The "Good" ending: is supposed to represent Eshe's will to sacrifice for others. She maybe had no idea that the gate between Eschaton and human world would break, but her breathing was a mixture of relief, exhaustion and sadness The "Neutral" ending: Eshe is not a bad person, but barely maintains her own curiosity and lust for power, slipping through the gate Trapezohedron maybe was weaker in the human world, but was still alive and manipulative The "Bad" ending: Eshe sacrifices her own humanity in order to satisfy her own will to survive, curiosity and lust for power, letting trapezohedron take full control over her actions
Đaŕķ Přínçe Eshe is no longer in control. The Trapezohedron(what you name the narrator) posses her body during the full embrace. Since she fully embraced the powers, the Trapezohedron fully posses her. Before rising back to the desert, Eshe unknowingly kills herself leaving the Trapezohedron the pilot of her body and also ending life on earth to create it’s own world dooming what’s left of humanity and other species. To end on a reminder note, the Eschaton’s were trying to end life on earth to begin a new. That’s why some of the humans(Valkyries) attacked the civilization.
I think Humanity is not just supposed to represent Eshe, it is Eshe. From consorting with maddening eldritch powers, she transformed into an abomination just like the other bosses. What you are playing as is no longer Eshe, it is a thing from the void, the power that she was given that has consumed her. The battle is to determine the ownership of her soul, whether she keeps the portal closed or surrenders to the void. This is why you don’t fight Humanity directly.
It's also a good depiction of what Eshe has done to her own humanity, torn it from herself, mutilated it, and thrown it aside. All in the name of returning home...
I love it.....i put this loud to scare my neighbors..it was so subtle to me that it reminded me of unearthly creatures not from this world...i love scary demons..it scared my psyche at first was very intriguing###
i Find funny the good ending has no animation once you kill the boss, Eshe just stands there watching while all is gone like no cutscene the bad has meh cutscene but is good neutral is badass animation
In the good ending, you sacrifice yourself. You don't get to see what happens because you are trapped forever in an underground cavern now devoid of life.
There's no end animation because there's nothing left. Eshe doesn't have her guide anymore, so if she wasn't killed instantly, she'll only be able to hold out for so long.
Can't remember the mythos if it takes gods powers to kill other gods but i only think there are about 2 that absolutely can't be killed, one is some sort of multidimensional gate god and the other is essentially the creator that's being perpetually put to sleep by his children singing to prevent him eating all of creation. (edit): Turns out it's not just multidimensional space gate, yog-sothoth is the gate to past present and future...funnily enough however he is one of the few that doesn't cause insanity. Azothoth is basically the father to all creation, but he eats everything that he creates, so everyone decided to put him to sleep, so they have a bunch of old ones doing that for eternity.
If you think about it, the neutral ending is the only "good" ending here. On one end of the spectrum, you become an agent of madness and destruction. On the other end, you follow in the footsteps of people who lost their humanity in spirit through the wholesale slaughter of women and children, and in so doing you seal your fate to wander the caverns with no hope. Neutral... is a slim beacon of hope. Perhaps now Eshe can talk to ST and convince him that compromise and a mixture of paths was always the key to salvation... that the inflexibility of the Eschaton drove the Valkyries to commit atrocities in the name of survival, and that the inflexibility of the Valkyries made them into war criminals and drove the Eschaton to shed their humanity. Perhaps she can convince him to help in some capacity.
It could also be theoretically just as bad as the embrace ending. Since Eshe was brought to the ancient city by the Trapezohedron, I doubt she has any way back there, and it is unlikely that anyone has the technology of the Valkeries anymore to destroy it. If the Trapezohedron cannot be reasoned with, then it will simply restart the cycle that happened before with the Valkeries and the Eschaton, attempting to to coax humans into opening the portal to it's realm until someone eventually succeeds or destroys it permanently. We don't know where Humanity is at by this point, but the game seems to imply that things were pretty bad for humanity at the time of the Valkerie as is. If things have only become worse for humans since the city became lost, it's hard to say if humans would still be willing to struggle against the Trapezohedron like the Valkerie did. The best ending is Beacon of Hope since Eshe is able to make the choice to resist, and while things maybe don't get better for humanity on the surface, they certainly won't get worse as a direct result of her actions. Also after the portal closes and the screen goes black, you can hear Eshe breathing, I like to think she is content with her choice.
@@Peranolde she probably can return there (to Eschaton), but it would need alot of convincing or a way to control Trapezohedron's power without his permittion
Resist was a good ending for me, cause I was kidnapped by some a-hole and forced to engulf his tentacle power playing as a female character. So out of spite and stubborness I just went and burned all the disgusting tentacle worm elder crystals and was fully satisfied to ruin its life together with mine, showing what a big mistake was to kidnap someone with a character and principles.
Interesting depiction of Nyarlathotep. I got the "all abilities corrupted ending", the omni-directional blink is the best ability in the game.
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Completely agree, I like how they took the job to balance all abilities and give and powerful edge on corrupted abilities. It makes the game feel so organic when the Nyarlathotep (or whatever) laughs at the valkyries' devices you gather.
@ "Nyarlathotep" is actually the Lovecraftian god they wanted to summon. The talking weapon/stone is probably a high ranking cultist that died and became that thing. He's said to be the only "Great One" in the mythology who's self aware and actively malignant, gathers followers using trickery and manipulation, so it would make sense that he would be the thing they were trying to summon. Anyways, if you choose to break the shards you get improved "technological" versions of the abilities and additional stats/perks in the stat tree. So either if you destroy or embrace the shards you will gain significant amounts of power.
