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** [[spoiler:Trying to figure out the commands for an old-school text adventure captures some of the feel of being drunk, and a scene dovetails the two in the final chapter.]]
* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler:James' dad bought the whiskey. He saw James was somewhat drunk and told him to drive anyway. He gave him the car. He's going to blame himself for the accident, and Mum might partially blame him. Between Mum not wanting to talk to James, Dad's self-loathing, James being in a coma and Jen's death, the Aition family is destroyed.]]
* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler:James' dad bought the whiskey. He saw James was somewhat drunk and told him to drive anyway. He gave him the car. He's going to blame himself for the accident, and Mum might partially blame him. Between Mum not wanting to talk to James, Dad's self-loathing, James being in a coma and Jen's death, the Aition family is destroyed.]]
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** [[spoiler:Trying to figure out the commands for an old-school text adventure captures some of the feel of being drunk, and a scene dovetails the two in the final chapter. The machines in the ''second'' chapter are like trying to operate machinery and not being in control of one's body, and the third chapter is about trying to understand and communicate with others.]]
** In the final chapter, [[spoiler:a doctor forces James to admit that he killed his sister. Some say that this would be a serious breach of psychiatric ethics. But it's also entirely appropriate to the type of shows that inspired the game and James' coma dreams. Heck, given how trippy the sequence is, it's possible that the "doctor" is just another example of James' own dreaming mind trying to make him face the truth.]]
* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler:James' dad bought the whiskey. He saw James was somewhat drunk and told him to drive anyway. He gave him the car. He's going to blame himself for the accident, and Mum might partially blame him. Between Mum not wanting to talk to James, Dad's self-loathing, James being in a coma and Jen's death, the Aition family is functionally destroyed.]]
** In the final chapter, [[spoiler:a doctor forces James to admit that he killed his sister. Some say that this would be a serious breach of psychiatric ethics. But it's also entirely appropriate to the type of shows that inspired the game and James' coma dreams. Heck, given how trippy the sequence is, it's possible that the "doctor" is just another example of James' own dreaming mind trying to make him face the truth.]]
* FridgeHorror: [[spoiler:James' dad bought the whiskey. He saw James was somewhat drunk and told him to drive anyway. He gave him the car. He's going to blame himself for the accident, and Mum might partially blame him. Between Mum not wanting to talk to James, Dad's self-loathing, James being in a coma and Jen's death, the Aition family is functionally destroyed.]]
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* ScrappyMechanic: The microfilm reader in ''The Station Process'' functions like an actual microfilm reader, which doesn't translate too well in game. Doesn't help there's no instructions for the thing, but it does have instructions for the transmitter.
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* ScrappyMechanic: The microfilm reader in ''The Station Process'' functions like an actual microfilm reader, which doesn't translate too well in game. Doesn't help there's no instructions for the thing, but it does have instructions for the transmitter. It's also required at one point so that the player can ''literally'' decode actual Morse code.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Okay yes, [[spoiler:James very clearly should not have been driving that night, and what he did caused a ''lot'' of pain and suffering]], but from what we see in Chapter 4, [[spoiler:the very fact that he was ''in'' that situation in the first place shows an absolutely disgusting lack of responsibility on the part of the rest of his family. His father gave him a bottle of ''extremely'' strong whiskey for his birthday, his family spent the entire party pressuring him into drinking more and more, and then they were either too drunk to notice that he was clearly in no fit state to drive himself and his sister home or else they ''did'' notice and just didn't care, to the point that at one point they- including ''the sister who later dies in the accident''- outright '''demand''' that he get behind the wheel to drive her home, even as James protests that he shouldn't do so. And unlike James himself, who's spent years in a coma being tormented by his own guilt, it's highly doubtful that ''they'' will face any sort of legal responsibility for their actions. In particular, James's mom [[IHaveNoSon refuses to visit him in the hospital]], implicitly blaming him for an accident that, by all rights, she ''actively helped push him into''.[[note]]It's ''possible'' she doesn't want to see him because she realizes it's partially her fault and can't look him in the face, or some combo of the two, or she blames herself ''entirely'' and thinks she failed ''both'' her kids.[[/note]]]]
** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:James's doctor. Again, what James did was awful, but the behavior of the doctor in the situation is outright ''horrifying'' to anyone with even a passing familiarity with medical ethics. Rather than doing anything to actually care for the patient under his charge, the doctor has deliberately allowed James to fall into psychosis for weeks, months, or even '''years''', all out of a desire to provide evidence to the police [[ItsAllAboutMe for his own personal satisfaction]]. This man has violated the Hippocratic Oath dozens of times over, [[DesignatedHero and yet the story treats him as being in the right]].]]
** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:James's doctor. Again, what James did was awful, but the behavior of the doctor in the situation is outright ''horrifying'' to anyone with even a passing familiarity with medical ethics. Rather than doing anything to actually care for the patient under his charge, the doctor has deliberately allowed James to fall into psychosis for weeks, months, or even '''years''', all out of a desire to provide evidence to the police [[ItsAllAboutMe for his own personal satisfaction]]. This man has violated the Hippocratic Oath dozens of times over, [[DesignatedHero and yet the story treats him as being in the right]].]]
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Okay yes, [[spoiler:James very clearly should not have been driving that night, and what he did caused a ''lot'' of pain and suffering]], but from what we see in Chapter 4, [[spoiler:the very fact that he was ''in'' that situation in the first place shows an absolutely disgusting lack of responsibility on the part of the rest of his family. His father gave him a bottle of ''extremely'' strong whiskey for his birthday, his family spent the entire party pressuring him into drinking more and more, and then they were either too drunk to notice that he was clearly in no fit state to drive himself and his sister home or else they ''did'' notice and just didn't care, to the point that at one point they- including ''the sister who later dies in the accident''- outright '''demand''' that he get behind the wheel to drive her home, even as James protests that he shouldn't do so. And unlike James himself, who's spent years in a coma being tormented by his own guilt, it's highly doubtful that ''they'' will face any sort of legal responsibility for their actions. In particular, James's James' mom [[IHaveNoSon refuses to visit him in the hospital]], implicitly blaming him for an accident that, by all rights, she ''actively helped push him into''.[[note]]It's ''possible'' she doesn't want to see him because she realizes it's partially her fault and can't look him in the face, or some combo of the two, or she blames herself ''entirely'' and thinks she failed ''both'' her kids.[[/note]]]]
** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:James's doctor. Again, what James did was awful, but the behavior of the doctor in the situation is outright ''horrifying'' to anyone with even a passing familiarity with medical ethics. Rather than doing anything to actually care for the patient under his charge, the doctor has deliberately allowed James to fall into psychosis for weeks, months, or even '''years''', all out of a desire to provide evidence to the police [[ItsAllAboutMe for his own personal satisfaction]]. This man has violated the Hippocratic Oath dozens of times over, [[DesignatedHero and yet the story treats him as being in the right]].]]]]
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** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:James's doctor. Again, what James did was awful, but the behavior of the doctor in the situation is outright ''horrifying'' to anyone with even a passing familiarity with medical ethics. Rather than doing anything to actually care for the patient under his charge, the doctor has deliberately allowed James to fall into psychosis for weeks, months, or even '''years''', all out of a desire to provide evidence to the police [[ItsAllAboutMe for his own personal satisfaction]]. This man has violated the Hippocratic Oath dozens of times over, [[DesignatedHero and yet the story treats him as being in the right]].
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* BrokenBase: Whether or not it was a good idea that to have TheReveal that [[spoiler:almost everything that happened in the first three episodes were all part of James' coma episodes. Some take issue with the plot itself and claim that it's nonsensical at worst and a VerySpecialEpisode about drunk driving at best; and many complain that the final result creates TooBleakStoppedCaring, since it reworks all the earlier stories to be about James and his guilt, while also [[MoralMyopia bizarrely absolving everyone except James for their equal- or even larger- part in causing the accident]].]] But there ''are'' fans that praise the twist and feel it does hit on interesting themes for the rest of the game.
