Ok, so I finished the 'Incinerator' Ending and... I have no words. What in the world did I just witness.
Did this game really just bring back Snake just to kill him again--for real this time too. I guess he went out in a blaze of glory while dragging his sister's murderer down with him but crap, he deserved so much better. Rip the to siblings in this route, this one was brutal. No rip for you, Ace. Rest in ashes instead.
Seven is the man and I apologise for doubting him at any point ever. I was super reluctant to trust him despite the fact that he literally hadn’t done anything and was mostly helpful through this mess, but this made me chuck all that out the window. I've not been having a good record of the characters I give my trust actually being as trustworthy as I wanted them to be, but I think Seven's in the clear. I was so sure at the beginning that he'd be the more selfish character who'd dismiss the more weaker of the cast as burdens due to his superior strength or something, but nah, he's really just a great guy. I'll be rooting for him until stated otherwise.
Ok, where the hell is Santa? At first I thought that we'd find both him and June dead somewhere because the killer from the Sub ending (if that isn't Ace), but we just find her lying in the chapel with no Santa in sight. Why? She's completely unscathed too. So I think we can rule out Santa as a killer because he had a prime victim and didn't take it. I guess there'd be no motive since they can't proceed regardless, but if killing everyone was the goal he could've started with her and he didn't so I'll clear him of suspicion on that one. What I won't clear him of is suspicion in general because why is June just lying here in the open when he was supposed to be with her? Junoei basically checked everywhere and found nobody, so what's up with that?
And where did June's body go? Did Santa nab her while Junpei wasn't paying attention? Did Zero? Who is Zero anyway? Lotus and Seven are together up stairs and everyone else is dead. June was also on death's door while Zero and Junpei were talking. And that's the weirdest part-- they were actually talking.
It wasn't pre-recorded or automatic or anything, he was actually responding to Junpei's words. We aren't the only people in this game: we found 2 corpses of people we haven't met. Who's to say there aren't more that are actually alive? While I'm not entirely sold on the idea that Zero's one of us, if he is, does this mean it's Santa? It can't be Junpei because he's in the chapel, so if anyone it has to be him, right? Zero has started to look like the better person between him and Ace with his letter and we know Santa probably has a motive if his sister was really a part of that game, but I still feel a bit off about it. It feels obvious, like a red-herring. So I'll hesitantly say he's probably not Zero. Take it with a grain of salt tho; when it comes to favs, I tend to be delulu.
So June will die regardless in the end, am I right? She wasn't killed this path but still seemed to be knocking on death's door. I m assuming her illness is actually a lot more worse than she made it seem and it will do her in before she gets the chance to leave this place. That's... actually extremely sad. I really hope we find out more about what's happening with her. Not only because it's important, but because she's also a fav and I actually want to escape with her so bad.