Item: The Tragedy Mask Rarity: ✷ Epic
What video game ending hit you hardest?
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OOOOOGH I LIKE THIS ONE
So. My favourite game is Chants of Sennaar. Slight spoilers for the ending incoming. I could go on for hours about how beautiful the storytelling and symbolism and languages and world and characters and graphics are and how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE Chants of Sennaar.
I’ve played through the entire mostly non-replayable puzzle game 3 times, and I’ve only ever gotten the perfect ending because I can’t bear to leave that world unconnected.
The ending absolutely crushes me every time. Having the symbol of the connections between peoples morph into the glyph for each culture’s most treasured concept—God for the devotees, duty for the warriors, beauty for the bards, transformation for the alchemists, exile for the anchorites—is just such a perfect representation of how different values can appear as rotated versions of each other, and at their root, they are all based on humanity. I find that fitting, given that the antagonist is a robot seeking to isolate the people of the tower.
It reminds me of the current day relationships with artificial intelligence (specifically LLMs. Let’s not conflate ChatGPT with life-saving innovations in technology) and how it seems that people are forgetting how to connect.
It’s important today in the real world just as it is for the people of the tower in Chants of Sennaar: we have to help each other. We have to learn about each other. We have to love each other.
I sought you, you found me.
Don’t let Exile win.

























