Wow, there's an ending to Slay The Princess that I don't know about?! Just how many endings the fiend has? I think I found 4 before deciding that those war probably all of them and stopped playing. Now you say there's at least one that I missed? Gotta go back there and spin that wheel of possibilities some more it seems!

"finding beauty in possible inaccuracies" -- ha ha, everybody who played Pathologic with the old translation and then was slightly disappointed with the new one, even though it was obviously more accurate and way easier to follow, will tell you that that's totally a thing!

Besides, thank you for your kind words! Hopefully the Google Translate results aren't too weird, but finding beauty in possible inaccuracies or fallacies is also a valuable ability...I think :D

That's an insightful perspective! The old road and the path in the woods, both constitute a kind of cycle while stretching...
I'm reminded of another thematic similarity between these two games: the artificially imposed separation of the concept. In Slay The Princess , The Narrator, in an attempt to avert destruction, divides the concept of "change" into The Shifting Mound and The Long Quiet . This brings to mind the Heart of Darkness in Darkest Dungeon - how it is described as both the creator and destroyer. It prompts the theory that the Light might merely be a result of humanity's attempt to separate these concepts, and the Heart and Light might be the same thing after all. The cyclic nature of killing the Heart, only for it to undergo inevitable rebirth, appears to be similar to the "you're on a path in the wood..." ending...I apologize if this sounds too far-fetched.

You describe the game beautifully (if Google Translate is any indication :), and I see the theme of being on a path applies here as well, after you had just used it wonderfully in your Slay the Princess review. We're on a path at all times, being it in the woods or to our salvation!