GOTY by a massive lead, despite that it ended with one of the weakest routes by chance.

The entire cast worked so hard to be liked, and largely they succeeded. I still hate Gaku the sex pest, but that's it.

Best route: Retsnom. Worst route: Comedy, just for somehow managed to be a very funny game that had a relatively unfunny comedy route.

Things I wish it explored more: V'ehxness's team and their own unrest, how the Futurams live, that little invader who sneaked in and tried so hard to survive (MY BABY), and the anti-Exodus faction where it brought out such an interesting idea then did nothing with it.

Still. Solid work. Thank you for being so good to me for the last few months. What a ride.

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The Retsnom Route: seems like this is primarily a route of Cthulhu/body horror.

Darumi is the VIP of this route. I already love her a lot, this route went further on why she's the way she is, and it just made so much sense. She's a child of chronic domestic abuse from every direction, implied she had far worse formative years than Shouma. Her approach is to never take anything seriously, be as obnoxiously cringe as she can be, because it's easier to be hated than liked. She's also far more observant than people give her credit for, and altruistic in a non-obstructive way. Her chronic suicidality is absolutely no surprise to anyone, and that's her main drive. Whether it's the altruism or the suicidality resulted in Darumi chose to be hosted to Eldritch Horror, who knows. Maybe both.

In How Darumi Felt, Darumi-Retsnom fooled Takumi into believing she was fully eaten by the Retsnom parasite, baited Takumi into killing her permanently, and in return revived all dead team members. This is a good ending, they all got what they wanted, especially Darumi always wanted to die by the hands of someone she bonded with.

In We Are One, Darumi was indeed completely overtaken by her parasite, and followed by devouring every single creatures ever existed, and re-spored the emulated Retsnom version of all of them again. In this world the only thing left alive are the current population but with an understanding that they need to cease the permanent warfare, and live in peace and understanding. This also felt like a good ending, humanity stopped existing in its original form, but given what happened in THL1 so far, this humanity is a much less cruel and brutal one.

Both endings were hinted from the first 90 days, but also gave some different interpretations to some of the earlier interactions. They are mutually exclusive. They are also as satisfying as each other, they don't feel one is to serve the other ending at all.

This is going to be my life until like, 2027.

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