@@justinlast2lastharder749, all depends on your local. Mine would keep calling (and wouldn't allow you to rent) until you returned/repaid. Also, early in Blockbuster's life, since they were one of very few rental places, they had to limit rentals to only a few days so they could flip extremely popular games rapidly.
As a former psychology student I can confirm that "having a fistfight in a metaverse spawned from the collective unconscious" is in fact something we're trained for. Most of us know Aikido for this very reason.
Honestly with what happens in literally every persona game it was kinda funny that the devs finally put a therapist in the game, lord knows these kids need one
Oh yeah, especially the Persona 3 cast. You risked your live over serveal months, fought monsters from the human subconciounus that could easily tear any human appart, watched one of you friends almost get killed by another your friends, only to still be murdered by your enemies, were nearly sacreficed to the embodiment of death so that she could wipe out all of humanity, by someone you all trusted, learned how much shit the group supporting you and your allies were up to in the past ( Strega, enough said), and than, when you finally thought you triumphed over the embodiment of death after a sheer endless fight with seemingly no one dying, one of your own had to sacrefice themselve to stop the end of humanity. Not even getting into the shit happening in the Answer.
Too bad Dr. Maruki was not a good therapist. As somebody who is striving to be a counselor, Dr. Maruki is a bad counselor by encouraging his clients to run away and pretend their problems don't exist.
Far Cry 4. Hear me out. The developers have recently confirmed that the canon (and thus true) ending to the game is the one where you unlock it by waiting 15 minutes in Pagan Myn's dinner table. Doing literally nothing but staring at a screen for 15 minutes with nothing happening on it is the weirdest thing a video game can ask you to do as when you play video games you're either doing something, managing inventory or watching a cut scene.
My favorite weird requirement for a true ending is Bravely Second, in which after confronting the main villain, he gets away, his plan succeeds, and the world is overrun with alien monsters, the game says “congrats, here’s New Game Plus!” You then need to start New Game Plus and use a Bravely Second during the tutorial fight, causing the Main Characters from your previous, doomed playthrough to TRAVEL BACK IN TIME and use their future knowledge to redo the events of the game in a way that prevents the main villain’s plans before they even get off the ground. It’s wild and I love it.
Oh my goodness, yes! And then in bravely default 2,you have to run away to get one ending, then after that final battle you have to delete your save file, but the game at no point explains what or why you are doing any of this convoluted process to get the true ending.
@@jacksonskinner7879 Technically you are not deleting your save file, you are deleting the final bosses, thus making it so they can no longer reload/resurrect, but other than that yes, that definitely qualifies as something that would fit on this list.
@@Kevin-Keys With the added detail of them breaking the fourth wall to get that SP in the cutscene after the final boss to boot, a lot of set up and layers to that one
omg that makes me wanna finally finish it! i took 120 hours to finish the og (i'm a very slow jrpg player) and i never finished bravely second cuz the main character was so weaaaak. and bravely default 2 is lowkey hard for me haha. might give bravely second another go soon haha
To be fair, compared to the rest of games in this list here, Maruki's confidant is the least weird thing you need to do lol. You just need to arrange a weekly counseling session with him and maybe drop by and there before the deadline, no need to get strange items, actually temper with your save files, etc..
The main thing with Maruki is that he will often not let you visit for weeks on end, and then I believe it's the last 2(?) ranks that need to be gained in the final week before he leaves, as the last rank can only be gained on the last day IIRC. The game is also kinda iffy about whether or not you need to increase Akechi and Kasumi's ranks as well to access the third semester. I don't think you need to raise them unless you wish to max their personas out, though.
@@TheBlackSeraph You will need to increase Kasumi's rank, but not Akechi's. Kasumi is really easy as she only has 5 stars to get her at max rank in order to get the third semester and gives out helpful moves to be more acrobatic in the dungeons. Plus she can awaken her own Persona evolving it to become stronger. Akechi is a little bit different because you don't NEED to max him out in order to get the true ending (aka get to the final boss), but his Confidant Rank makes Akechi a much more fleshed-out character this time around compared to his Confidant Rank back in the original Persona 5 game. He does make a 1 second cameo in the True Ending, but that's nothing compared to the screen time Maruki and Kasumi gets after completely their Confidants. And Maruki is good to manage as all you need to do is get him to Rank 9 before his final day in order to max out his Confidant Ranking. The first 2 stars are essentially handed to you for free so all you need to do is see him for like 7 times. And he appears almost all the time at the school except mostly in the summer cause the kids are on summer break. So obviously you can't see him during that time. But you can see him more in the Fall which should give you enough time to go see him before his date ends.
@@R.J.Crimson99Nope, you only need Maruki. There's a challenge video of "doing absolutely nothing" that involved NOT doing any confidants except Maruki, and they unlocked the third semester. You don't need to do anything with Kasumi nor Akechi, they're just locked out of any improvements upon their deadline.
Sekiro's got its own branch of weirdness for its "true" ending. You need to find two giant snake hearts (one fresh, the other dried) and then give them to a child, who will eat them
Actually, yes, you can see Santa & Batman in the same place on many occasions. In fact, as a canonical character in DC comics, Santa makes a point of breaking into Apokalips every year with the express purpose of hand-delivering coal to Darkseid himself
reminds me of an old comic i saw in a "giant" book, where Batman was in a hurry to help someone during a snowstorm that made all of his vehicles unusable, and apparently borrowed Santa's Sleigh...Santa never actually appeared...
This coming from the girl who, unprompted, solved the Dishonored puzzle door without going through missions or looking up help. Ellen, you're also a riddle lover don't deny it.
The NieR Automata Ending Credits gave me real chills when I realized it was other players data reaching out to me in assistance. And then it gave me even bigger chills when I realized they offered up their save data to do so. I think every gamer can relate to how hard this would be, but I felt not bad given up my save data, too, knowing it would reach another person and lets them hopefully feel the same way.
It's the part where the song changes to a group harmony that really got to me, the sound of so many voices working together as other people helped me finish the game - I've done two wipes and I'm on my fourth 100% playthrough! Also that bit with Pascal. It's the only time I've ever had to put a controller down and take five minutes before going back to play.
The ending of NeiR Automata is the reason I haven't played it again, it wouldn't feel right. I had to sacrifice my save data, so just making a new save and doing it all over again doesn't sit right with me
@@femthingevelyn I ended up appreciating the game more the second time around, there were so many references and foreshadowing that I didn't notice the first time around. Plus that secret/final boss fight, it broke my heart but was totally worth it...
One of the most famous ones was the classic Ghosts and Goblins. Having somehow beaten this insanely hard game, you are told for the "true" ending you need to beat it again from the start. Having finally beaten it twice, you get a pretty anti-climactic ending screen and the eight-year old you realises you are 34 and really, really late for school.
Psssst... don't tell anybody, but you can also *back up your save-data,* to a thumb-drive for instance, and then go through with the 'sacrifice' before restoring your data. But if you do, it leeches away 90%+ of the emotional impact!
@BlakeTheDrake Can be backed up anywhere outside the save folder. I did that. I don't beleive that there is a 1:1 save data to rescues thing. The math doesn't add up. For me to make it through that section, a great number of 'save files' were destroyed. There wouldn't be enough to go around.
You don't have to stand there listening to the vinyls in Lies of P, you can close the menue and wander around the hotel lobby, leveling up your character or weapons, etc etc
Also, it fits from a story perspective. A puppet will not sit around listening to music. A puppet will not lie to spare someone's feelings. A puppet wouldn't care about either of these things. So by acting like a human, you become more human
there's only one song you should need to listen to in order to confirm your humanity and that's Eye Of The Tiger if you're not on your feet and punching the shit out of the air in front of you by the end of it you'll never be a real boy
Why wouldn’t you? He is just so caring and sweet. Even with his whole plan, you know it’s because he genuinely wants everyone to be happy. Doesn’t mean you should just allow it, but he’s definitely very sympathetic.
I'm only seconds in and hear "the Blockbuster Ending," start nodding in understanding, and then get viciously attacked when Ellen says "ask your parents." Thank you for the reminder of the constant, inexorable march of time!
If it's any consolation, I remember when *Schnuck's* had a rental section...with VHS movies *and* NES rentals (Trog was a family favorite...and has ties to my favorite rail-shooter: CarnEvil).
@@AlsebraDUDE! It was Seesel's around here (I'm from Memphis, TN), although they were bought out by Schnucks later. The point is, until you said that, I had COMPLETELY forgotten that Seesel's had a video rental section when I was a kid! I remember renting "Flight of the Navigator" from there (a great 80's film from Disney, for all you unaware kiddos....early appearance from Sarah Jessica Parker in that one). One of my favorite films as a kid, and my love for it remains undiminished and unashamed.
Welp, since we're on this thread, I used to rent Genesis and SNES games from Blockbuster when I saw the most shocking thing I had seen in a long time. Mega Man. For the Sega Genesis. On an in store set up to let you try the game. Well, it was common for any store with electronics and video game sections to have gaming set ups but Mega Man on Sega was a shock 🤯
Maruki (as well as one other major character) didn't appear in the original version, So even if you had played the original version of Persona 5, it wouldn't have made a difference.
And the funny thing is that “healthiest” is still a blatant abuse of power (though at least his imposition of reality before the Third Semester are literally because of triggers). The actual healthiest, in my opinion, is Toranosuke because it really is just “an adult levels with a kid and helps himself, and they grow close anyway over changing Tokyo for the better”.
They neglected to mention you need to advance 2 other confidants high enough by a certain point to get access to the true ending as well. One for sure is like 2 weeks after Maruki's deadline. So you could still miss it by not talking to *someone else* enough :/ still, great game that doesn't have a villain* as the final antagonist. *play the third semester, you'll see what i mean.
Maruki & Kasumi werent in the original, and Akechi's confidant was altered so you have to talk to him rather than it being tied to the plot like in original P5. To be fair though... the therapist makes alot more sense to visit and max out than some of the vanilla confidants... like the fortune teller, shogi player, the literal politician yelling on a street corner, the homeroom teacher who may possibly work the street corner, a doctor illegally giving drugs to a minor using them as a human "guinea pig" in her own words, and the reporter who literally is a high risk to uncover your identity as a phantom thief... Suddenly the therapist isnt the odd one out!
That's what I was wondering. I haven't gotten to the game yet (AC6 distracted me and then I got sucked back into Elden Ring since I want to get at least one of the endings (not likely to try for the platinum for that game unlike the others)), but I've been a bit interested in it. I knew about the records though and being able to swap out the hub music. The hotel was my favorite part of the demo and I really liked the initial music there.
@@SolaScientiaElden Ring has one of the easier platinums compared to other fromsoft games. Theres no farming, no weird proprietary game system like world tendency, no covenant bullshit, no ring achievement, it's a pretty fair deal. Only one necessary weapon is missable but you can just get it on ng+ or ng++.
@@themightymcb7310 If it's that lightening spear up on top of the one in the Royal Capital, then I got that one. I wasn't going to get it, but then I realized how easy it was to get after killing Morgott, so I went to grab it before progressing with the main story. I guess my quibble is just the length of the game and it being an open world game. Since diving back in after about a year away from it I've been doing much better. I basically have to have some sort of plan before I start it up and I play in short bursts. It helps that I've opted to pretty much ignore the caves, catacombs, and the like unless one is necessary for particular quest. I've focused on Fia, Nepheli, Millicent, Rya, Patches, and that's basically it for the NPCs. I honestly totally forgot about Sellen pretty early on, because I do use spells or anything like that. Whoops, lol. I only did Ranni's quest because of the boss fight, the Moonlight Greatsword (that I don't have the stats to use, because I'm leveling up only hp, stamina, dex, and strength), and because it's tied in with Fia's quest. I honestly can't stand Ranni. I've had a beef with her ever since she butted into the fight with Rennala. I'm doing Fia's quest because the Duskborn ending is the one I'm going for. Thankfully I've maxed out my Bloodhound's Fang now and my Mimic Tear. I want to go get Black Knife Tiche's ashes too since she might be useful for certain bosses. My mimic tear with my loadout pretty well minces most everything.
Im really surprised thatvit wasnt mentioned that the real controversy with the Asura's Wrath ending, was that not only was it dlc, but it was dlc that was already on the disc. You were paying to unlock content you already paid for
Please release the "Ellen's cut" version where we hear how she really feels about riddles. Put it behind an age restriction though, cuz it is Ellen after all...
I think Cave Story's true ending deserves a mention. It's not necessarily the weirdest path, but the game's approach to a true ending requires a lot of shenanigans. There are things you need to do, things you have to avoid doing, and a wild, long run & gun sequence followed by the final final boss. It's less weird and more *specific* things you need to do/not do to see the true ending.
