Road 96: How To Save John
With all the choices to be made and all the people the various player characters can interact with over the seven-hour runtime of Road 96, it can be difficult to figure out exactly which path to take to rescue any of the major characters that can meet their demise in the final moments of the election day attack. Major spoilers for the plot and ending of Road 96 follow from here!
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John, or Papa Bear as he likes to be called, is a genuinely wonderful character that has a dark past with the Black Brigades, a fatherly protective role with Alex, and a burgeoning romance with Fanny. However, upon discovering his identity as one of the Black Brigades in the finale, Fanny ends up shooting and killing John in the majority of the endings to the game. To avoid this, a specific ending must be achieved following these steps.
Throughout the game, there will be times that the player characters get to choose how to respond to other characters' statements. There are three general ways that the player can respond to these queries, shifting the balance of which ending the playthrough will have.
Choosing answers that pertain to staying away from events, referred to as the “loner” path is one option. Another is to incite revolution violently against the tyrannical Tyrak, leader of Petria. The third option is to influence people around the country to vote for a peaceful change in the regime, trying to get people to vote for Florres over Tyrak in the upcoming election.
If saving John in the endgame is what players are looking for, they’ll have to stick to option three as they progress through the game. The “loner” ending and “revolution” ending both result in his death at the hands of Fanny. Only the
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