#conquest ending

[nepmaniia]

Nepgear After Conquest Ending:

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[angeliteeyes]

My thoughts on the Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 2 Conquest ending incoming.... hoo boy. I've never written about anything as dark and disturbing as this, which I never expected to say about a Neptunia game of all things. But here we are.

Wow. When I say this singlehandedly made Re;Birth 2 my favorite of the games I've played, I really mean that. Don't get me wrong, I still adore Re;Birth 1 with all my heart... but this single hour of gameplay got me in a chokehold.

For starters. The base concept of having you as a player see the normal/true ending, seeing how easy winning peacefully is. How the ONLY thing they really had to do to save the world was just be determined to save each other. It's cheesy as hell, but hey, it works right?

And then you go "Hm. What's this 'conquest ending'?"

Hey, why does the music sound off? Why are they talking so ominously? Sure, I've heard it's a bad ending, but c'mon. This is Hyperdimension Neptunia we're talking about. It never gets that dark... right?

A sword that gains power by... killing CPUs and Candidates? No way, Nepgear wouldn't do that. I mean, there's literally children here. She wouldn't kill them for power. No way.

But you're thinking about it, aren't you?

Don't worry. She is, too.

...Yet she doesn't have to do this, ANY of this. You know that fully well. They don't, though. So she tries to throw out any alternative idea she can think of. Anything so that maybe, maybe everyone can survive. They essentially tell her to eat shit and leave though, only leading her down the spiral more and more.

She's got the sword with her for safety. Just so that nobody uses it to kill her. Don't you believe her?

Noire sure doesn't, at least. They fight each other in battle, but of course, Nepgear wins. Can't have your run being cut short, right? Nepgear starts pleading, saying she doesn't want to use the sword. They can solve it peacefully, right? Please, Noire. Please, player. Give her a way out.

But you're not on the Holy Sword ending. No. That's the only thing that could save Nepgear here, and it's just... loving the others more, having stronger bonds. She isn't saved, though. Why?

She doesn't love them enough. She doesn't love Noire enough to stop the sword from piercing through her chest. She doesn't love Uni enough to save her from the fate of watching her older sister die brutally in front of her. Once she kills one, she'll have to kill the others too, naturally. Blanc. Ram. Rom. Vert. Even Neptune. If she loved them enough, she'd stop right here. Save them from a timeline where they're destined to die by their companion's hands. But she doesn't love them enough. So she doesn't stop.

Noire and Uni lie dead on the floor.

Let's take a trip to Lowee now, shall we? Visit the kiddos?

This is the part that really made me feel sick to my stomach. At least Noire had the maturity to know what kind of decision she was making, and Uni... well, she's immature, but at least she's the same age roughly as Nepgear. Rom and Ram, though. These are just blatantly children. They doodle with crayons on important paperwork. They crave attention and affection from their elders. They get confused about even the basics like jealousy, and need adults to spell things out for them. And now, they're being told by those very adults that they have to stand still and let Nepgear murder them.

The Nepgear we've been traveling with before is long gone. After all, she would never harm these two innocent children, let alone kill them. And yet...

Blanc, Rom, and Ram lie dead on the floor.

Lowee's section is absolutely haunting. This is where it reallly sets in just how morally wrong this whole thing is, and how damn cruel it is to just expect someone to let Nepgear murder them. And my girl Vert sees this too. Why should Nepgear—the crybaby who's forcing everyone around her to stay mentally strong by being so weakwilled—get to live? For heaven's sake, those poor children had to force themselves to calm down just to tell Nepgear it's okay to kill them. How fucking cruel is that? To force them to put on a brave face, when Nepgear can't even do that herself? And she's not even the one about to die!

So Vert goes "No. I want to live. I actually give enough of a damn to fight for my life. I refuse to coddle this whiny crybaby and coax her into murdering me just cause she'll feel bad. If she won't kill me, she doesn't deserve to live." And you know what? She's right! The Neptwins win fair and square, but Nepgear's such a spineless person she doesn't even finish the deed. Really proves Vert's point.

But Underling does have a spine, so she goes to finish Vert off. And suddenly, Nepgear's attitude flips. She kills Underling, a character whose death DOES NOTHING. It doesn't make the sword stronger, it doesn't save Vert, nothing. She's defeated Underling several times while sparing her life—even when Underling has tried to kill them—but not today. Here it's made clear that Nepgear's spineless act is just that. She has no problem killing, she just doesn't want to feel like a bad person for it. But, well, who'd mourn Underling anyway?

"I should have done that ages ago."

Yet even now, it falls on the others to end Vert's life, to keep Nepgear's perfect hands pristine and sinfree.

Underling and Vert lie dead on the floor.

Only the Neptwins and the non-CPUs remain. Of course, we all know that's going to change real soon.

Nepgear can't even fake surprise anymore at this point. Her emotional well is really, truly dried up now. Sure, she puts in the effort to do a token argument, but she accepted killing her sister long ago. The sword goes up one last time.

[Neptune] has left.

The battle against the Deity of Sin comes to an end, as she pulls out that goddamn sword. And they laugh. Nepgear doesn't understand why. Even as the sword ends their life, why are they so... happy?

Well, of course they are. Their goal was to end the world and kill everyone.

They don't need to end the world and kill the CPUs if you did it for them :)

"Without strife, without conflict, without competition... Nothing will advance. Nothing will evolve. The people will become complacent and live their lives in peace... The world will stagnate and rot...

