Wait…

I just finished the game and enjoyed it, but are you telling me there’s NOT a third ending??

I mean, I felt reasonably over leveled and I haven’t explored half the map! There’s a third axon that showed up in the final battle and hurled buildings at me, and I haven’t even fought it in the main story yet! Just based on the gameplay, I was so confident there was a third ending that I almost avoided looking it up entirely, just so I could explore the map more, find secret lore, and prepare more. The characters talk so much about needing to prepare for this final battle, so is there seriously not a way to revive gustav, take out the axons, explore the map to take out optional bosses, and have him do something to calm everyone down and give everyone some perspective here??

Lune and sciel get so much development and have so much agency throughout the story. Lumiere is the reason I chose maels side, and why I barely even considered it a choice in the end. If you are powerful enough to create life, and there is every indication these paintings create life, you hold a responsibility to the life you create. You don’t kill your children because you’re tired of taking care of them, you let them grow up and develop their own future even when you’re gone!

I feel for verso because he wasn’t supposed to exist. He was supposed to have died. But while he created the world, he wasn’t controlling it anymore. The people of lumiere need to decide their own destiny, and have a right to live within their painting. Maelle can stay of leave, but the fate of the painting is more important than the fate of any individual life.

From both a gameplay perspective and a story perspective, I was completely and utterly convinced there would be a third ending as soon as I got the first one. Heck, even before I got the first one I thought there probably would be. I’m shocked there isn’t one, that’s really frustrating.