Video Game Adaptations of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (1890) is a short story by the American writer and Civil War veteran Ambrose Bierce.[1] Described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature",[2] it was originally published by The San Francisco Examiner on July 13, 1890, and was first collected in Bierce's book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891).
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This one is iffy, as the storytelling is vague and nonsensical, but it's close enough for me.
In the bad ending.
I haven't played this but ZAP ROWSDOWER! said it should be here and I'm not going to argue with ZAP ROWSDOWER
Your character and the events of the game are imagined by Ethan as he's dying, so it's worth a mention here despite not being strictly from Ethan's perspective.
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@ZapRowsdower I think the main criteria is that it has to be a hallucination in the protagonist's dying moments, and that fact is obscured from the player and revealed as a twist at the end. Eternal Sonata has the parts that show you Chopin on his deathbed, so I don't think it counts. Vanishing of Ethan Carter miiiight fit, but that's a weird one, since you're playing as an imagined character. SH1's bad ending is a great pull, though, that's definitely going in. Haven't ever heard of Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass so I'll take your word for it.
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