Grimm Troupe endings. Which benefits me most?

[River Victor]

Topic. I'm already spoiled about this extra content by reading it up, so any detailed answers are fine with me. BUT NO SPOILERS FOR THE MAIN STORY.

I'm attempting to do it to get extra charm notch and found it has two endings. Which gives me the best benefit. I'm half a mind to completing the Ritual, as I love boss fights. I am all for adrenaline rush against bosses. But the Banishment seem to give Carefree Melody. Any suggestions on which path I should take?

[Darc Vader]

Personally, I'm not really a fan of either charm reward, though the Ritual charm is at least more consistent, and can help facilitate a minion/summoner style build. Though the boss fight is good enough imo that I would be hard pressed to pick Banishment for anything other than the achievement.

[Sverr]

I think it is up to you to decide. The charm for beating Grimm is a minion. A decent one but he doesnt shoot that often and he can miss. And it occupied space on screen which can hurt. The better you see the battlefield, the better.

The other charm is a shield of sorts that orbits you. Maybe it can be good when paired with a dream shield. But, again, it occupied additional space and draws your attention.

I, personally, always preferred mastering nail arts and dodging and parrying instead of blocking so I never used any of these two charms and I havent seen many people using them, too.

So, the question is more of "do you want an additional boss fight or not". THe fight is epic but difficult, be prepared to spend a few hours practicing and hating me for choosing this path. But when you do beat it, you'll be proud of yourself.

Hope you make a decision that fully satiscied you ;)

[didymos1120]

Save scum and do both.

[profL0g1c]

I did the banishment ending accidently on my first run. Carefree Melody does not have any sort of visual effect until it activates, which is a random chance each time you get hit to nullify damage. The only real advantage it gives is with Radiant fights in Godhome. So I'd go for it only if you plan on using this file for Godhome stuff, and plan on doing NKG in another file. (You don't want to skip NKG forever, it's too good.)

[fractal9091]

You can always fight Nightmare King Grimm in Godhome anyway.