Weirdest path being picking up a little man and bringing him halfway through the game to a literal hole in the wall to be returned to his little family to receive a weapon that must never be leveled up.
Spoilers for those not in the know: - You can play the game as normal UNTIL you've defeated the boss called "Monster X". This is where the first step towards (or away from) the true ending happens. Exact spoilers below. - After the boss room, you'll enter a room with a drop and see Professor Booster fall down below. If you drop down to save him, you'll get a prototype jetpack, but he dies, and you've just locked yourself out of the true ending. - Instead, you need to cross the gap WITHOUT the jetpack. This can be done with the recoil from a Lv.3 Machine Gun, or with a precision running jump (look for a small red mark on the ground). - Then, before challenging the "Core" boss, look for a sparkly item along the floor to collect (it _won't_ appear if you received the prototype jetpack). You will need it to take Curly with you after the boss battle. - Assuming you brought Curly with you, there is a small cabin in the Waterway you need to stop at to repair her. It's a tricky jump but if you make it, you'll find everything you need inside (just make sure to take her with you again before you leave). - If you did that correctly, when you reach the Plantation you will find Curly awake but she has amnesia. Follow the rumors to find a special mushroom to give to her, and she'll explain the backstory behind the two of you. - After defeating the gauntlet of final bosses and destroying the Core for good, during your escape from the island there is a building with the last save point inside it. If you did all the above steps, there will also be a hole in the floor dropping you into the secret area you need to clear to actually _get_ the True Ending. Fun fact: Physical editions of Cave Story come with a retro-style printed manual, which includes the complete instructions on a "secret page" (the letters are printed on both sides of the paper, so you need to hold it against a light to read it).
The Persona 4 True Ending isn't as weird but it is much harder since you have to make SEVEN correct dialogue options in a row to not get the Bad Ending.
@@Youhadabadday2021 and you can actually mess up and not even see him when going out, bc you actually have to talk to him when going out in the early game when finding out about the rumour I believe
@@OrdigTroll and all of it... ALL of it is unspoken off... you just gotta have that "weird feeling" about the story not adding up entirely and REFUSE TO END THE GAME by leaving on a train, an actual activee decision you make in the game
3:30 The whole time that the records are playing, you would notice that the needle on the player doesn't seem to get any closer to the centre of the record. It's like the whole record's groove is compressed into a 360-degree circle, moving at 0.25 rpm.
And us truly old fogeys might notice that the arm is on the wrong side. The spin of the record should _pull_ it to help keep it straight and in the groove. Pushing into the arm, as it does in the animation there, makes it more likely to move sideways, with awful results.
@@xtifr THAT'S what was driving me nuts about it! My dad had a record player he used to listen to while he worked on his bike, so I've seen it often enough to subconsciously recognize something was wrong without the details registering I guess.
One Thing: the Riddler is one of Bats enemies who knows his true Identity. A riddle where everyone knows the answer isn‘t a riddle anymore, so he keeps this secret.
Not Arkham-verse Riddler, it's explicitly stated in City's audio tapes that he didn't know Batman's identity, and he refuses to believe it's Bruce Wayne when he gets taken to the GCPD after the main story finishes.
yes, i remember a comic book like that: Riddler called him Bruce Wayne, and threatened to blackmail him. Batman responded by quoting a VERY old riddle. Riddle said, "everyone knows that one, it's worthless." and Batman said something like, "exactly. if you reveal my secret, everyone will know, and my secret becomes worthless. think about it." Riddle though for a minute, then screamed "AAAAARGH!"
Getting the homecoming ending in Sekiro Shadows Die Twice requires feeding the divine child of rejuvenation the dried serpent viscera and fresh serpent viscera which are basically the hearts of giant snakes and then a persimmon which will cause her to shed frozen tears. Giving both the frozen tears and divine dragon tears to Kuro will result in the divine child absorbing him into her body after which her and Wolf will go on a journey to return the dragon's heritage from where it came from.
There's actually a bit of translation weirdness with the umbilical cords in Bloodborne. It's not that each one is 1/3 of a single umbilical cord, the implication is that infant Great Ones each have multiple umbilical cords due to Lovecraftian shenanigans and you have to eat a specific one.
In Disco Elysium, it turns out that chasing cryptids can cover a multitude of sins. Following Lena’s quest line can give you one of the best endings even when you haven’t stayed totally sober (most don’t on their first play through), which would normally end with you being fired.
In SoulCalibur III, you had to win every fight (including bonus fights under restrictions), guess the correct branching path given a series of choices, and respond appropriately to QTEs (some of which may need to be failed) without any clue as to the correct options.
With Nier Automata there's a hidden dev secret near the beginning of the game (essicently in the first boss arena you have to input a few actions in a specific spot) you can actualy trigger ending E (at least the part that asks you to delete your data) and delete your data really early to get the title screen. Sure it removes the emotional impact, but you get a cool title screen.
Prepare to be dissappointed..... . . . . . . No. The game has a list of 'file names' synched to a server, but there are 'default' file names that the game pulls if either the server isn't populated or can't be reached. It ensures the game can be played if the servers go offline (or you just don't want to connect), but it does mean the 'help with save file' feature is a bluff: Even if you don't, every player will get 'help' from something, even if it is a default set of names. That said, if you DO play online, your save file name DOES populate to a list that CAN be pulled by other people, so there is that.
More secret ending than true ending, but I finally finished Cyberpunk 2077 and found out that if you wanna get the ending where you take on the final dungeon with just you and Keanu Reeves like true bros, you have to be really mean to Keanu Reeves during one specific encounter. You then later come to a dialogue branch where you have to sit still for a few minutes before he presents you with a secret option.
It makes sense in context, but yeah it's a really specific single point to have so much hinge on it. The sitting still works as well, but it's more intuitive. You could easily do that given how hard the decision is.
I know this is an old comment but it's not 'being mean', it's standing up for yourself and calling bullshit on Johnny. You tell him that, actually, he did fuck up and take advantage of you when you let your guard down for him. He realizes that he's still as selfish as he was 50 years ago and he genuinely didn't even think about the consequences/implications of what he did. You calling him out on it also earns his respect which is why he offers the secret ending later.
2 things on Lies of P. 1. The soundtracks of that game are actually pretty amazing and worth the listen. 2. You don't have to stand still the entire song, you can do other stuff around the hotel as long as you don't leave. Just throw it on when you first go, and do all of your upgrading and whatnot and it's usually pretty close to done.
All previous Yoko Taro have really convoluted or hard to get requirements to get all endings. In fact the world of Nier is based off the hardest to get ending of Drakengard 1 (which has a dark fantasy setting). It's where the hero and his dragon appear in the skies of modern-day Tokyo, are shot down by a fighter jet, and contaminate earth with a deadly disease that wipes out humanity. And it's not the weirdest ending of this game IMO, that would be the giant cannibal babies.
Don't forget that the original NieR true ending (ending D), needs you to erase your existence, painstakingly erasing both your data and savefiles, before showing the final cutscene and the ending credits with Ashes of Dreams as its soundtrack and ending with a new menu screen as a reward for ending the game, it also locks you from using the same name that you used in your previous playthrough in a new game
The crazy thing about Maruki's quest line is that he's a very sympathetic "villain", and by kicking his ass, you're saying that grief and sadness are better than living a life where you're always happy. It sounds so backwards, to the point that you could seem like you're being the asshole in this situation, but Maruki is totally the bad guy. It just doesn't always seem that way.
@@angel-of-light-kelly1355it’s weird though, they still seem to have free will, or maybe it’s just the phantom thieves, but they just don’t make any mistakes or have any cause for suffering, so I guess they just don’t have any driving force in their lives
@@jetstreamsam3442 this is more the classic debate of “should we have our whole path set for us (determinism in a way), or should we be free to make any decision we want, even if will end up hurting us?” Maruki would force everyone to go down specific paths, and would even change people’s personalities to make them more happy, or to try other pursuits if the one they’re striving for currently causes them pain (starving artists for example). At first, every phantom thief except Joker is under Maruki’s control, with Joker needing to give them a nudge to help them remember what’s real, returning their sparks of rebellion. They aren’t immune to it, as can be seen in the alternate ending
Although Maruki's goals are understandable, the fact that the life he makes for Akechi goes completely against Akechi's own wants (despite it being the life Akechi wishes he had) tells us what he's doing is absolutely unethical. He may think what he's doing is right but his actions aren't as pure as he thinks they are. Really he's only changing reality as a way to make his own trauma mean something. He's a very sympathetic antagonist tho and part of me wanted to side with him. What I'm trying to say is Persona 5 Royal is one of the best games ever
I mean think about it in the real world no one is always happy (and that's ok we always get through the bad days all the stronger for it) its like a reality vs delusion thing and a free will type thing
The "ask your parents bit" hurt my heart, because when my son sees this, he will ask me and I'll need to explain the demise of blockbuster and the glorious summer of the game pass.
I can count on one hand the games that stayed with me after I finished or managed to affect my emotional state (other than anger/frustration) during playthrough....but the credits scene of Automata would've been much easier if my vision didn't get so blurry for unexplained reasons.
I have to say: Hollow Knight's Radiance ending (and it's Godseeker ending) both involve some seriously lairy stuff: Allow yourself to be consumed by endless void, desecrate your father's corpse, kill God (kill God, but after fighting everyone else as well). It gets mental.
The nier automata ending makes me cry so much because of how beautiful and well choreographed it is, I love niero automata so much, a huge ass emotional rollercoaster
Big fan of Persona 4 Golden's true ending requirements similarly needing a high SL rank Adachi and Marie, while also needing to make a series of critical deductions off a hunch, and to talk to a specific NPC on your last day in town
Adachi's isn't actually needed, you only need to Max out Marie but it's recommended on maxing Adachi's because it adds more context to The Golden Route
You don't need to max Adachi's SL to see the true ending of Persona 4 Golden. Heck, the "true ending" doesn't require ANY SL to be maxed, just one of them to be maxed and since Teddie always ranks up via story progression, you'll always have at least one SL maxed by the last day. If you we're aware, here are the ACTUAL requirements to get the true ending in P4G. 1: On December 6th there will be a major story cutscene. The game will warn you about this right before it happens. But basically there will be a guy who seems evil and you have the option of indirectly killing him. Say no. This alone locks you out of the worst ending. Then answer 7 further dialogue options correctly. The correct choices should be pretty obvious minus one of them, being "[spoiler name]'s true feelings." I got it on my first try without a guide but vaguely knowing what I should do from UA-cam videos. Fail any of the dialogue prompts and you'll get the bad ending, but you can just reload your save and try again. 2: The next check is on December 7th. After the cutscenes you will have to correctly select who the culprit is. (the game has a murder mystery theme) You have three options, and if you were paying attention and ESPECIALLY if you're genre savvy it should be pretty obvious who the killer is. Select the correct killer and you'll be locked into at least the good ending as long as you complete the December dungeon in time. You have 3 chances to guess correctly, and guessing incorrectly will give you hints. Fail 3 times and you'll get the same bad ending as failing the prompt on the previous day. 3: As long as you complete the December dungeon by the December 24th, you will be locked into the good ending. In the original Persona 4 on PS2/PS3 the game immediately skips to the last day (April 3rd I think) after that dungeon, but in Golden you get an extra 2 months, January and February, to finish up any side quests or SLs you missed previously and get each characters 3rd awakenings. Though it's actually only 30 days of gameplay due to you being sick for most of the first half of January and a time skip to April and the last day happening on February 24th. 4: Then on the final day after you say goodbye to every SL you maxed, you have the choice to head home. DO NOT. This will cause you to get the standard good ending and lock you out of the true final dungeon and true final boss. After you refuse to hear home return to the Junes food court. Do this and you will be locked into the true ending. However, there ARE bonus cutscenes you can unlock if you finished certain SLs. Getting Adachi to Rank 6 unlocks additional story cutscenes involving him, and will max rank on the last day immediately after being locked into the true ending route. Completing Marie's SL before you complete the December dungeon will potentially unlock a bonus dungeon and secret boss involving her. To unlock this bonus dungeon you must not only get Marie to Rank 10 before December 24th at the absolute latest, but also visit the Velvet Room on January 1st and request that Elizabeth "look for Marie." Saying no will lock you out of the bonus cutscenes. After saying yes you'll see additional scenes throughout January and February discussing Marie's whereabouts and on February 23rd, one day before the time skip, you have ONE CHANCE to clear her dungeon or she dies and you get locked out of the bonus cutscenes. Finishing her dungeon and defeating the boss will permanently unlock the bonus epilogue (sometimes refered to as the "golden ending") and unlock additional cutscenes during the true ending revealing more of the lore. January/February, Marie and her content, and Adachi's SL and bonus scenes were all additional content added in Golden. In the OG P4 it just skipped straight to the final day after the December boss. Also, if you are on NG+ you can fight Margaret in a secret boss fight if you have met certain conditions including 1: beaten every optional boss shadow before you clear the December dungeon 2: have maxed Margaret's SL before February 23rd/the December dungeon (if you're playing the OG) 3: are locked into the true ending route 4: Re-enter the Velvet Room immediately after getting the Orb of Truth and BEFORE talking to a certain NPC and talk to Margaret to unlock the fight 5: Once you've unlocked the true final dungeon head to the Heaven dungeon to fight Margaret. Beating her will give you important series-wide lore.
