Bravely Default Story - Finale (False Ending)

[@ace-trainer-aj]

21:57 Best "Unacceptable" EVER!

[@nathananthony426]

*CONDITION*

[@62swordsmen]

I never realized that Agnes and Lemongrab would get along really well 😂

[@sorarivers8667]

21:31 I love Anges' VA in that segment. The bitter emotional betrayal, you can almost see the tears as they are streaming down her face through her fury. I can nearly see her taken aback and gritting her teeth before she spats "Unacceptable!!"

[@Antasma1]

It’s hard to believe she did voice work for Ed Edd n Eddy

[@jorgegracia9513]

​@@Antasma1and the voice of Chie Santonaka from Persona 4, Erin Fitzgerald. That woman has an amazing range of voices.

[@ZhadTheRad]

This game has taught me one lesson: don't trust a cryst-fairy Also, the title of the game hides the truth BD: Flying Fairy (Lying Airy) BD: Where the Fairy Flies (Airy Lies)

[@kbyebleha2978]

end layer Sleep Points Send Player Final Fantasy Flying Fairy

[@91010186]

More like cyst fairy.

[@lpfan4491]

@@mintpanda1372 can we judge the species on the actions of 2 of them?

[@lpfan4491]

where are the others tho? xD

[@sethporter9066]

@@lpfan4491 Bravely Default 2 There's a whole village of them you can visit after getting the bad ending 1. Hell, during events in Ch 5 I believe, you learn that one of your teammates, Adelle, is actually a fairy And I'll be honest, my first instinct was to kill her immediately XD

[@figureLP09]

That last Ringabel scene gets me mad. If that doesn't nail down this is the bad ending I don't know what would.

[@elefanamir9087]

Gotta love Agnes. Even after Airy reveals herself, Agnes is still super gullible and almost falls for it again.

[@Antasma1]

Ironic considering you only get this ending by making her disobey

[@AltairEgo1]

Probably because she wasn't entirely sure. I imagine that after awakening the crystals for the umpteenth time, it seemed too obvious to deny. And after listening to what sage and all the others had to say, and all the alternate realities, and alternate baddies, and Airy supposedly not knowing what was going on despite being a "Cryst" fairy, it seemed like it was the only conclusion she could make. Anyone doubting it after doing this bullshit 4 times in a row would need to be the ultimate smooth-brain.

[@michaelramon2411]

19:37 When you're simply done screwing around and it just has to die. Just picture that battle in your mind. 1.1 billion-year-old entity transforms into its mighty, true form... and four teenagers run over, jump on its limbs and stab it 1,536 times in under a minute.

[@lpfan4491]

airy:"I will kill you all" tiz:"okay, time for the desperation tactic!" everyone else:YEET

[@kaylinelemental]

Idk why but i laughed hard reading that

[@rainz9993]

so i never got the false ending bc i forgot about it and awakened the last crystal so I came to look at what the false ending looked like and holy crap this is literally one the most emotion i have ever seen in ANY form of media this game is so insane big ups to every one of the developers actors and musicians who help make this game soooooo good

[@teko4752]

I love this game I unlocked this ending really quickly , I was just enjoying messes with the game and then I was pretty surprised to unlock an actal ending ! The part when she taunt Agnes is absolute genius too :')

[@doublevision2943]

Tried this myself and I was surprised that you can actually straight up destroy the very first crystal in world 4. It feels so strange though, my false ending looked quite different from this one, after all you skip so much if you do it so soon lmao. Did this again on hard difficulty, January 2024. I had spiritmaster save on BP and use fairy ward on everyone except Ringabel as soon as Airy used Acedia or whatever it's called, I didn't put it on Ringabel because I basically used him as an offering to the gods troughout the whole of late game. Either I Dark Nebula into See you in hell with him or I just let them kill him on repeat and he keeps dealing 10000 dmg with see you in hell lmao. Default Guard and Utsusemi keep you safe

[@XerKoro_neo]

This is undoubtably a false ending, but it was so weird to me that the good ending was the one where you intentionally let Airy dupe you until you are forced to no longer ignore her treachery. After Olivia died, I KNEW in my heart that Airy was evil. But I tried to break the crystal way too early and thought you just couldn’t. It feels like letting Airy accomplish her mission should have been a bad or at least worse ending ending, but stopping it even just before the end should have given you a true ending (and let you skip some of the world loops)