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* BrokenBase: Whether or not it was a good idea that to have TheReveal that [[spoiler:almost everything that happened in the first three episodes were all part of James' coma episodes. Some take issue with the plot itself and claim that it's nonsensical at worst and a VerySpecialEpisode about drunk driving at best; and many complain that the final result creates TooBleakStoppedCaring, since it reworks all the earlier stories to be about James and his guilt, while also [[MoralMyopia bizarrely absolving everyone except James for their equal- part (ignoring that he was drunk or even larger- part encouraging him to drink) in causing the accident]].]] But there ''are'' fans that praise the twist and feel it does hit on interesting themes for the rest of the game.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Okay yes, [[spoiler:James very clearly should not have been driving that night, and what he did caused a ''lot'' of pain and suffering]], but from what we see in Chapter 4, [[spoiler:the very fact that he was ''in'' that situation in the first place shows an absolutely disgusting lack of responsibility on the part of the rest of his family. His father gave him a bottle of ''extremely'' strong whiskey for his birthday, his family spent the entire party pressuring him into drinking more and more, and then they were either too drunk to notice that he was clearly in no fit state to drive himself and his sister home or else they ''did'' notice and just didn't care, to the point that at one point they- including ''the sister who later dies in the accident''- outright '''demand''' that he get behind the wheel to drive her home, even as James protests that he shouldn't do so. And unlike James himself, who's spent years in a coma being tormented by his own guilt, it's highly doubtful that ''they'' will face any sort of legal responsibility for their actions. In particular, James's mom [[IHaveNoSon refuses to visit him in the hospital]], implicitly blaming him for an accident that, by all rights, she ''actively helped push him into''.]]
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Okay yes, [[spoiler:James very clearly should not have been driving that night, and what he did caused a ''lot'' of pain and suffering]], but from what we see in Chapter 4, [[spoiler:the very fact that he was ''in'' that situation in the first place shows an absolutely disgusting lack of responsibility on the part of the rest of his family. His father gave him a bottle of ''extremely'' strong whiskey for his birthday, his family spent the entire party pressuring him into drinking more and more, and then they were either too drunk to notice that he was clearly in no fit state to drive himself and his sister home or else they ''did'' notice and just didn't care, to the point that at one point they- including ''the sister who later dies in the accident''- outright '''demand''' that he get behind the wheel to drive her home, even as James protests that he shouldn't do so. And unlike James himself, who's spent years in a coma being tormented by his own guilt, it's highly doubtful that ''they'' will face any sort of legal responsibility for their actions. In particular, James's mom [[IHaveNoSon refuses to visit him in the hospital]], implicitly blaming him for an accident that, by all rights, she ''actively helped push him into''.]][[note]]It's ''possible'' she doesn't want to see him because she realizes it's partially her fault and can't look him in the face, or some combo of the two, or she blames herself ''entirely'' and thinks she failed ''both'' her kids.[[/note]]]]
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* IdiotPlot: Justified. The plot in ''The Last Session'' only happens because [[spoiler:[[AlcoholInducedIdiocy everyone at the party was too drunk]] to see James clearly wasn't in the right condition to bring his sister Jen home. The car accident could have been avoided entirely if they had just called a taxi.]]
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* BrokenBase: Whether or not it was a good idea that to have TheReveal that [[spoiler:almost everything that happened in the first three episodes were all part of James' coma episodes. Some take issue with the plot itself and claim that it's an IdiotPlot at worst and a VerySpecialEpisode about drunk driving at best; and many complain that the final result creates TooBleakStoppedCaring, since it reworks all the earlier stories to be about James and his guilt, while also [[MoralMyopia bizarrely absolving everyone except James for their equal- or even larger- part in causing the accident]].]] But there ''are'' fans that praise the twist and feel it does hit on interesting themes for the rest of the game.
