We’ve become the Messiah, ran away from the demons, controlled the demons, and became their leader. Now, the time has finally come to tackle the final ending route in which we will banish the demons so that life can return to how it was before their arrival. This will also be the route during which I’ll be taking on the final bonus boss of the game, and after thinking over how I’m going to do this I’m going to cover the story stuff first and then do that. It’ll be a good send-off and really, the guy deserves an update all to himself.
This time we meet with Gin at Omotesando when the Day 6 decision point comes up. After we officially join up with him we go over our plans for tomorrow, which is to go see Amane/Remiel once Haru completes Aya’s song so that we can see the server. Then Mari shows up to join the party and we turn in.
Last Day - Song of Hope
So uh, it seems that last night Haru and Gin didn’t bother to coordinate with each other because when we wake up in the morning he says we have to do looking for her, not something that we should be wasting time on when we only have nine hours until the final option. Black Frost joins the party at this point (Atsuro thinks it’s more than a little strange to have a demon helping them on a quest to banish demons, but a party member’s a party member), and Gin’s available for deployment as well, finally. He’s at Lv. 50 and he basically has the same stat spread as Atsuro: emphasis on Strength with his remaining three stats being relatively balanced with each other, though he’s a bit slower Agility-wise (though slightly faster Speed-wise). Since on the ending routes I try to use the characters that are relevant to it, I’m actually going to have Gin replace him for most of it.
Haru’s at a reasonable spot, the Bugeikan in Kudanshita. Haru reports that the song’s going to take a few more hours to complete, and then Izuna arrives to relay the same bad news she did in Atsuro’s route that the deadline has been moved forward to 1:00. Yuzu despairs but Haru soldiers on through the bad news, saying that she’ll just have to pick up the pace then. Gin comments on how sunnier Haru is today than she was before, and then it’s off to Shiba Park to speak with Remiel. With the deadline cut short, the angel says that we must get right to work on meeting the conditions to access the server, Babel, meaning that it’s War of Bel time again. We return a half hour later to go inside Amane’s mind and fight Jezebel.
Gin Mission 1
- Jezebel must be defeated
- The whole party cannot die
- Amane cannot die
Repetition...
Completing the mission earns us 2300 EXP and 1500 macca.
Afterwards Amane joins the party and explains our next steps. Guess where we’re going next!
Gin Mission 2
- Bishamon must be defeated
- The whole party cannot die
...is...
Completing the mission earns us 2500 EXP and 1800 macca.
Next!
Gin Mission 3
- Zouchou and Koumoku must be defeated
- The whole party cannot die
...the...
Completing the mission earns us 2700 EXP and 2100 macca.
So, with the sky blood-red and the city sufficiently corrupt Amane says that we must now get the “song of return” and that in addition to sending the demons back we must also work out a way to close the “King’s Gate” so that once sent back to the demon world, the demons cannot return. Since angels are (in)conveniently forbidden from giving away too much help during an ordeal, Remiel did not tell her what this entails, so the crew has to figure that part out themselves, which Atsuro complains about. Akira “suggests” that it’s best to see Izuna and Fushimi before we do anything else to see about getting the deadline extended, so off to the Akasaka Tunnel we go. When he hears of our plan Fushimi says that he’ll send an order to the SDF operating the lockdown to abort the final option, hoping that it’ll buy us some time. He says that he no longer thinks of us as children, and has Izuna join our party. Naoya and Kaido are the only two who don’t join on this route.
Now back to where Haru is to see how the song’s coming. Annnnnd the news isn’t good, as Haru has run into a corrupt track on the sequencer and without electricity, Atsuro can’t use his laptop to restore it. She despairs, claiming that it’s impossible for her to create one of Aya’s tracks from scratch, requiring Gin to step in to remind her that the reason Aya stepped aside to allow her to become the lead vocalist of D-Va was because of how talented she was. Hm, I don’t think I saw the pertinent scene during my original run-through for the blog, so what’s going on here is that Haru was blaming herself for Aya’s disappearance because she thought she “stole” the position of lead vocalist from her. Now that she knows that that’s not so, her mind clears and she realizes that the song inside the sequencer is actually an arrangement of the first song she wrote with Aya. She says that now she can complete the track and the crew is off again, to the front of the Mori Tower for a date with the Lord of the Flies.
Gin Mission 4
- Belzaboul must be defeated
- The whole party cannot die
...definition...
Completing the mission earns us 2950 EXP and 2400 macca.
After we get the Founder’s backstory from Amane yet again Fushimi arrives to report that his abort command succeeded in bamboozling the SDF and we should have at least an hour and a half extra now. Haru’s still not here, but Fushimi promises to send her up the Tower when she arrives, so the crew once more go through their final declarations of resolve and ascend to the Mori Tower’s top floor (bellyaching one last time, of course). Like in Amane’s own route the Founder’s furious that she’s led us to him, but she retorts that if the state of the lockdown is the sort of world that the Shomonkai teachings will create, then she no longer has need of them. So her father sacrifices himself for the fourth time, and once more we must fight that twisted mass of Bels, Belberith.
