Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly- Crimson Butterfly Ending (Canon Ending)
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Spoilers abound. The Crimson Butterfly ending in Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly (Project Zero II), or the Normal difficulty ending or the ending you get when you beat the game for the first time. It is also the canon ending to the game. Everything comes to an end in the underground entrance to the Hellish Abyss. Can Mayu and Mio escape the village?
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It's a really sad ending but seeing the village being freed and the sun finally rising again makes it more bittersweet than a totally bad ending.
This game is actually a great journey, I should replay it again.
The story telling is perfect: she ends her sister's suffering, freeing the souls of the villagers, the kid sister leads her out of the village, and the Sun rises in the village that was trapped in perpetual night.
@@Turtleproof is yae in mio body put her to kill mayu ?
3:36 that butterfly is the kid ? I thought it is mayu
@@kabalor5326 It's been years since I played it so I don't remember exactly. There were twins Sae and Yae that ran away from the sacrifice, dooming everyone in the village.
I think it was the younger sister that was teasing the other to keep up, which lead to her tripping and breaking a leg, hence why she limps around. (There is and ending where the younger sister looks into the pit and is blinded, so the older sister now takes care of her).
The red butterflies are souls of people strangled in the ritual. Mayu even has a red bow shaped like a butterfly at her neck, great foreshadowing.
But wouldn’t it go back to being bad since the ceremony can’t continue since no ones left lol
@@justinnesbit3948 The village itself disappeared, so it doesn't exist anymore, the curse is what caused the ghosts to be hostile in perpetual darkness. That's why Mio can't go back if she chooses to run away. While inside the village, if the ritual is completed, then the village is safe and it stops being trapped.
Mayu really got the short end of the stick. She got possessed and was tormented throughout the game only to be killed by her own sister and thrown in a hellish hole. I feel really bad for her.
Mayu wanted it to happen just so she could become one with her sister. In Fatal Frame 3, when you take picture of Mio, you could see Mayu being together with her, as symbolized by the butterfly at Mio's neck. The thing is that if Mio didn't kill Mayu, Mayu would kill Mio instead just so they could always be together in the Frozen butterfly. If Mio is blinded by the abyss, Mayu would smirk because Mio would have to depend on Mayu for the rest of her life. She's a yandere.
@@gengarsmaster3529 mayu was possessed by Sae, she herself didn't want to be killed like Sae did.
@@chaosinmybreath She was scared of having to separate from her sister one day. She did want it to happen, during the Frozen Butterfly, the creator said Mio remembered the missing memory when they were kids, Mayu was laughing while crying because now Mio has to take care of her from now on, Mio suppressed that memory up to that point. There wasn't Sae at the time. As long as Mayu could stay with her sister forever, it would be preferable even death. The Crimson butterfly would mean that Mayu would be one with Mio and be with her forever. If you take the picture of Mio in FF3, Mayu would be next to her. She was possessed, but they have pretty similar wavelength. Sae intentionally tripped just so they could do the ritual as well.
@@gengarsmaster3529 so basically this is the good ending in a matter of speaking, though I don't think mayu would become yandere, cause she was possessed sooo
Mayu isn't so innocent.
Mio : " I don't understand why you have to die "
Mayu : " Because this is a fatal frame game,And someone has to die "
7:59 - 8:25 You can see the movie edits in the credits where Mayu is thrown in the Hellish abyss roght when Sae and Yae are finally reunited....and poor Mio is so distraught after what she just did....and along with this powerful emotional song....that part just....oh dear lawd I'm crying like a young teen when I first beat the game😢
this part where she kills her and she goes butterfly i saw as a kid on the interwebs n that shit never left me
Me too
Ive just finished this game and those strangling mrks turning into a butterfly left me speechless, it was so fucking good
Im still crying when hearing this song. God this ending ruined me. So unfair.
I did not expect to get so emotional at the end of my playthrough, lol
What’s the name of this song
@@abareamphibia6812
Look up "fatal frame 2 ending song", it isn't hard to find songs like this.
@@abareamphibia6812 Tsukiko Amano - Chou
I'm 30 years old, and i've never been as close to teardrop as after that ending. Felt like a little girl, dammit. Everything is so perfect in it, especially the song.
Seeing Mios face after she killed Mayu almost made me tear up, but then again I kind of was expecting this to happen my first play through.
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
We’re both crying
Still crying
I always cry
I love this ending. Beautiful, tragic, sad.
I also love the music when it shows that the sun is rising and the Repentance is over (for now).
