The first time i came across that choice of having to pick between the two of them i was left wide eyed and the only thing going on in my mind was wtf is this , i must have messed up somewhere in the previous episodes , maybe i picked the wrong character trait cause i thought why can't the dude just pick one up and drag the other or do something else just anything besides leaving one of them there. To my logic it didn't make any sense. So i started the game again picking the athletic trait thinking maybe that will change the outcomes. It didn't and i had to relive that same scenario. And it sucked big time but looking back at it now i understand what DPC was trying to go for, he wanted to show that we shouldn't take what we have in our life for granted, be it family ,friends , lovers or anything else in between that gives us happiness cause we never know when all of that might be taken away from us. We should appreciate even the little things. And in a fucked up way the game was better because of that impactful ending so much so that players like you and me discuss it even today and still feel those emotions. As a piece of entertainment media AL punched waaay above it's weight and excelled at it