Ending Questions

[Ellixer]

I have a few questions about my ending.

Marz's governorship ends after a decade or so. Is this fixed or can it be changed? I'm guessing I needed more defense during the final battle perhaps but I'm not so sure. If so, is there a way to increase defense or am I at the mercy of randomly running into events that have the opportunity to increase defense?

Marz's romance fizzled out in the ending eventually. Again, is this fixed or nah? It seems in-character that she'd not settle down or anything but the fact that the text says you two grew apart made me think maybe this is a "bad end" variation. If so, does anyone know how to get the other variations?

Tang became depressed after her brother went missing. Where could I have found him? Is this the only factor that influences her ending (other than romance, I'd assume) or are there others?

My character's profession is pulp novelist in the ending. What caused this? My stats weren't exactly leaning in that direction so I'm not sure.

Finally I have heard there's a Golden Ending in the game. Does anyone know how to get that? I'm not one to replay games a lot so if there's like, a checklist or hints (or just plain spoilers honestly) I'd appreciate it.

Also are my memory cards important for the story or are they just gameplay? Can I just forget the ones that I don't find useful in gameplay?

[-=lLexorist=-]

Yeah you can forget memory cards that dont work well for your build. As for the golden ending i dont know what exactly would you take as ''golden'' but i think making the deal with the gardeners about your colony allowed to expand a little and reproduce and coexist with the enviroment in harmony is a pretty big factor

[Ellixer]

Somehow I entirely missed any encounter with these gardeners. Is that in the early game? I foolishly hyperfixated on a few stats in the early games.

As for the golden ending, I was referring to this quote.

"In the tradition of Rebuild 3, there will be a hard to get “good” ending that requires not just the right balance of skills and “right place, right time”, but the combined knowledge of many past lives."[northwaygames.com]

[-=lLexorist=-]

I think is after Rex and Nomi-Nomi arrives, you can encounter Sym during your expeditions in the ridge. After a few encounter he will ask you to come with him to talk to the ''gardener boss''

[-=lLexorist=-]

Sorry for spoilers in advance :$
Also for that golden ending when you are doing a new game you can save Tammy and his father, Hal and Eudicot if in your past lives you learned what happened with them. You can find alongside Tang and Instance clues about the Shimmer. Oh and algo find food for your colony.

[Yanphi]

Originally posted by -=lLexorist=-:

I think is after Rex and Nami arrives, you can encounter Sym during your expeditions in the ridge. After a few encounter he will ask you to come with him to talk to the ''gardener boss''

Yea, you need to get sym's relationship high enough for you encounter his 'boss' the overseer. I don't know how much rel you need but its quite a bit i think?

You need to explore the ridge and get past 2-3 of his events. One where he's attacked by manticores, which then forces you back to the colony and gives you the mourning status. After mourning (by doing other activities) you should encounter him again alive. You should then trigger the event where you meet the overseer. (Once you've encountered the overseer, subsequent playthroughs will allow you to request a direct meeting with the overseer from your past memories)

Followed by talks with the overseer, you can convince the overseer to work together with the colony to live in harmony with the planet, which he will then tell you to convince the others in the colony and to stand down during the attack at glow season.

I believe that you have to also convince the council to remove Lum as the governor (Part of Marzs event?) because when I went back to convince him, he didn't believe me (but I didn't thoroughly investigate this). I went back to an earlier save where I then manage to convince the council to vote for a show of no confidence in Lum and presented myself as a governor candidate (against Marz). With myself as a governor, after meeting with the overseer I was then able to talk to the council and convince them to accept the overseers deal.

BUT during glow season and when that Noct guy came to attack the colony, he gave out new conditions that the colony cannot have reproduction autonomy so we were then forced to renegotiate through a series of challenges which required you to have high enough stats in order to proceed (I don't remember which ones but one of them was animal). After succeeding in going through all 3 challenges/negotiations, you will then be given reproduction rights and to live in harmony with the planet.

NOTE: I think all this has to be done during age 19.

[-=lLexorist=-]

Originally posted by Yanphi:

Originally posted by -=lLexorist=-:

I think is after Rex and Nami arrives, you can encounter Sym during your expeditions in the ridge. After a few encounter he will ask you to come with him to talk to the ''gardener boss''

Yea, you need to get sym's relationship high enough for you encounter his 'boss' the overseer. I don't know how much rel you need but its quite a bit i think?

You need to explore the ridge and get past 2-3 of his events. One where he's attacked by manticores, which then forces you back to the colony and gives you the mourning status. After mourning (by doing other activities) you should encounter him again alive. You should then trigger the event where you meet the overseer. (Once you've encountered the overseer, subsequent playthroughs will allow you to request a direct meeting with the overseer from your past memories)

Followed by talks with the overseer, you can convince the overseer to work together with the colony to live in harmony with the planet, which he will then tell you to convince the others in the colony and to stand down during the attack at glow season.

I believe that you have to also convince the council to remove Lum as the governor (Part of Marzs event?) because when I went back to convince him, he didn't believe me (but I didn't thoroughly investigate this). I went back to an earlier save where I then manage to convince the council to vote for a show of no confidence in Lum and presented myself as a governor candidate (against Marz). With myself as a governor, after meeting with the overseer I was then able to talk to the council and convince them to accept the overseers deal.

BUT during glow season and when that Noct guy came to attack the colony, he gave out new conditions that the colony cannot have reproduction autonomy so we were then forced to renegotiate through a series of challenges which required you to have high enough stats in order to proceed (I don't remember which ones but one of them was animal). After succeeding in going through all 3 challenges/negotiations, you will then be given reproduction rights and to live in harmony with the planet.

NOTE: I think all this has to be done during age 19.

Also with Tang you get an event to create a biological weapon against Instance's will, you can persuade her to drop that idea and later persuade the governor to stop threatening Instance with the evidence you collected with Tang.

On another point you can stop Dys's bomb if you have enough relationship with him

[Ellixer]

Thanks people.

In my first run Tang didn't need much convincing. I discovered what she was working on first, and when it's brought to her it's portrayed as she's basically in the same boat as Instance and was coerced into doing the research. Wonder what changes that.