@@TheBlackSeraph Yeah but the golden ending and the true ending are completely different endings, though the "golden ending" (I prefer to call it the "golden epilogue") is more so an add-on/expansion of the true ending rather than being entirely it's own thing. So saying you need Marie for the "true ending" is technically false as unlike Persona 5, the true ending of P4 wasn't added in the updated re-release. Golden just added more context to the true ending via Marie's arc and how she connects to the true final boss. Honestly Golden has one of the BETTER additional content of any of the Atlus re-releases. Compared to stuff like SJR which outright retcons the original story into some weird time travel plot it's god-tier. Marie isn't even a bad character, it's just that her haters REALLY don't like Tsunderes.
I feel like Persona 4 Golden has its own weird way of getting the true ending. When it comes to the base portion, you have to convince three of your teammates to not put the guy who put Nanako on the brink of death and is clearly a little bit of a loon in the TV to die.
That was already a thing in the original version and it only leads to the good endings. For the true ending you have to completely ignore what the game tells you to do, talk to some specific people, go to a place that has no point at that time and call all of your friends only to unlock an antire new Dungeon and the True final Boss. All of this on the very last day of the game when you main misson is to just say goodbye to everyone. And for a nasty little tidbit, if you get the Namatame thing wrong and can't convince your friends not to kill him, Nanako dies too, Teddy just vanishes and no one shows up when you leave.
@@shinrailp1416 To be honest, I thought the Izanami part was added with the Golden portion. That's why I thought that the Namatame choices would determine whether you get the true ending of the base portion or not.
In Pandora's Tower it's practically impossible to get the best/true ending, so in NG+ you get a key at the start of the game that lets you into various locked doors and chest so as you play the game and feed your cursed wife-to-be flesh from monsters you run around on a time crunch finding gifts such as flowers and an apron to make her happy. Very strange game, very pretty though
Oh my God, I always die whenever Ellen does bits like the one at 4:13 🤣🤣🤣 Ellen, you're already my favourite, it's not fair to the others to keep boosting yourself
@@oxfanblink4115pretty sure it'd just be boring placeholder words to fill the time needed to insert the beeps don't want to have anything that would get you in trouble if there's an editing mistake you missed before uploading
I wonder, if it qualifies, as weirdest thing to do, or if anybody pointed it out already, but... In Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, to get the true ending you'll have to find a unique katana and slice the blood moon in half. And you have to do it twice in a playthrough, the first time being in a very stressful situation.
I got the true ending on the first try as the special katana you get automatically from Zangetsu you then have to fight Gebel in the supposed final fight and when you get his health down to a certain point you use the special katana you got from Zangetsu to attack the blood moon that appears in order to slice it in half in order to access the true final area and true final fights.
I asked my mum about two-day game rentals and she told me I had to re-oil the laundry-rollers and couldn't crank up the victrola all week :'( Thanks oxtra
I 100% agree that the two scenes where you just NEED to know to press x in X-2 are obscure to the point of being ridiculous, but in fairness to "needing to watch EVERY cutscene, which is tedious" bit... this game actually technically has like... 140-ish % completion. You only need 100 to get the perfect ending (assuming you knew to press x in those scenes and therefore get the GOOD ending). You really are meant to "complete" this game through TWO playthroughs, since you can new game plus and carry over your completion percentage. There's a major choice at the beginning of chapter 2 which drastically alters the story and events of two locations in every chapter carrying forward, which is where all the extra story completion points come in. Just make the different choice on your second playthrough and you're actually free to skip the occasional scene or miss some stuff outright. Between both playthroughs as long as you at least VISIT every location each chapter, odds are you'll get enough points. If anything, it's nearly impossible to 100% the game in ONE playthrough, even if you do everything right. Even painstakingly following a guide, you'll probably end up 1-2 points short - and in fact, depending on which side you choose in chapter 2 you literally CAN'T get to 100% in your first playthrough. Another "fun" obscure way the game can screw you out of points? There are several points where you have to sit and listen to Maechen, the lore and exposition guy, talk for minutes on end. You're given multiple chances to tell him to keep going or ask him to stop, but the correct choice is to DO NOTHING. Even if you're wanting to hear more, you miss out on points by INTERRUPTING him. Instead, just put down the controller and let him drone on for several minutes.
The NIER automata one really is one of the most profound moments you can experience as a human, no joke, and it's tied to a damn videogame, locking it out of the grasp of the majority of mankind.
Triangle Strategy also has a bit of weirdness, it's already a game where some of the decisions are particularly grueling, forcing you to choose between your friends, or two equally terrible decisions, in branching paths that lock you out of the other path until NG+ SPOILERS To get the true ending you have to do a lot of things a normal player would do (avoid burning your own kingdom, defend the innocent and persecuted, and visit your father when asked) but you also need to implicitly aid an illegal smuggling trade instead of trying to expose the very creepy smuggler. If you decide to be honest (usually a good tactic in JRPGs) and gain evidence to expose the smuggler instead of being cool and just smuggling the goods, you'll lock yourself out of the true ending. To be fair, the final battles of the true end have a steep difficulty curve compared to the other ends, so it's easily possible that the developers wanted you to go through the other endings first and build your party before tackling the true end.
They do talk about getting the chance to talk to a certain someone by going along with the salt trade, which is the link that lets you get the true ending. So it's more of a pragmatic choice over the moral one of exposing the illegal trade.
The true ending in Chrono Cross was a slog, at least for me. Trying to play the notes of a song by casting certain color spells in a specific order, while in battle against the final boss that could screw up the order whenever it dang well pleased? Nightmare for 12 year old me.
If I recall correctly, the easiest way to beat it was to wait until the boss casted the yellow element and then do a series of weak element attacks to get the order correctly. It is a pain to wait until the boss finally did cast a yellow element, but doing all of the elements in order afterwards was pretty easy.
When I first experienced the true ending in Persona 5 Royal it was one hell of a tear jerker, especially when I had to have a fistfight with Maruki. He was such a good character and I had a lot of fun interacting with him.
Same, his whole segment was heartbreaking, I loved him and his arc had me conflicted on "what if what we are doing may be good in the short term but bad in the long term" I will always choose free will and to defy Maruki's world but I can fully understand why someone would willingly accept it, hell I know if I played Royal back when I was 16 or something, with how shit my life was back then, I probably would say yes and accept Maruki's reality but I know overall, that isn't the right way to go about it
Don't forget the ungodly amount of skill you need for Crash 4's true ending. As in, "break every box in each level without dying once" levels of skill.
I remember reading that the original plan for Azura's Wrath was for a sequal to finish the story, and once they found out they weren't getting a sequal they made the ending DLC instead. It was a long time ago I saw this, so I can't verify the source. Take it with as much salt as you want.
The FFX-2 one is so brutal even beyond just the cutscenes, even following a guide it is -SO- easy to miss a tiny thing, or, in my recent case, talked to the characters in the wrong order at the end of the game after doing everything else perfectly... Thank goodness for Creature Capture in the FFX-2 HD for us here in the states for the first time and save games to go back and try it again~ >.
Apparently you have to leave a comment which gets at least 100 likes to get the true ending, and also harvest the spleens of 5 spambots. Note that not all spambots have spleens to harvest.
Lies of P vinyls was kind of easy, collected them all and listened to them while doing dishes, mounting ikea furniture, sewing, cooking. Great ambiance in the house I must say!!!!
@@candybeans I gave it my absolute best shot, but somehow messed up one of the missable cutscenes early on, at Bevelle, I think it was, and didn't realize until the Mascot didn't unlock. But, I have the Remastered version on my computer, so maybe soon, it will finally be time to finish that "Great Work" haha Many things can be said about X-2, but I still loved that version of the class system.
@@RedSpade37 yeah, it was a good precursor to XIII's combat system. Which is partly why I didn't complain as much about that one back however many years ago.
Cave Story: you have to willingly choose *not* to save an old man npc. Going to rescue him guarantees his death. Leaving him alone guarantees his survival AND gets you a better jetpack.
Wow, I would never make it through even one of those records in Lies of P. I’d end up so depressed I’d have to put the controller down and have a good cry. Or fall asleep. Or cry and then fall asleep. A MUCH more peaceful reaction than the rage I feel when I come across an unavoidable puzzle in a game. I feel your pain, Ellen.
I saw someone else mention Cave Story, which is kind of amazing in the amount of necessary shenanigans. Loved that game. I'm also reminded that the "true ending" of Hollow Knight (well, one of them, but the main game non-DLC one) takes... a lot of work, haha. (Spoilers ahead.) To get it you have to defeat the _real_ final boss of the game, the Radiance. In order to fight the Radiance you have to first reach the standard final boss fight by killing the three Dreamers, which makes sense. Before going to the boss fight though, you have to gather 1800 Essence with the Dream Nail to Awaken it, then visit two extremely out of the way areas, speaking to the White Lady in the Queen's Gardens to get one half of the Kingsoul, and then visiting the White Palace to get the other half which is located after a ton of quite difficult platforming (there is a non-mandatory sub-area of the White Palace called the Path of Pain which is _sarcastically_ hard). After getting the two halves, you then have to enter the Abyss while wearing the Kingsoul charm and smash through the floor in a particular spot in order to find the Birthplace, where after navigating a maze and killing a bunch of enemies you get to do another long platforming section before transforming the Kingsoul into the Void Heart. After all of that, during the standard final boss fight, the character Hornet will grab the boss to allow you to strike it with the Dream Nail and enter into his dreams, where you get to fight the Radiance -- basically, you decide to duel what looks like the Sun at first glance but turns out to be the manifestation of an infection in the shape of a forgotten moth-god. The fight is a long and very difficult struggle combining both super high intensity combat and intricate platforming, and every time you lose you have to start over from outside the "normal" final boss arena and fight through him to get to the Radiance. Oh, and with the Godmaster DLC, they introduced extra hard versions of all the bosses, including the Radiance, taking the form of Absolute Radiance who is, to reuse a phrase, _sarcastically_ hard and only possible to fight after a boss rush of 43 of these extra difficult bosses. Each attempt takes 45 minutes to an hour to complete, and there will be *many*. Luckily they also have the possibility to practise each boss fight on their own in a special hall, but goddamn is it a test of endurance.
I spent way too long scrolling down here to find this suggestion, but I'm still trying to get a couple stragglers to even unlock the chance to try the Pantheon ending, which I should add is found in a coffin in the sewers to add to the weirdness.
Owlcat Games made "weird requirements for the true ending" into an art form. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous requires (among many other things) that you enter the final dungeon at a specific in-game date several months after what you'd reasonably need to finish everything else up. Anyone wanting to get the Ascension ending had to skip forward dozens of days, watching their crusade morale drop dangerously close to game over status, because any accomplished player would have already run out of ways to keep it high.
You can leave the record player in Lies of P after you start a song and go about doing whatever you need to do at the base while it plays in the background. I played them all while upgrading/testing weapons.
