Okay turns out despite doing a two and a half hour podcast about Pyre I’m still not done thinking about it. Why does no one at Supergiant care about anyone else who lives in the Downside? Why, even when your revolution ‘succeeds’, are you left with all of these awful stories of those left behind in the Downside? What does this world look like that you cannot bridge those two places together except for a magic portal? If that’s the only method of travel between the two places, how is commerce and exchange taking place? None of these questions are answered in a meaningful way and it completely undermines everything that Pyre is trying to sell you. The game’s anti-violence stance being tied to the good ending is the definition of cowardice. I’m still so confused and upset whenever I think about this game. Who is going to help those in the Downside? No one.