There is a theory that the endings are in reverse order and the first one is the true ending and the fourth is what brings Phantom to the castle in order to avoid the tragedy he would commit and that's why we fight him on ending one.
Even the last month Dorothy Vision was based from Wizard of Oz, just mixed with bits of Sci-fi and politics. Very entertaining, especially with the fact that there's Evangelion reference at the end... so they say.
Well 99% of the people dont care lore tough I agree that its lore is amazing but it alsohas its own flaws Phamtoms lore is amazing but general story chapters lacked seriousness in my opinion the fact that we still havent lost a single important character despite being in so many battles kinda makes no sense to me Also the weird writing and boringly long dialogues makes lore ignored most of the time by many people wich is sad Thank god phantoms event handles all of them perfectly
@@kyarumomochi5146 idk man, in the prologue we lost like Ace, Scout and a bunch of operators just to save the doctor alone. Though the doctor has amnesia, he managed to retain his strategic thinking. Which is the reason why nobody got killed afterwards. If it was pre-amnesia doctor, we would see like 100 bodies everyday. Plus most the characters have like terminal rock cancer so not like they can live forever. In Skalter dialogues, she said that the doctor failed to save everyone in that alternate universe and that Amiya and Kal'sit were dead. So yea Hypergryph could go murder important characters if they wish. You want it to be like Honkai where Mihoyo murdered Himeko, Sakura, Mobius, Elysia, etc... but somehow you can still gacha for them?
I haven't played IS1 but IS2 is interesting. One of things that interests me is the roguelike elements and how it "defeat" works here. I theorise that when you the doctor and the exploration team are defeated, you "die" by the hands of the Crimson Troupe...but at the same time, you didn't. Let me explain. You start a run in IS2 and unfortunately your life points reach 0. The message in the results screen say something like *you are doomed in the castle forever* But what happens next is what's interesting. *Revertebration* also means Echo. While it looks like the doctor died in the castle, that was only ONE possible self....and every time the doctor and his team died in the castle, that was only a dimensional self, not the true doctor. When the "false doctor self" died, their knowledge and experience resonate with reality as a Echo. AKA the Calignous insights and Candles. *Somehow, the doctor's consciousness resonates with all the "doctors who died in previous runs", granting him prophetic knowledge and a better chance of preparedness* Even if the Doctor succeeded in a run and returns safely, that knowledge is greatly echoed to the consciousness of the doctor, making potential future runs even easier. Which explains why you are getting a lot of candles and calignous insights. This...is a terrifying thought. The doctor, phantom, Rhodes Island and the Crimson Troupe stuck in a *never-ending cycle of wins and losse within that decrepit castle* but it is an interesting adventure. Always a fresh experience...and an Echo should the doctor fails.
There is an artifact called "End of Times" The flavor text is interesting *As long as a new cycle has not been reached, there is still time to fix your mistakes* This might hint in something called *metempsychosis* aka reincarnation or repeat of cycles
It's almost like it's a play, and the runs where we fail are "performed incorrectly" and so it goes back, only the run where you beat Lucian is considered "performed correctly". And as such all failures result in the play restarting to thoroughly complete the tragedy of IS2
The Troupe Mouthpiece is really terrifying, once a human and a member of the Leithanian court is now this dude who's twisted with the mild obsession with art. Also your twitter might be hacked.
I believe that's the Mouth piece instead of the troupe master. The troupe master is the one who runs the entire troupe while the mouth piece is none other the host of the show who announced the play and etc.
it's one of my dream to live for weeks in a castle with setting like this. the dim light, the furnitures and how "full" it feel inside a room, the thick af incense candle smell (love incense), and ofc the history
Roguelike has the most intriguing storytelling in Arknight IMO. You have great interaction with story itself, its twist and turn is therefore that much more powerful. Back in IS1, the moment the story announce the "FrostNova" alternate ending, I literally felt chill down my spine. IS2 managed to do this too, but with a taste of sadness as you receive "blank suicide note" item, indicating the desperation of the spirit trapped in that Ursus Bear. More desperation come when you think you have just beaten the True Puppeteer that tortured that innocent soul, only for Phantom to become mind-controlled again and forever stuck in that sh*t hole.