Major Disarray According to the developers, and I think the Trapezohedron itself, the Eschatons, the group that’s not tech based, was created by a few people who gathered together a cult after finding the Trapezohedron. As for the Trapezohedron itself, in Lovecraft, it’s stated to be an artifact specifically designed by aliens to summon Nyarlathotep.
Personally, I prefer the climbing everywhere ability. I remember how i disliked the game because I had to do all that boring platforming but when i obtained the "spider" ability. I loved the game so hard, because i didn't need to take 1 minute platforming anymore; just 3 seconds climbing. Although omni-directional blink is objectively better, i missed the vainilla dash because it was faster. Sorry for my grammar.
I would love a second short epilogue game where, depending on what ending you chose, lets you either try to find your way out after destroying the Trapezohedron/Nyarlethotep and are welcomed into a broken but finally safe world. Or you get to go on a destruction rampage ending the world.
Facing yourself as a boss was the coolest boss fight of this game hands down. I mean, I know it isn't a new concept to "face yourself" in games but... DAMN was that part fast paced, and really felt like I was fighting myself. It is almost to bad that by the time I got there I was so buffed that I was basically never in any actual danger. But that will not take away that it was the coolest fight, AND... the AI controled Eshe was playing relatively competently - which was so surprising to me given how the other bosses follow generally strict and "somewhat" limited move sets. Which makes me think, if my stats were exactly the same as the NPC Eshe... I wonder if I would win. And not to mention... THE SHEER FUCKING BADASSERY OF THE "BAD" ENDING! Seeing "Humanity" emerge from Eshe the way it did, beating it and the final cinematic... just, damn! By comparison to the good ending that felt rather... meh. Which I assume was the point... the emptiness of self sacrefice. ... but damn for once I actually liked the "bad guy" ending, which is really rare for me!
Yeah, it's great, until you realize that you can ether Dash attack stunlock Eshe or just fucking delete her with the upgraded cannon in like 10 seconds :D
I like them because they all feel relatively "correct." The 'bad' ending is the end of the world, but the lore you discover unveils that the world has basically already ended, and that the point of summoning the god was to create a NEW existence. The 'neutral' ending is just that, perpetuating the problem and the solution, and the 'good' ending is justifiable but also dooms humanity.
Admittedly, the evil one is my favorite ending. The good end results in you trapped and weak; the neutral end is ominous with your companion giving off a concerning light. The bad ending is where you evolve, which is strangely satisfying
Me too, but even if you have nothing in cannon, the shards you get from beating the first stage should be enough to buy tons of upgrades. You might have to beat it a couple of times to be able to beat the second, but it gets easier every time.
@@eshku my biggest problem with this game is that I never felt that it was my fault when I got hit. There's just too much shit running at you at once, you can only dodge a few times and most everything has contact damage. In the end, I didn't feel like I improved as much as I just dumped all my points into getting an amazing shield. Coming off of From Soft games, that's a big deal to me in a game like this.
I think Nyarlaphotep doesnt need a human for anything. After more than 48 hours of this game i think it just wants to see you suffer at any given moment.
Damn, I didn't know you needed to upgrade all skills from resisting to get the Resist ending. I thought you just had to destroy 100% of the shards you happened to collect. But it's destroy 100% of the shards in the game. I didn't collect the last 3 fragments, so only 6 upgraded skills, so I got neutral ending *cry*...
@@franciscofelix2251 It may be all of them. There's no exploration or mention of timeline themes in the game, but since in Corruption you fight Eshe, Beacon of Hope, which is what you become if you beat Resistance, it could be that the void is where all timelines ultimately meet and your Resistance self, who gets lost in the void after defeating the final boss and is found there meditating in Corruption, is there with the intent to prevent Esche from the Corruption timeline from completing her mission and unleashing the Eshaton upon earth. In the neutral ending it's implied that the Trapazohedron intends to do something sinister, possibly pull Esche back to the beginning to reset everything until she gives in. The end result is that the end of the world can be stalled out but it's ultimately inevitable, which is consistent with Lovecraftian themes. But man that is a stretch.
Embrace Ending: Becomes someones puppet. BAD Resist Ending: Trapped forever. BAD Neutral Ending: Return to Earth while keeping ur awsome powers and possibly become immortal. ÒwÓ ur choice.
You know, I'd like for a neutral ending to be the GOOD one for once. Moderation being a better policy than zealotry. But no, every game the neutral ending is crap.
Makes sense in this context, though, when you're talking about nigh-unstoppable, all-consuming elder gods. It's hard to defend being all "both sides" centrist with Cthulhu and the like. :)
i actually got the embrace ending because it glitched and the boss dissapeared but the crystal stayed in the middle of the arena i actually don't even know how it happened
tell that to Bloodborne. :p PS: in Bloodborne, in case you are wondering, once you kill a certain boss, you get access to a choice that dictates whether you get one of 2 endings. You can literally say "no" to one of the endings, and you get to fight another boss, to get the other ending. If you found 3 hidden items in the game and consumed them, then AS SOON as you kill the aforementioned boss, then another boss IMMEDIATELLY appears in the same arena without you having time to replenish your stuff. All these 3 bosses are legitimate final bosses and depend on your actions only.
