*Spoilers* Well that ending sucked.

[EmeraldFoxDeity]

I love this game. The melee fighters seem horribly underpowered, at least without a ton of upgrades, but the game has been great and the story has been nice. I even just so happened to be playing Lucy during the mission where grandma Margaret sacrifices herself. Which I found very thematically fitting. The tiny beginner mage trying with all her might to save her mother. And when it seems like hope was lost, her grandmother and mentor swooped in and with a fantastic flash of power: saved the girl and her mother. Only for it to cost her grandmother's life.

I only mention this great part because of how invested I was in the story. So to find out that Ou this whole time was a selfish ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that created his own problem only to then be super evil; you can imagine my disappointment when he gets off scot-free in the end. Maybe Rea whatever forgave him after all these years despite the continued sacrifices up until now, but I haven't. That dude is basically an alien from the looks of it anyway. Dude should have died. At the very least we should have had the option to forgive him alongside Rea or to absolutely own him, erasing him from existence. Just from this particular round of corruption countless lives were lost. And it's implied he's done this for a very long time. Especially bad with the implication that sacrificing the Bergson's newborn holds his rage back for centuries. Ou got dumped for being a jerk, rightfully so. Threw a hissy fit taking things from being domestic to cataclysmic to the world, repeatedly for who even knows how long. And he just gets "freed from the corruption". Mate, he wasn't corrupted when he decided to be a jerk about the Rea's baby. That was 100% on him. He wasn't corrupted, he was the corruption.

The freaking audacity to let him have a happy ending. I'm sure the Bergson's are very relieved for this all to be over, but not one of them is ticked off that Ou isn't properly punished? I guess gods get special treatment. Even when they're made to suffer consequences for their actions they get a Deus Ex Machina at the last second.

Oh, and Rea ignored Margaret for some reason. And for anyone who thinks "oh well she was too weak from the corruption to answer her". Well the land is still horribly corrupted after we weaken and nearly kill Ou. And she just sort of, shows up. That means she sat on her ass when the faithful Margaret tried to communicate with her.

This ending ruins so much. And the narrator has the audacity to say this isn't a story about good and evil, but instead family and love. Because apparently those ideas are mutually exclusive. Not it freaking wasn't. It was definitely about family and love, but it was also good and evil. Ou was evil, no way around that. And we were the force of good. And we clearly weren't just selfish because we take care of animals and aid the sick and weak during our adventuring. The audacity to say the story wasn't one of good and evil. Did the narrator not listen to the story he was reading off?

Please tell me I'm not alone in thinking that was quite possibly the worst way things could have ended with Ou.

[SPRÆY]

I´m necroning this thread Indeed is amazingly bad but the story is nice and well narrated, maybe in the mind of the writter it made sense that evil is rewarded

[Samseng Yik]

I don't really think bad ending = bad game.
There are countless twist movies are darn good.
A story is just a story. How you look into it is just perspective.

[EmeraldFoxDeity]

Originally posted by Samseng Yik:

I don't really think bad ending = bad game.
There are countless twist movies are darn good.
A story is just a story. How you look into it is just perspective.

I don't think I even once implied this makes the game overall bad. I was massively disappointed by the ending and it did ruin the story for me. But I never implied it ruined the gameplay for me. Game's fun a hell. As for "a story is just a story". That is so empty and meaningless. It's nothing but an ill thought attack on those being critical and giving their input. How about you try giving your own positive perspective on the story rather than belittling mine with a baseless excuse?

[Samseng Yik]

Ah I apologize that my word may sound belittling your opinions.
I am always a gameplay first and story later people.
So...... the story I am ok although is not Christopher Nolan movie level.
Just different perspective. Let us move on

[Ryukan]

I found the Ou thing fitting. If you ever read the bible or about the greek gods or pretty much most of the religions in human history, gods are all fickle, selfish, vengefull and unreasonable beings that commit a bunch of atrocities and a lot of times without any good reason or punishment afterwards, thats gods for you. I found fitting that the "children" surpassed the "parents" by being able to forgive and not loose track of what really matters despite all the pain, anger and loss. They broke the circle of hatred and looked up to the future, the lesson is that people should never strive to be judgemental "gods" and instead strive to be better.