Let's talk about the ending... *Spoilers*

The story is far from simple, from a writers perspective anyway. people are so ready to write off the story to this game because the graphics are a hommage to the super nintendo era, and not a next gen release. The people who wrote the story for the game put a lot of work into actually making the outcome based - not on the users actions in the game, but the internal determinations the player has to make about the story itself. for example death of both the main characters at the hands of the other. an obvious misdirection set by the writers

Due to the use of the hallucinations, and the use of the 'unreliable narrator' perspective in this games story suggest that both characters, biker and jacket survive - because in their alternative stories, the only real opposing facts is their deaths, and since once could say both story arcs are told in the perspective of the main character, in both instances either character can Lie about what happened, to claim they killed the other one would negate the leverage the "50 blessings" had over that person, believing they're dead - note how even while working against them, biker (and jacket) take the phone messages - even after "killing" his respective counterparts. giving reason to believe that both characters did not in fact fight at phonehom, instead recruiting him to stop them. (notice how biker interrogates another masked character in an earlier cut scene - and does NOT bash his brains in) with this evidence, and other slights including jackets interactions with the clerk after "killing" biker (Jackets story is told mostly through flashbacks, and the faults in the visuals in jackets cut scene after "killing" biker seem to signify the fact that he's lying to others or possibly himself.) this is also supported by the fact that the final moments are not jacket but the biker cruising into the distance.

In short by "lying" about the others death, It frees the other one to fully satisfy the desires of their story arc. i.e. Jacket gets to avenge the death of his Hooker girlfriend, with no care of going after the "50 blessings", while Biker can go about tracking down the people behind the violence, as he originally planned.

so when you boil it down, expect co op in the next game.

normally I could care less about posting on forums about a game's story, especially a 5 dollar indie-style game, but this one stands out like a Tim Dorsey novel. its a eye catching, and enveloping little world they created in this game, making the player actually WANT to figure out what's going on - and then being deliberately stingy with concrete answers, but the tidbits you acquire leave you with a sense of satisfaction rarely seen these days. a good cryptic story line can make a game, like it made this one for me.


(another side note for the people to daft to figure this out , even though its really obvious - the masked people in the dark room that jacket talks to periodically are manifestations of his subconscious, attempting to wake him from the flashback coma he's currently in. each figure representing a different internal issue the character is wrestling with - the death of his girlfriend - the horse, the killing of countless people - the chicken, and his desire for revenge - the owl )
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damn Nelson Mandela ! you smell so good.

That, in my opinion, makes this game so charming. the fact that they dupe 75% of the audience into thinking its just another low res indie skull bash game, where the plot is as 2d as the game itself, however. they wrapped up a pretty engaging story for those who have the intellect or eye for details to pick out the tidbits of actual information left by the creators to hint at the deeper meaning of the story.
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damn Nelson Mandela ! you smell so good.