The Lore & Story of The Last Faith
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- The Last Faith is a gothic metroidvania that looks like a fusion between Castlevania and Bloodborne. It's an enjoyable game that has a stylistic world that oozes atmosphere. However, with words like "Nycrux" and "Sepolcri" and "Institute Scientia" and characters that talk in vague, contradictory riddles, its story is super confusing and hard to understand. Let's try to decipher it all and present it here so we can see what the heck is going on in the story of The Last Faith.
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Shout out to @wesleyvl8572 who has been waiting for a long time for this video. Hope you enjoy, man!
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
01:20 - History of the World
22:45 - Events of the Game
31:52 - Outro
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9:03 "fear the old blood"
Thanks for this summary dude.
Thank you for your continued support through the years, Rickard!
This one’s been on my radar for a while, got heavy Blasphemous vibes from it. Always nice to see a new upload, hope you’re having a good day
If you haven't yet, I'm about to finish the game and it's worth it! I only have one complaint, though. I played it on Switch and boy can it be glitchy. I almost quit because I got to the Hydra boss and had it down to one more hit 4 times when it would glitch and I'd die or the game would crash. Other than that, it's tough with a vast map and it's FANTASTIC.
@@laur131306 *That's cuz the Switch's hardware is kinda low specs, especially in comparison to the Xbox or PlayStation... Even the most graphical games look worse on that system. And of course the glitches*
Thank you for making this vidoe dude you rock
Thanks for being patient with me! Hope you enjoyed the video, man!
Holy moly! This is really well made
Nice to see you again!
Hope you have a splendid weekend
curious to see what's next on the list (i haven't seen the ending if you announced that)
Skul: The Hero Slayer is what I said I’d do next. But if DLC for one of the games I’ve covered before comes out, I may put down Skul to make a video on that DLC.
I also want to make a video on Dead Cells with all the lore from the DLC/content updates, so that might be made before Skul.
TL;DR: Skul or Dead Cells (all lore) unless DLC for a game comes out
A really thought out and well made video. Loved it man. Great work.
Seeing a vid from you always makes my day. Much love dude.
I don't know why, but this games story was harder than usual Soulsies to decipher. Doesn't help that I never finished it. Where the hell is my console patch?!
Another great lore vid I am sure just haven’t gotten around to this game yet. Thanks squatch
Really happy to see this game getting more coverage, I hope it gets a sequel. There's a lot of potential for the story and also I love the designs for everything.
always a great watch! you deserve more subs
Yo squatch just subbed up! Thanks for putting in the foot work to relay the story to people. It can be hard to understand man 😅Great video dude!
Appreciate it, man! Helping people understand stuff is the whole reason I make these, so happy to hear it helped you!
Thanks for watching and for the sub!
Tyler Perry really popped off with this addition to the Medea-verse
awesome video! i love this game and truly believe it to be the best metroidvania i've ever played. Also has amazing story too.
You'd probably enjoy Blasphemous or a Castlevania game that was on the Game Boy Advance. Bloodstained too
Fantastic summation of this game that I enjoyed but could barely follow storywise, even as a longtime fan of Fromsoft style games. Really does enrich the experience in retrospect, thanks for doing this.
Great vid man
Appreciate the work you do. Quick question: Do you plan on doing a video on SANBI sometime in the future? It seems like a game that you'd cover, which is why I ask.
Thank you very much!
I unfortunately don’t have any plans to cover Sanabi currently, but it’s not because I don’t want to. I just don’t have the time for it! It’s definitely on my list of games to check out, and hopefully I’ll get to it someday soon!
Thanks for the recommendation though, man! I appreciate it! And thanks for watching!
LET'S GOOO I LOVE THESE!
so heya, you always put out great content man.
This is a mere suggestion with no pressure at all. But have you considered covering Lisa the Painful - The definitive edition?
The breakdown of the Lisa games were amongst the better videos I watched I tell ya
Yeah, I've thought of doing a video covering the new content or things that were changed in the Definitive Edition, but I've never followed through with it and I missed the opportunity to strike while the iron was hot. It's not a question of desire though, it's a question of time. There's a ton of games I'd love to make content one, but I just don't have the time...
