Throughout the game, you are constantly droped hints about Koholent being a fake world of some sort, the bosses being "Nightmares", Marin looking like Zelda amoungst other things.
But nothing prepares you for the ending, I rember talking my friend through the final boss and he was totaly awestruck aswell, just as everything melted away.

Zelda, as an RPG, isn't too reliant on it's script but when ti does use it, it uses it with extreme force.

I think the whole thing of the Colossus taking over his body to become the greater colossus was a pretty damn interesting ending...then being able to play as him so you get a nice view of how the colossus viewed you in the battles. The whole fact he did all that slaying, to basically end up dying for his love...pretty intense to me

The storyline is not very deep by any means, however, not much storyline isneeded for a game like this. The actual story is located on page 6 in your instruction booklet.

Several years ago in an island nation known as Horai, a powerful man named Tenro Horai found buried the Power of the Gods known as Ubusunagami Okinokai.

From this, he recovered great powers and set off with his followers who called themselves the "Divine Ones" and began to conquer other nations. They told people they were "The Chosen People" and they carried out their duties in "the name of peace." After a while, a group known as Tenkaku developed to challenge the Horai.

They fought and fought but lost battle after battle and were almost entirely wiped out. Only one man survived, and his name was Shinra. He set off again but was shot down and landed in a village known as Ikaruga. The inhabitants were sent into exile because of Horai's conquests and were sympathetic to his cause.

They nursed him back to health and gave him a ship they developed known as the Ikaruga.

Kagari, Shinra's new partner, was once a Horai assassin sent to kill Shinra. He was shot down but Shinra rescued him and saved his life. From then on, Kagari has fought with Shinra flying the Ginkei, modified by the Ikaruga people to be like the Ikaruga fighting plane, to help him defeat Horai and save the world.

At this point, you will get 500,000 points for each of your remaining lives. After that, the robot voice will say "Release the restrain device. Using the released power may result the possibility of destruction of the ship. You did your best. Was I helpful to you? I am deeply grateful to you." What it comes down to is that Shinra in his ship, the Ikaruga, fires all of his remaining energy at the Ubusunagami Okinokai to destroy it, but destroys his ship in the process. It is quite a tragic ending of Shinra giving his life to save the
world.

How they managed to fit such a diverse storyline into an arcade shooting game is amazing.

I wasn't expecting Bastila to be alive in the first place. Too caught up in being...ya know, the Dark Lord of Mordor--I mean, of the Sith. Since I was a chick, I never fell in love with her, so yeah. And apparently I could convert Bastila back to the light side. It really sucks that I TRIED everything good to say, but I still ended up killing her.

To see Sigma, as a solid being, destroyed once and for all was pretty shocking for me. I never expected Lumine to end up being evil, much less the final boss.

I grew attached to every character in the X universe over the last decade and to see one killed off in a state of loosing his mind(or was it already lost?) was pretty shocking(as hard as it may be to believe that).

Zero doesn't count, Sigma actually has a way of returing(The virus) where as Zero doesn't.

From the moment you go up to face Guildenstern and on, the entire ending sequence is cinematic. When Tia and Marco bid Ashley farewell, it pulls at the heartstrings. Seeing the Blood Sin on Ashley's back. Hardin's death. Sydney and his father's burden finally being relieved. And finally, the last shot of Ashley, the Vagrant, beginning a new story. Even the art that's shown during the staff roll, compounded with the music, is worth the play-through. What a rewarding experience it was to beat that game.

After destroying Con-human, the center of the earth, it blows up, taking the rest of the world with it. You LITERALLY see the earth blow up. Cue end credits. Zoom in on your broken ship to see on the completely mashed opened cockpit, and on it, the words "mission complete" are seen, just before completely crashing.

Protoss campaign ending where Tassadar sacrifices himself to destory the Overmind. With the music and all, that still remains my favorite video game cinematic ever.

