing the daughter yells at them to run!!, then runs in home leaving his daughter behind... When I started runnin' past the house and them adults came back out, I was ready to be shot in the belly with a 8 Gauge buck-shot, but instead the wife feeds me nasty can of expired tuna... Ah, life of an alien is a strange one that surely defies all logic.
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I consider this kind of games to be truly a magnificent piece of art. The music is absolutely amazing, especially when there is some sort of 'drama'/'feelings' attached to the music if you even get hit, or a human dies. The story, the art, the music all in all a MASTERPIECE! Favorited 5/5
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This game is so awesome, it's simply beautiful and I find myself coming back to play it again at least once every six months, it's just so well done, I LOVE it.
Also this last time I played it I got a very sad ending, as I died having protected everyone a bullet passed through my dying corpse and killed the girl, just so very very sad, all my efforts and she still died T-T
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Agreed, you hating noobs need to leave. This game is not the blood and gore and TD you're used to, so you rate it down for being "Boring". Yet this game has a meaning to it like most other games. Except most other games say "KILL KILL KILL!". This game simply says, "Why?"
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" I saw the girl, and she saw me. She took me in, she loved me. She showed me to her brother, and we became quick friends too. I scared her parents, I never had any myself. But they soon realized that I was harmless and nice. They were kind to me... But that all ended... With the war... I saw the bombs and bullets fly by my friends... I took those small lead pellets for them. I protected them... Though they shot bullets, though they even shot warheads and monstrous things... I stopped them. They loved me, and I loved them, but I didn't die... I slept. Forever in their hearts... Forever in their memories... Forever immortal..."
~Immortall 5/5 stars... So sad but so amazing... this rating remains... forever immortal :')
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Lesson learned. Never leave your house. It's too dangerous out there. I've been standing there for over 12 hours. So, why don't they go to bed already?
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There are three main endings. One, the family dies and the alien dies. Two, The family lives and the alien dies. Three, after the soldiers come, the alien can go back to the spaceship and leave.
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I loved it. It was so simple and moving. I'm glad to find a game that gets away from the norm., but does it correctly. Most 'different' games fail or are just play weird, but this...is something else, something better. It's a great game to teach about life, no matter what form it comes in.
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Firstly, I thought dying was my own fault, not that it was supposed to happen. Which ties in with what I'm going to say. He stood there, taking the hits for this family, when he dies, they mourn for a bit, none longer than the girl, and simply walk away, as do we. This game makes me think of how people in wars lose a friend or something and are convinced that it was going to happen anyway, so they forget it. All the good deeds he's done, and you forget him.
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I started to play this game for the badge. but when it started it hit me. the music, the idea of protecting people. the fact that the alien died for them, and in the end was left, only the girl really proving she loved him. And im a "kill kill kill destroy" type of gamer, but i liked this. Thank you for making this. Its games like these that make the gaming world worth it to me.
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I played this game when I was younger and I didn't fully understand the message, but now I see what's happening fully, I feel like I've turned from the alien from the beginning, young, ignorant. to the alien at the end. wise and old. and compassionate.
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This game is amazing...Philosophical...It's beatifully made, and the first time I played it, it brought a tear to my eye. It makes me really think about life, and what it stands for, and what we should do with it. As good as The Company of Myself.
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There are three endings, (SPOILERS), One, the ending where the family survives but you die. Two, the family dies and you die also. Three, you ditch the family and go back to your ship and leave when the fight starts. This game is awesome!
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Wow the game was so good i think. And i wonder who would that alien in our life? Did we even notice it?is it even a living thing or not?
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I've never felt more awful in a video game than in this when the girl who first accepted my strange form died because I couldnt save her in time and the family wept over her. Truly an emotional piece of art. I replayed it just to see that when I did protect her, she was the one who stayed last when the alien died.
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Wow, I don't think a game has ever moved me so much. The beautiful artwork matched with the extremely emotional story just about brought me to tears. This game just shows how selfish and heartless we have become... This is totally getting a 5/5 from me not because of the game, but the message it sends. *sniff* :'(