Thoul wrote:tilinelson2 wrote:I'm all for the theory that "The author is dead" for games / books / movies / etc.
I don't understand what you mean here, tili. Could you explain?
The author is dead is a proposition that the author is no authority when talking about his work, and that the work contains everything that is relevant for its understanding.
For example, PSII ending is laconic on what happened to the heroes (at least in English version), and no other game of the series talked about their fate. According to "the author is dead", even if Kodama, Naka, or the whole PSII team came up and said they died, it would be irrelevant, and it would not make it canon. Or if Ozaki stated that Maia did marry Lyle if Rhys chose Lena. Or if she said the official chronology was Rhys -> Ayn -> Sean. Or in a even more practical example, that story in compendium that Chaz had a son and died, given the anedoctal nature of the Compendium.
Thoul wrote:tilinelson2 wrote:We all know that ... and PSIV was always meant to be the last, therefore no PSV (and I can understand it by a commercial POV).
Ah, but we know the PSIV crew did consider some ideas they might explore in PSV. That's been confirmed in interviews in the past. Wouldn't it be neat to learn where they were considering taking the story?
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I remember they mentioning it in the same interviews, like they would be concerned with Great Light, but it was clear that it was mentioned on a "what-if" scenario. In the same interviews (if I'm not mistaken, on compendium or World of PS book), and in others, they make it clear that they started PSIV already with the idea of closing the series' story.
A person only sees and hears what he wants to see and hear and disregards the rest.