The Resist ending just feels so... empty. Is Eshe alive? If not, why rob the player of their victory by killing their Avatar? Is Earth back to normal? Did Eshe somehow become Humanity and fight Evil Eshe in a parallel dimension/time-travel paradox? If so, why does she keep the sword and not her Resist powers? For all the trouble the player goes through to collect and destroy all seven shards, the ending sure doesn't fulfill any sense of accomplishment. "Congratulations, you beat your Warlock Patron, here's a title card." It leaves more questions than answers and just feels cheap and empty.
Well none happy for Eshe, however i would say the resist path is best as she ends that horror for anyone else forever. She finished what the Valkyries started. Its a sacrifice really. Which is good in a way.
@@mrfizz55 But can you be certain that the Valkyries are the good guys? The Trapezohedron speaks like a cliche villain, but the story that unfolds says the Valkyries were basically a greedy, selfish, and militant race who in the name of resources and technological advancement invaded, pillaged, and exploited the Eschatons who were a peaceful race that kept to themselves. Perhaps Eshe escaping with all the powers of the elder shards is the good ending, a new hope for a world devestated by the ruthless Valkyries.
@@tjwoosta you're actually absolutely right. The valkyries sought to exploit and destroy them and it could have been for more nefarious purposes. But the fact remains that the Trapezohedron and what he and his people stood for was bad. Theyre looking to conquer and spread too and stopping that in my eyes is good at least for humanity.
I think it would be something especially taunting; right after the most difficult fight she's had so far, right after escaping from that eldritch hellhole... T͈̜̬̀h̳͇̘͓̕̕͢a͙͙͟n̸̲͇͢k̺̣̟̗̫̰̳͕ ̴̧̮̀ͅy̷̰͕̠̙̘͝o͖͚͈͘ṵ̸̀,̨͔̀̀ ̴̯͍͔͖́E͈͎͎̠̠s̯̪̣̥̺͖͉̹͠h̞̘̖͖͜e̙̹
Loved the game, but couldn't pass the last boss (Embrace ending}. Forcing you to do pinpoint precise air combat like that with the area being constantly blocked off and confined and a massive hitbox flying around that does obscene damage? Nope. Maybe if I didn't have to fight that confusing clone miniboss before hand, I'd have tried more, but it just felt unfair and fiddly.
OrionoftheStar she's lost her humanity and taken on the evil spirit. I think that mangled mess is the last piece of her humanity fighting against the evil that the shards have bestowed on what used to be Eshe
@@MCVessels Fun, possibly connected note-- Nyarlathotep has a thousand forms, and each one is sufficient to cause insanity in at least one species. He can transform into a human. Somewhere in the universe, there are beings who see humanity the same way we see Cthulhu.
Hi, can you tell me which perks do you use? from the comments, i find out that: The perk that converts 40% of health into shield shield conversion and the shield elixirs
The gong DLC was already released and it doesn't really further the story. The DLC focuses on explaining the "gong" sound that happens when enemies fill the screen and there's a certain boss who is responsible for that.
Just one question: can you achieve all of the endings in one same save file? I'm thinking to go for the resist ending and then reload, go for neutral, reload, and then embrace. Is this possible?
no it is not, because when you keep your shards and not use them, you go with neutral ending. To go with pure ending you ahve to destroy them, thus being unable to use them anymore.
@@lucasgill7819 Its not that hard when you go in calmly, make sure to stay away from the bottom of the stage and never get too greedy or use dive attacks, time your teleports upwards and make sure to get a safe space when it uses the vines. I doubt you havent beat it by now but just in case.
How is your cannon doing so much damage? (Resist Fight) I have all the cannon upgrades and am using level 4 high density bullets but the amount of health coming off is only a fraction of what you're managing. I get done by the laser grid because I can't do enough damage quickly.
there are 7 abilities, if you upgrade all of them with Elder Shards (the upgrade is called a corruption) you jump from human tech to god power, and your soul gets partially destroyed by the Shining Trapezohedron, then you get the corruption ending if you destroy all 7 shards, you get worse bonuses but the human ending (which is a little bit easier) if you use some of the shards and destroy some, you get the neutral enging, only fight one boss, and basically meh
1st ending you embrace the darkness, last boss is your humanity and when you the darkness takes over you, opens a portal and wrecks havoc. 2nd ending you resist it completely and the trapezohdion thing (your weapon) tries to kill you to open the portal...etc 3rd ending is only some abilities corrupted hence you escape but trapezodude is still there which probably means that in one way or another he'll still get to do what he wants with or without eshe.
Please don't bunch up the Lovecraft mythos and the Cthulhu mythos. The Cthulhu mythos is the family-friendly re-adaptation of Lovecraft by a guy that thought it was a great idea to add a princess to the ranks of the cosmic horrors...
Nyarlothotep was around almost a decade before Cthulhu's first appearance, though the two merged in later stuff. The Nameless City, which provides a similar intro and setting, also came out around then too (1920 or so).
I loved the look of this game and playing it was fun. But the endings are pretty piss poor considering how long it takes to get to them. And playing that all again from scratch to get all the endings? Forget about it. Thank you for saving 100 hours of my life by showing me them all here. The bosses are awesome! The payoff for slogging through it all to see them on my own? Not so much.