In the end, it's Mayu who saves Mio.
This canon ending is really sad, but fits perfectly with the theme of this game. If it ended happily, it'd become a betrayal for the theme intended by the writer and director.
That butterfly scene… you finally know the meaning of the game’s title and it hits hard.
4:28 it's where this ending becomes epic
(reprint)
"Mayu's words when she and Mio face each other, before the Hellish Abyss ending...
I'm steadily falling... into a deep place... into a deep place... I'm melting... Mio...
Let's do it together...
Deeper... deeper...
Sae overlaps with Mayu, and Yae overlaps with Mio
Mio and Mayu were called to the village in order to perform the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual once more. Sae and Yae, whose ritual had not been completed, borrowed Mio and Mayu's bodies to perform the ritual again.
Mayu became melded with Sae from the time she was beckoned into the forest by a crimson butterfly, rushing through the forest as though being chased by the villagers, and Mio became one with Yae from when she saw Yae standing alone before the vanished village, crying. Not only are they the same twin, but Sae and Mayu shared the same emotions and desires.
Sae's feelings
Sae's final words (the words heard while fighting Sae for the Hellish Abyss ending)
I waited for so, so long. In a dark place
Didn't we promise that we would always be together?
"Let's be together until the end", you said
But you left me
Why didn't you kill me?
Why did you run away by yourself?
I was happy when you said you wanted us to run away together
But just being killed by you would have made me happy
You didn't come. I was killed by the priests
And then the Repentance occurred
I kept waiting for the time when your hands would wrap around my throat
Since I was a child, I've always been thinking about being killed by you
Why wouldn't you kill me?
Why wouldn't you kill me?
So you've finally come. You've finally come
Kill me, kill me, kill me, kill me
kill me...
Sae, who wanted to be with Yae, was truly happy when Yae said that they should run away together. For a brief period she was elated by the dream of escaping the ritual and living together.
However, on the day of the festival, while running through the dark mountains, Sae began to think. If they continued like this and got away, they would live together. In a place without the fate of shrine maidens, or the ritual, they would be together forever.
But... would they really be together forever? Now, Yae was running ahead of her. Sae's body was weak, and she struggled desperately to keep up, but the space between them was gradually expanding. In Sae's heart, one thought was spreading like a stain. If we were ever to be separated... We were born together. And you promised that from now on we will always be together. But what if one day you break that promise? If one day we begin to lead separate lives, we will eventually die apart... That... that is inevitable. I know that. I know that, but... At the moment that truth, its pain, spread to her heart, Sae's foot slipped and she fell from the cliff.
Below the cliff, Sae was captured by the villagers. Yae will come back for me, she has to. She promised that we'd always be together. She believed this, but Yae never returned. Sae was killed by the hands of the priests, and the Repentance occurred.
Thoughts like "Why did Yae break her promise? Why didn't she come back?" swirled around inside Sae. But at the same time, she strongly wanted to die by Yae's hand rather than someone else's. Since Sae's childhood, she had been raised to become a shrine maiden who would be killed by Yae. Not only that, but she had been wishing from the bottom of her heart for Yae to kill her. The Crimson Sacrifice Ritual, in which the elder sister kills the younger. Not only anyone could kill Sae - it could only be the one person with true, strong love for her. The killing and being killed resembled a deeper, stronger means of intercourse more than some kind of act. And, as a mark of her own love, she would remain as a crimson bruise on Yae's throat, never vanishing.
So, while hating Yae for not coming back, she kept within the abyss for Yae to grip her neck. Mayu also thought of the same thing.
Mayu's feelings
Mayu's final words (the words heard while fighting Sae for the Hellish Abyss ending)
I wanted us to be together forever and ever
Hey, Mio, did you realise that I fell from the cliff on purpose that day?
Back then, I was scared of being separated from you
That you would leave me, and go far away
Throughout the pain, that felt like I was being torn apart, I was just happy. Because then, you were mine
You are always by my side. You're always worrying about me
You see only me. You're always thinking about me
Since then, you've always been worried about me, haven't you?
Whenever my leg hurts, it makes me happy
You won't leave me again, will you? We'll always be together, won't we?
Let's do it together
Deeper
Deeper
Deeper and deeper...
Mayu, unlike Sae, was not trapped by the destiny of the shrine maidens. However, Sae and Mayu held the same feelings, and while they were melded together they waited in the Abyss.