And what of 100 years from now? What of 1000 years from now? Hahaha... I am limited neither by time nor a physical form. I can wait until this world rots away..."

Nepgear tries to pretend like their words don't mean anything. They all do. But... we know the truth. Gamindustri is doomed to walk down the path of a slow, drawn-out death. Whether it takes 100 years or 1000 years, Nepgear has destroyed everything. All in the name of saving it.

Why wouldn't you have just loved everyone a little bit more, Nepgear?

[adeptarcanist]

That feeling when you hear about a game that mostly doesn't interest you, except that it has one Bad Ending that's so incredibly evil you really want to experience it for yourself...

[silverbane]

NEPGEAR DID NOTHING WRONG #stopthenephate

[simping-4-venti]

Well, that was an ending, first I have to kill my favourite character after endgame: ‘the eternal staircase 2: the ressurection.’ 

Then we brush off the murder of thousands of people some more, throw around the word justice lazily again, Azura does her mysterious bullshit thing again (still not explained btw) and we crown with a piece of unusually terrible voice acting from leo, some ridiculous and out of place fanservice from camilla and xander giving a speech about how the war was for his country when it was definitely because he was a daddy's boy at the expense of his country.

Fantastic, time to start revelations.

[michealkutcher]

I don't care what anyone says

but the conquest end in Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 was the best ending in the series (ʳ ´º㉨º)ʳ the sound of those girls dying was music to my ears

[shy-mel]

Hyperdimension Neptunia mk2 Part Three

In this route, everyone (CPUs, Oracles, Candidates, humans, who ever I'm missing) is in Planeptune to come up with a solution to defeat the deity of sin, Arfoire.  Arfoire is being revived because the party beat the CFWs, Magic, Trick, Judge, and Brave.  The girls remember a story they heard through events (that had to be seen to be on this route) about a sword with such power.  After speaking with a cryptic adventurer, the party finds the sword in a hidden section of LAN Castle.  They are surprised to see that the sword is dusty and worn, but take it anyway.

  They clean the sword up and speak with the Oracles who did some researching on the sword.  It turns out that the sword is powered by the blood of CPUs.  Nepgear is asked to sleep on the option of using the sword and in the morning she decides the sword is not an option.  Instead she asks for the other nations to send their shares to Planeptune (which will be done anyways).  Members from the other nations angrily object to the idea and leave.  Nepgear, Neptune, and the human characters go to Laststation and take the shares.  In the basilicom, Noire and Uni talk about how they will have to fight the group.  The two leave and go to confront the party.  The party wins and kill both Noire and Uni with the sword. 

After that, they meet with Kei who knows that it had to be done, but tells them they are no longer welcomed there.  The next destination is Lowee, where they drain its shares as well.  Blanc and her sisters confront the group as well and lose like Noire and Uni.  Blanc is prepared to die, while Rom and Ram cry before dying.  Meeting with Mina afterwords, Mina asks how Nepgear feels about killing children and tells them to leave.  At this point Vert knows she is left and decides that she will fight.  When she confronts the group, she offers to take the sword so Nepgear and Neptune can die together.   She doesn't win and instead leaves the area.  Underling finds her and is getting ready to kill her, when the group finds the two.  After a fight, Nepgear kills Underling, then Vert.  Chika is furious, saying that now Vert will never come back and she runs away from the party. 

Back in Planeptune, Nepgear leaves the group while Neptune has to tell everyone something.  Later Nepgear and Neptune go on a walk.  Neptune claims the area is a place where the two played when they were younger.  Nepgear doesn't remember the area.  Neptune then comes out and says that Nepgear needs to kill her.  Nepgear refuses, saying she should die instead.  Neptune says Nepgear has the power so she is the one who needs to be alive.  Nepgear does kill Neptune, who thought the blow would hurt less.  Back with everyone else, it's revealed that Neptune told the group her plan.  With the blade charged the group heads to the graveyard. 

There they see Arfoire and fight.  The group is stunned that Arfoire is in one piece and tells Nepgear to use the sword.  Arfoire recognizes the sword and doesn't dodge the blow that kills her.  Nepgear asks why and Arfoire says she knew the blade would kill her because of the blood that runs through it.  She also says the world will be thrown into chaos because know it'll be one country under one rule.  Nepgear says that won't happen and Arfoire dies.  Later Histiore and Kei are talking.  Kei is the only other Oracle present as the other two are still upset.  She knows that she will need to help Nepgear.  The humans however are going to their homes, leaving Nepgear alone.  She will be the new ruler and Arfoire's last words echo in her head.

Okay, this ending feels really out of place in this game.  Neptunia normally is lighthearted and funny.  This ending tries to be depressing as possible.  To me it seemed really over the top.  Actually the comments I read about the conquest end (without viewing the ending )made me think it was going to play out a bit differently.  I thought Nepgear was gonna go psycho and kill everyone and become the new incarnation of sin.  Ram and Rom crying should have made me sad, but I was ticked off from the fight before.  Had to do that fight several times because the twins would use their magic skills and then Blanc would kill me.  Vert getting beat by Underling was an interesting choice, as was killing Underling.  I was confused about how open everyone is to killing the CPUs and sisters, but taking the shares?  No that's crazy!  Also, love how everyone just leaves Nepgear at the end.  She just killed the people closet to her, so let's skedaddle!  Who needs support anyway?