I was ok with them being hallucinations, but I thought it was weird that the game never really did anything with them beyond stating that "they're hallucinations!!" I mean, after what's supposed to be an introspective journey through his worst fears, we're supposed to believe that Nate just accepts Sully's explanation that the monsters aren't real, like nothing happened?
Uncharted games have always had a sly self-awareness of its evocation of film and fiction, so it seemed like a missed opportunity not to interrogate why all of the monsters are literally a creation of the hero's imagination--especially when one of the main questions the narrative tried to raise was what drives Nate on these self-destructive quests.
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Date: 2011-11-09 02:24 pm (UTC)Uncharted games have always had a sly self-awareness of its evocation of film and fiction, so it seemed like a missed opportunity not to interrogate why all of the monsters are literally a creation of the hero's imagination--especially when one of the main questions the narrative tried to raise was what drives Nate on these self-destructive quests.
/rant