2012-11-13, 16:27 | Link #842 |
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The link Saintess posted, if that's the "perfect" ending, just ends with them defeating WN and collecting the grief seed. Sure, they're all together....but the seed isn't going to last forever even if they try to use their magic sparingly. Which we know isn't in Kyubey's interest. Eventually, they will become Witches.
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2012-11-13, 17:33 | Link #844 | |
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2012-11-13, 18:06 | Link #845 | |
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2012-11-13, 18:36 | Link #847 |
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That story ends with everyone happy and the assertion that fate could be changed. You're entitled to think whatever you want about what will happen afterwards, but the game itself doesn't hint that something bad will happen or anything like that. All the opposite actually, it goes to great lengths to make it clear this is a true happy ending.
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2012-11-13, 20:38 | Link #848 | |
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I would've totally missed the announcement if it weren't for this thread, though. lol, so in any case, thanks for passing the news along. |
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2012-11-14, 02:02 | Link #851 | |
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It wouldn't be the first Urobuchi ending to have this problem.
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2012-11-14, 07:26 | Link #853 | |
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But without finding some mechanism through which Soul Gems are cleansed without needing Grief Seeds, it is hard to imagine the Puella Magi of this ending lasting very long. The best case scenario is that they get a few generally happy years before dying in battle as Puella Magi. It might be fair to call this Homura's happy ending.
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2012-11-14, 11:24 | Link #854 |
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generally speaking the reason true end are preferred over happy endings is that true ends usually have the characters grow up and mature and while the world is in a worse state overall in a true end than in a happy end, the characters in a true end are on a better, more mature state.
just compare the cinderella with he little mermaid, while the cinderella could be said to be a happy end cinderella never matures or learns anything, so the moment something goes wrong instead of "happily ever after" you can expect things to go really bad, on the other hand the little mermaid learns a lot about love and self sacrifice, so even if anything bad happens later she can easily cope with it. |
2012-11-14, 11:31 | Link #855 | |
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Well, it is Homura's route, and her goal was always to save Madoka. It's also the best ending this game allows, the "true ending", if you will, since Homura's the protagonist in the game. Anyway, I think what makes this ending worthwhile even accounting for the "ramification", as AuraTwilight put it, is that in this route all the girls chose to fight alongside Homura even though they knew everything about the magical girls becoming witches and so on. They chose to hope even knowing their eventual fate might not be so bright. Now If you think about it, even the anime series was never about changing the system and whatnot; Madoka made such a wish because she wanted to give the magical girls hope. Well, in this game, Homura manages to do just that. Of course, the scope is smaller, just the few girls she knows. But it doesn't change the fact that Homura gave them hope and this "changed their fate". I think that's the point, of this game and maybe of the whole franchise. It's all about hope.
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2012-11-14, 22:59 | Link #859 | |
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Which is why I keep this awesome comic handy for linking: http://forums.animesuki.com/picture....ictureid=39122
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