And within the story itself it makes you realize that Adam (and Eliza) are constrained to certain choices because there are actors far more powerful than them, whose actions indirectly already influenced what choices would be available to them. So the ending makes you come face to face with the truth that all of your choices (and their consequences) have already been designed (because it's a game whose constraints manifest from those the developers faced). What we have is essentially the aggregation of constraint, both within the story and in the actual developing process of the story. We also know the developers had constraints that they faced in developing the ending. And in real life, we already know that the outcome has been decided because the sequel already exists. In the story you have people like Sarif, Darrow, and Taggart who are much bigger than Adam actively shaping the world, leaving Adam little opportunity to create his own choices, he's forced to make actions within the conditions that result from the ramifications of everyone elses' power and actions. Not only are the paths and outcomes all designed, but developers put incentives and obstacles (items, bonuses, hazards) that make you prefer certain paths to others. A video game is inherently an illustration of this. In real life there's something called Choice Architecture which means the circumstances in which people make decisions can be and generally have been influenced by the actions of others.

Many expressed disappointment at the press a button ending. The ending, in the most unintentional way.Starting with the most obvious one: the background of the main menu doesn't simply represent an electron microscope view of the DNA, it's symbolic of one of four possible final shots for the game, and perhaps the most dramatic - the ruins of Panchaea.

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