The endings are pretty good in my opinion. And the change in gameplay through the different paths seems cool to me so ill give it a replay just going to put some time on it before i do.
he's using shield conversion and the shield elixirs, basically he never runs out of shield he *does* take damage but his shield just sponges all of it + by the endgame your shield capacity is about 4000 - 5000
It all happened in another dimension hence the portal references At the very beginning a creature captured her and dragged her to another dimension and the speaking creature lent her some of his powers to survive and the creature wanted to use her to open up a portal to the real world to take over etc. In the the corrupt ending she became a some sort of deity, in the normal ending she escaped to the real world through the portal when she defeated the last boss, and in the resist ending she is alive but not for long, she broke the portal to the real world and got stuck in the dimension so she technically can still be alive trying to survive but again technically she could die later on eventually
Valkyries were a mercenary army who were jealous of Eschatons or wanted something from them they fought and ended up opening a portal which turned them into monsters...I think
Ignore enemy shield (for the 1st round with Eshe) Resurrect once Finisher increased damage Other than that you simply have to get a good handle on her jumping and hooks.
What are you on about? There are clearly 4 bosses: Eshe, Humanity, Nyarlathotep, Nyarlathotep and the Shining Trapezohedron. Perhaps you yourself learned counting with Common Core?
Eshe is a boss... If you had watched it youd clearly see you fight a good eshe right before humanity, and then there's the resist ending bosses which solarian mentioned
the final boss looks simmiliar too photoshop flowey from undertale..but the vine attack and even the warning (with a red laser) and sound is *IDENTICAL*
The "Good" ending: is supposed to represent Eshe's will to sacrifice for others. She maybe had no idea that the gate between Eschaton and human world would break, but her breathing was a mixture of relief, exhaustion and sadness
The "Neutral" ending: Eshe is not a bad person, but barely maintains her own curiosity and lust for power, slipping through the gate Trapezohedron maybe was weaker in the human world, but was still alive and manipulative
The "Bad" ending: Eshe sacrifices her own humanity in order to satisfy her own will to survive, curiosity and lust for power, letting trapezohedron take full control over her actions
No matter what u loose
embrace ending feels good Eshe so badass with that scythe
Đaŕķ Přínçe That’s no longer Eshe, in that scene of course.
@@Ant-eu8xf so she doesn't control the abilities anymore or what?
or by killing humanity the narrator took over
Đaŕķ Přínçe Eshe is no longer in control. The Trapezohedron(what you name the narrator) posses her body during the full embrace. Since she fully embraced the powers, the Trapezohedron fully posses her. Before rising back to the desert, Eshe unknowingly kills herself leaving the Trapezohedron the pilot of her body and also ending life on earth to create it’s own world dooming what’s left of humanity and other species. To end on a reminder note, the Eschaton’s were trying to end life on earth to begin a new. That’s why some of the humans(Valkyries) attacked the civilization.
You know the game is Lovecraftian when the final boss has 15 apostrophes in its name.
Nyarlathotep IS from Lovecraft.
@@zz7073 what about the humanity boss?
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"Hello, Eshe."
That's what ST says at the end of the neutral ending, in case you wondered.
humanity boss: a writhing ball of flesh tentacles and various human body parts somehow slapped into a creature
perfect depiction of humanity
Somehow less horrifying than a kirby final boss
I think Humanity is not just supposed to represent Eshe, it is Eshe. From consorting with maddening eldritch powers, she transformed into an abomination just like the other bosses. What you are playing as is no longer Eshe, it is a thing from the void, the power that she was given that has consumed her. The battle is to determine the ownership of her soul, whether she keeps the portal closed or surrenders to the void. This is why you don’t fight Humanity directly.
@@diamondmetal3062 Humanity is supposed to represent what humanity actually is. This game is Lovecraftian. For Lovecraft morality is not real.
It's also a good depiction of what Eshe has done to her own humanity, torn it from herself, mutilated it, and thrown it aside. All in the name of returning home...
When you are surfing around the internet and find something quite frightening yet still interesting.
you need to check the game, because ju just described it whole :D frightening and interesting :D
@@janpavlik3170 that is definition of Lovecraft games and novels
I love it.....i put this loud to scare my neighbors..it was so subtle to me that it reminded me of unearthly creatures not from this world...i love scary demons..it scared my psyche at first was very intriguing###
Basically Lovecraft
i Find funny the good ending has no animation once you kill the boss, Eshe just stands there watching while all is gone like no cutscene
the bad has meh cutscene but is good
neutral is badass animation
Ya the neutral ending scared the shit out of me when i beat the game.
In the good ending, you sacrifice yourself. You don't get to see what happens because you are trapped forever in an underground cavern now devoid of life.
There's no end animation because there's nothing left. Eshe doesn't have her guide anymore, so if she wasn't killed instantly, she'll only be able to hold out for so long.
no happy ending....
the pure one is supposed to be happy cause you save the world
but she is still trapped in the darkness.... forever
aka every good lovecraft story ever
true lol but she should not be able to kill Nyarlathotep.
Can't remember the mythos if it takes gods powers to kill other gods but i only think there are about 2 that absolutely can't be killed, one is some sort of multidimensional gate god and the other is essentially the creator that's being perpetually put to sleep by his children singing to prevent him eating all of creation.
(edit):
Turns out it's not just multidimensional space gate, yog-sothoth is the gate to past present and future...funnily enough however he is one of the few that doesn't cause insanity.
Azothoth is basically the father to all creation, but he eats everything that he creates, so everyone decided to put him to sleep, so they have a bunch of old ones doing that for eternity.