Maybe after I cover this next slate of games (and take a break for a bit), I'll make something on the Definitive Edition. We'll see!
Thanks for the question and the compliment, man! Appreciate it! And thanks for watching!
I love hearing this guys sultry voice
Thank you bro. I legit thought i might have been a bit on the slow side for not understanding the convoluted a$$ dialogue between characters😂
Really well made vid as always. I’m curious if you played outerwilds? I think its story would really fit your style. Eben if you don’t make a vid about it definitely give it a go.
My wife got it a while back, but I’ve never played it. Heard it was really good though! I haven’t looked into the lore/story too much either, but I think I’ve heard that it would be something that would fit my style.
I don’t currently have the time to dedicate to it right now though. Maybe someday in the future!
Thanks for the suggestion, man! And thanks for watching!
@@SquatchGamingChannel that’s good too hear when you finally get around too it it really is best without spoilers. Hope your wife didn’t tell you anything .Thank for the reply and whatever you do I’ll be watching 😁.
good to see again
Man your voice is so nice to listen to
Flattery will get you nowhere, GasKan007, but thank you for the compliment!
What's your next lore & story Video?
The next one I said I was going to do was Skul: The Hero Slayer, but there's a couple of caveats to that
If Katana Zero, Risk of Rain 2, Darkest Dungeon II, and/or Blasphemous II get some kind of DLC or expansion, I'll probably put the Skul video down and work on a video for the DLC of one of those games.
The developers of Dead Cells have said that they aren't making any new content for Dead Cells anymore, and I'd like to do a story/lore video for Dead Cells with all of its DLC/content, so that's something I'm kind of working on too. In theory, that would be quicker since I have old resources I can reuse.
So that's kind of where I'm at right now
TL;DR - Skul: The Hero Slayer and/or Dead Cells with all DLC Content unless DLC for some other game(s) comes out first
Great video man but i got a question tho if you don't mind, who do you think is the ghost that was leading Eryk to Esk's eyes?
Of course I don’t mind!
I have no idea. I don’t remember there being any more relating to the ghost. Maybe it was an old servants or partner to Esk?
What do you think?
Thanks for watching!
Was pray you'd cover this game
love that youtube didnt recommend this, one of my favorite channels
I thought the storyline was put together well enough as you talked to NPCs and gathered notes. Titles like Nyctorn and Sepolcri became a bit confusing though. Also, it was unclear to me about the Ethereal and Vanguard Orders and the Federal Era. Anyway, a good synopsis on Reddit and this video helps. I thoroughly enjoyed the game despite lags and crashes on the Switch.
The local long hair sasquatch man back at it again with more lore
This is great! Ang chance you could make a video for Grime?
It's crossed my mind a couple of times, especially since the devs were adding new content to it all the time, but I never made time for it. Maybe someday in the future!
Thanks for the request! And thanks for watching!
@@SquatchGamingChannel Dew it! Great video!
Nice video. Better than most attempts I've seen at piecing together this game's lore. While the plot itself is serviceable, it's clear that the writer's kinda suck at emulating the writing in the game that The Last Faith is clearly trying to be an expy of. Someone on Reddit put it this way: it's like they construct a sentence, use a thesaurus to look for the most flowery synonyms for each word, and then reconstruct the sentence lol. It's a headache to get through. By the way, you didn't mention anything about the Federation, the Federal Era, or the Vanguard Order. Thoughts?
Thanks! Happy to hear you enjoyed!
That's a great way of putting it. Another issue is that there's a ton of times where characters say things that I think are supposed to obviously make sense for Eryk or other characters in the world, but WE don't know wtf they're talking about and it's never really explained very well. A good example is when Annabella mentions the "resting place". She says it like we/Eryk know what she's referencing/talking about, but we don't and that term is never brought up again or explained. I *think* it's meant to be the resting place of Junas and therefore the cathedral of the Junas Ministry, but like... Be more clear with what you're saying, dudes. Jeez.
