This was my reaction. Joy and excitement, "My boy!" Anguish, "MY BOOOOOOOY!"

“Go master…live the life I never could..”

I almost cried. Not really but I wish I did because she deserved the tears of joy.

Didn’t helped that I made my cat as my pawn. Shit was rough.

I didn't believe I would feel attached to my pawn, until I finished the game

This comment should really be pinned. Also, I want to point out how the lyrics sound like they might be from the main pawn's point of view.

@@kohaiame2691 I agree with your pawn theory.

This absolutely feels like it was written from the perspective of the Arisen's main pawn after the events of the post game where they got their free will. Starts off in a world "without hope, without pain", like they're searching for the Arisen. The world is saved, but the pawn is directionless. First time they make their own choices. All they have is "I'm alive, I will make my way." Like a human. Like their master. But at the end, it's "See me, hear me, take my hand. I will follow you if you will follow me. I'm not alone here." Feels like they reunited with the Arisen. Except this time on more equal footing. Okay yeah they're probably both dead, but let me dream, okay? This song is beautiful. Couldn't be more fitting if it tried.

@@kohaiame2691 It can't be, the word "Ladder" is missing from the lyrics. Everyone knew its their favorite word.

@@TheStraightestWhitest They're not dead, shut-... They're somewhere, roaming in a flower field! 😭😭😭

I start ng+ only to see her again... I don't believe that a simple pawn made me cry xd

Same. I changed my Arisen but never my pawn.

It straight up feels like a betrayal. I never changed her either.

I made mine less fat that's about it.

My pawn is the really wifu now

😭

😭❤

I wish the game could have pushed it's theme better throughout the game, rather than backloading it all into monologues on the back of dragons, while I do appreciate the "eureka" moment when entering NG+ and realizing that the opening quote is quite literally spelling out the narrative theme to you once you have the knowledge of the story told. It's all about "will" leading to "conviction" to granting the power needed to cause a miracle as grant as cutting your entire world out of the stagnate cycle the Great Will put upon you. I think the theme could have been better realized if the main story presented more tests of conviction leading up to the fight with the dragon. But I do think it was cool when entering the unmoored world and you have a chance to talk to these people the script of cycle presented as villains and now with everyone able to talk freely in the absence of this cycle in this ruined world you realize that just like with the Arisen, everyone has been testing their own convictions to try their best to create a better future in a world that has been prevented from having a future. Dena just wanted to create a kingdom for her son to prosper as king. Phaesus is already aware of the cycle and has been dedicating his entire life to trying to break it through any means necessary in a world where he should be divorced from agency of the cycle as a mere mortal and not an arisen. It's an awful world where not even pawns are allowed to become human anymore, like they could in DD1. They just turn into dragons once they develop willpower and the game as a mechanic encourages you to essentially lobotomize their pawns in the rift (usually by tossing them into the brine which you now know is your direct enemy.) Saving everyone in the unmoored world and creating a new world free of the cycle for them to live in is a miracle built off the backs of all the leading players in the world. It's only by the will and conviction of the arisen, the leaders of bakbattahl, the leaders of Vernworth, and of course even your pawn (who even gets to create a miracle all on their own if you didn't kill the talos fast enough and your pawn gets to pilot it against one of the brine beasts by moonglit tower.) And I just think to cap that journey off with this song is just overall something beautiful. I think the game still has many flaws, frustratingly alot of similar flaws to the original. I think the overall narrative was rather poor, and the rules of the unmoored world unclear (and also underutilized, I think the game could have better served giving the player more main story quests to do before the end within the unmoored world, if at the very least to better explore the themes of the game and give more time to interacting with these characters who were forced to be 1 dimensional due to the nature of the cycle they were initially trapped in.) But I think when you take the time to really reflect on the theme of conviction, it does lead to greater appreciation to what little story we got. Conviction is truly human will that reaches its greatest power, and the conviction of this game's world was truly great indeed to grant us the first actual win over the Great Will in the series. (Unless DDO did something I guess)

Man😭😭😭

Well, if you manage to get your main pawn's affinity high enough, then ending is just gonna hit much harder, when they said all those nice things in the end scene ;(

Just finished the game. So did me and my pawns die?

@@meanfree I didn't even know pawn affinity was a thing, but mine was maxed out because she was so incredibly grateful to me. How do you raise pawn affinity?

