Player choice and The End.

[Mudbill]

All this time, through the ENTIRE game, you've been playing the contents of the cortex chip found inside the worker robot at Omicron.

How is this? Yes, the chip has the memories of the previous Simons but how can you say the entire first 2/3 of the game is just a memory and not live? You clearly have choices along the way and the actual copying, which is a direct continuation of his previous life.

The way I see it is that you always play as the current Simon, but every time the body chances, in the copy's perspective, it is instantaneous. The game then changes perspective to the next Simon because of gameplay reasons, when in reality the player is doomed twice (2015, and Omicron, excluding the ending). From the perspective of the copied, he is transfered. From the original's perspective, nothing changes.