i didn't really remember any story in IS1 but this one tho damn, and the setting helped that a lot i guess for me. i just love gothic to victorian gothic style environment and with that thick incense candle that i could qlmost smell just from reading it
@@hermanwillem7057 to give a refresher: In IS1, the main character is seemingly Ceobe. Upon getting high from some mushrooms, Ceobe travel around Terra, encounter various event, which lead to various ending. Ending 1 is an encounter with Wilderness hunting group, with Rusthammer (Aka Walmart Faust) as the final boss. If you read the story of Vigilo and Preluding Light, Rusthammer is basically a bunch of hobos with nowhere to go, manage survive extensively in the Terra wasteland and make a living out of hunting and raiding passerby. Merchant Cannot is actually among these guy, perhaps one of the higher-ups in charge of communicating and doing formal business with external organizations, Doctor is one of such entity. To reach ending 2, you spend a few Ingots to properly bury a gravely wounded bounty hunter. You then follow his blood trail, spend some lifepoints to pass through his trap and a battlefield, likely between him and some other mercenaries, and discover a "Psychedelic Treasure map". Following the map, you reach a banana forest, but run in circle due to the confusing oordination, and the name of these places only come from Sami's fairy tale. Suddenly, you feel a drop in temperature, and uncover an "invisible" location with an "invisible" person from the clue of the map - likely refer to the boss, Frozen Montrosity. It is said that she is a Samian Sacrficant who went into the tundra to ward off Demons, but ended up going insane and become one of them. 3rd ending requires you to fetch a "Heavy metal chest" from a deadly mafia shootout (by that I mean everyone was dead), then open it using a "pitched black key", only to discover a SEVERED HAND now reduced to bones, clutching a Laterano gun. You know you are now stuck in a conspiracy of sort, and disaster will soon follow. That disaster is Gravestone, an enigmatic killer who chase its target to the end of the earth.
@@saltissalty3498 damn well i never did any other ending than the 1st one. but yeah rusthammer is basically anarchist group bordering terrorists, they even raid ursus sometimes. and cannot iirc is not their top brass but more like Kal or Doc, trying to ban all ppl in terra to prepare the disaster in the future. cannot may even once someone from Maylander (mentioned further in DV and RL manga) or other Columbian company
@@furutatheclown3619 "Walmart FrostNova" is a nickname for Frozen Calamity, the 2nd final boss in IS1. It got such nickname due to their striking similarities in abilities, only differs in stat (the frozen calamity has almost 2k DEF and a f**k ton of Art resist). Their lore are ultimately unrelated. Yes, FN has already gone.
It's nice that the ending gets posted on the internet, because no way in hell I'll ever see it in-game. The amount of times I've lost in this game mode makes me question if I'm even smart enough to play this game lol.
Me neither I always lose to that Crimson blood diamond. For a mode with 0 sanity required to play I legit got a headache every few dozen rounds so I think it may be plausible that they found some way to use your real life sanity to play instead lol.
The troupe master is gonna score alot of assist kills with phantom on the land ship This may become an event connected to the story or a main chapter it self because of how serious it is..
it could be well possible.. one of the IS#2's theme could be inside Rhodes Island, in future.. because where Phantom is, there's IS#2 (how his brainwash, was never washed away)
I had to stop for a while, probably until the next month, because I spent too much time playing and suffered from sleep deprivation and painful headaches as a result.
Finally! I was waiting for this. As someone who is struggling to get all the endings and obtain all the the artifacts, this really helps a lot. Thanks!
So Phantom is now essentially a ticking time Bomb. At each Moment he could return to being the Blood Diamond and kill dozens on Rhodes Island. This is a terrifying Thought, each Day could be the Last but we wouldnt know it. All of this, so many Lifes, in the Hands of an Insane and Twisted Man who might even be a Deity. In Theory beating him wouldnt be that Hard considering how many Top Operators RI's has but we would still take Heavy Losses, potentialy even having to end Phantom..... Man this has so much Potential
I manage to get two endings in this game mode, but not the third ending. RNG is really the true boss in this mode. I do want to know more about the big castle with its "Inhabitants" wandering about and the mysteries. How many unfortunate souls got trapped and died there? Why were there many enemies? Do they seek only treasure? Anyways, glad you're back after that Tesla incident. Revs, out. Peace
The RNG aspect in IS1 is even worse... In IS1, to get ending 2 (Walmart Frostnova), you've encounter 2 events, first to get "Psychedelic Treasure map" and second to get "Bloodstained Flyer". It's the 2nd event that has very rough RNG, sometimes you have a NOICE team but no luck getting that second event to trigger the ending. Thankfully, they have reduce the ending 2 condition of IS1 downto just 1 encounter, the other is purely optional.
