So, um, what's better about the new Ending? [Spoilers, obvs]

[jaderpansen]

Is it supposed to be the "best" one even? Frankly i don't understand jack about this game's lore but, like, in the OG "good" Ending it looks like you got straight up to heaven with all the cool bros n hoes from the first and 2nd game, cool!
And in this new one it's um... i don't even know? Crisanta goes to heaven instead and you take a walk at the beach? I mean yeah, i guess that's kinda neat, too.
Bit lost tbh.

[DoremianCleff]

I think it's just more in line with character of Penitent One. He is just an honest guy, helping people left and right. Carrying burden of their guilt and pain. So it makes sense for him to give eternal peace to pull Cristana out of Purgatory. And he is perfectly content to just chill on a beach, resting after a long day of work.

It's net possitive in the world, so to speak.

[Rubyeyed]

Crisanta is my fav character thanks to the duel in B1 and after later on after expansions all the help she gave us. So, in the end it was all worth it to give her the good ending.

For me the beach part looked like the penitent one drowned himself. Dropped his gear and just did the deed. Maybe that path in the sand leading straight to the wates is so suggestive, idk. OR maybe he is just having a swim, who knows.

[Godsheal Powerloader]

The thing is that the penitent one has been made a holy figure through his deeds, but because of that, his penitence can never end. In B1 e ends up dying because the holy power that kept sustaining him is gone and when it got wished back by the couple, the penitent came back alongside it. But the thing is, penitent is just a dude, he is not a god or a heavenly figure. His conflicts end up forcing this role upon him in the end and he becomes just that: A symbol for suffering. When crisanta takes over from him by slaying the incarnate devotion herself, she ascends as the symbol of penitence (which is still better than, well, being exiled in purgatory or something. She was dead already, unlike penitent who could still live) and as such, penitent can at last cast the sword and capirote away and end his penitence.