If you think about it, the neutral ending is the only "good" ending here. On one end of the spectrum, you become an agent of madness and destruction. On the other end, you follow in the footsteps of people who lost their humanity in spirit through the wholesale slaughter of women and children, and in so doing you seal your fate to wander the caverns with no hope.
Neutral... is a slim beacon of hope. Perhaps now Eshe can talk to ST and convince him that compromise and a mixture of paths was always the key to salvation... that the inflexibility of the Eschaton drove the Valkyries to commit atrocities in the name of survival, and that the inflexibility of the Valkyries made them into war criminals and drove the Eschaton to shed their humanity. Perhaps she can convince him to help in some capacity.
It could also be theoretically just as bad as the embrace ending. Since Eshe was brought to the ancient city by the Trapezohedron, I doubt she has any way back there, and it is unlikely that anyone has the technology of the Valkeries anymore to destroy it. If the Trapezohedron cannot be reasoned with, then it will simply restart the cycle that happened before with the Valkeries and the Eschaton, attempting to to coax humans into opening the portal to it's realm until someone eventually succeeds or destroys it permanently. We don't know where Humanity is at by this point, but the game seems to imply that things were pretty bad for humanity at the time of the Valkerie as is. If things have only become worse for humans since the city became lost, it's hard to say if humans would still be willing to struggle against the Trapezohedron like the Valkerie did. The best ending is Beacon of Hope since Eshe is able to make the choice to resist, and while things maybe don't get better for humanity on the surface, they certainly won't get worse as a direct result of her actions. Also after the portal closes and the screen goes black, you can hear Eshe breathing, I like to think she is content with her choice.
@@Peranolde she probably can return there (to Eschaton), but it would need alot of convincing or a way to control Trapezohedron's power without his permittion
Resist was a good ending for me, cause I was kidnapped by some a-hole and forced to engulf his tentacle power playing as a female character. So out of spite and stubborness I just went and burned all the disgusting tentacle worm elder crystals and was fully satisfied to ruin its life together with mine, showing what a big mistake was to kidnap someone with a character and principles.
@@11darklight11 trapezohydron *kidnaps eshe*
Eshe: and I took that personally
The Eschaton always needed to be wiped out entirely.
Interesting depiction of Nyarlathotep. I got the "all abilities corrupted ending", the omni-directional blink is the best ability in the game.
Completely agree, I like how they took the job to balance all abilities and give and powerful edge on corrupted abilities. It makes the game feel so organic when the Nyarlathotep (or whatever) laughs at the valkyries' devices you gather.
@ "Nyarlathotep" is actually the Lovecraftian god they wanted to summon. The talking weapon/stone is probably a high ranking cultist that died and became that thing. He's said to be the only "Great One" in the mythology who's self aware and actively malignant, gathers followers using trickery and manipulation, so it would make sense that he would be the thing they were trying to summon. Anyways, if you choose to break the shards you get improved "technological" versions of the abilities and additional stats/perks in the stat tree. So either if you destroy or embrace the shards you will gain significant amounts of power.
Major Disarray According to the developers, and I think the Trapezohedron itself, the Eschatons, the group that’s not tech based, was created by a few people who gathered together a cult after finding the Trapezohedron.
As for the Trapezohedron itself, in Lovecraft, it’s stated to be an artifact specifically designed by aliens to summon Nyarlathotep.
Personally, I prefer the climbing everywhere ability.
I remember how i disliked the game because I had to do all that boring platforming but when i obtained the "spider" ability. I loved the game so hard, because i didn't need to take 1 minute platforming anymore; just 3 seconds climbing.
Although omni-directional blink is objectively better, i missed the vainilla dash because it was faster.
Sorry for my grammar.
I would love a second short epilogue game where, depending on what ending you chose, lets you either try to find your way out after destroying the Trapezohedron/Nyarlethotep and are welcomed into a broken but finally safe world. Or you get to go on a destruction rampage ending the world.
Facing yourself as a boss was the coolest boss fight of this game hands down.
I mean, I know it isn't a new concept to "face yourself" in games but... DAMN was that part fast paced, and really felt like I was fighting myself.
It is almost to bad that by the time I got there I was so buffed that I was basically never in any actual danger.
But that will not take away that it was the coolest fight, AND... the AI controled Eshe was playing relatively competently - which was so surprising to me given how the other bosses follow generally strict and "somewhat" limited move sets.
Which makes me think, if my stats were exactly the same as the NPC Eshe... I wonder if I would win.
And not to mention... THE SHEER FUCKING BADASSERY OF THE "BAD" ENDING!
Seeing "Humanity" emerge from Eshe the way it did, beating it and the final cinematic... just, damn!
By comparison to the good ending that felt rather... meh.
Which I assume was the point... the emptiness of self sacrefice.
... but damn for once I actually liked the "bad guy" ending, which is really rare for me!
Yeah, it's great, until you realize that you can ether Dash attack stunlock Eshe or just fucking delete her with the upgraded cannon in like 10 seconds :D
congrats on the tough challenge
I actually really liked all of those endings.
Me too, they took lovecraft really to the heart
I like them because they all feel relatively "correct." The 'bad' ending is the end of the world, but the lore you discover unveils that the world has basically already ended, and that the point of summoning the god was to create a NEW existence. The 'neutral' ending is just that, perpetuating the problem and the solution, and the 'good' ending is justifiable but also dooms humanity.
