Hyperdimension Neptunia Rebirth;2
Getting through the endings.
I did the Conquest Ending first, and...what an absurdly dark ending, ha. I was not expecting something like that in what have been two lighthearted games so far, and it really is a big genre shift. I guess I'm sort-of happy that the story writers committed to the direction of the ending, instead of making a weird mess by trying to downplay the Conquest ending with lots of self-referential humour and meta. I do get what the ending is a metaphor for, at least. A lot of the English voice actresses absolutely kill it with how good their acting is in parts here.
After that, I did the Holy Sword ending. That took me a few hours, even with the Lili Dungeon and Discs set-up. By this point, I got bored of battles, so using Destroy Symbols/Symbol Gains too. Definitely a happier ending, but...it looks like it was mashed together using parts of the Conquest Ending and parts of the True Ending, with only a very few minor bits of its own, so it doesn't really feel too satisfactory as its own ending.
So after those two, I got the True Ending, which has a few new dungeons over the Holy Sword ending but not too much else that was new. I saved after the ending here, so I'll do a third cycle to get myself some more MB.
On the way, I did some fighting in the Colosseum. There are some of the Colosseum fights that I haven't unlocked yet, because there are item drops that I can't get yet, due to being locked behind hidden dungeons that I have to check specific Chirper messages in Chapter 2 to get Dungeon Changes to get the right items to unlock parts of previous dungeons. For the same reason, I barely get to play with some of the character costumes I like, because they're about the last thing I'm able to create.
Getting through the endings.
I did the Conquest Ending first, and...what an absurdly dark ending, ha. I was not expecting something like that in what have been two lighthearted games so far, and it really is a big genre shift. I guess I'm sort-of happy that the story writers committed to the direction of the ending, instead of making a weird mess by trying to downplay the Conquest ending with lots of self-referential humour and meta. I do get what the ending is a metaphor for, at least. A lot of the English voice actresses absolutely kill it with how good their acting is in parts here.
After that, I did the Holy Sword ending. That took me a few hours, even with the Lili Dungeon and Discs set-up. By this point, I got bored of battles, so using Destroy Symbols/Symbol Gains too. Definitely a happier ending, but...it looks like it was mashed together using parts of the Conquest Ending and parts of the True Ending, with only a very few minor bits of its own, so it doesn't really feel too satisfactory as its own ending.
So after those two, I got the True Ending, which has a few new dungeons over the Holy Sword ending but not too much else that was new. I saved after the ending here, so I'll do a third cycle to get myself some more MB.
On the way, I did some fighting in the Colosseum. There are some of the Colosseum fights that I haven't unlocked yet, because there are item drops that I can't get yet, due to being locked behind hidden dungeons that I have to check specific Chirper messages in Chapter 2 to get Dungeon Changes to get the right items to unlock parts of previous dungeons. For the same reason, I barely get to play with some of the character costumes I like, because they're about the last thing I'm able to create.