Which ending did you get first and why?

[Not a Teddy Bear]

Seems a lot more people choose a peaceful world ending, kinda curious to see the opinions behind the endings. How many people chose the new queen ending first instead? Which ended up being your favorite?

[ioe8292]

I choose the Peaceful world first because the moment you got the choices to embrace or kill her i was like

"Damn, this lady tryna kill me but she is my mother and i kinda spend like 7 hour trying to get her body back so maybe if i embrace her i could get a happy ending"

And then it a cutscene where you just hug her and the floor start collapsing

*end credit rolls*

peak

[gort]

I chose A Peaceful World first because it's one of the few truly and purely kind actions that you see in the game. Of course, there are others that you can take:
- Passing the hidden message to Gilli-Velli to get her to abandon her vengeance
- Telling Hati about the secret spot to hide away in
- Giving Yoyo the supplement

The vast majority of other events either end tragically or are downright evil:
- Basically tricking and giving up Hati to the church to be crucified
- Getting Calrad killed
- Either route in Yodo/Vorg ending in sororicide
- Gilli-Velli being consumed by her vengeance and nightmares and presumably killing herself
- Aja getting killed by Yodo
- Sheol, the Divine Child being left behind

I kind of viewed Nehma in the same vein that I saw Gilli-Velli in her own questline: in the end, a person consumed by vengeance and wanting revenge and power. But that's the pattern of the world.

Was she trying to end the world, warranting being skewered by Eden? Sure. But the world is a ruthless, cutthroat, and tragic one. Nests crumble and backstab each other in a chess game of the world's politics, gauging each other's usefulness. As demonstrated in Yodo/Vorg, the allegiance to a colony, government, etc. is stronger than your own bond to a "sister."

Should a world like that go on? Is a world like that tenable?

My little seedling may have been born for a selfish purpose: to rip everything back for Nehma. I saw the embrace as just a wildcard decision, the fruits of which aren't truly known. It's one last embrace at oblivion, before that caress of death. But I'm a sucker for hope and love in a bleak world, and the only way something as ruthless as this cycle ends is when you try something different.

[navalops]

I chose the Queen Ending. I had nothing but hatred for Nehma, but I was a little surprised that the ending was different from what I expected.

[Hydremajor117]

I think peaceful world implies the world basically dies with Nemah and the Player Character

Nemah is the only one who can create seedlings that turn into queens and thus bring about new nymphs

so the New Queen ending implies the Nymphs are free of Nemah's control and system, possibly leading to the closest thing to a "new world order"

[Aeby]

Originally posted by Hydremajor117:

I think peaceful world implies the world basically dies with Nemah and the Player Character

Nemah is the only one who can create seedlings that turn into queens and thus bring about new nymphs

so the New Queen ending implies the Nymphs are free of Nemah's control and system, possibly leading to the closest thing to a "new world order"

I might be naive but I choose to take it at face value kinda

we know that Nehma was deliberately causing trouble for her amusement, I think from our travels throughout all 3 layers of Hod, having met many people in all sorts of desperate situations, we can choose to end things not with violence but a gentle embrace. What happens after that is anyones guess but I don't think the achievement name is trying to insinuate all of Hod fell apart, I think just The Ark/lowest level was buried, a symbolic burying of the past along with the removal of Nehma's chaotic and violent influence that eventually leads to the nymphs building a better society.

[glance_reviver]

Please forgive the poor writing due to machine translation.

I chose the peaceful world at first.
Because I avoided killing my parents. However, I was confused by the ending that followed.

It's a little difficult to answer when asked which ending I liked. I will hide the following sentence because it is a spoiler.

I want the ending where she becomes a new queen. The other option suggested the possibility of Hod's collapse, so I wanted to avoid that. I liked nymphs like Yoyo and Gilly Bell, so I wanted them to survive. However, even if the nymphs escape from Nema's control, there will be a lot of challenges. I think the hardships will continue in the future. Eden disappeared at a crucial moment. It's a total nuisance.

But she left us with the choice. That is also a fact. Accept her plan or oppose it. Live as the seed of hope for the nymphs, or die together as the children of Nema. The choice is ours. I don't think there is any superiority or inferiority in that choice.

[Solaire of Belaire]

Peaceful World was my first, mostly because I could sympathize with her being split into several pieces. Probably because alot of JP indie projects I've played seem to have themes of cybernetic gods being dismemembered out of hatred or jealousy. So when the game asked me to kill or embrace, I figured "Well, she was nothing but nice to me, explaining everything I asked and helping me help her, why not ease her suffering in her final moments?" Before everything collapsed around us.

The New Queen ending felt more like linking the bonfire, becoming the next Gwyn, Lord of Cinder. Its not fixing the world, just perpetuating its cycles of pain and grief by becoming the new Queen and taking over. You dont even kill her in the cutscene, you just kind of kneel over next to her and become the tree.

[LaffuBread]

I choose embrace her because hugs

[KDR_11k]

Figured she had learned her lesson so I picked embrace. Not like the game explains what either option will lead to.

[Meconis]

I was still in disbelief of scene of refusing to return the eye so chose embrace her as a most charecter-accurate choise

[Not a Teddy Bear]

I chose peaceful world, personally. The main character nymph seemed conflicted about the entire thing considering the dialogue triggered from the twins. It just felt like that final act of kindness is what was needed. Desired. After all that pain and hurt. It was likely something Nymph's had never done before. A final embrace.

[Not a Teddy Bear]

Originally posted by Meconis:

I was still in disbelief of scene of refusing to return the eye so chose embrace her as a most charecter-accurate choise

Well, it's not like there was much choice since it fused with you. Nehma basically used the main character. It was foreshadowed. Your character can't be there to serve Nehma if she's dead after all. After everything you see, there's no reason to die for Nehma, even if the main character doesn't want to fight her.

[Dunkag]

I'll be honest I didn't even choose an ending. I may have just hit her with Sabi and accidentally ended the game. Apparently it counted as New Queen ending. If there was a cut-scene meant to play, I may have entirely skipped it by doing this as credits rolled immediately.

[Not a Teddy Bear]

Originally posted by Dunkag:

I'll be honest I didn't even choose an ending. I may have just hit her with Sabi and accidentally ended the game. Apparently it counted as New Queen ending. If there was a cut-scene meant to play, I may have entirely skipped it by doing this as credits rolled immediately. :CirnoMofumofu:

I never even thought of that lol, secret variant ending, just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ destroy nehma lmao

[Meconis]

Originally posted by Not a Teddy Bear:

Originally posted by Meconis:

I was still in disbelief of scene of refusing to return the eye so chose embrace her as a most charecter-accurate choise

Well, it's not like there was much choice since it fused with you. Nehma basically used the main character. It was foreshadowed. Your character can't be there to serve Nehma if she's dead after all. After everything you see, there's no reason to die for Nehma, even if the main character doesn't want to fight her.

From which point player charecter cares about literally any of that? Exactly, from the moment of end of the game when she suddenly feels like not returning the eye. There was no narrative that went here, it just happened. I was absolutely petrified by the scale of not caring about story from devs so took the one that assumed that didn't happen.