One day during childhood, the two were hurrying along the path home on the twilit mountain path. Mio ran ahead while teasing her. Mayu desperately tried to catch up, but Mio was gradually getting further away. Then, Mayu knew it clearly. She and Mio were so intimate that they were the same in every way. Each day, they would promise each other to always be together. Someday that promise would be broken. Each person is alone. Whatever they feel, they can't become one. They will live alone, and die alone. It is sad, but cannot be helped. Once something has begun to fall, it can't go back to where it originally was, and in life you begin to leave the place where you formerly were.
Mayu fell from the cliff on an impulse. She didn't fall in order to spite Mio, but jumped out of desperation. It was similar to committing suicide.
"...I survived." That is what Mayu thought when she regained consciousness.
Since then, Mio has always been by Mayu's side. Mio worries about her injured leg. Mio is always worried about her. This made Mayu happy, but also only made her feelings stronger.
Even if people live in the arms of others, they will eventually die alone. That is the only thing all people in this world share - in other words, the only thing we are promised. So, while each day repeating the promise of always being together and pretending not to realise the truth, you become crushed and broken by it.
Mio vaguely realised that Mayu had fallen off the cliff on purpose back then. But Mio didn't know why she fell. Mayu wouldn't tell her. It was fine if she couldn't get through to her feelings. Mio said not a word... While spending each day together, the two both understood implicitly that it was forbidden between them to touch upon that subject.
While heading through the Underground Passage to save Mayu, Mio realised what Mayu had been thinking. It was the same as how she had come to know Yae and Sae's feelings.
Mio and Yae's feelings
Sae and Mayu's words just before falling into the Hellish Abyss (the words spoken by Sae and Mayu simultaneously, so that it is difficult to know who is speaking)
We always promised, didn't we? That we would always be together...
But I understand now. However strongly I felt
We are different people...
We were born together... but we must live... and die... separately
So... it's okay...
Kill me, kill me, kill me, kill me...
Yae, who knew Sae's heart, accepted that they would continue the ritual. Yae finally granted Sae's wish, after Sae had waited and waited. Mio, who was descending into the Underground Path in order to save Mayu, had also accepted Mayu's feelings. Mio couldn't break herself off from Mayu's desires.
Perhaps it wasn't strictly said out of love, but Mio was fine with that. Because it was the first time she had been able to tell Mayu how she truly felt, something she had been holding back for so very long.
Mark of the emotions
In the rhythm of the violent, seemingly mad ritual, Mayu guides Mio's hands around her neck. As her hands wrap around her neck, their souls intertwine. Twins are said to share pain. Mio also feels the pain Mayu experiences at the sensation of the hands on her throat. Her feelings flow through her hands. Their souls are mingling. This union seems to draw them together at last as they get closer to death, something that can only happen once. The two are returning to a deep place. Within the warm, sweet milky-whitness, they gradually sink into place where they were born, mixing together... The Crimson Sacrifice Ritual is complete. Mio's hands have impressed their marks upon Mayu's neck. From there, a crimson butterfly is born. The eternal night covering the village is dispelled, and the ghosts who had been bound to the village vanish in the morning sun...
Mio sits before the lake of the dam that has submerged Minakami Village.
As she watches the late summer sunlight sparkle on the water's surface, Mio is entangled in thought.
If she had rejected, maybe Mayu would have completely broken down. Even if they had managed to escape together, like this, Mayu might have vanished somewhere... Sometimes, Mio suddenly senses Mayu for a moment, in that ethereal, empty world.
"Didn't we always promise each other... that we would always be together?"
The promise they had always repeated to each other. Mio is always thinking over the hidden feelings in those words." by Mr.Shibata
(Excerpt from Zero ~zero~ / Zero ~Akai Chou fanbook, Jitsugyo-no-Nihonsha)
Thanks for this. This game never stop to amaze me.
@@VisionEffectable You're welcome :) this is an excerpt from the analysis by the director, Mr.Shibata. It's a good recap of the psychology of the characters, especially Mayu who's very misunderstood by a big part of the fans. And this game is also my favorite. :)
thank you so much for this excerpt, it took me 12 years to finally understand the psychology of mio and mayu during the ritual. at that time i was too young to understand why mio did it but now i can rest in peace after knowing her inner thoughts.
@@mlancholia3920 You're very welcome :)
Quite so, you understood the history in a very perfect and deep way.
I also did years ago; this game is unique and the Xbox Director's Cut the better version despite the Wii Remake and the exclusive ending in this version.