The entire ending sequence from the time ICO falls from the bridge, the spectacular cage jumps, the stormy cliffs, the battle with the shadows, and the Queen herself were just superb. When shadow Yorda saved ICO's life and the castle crumbled to 'You Were There' at the end, I was almost in tears.

Leading up to the final battle, you visit your home village, Crysta, only to find that everyone starts going a bit demented. Eventually turning into spirits and attacking you. Babbling about how if you'd never bothered doing anything, life would have been okay. The Dark Gaia now wants to wipe Ark (you, Mr. Hero!) from existance, and tra la la, you go off to destroy him.

Now you're informed that everyone you've come to know in Crysta were just clones from 'the real world'. You get to spend one last day there, as it was, where nobody knows what's going on, what's happened. Plopping yourself into bed, Ark dreams of flying over the Earth as a flower thing in full Mode 7 glory. With perhaps the greatest ending music ever. It's still to this day, the only ending sequence which has made me cry.

They all had a deeper plot towards the end and you just expected a sequel with an even batter plot and it turns out that ocelot is just about the mastermind of it all since he's working for the patriots

This was a surprise, we all knew that Tidus was suppose to fade away as a dream but when the end finally came up I thought he would find a way to stay. This was a final fantasy that didn't have a real complete happy ending and I just loved it. I like to think FFX-2 never existed ~_~

I'm a sucker for an epilogue quest, and Lunar:EB had one of the best. Going through and gathering up all of your party members to once again take up the fight, but not to save the planet. This time, it's all for the love of an alien.

That's right, Hiro gathers up the gang and they begin a new journey -- to fulfill their individual goals and then to help Hiro get back together with Lucia! Eventually, their quest leads them to fight the Star Dragon, guardian to the entrance of the Blue Star where Lucia sleeps inside her green crystal.

A glorious battle for love ensues, with Hiro being victorious! Afterwards, he and his comrades give him a tearful farewell and wish him the best of luck, and he journeys to the Blue Star. In true Hiro fashion, he climbs on Lucia's crystal and starts tapping on it, and she is startled to see him once again.

The story ends, the credits roll, and Lucia and Hiro stand together watching over the vastness of the Blue Star.

The whole epilogue unraveled things that made my stomach hurt ;\ I felt bad about killing Big Boss and such. Even the fight against the uber tank-like machinery was rather cinematic. I thought Eva was going to die after the car wreck but thankfully she didn't.

The whole fight against Boss in that field, Ocelot's ride on the chopper, etc were fantastic. Then the whole explanation in America planted the little seed that'd lead to Big Boss growing angry with the government, and going off to make a Mercenary Heaven of sorts that opens up the Metal Gear series.

My final run of the game I planned to stop shortly after breaking out of the facility after Snake lost his eye but I kept on going and going and going until the very end. It just glued me to the controller.

Learning that everything you've played up to the final part of the game, where you died, was a simulation to prepare you for humanity's last stand. During the game you had all those visual clues and visions telling you about the truth, even your HUD display dissapears when you wake up.

Also, you live some parts that you've already seen but since Time Travel is part of the scenario, you live them again from a different perspective. Awesome game!

First of all, knowing that the big underworld boss Mizo was actually the announcer G.T. Blitz all along. He killed his own father because he devoted his life to racing and left his family. Jeez...then Rayn, whom you had been helping all along to stop Mizo, played a nice charade acting like she was poisoned. Now she's running Kras City. MUCH better ending than Jak 3. Oh, and Jak and Keira finally kiss. Bout damn time, only took 'em four games. :D

Germany lost

The Philosophers were a group formed by a group of elites from the US, Soviet Union, and China to manipulate the course of human history. At some point the American branch breaks off. They call themselves "The Patriots". In the course of MGS 2 you find out that Raidan, Solidus, and even Snake are being used by the Patriots as tools for their own ends. Solidus is trying to use Metal Gear Ray to break the Patriots hold over America, and by extension the world. Raidan is a tool being used to test a new breed of super soldier. His girlfriend Rose was a plant. As for Snake I don't think his role envisioned by the Patriots has been completely revealed. Maybe MGS 4? At the very end of the game Octagon tells Snake that all the people listed on data aquired towards the end of the game; the supposed list of "Patriots" have long since been dead for many years. That's basically all I can remember. >.<

shoot 10 ghosts

that's it. The end. A WASTE OF F*****G TIME!