I have something scary to tell, don't know whether you notice or not. But in ending 1, Phantom monologue said that there were once people who came to save him before Rhodes Island... So what if those enemies were actually the souls of those who fails to save phantom and were enslaved by the troupe master like the doll was, and meanwhile Phantom... he was used as a bait multiple times by the troupe master to creates numerous play of tragedies to his self amusement?
if you noticed, theres 3 medal for monthly-squad achievement.. how many monthly-squad did CN had now? only 1 squad, and we already have 4 ending? just how many ending-version will we have until "old castle" theme ends? very intriguing.. obviously, the grand finale will be versus The Troupe Master
I can already imagine of a final story of IST2 we have to fight phantom one more last time but instead fighting him on the castle, we have to fight him on rhodes island due to his brainwash or aka the activation of the blood diamond role, its more likely to be a final show in my theory, the good ending is like everything was over and his past trauma and other horrible stuff in the past will be gone and there will be a new story which will be taking over to mizuki’s story, in the bad ending, they didn’t managed to take down phantom and basically a down fall of Rhodes island This is basically all a theory but who knows, maybe this might happen to the future updates of IST2#
Plus, if this activation happened on rhodes island, I can already bet that it will become a stage and where we have to fight the brainwashed rhodes island soldiers or maybe ops
As for me, all of the endings are canon, just not in order. The first of the sequence is the Ridiculous Comedy ending. After the bear was defeated, Phantom gain a moment of himself. After collecting himself, they were ready to leave. But like a play, it has a twist for him. The Troupe's Mouthpiece appeared. Of course, Phantom being his mission to eliminate the troupe pursued. Which lead to the battle for the ending of Grand Opening. Phantom being a fast redeployment operator probably soloed those assistants. In the Grand Opening scene, we saw that Phantom was hypnotized again by the Troupe. Which then leads to the battle for the Crimson Finale ending, Crying Over Spilt Milk. After defeating him, Shalem helped him to get out of the castle. I don't know the fourth ending but is probably canon too since it is 'in sequence'. Now, this makes me wonder for the first Integrated Strategies if all of the endings are canon too. Ceobe slept with a Cerberus, stole Mr. Cannot's honeycake while being high then woke up having those honeycakes in her hand.
One of the best videos decipting integrated strategies so far! Its good to see non 60 hours long guide videos sometimes since newbies litterally dont watch them
I was going to say that this reminds me of the Crimson King and the play of Alagadda, the Grim Troupe from hollow knight, and goof troupe, for the people with animal ears, but those things all seem much cooler, once I listened to the story.
Thank you for this, there has been almost no resources on the story of this event. I've found myself looking through item descriptions and through the wiki scrolling through gaulish history instead of what's actually happening during the calais-blason investigation
Why do all Integrated Strategies chapters involve drugs? 🤣 Jokes aside, very interesting plot, glad to see my suspicions about everything being too "easy" in ending 1 were proven right by ending 4. I believe the troupe master is the first Godly entity Rhodes Island is gonna have to face for real... This is gonna be terrifying.
Dang, I was hoping for that ending scene, Cuora and Red would both be waiting in line for the theater or would have already been touring the place casually with popcorn.
Idk why ppl cant see it, troupe master has a beef with our ancient fossil on the landship. Hence the "voice in lucian's head" telling him to get there. Whatever happens next is all entertainment for the troupe master seeing his pawn mess with fossil grandma from way back when they knew each other.
Yknow I went from like castle level 10 to 50, all from trying to beat Big Sad Lock. Not ONCE did I realise the unlock encounter and the subsequent 2 to get the blank suicide note were all connected.
Man hypergryph neve fails to make amazing and deep stories like this... Cant wait to get more phantom lore soon, never really noticed him before this event dropped lmao (pot3 haver here)
I thought Rhodes Island has a device that can scan Brain or smth. Can't they just cure Phantom? If Troupe decided to start the play and Phantom sings will everyone in the ship die? Hmmmmmmmmm
@@FrostByte262 OH YES! Endless Summer is one of my top favorites too, though I should say The Heist: Monaco is my #1. Choices had a phase of publishing mid tier books and erotic focused romance books... is that why you stopped playing? But fyi there are many good titles now like Crimes of Passion (detective), Blades of Light & Shadow (fantasy action), and Wake the Dead (zombie apocalypse) that I really recommend to you now
Anyone else have horrible RNG is IS? I swear, all i get are medic recruitments or extra originium. Ive had maybe 2 runs where i had decent RNG and made it to the finale
My OC Antagonist Approaches The Playwright The Sadist(My OC Villain): *Laughs Maniacally* Playwright: What Brings You Here?! The Sadist(My OC Villain): It Seems that Finally Found Where My Joy Comes From. Painful, Painful TRAGEDY, I Like this Place *Give's The List Of AKIRA ISHIDA PROTAGONIST AND ANTAGONIST as The NEW Crimson Troupe Members* Take it, I will see The NEW AND NEXT TRAGEDY You and The Troupe Mouthpiece Will Create, Also, Don't Dissapoint Your ONE AND ONLY SPECTATOR, Because I AM, THE ONE AND ONLY SPECTATOR. *LAUGHS MANIACALLY Like Curse of Darkness' Isaac*
@@dedcet634 maybe to some extent but as long as you choose 1 or 2 versatile carry right at beginning then there's really not much of an rng problem. just take your time familiarize with all your ops and don't rely on artificat, unless it's hard mode artifact aren't that important (yes even the doll)
In folklore or myths, Black Cat are an omen of misfortune, being considered as with-related stuff known to be used as their familliar. What if Miss Christine was Phantom's familiar created from his doubt and will to resists the troupe's existence? And since we're in an event of sanity-madness related, probably Miss Christine exists from Phantom's own arts to be his guide in time of needs. But the time won't add up since he met Miss Christine before he decided to revolt and destroy the troupe.
