So I was considering storylines and characters in games and some of the recent convoluted messes that pass for such things nowadays. I started going back and playing some of my old favorites like the Persona and Grandia series. It reminded me of Grandia II and the absolute mindf**k of a twist the game had.
The main backstory of the game is that two gods, one good and one evil fought, they were respectively Granas and Valmar. When they fought Granas eventually slew Valmar and splintered his body, casting him down to earth and Granas remained in the Heavens to watch over the world, vigilant in case Valmar ever sought to regain power. Basically that was the gyst. So the church of Granas the god of light sprung up and whatnot, priests and priestesses spread through the world. The same basic story as any good vs evil plot right? In the game, other than the threat from Valmar, the story was pretty much taken as red and players just sort of moved on.
Until you hit the Twist. Major Spoiler Warning here.
God is dead. Yah, that's the twist. The 'secret' that nobody could have guessed is that when Granas and Valmar fought. Valmer f**king won. He killed Granas ages ago but suffered terrible wounds that broke his body apart. His reaction? Start a religion based around his enemy who was a rotting carcass and have the entire priesthood working under the radar as servants of the God of Light to eventually acquire enough power to resurrect him.
Oh yah, that was awesome. Hands down the best twist I've ever seen in a game. Every game has thier respective good/evil deities, how many base their game around the fact that in that 'First Great War' evil dominated and good got pwnt?
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So what about you? What's YOUR favorite twist?
The main backstory of the game is that two gods, one good and one evil fought, they were respectively Granas and Valmar. When they fought Granas eventually slew Valmar and splintered his body, casting him down to earth and Granas remained in the Heavens to watch over the world, vigilant in case Valmar ever sought to regain power. Basically that was the gyst. So the church of Granas the god of light sprung up and whatnot, priests and priestesses spread through the world. The same basic story as any good vs evil plot right? In the game, other than the threat from Valmar, the story was pretty much taken as red and players just sort of moved on.
Until you hit the Twist. Major Spoiler Warning here.
God is dead. Yah, that's the twist. The 'secret' that nobody could have guessed is that when Granas and Valmar fought. Valmer f**king won. He killed Granas ages ago but suffered terrible wounds that broke his body apart. His reaction? Start a religion based around his enemy who was a rotting carcass and have the entire priesthood working under the radar as servants of the God of Light to eventually acquire enough power to resurrect him.
Oh yah, that was awesome. Hands down the best twist I've ever seen in a game. Every game has thier respective good/evil deities, how many base their game around the fact that in that 'First Great War' evil dominated and good got pwnt?
End of Spoiler
So what about you? What's YOUR favorite twist?