Yes that is pretty much stated at the end of the game when The Boss talks to Snake about the Philosophers legacy, however they had not come up with the name of Metal Gear yet, but the schematics for Rex were shown. It ties up nicely to MGS1 then 2, because some parts remind me what happened in the other two games.

Probably one of my most treasured games, the ending for Breath of Fire IV was amazing. All the events that were leading up to the final showdown between Ryu and Fou-Lu had so much depth and sadness; the children that were tortured and killed by General Rasso, finally meeting up with Elina, and, of course, Mami and the hex (to this day, that's probably one of the sadest scenes I've ever seen). Now that I look back on it, I'm not surprised why Fou-Lu wanted to end the world/rid the world of The Endless; literally everywhere he went, all he saw was chaos and madness created by the mortals.

AND THE FACT THAT YUNA SURVIVED. Omigod, that pissed me off to no end. You discover that this guy was pretty much the man behind all the crazy evil shit; I expected some sort of divine retribution (much like how Fou-Lu beheaded the Emperor Somiel - damnit why didn't they keep tha scene in the game??), but no, he survives, and it's hinted that he'll just make as many man-made endless as he wants. Seeing the true bad guy of a game go practically scot-free blew me away.

Completly disregarding the shit storyline of X-2, seeing Tidus just fade away made me really surprised and sad (I expected him to find a way to survive, much like he did with Yuna, y'know?). Yuna's ending speech was icing on the cake. She lost her true love, but she was strong enough to move foward into the bright future. :tpg:

PRISM's reward for saving the nation is a final simulation where the Plan never existed, and he is allowed to live out the rest of his years as his simulated human alter ego, Perry Simm.

Our last glimpse into Perry's life is playable. It involves the final moments at his home before he and his wife depart to join Earth's first colony into space.

>feeder, transmit record buffer
"Now transmitting record buffer."

>enter comm mode
You have entered Communications Mode. The following locations are equipped with communication outlets:
PRISM Project Control Center (PPCC)
Research Center Rooftop (RCRO)
Dr. Perelman's Office (PEOF)
PRISM Facility Cafeteria (PCAF)
Maintenance Core (MACO)
World News Network Feed (WNNF)
To activate a specific outlet, submit the associated code.

>z
Time passes...

>z
Time passes...

A message begins coming over the message line: "PRISM!" It's Perelman, sounding giddy with joy. "You've done it! That was brilliant, absolutely brilliant, sending your recordings out over the World News Network! Ryder just left here so fast and so mad like nothing I've ever seen! The switchboard is lighting up like crazy, and I just got off the phone with President Bowden himself!" You hear the sound of whooping and cheering in the background, and Perelman gives a "Yeehah!" more suited to a Texas cattle rancher than a Jewish big-city scientist. "The National Guard unit has just been recalled! PRISM, the Plan is dead in the water -- you're a hero!"

* EPILOGUE *

Your visual and audio circuits are now hooked directly to the programming of the World News Network:

"PRISM, the supercomputer who exposed the Ryder scandal, will soon be granted his final request: to live out the remainder of his days -- and how long that might be, nobody knows -- simulating his human existence. PRISM, who recently received the Congressional Medal of Honor as well as a citation from President Bowden, has been spending much of his time in simulations, giving top grades to the administration's new program to replace the discredited Plan.

"At a press conference in Rockvil, Doctor Abraham Perelman, one of the creators of PRISM, insisted that the world's first intelligent machine was, in fact, quite human." The picture cuts to Perelman, standing behind a podium. "His body may be silicon and steel," Perelman is saying, "but in his heart he's as human as anyone I've ever met. As PRISM prepares to embark on his final voyage of the mind, I'd like to read a line from 'Hamlet' as his epitaph, so to speak: 'He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again.'"

