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The game's theme at the end is strongly towards free will and the power of choice in a closed universe of endless recursion and predestination. Which I respect narratively, but the actual game experience is that you get the bad endings if you don't do exactly the obviously 'right' thing, which is a pretty big separation between story and gameplay.

And then at the very end of the game, where you're Seneschal, all you can do in the world is kill or resurrect people invisibly and can't touch or otherwise interact with anyone, which the game tells you is basically your fated destiny now until the end of time/a new Arisen comes and mercy kills you.

So the 'happy' ending, where you literally kill yourself otherwise without warning in the ultimate expression of free will in a mobius strip of predetermination, was... I dunno, I mean, I'm glad that your main Pawn becomes a real person, even if it's a little creepy that your love interest may not even notice (depends on the love interest), it was just a really weird bittersweet thing where, you know, you go through all of this trial and tribulation only to decide that killing yourself is really the best answer for happyness.

Also, and this is another possible story and gameplay segregation, as far as linear time is concerned, the Arisen basically kills themselves within minutes of becoming god, which adds another level of oddness for me.