(because I don't know how to make them. Asterisks could work, but whatever... I was close to end, so I might as well see how it ends.)
We find Feena in the second tent. She doesn't know why she left the party.
The team returns to Zil Padon just in time for it to be [etrified by an approaching Gaia. This makes Justin's plan to not sacrifice Feena and Leen moot because Zil Padon is gone anyway.
Despite not having a Spirit Stone, the party survives. As do a handful of other citizens, who are now being attacked by mobs spawned by Gaia.
Leen shows up and tries to command Feena as though she's actually a part of the army. We don't care.
After the second fight, Leen gets attacked by a giant Gaia tentacle and is knocked unconscious. We take her to the Mogay area to rest. We get attack by another Gaia Battler. We win, and then six more show up. The power of love and/or kindness defeats them all in one glowing green attack between Feena and Justin. This triggers Leen to rethink some things. Feen also accepts she's an Icarian, which I didn't know she was struggling with.
It's entirely undone by the next few scenes, though.
We have to walk through the Luszt Mountains again because this game is EVEN MORE transitional dungeons. We're heading to J-Base.
While there, the operation that Leen and Feena were supposed to do is still going on even though Feena turned it down. Leen didn't tell Mullen this and is doing the whole thing herself. She takes control of the systems in the base. She broadcasts her image onto the screen and voice through the PA.
This is despite not having a mic or a camera.
She tells everyone how this is her destiny to die fighting Gaia. Despite that, she knows that only Justin, and maybe Feena, can permanently end Gaia. Leen says she loves Mullen, even though he bullied her out of believing that something other than Icarian power can stop Gaia. Leen's first magic cannon shot does nothing. The second, which happens after a second stage Gaia eats the second cannon barrel, also does nothing. Leen was standing on that cannon, so she is now presumed dead. Was she eaten or blown up? That's a fair question, by the way.
Feena is now in a stage of grief, seeing her sister killed before her eyes. Mullen forces his way into the party's tent and takes advantage of this, convincing Feena to join him to finish the job. While this was happening, Justin and the party spoke to Guido to see if we knew the way forward. Guido tells him Feena.
When they notice Feena is gone, they head to Field Base. Justin tries to get Feena to not go with Mullen, but she Icarians him away. Feena accepts her death and goes with Mullen, while Justin starts his own stages of grief. Rapp is upset that he let her go and gets mad, going so far as to say they're not friends. He leaves.
Liete says how pathetic he was and regrets how much time she wasted with him. This stings more because she's practically immortal. This seems really intense all of a sudden, guys.
It starts to rain as we see the army leaving the Field Base. We see the three commanders, who tell Justin that the army is disbanding.
The only location we can go to is the Savannah.
A bird yells at Justin.
White Spirits show up around him, for some reason, so he heads to Zil Padan. Guido is there, paying for the reconstruction of the city. The tension between the three races seems to have ended.
Guido, in his way, cheers up Justin. To make the point final, we hear Sue's voice! Justin/the camera turns to see everyone we've traveled with! They all tell him how cool he and Feena are. The true power he holds is all the friends he made along the way.
OMG, the meme is true! Also, where'd they all come from?
The White Spirits form a gateway out of nothing, which Justin, Rapp, and Liete take. Liete told us this is the gateway that opened up to the Enlightened One, the founder of the Angelou Civilization. We're on the verge of a new civilization, and we enter the Spirit Sanctuary.
The Spirit Sanctuary is a proper dungeon. Stop on platforms to activate floors, some of which you'll need to fall to reach. Sometimes, you'll actuate more platforms away from you but still on the path behind you. In the upper right corner is an annoying puzzle where we have to run around two walkways. One leads to the correct way, while the other takes us back to the start.
Boss: Mage King
Inside the room he was guarding is the new Spirit Stone. Justin asks the Spirits for a way to save the world and make it a better place. The Stone turns into a Sword. Remind me to check the stash.
The story automatically advances to us leaving the Sanctuary. We're in front of J-Base just as Gaia reaches his final form. He spouts three wings, the fourth is broken, and spreads his spores around the world. Time is now of the essence.
J-Base isn't looking so well. There's a crack we can travel through to reach the Icarian City that Liete guessed correctly about.
But that's for day two of this.
On day two, we ran through the Icarian City.
It's a dungeon that's better than most in this game. There aren't a million mobs, and the puzzles aren't too terrible. A bit annoying, though.
Yet another Gaia Battler boss.
At the bottom are Mullen and Feena. It's not looking well for them, and Feena has made a barrier around the two of them because they're surrounded by four Gaia Battlers. Justin uses Heaven and Earth Slash to one shot all of them because even the game is cheating.
Mullen has an existential crisis because he was wrong. I didn't pick up on this last night, but all the bullying he did to the twins was in reference to sin. Humanity is a sin, and the Icarian wings are too. Why is it suddenly bad to be an Icarian? Since the Spirits choose Justin, a human, to save the world, this causes him to rethink his actions. Justin says that the Spirits never forsook us, but it was humans who abandoned them. Mullen doesn't believe him and wants to learn it from the sword.
Mullen boss battle.
We knock sense into him, and he regrets what he did to Leen even more. Feena makes him feel better.
Justin ants him to come with us, so we go forward as a five piece.
On the otherside of the door are the three commanders. They're here to support Mullen. Not only that, but all of our friends are here to support us. They're going to distract Gaia, I think? I didn't really get why they're here except just to make them here. I don't think there's an actual reason. Mullen goes with them to oversee.
Gaia is the best dungeon in the game. It feels short, is lacking in mobs, and is straightforward for a final dungeon. A little too mazelike, though,
Gaia has cancer, and we have to defeat it.
We hear a disembodied voice saying that they've reached the pinnacle of human evolution. It's Baal.
Boss Fight: Baal
A part of him survives and raises to the next floor. I don't know what happens to it.
Gaia Part One boss.
Evil Gaia/Final Boss.
Rapp and Liete see Feena and Justin off. Destroying the old Spirit Stone is something only those two can do.
Justin calls of the Spirits to guide us and slashes his sword.
Rainbow light emanates from Gaia.
Feena and Justin are in a field. Justin asks where everyone is, and Feena points out the remains of Gaia. It's now a giant tree. Fate and the World are now reborn.
The camera turns to Zil Padon, and we see the petrified citizens being revived. The same happens in Old Cafu. Mullen begins to soliloquy to Leen.
He talks about fate being broken from evil. A new history of humanity will be made. In the fields around Gaia Tree are our friends and army chumming it up. Mullen says he's done all he can.
White Spirits begin to float around him, and he notices. The Spirits form into Leen. The two embrace.
Feena is excited to see her sister no longer being dead. All because of Justin!
Credits Roll.
Ten years later, an adult Sue exits from the Seagull Restaurant, where Lilly is baking a pie for Justin and Feena's homecoming. Sue walks to the docks, and we see Parm filled with all the humanoids we've met. A male Lainian is yelling at a Human and Mogaian boy because they're pretending to be adventurers. Sue wonders how Justin will react to seeing her as an adult. Suddenly, five children, who are clearly the offspring of Justin and Feena, show up. Why aren't they wearing shoes? They pick on Puffy and run after her. Sue sees her two friends get off the steamer, but the camera zooms to above the city.
The End.
Well, that was a terrible ending. Were they quintuplets? Why not twins? Why only five? Why not let us see everyone after ten years? I hate this game. And congrats to Legend of Dragoon for still being the longest game I've blogged about!
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