1:16:52 | Flames rise when fates collide
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
41:10 | A kingdom trembling under forged power
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
59:17 | Where destiny carves its own path
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
1:50:15 | A world wounded, a hero awakening
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
13:49 | Nobody but me and the horizon.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
07:53 | Don’t fall now, Sam. Just keep walking.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
04:12 | You’d think by now I’d be used to this silence.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
06:12 | Mountains don’t care if you’re tired.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
02:24 | Step by step, strand by strand.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
1:57:08 | In the silence after the blade, I hear her voice.
As a young girl, Atsu witnesses her family being massacred by the Yōtei Six led by Lord Saitō, who leaves her to die. Atsu survives and flees Yōtei, becoming a wandering soldier and mercenary for the next sixteen years before returning home to take her revenge against the Yōtei Six. Atsu targets Lord Saitō's lieutenants first: the Snake, the Oni, the Kitsune, the Spider, and the Dragon. She first kills the Snake, but is mortally wounded in the process.
Atsu miraculously survives and recovers from her wound, with witnesses fearfully dubbing her the "Onryō". Returning to her destroyed family home, Atsu begins her hunt for the remaining Yōtei Six. She learns that Lord Saitō is rebelling against the Shogunate, building an army to claim the entire island of Ezo for himself as the self-appointed "Shogun of the North"; the Matsumae clan, who are loyal to the Shogun, have declared war against him. As she travels around Yōtei, Atsu also proceeds to slay as many of Lord Saitō's men as she can, while also assisting the local populace and training under various weapon masters.
As she progresses, she gains a following, dubbed her "Wolf Pack"; Lord Saitō hears of Atsu's exploits, and puts a bounty on her head in hopes of eliminating her. Atsu finds an opportunity to assassinate Lord Saitō at one of his castles but fails. Discovering Atsu's identity, Lord Saitō challenges her to a duel, believing he can recruit her to. Their duel is interrupted when the Matsumae attack the castle, forcing Lord Saitō to retreat. With Lord Saitō back in hiding, Atsu returns to her original quest of slaying the remaining Yōtei Six. Atsu assists the traveling shamisen performer Oyuki to track the Kitsune, and thwart his wolfsbane poison production operation. However, Atsu deduces that Oyuki is the real Kitsune, and the current one is an impostor; Oyuki admits she used to be the Kitsune that served as Lord Saitō's shinobi, but she was disgusted at his murder of Atsu's family and planned to betray him, but she was instead betrayed and replaced as the Kitsune by her disciple Dojun.
Oyuki teaches Atsu her shinobi techniques and together they kill the Kitsune. Oyuki promises to help Atsu slay the rest of the Yōtei Six as part of her atonement. While pursuing the Oni and his raider army, Atsu discovers her younger brother Jubei also narrowly survived the Yōtei Six's attack: rescued by the Matsumae clan, rising in rank to become a samurai officer. He and Atsu hatch a plan to sneak into the Oni's castle with him posing as Atsu's prisoner. However, the Oni sees through their plot, and they are forced to flee, and the Oni attacks the Matsumae camp in retaliation.
Using information from a deserter, Atsu and Jubei sneak back into the Oni's castle, lead a prisoner rebellion, and slay the Oni together. With both the Oni and Kitsune dead, Atsu, Jubei, and Oyuki join forces to go after the Dragon and Spider, Lord Saitō's twin sons, though Jubei is reluctant to trust Oyuki due to her past as the Kitsune. They head to the coast, where they are shocked that Lord Saitō had built a fleet in secret and is assaulting the Matsumae heartland. Jubei reveals he has a daughter, Kiku, and saves her from Saitō troops. While Jubei takes Kiku to the safety of Matsumae Castle, Atsu and Oyuki search for the Dragon and Spider. With the Dragon proving too cautious and elusive to catch, Atsu instead captures the Spider to lure the Dragon out.
The Matsumae organize the Spider's public execution in a deliberate move to draw the Dragon out, but the Saitō forces outmaneuver them with a counterattack on their castle. While Jubei and Oyuki leave to defend the castle, Atsu kills the Dragon while the Spider flees. Despite this, Atsu fails to prevent Matsumae Castle from falling, and Jubei and Oyuki end up going missing. Finding Kiku safe, Atsu evacuates her to her family home. She sees Kiku becoming consumed by the desire for revenge, and regrets prioritizing killing the Dragon over helping Jubei and Oyuki defend the castle.
She tracks down the Spider, who reveals Jubei and Oyuki were captured by Lord Saitō, and when she decides to spare his life, he offers to lead her to his father's castle, having been disowned by him as punishment for letting the Dragon die. Atsu manages to rescue Jubei and Oyuki, but finds out Lord Saitō is waiting for her at her family home to take revenge on her for the death of his sons. With Kiku as his hostage, Lord Saitō challenges Atsu to a duel.
Both Atsu and Jubei battle him, and while they are victorious and kill Lord Saitō, Jubei is mortally wounded and dies shortly after. Six months later, Atsu has given up being the Onryō, and has retired to live a life of peace so she and Oyuki can raise Kiku in Jubei's stead.
1:33:36 | The dead have longer memories than men.
As a young girl, Atsu witnesses her family being massacred by the Yōtei Six led by Lord Saitō, who leaves her to die. Atsu survives and flees Yōtei, becoming a wandering soldier and mercenary for the next sixteen years before returning home to take her revenge against the Yōtei Six. Atsu targets Lord Saitō's lieutenants first: the Snake, the Oni, the Kitsune, the Spider, and the Dragon. She first kills the Snake, but is mortally wounded in the process.
Atsu miraculously survives and recovers from her wound, with witnesses fearfully dubbing her the "Onryō". Returning to her destroyed family home, Atsu begins her hunt for the remaining Yōtei Six. She learns that Lord Saitō is rebelling against the Shogunate, building an army to claim the entire island of Ezo for himself as the self-appointed "Shogun of the North"; the Matsumae clan, who are loyal to the Shogun, have declared war against him. As she travels around Yōtei, Atsu also proceeds to slay as many of Lord Saitō's men as she can, while also assisting the local populace and training under various weapon masters.
As she progresses, she gains a following, dubbed her "Wolf Pack"; Lord Saitō hears of Atsu's exploits, and puts a bounty on her head in hopes of eliminating her. Atsu finds an opportunity to assassinate Lord Saitō at one of his castles but fails. Discovering Atsu's identity, Lord Saitō challenges her to a duel, believing he can recruit her to. Their duel is interrupted when the Matsumae attack the castle, forcing Lord Saitō to retreat. With Lord Saitō back in hiding, Atsu returns to her original quest of slaying the remaining Yōtei Six. Atsu assists the traveling shamisen performer Oyuki to track the Kitsune, and thwart his wolfsbane poison production operation. However, Atsu deduces that Oyuki is the real Kitsune, and the current one is an impostor; Oyuki admits she used to be the Kitsune that served as Lord Saitō's shinobi, but she was disgusted at his murder of Atsu's family and planned to betray him, but she was instead betrayed and replaced as the Kitsune by her disciple Dojun.
