[MASSIVE SPOILER THREAD] The end

[thepaleking]

Also, in Daniel's ending, he really does seem to be the exact same egotistical prick who wrote his last note (the one you find in the Inner Sanctum). It has to be all about him and he has to be the hero of the story. It doesn't even occur to him that Castle Brennenburg could have had any other purpose than to be a personal purgatory for him or that simply forgetting everything and giving Alexander to the Shadow might not have absolved him of every horrible thing he'd done.

He doesn't even face his own past deeds, he just refuses to acknowledge them. As far as I'm concerned, post-amnesia Daniel is just as bad as pre-amnesia Daniel was.

You could argue that the entire game, his dark descent, was the atonement for his past deeds. Having to go through that kind of torment and horror is a fitting punishment for what he had done. As far as being egotistical, maybe so, but every character in the game was acting for their own gain: Alexander wanted to get himself home, Agrippa wanted to live forever/travel to another world, Daniel wanted to survive. His justification for having been absolved of his sins by the killing of Alexander is that, though he may have killed many people himself, Alexander killed far more (I mean, its possible Alexander killed hundreds or thousands), and with his death those souls were put to rest. Yeah he may be egotistical, but shit, its hard not to put yourself first when seemingly everything was trying to kill you.