I have been pretty submerged into playing this game…so I haven’t been able to make an overall impressions post yet. I hope to be able to do that soon!!
In the meantime, though, I’ve made it through both the A and B endings and have posted my bad videos on YouTube, unlisted and hopefully a little secret, since they are huge spoilers. Please do not watch them if you don’t want to be spoiled!! If you are a spoiler whore like me, then go for it! Just don’t blame me afterwards!!
* Zero manages to defeat One on her own but then she summons her dragon, Gabriel. Zero & Mikhail fight against the beast for a long time and manage to defeat it, too, but Mikhail pushed it a little too far in order to win and protect Zero and subsequently dies.
* One says her farewell to Gabriel just before Zero approaches to send her off. Just before the final blow, One says, “I’ll go on ahead.”
* With One out of the picture and her mission complete, Zero pauses a brief moment and creating the perfect chance to be ambushed from behind.
* A near duplicate figure of One stabs Zero in the back, and as her blood freely flows from her body, it stains the figure’s white garments a crimson red. In the dialogue, the figure says that he is One’s younger brother. Just as Zero had created her younger five sisters, so had One created him…for the sole purpose of killing Zero should One be killed first.
* One’s little brother tells Zero to please not hate him for his actions. Zero comments that she does not hate anyone, even her younger sisters whom she wanted to kill. She wanted to become the last standing Utautai Sister–that was all. Hate was never part of the picture. The male Utautai shrieks back in disgust/fear at this statement.
* Zero slowly crawls her way toward the body of Mikhail and is only able to say a half “thank you” before dying.
* The male Utautai stands victorious, his mission he obtained from One now complete. But now he’s at a loss for what to do next… Beside the body of One he asks, “How can I live in a world unprotected by the Utautai?”
* Then it comes to him! “If there are no more Utautai to protect this world, then I will do it. I will create a church of my own–a new church to worship my sister One. No, I am One. From this day forward, I am One!”
* As the male One exits, an unknown female figure enters the stage. “I knew this would happen, following this path. We’ll have to find another one then.”
* The scene ends with the figure mysteriously disappearing as though she was never there amidst the flight of many doves.
(The scene before the end battle shows Zero thanking the four Apostles for their assistance and that they cannot interfere in the last battle. She then says that since their corresponding Utautai goddesses have been killed, there is nothing holding their forms together…and thus she reverts them to their original forms…white doves.)
[END DIVERGENT PATH A]
The game restarts somewhere during the original journey as in Path A, but is somehow changed along the way. As Zero searches after Three and One, she witnesses their untimely deaths (not by her blade) before a serious confrontation with Two. This is when Cent betrays them all and kills Dito. The other two apostles also meet a similar fate before Zero must fight the two of them alone.
With the two of them nearly disposed of, they slowly crawl on the ground to reach one another…and in the simple touch of their hands, they are able to summon what looks like an upgraded form of Five’s spider-monster Phanuel: Raphael.
This is the video after the battle…
* One of the main attacks of the monster Raphael was its use of poison. During the battle, it seems like Mikhail was exposed to too much of the poison. Zero tells her to begin the necessary steps to regenerate, but Mikhail tells her that she doesn’t have the strength and apologizes before dying.
* Zero, at this point, is beyond distraught. She lashes out at Mikhail’s body, “Why did you go and die on me? You’re going to leave me alone–again!? Why…why am I the only one…? This damn flower!! …The flower. I’m sorry.”
* From here Zero enters into a sort of incantation or spell. “I command thee! As one who wields the power of Song, in order to save the life of this dragon, I hereby swear by this Contract! To the God in the East and the Goodess in the West, this I give thee as compensation…”
* Having complete the spell/contract, Zero says, “I’m glad I met you.”
* Next we see Mikhail groggily waking up to show us her new face… with Zero’s flower in one eye.
* Then we hear a the voice of a young child: “Hey, how long do you think you’re going to sleep? You’re really not a very good dragon, are you?” To which Mikhail responds, “Sorry, I’m awake now. Alright, shall we go, Zero?”
[END DIVERGENT PATH B]