You had me until Doctor Pepper

Yeah, the only things i changed for my pawn were the shape a little bit (taller and more muscles). Name and overall body was the same tho

I never will.

and also makes you to not want to make an ugly looking pawn.

Don't forget the silly dude calling out the location of every ladder they spot!

Same at some point I started treating my pawn like a party member and they filled the role of friend and warrior. Hopefully we reunite in the DLC

caught me off guard. really cuts deep after having the same pawn in dd1

Do you what title of the song

No, I don’t! Hopefully we’ll get an official name soon!

If you think about it the song is supposed to be sung from your pawn’s perspective if you look at the lyrics

Cam off mic muted

@@TheRealPsychoGeniusRevengeance real bitch tears hours

I'm happy that you had such powerful emotions with this game

dont be ashamed of crying lol

@PenguinsAreColdish i tried not to lmao but i was like, shouting type stuff, with the way my life was, that ending really really got me in my core

100% agree!

A wild hunter of spheres appears

and the hater's keep saying DD2's story is garbage. clearly they've been playing to many rpg games that, that are much more shallow.

@@ashwolf2006 Story is very poorly executed. It could have been better were it fleshed out or if there were less of "fetch/infiltrate/go somewhere" tasks. At least DD1 didn't even bother and I really appreciate that.

The watcher is the mouth piece of the game’s director. Just as the Arisen is the player’s. In that case, you too partake in the cycle for amusement. It’s a really meta story. I love it.

Strangers of paradise final fantasy origin is basically this plot kinda

and even when you do break the cycle you and your pawn arent there to see it

I just got the true ending today it was amazing

True ending hit me so hard 😢

Ah, so I'm not the only one who stumbled into this one on accident. Good to know.

I just finished it today I was sad/happy watching my pawn go berserk for us 😅

Well said, that's exactly it. The Dragon tells the Arisen that they want the same thing... to break the cycle and see the truth. The Dragon was a tool created to be a part of the cycle... The Dragon is, quote, "oblivion". It is the counterpart to creation, destruction. For the cycle to loop and start again, either the Arisen must fail to protect the world either the Dragon/destroyer of worlds must be slain. Either way the loop keeps repeating with a new Arisen and new Dragon. But when the Arisen strayed from the path to see the truth, and killed the Pathfinder/Watcher who had his own Dragon to help him destroy that failure of a world "off its tracks"... then that sad end was "unwritten", and there was a happy ending. "Normal" sea has appeared without the kraken, and that old man could sail to the sea as he always wanted. Now I wonder... what is on the other side of the sea?

@@Makenshi179 Freedom. Freedom is on the other side of the sea.

@@wispfire2545 Beautiful!

I think it comes down to the audio mixing and mastering of the OST. On paper End of the Struggle is about the same as the one in DD1 (sans electric guitar, but I don't think the electric guitar was used until the Cockatrice fight), but then you'll notice that the brass section feels a bit more tinny (they employ more trumpets for the main melody than trombones and French horns; DD1's version uses trumpets as only an accompaniment and the composition is more well-rounded with the drums having more bass and reverb from being recorded in a concert hall). DD2's OST feels like it was recorded in a studio without a live orchestra, which might be the case since it was in development for 5 years (starting 2019, releasing 2024). Quarantine would have made the logistics of a live orchestra impossible at the time.

People's minds are too small for classical music. It's one of the hardest music types to understand.

@@TheStraightestWhitest oh yeah? Compare DD2’s music to Rachmaninov’s piano concertos and tell me again that DD2’s music isn’t mediocre, it’s just “hard to understand” They obviously had to skimp on some aspects of the game and the music got the short end of the stick

​@TheStraightestWhitest I really wouldn't say that, it's just the music just honestly feels generic at times. DD1 had way more variety imo compared to DD2. This ending theme slaps but overall a lot of the music is disappointing.

@@simpleryoma ''DD1 had way more variety imo compared to DD2.'' This is actually what I mean. You don't know what you're talking about. You hear a violin and think ''It's the same'' no matter how it's used.

Fr🗣️🔥🔥 they underrated as hell

''Oh, master! I feel such joy!'' 😭

it hits a lot harder if you helped every named npc and if they survived.

yes it did, despite the backlash and hater's saying. which just shows those people haven't played any game that are done in a way that makes you feel attached to the character's in the world they live in.

that's crazy, you must play a lot of western games

@@PenguinsAreColdishshut up

😂😂 if u get good max affinity on ur pawn its more dramatic farewell sacrifice

I get why people love into free, but I always preferred coils of light. Maybe I'm the odd one out here.

