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Heavy spoilers: Were any Phantasmagoria alternate endings planned?

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After the final act in Phantasmagoria, the ending is, well, rather lackluster. All Adrienne does is walk out of the house. It shows her slowly walking (presumably toward her car) with a tranced look on her face for about 15 seconds, and then we're greeted with a cool song and the ending credits. That's it. So, was a longer ending either planned or perhaps even filmed and cut? Since the game was delayed multiple times, maybe Roberta Williams wanted to do a longer ending but didn't want to delay it any more than it already was?

Another thing is that there are so many ways to get to the end, yet only one ending. You can take shortcuts in Chapter 7, and completely miss several scenes. Doesn't matter in the end though, so this leads me to believe that alternate endings were at least planned. Finally, was there ever a plan to save Don? It just seems sad since the craziness wasn't really his fault, since he was possessed by the demons that were released accidently.
 
The only person likely to know is Roberta Williams so maybe try contacting her. Nothing seems to have been filmed since the only elements scrapped for runtime concerns dealt with normal family life, according to an old interview.
 
I'd think that was that was the only ending planned, there might have been more, but honestly I'm not that angry about it, not everything needs a happy ending. Ultimately, it's canon because it's mentioned in the second game.

It's not the Dark Seed 2 ending at least.
 
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