Well, while the part of Persona 5 royal's true ending is technically correct, there's slighly more to it. Because: since it´s the enhanced version of Persona 5, you have an additional requirement to it, and even ANOTHER additional requirement if you want the full extent of the royal true ending (yes, there are multiple versions of it, with only ONE of them showing the full extent. In order to get the full extent, the first requirement would be to (as it´s been said), max out Maruki's confidant before the deadline. On top of that, if you want the small bonus-scene, you´ll also have to max out the Justice-Arcana AND pick the correct option during one of the conversations somewhere in the middle of the confidant-progress. ADDITIONALLY: you must reach the og true ending in the first place, which is one dialogue-choice before the og path splits up into the bad, neutral, good and true ending and THEN: AFTER the og true ending concluded, you must yet another time give the correct response to a question. While failing the Justice-Arcana only results in a slight difference in the final cutscene, failing ANY of the other checkmarks will result in a different ending. And the amount of possible endings is HIGH. If we consider any game-over-screen that brings you back to a previous checkpoint or save, that would be: -failing to aggree to the "contract" at the beginning of the game (the first thing you do when starting the game) -missing a deadline for a palace -giving the wrong answer in the final dialogue before the game splits into its different endings (this is 2 alternative ways to get the bad ending) -giving the wrong anser in the following dialogue if you are on-route to the true ending (splits into 4 different endings) -failing to get Rank 9 of the Counsellor arcana before November 17th -failing to get Rank 8 of the Justice arcana before November 17 (that´s the minimal different bonus-cutscene you miss) -accepting the offer you get on either January 9th or February 2nd -dying (yes, that´s a seperate ending-cutscene) This brings us to a total of 9 total endings if you account for all variations
Here's one for you: To get the 'perfect' ending of Odin Sphere, you have to not only watch all the bad outcomes to the final book, Armageddon, but after watching the good outcome, you have to wait on the credits screen for a bonus scene that acts as a casting call of sorts. It's really bizarre. Another one is Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer. You need to find 3 mask fragments scattered throughout Rasheman in order to get either the 'perfect light' or 'perfect dark' ending. Yes, MotB actually has *two* 'true' endings, depending on how much of a monster you decide you want to be.
I pressed X at a random time during the video, and Ellen began explaining what someone can do with a Crossword puzzle... Not sure if bug, or feature, or secret in video, but hey! Worth it. Also, remind me not to make Ellen mad. Ooof...
In fairness on the Lies of P one, you don't have to stay at the gramaphone. You can start the song and walk away as it plays and go about your hub business, leveling up, buying supplies, upgrading weapons, talking to NPC's and testing whatever new weapon you picked up
My favorite ending was not knowing how to save my game as a small child, turning off the PS3, and replaying the same 2 or so starting hours every single time
I had a similar issue with the pokemon games since they never really explained to you how to delete an old save file. So a few times iirc I started a new game only to try saving a few hours later and find I couldn't save over the old file. Thus losing my progress.
@@koconnell968 Doesn't it ask you 'are you sure you want to save? This will overwrite the old file" or something? It's been awhile but I found that out and was annoyed as it meant someone on a church retreat (of all things) overwrote my original Pokemon Blue save.
@@professorhaystacks6606 That's if you're on the original save game iirc. If you started a brand new game, you couldn't save over the old data without wiping the old data ahead of time using a specific button sequence in the title screen.
@@koconnell968 Oh wait, we aren't talking red/blue are we? I remember what you're saying now applied to some game in the... I wanna same Gameboy Advance era? I can't recall which.
For Persona 5, it's not just your therapist. You also have to make half-friends with the random add-on girl and the guy sleuthing you. All before November.
Honestly, from a narrative perspective, quietly listening to music as an act of humanity does makes sense, and hey, if it's good music, it's worth listening to .
The funny thing about Arkham Knight is I actually did get all of the Riddler trophies but drew the line at absolutely anything involving the bat tank because it handled like a rollerblade on ice and was a tank. In a Batman game. No.
With P5R you _also_ need to max Akechi's confidant level, and maybe also Kasumi's if I remember correctly. Maruki gets you semester 3, but Akechi actually gets you the true ending. He has to be at rank 8 by 11/17, otherwise even if you get semester 3 you won't see the true ending (rank 9 and 10 are story linked, as long as you hit 8 before mid November)
@@mgw3133He’s referring to the extra scene you get at the end, where he shows up. Yoshizawa you have to get to rank 5 by then in order to unlock the second half of her confidant.
@@mgw3133 WRONG. They ARE necessary to unlock "The Royal" ending. It's because of the conclusion of the relationship between Joker and Akechi as well as Kasumi AND Maruki. All of them are interconnected.
Cave story has you ignore a potentially injured ally for seemingly no reason to get the best ending. To be fair he lives if you don't talk to him, but the game is expecting you to deliberately ignore the character it JUST drew your attention to.
To Asura’s Wrath’s credit if I remember right it wasn’t originally planned to have to buy a dlc for the full ending. There was originally going to be a sequel but when the game didn’t perform well enough for that they instead adapted the plans for what would have been the sequel into the dlc so they could tie things off properly.
I like doing cryptic crosswords! Well, I like doing them with my friend, who is much, much better at them than I am. But we think very differently, so while he puts in 90% of the effort, he cannot complete them without me!
In Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, there were 2160 collectibles. They show up on your radar after 1000, BUT (and this is for you Ellen) you get nothing if you collect them all! Get that beep machine up and ready =)
peraona 5 royal is actually even more complex than that, because you also need to max out your bond with both yoshizowa and akechi. both of which also need to be maxed out before 11/18 in the in game calendar
You can totally ignore both of em, actually. You only need to max them out for their Third Tier Personas, Yoshizawa's Showtime with Joker, and Akechi's cameo in the ending. It's only Maruki who needs to be maxed out for it to happen, but it's a SUPER common misconception that you need to do all three.
@isthiswhatconsequencesfeellike so, I looked this up, because I didn't believe it, and surprisingly, it does seem to be true. it absolutely makes no sense, given how extremely prominent these two are to the extended storyline, but it does seem you can completely ignore the two of them. I don't recommend it, though.
So to get the true final boss of Octopath Traveler, you have to complete two seemingly unrelated sidequests then backtrack through an area you have no reason to go to, talk to a mostly ignorable NPC and suddenly wow! You've unlocked another whole boss and finally you can work out how all eight storylines tie together. How anyone worked it out without a guide is beyond me.
The good news is, once you've played FFX-2 once and received that final perfect ending that finally stops the grief of the FFX ending (seriously, the first game that had me literally crying at the end of it so much that my then 8 year-old son made me 'get better coffee') you never _ever_ have to play that ridiculous game again. :D
And then the grief restarts when the radio drama that was to lead to part 3 which hasn't been greenlit Tidus then dies to bomb that he thought was a blitzball and his "summon" version cheats on Luna
@@Ladywizard Personally, I like to pretend that the radio drama never happened and the regular ending to x-2 is the cannon one. Bitter sweet, but Yuna's come to terms with Tidus being gone and can live her life for herself as well as for the people she cares about. No weird time travel or Yuna's character development getting rolled back or people remembering Sin back into existence needed.
@@tympestbooks1727 Yeah, I liked _X-2_ as a story about Yuna's wacky adventure where she comes to terms with losing Tidus and saves the world rather than... whatever derp they used to explain how an aeon construct got out of the matrix.
Not sure if this counts, but if you want the best ending with the biggest fireworks display featuring a Star in Super Mario RPG for the SNES and its recent Switch remake, you have to buy 5 of the Fireworks item from a random mole in Moleville and keep them in your inventory through the final boss fight. Especially since the Fireworks are very expensive and only explicitly said in-game to be used as a trading item for the Shiny Stone to fight Culex, it's rare anyone would find this out on their own.
Having to buy DLC for the "real ending" of a game you've already paid full price for isn't "weird". It's naked greed and scummy behavior bordering on fraud.
Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded there's a part towards the end where the Queen of Hearts asks you a bunch of questions about stuff you did. If you tell her the truth she accuses you of lying, but lying requires you to admit to a bunch of stuff that makes you look like a jerk. The only way to progress past this is to pretend you're a jerk and lie to her which causes her to respect you for your "honesty" and progress past her.
wonder if they have a spreadsheet with all the lists waiting for a final game entry that can complete the minimal reqired number to, then, be moved into production
The "return the game to Blockbuster" was the ending I got most often. lol
One of the most unexpected video commenter I've ever seen :O
But it wasn't 48 hours? Blockbuster was a 5 Day rental for Games...though...if you just...kept them, nobody really said anything
@YY-sz1qh Kathrine's actually a fan of both channels. One of her old videos features her watching an Outside Xbox video in the background.
@@justinlast2lastharder749, all depends on your local. Mine would keep calling (and wouldn't allow you to rent) until you returned/repaid. Also, early in Blockbuster's life, since they were one of very few rental places, they had to limit rentals to only a few days so they could flip extremely popular games rapidly.
Oh no lol
As a former psychology student I can confirm that "having a fistfight in a metaverse spawned from the collective unconscious" is in fact something we're trained for. Most of us know Aikido for this very reason.
as a current psych student I can confirm this
FIST.
OF.
JUSTICE!
holy shit its just like persona the 5 royal
You’ll find some of us in the gym practicing for that very day. I had teachers who engaged in it, so we are just preparing
As someone looking to start certification soon, that's not true at all... they changed it to Judo
Honestly with what happens in literally every persona game it was kinda funny that the devs finally put a therapist in the game, lord knows these kids need one
Turns out the therapist needed therapy himself, before he even looks at another patient.
Oh yeah, especially the Persona 3 cast. You risked your live over serveal months, fought monsters from the human subconciounus that could easily tear any human appart, watched one of you friends almost get killed by another your friends, only to still be murdered by your enemies, were nearly sacreficed to the embodiment of death so that she could wipe out all of humanity, by someone you all trusted, learned how much shit the group supporting you and your allies were up to in the past ( Strega, enough said), and than, when you finally thought you triumphed over the embodiment of death after a sheer endless fight with seemingly no one dying, one of your own had to sacrefice themselve to stop the end of humanity. Not even getting into the shit happening in the Answer.
Too bad Dr. Maruki was not a good therapist. As somebody who is striving to be a counselor, Dr. Maruki is a bad counselor by encouraging his clients to run away and pretend their problems don't exist.
Therapy is OP in the world of Persona.
He’s not even a therapist! He admits flat out he’s a research psychologist!
Far Cry 4. Hear me out. The developers have recently confirmed that the canon (and thus true) ending to the game is the one where you unlock it by waiting 15 minutes in Pagan Myn's dinner table. Doing literally nothing but staring at a screen for 15 minutes with nothing happening on it is the weirdest thing a video game can ask you to do as when you play video games you're either doing something, managing inventory or watching a cut scene.
You're not doing nothing. You're enjoying the crab rangoon!
Edit: Considering New Dawn is also non-canon, the wait choice in FC5 may also be 'canon'.
I always loved this one, the ending you get by actually being a polite dinner guest.
I mean... I get it, seriously in that scenario I'm pretty sure most of us are freezing in place and hoping we don't die
My favorite weird requirement for a true ending is Bravely Second, in which after confronting the main villain, he gets away, his plan succeeds, and the world is overrun with alien monsters, the game says “congrats, here’s New Game Plus!” You then need to start New Game Plus and use a Bravely Second during the tutorial fight, causing the Main Characters from your previous, doomed playthrough to TRAVEL BACK IN TIME and use their future knowledge to redo the events of the game in a way that prevents the main villain’s plans before they even get off the ground. It’s wild and I love it.
Oh my goodness, yes! And then in bravely default 2,you have to run away to get one ending, then after that final battle you have to delete your save file, but the game at no point explains what or why you are doing any of this convoluted process to get the true ending.
@@jacksonskinner7879 Technically you are not deleting your save file, you are deleting the final bosses, thus making it so they can no longer reload/resurrect, but other than that yes, that definitely qualifies as something that would fit on this list.
@@Kevin-Keys With the added detail of them breaking the fourth wall to get that SP in the cutscene after the final boss to boot, a lot of set up and layers to that one
Interesting plot lol
omg that makes me wanna finally finish it! i took 120 hours to finish the og (i'm a very slow jrpg player) and i never finished bravely second cuz the main character was so weaaaak. and bravely default 2 is lowkey hard for me haha. might give bravely second another go soon haha
To be fair, compared to the rest of games in this list here, Maruki's confidant is the least weird thing you need to do lol. You just need to arrange a weekly counseling session with him and maybe drop by and there before the deadline, no need to get strange items, actually temper with your save files, etc..
The main thing with Maruki is that he will often not let you visit for weeks on end, and then I believe it's the last 2(?) ranks that need to be gained in the final week before he leaves, as the last rank can only be gained on the last day IIRC. The game is also kinda iffy about whether or not you need to increase Akechi and Kasumi's ranks as well to access the third semester. I don't think you need to raise them unless you wish to max their personas out, though.
@@TheBlackSeraph You will need to increase Kasumi's rank, but not Akechi's. Kasumi is really easy as she only has 5 stars to get her at max rank in order to get the third semester and gives out helpful moves to be more acrobatic in the dungeons. Plus she can awaken her own Persona evolving it to become stronger.
Akechi is a little bit different because you don't NEED to max him out in order to get the true ending (aka get to the final boss), but his Confidant Rank makes Akechi a much more fleshed-out character this time around compared to his Confidant Rank back in the original Persona 5 game. He does make a 1 second cameo in the True Ending, but that's nothing compared to the screen time Maruki and Kasumi gets after completely their Confidants.
