What Remains of Edith Finch tells a fascinating story but some tales and the ending are quite ambiguous. Hopefully this explanation of the game’s ending will make it easier to understand.After Lewis’ death, Dawn decided to get Edith away from Edie and the curse that had taken over the Finch household, but she didn’t tell Edie until the night they left.

Apr 24, 2017  Edith's great grandfather, Odin Finch, sailed to America from Norway in 1937 on the house that he built. It sank, just off the island's shore, where it remains, poking from the waves, to this day. Apr 25, 2017  What Remains of Edith Finch is a collection of strange tales about a family in Washington state. As Edith, you’ll explore the colossal Finch house, searching for stories as she explores her family history and tries to figure out why she's the last one in her family left alive.

Edie wanted to tell Edith about the family curse and the stories of how her family lived and died, but Dawn blamed her grandmother’s storytelling for the curse being reality. She felt that without those stories, the family wouldn’t have been so unlucky in life. She therefore decides that her and Edith should leave Edie and the curse behind with the house, even if Edie insists that they cannot run away from it. They leave with Edie still at the house and they never see her again.A few years pass and Dawn begins to get sick – from cancer or some other terminal illness. She begins to get better but, as many cancer patients do, the sickness returns and she dies, leaving Edith on her own as the sole surviving member of the Finch family.That is until Edith realizes that she is pregnant.

We first hear of her pregnancy after learning about Walter’s death. He believed in the curse as much as Edie so Edith speaks about it in her commentary as she explores the grounds and cemetery surrounding the Finch house. She is clearly speaking to her son/daughter as she climbs towards Sam’s room. She says, “maybe we believed so much in the family curse we made it real,” which is how Dawn felt about it the day they left. However, Edith wants to ensure that her child hears about the fate of their family so she writes down everything in her journal once she reaches what used to be her room. Even though she says, “maybe it would be better if all this just died with me,” she knows that the story of her family has to be passed on.We hear heartbeats as Edith gives birth, her words appearing in what seems like cells floating in a blood vessel. The heartbeats get quicker and come to a halt as everything stops, yet Edith keeps speaking.

The image fades to someone reading her journal, and that person takes flowers and the diary to Edith’s grave back at the Finch house. Edith died during childbirth but the diary told her son about what happened to her family. Edith was just 18 when she died, leaving her son alone as the sole member of the Finch family. Her son is all that remains of Edith Finch.The ending isn’t as clear as some of the stories throughout the game so it is open to interpretation. This explanation is simply what I felt the final scenes were saying about Edith’s life and her family’s curse. It is a beautiful story that becomes even more touching with additional playthroughs. The second time playing, you know each character’s role in the story and you are able to link them to what happens to each member of the family and it makes the ending even more poignant.

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This is, where Alex Wiltshire invites developers to discuss the inner workings of their games. This time,.The Finch house fits together in a jumble. The original building serves as a foundation for the floors that teeter on top and its rooms connect in strange and confounding ways, through hidden passages and external ladders. The whole thing looks like it couldn’t function as a building, a pile of timbers that’d tumble in a gale.Yet, as I played What Remains of Edith Finch I found it making sense. Its rooms are fantastically detailed, and though their entrances can be through children’s playhouses and exits can be secret trapdoors, the game pulled me through.

I was rarely confused or lost, and yet there are no quest markers or breadcrumb trails to follow. How What Remains of Edith Finch guides without pushing is simple, and yet complex. It’s all about:THE MECHANIC: Signposting with wordsSo if you haven’t played it (you absolutely should play it), What Remains of Edith Finch is essentially a series of stories told through the house’s architecture and 30 different interaction schemes. They encompass being a tentacled monster hunting the crew of a ship, cutting salmon heads off, swinging on a swing and conducting a toy frog.

And, just as the house has grown and evolved through its history, it’s also a game that developed through iteration. You can get a wonderful insight into that process in dear departed Pip’s.Playing What Remains of Edith Finch is a matter of constant exploration of the scattered remains of the family’s life through cluttered shelves and picture-covered walls in abandoned bedrooms, and also of controls and interactions: moving your legs to swing higher and coordinating your fingers so you chop better. And a big part of why What Remains of Edith Finch’s brand of exploration is so satisfying is because it makes you feel like you figured it all out yourself. The game never explicitly tells you where to go, what to look at, what to do, or how to perform any action. Instead, its signposting is about hinting where you’re going next and telling you that you’re doing the right thing.

