Got the new ending

[lalaef]

Is that it? A ship with skeletons showed up and threw me back with no further explanation whatsoever. Or i missed something?

[Yellow n Mellow]

I think it implies the malaise is already spreading far away. so it isnt just on the island.

[lalaef]

I assumed so. Cliffhanger to tease another DLC, or a sequel?

[Yellow n Mellow]

I'm hoping for a sequel of some kind, but it could just be a 'bad' ending, given how all the endings are kinda like that.

[Terminus_X]

I wonder if there's another hidden true ending, like when you have to wear the king outfit when you beat the collector a second time to get the "true" true ending?

[lalaef]

please no, i still can't do 2BC

[Kokoa]

i mean if it is all but a cliffhanger and a teaser, it feels like it was a useless effort, like, is a teaser a real reward for beating lategame areas and a new final boss? i'll absolutely avoid venting in there, but i feel robbed to say the least, and in part because of that "ending"...

[Gatebase]

Originally posted by Notes:

i mean if it is all but a cliffhanger and a teaser, it feels like it was a useless effort, like, is a teaser a real reward for beating lategame areas and a new final boss? i'll absolutely avoid venting in there, but i feel robbed to say the least, and in part because of that "ending"...

Your mistake was believing the developer would ever finish the game. It's all a big meta-joke to them. Look at the game's credits roll at the end of a run. That and the whole game is all a huge procedurally generated loop. Dead Cells will never "end", it'll always loop back to the start with a non-ending. That's simply their brand of humor. It's kind of the only consistency in the wafer-thin "story" of this game, that nothing is ever a clear definitive fact. It's all just theories and lore and cliffhangers and meta-jokes.

I agree with the criticism, btw. Like with so many good games these days, they should quit while they're ahead and move to a sequel instead of patching the game to death. But given how substantially they've changed core game mechanics *after* leaving Early Access in the last two years, I think that ship has sailed and Dead Cells is shaping up to be yet another forever-game. I like the game a lot, but I can already feel I've had well enough of it and coming back to check out new content or knock out new achievements to get 100% back feels more and more like a chore than a treat. The game has already peaked for me several patches ago, but that doesn't stop them from milking it more and more. (I know some people will see it differently. They love all the new content and that's fine too - I would just rather see the game be put to rest gracefully instead of only when everyone is truly sick of it.)