The ending

[Seb]

WTF just happend?

[RetroBlast]

...to be resolved in DLC, I hope?

[Professor Hugedix]

you got eated by a dragon.

[ULTRA]

Movies and video games became trailers, and vice versa

[Wasabi Wei]

Wang is going to get pooped out all refreshed and Chi-tastic as a reward for helping Kamiko, obv. :p

I look froward to Smith making a reappearance at some point now that Kamiko has attained her final form of chi badassery.

[Joe Coffee]

Wang is so going to get it on with Kamiko. Or vise-versa.

[Netsa]

Just completed the game and need somewhere to vent without creating a new thread.

Yeah, that ending was really bad and way too sudden. It brings up way too many questions. This game didn't even very cleanly continue the story from the first game, I'm not at all hopeful for a DLC explanation, much less a continuation in SW3.

How was Xing even able to do any soul bending? How did Kimiko turn into a dragon? There's no basis for that given that was just her soul, and Ameonna never changed into a giant monster on her own. Maybe that wasn't Kimiko and it was just some random shadow dragon, since the gate was just floating crumbled for an extended period of time during that cutscene? Kimiko's body was destroyed and her soul had no vessel, so how was she able to do literally anything to the gate at all? If we could seal it by just chucking her soul at the gate haphazardly, why didn't we do that earlier? Who freakin' knows? It's ticking me off.

[Nu-men von Kryt !!XD]

Everyone including author of the topic tends to miss one important fact Mezu needed only the "Soul" to reseal the gates. Physical body was destroyed but it did not matter since Kamikos soul was residing inside Lo Wang. And lastly no one ever said that to do bending you have to had hands. And technically you can say that Xing and Mezu are to some extent Demon Gods.
Another thing is that once Kamiko became one with the Gate she probably did acended in "power department" of what she can do and the Dragon was manifestation of her power.

[Jork]

Pretty sure he'll just cut the dragon's stomach open and burst out anyway.

As much as it enjoyed sucking down some Wang, we all know too much Wang when we see it.

[Netsa]

Originally posted by Nu-men von Kryt !!XD:

Everyone including author of the topic tends to miss one important fact Mezu needed only the "Soul" to reseal the gates. Physical body was destroyed but it did not matter since Kamikos soul was residing inside Lo Wang. And lastly no one ever said that to do bending you have to had hands. And technically you can say that Xing and Mezu are to some extent Demon Gods.
Another thing is that once Kamiko became one with the Gate she probably did acended in "power department" of what she can do and the Dragon was manifestation of her power.

Mezu already knew Lo Wang had her soul, so why did he bother trying to have him defeat Kamiko's body? They could have went and sealed the gate as soon as Wang told him, and then dealt with Kamiko later since she was in Zilla's custody. Everyone's plans hinged on Wang using that potion, but it didn't seem to matter at all. If Xing was able to take the soul and fling it around, I'm sure Mezu could, too.

Xing having soul bending powers doesn't have any precedent in the main story. Lo Wang was aware of XIng for the entire game, yet the order he went through potential soul movers was Smith, then Ameonna, then Mezu. Any explanation about Xing being restricted due to his link with Zilla falls apart when you consider that Wang just barges in there on multiple occasions to talk with him, killing tons of guards on the way up, and no one cares.

Kamiko's "ascension" also doesn't have any precedent in the main story. Not only can she seal the gate without a body, but she can also create a body just with the power of the gate? Mezu said multiple times that he needed more than just Kamiko's soul to seal the gate, he was planning to sacrifice her in order to seal the gates permanently. Which, according to him in the ending cutscene, required both Kamiko and her body, not just her soul.

She basically just busts out with an "I'm smarter than all these immortals" non-solution that doesn't involve her dying, and we're supposed to believe that it worked perfectly? No, it's entirely possible that dragon wasn't her at all. In fact, if it's just some huge shadow monster, it makes much, much more sense than her soul being able to take physical form for no reason.

Ugh, this ending sucks so much...

[omed_86]

Yeah, just finished it and I was like ummmmmmmmm :S
Actually, I thought the dragon attacked Wang but Kamiko forze it... or it looked that way to me XD Because it kind of looked like a statue as it got really close.
Ugh I don't like cliffhangers...

On the bright side, I took that sword Zilla gave me and cleared the last trial in the way of the wang DLC, and got an awesome battle axe! So that is something.

[SoulPlane]

My guess is that dragon is Hung Lo, Lo Wangs evil twin brother.

Idk, the story was kinda crappy, just like in the first one. They tried to make it something more than it is but the writers just werent good enough to pull through.

[lpnlizard27]

Originally posted by SoulPlane:

My guess is that dragon is Hung Lo, Lo Wangs evil twin brother.

Idk, the story was kinda crappy, just like in the first one. They tried to make it something more than it is but the writers just werent good enough to pull through.

Story in the first game was amazing, you're off your rocker if you think it was bad.

[Grafenberg (HNYB)]

- Who want's some Wang?

Dragon- Me! *Omm nomm nomm*

[Phoenix]

Maybe this explanation will help clear things up:

With Ameona going nuts, Mezu needed to separate her from the power that was flowing through the gates or else Ameona was going to open them or they would open on their own, and either way that would be bad. Mezu sired Kamiko for the express purpose of sacrificing her. Mezu never deviated from this plan because Mezu is an egotistical arrogant demigod with a one-track mind. That was his plan from the beginning, and even though Zilla screwed it up for him he never abandoned it. Anyone forget that he never took advice or listened to anyone except himself?

Kamiko did not SEAL the gates. She opened them. Nowhere was it stated that her body was needed to OPEN the gates. That's what Mezu was trying to prevent. What the gates needed was a permanent guardian, which is what Kamiko figured out and decided to do - she sacrificed herself to become the gatekeeper, hence her manifestation in the form of the dragon, which was composed of material from the gate. As for Xing being able to do this, prior to this Xing didn't have any real concern over the gates since he no longer had a body. Xing was obviously powerful as it was written in the scrolls that it was Xing's army that defeated the chaos shadow realm when everyone else failed. Of COURSE Xing was a chi bender because ALL the demon gods used chi. That's why Kamiko was so gifted with it. She was half demon god, not half run-of-the-mill demon. As for the dragon eating Lo Wang, we don't know it ate Lo Wang, we just know it ate the camera. We'll find out another time how things ended if there's another sequel.

The only loose end here is this: WHERE THE SPORK WAS GOZU WHEN ALL THIS WAS HAPPENING? He NEVER left Ameona's side, and yet at the final battle he's completely AWOL. Unless she ate him, which would be totally ironic and funny, but I'd like to know where he went.

[Netsa]

Story in the first game was a lot better, not exactly amazing, but better. It definitely made you care about the characters more, especially Hoji. This one is like the transition from Saint's Row 2 to 3 (and 4). Less story, more action.