Talk:General Lore/@comment-27159882-20160429072213/@comment-24055167-20160429225555

It's info i got from the devs and it stays as it is. I'm not gonna make things up just because some time bending theory that they tried to include here doesn't make sens if you beat the final boss. They don't agree with eachother on what the lore is anyway. As an example in Gungeon you kill the past then escape from the Gungeon but the game doesn't uninstall itself cos you "beat it". The character you did it with is still standing there ready to be played again even tho he's supposedly free and his journey is over. Same thing happens here. You kill the person responsible for everything and "the struggle is over", that's where the "story" ends and it makes sense in that regard. If you wanna immerse yourself completely with how things go then delete your game files when you kill the Captain.

And if you really want some sensible explanation then here, a theory i just made up. You kill the Captain and the ending cutscene plays. In that cutscene your character sits down in place of the Captain... then you play another run, get to the same spot and huh... there's another Captain... How do you know that the Captain is always the same person ? Maybe it's your last character that cured it's mutation, wears armor so you don't recognize him/her, uses a voice changer and tries to kill you - tries to end the cycle that just repeats itself... repeats itself... repeats itself...

The game doesn't explain anything, including the ending so it's for you to interpret how it ends really.