@@HashSl1ng1ngSlasher Thats why its a true Lovecraft game.
Cosmic Horror really shines in this game
Damn the ending where she becomes one with the void and unleashes hell on earth
Admittedly, the evil one is my favorite ending. The good end results in you trapped and weak; the neutral end is ominous with your companion giving off a concerning light. The bad ending is where you evolve, which is strangely satisfying
I love games animated like that as drawnings.
I went resist and totally focused all of my build around melee, the second part of that fight sucked...
Valithin Drathyr lol... That moment you realize the final boss is cannon only xD
uh oh... im about to do this....
Me too, but even if you have nothing in cannon, the shards you get from beating the first stage should be enough to buy tons of upgrades. You might have to beat it a couple of times to be able to beat the second, but it gets easier every time.
@@eshku my biggest problem with this game is that I never felt that it was my fault when I got hit. There's just too much shit running at you at once, you can only dodge a few times and most everything has contact damage. In the end, I didn't feel like I improved as much as I just dumped all my points into getting an amazing shield. Coming off of From Soft games, that's a big deal to me in a game like this.
@@Claydoc_ why do you even compare this to a from soft game?
I got the neutral ending, and then the void/embrace ending. Seriously loved the embrace ending (and the journey and abilities there).
I went full resist, and you DO get little upgrades there too, but they don't even compare to the Embrace abilities, just from looking at the wiki.
I couldnt resist the embrace powers, so in the end...well...my skin went a bit purple.
The Humanity boss fight is such a pain in the ass...
I think Nyarlaphotep doesnt need a human for anything. After more than 48 hours of this game i think it just wants to see you suffer at any given moment.
Given that it's Nyarlathotep, that's par for the course.
New edition
Sundered: Edritch Edition
Amazing job guys
Damn, I didn't know you needed to upgrade all skills from resisting to get the Resist ending. I thought you just had to destroy 100% of the shards you happened to collect. But it's destroy 100% of the shards in the game. I didn't collect the last 3 fragments, so only 6 upgraded skills, so I got neutral ending *cry*...
I'm disappointed that there is no ending for gathering all shards and just keeping them.
should have said "Greedy, Eshe..." and then turned her into a boss w/ a new hero unlocking her story in those "gem/story reveal" rooms
which is the correct end 1 or 2 or 3 ?
@@franciscofelix2251 i think the real ending is the embrace one, or maybe there isnt a "real" or correct one idk
@@franciscofelix2251 It may be all of them. There's no exploration or mention of timeline themes in the game, but since in Corruption you fight Eshe, Beacon of Hope, which is what you become if you beat Resistance, it could be that the void is where all timelines ultimately meet and your Resistance self, who gets lost in the void after defeating the final boss and is found there meditating in Corruption, is there with the intent to prevent Esche from the Corruption timeline from completing her mission and unleashing the Eshaton upon earth. In the neutral ending it's implied that the Trapazohedron intends to do something sinister, possibly pull Esche back to the beginning to reset everything until she gives in. The end result is that the end of the world can be stalled out but it's ultimately inevitable, which is consistent with Lovecraftian themes.
But man that is a stretch.
I've been wondering about that. Would it be an entirely new ending or the same as resist or neutral?
Embrace Ending:
Becomes someones puppet. BAD
Resist Ending:
Trapped forever. BAD
Neutral Ending:
Return to Earth while keeping ur awsome powers and possibly become immortal. ÒwÓ ur choice.
in the neutral ending i can faintly hear humanity's roar
You know, I'd like for a neutral ending to be the GOOD one for once. Moderation being a better policy than zealotry. But no, every game the neutral ending is crap.
Makes sense in this context, though, when you're talking about nigh-unstoppable, all-consuming elder gods. It's hard to defend being all "both sides" centrist with Cthulhu and the like. :)
i actually got the embrace ending because it glitched and the boss dissapeared but the crystal stayed in the middle of the arena i actually don't even know how it happened
4 final bosses?
ONLY ONE BOSS CAN BE FINAL!
tell that to Bloodborne. :p
PS: in Bloodborne, in case you are wondering, once you kill a certain boss, you get access to a choice that dictates whether you get one of 2 endings. You can literally say "no" to one of the endings, and you get to fight another boss, to get the other ending.
If you found 3 hidden items in the game and consumed them, then AS SOON as you kill the aforementioned boss, then another boss IMMEDIATELLY appears in the same arena without you having time to replenish your stuff.
All these 3 bosses are legitimate final bosses and depend on your actions only.
The idea that even humanity itself is an eldritch being is an interesting one
The Resist ending just feels so... empty. Is Eshe alive? If not, why rob the player of their victory by killing their Avatar? Is Earth back to normal? Did Eshe somehow become Humanity and fight Evil Eshe in a parallel dimension/time-travel paradox? If so, why does she keep the sword and not her Resist powers? For all the trouble the player goes through to collect and destroy all seven shards, the ending sure doesn't fulfill any sense of accomplishment. "Congratulations, you beat your Warlock Patron, here's a title card." It leaves more questions than answers and just feels cheap and empty.
The best 2d game. Love it. I wish see next episode for this game. Also I love the game - Below.
Well, none of these endings is happy ending. Poor lady
Mike Canion though Embrace ending could be seen as a good ending to Eshe
Thats lovecraft for you
Well none happy for Eshe, however i would say the resist path is best as she ends that horror for anyone else forever. She finished what the Valkyries started. Its a sacrifice really. Which is good in a way.
