Nobody Wants To Dieis a deep and exciting noir thriller set in New York in the year 2329. While people enjoy the technology of flying cars and near immortality, it is still a noir setting with trench coats, smooth talkers, and a lot of smoking.
The game has quite a few choices to make throughout its developing mystery, not unlike Cyberpunk 2077, but with only two distinct endings to achieve. Even after seeing both of them, however, players are left with a few questions regarding not only the main characters but the fate of this world as a whole.
5Will Sara Recover Her Body?
Her Current One Is In Disarray
James’ main companion throughout the game is Sara. She’s a new partner who, instead of exploring with us doing field work, assists us via remote communication. This gives the player more agency than if she were there with us. There is an added reason as to why she isn’t running around with us, and that’s because her body isn’t in good shape.
This is because she has rented out her real body, but instead of having her consciousness suspended in a digital bank, she uses an older body to keep doing her police work. She’s doing all this to pay the bills of her partner, Taylor, who couldn’t afford the bills for her “body rent.”
In the final confrontation with Jane Salma, we find out that she is the one using Sara’s original body. We are asked by Sara not to harm said body, yet even if we comply, we have no way of knowing if Sara was able to recover it or if she was able to pay her partner’s debt.
4What Will Happen To Sara’s Baby?
We See Her Body In An Advanced Pregnant State
Sara rented her body for a slightly different reason than most people, which is why she had some hope of getting it back. The point of renting her body was that whoever paid her fulfilled their desire to have a baby, and they wanted to go through the whole pregnancy from day one.
The original plan was that Sara would never see the baby, being the mother of the child, only in a biological sense. However, that original plan might be a little shaky after the events of the game, and we are only wondering what happens to the baby, assuming Sara’s body survives.
What kind of arrangement will Jane Salma make with Sara now, with both their lives in danger? They might need to reluctantly stay together for a while, which might make Sara grow dangerously close to the baby she was never meant to see.
3What Is The True Ending?
Is The Stranger Really James?
While there are plenty of choices you may make in Nobody Wants To Die, the key one is who you think is the mastermind behind it all. You have two choices: Edward Green, a highly influential man whose “murder” started it all, or the Stranger who’s been pestering you all throughout the investigation.
Choosing the Stranger leads to the Anguish ending, where said Stranger takes hold of Sara’s body, leading to a shootout. Killing or sparing the Stranger doesn’t really matter, and while James dies from his wounds, his consciousness is kept in a digital bank during the final sequence.
Yet if we consider Edward Green as the one behind it all, the final confrontation has a final reveal: the Stranger was James all along, being affected by a sort of psychosis formed from a lack of synchronization with his current body. If this is the real ending (and not just a hallucination from a deeply troubled James), it means that the Stranger was never real, and shooting Sara’s body would always translate to slaying an innocent woman.
2Is James In Heaven During The End Of Deadly Dreams Ending?
We See That Shore In Both Endings
When James dies from blood loss, we see him try to reach an island as hard as he can, trying to catch up to Rachel, his late wife. But he is yanked back from this vision by some white tendrils, the ones that represent the lack of synchronicity with his current body; this signifies that his consciousness is being stored in the digital bank.
This scene suggests that the information stored in the data bank holds more than mere information, preventing the ‘soul’ of the individual from passing on.
If James dies from ingesting the poison, essentially killing him for good, he is finally reunited with Rachel on that very same island. But what is the island, just a wish fulfillment James’ brain shows him as he dies, or is his soul truly ascending to this ‘heaven’ like place, where he is reunited with his wife at last?
1Will Humanity Succumb To Psychosis?
It Seems To Be What The Game Is Hinting Towards
The Icarus project is a new way for the rich to stay richer: now they simply outlive everyone below them. This is because everyone who turns 21 needs to start paying taxes for their body, and should they fail to meet the quota, their body is taken as collateral, and their consciousness is stored in a digital bank.
This seemed like a perfect plan for those in power, letting them keep said power indefinitely, but the laws of nature seem to have something to say on the matter. It seems that what happened to James and Edward Green is no coincidence, and the psychosis suggested from the End of Deadly Dreams ending could affect everyone not in their original body.
With the system working as it currently does, this could end up with the wealthiest people in the world going mad, killing as many people as possible. With most of the poor population stuck in digital banks, the future of humanity looks quite bleak.
