Alors, si tu comprend bien l'anglais je viens de trouve rune intérprétation assez proche de la mienne e qui pourrait peut-être t'aider un peu :

You play this game as James inside his own mind, being the main protagonist of the “film” as Lily’s flame (her soul within him) and James’ flame (his own, the director) fight to see who gets to keep his body.

What you go through is an artistic, fucked up and hard to understand interpretation of various memories of James’ life while in each act except the fifth, you get to make an important choice: You either kill off Lily and move on from James’ painful memories and guilt of the past, or fulfill the promise he made to lily, of getting her back so she can always be with him, forever.

Without going into too much unnecessary detail: James’ mother died giving birth to him, while his father was an war veteran who lost an eye. Lily was James’ older sister and the two were very close. Their father was rather abusive, blaming James of his mother’s death due to being born and always saying he was worthless. Because of this, James developed a bit of an obsession with his sister, due to the fact he idolized her so very much. As their life went on, his father owned a movie theatre where he’d always show the same pirate movie, one that Lily enjoyed and began to role play with James.

At a certain point, Lily falls from her bed and hits her head, passing out for a period of time in which James thinks she’s dead. However, she comes back and says the old lily is dead and now she’s the captain.

Due to the theatre being in very shitty conditions, it burns down one night, resulting in the death of their father. It is not clear to me if Lily burns the place down or it burns by itself.. But part of me believes she burned it down.

Taking James with her, she decides to fulfill the dream that they both had: Getting away from everything and going on a journey. This way, they sneak into a ship as stowaways and hide in both the machinery area and the place where the animals are kept. This brings an issue however: They are starving and they are being chased by the guards. At one point, Lily advices James to stay behind while she goes get food, leaving him behind because he’s messed up before and almost gets them caught. However, after she leaves, she doesn’t seem to come back for a long long time. In this time, James panics, until he remembers what Lily taught him: Whenever he feels alone and as if she isn’t around, he just has to listen to her voice inside of her. Furthermore, this is the first time when a voice inside of him speaks.. This voice, I believe, is actually Lily within him (only he doesn’t know it yet)

She says that it’s his fault she went missing and that the only way to get her back is by making use and regaining her flame. However, Lily eventually does come back, but something happened. Based off of imagery and things lily says, I believe she was raped by a director who was in the same ship as them. As it turns out, there WAS a movie being filmed in that ship, with a very weird director who was in charge. There is a part in the game where a two shadows seem to be struggling until one of them overpowers the other and stabs them many times. Although I am not sure of this, I think that perhaps Lily actually killed the director after she was raped.

Once she comes back she lashes out at James, blaming him for not being there, saying she hates him. And it is either this same night or soon after that a storm hits the ship. James and Lily try to escape but only James reaches the boat while Lily is left behind. Right before she dies, she tells him that she’ll always be there and will find him again.

It is after this that James is left alone and one day, is found in a bench by a famous journalist or maybe a famous actor, one who speaks in the voice notes that you can find throughout the game and listen in the room. There, James says he doesn’t know where he belongs, but that his sister will be there with him forever.

Although I don’t know what happens between this time.. If he’s taken in by the person interviewing him or what happens exactly, James loses his personality, fighting his guilt and hatred of himself (He hates James) by becoming an actor and not only playing the characters he does, but also living as them throughout the time. He BECOMES those characters, he takes their “flames”

But there is one flame, Lily’s that he’s not able to fully take. Because in order to become lily and therefore bring her back, James has to die. At the same time, if James wants to move on from his past and the pain within it, he has to let the guilt go, and forget lily. “Let go off reason and follow instinct. One life outweighs the other.”

Basically, if you follow reason and tap into your emotions throughout the game, Lily takes over because he can’t move on from the guilt he feels.

If you can’t decide throughout the game, the monster that chases after you (which is a representation of James’ lack of personality) remains and you find yourself in front of the unfinished version of lily talking to you and saying you’ll come back once you get the flame.

If you follow the director (who is tough and bold, but overall wants to help James because it’s his conscience ) he is able to move on and finally become himself, no longer doubting or wanting to change who he really is.

Unlike Lily’s ending, he doesn’t kill his old self, his bad memories and pain. He moves past them and accepts them, letting them be a part of him as well.

In the end, James’ ending IS the good ending. Even if both end with this shot of the box behind shaking. That box represents his fears, his past, his trauma. In both versions, they always stay there because they are a part of him. Only in Lily’s, it means the past will haunt him. But in James’ it means that it’s within him, but he is aware of it and accepts it.

Perso, j'ai été emmerdé d'avoir eu la fin "voldemort" car j'avais vraiment l'impression d'être passé à côté d'une vraie conclusion, là où la "mauvaise fin" du premier épisode était à mon sens la meilleur et la plus subtile...

En attendant The medium, je découvre les jeux du studio bloober team et même si niveau gameplay c'est le strict minimum (plus des jeux ambiancales et narratifs que du survival-horror/aventure), je suis tout à fait convaincu de leurs savoir-faire sur le plan artistique, j'aime beaucoup les images et allusions utilisés dans leurs jeux pour dépeindre la psyché humaine ainsi que la libre intérprétation qui est donné aux joueurs pour comprendre le scénario, et j'espère que ce point-là sera autant travaillé dans the medium