The image from the WNN Feed suddenly blinks off, and you find yourself back at the entry level of Communications Mode. The list of outlets indicates that none are currently active. A message is coming in: "PRISM, programming of the [MORE]Simulation Controller with the parameters of the New Plan is complete. Everything is set for you to enter Simulation Mode. From all of us here at the PRISM Project, thanks and farewell."

>enter sim mode
Class One Security: waived. This simulation is based 60 years hence.

Solarium
This enclosed sunporch of your penthouse apartment is surrounded by an outdoor patio, accessible to the south. To the north is a sprawling living room.

>n
Living Room
Sunken, comfy pillowseats form a vaguely oval perimeter around a central circular fireplace. The rest of the furniture has been removed. The dining room lies beyond a bamboo screen to the east. An open, curving stair leads up to the master bedroom, and a foyer leads north.
There is a newspaper here.

>take paper
Taken.

>read it
The headline story is about a newly released study which indicates that the average life expectancy for both sexes has now passed one hundred years, and success in the development of regeneratives should send that figure even higher. Despite the dropping mortality rate, global population remains stable at just under two billion, with offworlding now running at a staggering seven million people annually.

To celebrate next month's special twentieth anniversary Disarmament Day, the World Council has passed a bill authorizing fireworks displays in each of the former capital cities of the twenty-two former nuclear powers. The fireworks displays, by Aerialist designer Jean M'gomo, will feature disarmament themes, and will be the largest display of pyrotechnic art in this century.

A story on an inside page catches your eye: "Perry Simm, Noted Author, To Join Crew of Silver Dove," reads the headline. "Perry Simm, author and poet, recipient of the 2089 Mexicana Prize, has been selected from nearly a thousand applicants to be the resident author aboard the Silver Dove, the space colony that is currently being equipped for mankind's first interstellar journey, a trip expected to last a dozen generations."

>s
Solarium
This enclosed sunporch of your penthouse apartment is surrounded by an outdoor patio, accessible to the south. To the north is a sprawling living room.

>s
Patio
Sunlight spills off the vines and shrubs of this wide outdoor terrace. The view, always breathtaking, seems particularly sharp today; beyond the parklands and forests to the west, the foothills of the Rockies are clearly visible; to the south, the river bends around Rockvil before flowing upcountry toward North Dakota and the Garrison Lakes. The glass-walled sunporch lies behind a curtain of vines to the north.

>n
Solarium
This enclosed sunporch of your penthouse apartment is surrounded by an outdoor patio, accessible to the south. To the north is a sprawling living room.

>n
Living Room
Sunken, comfy pillowseats form a vaguely oval perimeter around a central circular fireplace. The rest of the furniture has been removed. The dining room lies beyond a bamboo screen to the east. An open, curving stair leads up to the master bedroom, and a foyer leads north.

>n
Foyer
This bright, airy hallway runs northwards from the living room to the apartment door. Tall, arched entrances lead east and west, and the bath is down a few steps to the southwest.

>sw
Bath
An antique, tile decor masks the ultramodern features of this large bathroom. A whirlpool tub fills the far end of the room. The exit, up a few steps, is northeast.

>ne
Foyer
This bright, airy hallway runs northwards from the living room to the apartment door. Tall, arched entrances lead east and west, and the bath is down a few steps to the southwest.

>n
A hologram of Jill appears. "Don't go out, hon! The skycab will be here any second!" The image vanishes.

>s
Living Room
Sunken, comfy pillowseats form a vaguely oval perimeter around a central circular fireplace. The rest of the furniture has been removed. The dining room lies beyond a bamboo screen to the east. An open, curving stair leads up to the master bedroom, and a foyer leads north.

>u
Master Bedroom
This is a huge, round bedroom, encircled by windows. A stairway leads down to the living room. As elsewhere, the furniture has been removed.
Jill is here, doing some last-minute packing.

