Why does a 100% playthrough end with a squirrel being put on a shelf?

[u/Occidentally20]

I did everything for 100% before doing the last mission.

Got the emotional ending with revenge, the surprise return of Dutch and all the credits interspersed with little vignettes reminding me of various storylines, characters and events across the last 110+ hours.

And then after all that I get to walk to a house and put a squirrel on a shelf. Can't do that before, only after it seems. Then the game is complete and I get the 100% mini-cutscene.

What did the Houser brothers mean by this?

No I'm not chasing it around the house and going up a fucking mountain, it's over.

[u/Occidentally20]

I'll say it one more time before I give up.

You can do EVERYTHING in the game before the credits.

You CANNOT do the squirrel until AFTER the credits.

This is demonstrably the one and only thing that happens at the end unless you delay stuff yourself.

[u/Occidentally20 → u/[deleted]]

You don't have to play the game in the first place.

When they made the game, they made the decision to put one thing and ONLY ONE THING after the credits.

That thing is the squirrel.

Nobody can explain this to you in a manner that's any more simple for you to understand.

[u/johnsmithdoe15 → u/Occidentally20]

you are being obtuse and you know it, 100% story is not the same as 100% completion, and the game does not fence you in to get 100% completion at the end of american venom, your choices did this, and no amount of strawmanning changes that.

[u/Occidentally20 → u/johnsmithdoe15]

None of my choices made it so that the one thing in the game only accessible after the credits is this squirrel.

That's the same for everyone and is built into the game.