Oyuki teaches Atsu her shinobi techniques and together they kill the Kitsune. Oyuki promises to help Atsu slay the rest of the Yōtei Six as part of her atonement. While pursuing the Oni and his raider army, Atsu discovers her younger brother Jubei also narrowly survived the Yōtei Six's attack: rescued by the Matsumae clan, rising in rank to become a samurai officer. He and Atsu hatch a plan to sneak into the Oni's castle with him posing as Atsu's prisoner. However, the Oni sees through their plot, and they are forced to flee, and the Oni attacks the Matsumae camp in retaliation.
Using information from a deserter, Atsu and Jubei sneak back into the Oni's castle, lead a prisoner rebellion, and slay the Oni together. With both the Oni and Kitsune dead, Atsu, Jubei, and Oyuki join forces to go after the Dragon and Spider, Lord Saitō's twin sons, though Jubei is reluctant to trust Oyuki due to her past as the Kitsune. They head to the coast, where they are shocked that Lord Saitō had built a fleet in secret and is assaulting the Matsumae heartland. Jubei reveals he has a daughter, Kiku, and saves her from Saitō troops. While Jubei takes Kiku to the safety of Matsumae Castle, Atsu and Oyuki search for the Dragon and Spider. With the Dragon proving too cautious and elusive to catch, Atsu instead captures the Spider to lure the Dragon out.
The Matsumae organize the Spider's public execution in a deliberate move to draw the Dragon out, but the Saitō forces outmaneuver them with a counterattack on their castle. While Jubei and Oyuki leave to defend the castle, Atsu kills the Dragon while the Spider flees. Despite this, Atsu fails to prevent Matsumae Castle from falling, and Jubei and Oyuki end up going missing. Finding Kiku safe, Atsu evacuates her to her family home. She sees Kiku becoming consumed by the desire for revenge, and regrets prioritizing killing the Dragon over helping Jubei and Oyuki defend the castle.
She tracks down the Spider, who reveals Jubei and Oyuki were captured by Lord Saitō, and when she decides to spare his life, he offers to lead her to his father's castle, having been disowned by him as punishment for letting the Dragon die. Atsu manages to rescue Jubei and Oyuki, but finds out Lord Saitō is waiting for her at her family home to take revenge on her for the death of his sons. With Kiku as his hostage, Lord Saitō challenges Atsu to a duel.
Both Atsu and Jubei battle him, and while they are victorious and kill Lord Saitō, Jubei is mortally wounded and dies shortly after. Six months later, Atsu has given up being the Onryō, and has retired to live a life of peace so she and Oyuki can raise Kiku in Jubei's stead.
1:12:58 | Vengeance is colder than the mountain.
As a young girl, Atsu witnesses her family being massacred by the Yōtei Six led by Lord Saitō, who leaves her to die. Atsu survives and flees Yōtei, becoming a wandering soldier and mercenary for the next sixteen years before returning home to take her revenge against the Yōtei Six. Atsu targets Lord Saitō's lieutenants first: the Snake, the Oni, the Kitsune, the Spider, and the Dragon. She first kills the Snake, but is mortally wounded in the process.
Atsu miraculously survives and recovers from her wound, with witnesses fearfully dubbing her the "Onryō". Returning to her destroyed family home, Atsu begins her hunt for the remaining Yōtei Six. She learns that Lord Saitō is rebelling against the Shogunate, building an army to claim the entire island of Ezo for himself as the self-appointed "Shogun of the North"; the Matsumae clan, who are loyal to the Shogun, have declared war against him. As she travels around Yōtei, Atsu also proceeds to slay as many of Lord Saitō's men as she can, while also assisting the local populace and training under various weapon masters.
As she progresses, she gains a following, dubbed her "Wolf Pack"; Lord Saitō hears of Atsu's exploits, and puts a bounty on her head in hopes of eliminating her. Atsu finds an opportunity to assassinate Lord Saitō at one of his castles but fails. Discovering Atsu's identity, Lord Saitō challenges her to a duel, believing he can recruit her to. Their duel is interrupted when the Matsumae attack the castle, forcing Lord Saitō to retreat. With Lord Saitō back in hiding, Atsu returns to her original quest of slaying the remaining Yōtei Six. Atsu assists the traveling shamisen performer Oyuki to track the Kitsune, and thwart his wolfsbane poison production operation. However, Atsu deduces that Oyuki is the real Kitsune, and the current one is an impostor; Oyuki admits she used to be the Kitsune that served as Lord Saitō's shinobi, but she was disgusted at his murder of Atsu's family and planned to betray him, but she was instead betrayed and replaced as the Kitsune by her disciple Dojun.
Oyuki teaches Atsu her shinobi techniques and together they kill the Kitsune. Oyuki promises to help Atsu slay the rest of the Yōtei Six as part of her atonement. While pursuing the Oni and his raider army, Atsu discovers her younger brother Jubei also narrowly survived the Yōtei Six's attack: rescued by the Matsumae clan, rising in rank to become a samurai officer. He and Atsu hatch a plan to sneak into the Oni's castle with him posing as Atsu's prisoner. However, the Oni sees through their plot, and they are forced to flee, and the Oni attacks the Matsumae camp in retaliation.
Using information from a deserter, Atsu and Jubei sneak back into the Oni's castle, lead a prisoner rebellion, and slay the Oni together. With both the Oni and Kitsune dead, Atsu, Jubei, and Oyuki join forces to go after the Dragon and Spider, Lord Saitō's twin sons, though Jubei is reluctant to trust Oyuki due to her past as the Kitsune. They head to the coast, where they are shocked that Lord Saitō had built a fleet in secret and is assaulting the Matsumae heartland. Jubei reveals he has a daughter, Kiku, and saves her from Saitō troops. While Jubei takes Kiku to the safety of Matsumae Castle, Atsu and Oyuki search for the Dragon and Spider. With the Dragon proving too cautious and elusive to catch, Atsu instead captures the Spider to lure the Dragon out.
The Matsumae organize the Spider's public execution in a deliberate move to draw the Dragon out, but the Saitō forces outmaneuver them with a counterattack on their castle. While Jubei and Oyuki leave to defend the castle, Atsu kills the Dragon while the Spider flees. Despite this, Atsu fails to prevent Matsumae Castle from falling, and Jubei and Oyuki end up going missing. Finding Kiku safe, Atsu evacuates her to her family home. She sees Kiku becoming consumed by the desire for revenge, and regrets prioritizing killing the Dragon over helping Jubei and Oyuki defend the castle.
She tracks down the Spider, who reveals Jubei and Oyuki were captured by Lord Saitō, and when she decides to spare his life, he offers to lead her to his father's castle, having been disowned by him as punishment for letting the Dragon die. Atsu manages to rescue Jubei and Oyuki, but finds out Lord Saitō is waiting for her at her family home to take revenge on her for the death of his sons. With Kiku as his hostage, Lord Saitō challenges Atsu to a duel.