The original trilogy deserves a true remarkable remake without having any censorship and adding some extras to make it even more deep and fun. Not only upgraded UHD remaded graphics and sounds, but fully developed from scratch.
Xbox exclusive Fatal difficulty levels on first 2 games, way to expand the gameplay experience, very challenging to master.
Keisuke Kikuchi and Makoto Shibata did such an extraordinary work with the first 2 games porting them to the original Xbox. Too bad Fatal Frame III The Tormented never was released, I'm still waiting to play this game on Fatal mode, it could be a great challenge to beat and a delightful experience. 😊
Even as an adult this ending still fucks me up.
The song is the one that made me cry...
Tue bloody song!!!!!
Just finished the game last night for the first time. I thought this ending was incredible. The perfect way to end a horror game. Miyo's worst fear came to pass, but there was something beautiful about it that's hard to explain. I guess for Mayou, her wish came true. It's quite a strange duality, which I guess works with the symmetry of the story. Either way, there were forces at play larger than the protagonists, and the result felt like something inevitable. The other endings I've watched don't have the same power as this one.
Obvious reference incoming but it's themes are very similar to Silent Hill 2.
@@Turtleproof I played them both back to back, and I agree! :D
Clarification: 'Best' meaning best-written, made the most sense in regards to the story, etc. Not the happiest. XD;
Sorry, I probably should have worded that better.
Creator's comment about this ending:
"Placement of the ending
Since it exhibits the meaning of "Crimson Butterfly" in the title, I wanted it to be the very first ending you see, so didn't want to change its placement in Shinku no Chou even though it had been renewed. We set things up so that it would probably be the first ending you see when you play it.
The story of Akai Chou is the story of the dream I had in the space of one night, but the first ending I saw in my dream was this Crimson Butterfly ending, so it's also the one I have the strongest attachment to. When Akai Chou was in production, I was obsessive about making it like it was in my dream, like I was driven crazy by my passion.
I feel as though my attachment to this ending scene is too strong, that it ruins the balance of the whole game, but I still think it's a good ending. I think of the journey through Minakami Village up until that point as having been created in order to see that scene.
When we were positioning the Crimson Butterfly ending, it was represented as "the ultimate bad ending", but I think that rather than the ending itself being good or bad it evolved into a traditional Zero ending, in which sense represents the "ultimate bad ending". In Zero ~zero~, the story was that even though you're willing to give your life in exchange for that of the person you are chasing after and want to save, in the end they commit suicide, but Zero ~Akai Chou~ has an even more powerful ending in which you kill the person you're pursuing with your own hands.
About the initial draft
In the initial draft, we were going to make it so that Mayu wouldn't talk about what is in her heart, but that you would be able to guess from Yae and Sae's feelings. I wanted the scene to be reproduced exactly the way it was in the ending I saw in my dream, and to be able to feel its impact. However, there were staff members who were of the opinion that it was too sudden, so it was changed into being fulfilled by the lines said while going through the Underground Passageway and when Mio and Mayu meet. To a certain extent the feeling of being forsaken remained, but it was shifted to an angle that would allow you to understand Mayu's feelings as well as possible.
About Mayu's feelings
This ending tells the story of learning of the secret ritual that must not be witnessed in which crimson butterflies are born, but I think it also serves the purpose of explaining Mayu's emotions.
A few days ago, when I appeared in a Nico Nico Live Broadcast with Tsuki Amano, I was asked whether I empathised more with Mio or Mayu, but the ending is after all there to explain how Mayu feels.
It's alright if you don't understand after only having seen it once. I think that there is something you can perceive from this ending that as they experience it repeatedly, people who watch it will find a place in their heart where feelings like Mayu's are born, and someday understand.
There are two vectors in people's hearts. One is a vector that expands as you grow. The other is the opposite of that, a vector in which you want to return to the darkness of childhood. The aspiration to return two things to one. A desire for death. I'm not exactly sure what to call it, but I think that it's a feeling everyone has.
Mayu's feelings have already been written about in the ending description from another book, but I think it would be a good idea to reread it, so it will be reprinted here." (to be continued)
I like the explanation about mayu's feelings
Vendo em 2020, impossível esquecer esse final :'(
2023
MAYUUUUUUUU!!!!
Sad :(
i'm not crying...
HARD MODE ending
This is by far the best ending of the game.
...and saying that makes me feel like a horrible person, somehow.
Let's face the truth guys. Techmo knows better how to make a bitter sweet ending than Game of Thrones (especially D.B. Weiss and David Benioff).
When the sun comes up and music climbs, man, that will never cease to be an emotional gut punch. Even after all these years!