You're right. I didn't. My fault!
Federation: reviewing the lore really quickly, it seems like the Federation were trying to stop the swell of Cold Ones from taking over Mythringal, which they eventually failed at doing. I could have spent some time talking about it when was talking about the Cold Ones, about how they built weapons to combat them, and eventually failed, but I forgot about the Federation. Whoops. Lol. Just goes to show that I'm not perfect!
The Federal Era: I'm less sure about this. Is that an era in which the rulers of Mythingal or Illygarth were a Federation or does it merely refer to the time period in which the Federation was active? If it was the former, there's a number of unanswered questions: what happened to the Federation? Who was/were the leader(s)? Did the Noble Families replace it? Did Laddak destroy it? If it was the latter, well, then it was just the time period in which the Federation was active.
The Vanguard Order: I honestly have no clue. Mark seems to be the best source of information about it, but he makes so little sense that I can't really wrap my head around what he's saying. It sounds like they used to be a rival Order, but got absorbed into the Ethereal Order (like Leena). As for "where they linger," I don't know to what he's referencing. Maybe a cut area or one that's coming as DLC? Maybe the passageway into the Junas Ministry? I have no clue. At the very least, Eryk seems to be a follower of the Order since Annabella and Caterina say he has "relinquished himself of that feeble Vanguard Order", but at the same time, if he is, why doesn't he know anything about it? Are they another shadow organization trying to manipulate Eryk into doing their bidding like how Medeya/Annabella/Caterina are doing to him? If so, what are their goals? Who leads them? Why don't we see more of them? It's all too vague, so I cut any references to it. If any new info comes out, I'll definitely do a follow up talking about it though!
What about you? Any thoughts on those subjects?
@@SquatchGamingChannel True, true. There are also plenty of grammatical errors so that makes it even harder to parse the dialogue and item descriptions lol. I wish the devs would focus on ironing out those kinks now that the gameplay is in a good state.
I read another comment on Reddit about how the Federation may have been the ones that actually created the Nyctorns as weapons, but it got out of hand since they didn't realize the Nycrux was essentially "alive" (I believe it's mentioned in the game that the stuff practically has a mind of its own?). They might have experimented on the Cold Ones and figured out how to weaponize them, but the Nyctorn ended up following Laddak's will or something, perhaps. Who knows? You're on the money about the Vanguard Order.
That's a pretty good theory! I think it's definitely possible, especially given what we see in the game.
That's another frustrating part of the lore of the game: for some of it, it does a good job of implying enough about something for you to draw a logical conclusion about the subject, like the Oxnevylles and the Daughters of the Nighttide or the Blackhalls and Nyxaroth, but more often than not, they miss the mark and it just leaves us confused. One of the drawbacks of this method of storytelling though...
I finished this game with the true ending and didnt have a single clue on wtf was going ok the entire time lol
I really hope for a sequel
I rushed to 100% the game to watch the video and I have to say this game deserves a DLC so much. I saw so many opportunities for side quest content.
Still...32:28 it's hard for me to believe that that boss in the highest area of the winters is a boss. I finished him off the first time, I admit that it surprised me but... I felt that I could see his pattern from experience of some boss games similar, without a doubt that boss reminds me of certain bosses from Death Gambits and Grimvalor...
And I don't know why it gave the difficulty that many supposedly gave this boss some surmountable attempts as if this were the rookie Malekith himself XD
Of all the good videos and I totally agree with the very important negative points, even so I loved the attempt to give it a plot and I already had an idea of how things were going, this game would be if Van Hellsing had a sequel in Soulslike pixel format
i loved this game, but i found it very difficult to enter into the story
Hey Squatch, I think there's something you might be interested in, LISA the Painful and Joyful got a big update, with some new lore and stuff to make videos on, and it's free if you already have the game!
Do you mean the Definitive Edition or a different update?
I wonder if a summary of Hades II will come next year :>
You can count on it!