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* BrokenBase: Whether or not it was a good idea that to have TheReveal that [[spoiler:almost everything that happened in the first three episodes were all part of James' coma episodes. Some take issue with the plot itself and claim that it's an IdiotPlot nonsensical at worst and a VerySpecialEpisode about drunk driving at best; and many complain that the final result creates TooBleakStoppedCaring, since it reworks all the earlier stories to be about James and his guilt, while also [[MoralMyopia bizarrely absolving everyone except James for their equal- or even larger- part in causing the accident]].]] But there ''are'' fans that praise the twist and feel it does hit on interesting themes for the rest of the game.
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* BrokenBase: Whether or not it was a good idea that to have TheReveal that [[spoiler:almost everything that happened in the first three episodes were all part of James' coma episodes. Some preferred the idea that the previous stories were leading to an interconnected plot about a HiveMind AlienInvasion; others take issue with the plot itself and claim that it's an IdiotPlot at worst and a VerySpecialEpisode about drunk driving at best; and many complain that the final result creates TooBleakStoppedCaring, since it reworks all the earlier stories to be about James and his guilt, while also [[MoralMyopia bizarrely absolving everyone except James for their equal- or even larger- part in causing the accident]].]] But there ''are'' fans that praise the twist and feel it does hit on interesting themes for the rest of the game.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: More than one reviewer has complained that TheReveal, and the way it recontextualizes earlier events, sucks all the fun out of earlier parts, either by centering them around such a deeply unlikable character, or else by completely removing most of the interesting story hints and leaving us with only a depressingly realistic story.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: More than one reviewer has complained that TheReveal, and the way it recontextualizes earlier events, sucks all the fun out of earlier parts, either by centering them around such a deeply unlikable character, or else by completely removing most of all the fantastical and interesting story hints vignettes and leaving us with behind only a depressingly realistic story.
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:James garners this from a number of fans. While the story clearly intends for him to be completely unlikeable, the fact that it does so by [[MoralMyopia completely absolving the many other equally-guilty parties of blame]] (as detailed under UnintentionallyUnsympathetic below), and that James has been tormented by his doctor and his own unconscious mind for a long time while all the other parties [[KarmaHoudini get off scott-free]], makes it hard not to feel at least a little bad for the guy. It also doesn't help that the event that the story tries to frame as his MoralEventHorizon- him choosing to frame the other driver instead of save his sister while he had the chance- was done in a state where he was '''''by definition''''' incapable of making rational decisions, and yet the story, which had previously made a big deal about him being incapacitated by the alcohol, suddenly switches to treating him as if he was completely in his right mind.]]
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:James garners this from a number of fans. While the story clearly intends for him to be completely unlikeable, the fact that it does so by [[MoralMyopia completely absolving the many other equally-guilty parties of blame]] (as detailed under UnintentionallyUnsympathetic below), and that James has been tormented by his doctor and his own unconscious mind for a long time while all the other parties [[KarmaHoudini get off scott-free]], makes it hard not to feel at least a little bad for the guy. It also doesn't help that the event that the story tries to frame as his MoralEventHorizon- him choosing to frame the other driver instead of save his sister while he had the chance- was done in a state where he was '''''by definition''''' incapable of making rational thinking rationally about his decisions, and yet the story, which had previously made a big deal about him being incapacitated by the alcohol, suddenly switches to treating him as if he was completely in his right mind.]]
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:James garners this from a number of fans. While the story clearly intends for him to be completely unlikeable, the fact that it does so by [[MoralMyopia completely absolving the many other equally-guilty parties of blame]] (as detailed under UnintentionallyUnsympathetic below), and that James has been tormented by his doctor and his own unconscious mind for a long time while all the other parties [[KarmaHoudini get off scott-free]], makes it hard not to feel at least a little bad for the guy. It also doesn't help that the event that the story tries to frame as his MoralEventHorizon- him choosing to frame the other driver instead of save his sister while he had the chance- was done in a state where he was ''''by definition''''' incapable of making rational decisions, and yet the story, which had previously made a big deal about him being incapacitated by the alcohol, suddenly switches to treating him as if he was completely in his right mind.]]
