Sheriff Whitehorse looks over to your deputy sheriff asking you what’s wrong, as the screen begins to go red and your character starts to act a little funny before the screen fades to black and the credits roll with “Only You” continuing to eerily play in the background. If you played the game, “Only You” becomes the song Jacob Seed uses to brainwash and condition your deputy sheriff to kill on command every time they hear the song. The ending doesn’t seem all that bad, other than retreating, until Sheriff Whitehorse flips on the radio and the song “Only You” starts playing.

As you and your colleagues drive away from a pretty traumatizing and torturous time in Hope County, Sheriff Earl Whitehorse, behind the wheel of the car, begins to hatch out a plan to call in reinforcements to go back and take down Joseph Seed and his remaining followers.

Naturally, my friend chose the option that’s considered the “bad choice,” which is to walk away from Joseph Seed, doing as he requested but leaving your other friends to a doomed and Blissed out fate. You are given two options by Joseph Seed-leave Hope County with only the people you came with or continue resisting and fighting against him. When you meet him in “the place where it all began,” which is the church from the start of the game, you discover that all the important NPCs you have helped and befriended throughout the game are under Seed’s control, courtesy of a trippy drug known as Bliss, and have re-captured all of your law enforcement friends, who you have also painstakingly spent a majority of the game looking for and freeing from the clutches of Eden’s Gate. Since I was playing the game as a co-op campaign with my friend, she wanted to do the “bad ending” she didn’t take originally when she first played it solo.Īt the end of the game, our deputy sheriff comes face-to-face with Joseph Seed after having taken down his equally psychotic family members and liberating all the regions under the cult’s control in Hope County. The game has two possible endings, the good and bad, and one hidden Easter Egg ending at the very beginning of the game, which I did not know about until I read further impressions about the conclusions to Far Cry 5. A word of warning, the following will have spoilers about the endings to Far Cry 5. But when you play it through to the end, it becomes something no one really expects. Far Cry 5’s story about a rookie deputy sheriff who is suddenly shouldering the responsibility to take down a doomsday cult known as Eden’s Gate, led by the psychopathic Joseph Seed and his family, appears to be your rudimentary “hero saves the day” type of game. Far Cry 5’s two endings have made such an impression that I’m still unsure how I’m supposed to feel. Endings, especially in video games, can provoke a strong reaction from players. Or you can feel shock and anger over a conclusion you did not expect, a pay off that can feel like a colossal waste of time. You can be filled with a pang of longing and a bit of sorrow that there’s nothing more to do, except say goodbye. There’s a sense of completion and satisfaction when you finally get to the point of seeing how the journey ends. Concluding a video game can come with an array of emotions.

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