Both Atsu and Jubei battle him, and while they are victorious and kill Lord Saitō, Jubei is mortally wounded and dies shortly after. Six months later, Atsu has given up being the Onryō, and has retired to live a life of peace so she and Oyuki can raise Kiku in Jubei's stead.
1:10:32 | Honor died the night my family did. Fire taught me the language of loss.
As a young girl, Atsu witnesses her family being massacred by the Yōtei Six led by Lord Saitō, who leaves her to die. Atsu survives and flees Yōtei, becoming a wandering soldier and mercenary for the next sixteen years before returning home to take her revenge against the Yōtei Six. Atsu targets Lord Saitō's lieutenants first: the Snake, the Oni, the Kitsune, the Spider, and the Dragon. She first kills the Snake, but is mortally wounded in the process.
Atsu miraculously survives and recovers from her wound, with witnesses fearfully dubbing her the "Onryō". Returning to her destroyed family home, Atsu begins her hunt for the remaining Yōtei Six. She learns that Lord Saitō is rebelling against the Shogunate, building an army to claim the entire island of Ezo for himself as the self-appointed "Shogun of the North"; the Matsumae clan, who are loyal to the Shogun, have declared war against him. As she travels around Yōtei, Atsu also proceeds to slay as many of Lord Saitō's men as she can, while also assisting the local populace and training under various weapon masters.
As she progresses, she gains a following, dubbed her "Wolf Pack"; Lord Saitō hears of Atsu's exploits, and puts a bounty on her head in hopes of eliminating her. Atsu finds an opportunity to assassinate Lord Saitō at one of his castles but fails. Discovering Atsu's identity, Lord Saitō challenges her to a duel, believing he can recruit her to. Their duel is interrupted when the Matsumae attack the castle, forcing Lord Saitō to retreat. With Lord Saitō back in hiding, Atsu returns to her original quest of slaying the remaining Yōtei Six. Atsu assists the traveling shamisen performer Oyuki to track the Kitsune, and thwart his wolfsbane poison production operation. However, Atsu deduces that Oyuki is the real Kitsune, and the current one is an impostor; Oyuki admits she used to be the Kitsune that served as Lord Saitō's shinobi, but she was disgusted at his murder of Atsu's family and planned to betray him, but she was instead betrayed and replaced as the Kitsune by her disciple Dojun.
Oyuki teaches Atsu her shinobi techniques and together they kill the Kitsune. Oyuki promises to help Atsu slay the rest of the Yōtei Six as part of her atonement. While pursuing the Oni and his raider army, Atsu discovers her younger brother Jubei also narrowly survived the Yōtei Six's attack: rescued by the Matsumae clan, rising in rank to become a samurai officer. He and Atsu hatch a plan to sneak into the Oni's castle with him posing as Atsu's prisoner. However, the Oni sees through their plot, and they are forced to flee, and the Oni attacks the Matsumae camp in retaliation.
Using information from a deserter, Atsu and Jubei sneak back into the Oni's castle, lead a prisoner rebellion, and slay the Oni together. With both the Oni and Kitsune dead, Atsu, Jubei, and Oyuki join forces to go after the Dragon and Spider, Lord Saitō's twin sons, though Jubei is reluctant to trust Oyuki due to her past as the Kitsune. They head to the coast, where they are shocked that Lord Saitō had built a fleet in secret and is assaulting the Matsumae heartland. Jubei reveals he has a daughter, Kiku, and saves her from Saitō troops. While Jubei takes Kiku to the safety of Matsumae Castle, Atsu and Oyuki search for the Dragon and Spider. With the Dragon proving too cautious and elusive to catch, Atsu instead captures the Spider to lure the Dragon out.
The Matsumae organize the Spider's public execution in a deliberate move to draw the Dragon out, but the Saitō forces outmaneuver them with a counterattack on their castle. While Jubei and Oyuki leave to defend the castle, Atsu kills the Dragon while the Spider flees. Despite this, Atsu fails to prevent Matsumae Castle from falling, and Jubei and Oyuki end up going missing. Finding Kiku safe, Atsu evacuates her to her family home. She sees Kiku becoming consumed by the desire for revenge, and regrets prioritizing killing the Dragon over helping Jubei and Oyuki defend the castle.
She tracks down the Spider, who reveals Jubei and Oyuki were captured by Lord Saitō, and when she decides to spare his life, he offers to lead her to his father's castle, having been disowned by him as punishment for letting the Dragon die. Atsu manages to rescue Jubei and Oyuki, but finds out Lord Saitō is waiting for her at her family home to take revenge on her for the death of his sons. With Kiku as his hostage, Lord Saitō challenges Atsu to a duel.
Both Atsu and Jubei battle him, and while they are victorious and kill Lord Saitō, Jubei is mortally wounded and dies shortly after. Six months later, Atsu has given up being the Onryō, and has retired to live a life of peace so she and Oyuki can raise Kiku in Jubei's stead.
1:34:15 | I was a child once. The war forgot. Ghosts follow me because I made them.
As a young girl, Atsu witnesses her family being massacred by the Yōtei Six led by Lord Saitō, who leaves her to die. Atsu survives and flees Yōtei, becoming a wandering soldier and mercenary for the next sixteen years before returning home to take her revenge against the Yōtei Six. Atsu targets Lord Saitō's lieutenants first: the Snake, the Oni, the Kitsune, the Spider, and the Dragon. She first kills the Snake, but is mortally wounded in the process.
Atsu miraculously survives and recovers from her wound, with witnesses fearfully dubbing her the "Onryō". Returning to her destroyed family home, Atsu begins her hunt for the remaining Yōtei Six. She learns that Lord Saitō is rebelling against the Shogunate, building an army to claim the entire island of Ezo for himself as the self-appointed "Shogun of the North"; the Matsumae clan, who are loyal to the Shogun, have declared war against him. As she travels around Yōtei, Atsu also proceeds to slay as many of Lord Saitō's men as she can, while also assisting the local populace and training under various weapon masters.
As she progresses, she gains a following, dubbed her "Wolf Pack"; Lord Saitō hears of Atsu's exploits, and puts a bounty on her head in hopes of eliminating her. Atsu finds an opportunity to assassinate Lord Saitō at one of his castles but fails. Discovering Atsu's identity, Lord Saitō challenges her to a duel, believing he can recruit her to. Their duel is interrupted when the Matsumae attack the castle, forcing Lord Saitō to retreat. With Lord Saitō back in hiding, Atsu returns to her original quest of slaying the remaining Yōtei Six. Atsu assists the traveling shamisen performer Oyuki to track the Kitsune, and thwart his wolfsbane poison production operation. However, Atsu deduces that Oyuki is the real Kitsune, and the current one is an impostor; Oyuki admits she used to be the Kitsune that served as Lord Saitō's shinobi, but she was disgusted at his murder of Atsu's family and planned to betray him, but she was instead betrayed and replaced as the Kitsune by her disciple Dojun.