[@loren5432]

Because you're delaying the inevitable by breaking a Crystal. It makes sense considering the game's name, "Bravely Default". You are told multiples times that cleansening the crystals (or rather, overload them to be specific) isn't actually a good thing, so the average player would realize that Airy is full of BS and that you have to go against her. The problem with that mentality is that you're playing into everyone's expectations, and instead of fixing the root of the problem (which would be to summon Ouroboros to kill him) you're just temporarily fixing the consequences (killing Airy, a minion). Once a crystal is broken, it'll eventually regrow, and Ouroboros can start the cycle all over again by creating another fairy to trick other people until his plan succeeds. So you go against those expectations and play along until the end, which is when you fix everything for good. I think my only problem is how the party deals with this. On paper this sounds good (since the game's doing like a double trick on the player by hinting that they should break the crystals but in reality they shouldn't), but they act so surprised when Airy reveals her true colors, and it's so jarring. Ringabel literally mentions to the party that Airy could be lying to them, and yet in the final chapter they are all like "OMG WHO SAW THAT COMING?!"

[@Shieldwolf_64]

Soo by repeatedly awakening the crystals and linking together multiple worlds are we secretly the bad guy?

[@kbyebleha2978]

Pawns we were pawns

[@EllRiver]

Yes but then then it turns out the villain was trying to invade our world....

[@Darkbeast42]

Christopher Jordan I wouldn't say that it's entirely our fault considering no one took the time to warn us about the threat despite the considerable number of people who knew about it.

[@ivannatinkle8196]

Well it was kinda hinted at as you went through each world, the bosses acting morally better while it forces you to feel a bit guilty.

[@giragira9509]

The music, man. Especially Ballad Moving Towards Hope at the end. I can't. Revo is a genius.

[@lpfan4491]

I actually had the courage to disobey, I destroyed that shit as soon as possible even without knowing the story. I am just a memster and do stuff like that just out of curiosity. intersstingly enough, I was correct, but I already expected that(they gave enough clues that airy is evil)

[@tonberry2670]

By the time you unlock this, they're practically screaming it at you. XD

[@lpfan4491]

@@tonberry2670 well, not really. all they did was to write airy as a little bitch that is only interessted in the mission. the screaming starts when one actually plays the main and side-quests of chapter5 and beyond when they be like:"yeah, you should kinda not do what the game tells you if you have not figured that out already". I actually felt cheated when I saw the mainstory and then on youtube that it just eventually unlocks the "airy lies" on the main menu since I felt like it devalued my choice with a really badly paced and badly written dimensionhopping plot.

[@nightmocha9345]

@@lpfan4491 I died to a monster while trying to level four of the same class at lv one, over at einshire, and then saw that portions of the title had changed. Got the end spoiled because of the second game, so that message wasn't so very surprising, at the exception that a majority of the letters disappeared.

[@cajunmane7272]

memester🤓

[@fantasiaanimation9787]

Me too and it was a bit in a way by accident like what if I destroy the crystal I feel bad and in the end I was right xD

[@ajtriforcegamerofhyrule8538]

This game took me so long to finish it was worth it

[@fantasyviolin5966]

Alox2809 me too

[@edvinek1031]

It took me so long to finish to, it was definitely not worth it. Not even an awesome final boss will ever motivate me to replay a game four times again.

[@Cepheus773]

@@edvinek1031 Just skip straight to the four bosses and wipe them out. It's not that bad.

[@edvinek1031]

@@Cepheus773 I don’t agree with you, it was that bad to me. Not fun at all, just tedious.

[@gespenst0083]

@@edvinek1031 I mean chapters 5-8 is just mainly exposition with Book of D and if you don’t like reading lore then you probably should’ve just watched the gameplay because every rpg game is tedious.

[@gamerprince-tl5hg]

I'm on chapter 5, heard you can break one of the crystals so I did, beat the final boss, and now I'm seeing this ending lmao

[@EllRiver]

Not the real final boss.

[@lukadebank2430]

what gear and jobs are you using to be that over-powered?

