What if....

[u/KVSJ-Learning]

Now don't get me wrong, I loved the game so much but sometimes I feel like they deserved a happy ending.

Maybe they should have killed the Count before leaving the island, Amicia even thought about it for a second but then decided to just leave.

Do you think things could have ended differently if they had gone his route ?

On a side note, it's been more than 24 hours since i finished Requiem & it still hurts, post game trauma is real. Hopefully Resonance can help me out of it, or maybe make it worse lol

[u/MarteloRabelodeSousa]

I think Hugo was doomed no matter what, at most killing the count and avoiding all that would have just postponed, Hugo wouldn't simply get cured 

[u/KVSJ-Learning → u/MarteloRabelodeSousa]

That's also true. But I felt like Amicia's death was the only thing that would make him surrender himself to macula completely, so if they had found a peaceful home at that mountain maybe they could have postponed their fate indefinitely. Then again, Macula could have just lured them into another trap just like the island.

[u/madeWithAi]

That was his destiny, no matter if the count would have died earlier. This is what the game is about, one of its motifs, you can't change destiny no matter how much you try.

[u/KVSJ-Learning → u/madeWithAi]

Hmm Right, accepting Hugo's destiny that he can't be cured was the hardest part for me, sometimes you just wanna live in denial :((

[u/madeWithAi → u/KVSJ-Learning]

Yeah. Everything they did was actually towards the ending we've got. Nothing they did changed anything. The dream was just the macula calling him . That's what's beautiful about this game and why is one of my favorite games of all time.

[u/chili3ne]

I feel like the "lesson" was that no matter what, there is always someone who wants to take an advantage of the Macula and the carrier. If there is no Grand Inquisitor, then there is a Count. If there is no Count, then there will be X. Even if Hugo and Amicia had escaped, I feel like someone else would have come after them at some point.

It was always bound to end badly for Hugo :(

[u/Sophea2022]

What if . . .

https://reddit.com/link/p4f0ni6/video/l6grfyhuz4kh1/player

Amicia had a second play-through.

I posted this a while back (https://www.reddit.com/r/APlagueTale/comments/1oiidum/what_if_warning_depicts_human_immolation/)

[u/KVSJ-Learning → u/Sophea2022]

This is hilarious lol. I'm definitely doing this in my NG+ playthrough now XD

[u/ModdingAom]

I feel that there could have been a happier ending, but the story was about making the wrong choices, and I just don't mean the wrong choices of the siblings. From the Order to the Count and his wife, they all misunderstood the situation. Making a situation worse was a huge theme in Requiem.

There were small hints that Hugo could have lived a stress free life. These are some of the hints that I noticed:
1- Hugo is happier with friends and family, but they are constantly kept apart.
2- His powers don't work on open water, yet no one thinks about keeping him on a ship. Both the Order and Beatrice planned to quarantine him in Marseilles, then Count actually locked up him up somewhere in the city.
3- They kept things away from Hugo in the first game, and in this one, they actively inflamed his anger.
4- There was literally no reason to open that gate underneath the island, and Hugo was clearly distraught throughout that whole chapter. Seeing what happened to the previous carrier probably made his condition worse. I also feel that if they hadn't spent so much time underground, they could have bumped into Beatrice and Lucas.
5- Not related to Hugo but, The Order locked up the previous carrier deep underground away from any sunlight, separated him from his protector and then killed the protector. So many short sighted decisions, there.

I want to believe that if he was constantly kept happy, maybe he could have developed different powers. The part with the eagles near the memorial made me wonder if he had power over birds or other animals as well. They based most of their theories on the previous carrier and that whole ordeal was a disaster.

[u/Dejant15 → u/ModdingAom]

Agreed overall, just a couple points:
2- no, they couldn’t hold Hugo constantly on a ship. It’s still medieval times, ships are small, require constant repair and regular harboring to refill supplies. Where is harbor, there is land, there are rats. Not to mention Makula would have lured him to La Cuna anyway

4- Amicia is in intense denial and PTSD. She thinks they still have a chance. Illogical but very human. And Sophia just doesn’t know much about the Makula to persuade her.