Oyuki teaches Atsu her shinobi techniques and together they kill the Kitsune. Oyuki promises to help Atsu slay the rest of the Yōtei Six as part of her atonement. While pursuing the Oni and his raider army, Atsu discovers her younger brother Jubei also narrowly survived the Yōtei Six's attack: rescued by the Matsumae clan, rising in rank to become a samurai officer. He and Atsu hatch a plan to sneak into the Oni's castle with him posing as Atsu's prisoner. However, the Oni sees through their plot, and they are forced to flee, and the Oni attacks the Matsumae camp in retaliation.
Using information from a deserter, Atsu and Jubei sneak back into the Oni's castle, lead a prisoner rebellion, and slay the Oni together. With both the Oni and Kitsune dead, Atsu, Jubei, and Oyuki join forces to go after the Dragon and Spider, Lord Saitō's twin sons, though Jubei is reluctant to trust Oyuki due to her past as the Kitsune. They head to the coast, where they are shocked that Lord Saitō had built a fleet in secret and is assaulting the Matsumae heartland. Jubei reveals he has a daughter, Kiku, and saves her from Saitō troops. While Jubei takes Kiku to the safety of Matsumae Castle, Atsu and Oyuki search for the Dragon and Spider. With the Dragon proving too cautious and elusive to catch, Atsu instead captures the Spider to lure the Dragon out.
The Matsumae organize the Spider's public execution in a deliberate move to draw the Dragon out, but the Saitō forces outmaneuver them with a counterattack on their castle. While Jubei and Oyuki leave to defend the castle, Atsu kills the Dragon while the Spider flees. Despite this, Atsu fails to prevent Matsumae Castle from falling, and Jubei and Oyuki end up going missing. Finding Kiku safe, Atsu evacuates her to her family home. She sees Kiku becoming consumed by the desire for revenge, and regrets prioritizing killing the Dragon over helping Jubei and Oyuki defend the castle.
She tracks down the Spider, who reveals Jubei and Oyuki were captured by Lord Saitō, and when she decides to spare his life, he offers to lead her to his father's castle, having been disowned by him as punishment for letting the Dragon die. Atsu manages to rescue Jubei and Oyuki, but finds out Lord Saitō is waiting for her at her family home to take revenge on her for the death of his sons. With Kiku as his hostage, Lord Saitō challenges Atsu to a duel.
Both Atsu and Jubei battle him, and while they are victorious and kill Lord Saitō, Jubei is mortally wounded and dies shortly after. Six months later, Atsu has given up being the Onryō, and has retired to live a life of peace so she and Oyuki can raise Kiku in Jubei's stead.
Highlights /Death Stranding 2
13:49 | Nobody but me and the horizon.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
07:53 | Don’t fall now, Sam. Just keep walking.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
04:12 | You’d think by now I’d be used to this silence.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
06:12 | Mountains don’t care if you’re tired.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
02:24 | Step by step, strand by strand.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
06:04 | If you could see me now, kid…
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
05:49 | This place eats your mind before your body.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
07:48 | Still talking to you like you’re here. Maybe you are.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
07:15 | I forget what your laugh sounded like.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
10:24 | Guess I’m the last fool who thinks this is worth it.
Eleven months after the chiral network connected the United Cities of America, Sam Porter (Norman Reedus) lives a secluded life in Mexico with Lou. Fragile (Léa Seydoux) arrives at his home and informs him that she has formed a new company, Drawbridge, which has been contracted by the UCA to extend the chiral network to Mexico. Fragile asks Sam to activate the chiral network terminals BRIDGES left behind in Mexico, just like he did in the United States. Sam agrees on the condition that both he and Lou be pardoned by the UCA, and because his route will take him to a lab where Deadman (Guillermo del Toro/Jesse Corti) works.
He leaves while Fragile takes care of Lou. Arriving at the lab, Sam views a recording left behind by Deadman explaining that he had discovered an anomaly in southern Mexico dubbed a "plate gate", which acts as a portal to Australia where other Death Stranding survivors reside. In addition, Deadman found out that for unknown reasons, Lou was assigned a BB ID number that belonged to an already decommissioned BB, meaning that Lou is not actually registered in the UCA's system. Furthermore, Deadman reveals his lifespan is running out, and has decided to travel to his Beach. Sam returns home to discover that it had been assaulted by an unknown armed group.
While Fragile managed to survive, Lou was killed. One month later, Sam continues to grapple with Lou's death when he is invited by Fragile to board her ship, the DHV Magellan, to travel through the plate gate so they can link Australia to the chiral network. On board, he meets Fragile's crew, Tar Man (George Miller/Marty Rhone)[c] and Dollman (Fatih Akin/Jonathan Roumie),[d] Drawbridge's mysterious benefactor, Charlie, and the leader of the Automated Public Assistance Company (APAC), the President (Alastair Duncan). The President explains that by connecting all of Australia to the chiral network, it should activate additional plate gates that will be able to connect all of the world's continents together.
Drawbridge members Rainy (Shioli Kutsuna) and Heartman (Nicolas Winding Refn/Darren Jacobs)[e] join the crew. Sam commences his mission, but is impeded by the apparent return of Higgs (Troy Baker), who commands an army of "ghost mechs" that terrorize the Australian survivors. In addition, Sam is drawn into "tarfall" anomalies where he is forced to fight a spectral soldier named Neil Vana (Luca Marinelli) who apparently has connections to Lou. After his first encounter with Neil, Sam recovers a chrysalis containing a girl Fragile decides to name Tomorrow (Elle Fanning). Sam is able to defeat Neil permanently.
Neil gives him a memory device left behind by Sam's late wife Lucy (Alissa Jung). The data inside explains that Lou is actually Sam's daughter who was thought killed along with Lucy in a voidout. As the daughter of a repatriate, Lou was secretly abducted by BRIDGES and designated BB-00, the very first Bridge Baby. However, for reasons unknown, Lou was put into storage until Sam came across her. Neil was a smuggler who helped smuggle braindead pregnant women from Mexico into the UCA to meet their demand for BBs.
He happened to be a childhood acquaintance of Lucy and attempted to help her and Lou escape from BRIDGES. Meanwhile, Higgs lays siege to the final network hub needed to complete the Australian chiral network. Sam and Drawbridge fight their way through Higgs' mechs and activate the hub, completing the chiral network. The President betrays Drawbridge, revealing that he is in fact an amalgamation of four thousand human souls connected to APAS. He explains that he intends to use the expanded chiral network to forcibly seclude all humans away in their Beaches to completely negate the risk of encountering BTs, thus protecting them from the Death Stranding.
He adds that he brought Higgs back and provided him the ghost mechs to act as a threat that would force Australia to adopt the chiral network for protection. Charlie then reveals himself as Die-Hardman (Tommie Earl Jenkins), and explains he was already aware of the President's plans and secretly reprogrammed Sam's Q-Pid so that The President can be disconnected from APAS and the chiral network, removing his threat to humanity.