The only thing I hate about this game is getting chased by Sae and RopeMan ghosts.T^T
I played it before. She didn't want to kill her own sister. I know I would be heartbroken too. I'm not killing my own sister and then going home. The parents are gonna be worried sick angry.
she was unknowingly possessed by yae’s spirit just like mayu was possessed by sae. the twin spirit loves each other too much and exert their greatest influence at the hellish abyss in order to put an end to the curse.
@@mlancholia3920 I understand the game's story but in real life those would be demonic spirits instead of human souls. Demonic spirits influence things like that but I get what you were saying.
this ruined my whole day.
mio.....mayu......why?
When Mio is chasing her crimson sister, crying and saying "I'm sorry!", that just chewed me up. I played this game as a kid but was way too scared to actually get far. Finished it the other day, and couldn't believe it got a tear out of me.
I cried. For real. Ugly cry face and all.
I cried.......... In my dream
Really? I was searching for her just for killing Mayu? Hell no, I love this ending hahaha and at the same time I really hate it so much. I prefer the one which both survived and Yae and Sae finally become one.
re1 Remake SH2 and FF2 best suvivor horrors all times
:O ............................... i just played this trough and got this damn ending....
***** First time I played it, I absolutly HATED IT. Seriously, even if it would be to free the village, I would grab my sister by force and take her out of the village, no matter what happens.
This ending made me scream at my TV to Mio for being a total dumbass who didnt even think about it. You beat the Kusabi fine now I take you with me and I flee.
Sorry, but saving Ellie in The Last of Us makes more sense than this.
+ArthasTheCoward mmm i habent played the game in like 5-7 years but, if i remember correctly ..i believe they cant leave the village(those who wander in can never go back?). their only way of escaping got closed off?? Well at least they have 2 endings :)
HumbaoLove i rather sacrifice her sister and live on than die with it e.e! yea it sounds awfull, but she wont leave till she free the village from the curse.... by killing herself -_- (with you help of course....)
Why wasn't the after credits scene uploaded with this?
I love the saga of fatal frame
This is one thing I like about games in the past. They had better story written.
I'm playing this on PS3 and it keeps crashing right near the end of the credits song
Maybe you should redownload it? I played it fine
@@t.amariya4188 Yeah I'll give that a shot
umm how do you change your films like that while on viewfinder mode?!?!?!
thank you for this b/c the ps2 classics on ps3 version cuts the last few seconds of the credits lol
Can anyone explain why mio actually did it ? Was she possessed as well ?
it’s possible that she was possessed by yae’s spirit (mio saw yae’s spirit crying at the front of torii gate reaching the village) to bring an end to this curse even at the close of another’s twin life. the difference is that yae’s spirit let mio do whatever she pleases until she reached the hellish abyss. if you get the ending where both survive (xbox version) you can see that yae’s spirit leaves mio to perform the final ritual with sae’s spirit.
What the heck?!? Why?! WHY?!
the hole game Mayu was getting in my way while I was playing and turn around so I'm kinda happy that Mío Killed her.
It doesn't make me cry, but I'm so damn close...
I hate that this was chosen as the true ending! T_T
l crimen de cain algo tan hermoso como tan doloroso liberar a tu hermano´a de sus sufrimiento.....
Like damm man i struggled just to be sad at the end?
is yae in mio body put her to kill mayu ?
I'm crying 😢
Wow did I hate this ending… ugh. I couldn’t care less about the village. Just wanted my damn sister to live. I like a sad ending like in SH2 but this just sucked for me. I feel like this game was way over hyped…
Really ? I thought this ending was beautiful. Obviously very sad but still a perfect way to end a horror game. I truly think this is the best survival horror game I’ve ever played so far in my life.
any other endings guys ? i remember that this was my ending also.
There are other endings, but this one's canon.
This is the canon ending. There is a escape ending and a “best” ending
2018? :(
2019
2020 💀
2022
2023
2024!
No words save for sorrow.
El final más icónico
For we gonna die, someday, & also this planet will also die too,,,🌍
this made my little brother cry
Master piece
No it's not. The best ending is the Promise Ending.
:(
This ending sucks. Like this whole game was for nothing.
So true.
Girl.... The game was building up to this from the very beginning!! There are no happy endings in Fatal Frame...
Endlesslove1974
In The xbox version and the Wii version there's the happy ending
thedanielefuly the canon ending is Mio kills Mayu!!
Yes,i know...But it's unacceptable!