And Maruki is good to manage as all you need to do is get him to Rank 9 before his final day in order to max out his Confidant Ranking. The first 2 stars are essentially handed to you for free so all you need to do is see him for like 7 times. And he appears almost all the time at the school except mostly in the summer cause the kids are on summer break. So obviously you can't see him during that time. But you can see him more in the Fall which should give you enough time to go see him before his date ends.
@@R.J.Crimson99Nope, you only need Maruki. There's a challenge video of "doing absolutely nothing" that involved NOT doing any confidants except Maruki, and they unlocked the third semester.
You don't need to do anything with Kasumi nor Akechi, they're just locked out of any improvements upon their deadline.
@@saxor96 And NitsuaGamer would absolutely not recommend trying that challenge run at home!
@@R.J.Crimson99Weather or not you max Akechi does effect the ending though.
Sekiro's got its own branch of weirdness for its "true" ending. You need to find two giant snake hearts (one fresh, the other dried) and then give them to a child, who will eat them
You also have to eat four piles of uncooked rice
@@appleseed2976 Anything but the rice!
And you also have to find a book for her too
@@appleseed2976 uncooked rice
Does the true ending show the arrival of Child Protective Services?
Actually, yes, you can see Santa & Batman in the same place on many occasions. In fact, as a canonical character in DC comics, Santa makes a point of breaking into Apokalips every year with the express purpose of hand-delivering coal to Darkseid himself
Over at Marvel he’s canonically an omega-level mutant
reminds me of an old comic i saw in a "giant" book, where Batman was in a hurry to help someone during a snowstorm that made all of his vehicles unusable, and apparently borrowed Santa's Sleigh...Santa never actually appeared...
I love that the incarnation of tyranny can't stop Santa from styling on him every year.
Didn't Batman actually receive training from Santa? Specifically in the area of detective work and psychological warfare?
Who did they hate more, the players or the poor sods that had to make up hundreds of Riddler challenges?
I prefer to instead think of those poor sods cackling gleefully each time they added another puzzle.
This coming from the girl who, unprompted, solved the Dishonored puzzle door without going through missions or looking up help.
Ellen, you're also a riddle lover don't deny it.
That was messed up. It is great for replayability but holy bats there is only so much one can do
@@fabianlaibin6956, if you've a mind for them, logic puzzles can be quite cathartic when you finally crack the key clue.
The NieR Automata Ending Credits gave me real chills when I realized it was other players data reaching out to me in assistance.
And then it gave me even bigger chills when I realized they offered up their save data to do so. I think every gamer can relate to how hard this would be, but I felt not bad given up my save data, too, knowing it would reach another person and lets them hopefully feel the same way.
It's the part where the song changes to a group harmony that really got to me, the sound of so many voices working together as other people helped me finish the game - I've done two wipes and I'm on my fourth 100% playthrough!
Also that bit with Pascal. It's the only time I've ever had to put a controller down and take five minutes before going back to play.
The ending of NeiR Automata is the reason I haven't played it again, it wouldn't feel right. I had to sacrifice my save data, so just making a new save and doing it all over again doesn't sit right with me
@@femthingevelyn I ended up appreciating the game more the second time around, there were so many references and foreshadowing that I didn't notice the first time around. Plus that secret/final boss fight, it broke my heart but was totally worth it...
imagine being te first person to beat NieR Automata and start this chain
It's possible to beat the mini game without help, you just need to git gud, which is easier said than done.
One of the most famous ones was the classic Ghosts and Goblins. Having somehow beaten this insanely hard game, you are told for the "true" ending you need to beat it again from the start. Having finally beaten it twice, you get a pretty anti-climactic ending screen and the eight-year old you realises you are 34 and really, really late for school.
I got the Nier Automata one and it was genuinely emotional and moving. Fortunately if you say no at first you can do it again and say yes
Psssst... don't tell anybody, but you can also *back up your save-data,* to a thumb-drive for instance, and then go through with the 'sacrifice' before restoring your data. But if you do, it leeches away 90%+ of the emotional impact!
@BlakeTheDrake Can be backed up anywhere outside the save folder. I did that. I don't beleive that there is a 1:1 save data to rescues thing. The math doesn't add up. For me to make it through that section, a great number of 'save files' were destroyed. There wouldn't be enough to go around.
@BlakeTheDrake pretty sure there's also a way to restore your save file without backing it up, but all I could find was something in nier replicatant
I think having collectibles be vital to the true ending is utter bs.
@@demise0 You may be underestimating just how many times people have replayed the game lol
You don't have to stand there listening to the vinyls in Lies of P, you can close the menue and wander around the hotel lobby, leveling up your character or weapons, etc etc
Also, it fits from a story perspective. A puppet will not sit around listening to music. A puppet will not lie to spare someone's feelings. A puppet wouldn't care about either of these things. So by acting like a human, you become more human
Also also, they’re great songs, well worth a listen.
That's good to know because if I ever get around to playing it there's no way I stand there just listening to all those songs.
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Came here to say all of this. Lies of P is delicious and I love it as much as life.
there's only one song you should need to listen to in order to confirm your humanity and that's Eye Of The Tiger
if you're not on your feet and punching the shit out of the air in front of you by the end of it you'll never be a real boy
In P5R, I just went to every councilling session when he messages you, because he seemed like a chill guy... truly, it was my Last Surprise....
Why wouldn’t you? He is just so caring and sweet. Even with his whole plan, you know it’s because he genuinely wants everyone to be happy. Doesn’t mean you should just allow it, but he’s definitely very sympathetic.
So...
You never saw it coming? ;)
You could say he's a gentle madman
I see what you did there. Well, if you have the DLC for Gekkoukan uniforms, than we could say the battle called for Mass Destruction
And the ending where you take off your mask for one final fist fight absolutely epic
I'm only seconds in and hear "the Blockbuster Ending," start nodding in understanding, and then get viciously attacked when Ellen says "ask your parents."
Thank you for the reminder of the constant, inexorable march of time!
If it's any consolation, I remember when *Schnuck's* had a rental section...with VHS movies *and* NES rentals (Trog was a family favorite...and has ties to my favorite rail-shooter: CarnEvil).
@@AlsebraDUDE! It was Seesel's around here (I'm from Memphis, TN), although they were bought out by Schnucks later.
The point is, until you said that, I had COMPLETELY forgotten that Seesel's had a video rental section when I was a kid! I remember renting "Flight of the Navigator" from there (a great 80's film from Disney, for all you unaware kiddos....early appearance from Sarah Jessica Parker in that one). One of my favorite films as a kid, and my love for it remains undiminished and unashamed.
Welp, since we're on this thread, I used to rent Genesis and SNES games from Blockbuster when I saw the most shocking thing I had seen in a long time. Mega Man. For the Sega Genesis. On an in store set up to let you try the game. Well, it was common for any store with electronics and video game sections to have gaming set ups but Mega Man on Sega was a shock 🤯
I never played the original version of Persona 5, so learning that Maruki's entire arc could be missed just by not talking to him enough blew me away.
Maruki (as well as one other major character) didn't appear in the original version, So even if you had played the original version of Persona 5, it wouldn't have made a difference.
And the funny thing is that “healthiest” is still a blatant abuse of power (though at least his imposition of reality before the Third Semester are literally because of triggers). The actual healthiest, in my opinion, is Toranosuke because it really is just “an adult levels with a kid and helps himself, and they grow close anyway over changing Tokyo for the better”.
They neglected to mention you need to advance 2 other confidants high enough by a certain point to get access to the true ending as well. One for sure is like 2 weeks after Maruki's deadline. So you could still miss it by not talking to *someone else* enough :/ still, great game that doesn't have a villain* as the final antagonist.
*play the third semester, you'll see what i mean.
Maruki & Kasumi werent in the original, and Akechi's confidant was altered so you have to talk to him rather than it being tied to the plot like in original P5.
To be fair though... the therapist makes alot more sense to visit and max out than some of the vanilla confidants... like the fortune teller, shogi player, the literal politician yelling on a street corner, the homeroom teacher who may possibly work the street corner, a doctor illegally giving drugs to a minor using them as a human "guinea pig" in her own words, and the reporter who literally is a high risk to uncover your identity as a phantom thief... Suddenly the therapist isnt the odd one out!
@@mickware5289… doctor is still the best one tho
Y'know you don't HAVE to stand around gormlessly staring at the back of P's head.
You can start playing them and keep doing stuff in the hub.
That's what I was wondering. I haven't gotten to the game yet (AC6 distracted me and then I got sucked back into Elden Ring since I want to get at least one of the endings (not likely to try for the platinum for that game unlike the others)), but I've been a bit interested in it. I knew about the records though and being able to swap out the hub music. The hotel was my favorite part of the demo and I really liked the initial music there.
@@SolaScientiaElden Ring has one of the easier platinums compared to other fromsoft games. Theres no farming, no weird proprietary game system like world tendency, no covenant bullshit, no ring achievement, it's a pretty fair deal. Only one necessary weapon is missable but you can just get it on ng+ or ng++.
@@themightymcb7310 If it's that lightening spear up on top of the one in the Royal Capital, then I got that one. I wasn't going to get it, but then I realized how easy it was to get after killing Morgott, so I went to grab it before progressing with the main story. I guess my quibble is just the length of the game and it being an open world game. Since diving back in after about a year away from it I've been doing much better. I basically have to have some sort of plan before I start it up and I play in short bursts. It helps that I've opted to pretty much ignore the caves, catacombs, and the like unless one is necessary for particular quest. I've focused on Fia, Nepheli, Millicent, Rya, Patches, and that's basically it for the NPCs. I honestly totally forgot about Sellen pretty early on, because I do use spells or anything like that. Whoops, lol. I only did Ranni's quest because of the boss fight, the Moonlight Greatsword (that I don't have the stats to use, because I'm leveling up only hp, stamina, dex, and strength), and because it's tied in with Fia's quest. I honestly can't stand Ranni. I've had a beef with her ever since she butted into the fight with Rennala. I'm doing Fia's quest because the Duskborn ending is the one I'm going for. Thankfully I've maxed out my Bloodhound's Fang now and my Mimic Tear. I want to go get Black Knife Tiche's ashes too since she might be useful for certain bosses. My mimic tear with my loadout pretty well minces most everything.
Great website
Im really surprised thatvit wasnt mentioned that the real controversy with the Asura's Wrath ending, was that not only was it dlc, but it was dlc that was already on the disc. You were paying to unlock content you already paid for
Please release the "Ellen's cut" version where we hear how she really feels about riddles. Put it behind an age restriction though, cuz it is Ellen after all...
no! bleeping is a high form of art. The Ellen achievement.
That’s the true ending of the video
...our dear sweet Ellen...
@@labor4200 gamerscore for unlocking it!
She can swear like a sailor, maybe she should have been the salty pirate and Corazon should have been the druid
I think Cave Story's true ending deserves a mention. It's not necessarily the weirdest path, but the game's approach to a true ending requires a lot of shenanigans. There are things you need to do, things you have to avoid doing, and a wild, long run & gun sequence followed by the final final boss. It's less weird and more *specific* things you need to do/not do to see the true ending.
I do appreciate how it also comes down to "get as far as you can with the starting equipment". Like it's also kind of a challenge run
Weirdest path being picking up a little man and bringing him halfway through the game to a literal hole in the wall to be returned to his little family to receive a weapon that must never be leveled up.
I still think the weirdest is seeing the scientist fall, and just ignoring him. When just walking past the guy in pain is the way to save his life.
Spoilers for those not in the know:
- You can play the game as normal UNTIL you've defeated the boss called "Monster X". This is where the first step towards (or away from) the true ending happens.
Exact spoilers below.
- After the boss room, you'll enter a room with a drop and see Professor Booster fall down below. If you drop down to save him, you'll get a prototype jetpack, but he dies, and you've just locked yourself out of the true ending.
- Instead, you need to cross the gap WITHOUT the jetpack. This can be done with the recoil from a Lv.3 Machine Gun, or with a precision running jump (look for a small red mark on the ground).
- Then, before challenging the "Core" boss, look for a sparkly item along the floor to collect (it _won't_ appear if you received the prototype jetpack). You will need it to take Curly with you after the boss battle.
- Assuming you brought Curly with you, there is a small cabin in the Waterway you need to stop at to repair her. It's a tricky jump but if you make it, you'll find everything you need inside (just make sure to take her with you again before you leave).
- If you did that correctly, when you reach the Plantation you will find Curly awake but she has amnesia. Follow the rumors to find a special mushroom to give to her, and she'll explain the backstory behind the two of you.