it could be Ms Christine is a also projection of Phantom infection. especially because he has worry about his voice change and the nervous damage amplification. so the part about Phantom own arts to be his guide seems make sense but only with different reason.
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There is a theory that the endings are in reverse order and the first one is the true ending and the fourth is what brings Phantom to the castle in order to avoid the tragedy he would commit and that's why we fight him on ending one.
Honestly that makes too much sense.
hypergryph is always so talented in making such excellent tales, even if they remove the gameplay the lore itself is enough to keep people entertained
Even the last month Dorothy Vision was based from Wizard of Oz, just mixed with bits of Sci-fi and politics. Very entertaining, especially with the fact that there's Evangelion reference at the end... so they say.
dont forget about the music :3
Well 99% of the people dont care lore tough
I agree that its lore is amazing but it alsohas its own flaws
Phamtoms lore is amazing but general story chapters lacked seriousness in my opinion
the fact that we still havent lost a single important character despite being in so many battles kinda makes no sense to me
Also the weird writing and boringly long dialogues makes lore ignored most of the time by many people wich is sad
Thank god phantoms event handles all of them perfectly
@@kyarumomochi5146 Excuse me, you want the next roguelike to be more Darkest Dungeon style?
@@kyarumomochi5146 idk man, in the prologue we lost like Ace, Scout and a bunch of operators just to save the doctor alone.
Though the doctor has amnesia, he managed to retain his strategic thinking. Which is the reason why nobody got killed afterwards. If it was pre-amnesia doctor, we would see like 100 bodies everyday.
Plus most the characters have like terminal rock cancer so not like they can live forever.
In Skalter dialogues, she said that the doctor failed to save everyone in that alternate universe and that Amiya and Kal'sit were dead.
So yea Hypergryph could go murder important characters if they wish.
You want it to be like Honkai where Mihoyo murdered Himeko, Sakura, Mobius, Elysia, etc... but somehow you can still gacha for them?
I haven't played IS1 but IS2 is interesting.
One of things that interests me is the roguelike elements and how it "defeat" works here.
I theorise that when you the doctor and the exploration team are defeated, you "die" by the hands of the Crimson Troupe...but at the same time, you didn't. Let me explain.
You start a run in IS2 and unfortunately your life points reach 0. The message in the results screen say something like *you are doomed in the castle forever*
But what happens next is what's interesting. *Revertebration* also means Echo. While it looks like the doctor died in the castle, that was only ONE possible self....and every time the doctor and his team died in the castle, that was only a dimensional self, not the true doctor.
When the "false doctor self" died, their knowledge and experience resonate with reality as a Echo. AKA the Calignous insights and Candles. *Somehow, the doctor's consciousness resonates with all the "doctors who died in previous runs", granting him prophetic knowledge and a better chance of preparedness*
Even if the Doctor succeeded in a run and returns safely, that knowledge is greatly echoed to the consciousness of the doctor, making potential future runs even easier. Which explains why you are getting a lot of candles and calignous insights.
This...is a terrifying thought. The doctor, phantom, Rhodes Island and the Crimson Troupe stuck in a *never-ending cycle of wins and losse within that decrepit castle* but it is an interesting adventure. Always a fresh experience...and an Echo should the doctor fails.
A very interesting theory
There is an artifact called "End of Times"
The flavor text is interesting
*As long as a new cycle has not been reached, there is still time to fix your mistakes*
This might hint in something called *metempsychosis* aka reincarnation or repeat of cycles
Shades of Spelunky lol, it's kind of the same premise.
It's almost like it's a play, and the runs where we fail are "performed incorrectly" and so it goes back, only the run where you beat Lucian is considered "performed correctly". And as such all failures result in the play restarting to thoroughly complete the tragedy of IS2
@@SubsonicH
Ah, like rehearsals
The Troupe Mouthpiece is really terrifying, once a human and a member of the Leithanian court is now this dude who's twisted with the mild obsession with art. Also your twitter might be hacked.