[@Quirinus1984]

+Ryuzaki Pago this is a special setup using Ninjas at 1 HP using Pirates Mass Attack. This skill makes everyone that is in critical HP attack. Otherwise, it's just simple Ama-no-Murakumo's as well as strength focused equips, with Tiz wearing Falcon Knifes as a Performer, being a bit faster to get the Quicks (Time Mage) and Love Powers (Performer) off before the onslaught starts. Really some not recommended very special for the occasion gears - as if you get hit once, it is game over.

[@CallieBlader]

how do you get that many murakumo's?

[@A_Flied_Fly]

Playing through multiple times so the chests respawn on the next playthrough. Or hacking. Not that it matters, since the former is definitely possible.

[@Antasma1]

It confuses me so much that the ending the game has been pushing you to make and a seemingly happier one is the false ending

[@lpfan4491]

It's also just better from a writing-perspective. It really sucks that it's not the canon ending.

[@laurant4282]

@@lpfan4491 All they needed to do was imply more that in the false ending that orobouros would send another airy to carry on, and then in the true ending (perhaps chapter 7 or 8) have yulyana say something like "perhaps you could destroy the crystal, but we have no idea if the other warriors of light in thousands of parralel world had done the same thing" - thus prompting agnes and the gang to go along with airys plan and vanquish the evil once and for all. Also, people forget that agnes' bracelet is a crystaline core - which was given to her by yulyana (coming from another agnes) which implies that yulyana's angel is an anges that did the false ending

[@lpfan4491]

@@laurant4282 Not only does this line of thinking break the further even more(Like, how did Airy travel to new worlds then? I thought she needed the crystals to do that.), one also has to remember that "angel" did not do this ending because that implies she won...which she very much didn't. So nah, this ending is entirely fine and there was no real reason not to at least do a timeline split here and make a game specfically meant to sequel it. Bravely Second is fine, but is built on a shaky foundation.

[@laurant4282]

@@lpfan4491 The crystals can regenerate overtime, and i thought that while the angel did break the crystal she didnt defeat airy. With enough added scenes, and rewritten dialogue (perhaps even one where in the final world they ambush airy and attack her instead to trigger the fight on grandship) the true ending could become as great of a resolution as it should be. Because if anyone is finding the false ending more of a resolution then the true ending - it definately is because of writing that isnt as good as it could have been.

[@lpfan4491]

@@laurant4282 Yeah, but if crystals were broken and removed, wouldn't airy be permanently stuck? Because there is no crystal to regenerate then.

[@seanb3226]

Agnes' voice is so dramatic, I love it

[@gaytor_rex1029]

Its amazing and cringe how this boss don`t attack... with magic o hits, but with the weaknesses and sins from the heroes :( Agnes scream left me so impressed!!... and well, Airy is the best example how are really the most of kind an beautiful people.. in the videogames... and sadly, the real life

[@SpongeJ]

What in this ending lets you believe that there is another ending? What hints? She talks about ouroboros sure, but it could just mean the evil could return in a sequel. Plus when you finish chapter 5 and it starts over and chapter 6 too, at some point some of the dialogues are even the same everytime... you kinda feel like it's not going anywhere if you don't break a crystal.

[@johngonzalez3753]

I know this was posted about 3 months ago but a good hint was the number on Airy’s wings. It counts down after every alternate world you go to. Ringabell mentions it a few times, and you can actually see her wings in the character menu.

[@SpongeJ]

@@johngonzalez3753 True. But I think he mentions it in chapter 7. It kinda feels stupid to go on and on already at this point. The game yells " Break a crystal" from chapter 1. But yeah that's the only real clue you are right.

[@lpfan4491]

@@SpongeJ The worlds slightly change every time, so that's a very strong indication that it's not an infinite loop and how I knew I am getting somewhere. Though it's overall just sorta a badly made route and this one is just...better in nearly every single way. Which is why I am still sad that not only is that route the canon one, but it's also the only one with a sequel.(Not going to lie, even knowing it's noncanon to the lore, I would instabuy a sequel to this ending because it would simply be lit)

[@moonlight2870]

Wait a FUCKING second: If everyone but the main 4 knew the crystals were evil and Airy was trolling you, WHY DIDN'T THEY SAY SO?!