>look at jill
Jill's healthy demeanor and graceful pose are more befitting a woman twenty years her junior. She is here, doing some last-minute packing.

>d
Living Room
Sunken, comfy pillowseats form a vaguely oval perimeter around a central circular fireplace. The rest of the furniture has been removed. The dining room lies beyond a bamboo screen to the east. An open, curving stair leads up to the master bedroom, and a foyer leads north.

>s
Solarium
This enclosed sunporch of your penthouse apartment is surrounded by an outdoor patio, accessible to the south. To the north is a sprawling living room.

The gentle voice of your domestic computer calls softly from one of its many unseen speakers. "The skycab you asked for is now waiting on the roof." Jill appears at the top of the steps with the robutler, who is carrying several bags. "Algie has everything, Perry. Let's get going!"

You take a last look around the apartment and follow Jill and Algie into the hallway and up to the roofpad. As you clamber into the waiting skycab, Jill gives the robutler a fond farewell pat. The skycab climbs lazily and veers off to the northeast.

Skycab
This skycab is a luxurious, top-of-the-line model, a veritable sky limousine. The opulent features include reclining seats, tinted zero-glare windows, and a two-meter viewscreen.

>look at viewscreen
At the moment, the screen is dark.

The cab enters the central Rockvil traffic pattern, gently curving along the ring of downtown parks. You can see a festival of some sort in Halley Park. The gold and crimson tents of the festival form a multicolored patchwork against the green background of the city's oldest park.

Jill, glancing through yet another magazine article on the Silver Dove, says, "This story talks about the new athletics and art forms that are still being discovered for the weightless area at the axes of the habitats. Oh, Perry, I'm so excited," she adds, unnecessarily.

>z
Time passes...

The skycab continues its wide arc around the downtown area, approaching the Rockvil Pier. The river is dotted with sailboats, and a tourboat is just pulling away from the pier for a daytrip upriver, through Montana to the Devil's Tower region of Wyoming. Along the river, south of the pier, are the outdoor shells and amphitheatres of the Riverside Cultural Center.

>z
Time passes...

As the cab whisks northward along the edge of the river, you can make out the gleaming surface of the receiver station, nestled among the forests west of the city, where orbiting solar collectors beam their precious energy.

>z
Time passes...

As the skycab begins its approach to the spaceport, it passes over the museum established on the site of the former BSF Base, a sobering monument to one of mankind's great follies.

Suddenly the viewscreen lights up, and Mitchell's face appears. "Hi, Mom, Dad! I wanted to wish you bon voyage, and I enlisted a little help!" He expands the field of vision to include the entire living room of his spacious apartment at the Marine Biology Institute in Nova Scotia. The room is filled with your grandchildren and great-grandchildren, plus various in-laws, more than twenty members of the Simm clan. Everyone is hooting, yelling, waving, and blowing kisses. "We're having a big party in your honor -- I'm only sorry we couldn't be there with you. We're real proud of you both, and excited for you, too. Call me when you get to the habitat! Bye!" The clan signs off by singing Auld Lang Syne, and when the screen goes dark, you notice that Jill's eyes are wet, and a second later you realize that yours are, as well.

>z
Time passes...

With the gentlest bump, the skycab settles into a landing bay at the spaceport terminal. Jill reaches over and gives your hand an excited squeeze. Through the window of the skycab, you can see the sleek, white shuttle waiting to carry you on your first leg of the journey to...to what? The Silver Dove would be more than just another space colony. It was the pinnacle of an eon of human achievement, the first step into interstellar space.

You and Jill would never live to see the completion of that first step, generations hence. (Although in the germfree, low-gee environment of a habitat, and with the recent strides in health and longevity research, who could say for sure?) But you would still have been part of that dawning of a new age, that future of unlimited potential. Humanity was beginning a journey into the universe, a voyage that would last forever.

