Like I said last time, Prey ends with us either “saving” Talos-1 or nuking the station, and then we get a post-credits scene where we learn the entire game was a simulation. We’re actually a ball of Typhon cells that have been implanted with the memories of Morgan Yu, and allowed to experience a simulation of her struggles aboard the station.
This reveal creates an extra layer of possible confusion, because we now have an overabundance of characters named “Morgan”.
- The original person that worked on Talos-1 and studied the Typhon.
- The person who originally fought the Typhon in the real world. We don’t know what happened to her, although I guess we have to assume she died somehow.
- The virtual person recreated from the memories of #2. This is the version of the character that was controlled by the player.
- The ball of Typhon cells that’s been tricked into thinking it’s Morgan Yu. Arguably this is the same as #3, but this reveal means that we might want to make a distinction between the two.
In this series, I’ve been referring to #1 as “Old Morgan”. To help us keep track of these different versions, I’m going to give the name “Morphon” to #4, the Morgan-Typhon hybrid.
If you’re still confused, I’m sorry. This is as clear as I can make it. The writer is really throwing us a curveball here. Again, I think that a reveal this big needs to appear BEFORE the credits, and we need to be given a little space to process it. This post-credits replacement of the plot is trying to fit too big an idea into too small a space.
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