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Years later, Yoko Taro did it anyway and sold millions of copies.

Oh come on now, it was at least somewhat bittersweet and hopeful in the end.

"Wish for them to survive?"

"Do you have any interest in helping the weak?"

"Do you still wish to rescue someone - a total stranger - in spite of this?"

At which point the entirety of humanity is dead, the project to ostensibly reseed it is destroyed, any emergent alternative lifeforms have been eliminated (by you), and then the game literally deletes your save file.

It's closure, I guess, but it's no happy ending

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