Talk:Metroid: Mother?/@comment-25021327-20140726024838/@comment-7706473-20140731065923

Hmn - a good question. I'm glad you took the ending to heart, though (hypocritically, I never said I was a role model! Pfffft) perhaps a little sad it got changed, even though I - *personally* do think the new ending works a lot better. Here are the reasons why:

It's more ambiguous. Despite whatever made the ending cathartic for you beforehand, the new ending makes the relation of the game and our narrator more edged between the supernatural and the real, with whatever lens the reader chooses to file it under dependent on them. The previous ending had seemed more reactive, and thus more firmly 'supernatural': Which certainly isn't a bad thing, but eliminates some of the ambiguity.

The style, as you have mentioned, fits a bit better. With less abruptness, the reader is eased into the ending, making the break-down mumbling of the narrator as they recall perhaps more personal, and less jarring.

Finally - I just like it more. Does everything need a reason?.. Ahahaha!

So - as long as you feel good with it, I'd say it works much better. Quite often, change can be surprisingly refreshing; one of those hurdles we think we're gonna hate until, holy heck, we don't!