We need a dlc
Oh I hope you do Mullet Mad Jack
Looks like a crazy game. Lol. Is there a lot of lore in it?
@@SquatchGamingChannel it very well could we don't have much to go on because of the pace of said game but I think there is something there
"leaves a lot to be desired," implies that you didn't like the story. Did you dislike it? JW
Did I dislike it? I would say no. Once I pieced it all together, I thought it was interesting and liked its overall themes. I also enjoy this manner of storytelling in general where you have piece the lore together to gain a deeper appreciation for the story as a whole.
I personally didn’t like the unclear and (at times) contradictory wording/dialogue used to tell the story and lore.
For instance, with Sepolcri: there are a couple of times in the game that they are called “entities” which I took to mean beings akin to humans or Cold Ones (but with more power), but they’re actually supposed to be the Hearts of Nycrux (at least according to an achievement for the game) which, as far as I know, aren’t entities (I guess they could be, but they don’t act like it unless it’s in a way that we don’t understand, but that just opens more cans of worms). That’s just one example, and I’m probably doing a poor job of explaining it, but it happens at several points in the game.
TL;DR - I liked it, but think there’s room for improvement
What about you? Did you like it? Did you feel frustrated by the wording like I was?
@@SquatchGamingChannelthank you for clearing that up :)
I do like this type of storytelling but I don't even try to piece it together because generally I lack attention to detail. That's why I depend on people like you to fill in the blanks.
The way you started the video off made it sound like you disliked the story, but it seems like you disliked the frustrating and contradictory nature of how it was told. Which is more than fair. They definitely could have done it better.
Thanks again for your work!
So...... Basicaly Bloodborne story with extra steps ;p
Naw
Blud didn't even watch the video 💀
@itsgreyhat is it not like Bloodborne? I've never played. I started with Hollow Knight then went to the Ori's and that's when I found Blasphemous and fell in love. I played this game because it was highly suggested since I liked Blasphemous so much and I loved this game too! Problem is I'm almost done and trying to find where to go next. Is Bloodborne similar to this one and Blasphemous at all? Thank you!😊 or if you know another game like this one and Blasphemous, I'd love to hear it!
@@laur131306 bloodborne is amazing but the lore takes a backseat to the gameplay, you have to really search for it and piece it together via npc conversations and item descriptions. I highly recommend it. I’ll also check out blasphemous because I’ve honestly never heard of that game before, so ty for that
@@laur131306 l also recommend prey 2017 if you love mystery, sci-fi, space, and the feeling of “what the fuck?”
Seriously, didn't anyone realized that the Burnt Apostate and the central figure of the Medeya agents trio damn statue located in Oxnevylle are the exact same woman before the release of this video?
I mean look at the burning rose the Burnt Apostate wields during her boss fight.
They share the same rose. And yet none of those was explained. The only theory I can came with it is that she, as an agent of Medeya, actually betrayed Annabella, Catherina and by extention flipping the middle finger to Medeya herself to apparently joining Laddak.
But whoever the Burnt Apostate supporter Medeya's own enemy because she think to have been lied by her leader, help him or did so for other hidden motives of her own, nobody fucking knows that unfortunately.
As for Eryk ultimate fate, we didn't know exactly how it perished to the Nycrux, either turning into a cold one, dying due through power abuse complication or even feeling the exposure to whatever the fall of the veil between celestial and physical would have on him.
So place your non monetary bets guys.
What an entertaining mess of a game it was... although I appreciate the deep analysis of it of course.
Hey Squatch, are you interested of making a lore video of a game title 'Cyber Manhunt'? I really like the story of the game and the hidden lore and connection of characters and their motivations. I hope you see this comment and consider making the video.
I am so sorry for taking so long to reply. I took a quick look at the game (only watched a playthrough of the tutorial), and it looks really interesting. Looks like it has a lot of themes that can apply to our real world which is always interesting. Unfortunately, I won't have time to make a video on it, but I might pick the game up to play myself. It seems *really* interesting!
