"Yay, I've finally beaten it!"
Music swells, choir begins chanting in Latin, boss' corpse begins to float and glow
this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2025
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Or return to the save point just before the final boss fight.
Looking at you, BotW and TotK.
It's not limited to those two, it's very common, generally the norm, not having a postgame state when the stakes are too high. You've got two choices :
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let the player come back to it after you beat the big bad, so you have to create new interactions to try and reflect that, and not change the world significantly so all the stuff that's left to do is still available and makes sense. It often feels like saving the world achieved nothing.
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show in the ending that the player actually achieved something big, to the point coming back after it would not be the same game, basically.
How would you explain returning to BotW after killing the source of all shit and still having hostile guardians and blood moons resurrecting monsters?
Ganon is still down there. Have Purah and Robbie be really confused about it. "Why didn't all this stop? It's almost like Ganon is still alive?"
He's not supposed to be still there. He is, but we can't know that until TotK, and blood moons had stopped until he was reawakened.
If you just take BotW as a whole, you've saved the world.
I hated how original Xenoblade X (I haven't finished the switch remake yet, so not sure about it) had a "fake ending" that didn't solve anything, and didn't even explain why shit was still going on, just so the game could continue indefinitely.
Calamity Ganon doesn't look like the Ganon in the historical records (other games), and Link already fought his remote control minions four times.
Looking at you, BotW and TotK.
are you fucking kidding me? I'm finally getting around to properly playing BOTW and I assumed you could continue the open world post end game.
You can, and the save file recognises that you've "Beaten The Game"; but when you start it up, it reverts back to just before the final battle.
great, thanks
Unlocked 1 boss cell
A faint whisper is overheard "wait"
!soulslike@lemmy.zip :)
I donβt remember which boss it was but when I was first playing Sekiro I finally beat this boss and the motherfucker comes back to life in a renewed form. Maaan it pissed me up so much for a second, then I got scared but then a bit after that it was actually a good challenge
It felt really good repeatedly kicking the part of the boss that took me so long to beat at first.
Sword Saint Isshin (final boss) does this... Guardian Ape as well, after you decapitate it.
Fuck, I love that game.
It's my favourite soulslike and my overall favourite game. I've got like 6 or 7 playthroughs under my belt, with the bell rung and without Kuro's charm top
Yeah it's one of my favorite games of all time, and my favorite From Software game. I'd love a sequel.
Final boss did it as well but I think the first time it was with Lady Butterfly? Is that her name.
The boss at the end of the first dream sequence
Fuck she really kicked my ass the first time around
And yea itβs the only souls game that I played but itβs really an amazing game. Hooked me in a different way to all other games.
Yeah you're right... That was a really tough fight the first time for sure. Sekiro is amazing in that it's like riding a bike. You can not play it for a year, fire it up, and beat Lady Butterfly on the first try because it's burned into your memory.
So many amazing fights. Owl might be my favorite, so much fun. And yeah, I played Dark Souls from the first game, and Bloodborne and they never clicked for me... But Sekiro did it, and it unlocked something in me, and now I fucking love all of those games.
But Sekiro will always have a special place in my heart. In my top 5 of all time for sure.
More like Super Metroid
The Latin chanting?
Feels like we've killed Ridley like 10 times across the series.
Close, I count 8.
spoiler
_ twice on Zebes, a third time if you count the weird mecha in Zero Mission
_ once on SR388 (Samus Returns version, because Ridley missing in Metroid 2 was clearly a mistake to be fixed retroactively)
_ twice in the Prime series, Meta and Omega
_ one infamous PTSD-inducing battle in fucking Other M
_ a X clone in Fusion
Pffft now you buy a new game ignoring the backlog
xD
Now you play in honour mode
Wait I think I recognize those characters, is this the same artist who was on reddit a while and did a sort of "time skip" style storytelling thing with two kids living in a fantasy world, so none of the comics had any linear sense?