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:James garners this from a number of fans. While the story clearly intends for him to be completely unlikeable, the fact that it does so by [[MoralMyopia completely absolving the many other equally-guilty parties of blame]] (as detailed under UnintentionallyUnsympathetic below), and that James has been tormented by his doctor and his own unconscious mind for a long time while all the other parties [[KarmaHoudini get off scott-free]], makes it hard not to feel at least a little bad for the guy. It also doesn't help that the event that the story tries to frame as his MoralEventHorizon- him choosing to frame the other driver instead of save his sister while he had the chance- was done in a state where he was ''''by '''''by definition''''' incapable of making rational decisions, and yet the story, which had previously made a big deal about him being incapacitated by the alcohol, suddenly switches to treating him as if he was completely in his right mind.]]
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* BrokenBase: Whether or not it was a good idea that to have TheReveal that [[spoiler:almost everything that happened in the first three episodes were all part of James' coma episodes. Some preferred the idea that the previous stories were leading to an interconnected plot about a HiveMind AlienInvasion, others take issue with the plot itself and claim that it's an IdiotPlot at worst and a VerySpecialEpisode about drunk driving at best, and many complain that the final result creates TooBleakStoppedCaring, since it reworks all the earlier stories to be about James and his guilt.]] But there ''are'' fans that praise the twist and feel it does hit on interesting themes for the rest of the game.
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* BrokenBase: Whether or not it was a good idea that to have TheReveal that [[spoiler:almost everything that happened in the first three episodes were all part of James' coma episodes. Some preferred the idea that the previous stories were leading to an interconnected plot about a HiveMind AlienInvasion, AlienInvasion; others take issue with the plot itself and claim that it's an IdiotPlot at worst and a VerySpecialEpisode about drunk driving at best, best; and many complain that the final result creates TooBleakStoppedCaring, since it reworks all the earlier stories to be about James and his guilt.guilt, while also [[MoralMyopia bizarrely absolving everyone except James for their equal- or even larger- part in causing the accident]].]] But there ''are'' fans that praise the twist and feel it does hit on interesting themes for the rest of the game.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Okay yes, [[spoiler:James is obviously a terrible person for leaving his sister to die just to save his own reputation]], but, taken at face value ([[spoiler:James is an UnreliableNarrator of the highest order]]) [[spoiler:the very fact that he was ''in'' that situation in the first place shows an absolutely disgusting lack of responsibility on the part of the rest of his family. His father gave him a bottle of ''extremely'' strong whiskey for his birthday, his family spent the entire party pressuring him into drinking more and more, and then they were either too drunk to notice that he was clearly in no fit state to drive himself and his sister home or else they ''did'' notice and just didn't care, to the point that at one point they- including ''the sister who later dies in the accident''- outright '''demand''' that he get behind the wheel to drive her home, even as James protests that he shouldn't do so. And unlike James himself, who's spent years in a coma being tormented by his own guilt, it's highly doubtful that ''they'' will face any sort of legal responsibility for their actions. In particular, James's mom [[IHaveNoSon refuses to visit him in the hospital]], implicitly blaming him for an accident that, by all rights, she ''actively helped push him into''.]]
** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:James's doctor. Again, what James did was awful, but the behavior of the doctor in the situation is outright ''horrifying'' to anyone with even a passing familiarity with medical ethics. Rather than doing anything to actually care for the patient under his charge, the doctor has deliberately allowed James to fall into psychosis for weeks, months, or even '''years''', all out of a desire to provide evidence to the police for his own personal satisfaction. This man has violated the Hippocratic Oath dozens of times over, [[DesignatedHero and yet the story treats him as being in the right]].]]
** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:James's doctor. Again, what James did was awful, but the behavior of the doctor in the situation is outright ''horrifying'' to anyone with even a passing familiarity with medical ethics. Rather than doing anything to actually care for the patient under his charge, the doctor has deliberately allowed James to fall into psychosis for weeks, months, or even '''years''', all out of a desire to provide evidence to the police for his own personal satisfaction. This man has violated the Hippocratic Oath dozens of times over, [[DesignatedHero and yet the story treats him as being in the right]].]]
