Plot Theories

[Gary Alexander Stott]

I have a crazy theory about an end-game plot twist.

What if you discover that you're actually experiencing everything from inside a machine, like The Matrix? You're a brain plugged into a malevolent A.I. computer, and it's making you experience this horrific ordeal. You beat the game thinking you've escaped and defeated the monsters or whatever...and then it restarts. You're back to the beginning. Maybe you have your memories wiped. Better yet, you don't!

That would also make it a total metagame. Every time you did a playthrough it'd be another cycle of malevolent computer torture.

Furthermore, it'd be in line with the philosophical ideas they've been referencing (like Descartes' whole 'I Think, Therefore I Am' maxim) by being a literal case of the 'brain in the machine' idea, and being exactly the sort of world Descartes was trying to argue against.