Thread: Cannot understand/translate some texts in game (Sakura Spirit)

7. Made it out of the house. "Made it" here means "got", or "managed to get". They never managed to leave the burning house. I guess phrasing the sentence with "made it" focuses more on the completion, and success, but you could just as well say "Never got out"

Originally Posted by xXHoax

7. Made it out of the house. "Made it" here means "got", or "managed to get". They never managed to leave the burning house. I guess phrasing the sentence with "made it" focuses more on the completion, and success, but you could just as well say "Never got out"

Text: (Some girl) I don't know exactly what happened, but there was a big fire, and my parents got trapped inside our house. They never made it out. So yeah, don't tell me I am not....
Can't understand one more thing about it. Why is `nevern` used here? As I remember from textbooks, `never` almost always used with Perfect Tense. Also, does `The never made it out` in reality equal to `They didn't make it out`, i.e. `Они так и не смогли выбраться`?