Endings

In keeping up with my username, allow me to say I love the ending of Tales of the Abyss as it leaves certain issues open (Energy crisis, who's that person at the end) and yet each character also gets a resolution to their conflicts that will be with them forever and guide them onto their new paths. It's also made absolutely beautiful by the ending theme that depicts how each character was back in the past and the ending shows them older and changed, revisiting the first playable area of the game hoping to see an old friend return. What makes it extraordinary though is that each character gets an ending of their own, which includes the villains. Even though they pretty much all die you get a lot of supplementary material that tells you why this happens and extra materials also cover the gap between the game's ending and the final scene of the game which is honestly something I don't ever expect to see from games these days.

Side-note: Alternative retellings are another thing I love about Abyss even though they come from fans, as there's solid info for them to fall back on. If you're interested in seeing an alternate take on the ending do check out a doujin called Kostnice but I'll warn you first that you might bawl afterwards.

Besides ToA, I will always adore how the Lunar games ended. Though the second game is the one I like more it just brings a smile to my face thinking of how a small-town peasant boy saves the world, saves the girl and becomes a legend beyond that of his childhood idol with little more than a song, memories and true love in the end, and of course the second game's ending is even more awesome because there's this guy basically going to the moon because to accompany the girl he loves, never mind that it's freezing there, she's immortal and he isn't. All of these are endings I like as every character had an individual story but that's not the end since I've more to re-visit when it's not 4:05 am.