Suggestion: After-Ending Save (Final Boss/Ending Spoilers)

[mayonnaise on an escalator]

Please give us the option to save after the final boss. Having a 99.9% complete file is pretty sad. Having a locked entry in the bestiary is also pretty sad.

You actually *can* see the bestiary entry for the final boss... but you have to quickly pause after the final blow and before you lose control. Weird to bother making one if you don't give us the chance to save with it.

Regardless, the ability to have a save file with a 100% full map and 100% full bestiary would be very welcome in a very percentage-based game like this :).

[Lebe Frei]

Yeah this doesn't make any sense to me. I also ended with 100% and then 99.9%... I mean there isn't even a warning before the boss. If I want to put the effort in I now have to go back and redo getting the Mithril armor, and I had 2 or 3 meteoric (?) ingots drop that I lost...

I understand the ending says the monsters were all cleared out, so either give us a NG+ save or a "This will send you back to before you beat the boss!" save, please!

[Bit Kid]

Thanks for the feedback, please let me give it some thought.I also know some people will want to load the game back up and continue exploring the world as it was, so I'm not sure yet what the best path is.

[mayonnaise on an escalator]

That's why my suggestion was a choice - "Do you wish to save? WARNING: Blah blah blah".

Although what exactly is changed when the final boss is killed? You could even make it so the final boss respawns no matter what.

Of course, it's up to y'all, but yeah, people get reeeeeeally attached to their percentages in games like this, and having it impossible to have a 100% save file will make a lot of people sad, haha.

[Bit Kid]

Yea I think that might actually be the answer.

[Sergeant_Braken]

New Game+ would be great. Almost all modern Metroidvanias have it nowadays.

[Little Nemo]

I would love to be able to continue the game after beating the Big Boss.

[Bit Kid]

I have thought about a New Game+, but what do you think the parameters would be? It seemed kind of boring to run through and slaughter everything with the most powerful weapons. I feel like a proper one would have new equipment, new harder monsters, etc, but of course that's out of our capability for the time being.

[Serow]

I would like to see the 100% save file playable after the final boss, as well.

As far as New Game +... Perhaps having an option in Karthas once you've beaten the final boss, probably from the mayor or perhaps the magic saleswoman, to enter NG+ with your current equipment and items, and a new seed.

[Little Nemo]

You could always do what was done for example in the Hollow Knight - after defeating the final boss and upon reloading the clear save we are placed in the latest save point, and the boss is added to the bestiary.

For the New Game+, perhaps you could return to the roots that somewhere in the Mines a new door is unlocked and the area inside has an infinite amount of floors and on each floor enemies are harder and harder and the equipment they drop is better and better.

You could also go Boktai (Bokura no Taiyou) that on each floor one of the enemies always drops a key that is needed to unlock a door to the next floor, So players would not kill enemies mindlessly, but to find the key.

[Bit Kid]

I've added the save after win and resume from last point to our todo list, we should have it in soon. What you describe sounds similar to an Arcade mode we are planning for a future update ;)