I don't think this will have the same ending. It seems the choices you make will affect the outcome, sometimes, in a great way. it's still early in development, but I have to wager that if you choose to kill someone instead of letting them live, it affects things. If you choose to rescue someone that a potential ally observes, it will affect things. If you choose to leave someone behind instead of taking them with you..it will affect things.
It's still a story...but you seem to have some control over what happens and how it will end.
I'm actually worried about that specifically for
the Hive Girl. I saved at that choice specifically because
I don't want her to die, but she
potentially serves a vital role for the
mutants' cause, to help create an alliance between the hive and their group. It definitely would have sucked
to die like Keen did (and presumable the other one they lost). I don't think
getting eaten alive would be anything short of an atrocious ending. Hopefully something good comes out of my choice, but if it turns out to be a total disaster (by which I mean we later learn that
Hive Girl died by being left behind) I'm reloading. It was a hard call, and if it were reality
I absolutely would not have left her behind because of the risk that entails.
I have really enjoyed reading the lore provided in the journal. The women at the temple are described as bearing children for 30 years before "retiring", however they choose at the end. I can't remember now if the game specifies when girls begin serving at the temple, but unless they start at something like 12 to 14 years old, wouldn't they be beyond the age of healthy childbearing — for themselves or their children? Then again, there are mutants and decayed in this world, so maybe people are generally physically more durable when it comes to pregnancies and the toll those play on a woman's body.