“At every step the game is moving forward,” says designer Chris Bell. “At any point the player could start flailing and asking what happens now, so it was really important for every story to constantly have a sense of progression, having that narration there to catch you to say, ‘No, this way, come forward, you’re doing the right thing.’ It let people get comfortable with the controls and trusting that what they were doing was the right thing.”“Players’ lizard brains are constantly concerned about where the end is,” creative director Ian Dallas adds.

“Where the collision box is, or the trigger or the flag they need to progress and until that question is satisfied part of their brain is occupied. If you want them to stay in the bedroom and soak up that place, you need to answer those other questions first. It’s hard to concentrate on anything when you’re on fire. First job is to put out the fire, and hopefully then they can relax.”Dialogue that hangs in the air, as if it’s part of the environments, was already in the game, a major element in the way the game tells its stories. So, from an external perspective at least, it was obvious that Giant Sparrow could lean on it to help direct players. But I get the feeling that Dallas is on some level faintly embarrassed about using a solution so ostensibly crude, rather than purely through the suggestive magic of environment design.“Yeah, unless we get too ahead of ourselves and pat ourselves on the back for having a game that eschews all the conventions, we were backed into having the text in the world as a really convenient stopgap solution for how to signal to the player all of the things we need to,” he says. Then again, he says it was the better alternative to having something absurdly gamey like floating coins to guide the player through.

The simplicity and flexibility of words turned out to be a valuable asset in a world as visually dense as the Finch house. A good example of this marriage of dialogue that tells story, gives feedback to the player that they’re doing the right thing, and is also part of play itself is in Gus’ story, in which you fly a kite above a marriage ceremony, triggering the next sequence by flying through the lines of a poem written in the sky. It helps indicate where you’re meant to be flying next, pointing your attention to what’s important, from the ceremony to the tent where the reception took place, and then embodying the storm that engulfed it.It was one of the early stories where Giant Sparrow worked out how to design this bond between story, direction and play. “It’s very hard to find ways for the world to be responsive to your actions, and the text in the world was a great way for it to respond to you and make sense,” says Dallas.

“We didn’t have the budget or the appetite for a lot of characters and have them react to you in the traditional way a game does, throwing moving bodies on-screen.”Dialogue isn’t the only way What Remains of Edith Finch directs players. Interact-able objects such as the notebook on the desk that triggers to the next narrative sequence or the door knob that leads to the next location are equipped with little – and it pains me to use a word so vulgar – tooltips to help point your attention to them. Surprisingly sophisticated logic governs when they appear, all to keep focus on the world and story. “We wanted it not to feel like Assassin’s Creed or something with all those sidequest markers,” says Dallas. So to keep players from feeling overwhelmed, the tooltips only appear when they’re relaxed enough that they’d welcome more information. Sometimes it’s gaze-based, only appearing if you’re looking in objects’ general direction.

Sometimes it depends on you standing in certain places. In the ‘barracks’ area on the third floor, when you get up to Dawn’s crows nest room a tooltip appears on the picture of her father only if you walk past it enough that it’s behind you and look back. It’s placed there for players who have an interest in investigating deeper, and won’t bother those who want to be swept along.Sometimes the tooltips only appear after certain events, such as in Molly’s room, where they’re shown once you’ve played her story (the one in which you play as animals hunting and eating their prey). Or, if you’ve played the stories of both Gregory (bathtime) and Gus (kite), and you make your way up to Dawn’s crows nest then the icon on the window that leads out will be visible from far away.

But if you’ve missed the stories, then a tooltip on the fireman’s pole will become visible to draw you back down. Similarly, in the twins’ room, before you finish Calvin’s story (swing) you need to be very close to the secret exit for its icon to be visible. When you have finished the story, the icon becomes visible from across the room.

“It’s to make it subconsciously easier for players to magically make their way through,” says Dallas. “The little icons are some of my favourite things in the game now and they didn’t come in until a month before we finished,” he continues. On her last day working on the game, 2D artist Holly Rothrock did a last-minute pass on their animation, typifying the way What Remains of Edith Finch was built like the house it depicts. “They look like Play-doh or something, just really pleasant and I never get tired of them. Players see them over and over again; it’d make sense that they’re the first thing as a game developer you’d do, but you just don’t really know what you need until you’re so close to the end.”.