- After defeating the gauntlet of final bosses and destroying the Core for good, during your escape from the island there is a building with the last save point inside it. If you did all the above steps, there will also be a hole in the floor dropping you into the secret area you need to clear to actually _get_ the True Ending.
Fun fact: Physical editions of Cave Story come with a retro-style printed manual, which includes the complete instructions on a "secret page" (the letters are printed on both sides of the paper, so you need to hold it against a light to read it).
@@Stratelier really, all you need to do is not talk to booster. You can stand next to him, run around him, all that. But don’t you dare talk to him!
Honestly, I can’t even listen to Maruki’s voice without getting sad. Rest in Peace, Billy Kametz. ;_;7
I forgot he voiced Maruki, damn it sucks that he's gone he was such a good voice actor😢.
God I miss him so much... he is Ferdinand Von Aiger...
It's even worse for Kametz's former partner Erica Lindbeck (voice of Futaba and many more) as she says she can't even play anything he was in anymore.
@@Ashtarte3D I knew she dated him, but I didn’t know that part. That’s so sad… I can’t imagine how she feels…
same fir Kevin Conroy
The Persona 4 True Ending isn't as weird but it is much harder since you have to make SEVEN correct dialogue options in a row to not get the Bad Ending.
You forgot the part where you have to literally remember that you interacted with the random ass gas station attendant at the beginning of the game.
@@Youhadabadday2021 and you can actually mess up and not even see him when going out, bc you actually have to talk to him when going out in the early game when finding out about the rumour I believe
And don't forget you had to try to go back to Junes twice, because the first time the game would lie to you and say you had no reason to go there
@@OrdigTroll I was specifically talking about not getting the Bad Ending but that part as well.
@@OrdigTroll and all of it... ALL of it is unspoken off... you just gotta have that "weird feeling" about the story not adding up entirely and REFUSE TO END THE GAME by leaving on a train, an actual activee decision you make in the game
3:30 The whole time that the records are playing, you would notice that the needle on the player doesn't seem to get any closer to the centre of the record. It's like the whole record's groove is compressed into a 360-degree circle, moving at 0.25 rpm.
And us truly old fogeys might notice that the arm is on the wrong side. The spin of the record should _pull_ it to help keep it straight and in the groove. Pushing into the arm, as it does in the animation there, makes it more likely to move sideways, with awful results.
@@xtifr THAT'S what was driving me nuts about it! My dad had a record player he used to listen to while he worked on his bike, so I've seen it often enough to subconsciously recognize something was wrong without the details registering I guess.
One Thing: the Riddler is one of Bats enemies who knows his true Identity. A riddle where everyone knows the answer isn‘t a riddle anymore, so he keeps this secret.
Not Arkham-verse Riddler, it's explicitly stated in City's audio tapes that he didn't know Batman's identity, and he refuses to believe it's Bruce Wayne when he gets taken to the GCPD after the main story finishes.
@@cjgg4885 They nerfed his intelligence into the ground.
yes, i remember a comic book like that:
Riddler called him Bruce Wayne, and threatened to blackmail him.
Batman responded by quoting a VERY old riddle.
Riddle said, "everyone knows that one, it's worthless."
and Batman said something like, "exactly. if you reveal my secret, everyone will know, and my secret becomes worthless. think about it."
Riddle though for a minute, then screamed "AAAAARGH!"
Getting the homecoming ending in Sekiro Shadows Die Twice requires feeding the divine child of rejuvenation the dried serpent viscera and fresh serpent viscera which are basically the hearts of giant snakes and then a persimmon which will cause her to shed frozen tears. Giving both the frozen tears and divine dragon tears to Kuro will result in the divine child absorbing him into her body after which her and Wolf will go on a journey to return the dragon's heritage from where it came from.
Well, *obviously...*
Sad we never got an expansion that shows this journey. Would make for some fine content.
I still hold hope that one day we get a sequel to Sekiro showing this journey@@Dvids2020
Luke's expression when he came back with his tea and realized he'd missed his whistling prompt was priceless. Unlike the Azura's Wrath True Ending.
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There's actually a bit of translation weirdness with the umbilical cords in Bloodborne. It's not that each one is 1/3 of a single umbilical cord, the implication is that infant Great Ones each have multiple umbilical cords due to Lovecraftian shenanigans and you have to eat a specific one.
ah of course, now it makes sense ....
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@@frankwest5388 no, no it does not.
What...what happens if you eat the *wrong* one??
@@caligocipher9036 I assume some other kind of eldritch transformation, but like... a bad one.
@@caligocipher9036Indigestion. Status effect, mostly harmless, just makes your Bloodboi rip the occasional shocking belch
In Disco Elysium, it turns out that chasing cryptids can cover a multitude of sins. Following Lena’s quest line can give you one of the best endings even when you haven’t stayed totally sober (most don’t on their first play through), which would normally end with you being fired.
In SoulCalibur III, you had to win every fight (including bonus fights under restrictions), guess the correct branching path given a series of choices, and respond appropriately to QTEs (some of which may need to be failed) without any clue as to the correct options.
In other words, *DO ALL PATHS*
I saw this happen exactly once. The usually kinda short run on tales of souls became enormous!
when i rented it from blockbuster i didnt even know how to do the qtes lol
With Nier Automata there's a hidden dev secret near the beginning of the game (essicently in the first boss arena you have to input a few actions in a specific spot) you can actualy trigger ending E (at least the part that asks you to delete your data) and delete your data really early to get the title screen. Sure it removes the emotional impact, but you get a cool title screen.
Rip Billy Kametz. such a talented VA really brought the emotions in Maruki,s character
I would die if I played with English VA.
I've never felt more connected to other gamers than at the end of Nier Automata.
I have always wondered if the first person had to do it without help😂
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No. The game has a list of 'file names' synched to a server, but there are 'default' file names that the game pulls if either the server isn't populated or can't be reached. It ensures the game can be played if the servers go offline (or you just don't want to connect), but it does mean the 'help with save file' feature is a bluff: Even if you don't, every player will get 'help' from something, even if it is a default set of names. That said, if you DO play online, your save file name DOES populate to a list that CAN be pulled by other people, so there is that.
More secret ending than true ending, but I finally finished Cyberpunk 2077 and found out that if you wanna get the ending where you take on the final dungeon with just you and Keanu Reeves like true bros, you have to be really mean to Keanu Reeves during one specific encounter. You then later come to a dialogue branch where you have to sit still for a few minutes before he presents you with a secret option.
Well, not many people would want to be mean to Keanu, so it's a cruel choice for a secret.
It makes sense in context, but yeah it's a really specific single point to have so much hinge on it. The sitting still works as well, but it's more intuitive. You could easily do that given how hard the decision is.
I know this is an old comment but it's not 'being mean', it's standing up for yourself and calling bullshit on Johnny.
You tell him that, actually, he did fuck up and take advantage of you when you let your guard down for him.
He realizes that he's still as selfish as he was 50 years ago and he genuinely didn't even think about the consequences/implications of what he did. You calling him out on it also earns his respect which is why he offers the secret ending later.
2 things on Lies of P. 1. The soundtracks of that game are actually pretty amazing and worth the listen. 2. You don't have to stand still the entire song, you can do other stuff around the hotel as long as you don't leave. Just throw it on when you first go, and do all of your upgrading and whatnot and it's usually pretty close to done.
All previous Yoko Taro have really convoluted or hard to get requirements to get all endings. In fact the world of Nier is based off the hardest to get ending of Drakengard 1 (which has a dark fantasy setting).
It's where the hero and his dragon appear in the skies of modern-day Tokyo, are shot down by a fighter jet, and contaminate earth with a deadly disease that wipes out humanity.
And it's not the weirdest ending of this game IMO, that would be the giant cannibal babies.
You didn't mention the actual Boss fight...
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@@Ramsey276one meh it's just a musical rythm game in an action adventure/rpg.... not that weird for Yoko Taro xD
Don't forget that the original NieR true ending (ending D), needs you to erase your existence, painstakingly erasing both your data and savefiles, before showing the final cutscene and the ending credits with Ashes of Dreams as its soundtrack and ending with a new menu screen as a reward for ending the game, it also locks you from using the same name that you used in your previous playthrough in a new game
The crazy thing about Maruki's quest line is that he's a very sympathetic "villain", and by kicking his ass, you're saying that grief and sadness are better than living a life where you're always happy. It sounds so backwards, to the point that you could seem like you're being the asshole in this situation, but Maruki is totally the bad guy.
It just doesn't always seem that way.
Good old classic free will vs. Utopian society
@@angel-of-light-kelly1355it’s weird though, they still seem to have free will, or maybe it’s just the phantom thieves, but they just don’t make any mistakes or have any cause for suffering, so I guess they just don’t have any driving force in their lives
@@jetstreamsam3442 this is more the classic debate of “should we have our whole path set for us (determinism in a way), or should we be free to make any decision we want, even if will end up hurting us?” Maruki would force everyone to go down specific paths, and would even change people’s personalities to make them more happy, or to try other pursuits if the one they’re striving for currently causes them pain (starving artists for example). At first, every phantom thief except Joker is under Maruki’s control, with Joker needing to give them a nudge to help them remember what’s real, returning their sparks of rebellion. They aren’t immune to it, as can be seen in the alternate ending
Although Maruki's goals are understandable, the fact that the life he makes for Akechi goes completely against Akechi's own wants (despite it being the life Akechi wishes he had) tells us what he's doing is absolutely unethical. He may think what he's doing is right but his actions aren't as pure as he thinks they are. Really he's only changing reality as a way to make his own trauma mean something. He's a very sympathetic antagonist tho and part of me wanted to side with him. What I'm trying to say is Persona 5 Royal is one of the best games ever
I mean think about it in the real world no one is always happy (and that's ok we always get through the bad days all the stronger for it) its like a reality vs delusion thing and a free will type thing
I really want to hear the unbleeped version, even though it's probably just Ellen talking about how cute cats are.
The "ask your parents bit" hurt my heart, because when my son sees this, he will ask me and I'll need to explain the demise of blockbuster and the glorious summer of the game pass.
I can count on one hand the games that stayed with me after I finished or managed to affect my emotional state (other than anger/frustration) during playthrough....but the credits scene of Automata would've been much easier if my vision didn't get so blurry for unexplained reasons.
I have to say: Hollow Knight's Radiance ending (and it's Godseeker ending) both involve some seriously lairy stuff: Allow yourself to be consumed by endless void, desecrate your father's corpse, kill God (kill God, but after fighting everyone else as well). It gets mental.
I was just gonna summarize this as "In order to get Hollow Knight's true ending, you must play Super Meat Boy."
The nier automata ending makes me cry so much because of how beautiful and well choreographed it is, I love niero automata so much, a huge ass emotional rollercoaster
Same. Basically, if you have a list of the best endings in video games, I have to ask: does it include Automata's Ending E, or is your list wrong?
Big fan of Persona 4 Golden's true ending requirements similarly needing a high SL rank Adachi and Marie, while also needing to make a series of critical deductions off a hunch, and to talk to a specific NPC on your last day in town
Adachi's isn't actually needed, you only need to Max out Marie but it's recommended on maxing Adachi's because it adds more context to The Golden Route
You don't need to max Adachi's SL to see the true ending of Persona 4 Golden. Heck, the "true ending" doesn't require ANY SL to be maxed, just one of them to be maxed and since Teddie always ranks up via story progression, you'll always have at least one SL maxed by the last day.
If you we're aware, here are the ACTUAL requirements to get the true ending in P4G.
1: On December 6th there will be a major story cutscene. The game will warn you about this right before it happens. But basically there will be a guy who seems evil and you have the option of indirectly killing him. Say no. This alone locks you out of the worst ending. Then answer 7 further dialogue options correctly. The correct choices should be pretty obvious minus one of them, being "[spoiler name]'s true feelings." I got it on my first try without a guide but vaguely knowing what I should do from UA-cam videos. Fail any of the dialogue prompts and you'll get the bad ending, but you can just reload your save and try again.
2: The next check is on December 7th. After the cutscenes you will have to correctly select who the culprit is. (the game has a murder mystery theme) You have three options, and if you were paying attention and ESPECIALLY if you're genre savvy it should be pretty obvious who the killer is. Select the correct killer and you'll be locked into at least the good ending as long as you complete the December dungeon in time. You have 3 chances to guess correctly, and guessing incorrectly will give you hints. Fail 3 times and you'll get the same bad ending as failing the prompt on the previous day.