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: [[spoiler:James garners this from a number of fans. While the story clearly intends for him to be completely unlikeable, the fact that it does so by [[MoralMyopia completely absolving the many other equally-guilty parties of blame]] (as detailed under UnintentionallyUnsympathetic below), and that James has been tormented by his doctor and his own unconscious mind for a long time while all the other parties [[KarmaHoudini get off scott-free]], makes it hard not to feel at least a little bad for the guy. It also doesn't help that the event that the story tries to frame as his MoralEventHorizon- him choosing to frame the other driver instead of save his sister while he had the chance- was done in a state where he was ''''by definition''''' incapable of making rational decisions, and yet the story, which had previously made a big deal about him being incapacitated by the alcohol, suddenly switches to treating him as if he was completely in his right mind.]]
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Okay yes, [[spoiler:Jamesis obviously very clearly should not have been driving that night, and what he did caused a terrible person for leaving his sister to die just to save his own reputation]], but, taken at face value ([[spoiler:James is an UnreliableNarrator ''lot'' of the highest order]]) pain and suffering]], but from what we see in Chapter 4, [[spoiler:the very fact that he was ''in'' that situation in the first place shows an absolutely disgusting lack of responsibility on the part of the rest of his family. His father gave him a bottle of ''extremely'' strong whiskey for his birthday, his family spent the entire party pressuring him into drinking more and more, and then they were either too drunk to notice that he was clearly in no fit state to drive himself and his sister home or else they ''did'' notice and just didn't care, to the point that at one point they- including ''the sister who later dies in the accident''- outright '''demand''' that he get behind the wheel to drive her home, even as James protests that he shouldn't do so. And unlike James himself, who's spent years in a coma being tormented by his own guilt, it's highly doubtful that ''they'' will face any sort of legal responsibility for their actions. In particular, James's mom [[IHaveNoSon refuses to visit him in the hospital]], implicitly blaming him for an accident that, by all rights, she ''actively helped push him into''.]]
** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:James's doctor. Again, what James did was awful, but the behavior of the doctor in the situation is outright ''horrifying'' to anyone with even a passing familiarity with medical ethics. Rather than doing anything to actually care for the patient under his charge, the doctor has deliberately allowed James to fall into psychosis for weeks, months, or even '''years''', all out of a desire to provide evidence to the police [[ItsAllAboutMe for his own personalsatisfaction.satisfaction]]. This man has violated the Hippocratic Oath dozens of times over, [[DesignatedHero and yet the story treats him as being in the right]].]]
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Okay yes, [[spoiler:James
** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:James's doctor. Again, what James did was awful, but the behavior of the doctor in the situation is outright ''horrifying'' to anyone with even a passing familiarity with medical ethics. Rather than doing anything to actually care for the patient under his charge, the doctor has deliberately allowed James to fall into psychosis for weeks, months, or even '''years''', all out of a desire to provide evidence to the police [[ItsAllAboutMe for his own personal
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* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:James is obviously a terrible person for leaving his sister to die just to save his own reputation but with him spending years in a coma being tormented by his own guilt of the incident]], it's hard not to feel a ''little'' sorry for him.
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* JerkassWoobie: [[spoiler:James is obviously a terrible person for leaving his sister to die just to save his own reputation but with him spending years in a coma being tormented by his own guilt of the incident]], it's hard not to feel a ''little'' sorry for him.him, especially considering that [[spoiler:the story pins the blame entirely on him, [[MoralMyopia despite all evidence in Chapter 4 pointing to his family being just as at fault, if not more so, for putting him in that situation]]]].