It's just so clever. Throughout the later stages of the game you begin to see someone stealing the dagger of time in your visions. Eventually the visions reveal the theif to be the Princess. The Prince initially loses a lot of trust in the Princess but it's ok becuase after getting catapulted from the tower they wake up togethor in darkness. They use this time to tell each other stories in which the Princess revelas some magic word her Grandmother used to say or some shit. More stuff that I can't remember happens but I do clearly remember them fucking in a pool.

The Prince wakes up in bed, dagger fucking gone, sword gone, Princess gone and sand creatures making their way towards him. No time for a shirt only time to run.

You see the Princess battle valiently against a new, final sand creature. But she's weak as piss and gets knocked off a ledge. But here comes hero Prince to save her, never mind that she used her vagina to steel your treasure, your weapon and leave you for dead, better save her life. Oh no but this time our athletic Prince is too slow and instead of catching her hand, catches the blade of the Dagger of Time. As her weight causes it to slide a little cutting his hand in the process (he's pretty tough.) There's a highly symbolyic montage as they stare into each others eyes and blood seeks down the Dagger. Then suddenly Farah the Princess lets go and falls to her death.

This gets our Prince super pissed and he flips out and kills all the nearby sand monsters. In the next room is the Vizier and our super angry Prince, after putting up with the obligatory temptation of sex with the Vizier jumps up onto a pillar and onto the hourglass, plunging the dagger inside.

The world falls into a huge vortex.

And then like your in the past. And you know how at the very beginning of the game you walked into a room from the balcony from the title screen? Well you waled into Princess Farah's bedroom and throughout the entire game the Prince had been telling his story not to you but to the Princess. So it was all like he was in the past, telling the Princess about an adventure he had in the future! And he warns her about the on coming attack, plotted by the Vizier in the first place! She dismisses such nonsense citing the Vizier's loyalty to India.. But SURPRISE Vizier in the room and it's on!

But anyway so you totally kill the Vizier and the Princess apologises for dismissing your conspiracy claims but then asks something to the effect of "Why did you have to tell such an elaborate bullshit story?" the Prince looks exasperated but wastes no time and grbs her and kisses her. The Princess doens't like this surprise and calls rape.

The Prince sighs, gets the dagger of time, travels back about 3 seconds and instead of kissingg her goes "lol yeah it was a pretty gay story" and jumps into a tree. Before he slides back down he says whatever magic word it was Farah's Grandmother told her. He slides down the tree and Farah looks all confused.

Final Fantasy 4 (Also my favorite game of all time).
When I was a kid, the first time seeing it was just the best. I found out Cecil was Golbez's brother, the party defeated Zeromus and everyone moved on with their lives, completely finishing up the storyline.
Cecil & Rosa got married and became leaders. Edge became king of Eblan. Yang became king of Fabul. Palom & Porom continue their studies, but are much more powerful. Edward rules Damcyan. Giott scraps the tanks to rebuild his castle.
Edge shows his love for Rydia. Everything finished up great.

Harry ,your son,that was shocking surprise.

Its revealed that Killer is you ,yourself.

Just as the final boss is approaching, you realize that by killing the Mana Beast, mana will disappear forever, and as a result the sprite in your party will cease to exist. You go through the final battle and kill the thing, everything goes black (or white, I can't remember which, it's been a while), and you and the girl wake up on the ground...and the sprite is nowhere to be found. After the credits and everything it shows you putting the sword back, and the game ends with the sprite sitting in the trees watching the night sky. All of that, put with "Now Flightless Wings", that made me want to cry.

Because in the end, when the empty, barren field burst into a field of flowers and you have to kill Boss with the fighting style you developed together... it was just beautiful. (then you had the three snakes slithering around representing his lineage)

Eve turns out to be a double agent, Boss turns out to be the real hero, the true patriot here, and Ocelot continues to pull the strings behind everyone's movements.

When Big Boss shed a tear, I nearly did so myself.

the battle in the flower field was just awesome. as was Eva's revelation and everything she said about The Boss. and I almost cried when Snake was standing in front of her grave, with the tear rolling down his cheek.