[@kenshiiro]

Literally everyone said that the Crystal Orthodoxy was bad, and hinted that Airy is bad aswell

[@someclevername8167]

That part isn’t written super well. I think the general assumption is that they wanted to trust that Airy wasn’t evil, but that wasn’t very well communicated so I’m unsure if that’s the true reason.

[@savintcrew76]

Just finished the game today :) what a ride. But I thought I suppose Airy won't actually succeed and we defy her in the end.. and this should be the true ending ?

[@awesomepossum2598]

Actually, if you continue restore the crystals and dont destroy them during the rites, you should reach the true ending

[@lpfan4491]

true ending is not nessesarily the best ending. this is technicly the best ending if you get it in chapter5 since it is the characters rising above what they are supposed to do and it has a lot less destruction done to the worlds+the great casm actually vanishes early(in the true ending, it does not until after bravely second). of course the details I listed could be a problem in the future if one knows what happens in second, but I honestly think that conflict would have been interessting

[@strawberrysayori-222]

But if you do this ending then the next time he tries to take over, you won’t be there to stop him and he will succeed

[@lpfan4491]

@@strawberrysayori-222 that is not certain. there could be new heroes and there is no known way he *could* even get out. If anything, that would just make for an amazing sequel if detailed.

[@lpfan4491]

@Nill Null The cycle is refering to airy tricking tiz,agnes and edea and carring on until they notice she is shady and then die against her. Beating her is breaking the cycle and playing like intended is just completing the trainwreck of a journey and then they have to fix what they broke. The game even beats it into the players head from the middle of the game to the end to not listen to her. Once again, we have no idea what will happen after the alternate ending. Airys threats could be legit, but they could also be empty. And we also do not know if there will be new heroes or not if they turn out to be legit.

[@darkveilnight9993]

why don't I remember this happening?

[@handracorokan]

Jacob Betancourt it is a highly specific route.

[@Lonewulf321]

You didn’t get the bad ending

[@lpfan4491]

I did not remember this too because it just never happened for me. I guess destorying the crystal later unlocks more details(I did it on the first crystal possible)

[@criticalhard]

I didn't see this but it's interesting lmao even though it is fake? Btw this ending feels sad omg i prefer the real one.

[@ehyokay]

its not fake

[@A_Flied_Fly]

Not that you'd want to. You'd be so severely underlevelled that if you did it too early, you'd be fucked.

[@BoydTheMilkmanX]

Not really. By the time the bad ending becomes optional you should be around level 60. You can easily beat the game at level 50 unless your team is exceptionally bad. You can just beat Airy by using giant's draft, hastega and curaga over and over again while the other 2 characters auto attack. It's a pretty brain dead fight.

[@A_Flied_Fly]

Not if you're on normal. Or god forbid hard.

[@fgvcosmic6752]

@@ehyokay i think he meant non-canon as its false ending

[@abirerkhidalagse6004]

How did you use mass attack??

[@Quirinus1984]

It's a skill from Piracy. If used, all allies that are in critical HP attack together with the character using the skill. Hence massive numbers of attacks as the group was prepared with HP critical beforehand. It's a simple setup after numerous playthroughs to get through the fight quickly for the text.

[@eddiew2325]

@@Quirinus1984 no offense but i love you

[@j.w.7608]

What build is this?

[@TheLonelyNihilego]

I personally think this is the better ending

[@seafoam6119]

did you see Ringabell at the end? Ringabel is crying, what sort of good ending does that?

[@finalbossd]

TheLonelyNihilego 2702 I can’t see how. Ouroboros is still alive and will just be devouring the other worlds except for the one in which you killed Airy, and even then, Airy said she will eventually return.

[@richardgurney1844]

Nah, this is the sadder ending But I definitely think, from a gameplay perspective, that this should've been the route that led to the true ending, as a reward for figuring out that you needed to disobey. Square Enix really wasted an opportunity there, especially when the rest of the game was all about not following the rules of an RPG with the whole Brave and Default thing

[@neoobsidian8220]

i like more this ending

[@greenwyvern7843]

Bro, I no longer trust fairies after this game lol

[@sammysingo8915]

I'm doing this ending I'm too lazy for the other one

[@fantasiaanimation9787]

Do the ending if you want to save the world because this ending is not real in a way

[@DreamerTrain]

why use dub when there's subs -_-