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Jhiday2011-02-03 15:15:54

Well, even if it wasn't the person she really wanted, Beato is glad that Will understood her. She can now pass away for all eternity. If the Detective could lay her to rest ?

First Game : First twilight : the 6th corpse is an illusion. Second twilight : the chain wasn't really set. Fourth twilight : Grampa was already long dead anyway. Fifth twilight : how can you kill an illusion ? Sixth to eighth twilights : no closed room there.

Sure, that was quite risky : what if George (or Battler) had really wanted to see Shannon's face ? But Beato is a gambler...

Second Game : First twilight : what closed door ? Second twilight : of course the illusion who had served his purpose would not leave a corpse... Fourth to sixth twilights : yup, everyone did die inside Natsuhi's room. Seventh & eight twilights : those corpses weren't created by an illusion.

Third Game : First twilight : in a closed circle, the first and last loop overlap. Second twilight : exactly as already told. Third to sixth twilights : ditto. Seventh and eighth twilights : the culprit is obvious.

Fourth Game : First and second twilights : like you really believed any of it. Third to eighth twilights : sure they died, but not as told. Ninth twilight : in a box, fiction becames truth.  ^*

"Who am I ?" The Witch's will doesn't matter when the time comes.

And with this last strike, the illusion of the Witch is cut into pieces.

When you think about it, this funeral for Beato was far more tasteful than Bernkastel implied at the end of the last game. And she did go to the trouble of finding Lion, which gave Beato the peace of knowing about her perfect fate. She can protest however much she wants, she's a lot less convincing as a supreme asshole all of a sudden. The loser folding the board after the owner's sudden death, eh ?

Bernkastel and Will take their leave, leaving Lion to her happy family life.

And that's it for the main story. We have two epilogues to go through, of course... And the first one's so long it'll have to wait until tomorrow. Fascinating, though. (Fuck you, *SPOILER* !)

Back to this ending... well, that's a "mystery" resolution that is so succinct and elliptic it becomes barely comprehensible. We'd guessed most of it already, anyway. Still, nice send-off for Beato.

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PataHikari Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 3rd 2011 at 5:19:26 PM

I've been re-reading the episodes with this information in mind, I've done up to 3, so let's copy-past that info so far, here's my final statements on how they were done, I'll add in EP 4's once I finish that one.

First game, first twilight. Six corpses in the gardening shed. Illusions to illusions. The corpse that cannot return to earth returns to illusions. There are only five corpses. The fifth, "Shannon's" corpse, is a fake, either Hideyoshi is lying or he is mistaken.

First game, second twilight. Two corpses are close together in a closed room protected by a chain. Illusions to illusions. A chain of illusions can only hold back illusions. The room was never locked in the first place. Kanon cut the chain and claimed it was a closed room. Genji and Kumasawa collaborated.

First game, foruth twilight. The old Head from the closed room study, confined in a schorching furnace. Illusions to illusions. Let the man of illusions go to where he belongs. Kinzo has been dead for over a year. To create the illusion that he was murdered, his corpse had a stake driven through it, and his body burned.

First game, fifth twilight. The last moments of the sacrificed boy with a stake in his chest. Illusions to illusions. The witch and stake of illusions can pierce naught but illusions. Kanon was never murdered, the corpse was either fake or pretending to be dead. The blood was fake, it was all fake.

First game, sixth, seventh, and eighth twilights. Three corpses lying in the closed room of the singing girl. Illusions to illusions. Illusions are the blind girl's song. Illusion of a closed room. Yasu had the keys. She unlocked the door, and told Maria to sing as she sacrificed the three. There's a chance the corpses are fake, after all, the three are her accomplices.

Second game, first twilight. Six with their stomachs split in a closed room chapel. Illusions to illusions. The gold truth locks the lock of illusions The door was never locked in the first place.

Second game, second twilight. The corpses of the two who are close are not close. Illusions to illusions. Illusions who have fulfilled their role do not leave a corpse. Kanon died yet he leaves no corpse, because Yasu has no need for him anymore. She left Jessica behind and locked the door.

Second game, fourth, fifth, and sixth twilights. In Natsuhi's closed room, none are left alive. Earth to Earth. No one would dispute that a coffin is a closed room. The final stage, the game has ended, Shannon died, Yasu killed George and Gohda, and pretended to be dead. She left once the others had.

Second game, seventh and eighth twilights. The two sliced to death by the red-eyed phantom. Earth to Earth. Illusions to illusions. No Illusion can create a corpse. They were not killed in the servants room, they were killed later, but before George and Gohda died. They were made to look like the final sacrifices.

Third game, first twilight. Six corpses connected by the linked closed rooms. Illusions to illusions. In a closed room ring, the end and the beginning overlap. Yasu faked her death as Shannon, when the adults checked up on her and moved on, she ran over to the chapel as Kanon, and faked her death there.

Third game, second twilight. The corpses of mother and child lay togetheri in the rose garden. Earth to Earth. No falsehoods in their final moments told. Rosa and Eva have an argument about the gold, it gets heated, and Eva kills Rosa by accident. In her panic, she kills Maria as well.

Thrid game, fourth fifth and sixth twilights. Three corpses lying in the mansion. Earth to Earth. No falsehoods in their final moments told. Eva panicked and shot Kyrie and Rudolf, and Hideyoshi died accidentally.

Third game, seventh and eighth twilights. The corpses of husband and wife lay exposed under the arbor. Earth to Earth. The obvious culprit wields a mutable blade. Eva strangled them.

PataHikari Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 3rd 2011 at 5:37:24 PM

Oh yeah, and the non twilight mysteries.'

Episode 1:

Letter delivered to the study: One of the servants put it there, just as Natsuhi suspected

Natsuhi getting shot: Yasu shot her, took the unfired gun, and left her own to make it look like she had been shot with her own gun.

Episode 2:

The letter in the parlor: Rosa is an accomplice, she put it there and blamed Battler.

Episode 3:

George dying in Shannon's arms: Yasu "brought back" Shannon, to confess everything to George. Eva tried to kill her to silence her, but accidentally hit George. Yasu faked her death again. She put the number on the door to catch Battler's attention.

Dr. Nanjo's murder: He had been bought by Eva by this point, and Jessica was in danger. Yasu killed him to protect her, and led her to a safe place as "Kanon".

Jhiday Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 4th 2011 at 8:04:49 AM

Two notes on that :

• We never see Kanon's corpse in the first game (or any of the others, for that matter)
• We already discussed Shannon's corpse in the second game earlier : there's no way this could have been faked, and it's disingenuous to interpret the coffin line here as anything but confirming her death. I'd really have liked her to survive so that Battler didn't see Beatrice in a drunken hallucination too, but it's been conclusively disproved.