Postby Kendrix » Tue Mar 16, 2021 3:31 am
These aren't the same ending tho.
The is one of the bad endings. Or at least it's supposed to be a neutral/ambiguous one.
There's a "SEELE wins" variant if you fail completely & then i you get Shinji's relationship with one of the girl high enough you get this "beach/ adam & Eve" ending.
IDK if this is a deliberate divergence (because this sort of game, by genre conventions, needs clear win/lose states) or if the devs of the game didn't really get EoEs ending or at least subscribed to the "those are the only 2 survivors, no one else came back" interpretation
The ambiguous/ deliberately eerie aspect is present in all of them (The whole 'together forever' line for example) but it's the most explicit in the Rei one which is a real knife twist/ horror moment. (I kinda love that fact even if it really fucked me up. The dialogue is pretty good actually)
It goes like this:
Rei: "So you have chosen to bind me to yourself just like your father."
Shinji: "No... i'd hoped that you'd want to come back & live together with everyone out of your own will..."
Rei: "Isn't that the same? ... well, it doesn't matter now. Keep imagining me. As long as you keep calling me that, I will remain 'Ayanami Rei'. " * fade to black *
There's a 3rd option where you get the "friends" parameter up by hanging out with Touji & kensuke enough, in that case, the result is an AU verse where everyone's happy but Shinji doesn't exist. (And only Kaworu remembers him, Homura style)
You can unlock two other 'routes' one that's like the ep 26 AU, and one that starts out with some wacky fanservice scenarios early on but then gradually turns into something like a semi-serious fixit fic.
There#s even a possibility where you chose to go back to the semi-serious route from the ep 26-esque one, which the fun side effect that it looks like Gendo did a heel face turn because of how Teacher!Misato chewed him out in the AU world's PTA meeting.
Though you can also slide back to the 'og series esque' one at any point if you don't get enough points.
And all those then have separate little segments for which job Shinji gets & how well he does at it (based on his stats) & who he ends up with (if anyone at all) On the Fixit AU route you end up moving in with them, on ep Ep 26 Au one you get a cute wedding dress artwork, but in any case it's stated that you get together.
Alas, no wedding dress for Kaworu, but you can move in with him, too.
I love the hilarious one where Shinji goes to college together with Mana and Rei, and Asuka is his professor.
Though the one where he marries the one nerdy NERV techie is also fun if only because Gendo and Yui are presumably very hopeful that she'll pop out mad scientist grandkids. ^^°
I wanted to try harvesting the rice
I wanted to hold Tsubame more
I wanted to stay together forever with the boy I like