I believe that's the Mouth piece instead of the troupe master.
The troupe master is the one who runs the entire troupe while the mouth piece is none other the host of the show who announced the play and etc.
Yeah, the 3rd ending boss is not the Troupe Master
I believe you have mistaken the Troupe Leader with the Mouthpiece. They are completely different people, like what the replies above said.
Y’know, I don’t think his obsession with art is ‘mild’
Is he the one who behind of Twitter toxicity?!
This event not consume Sanity in game
Well that right
But it counsume all my sanity in real life
it's one of my dream to live for weeks in a castle with setting like this. the dim light, the furnitures and how "full" it feel inside a room, the thick af incense candle smell (love incense), and ofc the history
Instantly dies to random crimson singers and gets eaten alive by maniacs
Roguelike has the most intriguing storytelling in Arknight IMO. You have great interaction with story itself, its twist and turn is therefore that much more powerful.
Back in IS1, the moment the story announce the "FrostNova" alternate ending, I literally felt chill down my spine.
IS2 managed to do this too, but with a taste of sadness as you receive "blank suicide note" item, indicating the desperation of the spirit trapped in that Ursus Bear. More desperation come when you think you have just beaten the True Puppeteer that tortured that innocent soul, only for Phantom to become mind-controlled again and forever stuck in that sh*t hole.
i didn't really remember any story in IS1 but this one tho damn, and the setting helped that a lot i guess for me. i just love gothic to victorian gothic style environment and with that thick incense candle that i could qlmost smell just from reading it
@@hermanwillem7057 to give a refresher:
In IS1, the main character is seemingly Ceobe. Upon getting high from some mushrooms, Ceobe travel around Terra, encounter various event, which lead to various ending.
Ending 1 is an encounter with Wilderness hunting group, with Rusthammer (Aka Walmart Faust) as the final boss. If you read the story of Vigilo and Preluding Light, Rusthammer is basically a bunch of hobos with nowhere to go, manage survive extensively in the Terra wasteland and make a living out of hunting and raiding passerby. Merchant Cannot is actually among these guy, perhaps one of the higher-ups in charge of communicating and doing formal business with external organizations, Doctor is one of such entity.
To reach ending 2, you spend a few Ingots to properly bury a gravely wounded bounty hunter. You then follow his blood trail, spend some lifepoints to pass through his trap and a battlefield, likely between him and some other mercenaries, and discover a "Psychedelic Treasure map". Following the map, you reach a banana forest, but run in circle due to the confusing oordination, and the name of these places only come from Sami's fairy tale. Suddenly, you feel a drop in temperature, and uncover an "invisible" location with an "invisible" person from the clue of the map - likely refer to the boss, Frozen Montrosity. It is said that she is a Samian Sacrficant who went into the tundra to ward off Demons, but ended up going insane and become one of them.
3rd ending requires you to fetch a "Heavy metal chest" from a deadly mafia shootout (by that I mean everyone was dead), then open it using a "pitched black key", only to discover a SEVERED HAND now reduced to bones, clutching a Laterano gun. You know you are now stuck in a conspiracy of sort, and disaster will soon follow. That disaster is Gravestone, an enigmatic killer who chase its target to the end of the earth.
@@saltissalty3498 damn well i never did any other ending than the 1st one. but yeah rusthammer is basically anarchist group bordering terrorists, they even raid ursus sometimes. and cannot iirc is not their top brass but more like Kal or Doc, trying to ban all ppl in terra to prepare the disaster in the future. cannot may even once someone from Maylander (mentioned further in DV and RL manga) or other Columbian company
Wait are we really getting an alternative ending for FrostNova?
An ending where she lives?
@@furutatheclown3619 "Walmart FrostNova" is a nickname for Frozen Calamity, the 2nd final boss in IS1. It got such nickname due to their striking similarities in abilities, only differs in stat (the frozen calamity has almost 2k DEF and a f**k ton of Art resist).
Their lore are ultimately unrelated.
Yes, FN has already gone.
It's nice that the ending gets posted on the internet, because no way in hell I'll ever see it in-game. The amount of times I've lost in this game mode makes me question if I'm even smart enough to play this game lol.
Me neither I always lose to that Crimson blood diamond. For a mode with 0 sanity required to play I legit got a headache every few dozen rounds so I think it may be plausible that they found some way to use your real life sanity to play instead lol.
