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The real kick comes primarily from the bigger threat at play, and a race to get her 'safe' before whatever is destroying souls can take her death as easily as it apparently took her life. Each vignette brings a completely different vibe to things, managing to be bitter without descending into schmaltzy manipulation even when dealing with magnets for that kind of thing - a little girl's ghost for instance hitting Rosa and Joey harder than others, but not for the most part treated as all that special. Epiphany shows that yet again, not simply tying up the big plot points with enviable deftness, but retaining the series' compassionate core even as it draws to a close.

I've praised Gilbert many times over the years for his writing chops, and still maintain that he's one of the best working in the field right now.

UNBOUND WORLDS APART GOOD ENDING SERIES

It is for the best that Epiphany is drawing a line under the series at this point, as the basic mechanics here have become more than a little routine (to the point that Rosa is no longer knocked on her ass every time), but they stories are inventive and well written as ever - the twist for a seemingly happy prostitute working for New York's most amiable pimp being especially interesting, and the overall mystery once revealed both effective and clever. Until the big plot kicks in, things are business as usual for the series - find spook, find spook's problem, solve it as best as it can be solved, then escort the newly-aware soul to whatever waits beyond the big swirly vortex thing in the sky.

The investigation soon ends up being deeply rooted in the series' overall myth arc though, with the return of Madeline, many answers to things have been hanging over the series since the start, and a number of plot points that are only going to ring true having followed Rosa's journey so far - particularly one major thing in the ending that's either going to come across as heartwarming or utter bullshit depending entirely on whether or not you played one of the previous games. It's the best instalment of the series so far, and does for the most part tell a standalone story - Rosa's now fully embraced quest to find trapped spirits in New York and help them to move on taking a serious turn for the dark when their souls begin getting ripped apart in front of her face. While it would technically be possible to jump into the series with Epiphany, I wouldn't recommend doing so. I'm going to miss them.īut we probably shouldn't get into the ending this early, should we? No. It's a testament to just how far both Wadjet Eye and creator Dave Gilbert's writing have have come since the clever-but-janky Blackwell Legacy, excellent Unbound, slightly stumbling Convergence, and the confident, fully formed Deception from - gosh, 2011? Really? It doesn't seem that long, not least because of how easy it is to slip into new adventures with awkward psychopomp Rosa Blackwell and her ghost partner Joey. It's pretty much the perfect ending, both wrapping up and nailing a series that's been going from strength to strength since it first appeared way back in 2006. The Blackwell Epiphany isn't a good ending for the Blackwell series. It has to both raise the stakes to the point that nothing else could hope to be as fitting, to add closure after years of investment in the story and characters, and - arguably hardest of all - to stay true to the reasons that made the world give a damn about that closure in the first place. For every Breaking Bad, there's a Lost, a Dexter, a Mass Effect 3. There's little harder to write than a good ending. But does even New York's unluckiest and most underpaid medium stand a ghost of a chance of ending things on a high in this spirited finale? Here's Wot I Think. Dave Gilbert's Blackwell Legacy series finally draws a veil over itself today with its final chapter, The Blackwell Epiphany.

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