What is the terrible secret? What is more dangerous than fire? I'm not really certain about the answer to either of these questions. That's why using them all at once is important, and why the neighbor items are not important. The 4 catalogue items are 'special' because each one causes the "face" in the fireplace to react to them, no other items do that, not even the neighbor items. However, here's some evidence I've collected. I feel a little silly going through all this trouble, but can you blame me? The ending leaves a lot of questions unanswered and gives the impression that keeping the items are of importance. Again, no change, there is only the 1 ending. So, 4th playthrough, again without the hug ticket, I kept all 5 neighbor items and triggered the ending while keeping them un-burnt in my inventory. The only way you could possibly keep all 6 items to the end is if you max your inventory space before you get the 4th catalogue.Īt the end of the 3rd playthrough, I tried burning the neighbor's items in place of the catalogue items in hopes it would trigger a seperate ending, nothing happened. The third playthrough I kept all 5 items given to me by my neighbor, but not the hug ticket.
That makes a minor change to the ending, but not much. The second time I played through the game I tried it keeping only the hug ticket. They'll just clutter up your inventory and make things slow and un-fun, they have no use besides burning. Short and Spoiler free: Don't bother keeping any items given to you through the mail except perhaps the hug ticket.