I really don't know what to say, but at this point, I feel like I have to be honest. Spoilers by the way. Coming from someone who hasn't played past the last official release. The ending of the game felt really nice, all the buildup with the chaos enemies, the feeling of the world splitting apart, and then fighting and, I guess, freeing the goddesses. I could feel like everything was building up to something big. Then you fight the manifestation of chaos, and he gives you this choice. The "bad end", I guess, where you agree with them is a cool ending, so I did that first, reloaded and went to fight the "real final boss". Except the boss won, Fee fell, and then boss was then just killed by someone else.
It honestly felt awful to come all this way, be the hero up until the 11th hour, and then have victory taken away, to the point I didn't believe that could be the real ending. I reloaded my save, grabbed the dev sword, used an ultimate tonic L, and the boss did 2k damage to me.
Then, no matter what ending you got, there wasn't really a reward. In the bad ending, the girl Fee turns in to goes to get spanked and the credits roll, and ya, I guess that's fine for that one, but in the "good ending", where Fee becomes a supposed "champion", she returns to someone I've never even seen before, and just agree to get spanked before the credits roll and nothing happens. It felt like all the strength and progress in the game that I had made meant nothing, and none of the things I did mattered in the end. There wasn't even a "post-game save" I could do to get back to the main game.
Honestly this exact same feeling happened in the slime cave as well. This "super dungeon" that encompassed the whole game, and the reward for the end was Fee getting spanked for an unjustified reason. I love the idea of a slime queen, thats exactly what I would have wanted at the end, but then Fee just gets grabbed by two monsters, who we just kicked the crap out of on the way down, and she just doesn't fight back. I wanted at least an option to fight and capture her, maybe make a permanent room in the silkfang for her. It felt like all that build-up, had just gone to waste.
I don't know, I might just be the only one that feels like this, and maybe I'm crazy. I also want to make sure that you know this doesn't take back any of my previous compliments. Your dungeon design and world building is still amazing, and the plot is still great, minus the endings. You're a really good game designer, that's why I felt like I needed to say this, instead of keeping silent.
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John Doe- What is a name?
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