Best Video Game Ending

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Ocarina of Time. I'm never one to get emotional over a game, or anything, for that matter. However, when those Sages all gather on top of Death Mountain in the ending scene with that epic music playing in the background, you can't help but feel accomplished and overwhelmed with dignity. As for the nostalgia factor, it only grows for each time I complete the game. Such a great & historic game, and I can't stand the haters out there who want to bring it down just because it's "overrated". It is not overrated, it is a damn good, solid game that earned its place in the video game hall of fame.

So, in a nutshell, that's my favorite all-time ending to a video game.

 

For me, it has to be the ending to the game Journey.

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The entire game relies heavily on emotion, with a great ambience and a wonderful way of telling its story without relying on words and exposition. In the end, you finally reach the mountain that has been growing in the distance through the game, and climb to the top.

Once you get there, you seem to die in a snowstorm just before the peak. You are engulfed in light, and make it to the top through a last level. Once you are at the very peak, you become the light engulfing you. You are a comet, and you fall across the world you have just traveled to land in the desert you started in, a new character that looked just like you watching your light fade over the horizon.

The thing is, it took me a while to understand the ending, and even the game. The moment of revelation came to me when I realized that the point of the entire game, and the meaning of the ending, was all in the journey entailed within the game. The point of the Journey was in the journey.

Long explanation, but it really was the most beautiful ending to a game that I've ever played.

 

Hmm, It would either have to be FE Awakening or The World Ends With You because their endings are quite similar and quite touching.

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In both endings, the main character comes back from death, reborn as a new person to who or what they were at the beginning of the game, surrounded by deep friends. TWEWY, Neku wakes up back in the real Shibuya with Shiki, Beat and Rhyme (And maybe Joshua, I don't know, screw Joshua). FE: A you wake up surrounded by Chrom and Lissa welcoming you home, similar to the original cutscene, but with the obvious change that they know who you are and you clearly aren't marked by Grima.

 

Birch Please, I will give you 2 words.

Twilight.
Princess.

This ending tied up all of you as a person's short-comings in the game at once. You managed to return midna to her human state (#1) and as that happened to midna, that must've happened to the twili (#2) which means that you've broke the curse (#3) by defeating zant (#4) and ganondwarf ganondorf (#5). After all of that, you realize that dark and light cannot mix. That means you must finally say goodbye. And that is so touching, you have saved the twili and the humans. People- No. You yourself are finally seeing sunlight for the first time in a world that before was smothered in twilight as shown in the ending credits. You have joined up the world...


Only to have a bit if it ripped up into the sky in skyward sword and the rest dumped into a s**t-pile of turmoil.

 

Tales of Symphonia 2's ending and Tales of Xillia 2's ending , I guess?
They felt so fulfilling, but yet, left me with a little bit of a whole. No other game has left me this complete before, and I love these games to bits.