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I wish the basement level was implemented in the game, it looks so well made, even if unfinished, it visually expresses exactly how Rose feels when they fight, the horror elements of the level are a representation of that, and how the monster would attack Rose, that would be her mind thinking that they were fighting because of her.

Maybe if this chapter was re-written it could've been part of the game. This chapter was replaced I'm guessing with the heaven chapter we got where May ends up singing at the end and their relationship gets united again. This alternative chapter could've happened sometime maybe before that chapter instead. This is to show us Rose's point of view with her parents fighting all the time, ignoring the chaos happening around them and allow the boss fight to appear in the game. After the boss fight, they can either: A - Find out the book was a lie like in the video here by not being a real therapist (which explains why in the ending Rose found the book in the trash). However, he reinsures them that he can still help them out. So he separates them from the heart, they give him a second chance, and then the entire heaven chapter plays with the ending we have in the original game where they find the letter on her bed, and etc. Or B: The book is not a lie and a real therapist, they separate from the heart, and then the rest of the heaven chapter played as usual with the ending we got and etc. My point being this alternative chapter would NOT be the ending of the game. It's ends with the scene we do have instead. But this chapter shows us how Rose feels being around her parents when they argue. What do some of you think?

Holy shit... This left me shocked. Indeed, at the end of the game I thought, ok but, where's the final boss? And here it is! Of course, people that don't play many games, might have thought nothing was missing. But I knew it, and even A Way Out had a final boss. It's apparent that they were going to complete this ending, but surely while creating it they thought that "yeah this is way too dark to get the point across" and also, many kids were going to play this. I have no doubt that if they finished this way they would NOT have won GOTY. Good call on them To think, that many people were """""traumatized""""" by the elefant scene, just imagine what would have happened if they went with this instead..

After having played through the game twice I have to say I'm glad they scrapped this. I don't think it works tonally with the rest of the game at all. And having Dr. Hakim go from a love expert, to fraud back to being vindicated in the space of 2 minutes is such a pointless and confusing character arc to introduce so late on. Conceptionally I get why they tested it out; as it helps to amplify Rose's mental health and why she would run away. But we already know from the very start of the story that she's upset by their arguing, making this level somewhat redundant story-telling wise.

I like this a lot more than how it ends in the final product, if I'm being honest. The parents actually realize how selfish they were really being (which makes the first half of the game actually make a lot more sense), it doesn't put Hakim in the right for putting them through all that, it gives an actual climactic ending that uses the things Rose loves to stop the manifestation of their fighting.

I prefer the cannon ending. It just felt much more satisfying, and the game taking this dark of a turn right at the end is just not fitting for the game in my opinion.

Man that feels weird, I liked the book cause he felt like he knew what he was doing, in this he feels like a bullshitter 😅. But I will admit I like the concept of them being stuck together. Idk it could’ve gone well if they gave it time but I like the game the way it is right now.

this felt unfinished, but weirdly the dialog didn't fit the personalities of the book. made the book seem much more like a psychotic murderer.

As someone that constantly was screaming at the screen like "Does nobody give a fuck about this kid??" this ending is weirdly validating, like yeah y'all have been shitty and totally forgot your kid has feelings and has been in complete turmoil over this, bing bong

I always knew that the book was a psychopath

i think this ending is nice and all, but it takes away from the story. it makes dr. hakim look like the bad guy, when really he was just trying to help mend cody and may's relationship, and that didn't even seem like it worked. they still lacked romantic attraction as opposed to the original ending where they broke the spell with a heartfelt kiss. in this ending it seems like they just say "oh no it's not her fault it's ours, we only thought about ourselves!! lets go fix it!!" instead of actually making up. i know the point is to focus on the fact they only thought about themselves, but children are not a part of marriages, and while you do need to consider your children when discussing divorce it's more important to think about the couple and why they want to divorce. this ending just feels odd in that sense, it's like the game is telling you that focusing on children is the way to go, when that's really not how it works. the couple will still face conflict with each other and they will not be happy. children do not guarantee a joyous, romantic, and healthy marriage. again, i know this ending needed work and was only a draft, but it still was not the right ending. we would have been left with "but what happens to cody and may?? do they love each other again?" because we didn't get to see a kiss or anything symbolizing romance.