The troupe master is gonna score alot of assist kills with phantom on the land ship
This may become an event connected to the story or a main chapter it self because of how serious it is..
it could be well possible.. one of the IS#2's theme could be inside Rhodes Island, in future.. because where Phantom is, there's IS#2 (how his brainwash, was never washed away)
I had to stop for a while, probably until the next month, because I spent too much time playing and suffered from sleep deprivation and painful headaches as a result.
That's a good idea. Fevers due to playing too much games feels like sh*t. Take a rest, buddy.
Take some rest my friend!!
This is a permanent content my friend, take it easy, your health is more important than any rewards given in the game
Yes, that's what made it so stupid: it's a permanent thing, so me spending entire nights playing only affected me in the end.
theres timer at top-right of IS#2's main-screen.. get to max lvl, and you can rest easy (because you got all available rewards, until next update)
According to some items the candles has some questionable effect, so basically we’re getting the high ground with candles
Finally! I was waiting for this. As someone who is struggling to get all the endings and obtain all the the artifacts, this really helps a lot. Thanks!
So Phantom is now essentially a ticking time Bomb. At each Moment he could return to being the Blood Diamond and kill dozens on Rhodes Island. This is a terrifying Thought, each Day could be the Last but we wouldnt know it. All of this, so many Lifes, in the Hands of an Insane and Twisted Man who might even be a Deity.
In Theory beating him wouldnt be that Hard considering how many Top Operators RI's has but we would still take Heavy Losses, potentialy even having to end Phantom.....
Man this has so much Potential
This Hollow Knight + Arknights collab has been quite a trip, I wonder how the Troupemaster Grimm will be redesigned
Ayyyy, a vessel of culture.
I manage to get two endings in this game mode, but not the third ending. RNG is really the true boss in this mode.
I do want to know more about the big castle with its "Inhabitants" wandering about and the mysteries.
How many unfortunate souls got trapped and died there? Why were there many enemies? Do they seek only treasure?
Anyways, glad you're back after that Tesla incident.
Revs, out. Peace
lol same. 6 runs and I cant still trigger the event
The RNG aspect in IS1 is even worse...
In IS1, to get ending 2 (Walmart Frostnova), you've encounter 2 events, first to get "Psychedelic Treasure map" and second to get "Bloodstained Flyer". It's the 2nd event that has very rough RNG, sometimes you have a NOICE team but no luck getting that second event to trigger the ending. Thankfully, they have reduce the ending 2 condition of IS1 downto just 1 encounter, the other is purely optional.
I have something scary to tell, don't know whether you notice or not.
But in ending 1, Phantom monologue said that there were once people who came to save him before Rhodes Island...
So what if those enemies were actually the souls of those who fails to save phantom and were enslaved by the troupe master like the doll was, and meanwhile Phantom... he was used as a bait multiple times by the troupe master to creates numerous play of tragedies to his self amusement?
Update: I BEAT ALL THE BOSSES!!
if you noticed, theres 3 medal for monthly-squad achievement.. how many monthly-squad did CN had now? only 1 squad, and we already have 4 ending? just how many ending-version will we have until "old castle" theme ends? very intriguing.. obviously, the grand finale will be versus The Troupe Master
I can already imagine of a final story of IST2 we have to fight phantom one more last time but instead fighting him on the castle, we have to fight him on rhodes island due to his brainwash or aka the activation of the blood diamond role, its more likely to be a final show in my theory, the good ending is like everything was over and his past trauma and other horrible stuff in the past will be gone and there will be a new story which will be taking over to mizuki’s story, in the bad ending, they didn’t managed to take down phantom and basically a down fall of Rhodes island
This is basically all a theory but who knows, maybe this might happen to the future updates of IST2#
Plus, if this activation happened on rhodes island, I can already bet that it will become a stage and where we have to fight the brainwashed rhodes island soldiers or maybe ops
Though I find it hard to believe kaltsit would get killed
2:40 : what are u doing here Anya? 💀
As for me, all of the endings are canon, just not in order.
The first of the sequence is the Ridiculous Comedy ending. After the bear was defeated, Phantom gain a moment of himself. After collecting himself, they were ready to leave. But like a play, it has a twist for him. The Troupe's Mouthpiece appeared. Of course, Phantom being his mission to eliminate the troupe pursued.
Which lead to the battle for the ending of Grand Opening. Phantom being a fast redeployment operator probably soloed those assistants. In the Grand Opening scene, we saw that Phantom was hypnotized again by the Troupe.
Which then leads to the battle for the Crimson Finale ending, Crying Over Spilt Milk. After defeating him, Shalem helped him to get out of the castle. I don't know the fourth ending but is probably canon too since it is 'in sequence'.
