holy shit dude

Its not really worth getting into what the final act of the story pulls so I'll keep this brief and just say that I found the multiple locations bit and the mysteries surrounding them way more underwhelming compared to the usual formula of figuring what the deal is with one town in particular. the puzzles themselves are fine but I disagree with the game's thinking that I should just do a bunch of backtracking and go to all the locations again just to investigate some newspaper clipping that ultimately has nothing to do with the story or even any of the events that took place during the original detours to these extra locations.

I'm content to just forget about this one entirely, if we're being honest.