@@mrfizz55 But can you be certain that the Valkyries are the good guys? The Trapezohedron speaks like a cliche villain, but the story that unfolds says the Valkyries were basically a greedy, selfish, and militant race who in the name of resources and technological advancement invaded, pillaged, and exploited the Eschatons who were a peaceful race that kept to themselves. Perhaps Eshe escaping with all the powers of the elder shards is the good ending, a new hope for a world devestated by the ruthless Valkyries.
@@tjwoosta you're actually absolutely right. The valkyries sought to exploit and destroy them and it could have been for more nefarious purposes. But the fact remains that the Trapezohedron and what he and his people stood for was bad. Theyre looking to conquer and spread too and stopping that in my eyes is good at least for humanity.
No sure should I feel proud or dumb for fighting the neutral and bad end bosses with a melee critical hit build.
Nyor's true form is omnipotent and also invincible !!!
That's why he uses avatars. The ST is nothing more than a fraction, a minimal fraction from Nyar's true power.
I embraced and got the neutral ending. "How could this be?!"
The first boss fight gave me an idea what if we had pvp
Online co op and online PvP and pve
Thank god it doesnt 🙄
I wonder what's the last line of neutral ending.
I think something along "Hello Eshe"
Numina I think so to she thought it gone but the 'hello Eshe'
Numina i think it is "thank you Eshe"
I think it would be something especially taunting; right after the most difficult fight she's had so far, right after escaping from that eldritch hellhole...
T͈̜̬̀h̳͇̘͓̕̕͢a͙͙͟n̸̲͇͢k̺̣̟̗̫̰̳͕ ̴̧̮̀ͅy̷̰͕̠̙̘͝o͖͚͈͘ṵ̸̀,̨͔̀̀ ̴̯͍͔͖́E͈͎͎̠̠s̯̪̣̥̺͖͉̹͠h̞̘̖͖͜e̙̹
Envyus
Couldn't watch the Resist ending, because the portal kept pulling me into the glowing spiky bushes after the boss was defeated.
That keeps happening to me too. I thought i was going crazy.
Loved the game, but couldn't pass the last boss (Embrace ending}. Forcing you to do pinpoint precise air combat like that with the area being constantly blocked off and confined and a massive hitbox flying around that does obscene damage? Nope. Maybe if I didn't have to fight that confusing clone miniboss before hand, I'd have tried more, but it just felt unfair and fiddly.
Same here... even in normal difficulty, that's ridiculous!
"Humanity"
That's what OtherEshe becomes.
Seriously, wtf
OrionoftheStar she's lost her humanity and taken on the evil spirit. I think that mangled mess is the last piece of her humanity fighting against the evil that the shards have bestowed on what used to be Eshe
@@thoyo That is my favourited ending, in where she becomes a new more powerful being and reborn prepared to unleash hell.
Or humanity is now so alien to Eshe that that's what we all look like to her.
@@MCVessels
Fun, possibly connected note--
Nyarlathotep has a thousand forms, and each one is sufficient to cause insanity in at least one species. He can transform into a human.
Somewhere in the universe, there are beings who see humanity the same way we see Cthulhu.
Sundered 2 confirmed
The problem with the bosses of this game, is they're elder gods. So why can we fucking comprehend them?
what he said.
Meh, it's not a problem with the black pharoah. He takes human form all the damn time and talks to people with no problem.
Imagine not killing the resist final boss in 3 shots
+crit perk +crit Chance perk + gun damage perk + bullet regen
corruption all the way
Wait, why is your health constantly recovering? What perks are you using?
it's the one that turns all your health into the shield.
The perk that converts 40% of health into shield
Makoto ONUKI combined with the perk that turns the healing item into a shield version (and gives more) which kinda breaks it xD
Shield converter
Can someone please explain the lore for me?
Got the embrace ending. Love to make bad endings in lovecraft inspired titles :P
The Resist ending is the best for me
Nah man the voice over for the final boss almost makes me wish I didn't drop this game
almost...
Hi,
can you tell me which perks do you use?
from the comments, i find out that:
The perk that converts 40% of health into shield
shield conversion and the shield elixirs
Are we still getting that free DLC mentioned in steam & will it further the plot and game or just for fun?
The gong DLC was already released and it doesn't really further the story. The DLC focuses on explaining the "gong" sound that happens when enemies fill the screen and there's a certain boss who is responsible for that.
So the crystal shard is Nyarlathotep the entire time?
In the Lovecraft story, the Shining Trapezohedron is a catalyst to summon him.
He's a tricksy one, that Nyarlathotep.
Just one question: can you achieve all of the endings in one same save file?
I'm thinking to go for the resist ending and then reload, go for neutral, reload, and then embrace.
Is this possible?
no it is not, because when you keep your shards and not use them, you go with neutral ending. To go with pure ending you ahve to destroy them, thus being unable to use them anymore.
Ancestor hey thanks for the answer.
I have done neutral and pure endings already. Now i'm in corrupted, but damn Humanity is HARD
@@lucasgill7819 Its not that hard when you go in calmly, make sure to stay away from the bottom of the stage and never get too greedy or use dive attacks, time your teleports upwards and make sure to get a safe space when it uses the vines. I doubt you havent beat it by now but just in case.
How is your cannon doing so much damage? (Resist Fight) I have all the cannon upgrades and am using level 4 high density bullets but the amount of health coming off is only a fraction of what you're managing. I get done by the laser grid because I can't do enough damage quickly.