3:42:51 | Hope survives in shattered kingdoms
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
1:16:52 | Flames rise when fates collide
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
41:10 | A kingdom trembling under forged power
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
59:17 | Where destiny carves its own path
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
1:50:15 | A world wounded, a hero awakening
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
1:39:05 | Shadows gather as nations ignite
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
4:15:40 | Honor survives even shattered empires
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
1:33:54 | Crystals crack, but freedom rises
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
3:25:17 | A brother’s promise never truly dies
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
2:48:14 | Revenge burns brighter than any flame
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.
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Highlights /The Last of Us Part Two
10:57 | Some days, I don’t remember why I fight. I just know I can’t stop.
Five years after the events of the first game, Joel and Ellie are living in Tommy's settlement in Jackson, Wyoming. During this time, Ellie has made friends with Dina and Jesse, and entered a relationship with Dina after the couple broke up. In the winter, when Joel and Tommy go missing while observing the movement of nearby Infected, Ellie and Dina go to investigate.
Joel and Tommy encounter Abby, and the group escape a large horde. Abby reveals herself as the leader of a small group within the larger Washington Liberation Front and the daughter of one of the Firefly surgeons Joel killed while saving Ellie, and beats Joel to death as Ellie finds him. Though affected by the incident, Ellie swears revenge. In the spring, Tommy, frustrated that Jackson does not have the resources to fight the WLF, pursues them to their base in Seattle on his own.
With authorization from Tommy's wife Maria, Ellie and Dina go after Tommy, who has already killed several WLF members. While avoiding WLF patrols in Seattle, the pair are attacked by a large group of Infected and, upon escaping, Ellie reveals her immunity to Dina, who in turn reveals she is pregnant. The next day, with Dina physically weakened by her pregnancy, Ellie pursues Tommy alone and encounters Jesse, who had followed them to Seattle, but has been wounded, leaving Ellie to continue her journey alone. While seraching for a member of Abby's group named Nora, she encounters the Seraphites, a group of religious fanatics who are battling the WLF over control of Seattle.
Eventually, Ellie tracks down Nora and beats her for information on Abby's location. As Nora succumbs to her injuries, Ellie learns she is a former Firefly, causing her to recall how, two years ago, she investigated the hospital Joel rescued her from and learned he lied about the Fireflies being unable to find a cure. The following day, Ellie heads out to track down Abby while Jesse goes after Tommy, upon learning the WLF potentially found his location. Ellie comes across two more members of Abby's group, Owen and Mel, whom she is forced to kill, only to then discover Mel was pregnant, much to her horror.
After Ellie rendezvouses with Dina, Jesse, and Tommy, the group decide to return to Jackson, but are ambushed by Abby, who kills Jesse and holds Tommy hostage, while explaining her motivation to kill Joel. She then narrates her actions in the past three days, prompting a flashback. Upon learning that Owen had gone missing while investigating Seraphite activity, Abby confronted the WLF leader, Isaac (Jeffrey Wright), for keeping the issue a secret, who revealed some intelligence he had indicating Owen might have joined the Seraphites, and explained his plan to assault the Seraphites' island settlement in order wipe them out completely.
Abby then went searching for Owen and, upon being captured, was rescued by Yara and her brother Lev, both rogue Seraphites. She eventually found Owen who, disillusioned with the pointless war betweeen the WLF and Seraphites, was attempting to sail to Santa Barbara, where the Fireflies were supposedly regrouping. Afterwards, with Yara's arm broken, Abby took her to Owen and Mel for medical attention, and retrieved medical supplies from the WLF hospital alongside Lev, where they encountered Nora, who helped them, and Lev revealed he was on the run from the Seraphites for shaving his head, against the cult's rules.
After Yara's arm was amputated, Lev ran away to see his mother, forcing Abby and Yara to pursue him. Along the way, they encountered Abby's friend Manny, who later was killed by Tommy. The pair eventually found Lev, who was forced to kill his mother when she attacked him, only to be forced to flee when the WLF assault on the Seraphites begun.
Yara sacrificed herself to allow Abby and Lev to escape, killing Isaac in the process. The pair then returned to find Owen and Mel dead, and a map left behind by Ellie leading to her hideout.
49:06 | It’s hard to mourn someone when hate keeps you company.
Five years after the events of the first game, Joel and Ellie are living in Tommy's settlement in Jackson, Wyoming. During this time, Ellie has made friends with Dina and Jesse, and entered a relationship with Dina after the couple broke up. In the winter, when Joel and Tommy go missing while observing the movement of nearby Infected, Ellie and Dina go to investigate.
Joel and Tommy encounter Abby, and the group escape a large horde. Abby reveals herself as the leader of a small group within the larger Washington Liberation Front and the daughter of one of the Firefly surgeons Joel killed while saving Ellie, and beats Joel to death as Ellie finds him. Though affected by the incident, Ellie swears revenge. In the spring, Tommy, frustrated that Jackson does not have the resources to fight the WLF, pursues them to their base in Seattle on his own.
With authorization from Tommy's wife Maria, Ellie and Dina go after Tommy, who has already killed several WLF members. While avoiding WLF patrols in Seattle, the pair are attacked by a large group of Infected and, upon escaping, Ellie reveals her immunity to Dina, who in turn reveals she is pregnant. The next day, with Dina physically weakened by her pregnancy, Ellie pursues Tommy alone and encounters Jesse, who had followed them to Seattle, but has been wounded, leaving Ellie to continue her journey alone. While seraching for a member of Abby's group named Nora, she encounters the Seraphites, a group of religious fanatics who are battling the WLF over control of Seattle.
Eventually, Ellie tracks down Nora and beats her for information on Abby's location. As Nora succumbs to her injuries, Ellie learns she is a former Firefly, causing her to recall how, two years ago, she investigated the hospital Joel rescued her from and learned he lied about the Fireflies being unable to find a cure. The following day, Ellie heads out to track down Abby while Jesse goes after Tommy, upon learning the WLF potentially found his location. Ellie comes across two more members of Abby's group, Owen and Mel, whom she is forced to kill, only to then discover Mel was pregnant, much to her horror.
After Ellie rendezvouses with Dina, Jesse, and Tommy, the group decide to return to Jackson, but are ambushed by Abby, who kills Jesse and holds Tommy hostage, while explaining her motivation to kill Joel. She then narrates her actions in the past three days, prompting a flashback. Upon learning that Owen had gone missing while investigating Seraphite activity, Abby confronted the WLF leader, Isaac (Jeffrey Wright), for keeping the issue a secret, who revealed some intelligence he had indicating Owen might have joined the Seraphites, and explained his plan to assault the Seraphites' island settlement in order wipe them out completely.
Abby then went searching for Owen and, upon being captured, was rescued by Yara and her brother Lev, both rogue Seraphites. She eventually found Owen who, disillusioned with the pointless war betweeen the WLF and Seraphites, was attempting to sail to Santa Barbara, where the Fireflies were supposedly regrouping. Afterwards, with Yara's arm broken, Abby took her to Owen and Mel for medical attention, and retrieved medical supplies from the WLF hospital alongside Lev, where they encountered Nora, who helped them, and Lev revealed he was on the run from the Seraphites for shaving his head, against the cult's rules.