I also love the MGS2 ending.
I know it's confusing but that's exactely why I love it. when playing it the second time you understand the ending (a little more). at least that's how it was for me.

so sad. that was the firt game ending that ever made me cry. (I know I'm a crybaby) :> when Tidus and the Aeons faded away. Yuna's speech and everything <3

to me that's one of the best sequences out of all the Resident Evil games. it always sends shivers down my spine when I see how Raccoon City explodes.

It's just the pathway of how you go down your route of either salvation/destruction. What blew me away was the fact not the monsters, but Torque's sense of perception, his insanity, why he fucks up. Such thing about the lines of aggression and sanity are crossed and while it was not a tear-jerker, it made my blood cold and warm again.

Basically as JC Denton you could choose to do one of three things. You could destroy the centralized communication network in Area-51, freeing the world from oppresion by a hidden hand, but sending it into a relative dark age. Or you could merge with that same centralized network, becoming a benevolent dictator that is everywhere and nowhere. Finally, you could allow the Illuminati to return to power, once again guiding the world with a hidden hand.

The crew just destroyed the gnosis that absorbed the reactor for Proto Merkabah, and they still have to stop it from slamming into the capitol of second miltia. Even with a convenient separation code to split the entire station apart, they barely have the time to get out with their lives, nearly leaving KOS-MOS behind much ot Shion's dismay. Even then, they escape at full speed right into the planet's atmosphere and the Elsa begins to buckle under the excess of heat. KOS-MOS again goes out and saves their asses from the fire, albeit the means of how she does it comes out of the left field. Mix all this in with dramatic brass and strings and it just leaps out at you. No game I've played had such a grand ending, even if it wasn't the end to the series.

Were you one of those people that thought Rinoa was/is Ultimecia? Thinking that way made the game and it's ending kind of... tragic. To say the least.

At times in retrospect, the scene is incredibly corny, but more often than not, I was just absolutely stunned with emotion at the fading away part. Tidus fading away and hugging a very depressed Yuna, is one of the most romantic things that I've enjoyed watching in my life :)

The dream demon Beatrice is apparently responsible for the world's amnesia of why it is in a wasteland state instead of the perfect greenery it was a mere year ago. Lamium the cult leader knows this too I guess, and as the group runs in, Lamium saves the group from an ambush shot that Beatrice planned, by taking the shot. You kill her alternate filgaia, and teach her a lesson....but the cult comes in, and they think your group killed Lamium. Beatrice FRAMED the group and now the saviours of the wasteland have instantly become fugitives with no one to disprove that belief!!! I was pissed at Beatrice, but some comfort came with that highly symbolic single flower at the very last scene after the start of the "Western shootout". This just gripped me very effectively :):)

Nothing, just a lame message for escaping the goddammit island...after dealing with a very hard game

The way Snake stands in front of Boss' grave and lays down the Patriot pistol, then salutes with a tear rolling down his cheek. By that time you really feel his grief, knowing how the Boss had to go on with her staged defection and die by her student's hand, EVA being a double-agent, I just can't help it.

When you get your ass knocked out by the Solus, almost as if you are paralyzed, and Alex starts to try and beat him down, seeing what he does to her, and what her actions are afterwards nearly caused me to lose it, I think.

Then when you see the nuke fall in from above, you think that it's the end...but then BAM...reawaken in the future with a new goal...get stronger, go back, and kick some ass, and pretty much connects on how Alex knows you from the beginning, and why she thought you were so weak.

The scene when you are injected with the perfect T'ellengan(sp?) cells, jumping up through the grate and just going to down is still one of my most favorite parts to any game I've played.

All in all, being able to choose whether or not to stay in your world (bad ending?) and going into Alex's world to save hers (good ending) was quite well done as well.