Perks?
this part look harder than a math problem...dammit
Please explain the endings to me
there are 7 abilities, if you upgrade all of them with Elder Shards (the upgrade is called a corruption) you jump from human tech to god power, and your soul gets partially destroyed by the Shining Trapezohedron, then you get the corruption ending
if you destroy all 7 shards, you get worse bonuses but the human ending (which is a little bit easier)
if you use some of the shards and destroy some, you get the neutral enging, only fight one boss, and basically meh
1st ending you embrace the darkness, last boss is your humanity and when you the darkness takes over you, opens a portal and wrecks havoc.
2nd ending you resist it completely and the trapezohdion thing (your weapon) tries to kill you to open the portal...etc
3rd ending is only some abilities corrupted hence you escape but trapezodude is still there which probably means that in one way or another he'll still get to do what he wants with or without eshe.
The resist bonuses aren't strictly worse. Your attack and defensive stats are boosted like crazy at the cost of mobility.
@@psychocrysis2 Yeah, the final boss didn't even manage to break my shield and i wasn't really dodging stuff either. Resist is bonkers
all of these boss are based off of hp lovecraft cthulu mythos
Please don't bunch up the Lovecraft mythos and the Cthulhu mythos. The Cthulhu mythos is the family-friendly re-adaptation of Lovecraft by a guy that thought it was a great idea to add a princess to the ranks of the cosmic horrors...
Cthulhu Mythos invented by August Derleth who added "good vs evil" concept which Lovecraft didn't have.
Nyarlothotep was around almost a decade before Cthulhu's first appearance, though the two merged in later stuff. The Nameless City, which provides a similar intro and setting, also came out around then too (1920 or so).
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I loved the look of this game and playing it was fun. But the endings are pretty piss poor considering how long it takes to get to them. And playing that all again from scratch to get all the endings? Forget about it. Thank you for saving 100 hours of my life by showing me them all here. The bosses are awesome! The payoff for slogging through it all to see them on my own? Not so much.
The endings are pretty good in my opinion. And the change in gameplay through the different paths seems cool to me so ill give it a replay just going to put some time on it before i do.
dont worry, cheat engine got u covered :D
That final bosses name though
I got the bad ending, so no happy ending after all well Fuck It. Overall this is a great game
first ending is best ending
how about ending when u don't use any shard and just save them?
same as the last ending,
the sword turns against you only if you destroy ALL shard, so destroy 3 or none will lead to the last ending
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it's not the sword,it's the the trhapezoedron
Everyone gangsta till eo6f85witwyke starts screaming
Is there any post game stuff to do cuz I haven't completed the game yet
🤯🤯 Termina mal?
Stupid Question. Why are you not taking any damage ?
he's using shield conversion and the shield elixirs, basically he never runs out of shield
he *does* take damage but his shield just sponges all of it + by the endgame your shield capacity is about 4000 - 5000
How did you do that attack you use against eche?
Eshe*
There's a hidden skill in the first area ruclips.net/video/CGN20olttRA/видео.html
I dont get the story, did this all happen on earth? Was this like her subconscious? Why was she still alive?
It all happened in another dimension hence the portal references
At the very beginning a creature captured her and dragged her to another dimension and the speaking creature lent her some of his powers to survive and the creature wanted to use her to open up a portal to the real world to take over etc. In the the corrupt ending she became a some sort of deity, in the normal ending she escaped to the real world through the portal when she defeated the last boss, and in the resist ending she is alive but not for long, she broke the portal to the real world and got stuck in the dimension so she technically can still be alive trying to survive but again technically she could die later on eventually
I don't think some of that is right. What about all the Valkyrie stuff? They are clearly humans in the future.
dragon0085 either that or a fictional time period/other worldly planet/dimension and as for the valkaries they were probably researching
Valkyries were a mercenary army who were jealous of Eschatons or wanted something from them they fought and ended up opening a portal which turned them into monsters...I think
Presumably there were a few survivors on the surface as Eshe doesn't appear to belong to either.
okay seriously, wtf is happening???
What perks did you use when you fought humanity??
Plz reply
Ignore enemy shield (for the 1st round with Eshe)
Resurrect once
Finisher increased damage
Other than that you simply have to get a good handle on her jumping and hooks.
I used the + crit Chance and + crit damage together with the iron skin perk
Sooo, none of them are good endigs
Yup, welcome to Lovecraft.
Ilham
12:35
This game has more endings ?? LOOOL
lul
Eshe looks like Ana from Overwatch
no. Ana from overwatch looks like Eshe.
💲
Not worth all the effort if you're just going to get such bleak shitty endings.
No good game ☹️
4 Final Bosses? You must have learned how to count with Common Core
What are you on about? There are clearly 4 bosses: Eshe, Humanity, Nyarlathotep, Nyarlathotep and the Shining Trapezohedron. Perhaps you yourself learned counting with Common Core?
Eshe isn't a boss you idiot
Joel Taggart The title card begs to differ.
Eshe is a boss... If you had watched it youd clearly see you fight a good eshe right before humanity, and then there's the resist ending bosses which solarian mentioned
I think he means only one boss can be "final"
the final boss looks simmiliar too photoshop flowey from undertale..but the vine attack and even the warning (with a red laser) and sound is *IDENTICAL*
No, not really.
cringe (three years ago, but still)