After Yara's arm was amputated, Lev ran away to see his mother, forcing Abby and Yara to pursue him. Along the way, they encountered Abby's friend Manny, who later was killed by Tommy. The pair eventually found Lev, who was forced to kill his mother when she attacked him, only to be forced to flee when the WLF assault on the Seraphites begun.
Yara sacrificed herself to allow Abby and Lev to escape, killing Isaac in the process. The pair then returned to find Owen and Mel dead, and a map left behind by Ellie leading to her hideout.
39:21 | What’s the point of love, if it just gives you more to lose?
Five years after the events of the first game, Joel and Ellie are living in Tommy's settlement in Jackson, Wyoming. During this time, Ellie has made friends with Dina and Jesse, and entered a relationship with Dina after the couple broke up. In the winter, when Joel and Tommy go missing while observing the movement of nearby Infected, Ellie and Dina go to investigate.
Joel and Tommy encounter Abby, and the group escape a large horde. Abby reveals herself as the leader of a small group within the larger Washington Liberation Front and the daughter of one of the Firefly surgeons Joel killed while saving Ellie, and beats Joel to death as Ellie finds him. Though affected by the incident, Ellie swears revenge. In the spring, Tommy, frustrated that Jackson does not have the resources to fight the WLF, pursues them to their base in Seattle on his own.
With authorization from Tommy's wife Maria, Ellie and Dina go after Tommy, who has already killed several WLF members. While avoiding WLF patrols in Seattle, the pair are attacked by a large group of Infected and, upon escaping, Ellie reveals her immunity to Dina, who in turn reveals she is pregnant. The next day, with Dina physically weakened by her pregnancy, Ellie pursues Tommy alone and encounters Jesse, who had followed them to Seattle, but has been wounded, leaving Ellie to continue her journey alone. While seraching for a member of Abby's group named Nora, she encounters the Seraphites, a group of religious fanatics who are battling the WLF over control of Seattle.
Eventually, Ellie tracks down Nora and beats her for information on Abby's location. As Nora succumbs to her injuries, Ellie learns she is a former Firefly, causing her to recall how, two years ago, she investigated the hospital Joel rescued her from and learned he lied about the Fireflies being unable to find a cure. The following day, Ellie heads out to track down Abby while Jesse goes after Tommy, upon learning the WLF potentially found his location. Ellie comes across two more members of Abby's group, Owen and Mel, whom she is forced to kill, only to then discover Mel was pregnant, much to her horror.
After Ellie rendezvouses with Dina, Jesse, and Tommy, the group decide to return to Jackson, but are ambushed by Abby, who kills Jesse and holds Tommy hostage, while explaining her motivation to kill Joel. She then narrates her actions in the past three days, prompting a flashback. Upon learning that Owen had gone missing while investigating Seraphite activity, Abby confronted the WLF leader, Isaac (Jeffrey Wright), for keeping the issue a secret, who revealed some intelligence he had indicating Owen might have joined the Seraphites, and explained his plan to assault the Seraphites' island settlement in order wipe them out completely.
Abby then went searching for Owen and, upon being captured, was rescued by Yara and her brother Lev, both rogue Seraphites. She eventually found Owen who, disillusioned with the pointless war betweeen the WLF and Seraphites, was attempting to sail to Santa Barbara, where the Fireflies were supposedly regrouping. Afterwards, with Yara's arm broken, Abby took her to Owen and Mel for medical attention, and retrieved medical supplies from the WLF hospital alongside Lev, where they encountered Nora, who helped them, and Lev revealed he was on the run from the Seraphites for shaving his head, against the cult's rules.
After Yara's arm was amputated, Lev ran away to see his mother, forcing Abby and Yara to pursue him. Along the way, they encountered Abby's friend Manny, who later was killed by Tommy. The pair eventually found Lev, who was forced to kill his mother when she attacked him, only to be forced to flee when the WLF assault on the Seraphites begun.
Yara sacrificed herself to allow Abby and Lev to escape, killing Isaac in the process. The pair then returned to find Owen and Mel dead, and a map left behind by Ellie leading to her hideout.
8:51 | Sometimes surviving feels like betrayal.
Five years after the events of the first game, Joel and Ellie are living in Tommy's settlement in Jackson, Wyoming. During this time, Ellie has made friends with Dina and Jesse, and entered a relationship with Dina after the couple broke up. In the winter, when Joel and Tommy go missing while observing the movement of nearby Infected, Ellie and Dina go to investigate.
Joel and Tommy encounter Abby, and the group escape a large horde. Abby reveals herself as the leader of a small group within the larger Washington Liberation Front and the daughter of one of the Firefly surgeons Joel killed while saving Ellie, and beats Joel to death as Ellie finds him. Though affected by the incident, Ellie swears revenge. In the spring, Tommy, frustrated that Jackson does not have the resources to fight the WLF, pursues them to their base in Seattle on his own.
With authorization from Tommy's wife Maria, Ellie and Dina go after Tommy, who has already killed several WLF members. While avoiding WLF patrols in Seattle, the pair are attacked by a large group of Infected and, upon escaping, Ellie reveals her immunity to Dina, who in turn reveals she is pregnant. The next day, with Dina physically weakened by her pregnancy, Ellie pursues Tommy alone and encounters Jesse, who had followed them to Seattle, but has been wounded, leaving Ellie to continue her journey alone. While seraching for a member of Abby's group named Nora, she encounters the Seraphites, a group of religious fanatics who are battling the WLF over control of Seattle.
Eventually, Ellie tracks down Nora and beats her for information on Abby's location. As Nora succumbs to her injuries, Ellie learns she is a former Firefly, causing her to recall how, two years ago, she investigated the hospital Joel rescued her from and learned he lied about the Fireflies being unable to find a cure. The following day, Ellie heads out to track down Abby while Jesse goes after Tommy, upon learning the WLF potentially found his location. Ellie comes across two more members of Abby's group, Owen and Mel, whom she is forced to kill, only to then discover Mel was pregnant, much to her horror.
After Ellie rendezvouses with Dina, Jesse, and Tommy, the group decide to return to Jackson, but are ambushed by Abby, who kills Jesse and holds Tommy hostage, while explaining her motivation to kill Joel. She then narrates her actions in the past three days, prompting a flashback. Upon learning that Owen had gone missing while investigating Seraphite activity, Abby confronted the WLF leader, Isaac (Jeffrey Wright), for keeping the issue a secret, who revealed some intelligence he had indicating Owen might have joined the Seraphites, and explained his plan to assault the Seraphites' island settlement in order wipe them out completely.
Abby then went searching for Owen and, upon being captured, was rescued by Yara and her brother Lev, both rogue Seraphites. She eventually found Owen who, disillusioned with the pointless war betweeen the WLF and Seraphites, was attempting to sail to Santa Barbara, where the Fireflies were supposedly regrouping. Afterwards, with Yara's arm broken, Abby took her to Owen and Mel for medical attention, and retrieved medical supplies from the WLF hospital alongside Lev, where they encountered Nora, who helped them, and Lev revealed he was on the run from the Seraphites for shaving his head, against the cult's rules.
