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Drawn to life mayor5/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Though he's clearly on the road to recovery by the end, having even forgiven the man who accidentally killed his parents, it's no less painful seeing what Mike has to go through. Mike is clearly depressed underneath his happy exterior, blames himself for the accident and for the ripple it had on Belleview's community, and can't help himself from shutting himself out from and occasionally lashing out at his own sister. Two Realms is Lighter and Softer than its predecessor by margins, but even in retconning the darker aspects of the previous ending, the story takes place entirely around and doesn't shy away from the traumatic impact this has had on Mike and Heather. ![]() The art in the changed ending also looks similar to the Scribblenaut's official game artwork. Instead Mike falls from a tree trying to catch fireflies so Heather's face is shown as just fine and uninjured. 5th Cell themselves even thought the ending to the sequel was too depressing, and actually went as far to change the ending to The Next Chapter in the Compilation Rerelease into something much gentler than the ending described above.All this is shown during a very sad song.The questions were asked by a police officer, interviewing Heather of the events leading to the crash, your sketch is Heather's sketch of what happened, and Heather's gibberish finally comes through to Mike as he wakes up - it's a prayer for Mike to wake from his coma. The game starts by having you answer three questions and sketching a picture (introducing you to the drawing mechanic of the game), but you have little idea what the significance is, and Heather makes an appearance speaking in gibberish.Not only that, but in the end credits, you see that Mike's parents died in the car crash that sent him into a coma and his sister was horrifically injured. And now this game, the loss of color in the world is symbolic of, what else, death. The spreading darkness in the first game? Symbolic of Death. All of Wilfre's schemes, in all 3 games? They were meant to perpetuate the existence of the dream world. Then you get into actually interpreting what everything that happened in the series actually meant. Now this in of itself is somewhat heart-rending. When he finally wakes up because of your efforts, all of the Raposa vanish while Mike, the in-universe one, is watching, and asking why it is all happening in a panic. The Next Chapter on DS reveals the entire world of Raposa has been a dream of the kid Mike, in the real world, in a life-threatening coma. ![]() Even more so when he later finds out she's Not Brainwashed. And since she's an opera singer, her last song is conveyed through an actual song.
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