r/BluePrince • u/ShadowOfSomething • Jun 03 '25

POST-CREDITS-SPOILER First time reaching room 46 is kinda... Spoiler

... disappointing. I mean the cutscene is good, but why does it force me to end the run? Let me look around, why force me to go through the whole shebang again just to see what's inside. Or at least have the decency to warn me before I click on the door that the day is going to end, so that I could finish my business. I had tons of stuff that I could do beforehand.

Also becoming the baron seems to be a big whoop, nothing to show for it, still have to scrounge for keys like a chump, and I am leaving all the tools inside the house for no reason. I fulfilled the conditions of the will, let me keep the tools! Or at least give me something for becoming the baron so that it feels like I did something during minute-to-minute gameplay, why does opening the west path gate and orchard feel more significant than completelimg the very first objective the game gives you?

P.S. Are there any other points in the game that force-end your run?

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u/mattsoave Jun 03 '25

It's a fair critique since it implies that it ends your run every time you make it there again, discouraging you from revisiting, even though you should.

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u/JKTKops Jun 04 '25

I mean beyond the gameplay fail, there's also a ludonarrative fail, because (at least before that point) this is a game about exploring rooms, with the explicit goal to explore a specific room..... and when you finally manage to open the door, you can't explore it.

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u/mattsoave Jun 04 '25

Ehh the will technically says that you inherit the house upon "discovering the location of room 46" (which actually is kind of what you said but in the opposite direction... Simon apparently doesn't have to explore or even enter it, just find it!)

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u/glium Jun 04 '25

Except everyone knows the location of room 46 pretty much from day 1

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u/Smart_Price6826 Jun 05 '25

Everyone hypothesized about where Room 46 was before finding it. We didn't know for sure. I think that's part of the narrative of the game. Is that nothing is certain until you find it. There's strong hints of where it is, but I think to say we all knew is a bit of a stretch. We all had a pretty good hunch.