I wouldn't wanna live in a world where this was the official ending, this was dark and depressing af

My theory is that in the original script, developer actually make Hakim a bs book. In which he'd continue to give Cody and May a love trick and advice in which mean mostly nothing or mean something but rarely. He continue to give them hard time until the very end in which result in this ending where May said "We go through all this hell for what?" and them kicked Hakim's ass. Because think about it, bring me an example until Candy Factory section on Snow Globe in which he mentions "gratitude" between them in which'd be the one that begin to disputable and making point,that's the first time in which Hakim actually gave good advice or genuinely helping them. Before that, he'd put them in trouble (such as Vacuum boss by exposing May's vacuum purchase, or exposing their plan on Cutie to royal guard),decide to ignore their words (before the first activity between hammer and the box) or just overexcessive with them being lover (After Cuckoo Clock boss and before the Snow Globe level) Also, some of the thing he do or should do that makes zero sense. Before the last level in the final version, Hakim never revives us but then he did it in the slides before the final why? Not only that, remember, in the game we can actually "death" such as on boss fight or qte on some occasions, how could Hakim let that happened to us when in some occasions, it is proved to believe Hakim watching us all the time so we doe he didn't care and Rose lose her parent forever? what is this? Finally, he don't care about Rose, and I mean zero care, when Cody & May about to and finished take care of Cutie the book didn't warned or scolds them on their action. Not only that he seems to praise it as they are "collaborating" so yeah in my opinion this ending show what's coming to him. I bet they change because it's way too dark bit they probably gonna went with it almost to the final draft but decided to drop it, it'd have made more sense than the ending we got honestly and with the level like that it probably the second coming of legendary scene after Cutie's death. Overalls game is great and deserve for its award but my criticism is remain that the ending at May's passion which is just suddenly to be about singing and Hakim who never pays for his sin that's all that is to it.

I’m not 100% against the darker tone of that section per se (divorce with children involved isn’t a happy thing after all) and it could have been a really poignant point of the story, but I prefer the ending we have over what I saw here. I really didn’t like their attempt at a “Dr Hakim reveal” and his finding of self-confidence within himself, im glad they cut that out, that was so dumb and awful. He was a great one-dimensional character; he’s the heart of the story and humanizing him the way they did here was bad. In short, thanks to the editor; you cut some real dog-shit story from a great game!

great video, nice way of getting to the ending

Damn, i just finished the game with my friend and i found this interesting thing.. how is it that this is the only video of this cut chapter and how did you even manage to get it.. this is just wow... And pretty cool.. i thought there was only one way to end the game but i see now that there could be a second way.. And its weird that not much people dont know about this..

This could be put after they kill Cutie and Rose cries. It seems the main theme of the level is about their arguments due to their conflicting personalities and pride, and how it affects Rose. It would be fitting, since they are meld together in an ugly heart cookie. It symbolises how at this point, their relationship is still crude, selfish, and ugly, but they're going to start truly working together as one, no matter how ugly their situation is.

I only saw this today. HOW DID THIS GET SO TRAUMATIZING?????

Hey it's Jusuf voicing! In the end

Yeah, no, I don't like this one. I prefer the real ending. I didn't like how they found out that Dr. Hakim is fake like this, and they pushed him down the stairs. It was much better when Rose told them about how she got the book. It was quite funny. In this ending, when they pushed him, their redemption arc from the clock chapter up to May's passion chapter went down the drain. In this alternate ending, the family's sentimental moment in the bus stop didn't hit as hard as it did in the original, canon version. The concept about playing a level about Rose's trauma of her parents fighting is a pretty good concept, but not as a final level. Maybe if they put it after the elephant castle, after she cried, then it would've worked better.

WAHT I DID NOT KNOW THERES A ALTERNET ENDING I JUST GOT THE NORMAL ENDING

??? This is one weird alternative path

Them as the heart is giving me the Immoral Beast from Catherine and its creeping me out. Edit: I prefer the published ending but this level would’ve been dope as a precursor to it. How’d you get access to this?

Rose thinks it’s her fault. I’ve been there. It. It’s just not right. You hear your name spoken/screamed in almost every fight. You begin to think like that. It completely destroys you. It took a great deal of time to come to the conclusion that it wasn’t my fault any more than it was my brother’s. I love my parents and both are happily remarried to amazing people. Sweetly and Funnily enough both of them married their high school sweethearts. Just like I’m married to mine. God blessed all of us with amazing people as partners. What’s kinda funny is my mom married a Micheal. So did I. “Micheal!” Both of them “yeah?” “Not you. Mine.”

7:16 may and cody still fighting

Can you do this with keyboard in 02.52 I cant do with keyboard. I couldn't find a way to use light balls.

Its true can w- can we get the devs to explain?

This is scary even though it looks cool, im happy the game ended the way it did.

5:18 - 6:40 that's makes me remembering of something else. Wait, among the sleep is that what it is?

I wish they would add it as a dlc or something atleast

I thing this A UNFINESHED ENDING

How did y’all do this?

Maybe Amongaflareon was telling the truth... 😯😯😯

Was this scraped Content?

This feels more like a bad ending-

How i play this basemwnt?

I do not like the ending. The couple should be together because of the daughter. The problems they have are very small to take that bad decision.

much prefer this

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The idea is bad, this is like a bad/worst ending

To me I think that this final level seems more darker and intense so I’m actually glad that they didn’t really added this one into the original because it just doesn’t seem that appropriate.

I edge to this video

This would be a really good ending

It's fake

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The only thing I didn’t like about this video is because they kept saying the F word