After Yara's arm was amputated, Lev ran away to see his mother, forcing Abby and Yara to pursue him. Along the way, they encountered Abby's friend Manny, who later was killed by Tommy. The pair eventually found Lev, who was forced to kill his mother when she attacked him, only to be forced to flee when the WLF assault on the Seraphites begun.
Yara sacrificed herself to allow Abby and Lev to escape, killing Isaac in the process. The pair then returned to find Owen and Mel dead, and a map left behind by Ellie leading to her hideout.
15:42 | The apocalypse didn’t kill us. We did.
Five years after the events of the first game, Joel and Ellie are living in Tommy's settlement in Jackson, Wyoming. During this time, Ellie has made friends with Dina and Jesse, and entered a relationship with Dina after the couple broke up. In the winter, when Joel and Tommy go missing while observing the movement of nearby Infected, Ellie and Dina go to investigate.
Joel and Tommy encounter Abby, and the group escape a large horde. Abby reveals herself as the leader of a small group within the larger Washington Liberation Front and the daughter of one of the Firefly surgeons Joel killed while saving Ellie, and beats Joel to death as Ellie finds him. Though affected by the incident, Ellie swears revenge. In the spring, Tommy, frustrated that Jackson does not have the resources to fight the WLF, pursues them to their base in Seattle on his own.
With authorization from Tommy's wife Maria, Ellie and Dina go after Tommy, who has already killed several WLF members. While avoiding WLF patrols in Seattle, the pair are attacked by a large group of Infected and, upon escaping, Ellie reveals her immunity to Dina, who in turn reveals she is pregnant. The next day, with Dina physically weakened by her pregnancy, Ellie pursues Tommy alone and encounters Jesse, who had followed them to Seattle, but has been wounded, leaving Ellie to continue her journey alone. While seraching for a member of Abby's group named Nora, she encounters the Seraphites, a group of religious fanatics who are battling the WLF over control of Seattle.
Eventually, Ellie tracks down Nora and beats her for information on Abby's location. As Nora succumbs to her injuries, Ellie learns she is a former Firefly, causing her to recall how, two years ago, she investigated the hospital Joel rescued her from and learned he lied about the Fireflies being unable to find a cure. The following day, Ellie heads out to track down Abby while Jesse goes after Tommy, upon learning the WLF potentially found his location. Ellie comes across two more members of Abby's group, Owen and Mel, whom she is forced to kill, only to then discover Mel was pregnant, much to her horror.
After Ellie rendezvouses with Dina, Jesse, and Tommy, the group decide to return to Jackson, but are ambushed by Abby, who kills Jesse and holds Tommy hostage, while explaining her motivation to kill Joel. She then narrates her actions in the past three days, prompting a flashback. Upon learning that Owen had gone missing while investigating Seraphite activity, Abby confronted the WLF leader, Isaac (Jeffrey Wright), for keeping the issue a secret, who revealed some intelligence he had indicating Owen might have joined the Seraphites, and explained his plan to assault the Seraphites' island settlement in order wipe them out completely.
Abby then went searching for Owen and, upon being captured, was rescued by Yara and her brother Lev, both rogue Seraphites. She eventually found Owen who, disillusioned with the pointless war betweeen the WLF and Seraphites, was attempting to sail to Santa Barbara, where the Fireflies were supposedly regrouping. Afterwards, with Yara's arm broken, Abby took her to Owen and Mel for medical attention, and retrieved medical supplies from the WLF hospital alongside Lev, where they encountered Nora, who helped them, and Lev revealed he was on the run from the Seraphites for shaving his head, against the cult's rules.
After Yara's arm was amputated, Lev ran away to see his mother, forcing Abby and Yara to pursue him. Along the way, they encountered Abby's friend Manny, who later was killed by Tommy. The pair eventually found Lev, who was forced to kill his mother when she attacked him, only to be forced to flee when the WLF assault on the Seraphites begun.
Yara sacrificed herself to allow Abby and Lev to escape, killing Isaac in the process. The pair then returned to find Owen and Mel dead, and a map left behind by Ellie leading to her hideout.
28:21 | Loyalty is dangerous. It's how good people become bad ones.
Five years after the events of the first game, Joel and Ellie are living in Tommy's settlement in Jackson, Wyoming. During this time, Ellie has made friends with Dina and Jesse, and entered a relationship with Dina after the couple broke up. In the winter, when Joel and Tommy go missing while observing the movement of nearby Infected, Ellie and Dina go to investigate.
Joel and Tommy encounter Abby, and the group escape a large horde. Abby reveals herself as the leader of a small group within the larger Washington Liberation Front and the daughter of one of the Firefly surgeons Joel killed while saving Ellie, and beats Joel to death as Ellie finds him. Though affected by the incident, Ellie swears revenge. In the spring, Tommy, frustrated that Jackson does not have the resources to fight the WLF, pursues them to their base in Seattle on his own.
With authorization from Tommy's wife Maria, Ellie and Dina go after Tommy, who has already killed several WLF members. While avoiding WLF patrols in Seattle, the pair are attacked by a large group of Infected and, upon escaping, Ellie reveals her immunity to Dina, who in turn reveals she is pregnant. The next day, with Dina physically weakened by her pregnancy, Ellie pursues Tommy alone and encounters Jesse, who had followed them to Seattle, but has been wounded, leaving Ellie to continue her journey alone. While seraching for a member of Abby's group named Nora, she encounters the Seraphites, a group of religious fanatics who are battling the WLF over control of Seattle.
Eventually, Ellie tracks down Nora and beats her for information on Abby's location. As Nora succumbs to her injuries, Ellie learns she is a former Firefly, causing her to recall how, two years ago, she investigated the hospital Joel rescued her from and learned he lied about the Fireflies being unable to find a cure. The following day, Ellie heads out to track down Abby while Jesse goes after Tommy, upon learning the WLF potentially found his location. Ellie comes across two more members of Abby's group, Owen and Mel, whom she is forced to kill, only to then discover Mel was pregnant, much to her horror.
After Ellie rendezvouses with Dina, Jesse, and Tommy, the group decide to return to Jackson, but are ambushed by Abby, who kills Jesse and holds Tommy hostage, while explaining her motivation to kill Joel. She then narrates her actions in the past three days, prompting a flashback. Upon learning that Owen had gone missing while investigating Seraphite activity, Abby confronted the WLF leader, Isaac (Jeffrey Wright), for keeping the issue a secret, who revealed some intelligence he had indicating Owen might have joined the Seraphites, and explained his plan to assault the Seraphites' island settlement in order wipe them out completely.
