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I mean a story where it wasn't a dream isn't any more "real" than a story where it's all a dream, sure, but a story where it's all a dream is more fake than a story where it isn't.it more or less just smacked you in the fucking face and said "Guess what! Everything you just did was a waste of fucking time, fuck you retard!" which okay, yes. You're not wrong, but you didn't have to be such a faggot about it.
The point of a story is to suspend your disbelief enough where, at least subconsciously, you accept the story as "real" so you can have emotional investment in it. If you wipe away all that investment and make the fictional world fake even within it's own story, the entire story itself becomes pointless.
You can't become invested in any of it anymore because none of it matters even within it's own confines. It retroactively devalues everything else in the story by rendering it pointless. Even if the ending was them failing and the world ending and everyone dying that would still have more weight, because at least the stakes were real. Even if it ends in a depressing way and all the characters are doomed at least the actual story you got involved with was real. It mattered to these characters and to the setting because at least it really happened to them.
But "it was all a dream" shit? You don't even get that.
None of it happened. None of them were real. It's all... just Mike. Ffs Mike isn't even an interesting fucking character. Crazy Barks was more interesting than fucking Mike. The only interesting thing about Mike was that he was a human.
The worst part is they already pulled a twist in the regular story with the Sock reveal. How am I supposed to care that Sock never existed if NO ONE FUCKING EXISTED NIGGA
Kris has terminal 7 brain cancer D:"This is all in your head, Luigi!" twist.
Edit: so after some digging I've made the discovery that there was, in fact, a third game. Drawn To Life: Two Realms. It takes place after Mike wakes up and he can travel between the human world and the Rapposa world Link-to-the-Past style via his dreams.
Good news is that the series technically didn't die with the "it's a dream" shit and they're all still technically around.
Bad news is the game apparently sucked ass and sold terribly. It was a mobile game made by a different studio and the drawing mechanic is almost nonexistant. The story/gameplay is bland but the art and music are great. I was flabbergasted that there as apparently a sequel that came out that I never heard about, but apparently it was with good reason.
I'm not sure if that's a better or worse ending for a series tbh.
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