3: As long as you complete the December dungeon by the December 24th, you will be locked into the good ending. In the original Persona 4 on PS2/PS3 the game immediately skips to the last day (April 3rd I think) after that dungeon, but in Golden you get an extra 2 months, January and February, to finish up any side quests or SLs you missed previously and get each characters 3rd awakenings. Though it's actually only 30 days of gameplay due to you being sick for most of the first half of January and a time skip to April and the last day happening on February 24th.
4: Then on the final day after you say goodbye to every SL you maxed, you have the choice to head home. DO NOT. This will cause you to get the standard good ending and lock you out of the true final dungeon and true final boss. After you refuse to hear home return to the Junes food court. Do this and you will be locked into the true ending.
However, there ARE bonus cutscenes you can unlock if you finished certain SLs. Getting Adachi to Rank 6 unlocks additional story cutscenes involving him, and will max rank on the last day immediately after being locked into the true ending route.
Completing Marie's SL before you complete the December dungeon will potentially unlock a bonus dungeon and secret boss involving her. To unlock this bonus dungeon you must not only get Marie to Rank 10 before December 24th at the absolute latest, but also visit the Velvet Room on January 1st and request that Elizabeth "look for Marie." Saying no will lock you out of the bonus cutscenes. After saying yes you'll see additional scenes throughout January and February discussing Marie's whereabouts and on February 23rd, one day before the time skip, you have ONE CHANCE to clear her dungeon or she dies and you get locked out of the bonus cutscenes. Finishing her dungeon and defeating the boss will permanently unlock the bonus epilogue (sometimes refered to as the "golden ending") and unlock additional cutscenes during the true ending revealing more of the lore. January/February, Marie and her content, and Adachi's SL and bonus scenes were all additional content added in Golden. In the OG P4 it just skipped straight to the final day after the December boss.
Also, if you are on NG+ you can fight Margaret in a secret boss fight if you have met certain conditions including 1: beaten every optional boss shadow before you clear the December dungeon 2: have maxed Margaret's SL before February 23rd/the December dungeon (if you're playing the OG) 3: are locked into the true ending route 4: Re-enter the Velvet Room immediately after getting the Orb of Truth and BEFORE talking to a certain NPC and talk to Margaret to unlock the fight 5: Once you've unlocked the true final dungeon head to the Heaven dungeon to fight Margaret. Beating her will give you important series-wide lore.
@@KrimsonKattYT I think they were talking about the Golden Ending which does require completing Marie's SL
@@TheBlackSeraph Yeah but the golden ending and the true ending are completely different endings, though the "golden ending" (I prefer to call it the "golden epilogue") is more so an add-on/expansion of the true ending rather than being entirely it's own thing. So saying you need Marie for the "true ending" is technically false as unlike Persona 5, the true ending of P4 wasn't added in the updated re-release. Golden just added more context to the true ending via Marie's arc and how she connects to the true final boss. Honestly Golden has one of the BETTER additional content of any of the Atlus re-releases. Compared to stuff like SJR which outright retcons the original story into some weird time travel plot it's god-tier. Marie isn't even a bad character, it's just that her haters REALLY don't like Tsunderes.
I feel like Persona 4 Golden has its own weird way of getting the true ending. When it comes to the base portion, you have to convince three of your teammates to not put the guy who put Nanako on the brink of death and is clearly a little bit of a loon in the TV to die.
That was already a thing in the original version and it only leads to the good endings. For the true ending you have to completely ignore what the game tells you to do, talk to some specific people, go to a place that has no point at that time and call all of your friends only to unlock an antire new Dungeon and the True final Boss. All of this on the very last day of the game when you main misson is to just say goodbye to everyone.
And for a nasty little tidbit, if you get the Namatame thing wrong and can't convince your friends not to kill him, Nanako dies too, Teddy just vanishes and no one shows up when you leave.
@@shinrailp1416 I am aware of that, which is why I said the base portion of Golden. It's easier for my brain than just saying Persona 4.
@@shinrailp1416 To be honest, I thought the Izanami part was added with the Golden portion. That's why I thought that the Namatame choices would determine whether you get the true ending of the base portion or not.
In Pandora's Tower it's practically impossible to get the best/true ending, so in NG+ you get a key at the start of the game that lets you into various locked doors and chest so as you play the game and feed your cursed wife-to-be flesh from monsters you run around on a time crunch finding gifts such as flowers and an apron to make her happy. Very strange game, very pretty though
Oh my God, I always die whenever Ellen does bits like the one at 4:13
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Ellen, you're already my favourite, it's not fair to the others to keep boosting yourself
🤣😂🤣 Would love to see a uncensored version 😅 Though UA-cam most likely would heavily demonetise it so that won’t happen
@@oxfanblink4115pretty sure it'd just be boring placeholder words to fill the time needed to insert the beeps
don't want to have anything that would get you in trouble if there's an editing mistake you missed before uploading
I wonder, if it qualifies, as weirdest thing to do, or if anybody pointed it out already, but... In Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, to get the true ending you'll have to find a unique katana and slice the blood moon in half. And you have to do it twice in a playthrough, the first time being in a very stressful situation.
I got the true ending on the first try as the special katana you get automatically from Zangetsu you then have to fight Gebel in the supposed final fight and when you get his health down to a certain point you use the special katana you got from Zangetsu to attack the blood moon that appears in order to slice it in half in order to access the true final area and true final fights.
I asked my mum about two-day game rentals and she told me I had to re-oil the laundry-rollers and couldn't crank up the victrola all week :'( Thanks oxtra
But what a treat after a hard week of eating asbestos down the lead paint and smallpox factory!
I 100% agree that the two scenes where you just NEED to know to press x in X-2 are obscure to the point of being ridiculous, but in fairness to "needing to watch EVERY cutscene, which is tedious" bit... this game actually technically has like... 140-ish % completion. You only need 100 to get the perfect ending (assuming you knew to press x in those scenes and therefore get the GOOD ending). You really are meant to "complete" this game through TWO playthroughs, since you can new game plus and carry over your completion percentage. There's a major choice at the beginning of chapter 2 which drastically alters the story and events of two locations in every chapter carrying forward, which is where all the extra story completion points come in. Just make the different choice on your second playthrough and you're actually free to skip the occasional scene or miss some stuff outright. Between both playthroughs as long as you at least VISIT every location each chapter, odds are you'll get enough points. If anything, it's nearly impossible to 100% the game in ONE playthrough, even if you do everything right. Even painstakingly following a guide, you'll probably end up 1-2 points short - and in fact, depending on which side you choose in chapter 2 you literally CAN'T get to 100% in your first playthrough.
Another "fun" obscure way the game can screw you out of points? There are several points where you have to sit and listen to Maechen, the lore and exposition guy, talk for minutes on end. You're given multiple chances to tell him to keep going or ask him to stop, but the correct choice is to DO NOTHING. Even if you're wanting to hear more, you miss out on points by INTERRUPTING him. Instead, just put down the controller and let him drone on for several minutes.
You don't have to stand in front of the gramophone in lies of p, you can walk around Hotel Krat while doing it.
The NIER automata one really is one of the most profound moments you can experience as a human, no joke, and it's tied to a damn videogame, locking it out of the grasp of the majority of mankind.
Triangle Strategy also has a bit of weirdness, it's already a game where some of the decisions are particularly grueling, forcing you to choose between your friends, or two equally terrible decisions, in branching paths that lock you out of the other path until NG+
SPOILERS
To get the true ending you have to do a lot of things a normal player would do (avoid burning your own kingdom, defend the innocent and persecuted, and visit your father when asked) but you also need to implicitly aid an illegal smuggling trade instead of trying to expose the very creepy smuggler. If you decide to be honest (usually a good tactic in JRPGs) and gain evidence to expose the smuggler instead of being cool and just smuggling the goods, you'll lock yourself out of the true ending.
To be fair, the final battles of the true end have a steep difficulty curve compared to the other ends, so it's easily possible that the developers wanted you to go through the other endings first and build your party before tackling the true end.
They do talk about getting the chance to talk to a certain someone by going along with the salt trade, which is the link that lets you get the true ending. So it's more of a pragmatic choice over the moral one of exposing the illegal trade.
5:43: “TRULY, a STAGGERING INTELLECT.” 😂 I FELT THAT SARCASM IN MY SOUL!
The true ending in Chrono Cross was a slog, at least for me. Trying to play the notes of a song by casting certain color spells in a specific order, while in battle against the final boss that could screw up the order whenever it dang well pleased? Nightmare for 12 year old me.
This is tha one
Ugh. And it doesn't even _make sense_ when you get it.
If I recall correctly, the easiest way to beat it was to wait until the boss casted the yellow element and then do a series of weak element attacks to get the order correctly. It is a pain to wait until the boss finally did cast a yellow element, but doing all of the elements in order afterwards was pretty easy.
@@toddclawson3619 Yep, you almost _need_ the boss to set one of the elements for you to play the song correctly at all.
@@toddclawson3619 yeah, maybe it was just the impatience of youth that really bogged me down 😂
When I first experienced the true ending in Persona 5 Royal it was one hell of a tear jerker, especially when I had to have a fistfight with Maruki. He was such a good character and I had a lot of fun interacting with him.
Same, his whole segment was heartbreaking, I loved him and his arc had me conflicted on "what if what we are doing may be good in the short term but bad in the long term"
I will always choose free will and to defy Maruki's world but I can fully understand why someone would willingly accept it, hell I know if I played Royal back when I was 16 or something, with how shit my life was back then, I probably would say yes and accept Maruki's reality but I know overall, that isn't the right way to go about it
1. Listening to all those songs?
Now that's a 'Vinyl Fantasy'!
Don't forget the ungodly amount of skill you need for Crash 4's true ending. As in, "break every box in each level without dying once" levels of skill.
But there are so many levels!
FINALLY! A well known gaming channel discussing the Maruki ending! I'm obsessed with this game
I remember reading that the original plan for Azura's Wrath was for a sequal to finish the story, and once they found out they weren't getting a sequal they made the ending DLC instead.
It was a long time ago I saw this, so I can't verify the source. Take it with as much salt as you want.
Ellens rage at the riddler trophies is quite valid 😂
The FFX-2 one is so brutal even beyond just the cutscenes, even following a guide it is -SO- easy to miss a tiny thing, or, in my recent case, talked to the characters in the wrong order at the end of the game after doing everything else perfectly... Thank goodness for Creature Capture in the FFX-2 HD for us here in the states for the first time and save games to go back and try it again~ >.
Don't mind me, I'm just here to unlock this video's true ending
Yeah me too thanks for the assistance
The things we do for completionism ...
This fuzzy warm feeling of 100-percenting 😊
I followed the instructions and became some sort of weird slug monster baby, please advise
Apparently you have to leave a comment which gets at least 100 likes to get the true ending, and also harvest the spleens of 5 spambots. Note that not all spambots have spleens to harvest.
6:15 We have! Because Batman trained under Santa and Krampus. This is cannon. So is the fact that Santa gives Darkseid a lump of coal every year.
Lies of P vinyls was kind of easy, collected them all and listened to them while doing dishes, mounting ikea furniture, sewing, cooking. Great ambiance in the house I must say!!!!
Yeah, that Final Fantasy X-2 true completion goal was one I even gave up on as a kid. With that novel-length guide in front of me.
I still never got the Mascot DressSphere...
@@RedSpade37 me either, friend. I looked at the requirements and said "mmmmmmno." And I was like, 14. I had TIME back then and I didn't even know it.
@@candybeans I gave it my absolute best shot, but somehow messed up one of the missable cutscenes early on, at Bevelle, I think it was, and didn't realize until the Mascot didn't unlock.
But, I have the Remastered version on my computer, so maybe soon, it will finally be time to finish that "Great Work" haha
Many things can be said about X-2, but I still loved that version of the class system.
@@RedSpade37 yeah, it was a good precursor to XIII's combat system. Which is partly why I didn't complain as much about that one back however many years ago.
Ellen’s feelings about riddles are valid and relatable and a perfectly reasonable response to that particular time sink.
Shout out for Lunacid's insane ending requirements and endings. 100% going to be on one of these lists in the future.
Excuse meWUT
Cave Story: you have to willingly choose *not* to save an old man npc. Going to rescue him guarantees his death. Leaving him alone guarantees his survival AND gets you a better jetpack.
“Help me! I’ve fallen down this abyss!”
“Should I help? Nah, he’ll be fine on his own…”
"Ask your parents" - I feel attacked.
Wow, I would never make it through even one of those records in Lies of P. I’d end up so depressed I’d have to put the controller down and have a good cry. Or fall asleep. Or cry and then fall asleep. A MUCH more peaceful reaction than the rage I feel when I come across an unavoidable puzzle in a game. I feel your pain, Ellen.