Now, this makes me wonder for the first Integrated Strategies if all of the endings are canon too. Ceobe slept with a Cerberus, stole Mr. Cannot's honeycake while being high then woke up having those honeycakes in her hand.
One of the best videos decipting integrated strategies so far!
Its good to see non 60 hours long guide videos sometimes since newbies litterally dont watch them
Integrated Strategies aka "Man I wished I have more built operators"
So... what I'm hearing is that Eyja could fight Phantom right? :D since you know she wouldn't hear him anyway
"Spirit of someone trapped in a bear" That sounds familiar
Fnaf vibe
Glad you back mate, I aint gonna know any lore without you XD
Arknights should hire you to do all of their video introductions and analysis
I was hoping you'd post this. Thanks Adios.
remember, Projekt Red has a knife...
A knife!
anw, awesome upload, keep it up!
+30 atk speed specialist and +100 atk speed hand of superspeed
Execution goes brrrrr
brrrrrrrrrrr
I am so glad you got your channel back
Welcome back!
I'm waiting for a joke video: "Should you buy a Tesla?" 🤣🤣
Kek
No
Long Answer: This Entire Video
Hahahaha xD
I Always had hope.
Didn't saw your community post, welcome back.
To Glad for Having you back bro
Thanks for this really nice video, would be nice to have another episode of this but going more into the lore + items !
I was going to say that this reminds me of the Crimson King and the play of Alagadda, the Grim Troupe from hollow knight, and goof troupe, for the people with animal ears, but those things all seem much cooler, once I listened to the story.
Good to have you back
Will you do a video for IS3? I really like this type of content, maybe update the IS2 story, or even do an IS1 video!
Thank you for this, there has been almost no resources on the story of this event.
I've found myself looking through item descriptions and through the wiki scrolling through gaulish history instead of what's actually happening during the calais-blason investigation
Probably one of the most f'ed up deities in the arknights world. Joy in tragedy, what a way to destroy happy endings
Hehe, "Booby" traps.
Glad you are back frost!
Ah yes, i can finally understand this accurate lore and absolutely get the true ending of this IS2
I fear we'll have to kill Phantom at some point in the future because of Ending 4 q.q. Hoping it won't come to that.
Or better yet, we'll get a Phantom alter after removing the nightmare spell cast on him by the troupe master. It's just me coping
Why do all Integrated Strategies chapters involve drugs? 🤣
Jokes aside, very interesting plot, glad to see my suspicions about everything being too "easy" in ending 1 were proven right by ending 4.
I believe the troupe master is the first Godly entity Rhodes Island is gonna have to face for real... This is gonna be terrifying.
We can't defeat got but he can
*point at kyo*
Thank youuu and welcome back :D
Dang, I was hoping for that ending scene, Cuora and Red would both be waiting in line for the theater or would have already been touring the place casually with popcorn.
good to see you back doctor
If the troupe leader is a handsome man sprite i will berserk
Glad you are back good sir
Fighting Phantom with AudioHazzard?
Send Eyja, with Skalter in tow
One cant hear him, other for a "Duet of Death"
-Foundation- Rhodes Island approved
Idk why ppl cant see it, troupe master has a beef with our ancient fossil on the landship. Hence the "voice in lucian's head" telling him to get there. Whatever happens next is all entertainment for the troupe master seeing his pawn mess with fossil grandma from way back when they knew each other.
Yknow
I went from like castle level 10 to 50, all from trying to beat Big Sad Lock. Not ONCE did I realise the unlock encounter and the subsequent 2 to get the blank suicide note were all connected.
Why does the girl in chains look like a chimera from Mudrock, Warfarin and Vigna?
Well for that it's simple. She's a Sarkaz like them
3:29 Don't Say It!
Ansem SoD: DARKNESS SPROUTS IN IT!
😤
Bruh Phantom is like Mason since both of them get hardcore brainwash.
came for guide on how to reach different ending, stay because the lore is actually good
Welcome back sir
Welcome back!
Thanks for the Lore. As someone who cant finish one ending.
hey still have a question
what happend after mouthpiece end
lucian? docter? shalem? what happend after that
0:07 well its more stressfull and RNG-based for me rather than FUN
Welcome back 😭
tq for this, i never realised this event have storyline
0:02 I dont know man, sounds pretty lore intensive to me
Man hypergryph neve fails to make amazing and deep stories like this... Cant wait to get more phantom lore soon, never really noticed him before this event dropped lmao (pot3 haver here)
Glad you are back and screw hackers
so, that's why Phantom was like "UTAE UTAE" lel
what is integrated strategies #1?? i really dont remember and cant find it on google ://
Ceobe fungimist
@@r1nsletw4lker googled it, thanks its march 2021... Turns out i havent returned during that time so i kinda missed it :/
So the third ending is like a bad ending then :( ... and so IS2 story is after or before chapter 9 then?
now that's a good question
Who is worth promoting? Gladiia or mountain? Because i have 5 electronic crystalline unit and i don't know who i should promote 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Mountain first
@@FrostByte262 thank you very much
People talking about endings while I can't even get past Chapter 2 😂😂😂
I thought Rhodes Island has a device that can scan Brain or smth. Can't they just cure Phantom?
