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What game has the most anticlimactic ending? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Square_Independent_9@alien.top to c/gaming@level-up.zone

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Have you ever played a game that was absolutely phenomenal, but when you reached the ending, an extremely disappointing scene played out?

Dark Souls 1 definitely did that for me. Really not a big fan of both endings.

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[–] saanity@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Chrono Cross. Like what? An exposition dump, no emotional payoff to Lynx's identity and a final boss that had no build up. It was such a whimper of an ending to an otherwise excellent game.

[–] KhelbenB@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are two endings IIRC, one bad if you just kill the boss and the real one if you manage to align the colors or something like that, and as a kid I remember finding that extremely frustrating.

I cannot remember anything about the story, haven't played the game in decades, but I still listen to the OST.

[–] SetzerWithFixedDice@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You're right and, frustratingly, the game does not clearly signal to you what on earth to do. Even worse, to me, is that the element/color line-up thing leads to a long, long monologue from Schala, who, on the bright side, basically says that you've just undone all the BS that happened to the original Chrono Trigger characters (so that's nice) but, on the bad side, is just so underwhelming-- it's just a monologue and not cinematic in the slightest.

Contrast the (main) ending of the original Chrono Trigger, in which you trod through the Millenium Festival, the very event from the beginning of the game in a sweet "Hero's Return" kind of way. Then you say goodbye to all the characters one by one and this wistful, beautiful theme ("To Far Away Times") plays. It's narratively satisfying and again, it's cinematic.

Chrono Cross feels like it ran out of budget and ended in the Square equivalent of "Palpatine returned." It's just a bewildering end of game information dump. I WANT to like this game, but it's just so, so underwhelming and in spite of some of its undeniable strengths (it's a broody, moody masterpiece in parts) it does not stick the landing.

[–] NyarlathotepDB@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You are not far from truth. But it even more hurtful - the deadline was really close, so they shoud had cut many of the lines, includin Magus, Tower of Terra second run, more links to Trigger, Lynx and Harle...

I think the basic story was the only thing that was actually finished, with some characters (that's why some are feeling far more interesting/inclined into the story and some are... just there).

And yeah, 3 freaking expositions were totally cringy... like you are listening to 10-15 minute monolog and... okay, let's go further, we don't really care.