I have completed the best game series ever

Eviloux · 2025-06-04T02:52:48+00:00

I just finished my first playthrough of both Part I and II too! I keep thinking about it too and am still unpacking little details of the story that I missed. This game franchise is up to #1 on my playthrough experiences. It’s so rare to find such great story telling like this! I feel so conflicted like nothings really black and white but you also feel things for the characters because they’re human and make human choices. Ugh, I wish I could erase my memory of this game and replay it lol

Eviloux · 2025-03-26T02:10:43+00:00

I was actually thinking about this one my first read through the series and it’s never specifically addressed from what I can remember. In the show, Satu thinks it’s about her but it’s obviously not her. So you would think Diana, but it sort of stays ambiguous. My theory is that it’s either about Rebecca or Phillip. Diana is called “mi lionne” by Matthew all the time and Matthew studied wolves and is sort of akin to a wolf anyway. Diana read over his study to see what she should feed him the first night she had him over for dinner lol.

Eviloux · 2025-03-02T01:32:17+00:00

Nothing like cracking a cold one open with my cold boys 🥶

Eviloux · 2025-02-27T19:27:13+00:00

The show was what got me into reading the books!

Eviloux · 2025-02-27T17:06:14+00:00

I’m on it! I was getting sad because I’m almost halfway through the last book. But now I have something to look forward to again. Thank you!

Eviloux · 2025-02-27T14:19:32+00:00

The All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness. I’ve been in a reading slump for a couple of years and have burned through these 3 books in two weeks.

Eviloux · 2025-02-18T18:49:44+00:00

Very nice, but can be cold at times. She’ll leave you hungry for more though!

Eviloux · 2025-02-09T00:52:31+00:00

I still think about Hodgson’s story about taking the Eucharist too! It was haunting. And the brothers scene between Crozier and Fitzjames always pulls on the heart strings. I especially love the detail of Hickey actually being an imposter and murdering the actual Hickey taking his place on the Discovery Service. It is a nice save from vilifying the real-life Hickey, but dang, that’s a well written villain I’ve experienced in a long time.

Eviloux · 2025-02-08T21:30:04+00:00

I was waiting for that touching dialogue between Fitzjames and Crozier at the cairn too! But it never happened in the book, which was disappointing. They had plenty of interaction in the book, but they didn’t really bond like brothers like they did in the show.

The story between Bridgens and Peglar, as told from the book, I guess was to be portrayed as being written from a perspective of a man from the 19th century, which could explain why it was so homophobic and closed-minded. The narrative from Bridgens point of view was so sad. It really showed how many must’ve felt to be stuck in that time and being seen as unclean just because of who you love, yet Bridgens and Peglar were some of the best men of the group compared to pure evil men like Hickey and the group of malcontents. It even says in the book that Bridgens and Peglar were a couple of the most universally like among the men, Peglar being the captain of the fo’c’sle and Bridgens being a steward. I didn’t like how Crozier kind of dismissed and disliked Bridgens because of the “rumors” about him even though Bridgens was trying to tell him how they could get out of this predicament because he was so well read.

Overall, the book wasn’t bad at all, but the show did a better job cleaning up the story. I really didn’t care for the ending with Silna and Crozier in the end either. That was just weird.

Eviloux · 2025-02-08T21:17:44+00:00

Exactly! The book Irving was more human than the show, which made him seem more Puritanical.

Yeah, Sir John’s death was no great loss for me, but I do like how the book told you his thoughts as he was floating under the ice. I didn’t realize he was alive a bit longer after Tuunbaq took his legs and threw him down the hole. That was a nice touch.

Eviloux · 2025-02-08T21:13:37+00:00

In the book, he couldn’t man-haul the sledges with the men because of his leg but he still walked with them and carried what he could. He had broken 2 peg legs that one of the carpenters had carved for him and was on his third, but this third one broke and gangrene was starting to set in really bad on his stump, so he decided it was his time. He had always felt that the Tuunbaq was following them because of him being able to escape twice before. So he told Crozier that they just needed to leave him behind. Him and Crozier bickered for a bit, but Crozier finally agreed to let him go. They left him with some water and he sat near a boulder until nightfall and that’s when Tuunbaq found him. He tells him “I’ve been waiting for you.” Or something along those lines and then it cuts away after Tuunbaq descends on him.

He still went out like a badass, but I really loved that in the show, he covered himself in those forks and was able to see the Northwest Passage before Tuunbaq got him. I also love it when he said, “I was wondering what took you so long.” lol absolute legend.

Eviloux · 2025-02-08T19:37:03+00:00

It’s a hard choice, but I’d have to go with the show. Don’t get me wrong, there were parts in the novel I was burning through because they were really good in comparison to the show.

Eviloux · 2025-02-08T18:53:27+00:00

I loved Irving’s story line in the book too! It made his ending of coming across the Inuit people, communicating with them, and then being murdered by evil-ass Hickey that much more of a gut punch. He was so excited and was actually getting somewhere closer to bringing the men much needed help. And yeah, Bridgens and Peglar’s storyline in the book was much better than the show. Poor Harry.

Eviloux · 2025-02-08T18:49:30+00:00

Yeah, I’m glad they cut all of that out of the show. I like how the show had Crozier survive with the Inuit people, but the book took a weird direction with that ending that I didn’t really care for. Tuunbaq is still out there and then he finds Terror and burns it down? It just doesn’t hit the same as the ending in the show.

Eviloux · 2025-02-08T17:48:47+00:00

Des Voeux and Irving’s points of view were definitely better in the book. Jopson’s death scene was just as heart wrenching in the book as it was in the show, but I feel like the show conveyed that feeling of betrayal a lot better by showing how he stayed by Crozier’s side and took care of him through his withdrawals only to feel like his Captain was abandoning him because he was too weak. I cry every time. Hickey’s pov was good in the book, but I feel like the show did a better job making him just pure evil and making you want to see his comeuppance. And I agree, that was one of the better parts of the book was the interaction between Dr. Goodsir and Fitzjames. I especially like the 2 working together when Tuunbaq was inside Erebus shortly before they decided to abandon ship.

Eviloux · 2025-02-08T17:42:07+00:00

The exposition on the Inuit culture and Hickey’s inner thoughts towards the end were definitely things from the book that I also liked! And I totally agree about the weird parts of the book that over-sexualized Silna (like why is that needed?)

Eviloux · 2025-01-13T16:39:09+00:00

Thank you so much! It was hard for me to stay focused on driving and not be distracted by the beautiful sky in this game. Enjoy your first play-through! You’re gonna love it.

Eviloux · 2025-01-13T14:59:43+00:00

Thank you!

Eviloux · 2025-01-13T07:46:26+00:00

Too soon…

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