If Troupe decided to start the play and Phantom sings will everyone in the ship die?
Hmmmmmmmmm
2:14 sussy FrostByte: Dionysus
Me: Kono Dio da!!! Also there's sus in his name, so he's very sussy baka
So basically it's the doctor himself that lead the team to rescue phantom??
Never knew you're the type to play Choices... or maybe you just picked the OST?
Used to play it, the story was great especially It lives in the woods and Endless summer
@@FrostByte262 OH YES! Endless Summer is one of my top favorites too, though I should say The Heist: Monaco is my #1. Choices had a phase of publishing mid tier books and erotic focused romance books... is that why you stopped playing?
But fyi there are many good titles now like Crimes of Passion (detective), Blades of Light & Shadow (fantasy action), and Wake the Dead (zombie apocalypse) that I really recommend to you now
Story aside, hopefully your Twitter issue can be solved without problem. Stay safe bro.
Phantom story is similar to lass from grand chase
Well yeah, a gacha mode inside a gacha game is really "FUN"
And dont forget the grind it's so "FUN"
@Omegaforge1 Well, I agree and I think that's great
one thing isn't that great is my irl sanity
8:53 ebenholz connected (technically) then ?
I really need to.do the other endings
Yay information
1:16 Gee, that sounds fammiliar... *Herrscher of Dominance/Legion Flashback*
ahh sleaping agent Phantom got it
Anyone else have horrible RNG is IS? I swear, all i get are medic recruitments or extra originium. Ive had maybe 2 runs where i had decent RNG and made it to the finale
Doctor.
IS3 SUMMARY/OVERSIMPLIFIED PLEASE!!!
Otto Apocalypse
Creating a play of a stragedy? Enjoy the sorrow of death? Is that Jhin get isekai to arknight?
IS3 Please!!
Oh great....another twisted villain that's psycho and destructive
Welp good I can't wait to put that so Called script writer to a permanent halt..
10:21 "HIS" ?!
I don't exactly see anything that could seriously confuse me tbh
Isnt in cn confirmed playwright is male
@@r1nsletw4lker it is
@@r1nsletw4lker NOOO
Phantom IS story is BL heaven.. :)
My OC Antagonist Approaches The Playwright
The Sadist(My OC Villain): *Laughs Maniacally*
Playwright: What Brings You Here?!
The Sadist(My OC Villain): It Seems that Finally Found Where My Joy Comes From. Painful, Painful TRAGEDY, I Like this Place *Give's The List Of AKIRA ISHIDA PROTAGONIST AND ANTAGONIST as The NEW Crimson Troupe Members* Take it, I will see The NEW AND NEXT TRAGEDY You and The Troupe Mouthpiece Will Create, Also, Don't Dissapoint Your ONE AND ONLY SPECTATOR, Because I AM, THE ONE AND ONLY SPECTATOR. *LAUGHS MANIACALLY Like Curse of Darkness' Isaac*
Whut anya
wtf ... 4 ear ... watahel
Booby trap
Literally
remove the fun plz
it's stressing me
literally it's all about testing yoir luck getting good item
it's also test your strat and compromise
your strat is based what ops you have in team
still luck issues
@@dedcet634 maybe to some extent but as long as you choose 1 or 2 versatile carry right at beginning then there's really not much of an rng problem. just take your time familiarize with all your ops and don't rely on artificat, unless it's hard mode artifact aren't that important (yes even the doll)
I like to think that Ms. Christine race is same like Emperor, High Priest and Duck Lord.
In folklore or myths, Black Cat are an omen of misfortune, being considered as with-related stuff known to be used as their familliar.
What if Miss Christine was Phantom's familiar created from his doubt and will to resists the troupe's existence?
And since we're in an event of sanity-madness related, probably Miss Christine exists from Phantom's own arts to be his guide in time of needs.
But the time won't add up since he met Miss Christine before he decided to revolt and destroy the troupe.
it could be Ms Christine is a also projection of Phantom infection. especially because he has worry about his voice change and the nervous damage amplification. so the part about Phantom own arts to be his guide seems make sense but only with different reason.