Gin Mission 5
- Belberith must be defeated
- The whole party cannot die
...of insanity.
Completing the mission earns us 3200 EXP and 2800 macca.
Haru arrives with the completed song, and after she says some compassionate words to the crestfallen Amane we go about the business of summoning Babel. The characters comment that it looks more like a tower than a gate, and the final mission commences.
Gin Mission 6
- Haru’s song must be uploaded
- The whole party cannot die
- Atsuro and Haru cannot die
- Atsuro must be dispatched
Since Atsuro’s required for this mission but I still want to use Gin I’m going in with two physical attackers, which is rather unorthodox but viable now what with the addition of Pierce +. Since Haru’s here...yet this is an Escort Mission. We have to get both her and Atsuro over to the center console/organ at the center of the map, so this is a lot like the final battle in Atsuro’s route where we had to escort Naoya, though unlike him Haru has no durability. Again, much of the opening phase is dead air while we wait for her to get there, and we need to eliminate the Ariochs in her way immediately so that they can’t snipe her down. Once we get the two to the console Atsuro does some prep work and Haru takes over, though we don’t actually get to hear her sing or anything. What the song does do though is draw out Babel’s defense program, which is now taking the guise of an old, bearded man. It has the same skill load-out as it did during Naoya’s version of this battle, only with Mabufudyne instead of Shield All.
Once we defeat it we’re treated to a scene in the city showing Fushimi and a civilian surrounded by demons, but before they get the Bolivian Army Ending they all vanish, a sign that the song’s upload has worked. And oh yeah, something the game slyly doesn’t warn you about: when it said that the song would return all the demons, it meant it. That includes the demons in your party’s COMPs and Black Frost. All of them vanish too (if you didn’t deploy Black Frost he’ll show up at this point to say farewell to everyone while promising to spread love around the demon realm, which hey, could lead the reformation of demonkind that Amane’s 8th day hinted at), leaving only the humans behind...along with Babel, which proceeds to transform into its Geigar cylinder form.
Yep, this is the game’s final dick move - taking away all of your demons and expecting you to still defeat the final boss’s final form without them.
Babel (Lv. 67)
HP/MP
- ???/???
- Weak to Elec; Resists Physical; Reflects Fire, Ice, and Force; Nulls Mystic
- Power Hit - Deals heavy Physical damage to one target.
- Holy Dance - Deals several random hits of Almighty damage to multiple targets.
- Megidolaon - Deals heavy Almighty damage to entire enemy party.
- None
- King’s Gate - Has an infinite attack range and cannot move.
- Hellfire Gate - Changes skillset.
- Calamity of Babel - Deals heavy Mystic damage to all parties and may silence targets.
Fortunately Babel’s been nerfed a bit to even the odds somewhat, but this is still a difficult task. I can no longer rely on my uber postgame demons to get me through this, so I had to do some additional grinding beforehand to get my humans up to a respectable level. Woe betide whoever chose these route on their first playthrough (since simply banishing the demons seems like the most simple course of action to take, right?), or even those who chose it on a later one and didn’t see this coming. We need a good, balanced distribution of skills on our leaders to get through, Elec Dance, Force Dance, Diarahan, Shield All +, Victory Cry... You could say this is another form of a Final-Exam Boss in that it tests your ability to set up a strategic spread of skills. Calamity of Babel still hurts, but we don’t have to worry about Haru getting hit by it for she makes her exit as soon as the phase begins.
Pound away, heal, persevere, survive. When Babel is defeated instead of assimilating with the room below again it accepts Akira’s power and the time has come to complete the banishment. The two dialogue options we’re provided both do the same thing, but I’m going with the “never return here again” one for extra insurance. Babel complies with the order, and its two halves plummet into the abyss of the demon world.
The post-battle scene down below follows the usual script, with everyone relieved that the crisis is finally over. Amane praises Akira for refusing the power of Bel and saving the world and then says that she understands now that true kings aren’t “made”, they always “are”. Out in the city, as the sky turns blue and the order’s given to lift the lockdown Naoya comments that this wasn’t an ending that he had predicted, his cousin choosing to discard the power of both angels and demons. However, he says, he won’t give up...
The ending narration is mostly the same as it was in Atsuro’s ending, minus the whole “Japan becoming a superpower thanks to demons” bit. The lockdown ends, the government covers up the demons’ existence, and Akira and his friends are able to return to their normal, peaceful lives. We’re shown the same illustration him him looking at his COMP with Atsuro and Yuzu walk ahead of him, reading Metatron’s final message:
So, more or less the same thing we were told during Atsuro’s ending. Anyway, there you have it, that is the end of Devil Survivor Overclocked’s story content. It’s something of an outlier among the Law vs. Chaos Megami Tensei games in how, well, positive a lot of its endings are despite the overall bleak tone of the game. Heck, Overclocked went ahead and turned two of the downer routes from the original game into happy ones! And with that said we’re not done yet, for as promised the next and final update will cover the final bonus boss of the game, so stay tuned for that, after I get the necessary grinding out of the way.
