She is.
I think of it like this:
In regular zombie movies (and many modern horror movies), in the case of two main characters, they tend to last longer than anyone else. Everyone else is fodder except for them... until sometime in the second half. Some time between the second half and the finale, one of the main characters will die
especially if one is a guy and one is a girl. You're the main character and the girl becomes the second main character immediately once the third scene starts.
With this all strung together basically being a short story, it's just the usual formula but very condensed down. As a result, she survives longer the others but is ultimately doomed (since the point is your survival as the main character). There is no way to save her because she has to die.
Plus, she's bait. As I learned firsthand, the probability of a guy trying to stick with the pretty girl in this scenario is pretty high and while it works for you at first, if you stick at it, you screw yourself over in the end.
The first time I played it, I followed her into the basement and then tried to save her. I
knew going into the basement was a bad idea since the family of the house wasn't present when they arrived, and I was proven right. My original mistake was to try and save the girl. Had this game been designed for a full length movie, I would have succeeded, but since it was a short, I was doomed for failure. And my gut was telling me that the entire time.
My successful run through went the same route, but I abandoned her to the zombies and went solo. I immediately abandoned the idea of taking the bike because it obviously wasn't going to start (proved my point on a later curious run through), so I had to choose between the woods and the road. I chose the woods. I survived, but the ending was sketchy and would require more movie time than what they had.
The road seemed like an iffy choice, which is why I didn't pick it. Afterall, there would be traffic accidents and a high likelihood of zombies like there always is in the movies. And that's exactly what I found, but it turned out to be the better choice because while my survival on my own in that scenario means death for the character, there so happened to be other survivors that noticed me and they brought with them the best ending. It didn't guarantee my safety either but it was clearly a better ending than the woods choice.
Still, I think I proved to myself that as long as I could stick to my gut and not try to be a hero, I could survive a zombie apocalypse.
