[Hellsinker] Special Endstates Compilation (w/ Commentary)

[@CadrinTheWerecat]

"Are you believing in magic now? What's next, the first snow in fifty years?" Thank you for compiling all the endings. It's great to have them all in one place. Hopefully we'll see the day someone makes a "Hellsinker's story explained" analysis using the resources you've made available, which neatly ties all the loose ends. If you're looking for video editing software, I've heard Shotcut is open source and apparently pretty good. Now, about the endings themselves. I guess the Spirit Overload ending describes the humans from the prayer point of view, as the executor is brainwashed into becoming one, and possibly joins Old Rose and Saint Mauve in maintaining the Perpetual Calendar. The LB1 and timeout endings seem to mostly talk about how the executors have failed and the Paradise remained unreachable. All LB2 endings read to me like they show variants of the TLB ending. Lost Property 771 is retrieved. Deadliar and Tobari-Maru stand there and discuss how to proceed. He severs his spirit link with her and does some weird soul magic? Presumably to "bury" Paradise. Fossil Maiden speaks with Saraba-Maru and discusses what the Quadruple Offspring saw, expressing concern that it's not going to make it. The two watch as the tower breaks and/or reforms itself. Minogame speaks to some "Toyuu", I have no idea who that is. He apparently absorbs the Quadruple Offspring into himself, and you could interpret Toyuu as being another relic absorbed by him in the past. In Kagura's scroll, she reaches Garland at the same time as Minogame, and the two have a conversation - despite Kagura being said in the manual not to have a speech module... I dunno. One thing that throws me off about all this is the cat. My interpretation of the TLB ending with extra stages is that Lost Property 771's spirit kernel is recaptured and so Amber is saved by the executors - but it's also transformed by Garland into human form, as the epilogue suggests. So it doesn't make sense why it's presented in cat form in LB2.

[@HD_saint-mauve]

Yeah, originally there were 7 separate videos for each scrolling-text ending but I decided to re-record everything and compile it all into one video. I'll look into Shotcut, thanks. Oh uh, and thanks for the quote too. As for the endings... yeah, Spirit Overload, LB1 and LB1/2 timeout are pretty straightforward, and I agree with your interpretations of them. LB2, as I'm sure you'd know, is where I start asking questions, precisely because of LP771 retaining her cat form in them. Though ultimately, I'm of the opinion that a JP speaker's input is necessary, because of things that might have gotten lost in translation/been mistranslated.

[@HD_saint-mauve]

Just letting you know that I just tried out Shotcut recently. Right now I'm using it just for basic subtitle-videos for songs, and so far it's working satisfactorily.

[@CadrinTheWerecat]

@@HD_saint-mauve Yay! I'm happy to help.

[@shrineoffarewell]

I believe... that dawn will come. Even... Even if this body feels no sun.

[@shrineoffarewell]

Thanks for putting this together.

[@HD_saint-mauve]

Someone's been paying attention!

[@soratheorangejuicemascot5809]

10:34 Deadliar: yes Tobari, I am cheating on you with another Mistletoe.

[@HD_saint-mauve]

No wonder why Tobari has such an attitude with him

[@soratheorangejuicemascot5809]

@@HD_saint-mauve speaking of Hellsinker story.... I made it it to Segment 6!!!!! And die before I even encounter Apostles

[@HD_saint-mauve]

@@soratheorangejuicemascot5809 Nice, you're making steady progress. Though the Apostles will be quite a wall I think, it took me about a couple weeks to get past them way back then

[@soratheorangejuicemascot5809]

@@HD_saint-mauve so far my problems are: Rusty Saint Mauve/Old Rose And accidental detour on Segment 5.

[@nemoguy]

Neat and I still don't understand what any of floccinaucinihilipilification's endings mean

[@matteste]

The general impression I got was that something went horribly wrong, resulting in one or more characters deaths.

[@platinumplatypus_]

Nice vid! I haven't looked a lot into lore for the game but the tidbits I've seen are interesting, and it's cool to see a lot of it compiled into one place. I was also wondering where you got the sidebar art.

[@HD_saint-mauve]

The sidebar art is from an archived webpage that Tonnor used to maintain back in the day. Link's right here: web.archive.org/web/20040604164507/www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-Oakland/6057/ edit: While I'm at it, I'll send the link for a folder of all the artwork that I and another person compiled: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wUkm_J6D6cxM0bRISNV0O0hAFJUY_32j?usp=sharing

[@platinumplatypus_]

@@HD_saint-mauve Sweet, thanks!

[@ApenasHoracio]

9:40 would be "the little creature" the cat we see on the quadruple one from true last boss fight?

[@HD_saint-mauve]

"It was the true form of what had been enshrined at the summit of ." Seems like it, yeah. And from the looks of it, this differs from the true ending in that LP771 is never given a humanoid form.

[@soratheorangejuicemascot5809]

Ohh spoilers... Gotta skip this one.

[@HD_saint-mauve]

Commendable call.