I saw someone else mention Cave Story, which is kind of amazing in the amount of necessary shenanigans. Loved that game. I'm also reminded that the "true ending" of Hollow Knight (well, one of them, but the main game non-DLC one) takes... a lot of work, haha. (Spoilers ahead.) To get it you have to defeat the _real_ final boss of the game, the Radiance. In order to fight the Radiance you have to first reach the standard final boss fight by killing the three Dreamers, which makes sense. Before going to the boss fight though, you have to gather 1800 Essence with the Dream Nail to Awaken it, then visit two extremely out of the way areas, speaking to the White Lady in the Queen's Gardens to get one half of the Kingsoul, and then visiting the White Palace to get the other half which is located after a ton of quite difficult platforming (there is a non-mandatory sub-area of the White Palace called the Path of Pain which is _sarcastically_ hard). After getting the two halves, you then have to enter the Abyss while wearing the Kingsoul charm and smash through the floor in a particular spot in order to find the Birthplace, where after navigating a maze and killing a bunch of enemies you get to do another long platforming section before transforming the Kingsoul into the Void Heart. After all of that, during the standard final boss fight, the character Hornet will grab the boss to allow you to strike it with the Dream Nail and enter into his dreams, where you get to fight the Radiance -- basically, you decide to duel what looks like the Sun at first glance but turns out to be the manifestation of an infection in the shape of a forgotten moth-god. The fight is a long and very difficult struggle combining both super high intensity combat and intricate platforming, and every time you lose you have to start over from outside the "normal" final boss arena and fight through him to get to the Radiance. Oh, and with the Godmaster DLC, they introduced extra hard versions of all the bosses, including the Radiance, taking the form of Absolute Radiance who is, to reuse a phrase, _sarcastically_ hard and only possible to fight after a boss rush of 43 of these extra difficult bosses. Each attempt takes 45 minutes to an hour to complete, and there will be *many*. Luckily they also have the possibility to practise each boss fight on their own in a special hall, but goddamn is it a test of endurance.
I spent way too long scrolling down here to find this suggestion, but I'm still trying to get a couple stragglers to even unlock the chance to try the Pantheon ending, which I should add is found in a coffin in the sewers to add to the weirdness.
@@iateitguy903 *And* it's in a hidden area in the sewers!
Owlcat Games made "weird requirements for the true ending" into an art form.
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous requires (among many other things) that you enter the final dungeon at a specific in-game date several months after what you'd reasonably need to finish everything else up.
Anyone wanting to get the Ascension ending had to skip forward dozens of days, watching their crusade morale drop dangerously close to game over status, because any accomplished player would have already run out of ways to keep it high.
Unless you knew in advance and unlocked the repeatable project that gives +5-10 morale. Usually that does it well enough.
Well, here's me officially "fully finishing the video", hope the entire OX Purple crew has a wonderful weekend.... OX Green is also fun.
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You can leave the record player in Lies of P after you start a song and go about doing whatever you need to do at the base while it plays in the background. I played them all while upgrading/testing weapons.
Well, while the part of Persona 5 royal's true ending is technically correct, there's slighly more to it.
Because: since it´s the enhanced version of Persona 5, you have an additional requirement to it, and even ANOTHER additional requirement if you want the full extent of the royal true ending (yes, there are multiple versions of it, with only ONE of them showing the full extent.
In order to get the full extent, the first requirement would be to (as it´s been said), max out Maruki's confidant before the deadline.
On top of that, if you want the small bonus-scene, you´ll also have to max out the Justice-Arcana AND pick the correct option during one of the conversations somewhere in the middle of the confidant-progress.
ADDITIONALLY: you must reach the og true ending in the first place, which is one dialogue-choice before the og path splits up into the bad, neutral, good and true ending and THEN:
AFTER the og true ending concluded, you must yet another time give the correct response to a question.
While failing the Justice-Arcana only results in a slight difference in the final cutscene, failing ANY of the other checkmarks will result in a different ending. And the amount of possible endings is HIGH.
If we consider any game-over-screen that brings you back to a previous checkpoint or save, that would be:
-failing to aggree to the "contract" at the beginning of the game (the first thing you do when starting the game)
-missing a deadline for a palace
-giving the wrong answer in the final dialogue before the game splits into its different endings (this is 2 alternative ways to get the bad ending)
-giving the wrong anser in the following dialogue if you are on-route to the true ending (splits into 4 different endings)
-failing to get Rank 9 of the Counsellor arcana before November 17th
-failing to get Rank 8 of the Justice arcana before November 17 (that´s the minimal different bonus-cutscene you miss)
-accepting the offer you get on either January 9th or February 2nd
-dying (yes, that´s a seperate ending-cutscene)
This brings us to a total of 9 total endings if you account for all variations
Here's one for you: To get the 'perfect' ending of Odin Sphere, you have to not only watch all the bad outcomes to the final book, Armageddon, but after watching the good outcome, you have to wait on the credits screen for a bonus scene that acts as a casting call of sorts. It's really bizarre.
Another one is Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer. You need to find 3 mask fragments scattered throughout Rasheman in order to get either the 'perfect light' or 'perfect dark' ending. Yes, MotB actually has *two* 'true' endings, depending on how much of a monster you decide you want to be.
I pressed X at a random time during the video, and Ellen began explaining what someone can do with a Crossword puzzle...
Not sure if bug, or feature, or secret in video, but hey! Worth it.
Also, remind me not to make Ellen mad. Ooof...
In fairness on the Lies of P one, you don't have to stay at the gramaphone. You can start the song and walk away as it plays and go about your hub business, leveling up, buying supplies, upgrading weapons, talking to NPC's and testing whatever new weapon you picked up
My favorite ending was not knowing how to save my game as a small child, turning off the PS3, and replaying the same 2 or so starting hours every single time
I had to do that no save thing with broken a super nintendo cartdrige. Super metroid became hard in a different way.
I had a similar issue with the pokemon games since they never really explained to you how to delete an old save file. So a few times iirc I started a new game only to try saving a few hours later and find I couldn't save over the old file. Thus losing my progress.
@@koconnell968 Doesn't it ask you 'are you sure you want to save? This will overwrite the old file" or something? It's been awhile but I found that out and was annoyed as it meant someone on a church retreat (of all things) overwrote my original Pokemon Blue save.
@@professorhaystacks6606 That's if you're on the original save game iirc. If you started a brand new game, you couldn't save over the old data without wiping the old data ahead of time using a specific button sequence in the title screen.
@@koconnell968 Oh wait, we aren't talking red/blue are we? I remember what you're saying now applied to some game in the... I wanna same Gameboy Advance era? I can't recall which.
For Persona 5, it's not just your therapist. You also have to make half-friends with the random add-on girl and the guy sleuthing you. All before November.
Similarly to Asura's Wrath, Dragon Age: Inquisition's true ending was in the Trespasser DLC, which came out nearly a year later and cost an extra $15
If it happens in a Dlc, it's fan fic, don't @ me. 😂
@@jacksonskinner7879so if your inquisitor shows up in da4 will you rescind this
To be fair, Inquisition’s main story does end with the base game. Trespasser is more like an epilogue than an ending.
If you ARE going to fight your therapist, a psychic metaphor world is probably the most appropriate place to do it
Honestly, from a narrative perspective, quietly listening to music as an act of humanity does makes sense, and hey, if it's good music, it's worth listening to .
The funny thing about Arkham Knight is I actually did get all of the Riddler trophies but drew the line at absolutely anything involving the bat tank because it handled like a rollerblade on ice and was a tank. In a Batman game.
No.
With P5R you _also_ need to max Akechi's confidant level, and maybe also Kasumi's if I remember correctly. Maruki gets you semester 3, but Akechi actually gets you the true ending. He has to be at rank 8 by 11/17, otherwise even if you get semester 3 you won't see the true ending (rank 9 and 10 are story linked, as long as you hit 8 before mid November)
Kasumi and Akechis confidants aren't necessary, but still worth maxing out
@@mgw3133He’s referring to the extra scene you get at the end, where he shows up.
Yoshizawa you have to get to rank 5 by then in order to unlock the second half of her confidant.
@@mgw3133 WRONG. They ARE necessary to unlock "The Royal" ending. It's because of the conclusion of the relationship between Joker and Akechi as well as Kasumi AND Maruki. All of them are interconnected.
SUPERHOT: Mind Control Delete also made you delete your saves, over 14-7 hours of a loading screen.
Cave story has you ignore a potentially injured ally for seemingly no reason to get the best ending. To be fair he lives if you don't talk to him, but the game is expecting you to deliberately ignore the character it JUST drew your attention to.
To Asura’s Wrath’s credit if I remember right it wasn’t originally planned to have to buy a dlc for the full ending. There was originally going to be a sequel but when the game didn’t perform well enough for that they instead adapted the plans for what would have been the sequel into the dlc so they could tie things off properly.
I like doing cryptic crosswords! Well, I like doing them with my friend, who is much, much better at them than I am. But we think very differently, so while he puts in 90% of the effort, he cannot complete them without me!
In Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, there were 2160 collectibles. They show up on your radar after 1000, BUT (and this is for you Ellen) you get nothing if you collect them all! Get that beep machine up and ready =)
I have no problem with listening to all the songs in Lies Of P. That soundtrack is awesome!
16:15 he forgot to mention the part where you marry the doll.
peraona 5 royal is actually even more complex than that, because you also need to max out your bond with both yoshizowa and akechi. both of which also need to be maxed out before 11/18 in the in game calendar
You can totally ignore both of em, actually. You only need to max them out for their Third Tier Personas, Yoshizawa's Showtime with Joker, and Akechi's cameo in the ending. It's only Maruki who needs to be maxed out for it to happen, but it's a SUPER common misconception that you need to do all three.
@isthiswhatconsequencesfeellike so, I looked this up, because I didn't believe it, and surprisingly, it does seem to be true. it absolutely makes no sense, given how extremely prominent these two are to the extended storyline, but it does seem you can completely ignore the two of them. I don't recommend it, though.
@@jamesherb4384 Yeah, I don't blame anyone for thinking that, especially cause all of their Confidants are new content for Royal.
So to get the true final boss of Octopath Traveler, you have to complete two seemingly unrelated sidequests then backtrack through an area you have no reason to go to, talk to a mostly ignorable NPC and suddenly wow! You've unlocked another whole boss and finally you can work out how all eight storylines tie together. How anyone worked it out without a guide is beyond me.
Pretty much any zombies easter egg in black ops 2, 3 and 4. Most egregious is the fact you need at least 3 friends to complete some 😭
Just finished Bloodborne yesterday. Had all three umbilical cords. Didn't know I had to eat them...
The good news is, once you've played FFX-2 once and received that final perfect ending that finally stops the grief of the FFX ending (seriously, the first game that had me literally crying at the end of it so much that my then 8 year-old son made me 'get better coffee') you never _ever_ have to play that ridiculous game again. :D
And then the grief restarts when the radio drama that was to lead to part 3 which hasn't been greenlit Tidus then dies to bomb that he thought was a blitzball and his "summon" version cheats on Luna
@@Ladywizard Personally, I like to pretend that the radio drama never happened and the regular ending to x-2 is the cannon one. Bitter sweet, but Yuna's come to terms with Tidus being gone and can live her life for herself as well as for the people she cares about. No weird time travel or Yuna's character development getting rolled back or people remembering Sin back into existence needed.
@@tympestbooks1727 Yeah, I liked _X-2_ as a story about Yuna's wacky adventure where she comes to terms with losing Tidus and saves the world rather than... whatever derp they used to explain how an aeon construct got out of the matrix.
Not sure if this counts, but if you want the best ending with the biggest fireworks display featuring a Star in Super Mario RPG for the SNES and its recent Switch remake, you have to buy 5 of the Fireworks item from a random mole in Moleville and keep them in your inventory through the final boss fight. Especially since the Fireworks are very expensive and only explicitly said in-game to be used as a trading item for the Shiny Stone to fight Culex, it's rare anyone would find this out on their own.
Having to buy DLC for the "real ending" of a game you've already paid full price for isn't "weird". It's naked greed and scummy behavior bordering on fraud.
Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded there's a part towards the end where the Queen of Hearts asks you a bunch of questions about stuff you did. If you tell her the truth she accuses you of lying, but lying requires you to admit to a bunch of stuff that makes you look like a jerk. The only way to progress past this is to pretend you're a jerk and lie to her which causes her to respect you for your "honesty" and progress past her.
wonder if they have a spreadsheet with all the lists waiting for a final game entry that can complete the minimal reqired number to, then, be moved into production