Thanks for the suggestion, man! I appreciate it! And thanks for watching!
I nominate you to play Unsouled
Never even heard of it. I won't have time to make a video on it at the moment, but it doesn't hurt to check it out!
Thanks for the recommendation! And thanks for watching!
Hey dude do biomorph next plz
Have only just now heard of it. Looks really fun! I’ll try it out sometime. Unfortunately, I won’t have the time to make a video on it anytime soon, but maybe someday in the future!
Thanks for the request, man! And thanks for watching!
Hi so it might not be your cup of tea but i recommend a game called "Pathologic 2" as a game to cover. Its genuinely a extremely underrated masterpiece. I recommend getting the game and just playing the first 30min and if that intro doesnt intriuge you then just refund it but if it even in the slightest does peak your interest then give it a go!
I think I've heard a bit about it, but never looked into it much. Unfortunately, I don't think I'll have time to take a look at it anytime soon. Maybe someday in the future though!
Thanks for the recommendation! Always love to hear about new games to try! And thanks for watching!
Wait, you're supposed to deal with the Burnt Apostate *before* Manfredd?
Sounds you made the same mistake I did. Lol. I also wound up at Manfredd before the Burnt Apostate.
@@SquatchGamingChannel I mean, maybe I suck at platforming, but I'd try going further into Liturgical Pass, but always fell short of one of the jumps, so I figured that the double-jump from after Manfredd was necessary.
i need sanabi, gubrella, and haak story summary!!!!
💯
Squ can i ask you a another question
Go for it!
@@SquatchGamingChannelok first is the last faith eryk a vampire i always wonder that and to who do you think would win hunter from bloodborne or eryk
I don’t think he’s exactly a vampire, but his design is certainly inspired from vampires.
Between him and the Hunter, I’ll say the Hunter because he can move in 3D. Otherwise, probably Eryk because he’s got some crazy strong spells. What do you think?
@@SquatchGamingChanneleryk as well ps are the guns of last faith flintlock or caplock
@@SquatchGamingChannelecuse me did my comment came in
Great video ps can I ask you a question
Go for it
@@SquatchGamingChannelok what do you think of fromsoftware approach to storytelling
I feel like it does some things well (like world-building and lore) and lacks in other areas (like character development). This makes it fit better in video games (where interactivity and exploration are part of the package) than other media (like books or movies), but it’s not a perfect way to tell a story because things are so missable or easy to misunderstand. It also requires players to *want* to engage with the story in this way, and if they don’t want to do that, it definitely falls flat (and if that’s the case, fun gameplay will help most players to look past their distaste for the storytelling).
What about you? How do you feel about it?
@@SquatchGamingChannelits good i ask because I've seen people say exspesly the ones that don't like these games say that there is no story what do you think?
I wouldn’t say there is no story, but it’s certainly unconventional in the way it’s told!
Praise Junas for this video! Loved the game, but it was so hard trying to follow the story down to a T with all the flowery talk and the voice acting was terrible.
True, the gameplay was punishing but worth it like a souls-like but the story telling wasn't all that great
make a sanabi story summary
I'd love to! From what I've seen of the game, it looks really fun (not sure about the lore or story though). I just haven't had the time! Hopefully someday soon I'll be able to take a closer look at it.
Thanks for the request! And thanks for watching!
@@SquatchGamingChannel yessiiir
This story is just Bloodborne..
The thing I loved about Blasphemous is it’s story and how original it was compared to other souls likes.
But this is just Bloodborne, at least Lies of P had a somewhat good story.
I finish this game, 100% it, got the true ending and still didn't understood, what the fuck was the game about, suffice to said, the story is very porly explained in game.
so this is bloodborne story where is last faith story ?
I was the 97th like give reward
Hmh
Does this game remind anyone else of Blasphemous?
Yes
*Promosm*
It seems like blasphemous. F that game it’s hard af. Haha I’ll beat it
*We just gonna ignore the absolute DRIP 💦 the MC is wearing?*
It's Blasphemous with worse writing