Not just in the end credits, one of the best moments that blew me away was when Princess Zelda calls for the six sages and you see the chamber of the sages and the seal open...I come back to that game just for this scene sometimes...now if I could just find a recording of it...also, the ending of Majora's Mask (especially the music) blew me away

Daos: I've killed your wife.
Maxim: NOOOO!
Daos: I'm gonna drop this island on your kid.
Maxim: NOOO!!!!!!!
Daos: HAHA.
Iris: I have appeared.
Maxim: Wait, you're Erim. WTF?!
Iris: Sorry.
Maxim: Tell me how to screw up Daos plans.
Iris: Fine. *opens door*
*Maxim kicks the crap out of 3 stones, sends Doom Island in a goofy direction, dies*
World: Yay! Let's party with Maxi...oh shit.

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED EARTH! THERE IS A SPECIAL BONUS AVAILABLE IN THE MAIN MENU!

And come to find it's the original Space Invaders in its black and white glory. Yay!

All of the intricate plot points aside; the way Raziel gave himself up to the Reaver and allowing Kain to control it was pretty mind melting.
I'm very curious to see how Kain is going to challenge that Fate God in the next LoK game...if there indeed is another one in the works.

How big of a "AW CMON WHAT HAPPENS NEXT???" moment was that History Abhors a Paradox cliffhanger?

But it really sucked for me to see Raziel, one of my favorite characters (And Micheal Bell as a favorite VA) go like that. I really hope there's another LoK game. That ending, cool as it was, left me wanting more.

Raziel V.O.:
With all other foes exhausted, the conjoined blades turned themselves on me.
And I realized, finally, why I had sensed nothing when Janos offered me the blade. The Reaver was never forged to be a soul-stealing weapon...

[The Reaver plunges toward Raziel and impales him. His eyes widen in agony,
despair and recognition.]

Raziel V.O.:
... the ravenous, soul-devouring entity trapped in the blade was - and always had been - me. This is why the blade was destroyed when Kain tried to strike me down - the Reaver could not devour its own soul. The paradox shattered the blade. So - this was my terrible destiny - to play out this purgatorial cycle for all eternity... I could not bear it - despair overwhelmed me.

For those that haven't played, the game all takes place underground. It's about trying to get Nina, an experimental "being" made to purify the air, out to reach the sky. Along the way, people are trying to capture Nina, Ryu the main character, and Rin the companion. Ryu gains the power to transform into a dragon with awesome powers, but there's a drawback. There's a dragon counter that when it reaches 100%, he dies.

So all through the game, it is clear that Ryu will risk anything to get Nina to the sky, while trying to keep the dragon counter from reaching 100%. So they finally reach the last boss...

It turns out the last boss is a powerful dragon, and Ryu needs to transform to beat it. As he uses his dragon powers, the counter starts climbing up to 100%. The boss still alive, Ryu pushes the counter to 150%, and finally 200%. Doing all this to allow Nina to reach the sky. After the battle, Ryu tells Nina that he needs to rest and have Lin take her to the sky first.

As Nina happily climbs the stairs to reach outside, we see Ryu sitting on the floor all limp. Lin notices but doesn't say anything to Nina and continues walking with a sad face. Once outside, Nina realizes that Ryu hasn't come yet and rushes back inside. She sees Ryu sitting on the floor not moving. He did push the dragon counter past 100% afterall. Crying and running back to Ryu she trips to the floor.

During this time, Ryu was given a chance to live by the dragon power because of his actions. So as Nina gets up from the floor, we see Ryu reaching a hand up towards the sky at Nina saying "I'm here Nina". The screen fades to black and the credits roll.

The story was great, and the ending finished it up nicely. I was sad at first, thinking Ryu died and never got to see Nina outside, but then happy that Ryu actually survived.

You fight the boss. He kicks your ass and you ascertain that he's used the princess' powers to become invincible.

Shortly afterwards, you find the princess. The boss having gotten what he wanted from her, she's been released. When you find her she gives you her pendant and says, "when you fight the boss, break this pendant. It will make him mortal again."

So you do so and you kill the boss.

Then you return to the princess. She's dead. Her nurse says "she didn't tell you that when you broke the pendant, it would kill her too."