@@boneman-calciumenjoyer8290 Oh yeah. Coils of light just hits different. Also fits a bit better with the overall themes of the game.

@@boneman-calciumenjoyer8290 I don't get why people are obsessed with metal in their dark medieval high fantasy 😂

Je viens de finir le jeu aujourd'hui après 102 heures je ne m'attendais pas à ce que mon pion reprenne sa forme d'humain à la fin et me remercie du voyage. C'est vraiment une fin touchante. Je suis content de voir un commentaire en dessous de cette vidéo.

Très bien dit

@@Makenshi179 je suis d'accord ♥️💯

It's not entirely clear what happened in DD1 ending but it's possible we broke the cycle there as well, but then again Gran Soren is under the sea in DD2

​@@earthbound_oneI believe this game is the second of the two choices the arisen in the first game could have made. Ending the cycle with the godsbane being the ending of ddda, while continuing as seneschal leading into the second.

@@earthbound_one we bestowed our spirit to give our pawn a will of their own, then the cycle continued until rothais became the new seneschal and founded vermund all I know about dd2 is the world as we know it at least expanded, not sure if the cycle is broken, could be that no seneschal exists at all in DD2's world anymore

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@ThisisSigma200DD2 is a parallel world iirc. Rathais is the seneschal of this world as he still has the Godsbane Blade. He was the arisen who fell the first dragon, reached Godhood, only to find that the world is nothing more than fake world with endless cycle staged by someone. I believe that he is the equivalent of Savan, minus the revelation.

@@ThisisSigma200 Don't they say Rothais became Seneschal but shirked his duty by founding Vermund and ruling the land instead of the world, and this threw the world into turmoil? We don't know what Pathfinder is, but he seems to be a different entity than a Seneschal. I think it's likely Pathfinder stepped in to fill the role of Seneschal, but he himself didn't fully understand what that meant, so instead of finding someone to become arisen and succeed him, he kept finding someone to become arisen and *rule the land*. Rothais also mentions that the one who watches (pathfinder?) kept sending arisen to try and kill him, meaning Pathfinder was at one point likely trying to restore the cycle to its original state by having someone succeed Rothais.

I think the reason it hits so hard is precisely because it flew under the radar. We were focusing on everything and everyone other than our own main pawn. The story being meh for the most part makes the conclusion better. It's an actually well executed version of our true friend having been with us the entire time without us noticing. For us it was just going through the motions. For them, it was everything. They cherished it so much that it literally altered them, gave them free will. So when their first choice with that new will is to sacrifice themselves for our cause, it cuts deep because that's the first time you stop to think about their perspective.

I hope so too. Im coping

Judging from the scene, our pawn was crushed by the dragon/pathfinder, and your body was penetrated by the thingy coming out of the dragon's heart, so chances are both did not make it. Although theoretically, as long as the Arisen lives, their pawn should be immortal. But who knows, I'm also coping to see us and our pawn reunited in the new world for the DLC to join the old man at the beach side for a new adventure :).

It would be much more meaningful if our character dies. Consider this: You trumped the will of god in spite of your own demise.

@@Tizi1999 They did that in dragon's dogma one. But I can see what you mean....still wish the true ending wasn't so much of a cliffhanger where it leaves you confused on whether they live or not.

Kind of. You did not break the cycle in DD1 if I remember correctly, considering that you fight your own arisen in NG+.@@MaxVermillionify

I mean, "into free" Is pretty hard to surpass. But i really like this one

Only Coils of Light comes close to this.

Idk they could have added that sick guitar they had in the first game to dd2's tracks and it would have solved every issue I've got with it

the dd1 seneschal's been gone for a thousand years

@@ThisisSigma200 yup, actually the story is a little more complex now I just realized I bit ago rotharis the mad sovran beastren is the seneschal, he denied his role after learning the endless cycle but remained as seneschal, he literally gives us the godsbane the same way too

Digital Dani will never stab you in the back.

I'm with you

Je l'ai fini hier j'ai eu envie de refaire une deuxième fois justement

Bjorn means bear. You named a cat bear.

@@TheStraightestWhitest yup

to be fair, Dragon's Dogma has always been more about getting strong and defeat the dragon more than about a compelling mainstory that leads up to it. You could skip almost the entire main quest if you knew what to do ahead of time.