


Danik was over the top enough, he felt like a blood relative of Albert Wesker and any time a game conjures images of "Resident Evil," you've got a problem. Most of it relies on the seemingly spiritual nature of it. The expanded universe has always illustrated how the Marker works and why people form a fascination with and devotion to it. Granted, he is part of an extremist group, but because previous games have done a great deal of showing and hinting, not telling, we were always led to wonder many details about the Unitologists' devotion to this malicious object. Not only does he feel like a poor Bond villain, he provides an unwelcome deeper examination into the Unitologists' philosophy. He is most unwelcome part of the entire plot. Now, as I mentioned in my main review, most of this is very much in line with the previous entries except for Danik. Ergo, we'd see Isaac speaking directly to Ellie if this was the case. This makes me think Isaac is still alive and Tau Volantis' broken moon is merely one of many like it, which we will inevitably see in "Dead Space 4." A few boards have hypothesized that Isaac is dead and will now haunt Ellie as a spectre, but as the novels have established, the spectres of the Marker are merely psychic manipulations - not actual ghosts. I feel like people can't accept that as an ending because unconditional loss just isn't something you see in video games.Fans of "Dead Space" may remember the chapter names always spell a message, like "Nicole is dead." "Dead Space 3's" chapter names spell "Brother moons are awake." At the very end, Isaac can be heard uttering Ellie's name. All of the characters, including those that escaped to Earth, are dead. Awakened was full of hallucinations, such as being back in your appartment, Norton appearing, fighting armies of Necromorphs while Carver states you were just. The conclusion to the series is that humans (and all life on Earth) go exstinct, and nobody can do anything to stop it. The only communication they got from the surface was basically just creepy necromorph noises. I mean, you see that when they return to earth a brethren moon is basically eating the planet, and the ship that Isaac and Carver are on crashes into another one.

The way I saw it, Isaac failed, and the brethren moons ate humanity. I'm 2 years late to this one, but when Awakening released, everyone seemed to think it ended on a cliffhanger.
