Darwinianevolution said:
It's the fact that they have no qualms about rewritting someone's memories. Yes, they are supposedly doing it as a mercy for the dying, and they technically discuss it in one bit of the game. But after all the game, knowing the story of the main characters, their struggles, their life experiences, their deepest emotions... the two scientists just end up recreating a big chunk of the poor man's memories by making him think his life went one way completely different. They literally rewrite their memories so he thinks he went to the moon, so who knows how many changes they ended up doing to his mind, regardless he's dying or not. In his last moments on Earth, the dying man relived a life it wasn't his, he was forcefed a lie. And with that, imagine how many changes that caused towards his feelings of his loved ones, his own experiences, his ideas, his opinions... By changing the memories of that man, they are breaking appart all that he considers valuable in this world by simply changing the way he think through his new memories. I don't care he's dying and this is technically a last wish, I find the altering of someone's memories to such a degree highly amoral. And in a game when all is around the scientists knowing the guy so they can change key events of the patien's life, it's a big problem. I was shouting at the screen at the end, when the male scientists, the one who showed at least some concern about their actions, just agree with his partner so shortly after and without a proper explanation or debate whether this is right or wrong. It's like the devs were aware of this possibly ethical dilema, but they just pushed it aside for a "happy ending". And I can't separate the beautiful romance story and slice of life from all of this. It's game-ruining for me.
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