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: More than one reviewer has complained that TheReveal, and the way it recontextualizes earlier events, sucks all the fun out of earlier parts by centering them around such a deeply, fundamentally unlikable character.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: More than one reviewer has complained that TheReveal, and the way it recontextualizes earlier events, sucks all the fun out of earlier parts parts, either by centering them around such a deeply, fundamentally deeply unlikable character.character, or else by completely removing most of the interesting story hints and leaving us with only a depressingly realistic story.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Okay yes, [[spoiler:James is obviously a terrible person for leaving his sister to die just to save his own reputation]], but, taken at face value ([[spoiler:James is an UnreliableNarrator of the highest order]]) [[spoiler:the very fact that he was ''in'' that situation in the first place shows an absolutely disgusting lack of responsibility on the part of the rest of his family. His father gave him a bottle of ''extremely'' strong whiskey for his birthday, his family spent the entire party pressuring him into drinking more and more, and then they were either too drunk to notice that he was clearly in no fit state to drive himself and his sister home or else they ''did'' notice and just didn't care, to the point that at one point they- including ''the sister who later dies in the accident''- outright '''demand''' that he get behind the wheel to drive her home, even as James protests that he shouldn't do so. And unlike James himself, who's spent years in a coma being tormented by his own guilt, it's highly doubtful that ''they'' will face any sort of legal responsibility for their actions.]]
** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:James's doctor. Again, what James did was awful, but the behavior of the doctor in the situation is outright ''horrifying'' to anyone with even a passing familiarity with medical ethics. Rather than doing anything to actually care for the patient under his charge, the doctor has deliberately allowed James to fall into psychosis for weeks or '''months''', all out of a desire to provide evidence to the police for his own personal satisfaction. This man has violated the Hippocratic Oath dozens of times over, [[DesignatedHero and yet the story treats him as being in the right]].]]
** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:James's doctor. Again, what James did was awful, but the behavior of the doctor in the situation is outright ''horrifying'' to anyone with even a passing familiarity with medical ethics. Rather than doing anything to actually care for the patient under his charge, the doctor has deliberately allowed James to fall into psychosis for weeks or '''months''', all out of a desire to provide evidence to the police for his own personal satisfaction. This man has violated the Hippocratic Oath dozens of times over, [[DesignatedHero and yet the story treats him as being in the right]].]]
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Okay yes, [[spoiler:James is obviously a terrible person for leaving his sister to die just to save his own reputation]], but, taken at face value ([[spoiler:James is an UnreliableNarrator of the highest order]]) [[spoiler:the very fact that he was ''in'' that situation in the first place shows an absolutely disgusting lack of responsibility on the part of the rest of his family. His father gave him a bottle of ''extremely'' strong whiskey for his birthday, his family spent the entire party pressuring him into drinking more and more, and then they were either too drunk to notice that he was clearly in no fit state to drive himself and his sister home or else they ''did'' notice and just didn't care, to the point that at one point they- including ''the sister who later dies in the accident''- outright '''demand''' that he get behind the wheel to drive her home, even as James protests that he shouldn't do so. And unlike James himself, who's spent years in a coma being tormented by his own guilt, it's highly doubtful that ''they'' will face any sort of legal responsibility for their actions. In particular, James's mom [[IHaveNoSon refuses to visit him in the hospital]], implicitly blaming him for an accident that, by all rights, she ''actively helped push him into''.]]
** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:James's doctor. Again, what James did was awful, but the behavior of the doctor in the situation is outright ''horrifying'' to anyone with even a passing familiarity with medical ethics. Rather than doing anything to actually care for the patient under his charge, the doctor has deliberately allowed James to fall into psychosis forweeks weeks, months, or '''months''', even '''years''', all out of a desire to provide evidence to the police for his own personal satisfaction. This man has violated the Hippocratic Oath dozens of times over, [[DesignatedHero and yet the story treats him as being in the right]].]]
** There's also the matter of [[spoiler:James's doctor. Again, what James did was awful, but the behavior of the doctor in the situation is outright ''horrifying'' to anyone with even a passing familiarity with medical ethics. Rather than doing anything to actually care for the patient under his charge, the doctor has deliberately allowed James to fall into psychosis for