Abby then went searching for Owen and, upon being captured, was rescued by Yara and her brother Lev, both rogue Seraphites. She eventually found Owen who, disillusioned with the pointless war betweeen the WLF and Seraphites, was attempting to sail to Santa Barbara, where the Fireflies were supposedly regrouping. Afterwards, with Yara's arm broken, Abby took her to Owen and Mel for medical attention, and retrieved medical supplies from the WLF hospital alongside Lev, where they encountered Nora, who helped them, and Lev revealed he was on the run from the Seraphites for shaving his head, against the cult's rules.
After Yara's arm was amputated, Lev ran away to see his mother, forcing Abby and Yara to pursue him. Along the way, they encountered Abby's friend Manny, who later was killed by Tommy. The pair eventually found Lev, who was forced to kill his mother when she attacked him, only to be forced to flee when the WLF assault on the Seraphites begun.
Yara sacrificed herself to allow Abby and Lev to escape, killing Isaac in the process. The pair then returned to find Owen and Mel dead, and a map left behind by Ellie leading to her hideout.
18:41 | I didn’t lose myself. I gave myself away—piece by piece.
Five years after the events of the first game, Joel and Ellie are living in Tommy's settlement in Jackson, Wyoming. During this time, Ellie has made friends with Dina and Jesse, and entered a relationship with Dina after the couple broke up. In the winter, when Joel and Tommy go missing while observing the movement of nearby Infected, Ellie and Dina go to investigate.
Joel and Tommy encounter Abby, and the group escape a large horde. Abby reveals herself as the leader of a small group within the larger Washington Liberation Front and the daughter of one of the Firefly surgeons Joel killed while saving Ellie, and beats Joel to death as Ellie finds him. Though affected by the incident, Ellie swears revenge. In the spring, Tommy, frustrated that Jackson does not have the resources to fight the WLF, pursues them to their base in Seattle on his own.
With authorization from Tommy's wife Maria, Ellie and Dina go after Tommy, who has already killed several WLF members. While avoiding WLF patrols in Seattle, the pair are attacked by a large group of Infected and, upon escaping, Ellie reveals her immunity to Dina, who in turn reveals she is pregnant. The next day, with Dina physically weakened by her pregnancy, Ellie pursues Tommy alone and encounters Jesse, who had followed them to Seattle, but has been wounded, leaving Ellie to continue her journey alone. While seraching for a member of Abby's group named Nora, she encounters the Seraphites, a group of religious fanatics who are battling the WLF over control of Seattle.
Eventually, Ellie tracks down Nora and beats her for information on Abby's location. As Nora succumbs to her injuries, Ellie learns she is a former Firefly, causing her to recall how, two years ago, she investigated the hospital Joel rescued her from and learned he lied about the Fireflies being unable to find a cure. The following day, Ellie heads out to track down Abby while Jesse goes after Tommy, upon learning the WLF potentially found his location. Ellie comes across two more members of Abby's group, Owen and Mel, whom she is forced to kill, only to then discover Mel was pregnant, much to her horror.
After Ellie rendezvouses with Dina, Jesse, and Tommy, the group decide to return to Jackson, but are ambushed by Abby, who kills Jesse and holds Tommy hostage, while explaining her motivation to kill Joel. She then narrates her actions in the past three days, prompting a flashback. Upon learning that Owen had gone missing while investigating Seraphite activity, Abby confronted the WLF leader, Isaac (Jeffrey Wright), for keeping the issue a secret, who revealed some intelligence he had indicating Owen might have joined the Seraphites, and explained his plan to assault the Seraphites' island settlement in order wipe them out completely.
Abby then went searching for Owen and, upon being captured, was rescued by Yara and her brother Lev, both rogue Seraphites. She eventually found Owen who, disillusioned with the pointless war betweeen the WLF and Seraphites, was attempting to sail to Santa Barbara, where the Fireflies were supposedly regrouping. Afterwards, with Yara's arm broken, Abby took her to Owen and Mel for medical attention, and retrieved medical supplies from the WLF hospital alongside Lev, where they encountered Nora, who helped them, and Lev revealed he was on the run from the Seraphites for shaving his head, against the cult's rules.
After Yara's arm was amputated, Lev ran away to see his mother, forcing Abby and Yara to pursue him. Along the way, they encountered Abby's friend Manny, who later was killed by Tommy. The pair eventually found Lev, who was forced to kill his mother when she attacked him, only to be forced to flee when the WLF assault on the Seraphites begun.
Yara sacrificed herself to allow Abby and Lev to escape, killing Isaac in the process. The pair then returned to find Owen and Mel dead, and a map left behind by Ellie leading to her hideout.
31:34 | Some roads don’t take you home. They just take you further from yourself.
Five years after the events of the first game, Joel and Ellie are living in Tommy's settlement in Jackson, Wyoming. During this time, Ellie has made friends with Dina and Jesse, and entered a relationship with Dina after the couple broke up. In the winter, when Joel and Tommy go missing while observing the movement of nearby Infected, Ellie and Dina go to investigate.
Joel and Tommy encounter Abby, and the group escape a large horde. Abby reveals herself as the leader of a small group within the larger Washington Liberation Front and the daughter of one of the Firefly surgeons Joel killed while saving Ellie, and beats Joel to death as Ellie finds him. Though affected by the incident, Ellie swears revenge. In the spring, Tommy, frustrated that Jackson does not have the resources to fight the WLF, pursues them to their base in Seattle on his own.
With authorization from Tommy's wife Maria, Ellie and Dina go after Tommy, who has already killed several WLF members. While avoiding WLF patrols in Seattle, the pair are attacked by a large group of Infected and, upon escaping, Ellie reveals her immunity to Dina, who in turn reveals she is pregnant. The next day, with Dina physically weakened by her pregnancy, Ellie pursues Tommy alone and encounters Jesse, who had followed them to Seattle, but has been wounded, leaving Ellie to continue her journey alone. While seraching for a member of Abby's group named Nora, she encounters the Seraphites, a group of religious fanatics who are battling the WLF over control of Seattle.
Eventually, Ellie tracks down Nora and beats her for information on Abby's location. As Nora succumbs to her injuries, Ellie learns she is a former Firefly, causing her to recall how, two years ago, she investigated the hospital Joel rescued her from and learned he lied about the Fireflies being unable to find a cure. The following day, Ellie heads out to track down Abby while Jesse goes after Tommy, upon learning the WLF potentially found his location. Ellie comes across two more members of Abby's group, Owen and Mel, whom she is forced to kill, only to then discover Mel was pregnant, much to her horror.
After Ellie rendezvouses with Dina, Jesse, and Tommy, the group decide to return to Jackson, but are ambushed by Abby, who kills Jesse and holds Tommy hostage, while explaining her motivation to kill Joel. She then narrates her actions in the past three days, prompting a flashback. Upon learning that Owen had gone missing while investigating Seraphite activity, Abby confronted the WLF leader, Isaac (Jeffrey Wright), for keeping the issue a secret, who revealed some intelligence he had indicating Owen might have joined the Seraphites, and explained his plan to assault the Seraphites' island settlement in order wipe them out completely.
Abby then went searching for Owen and, upon being captured, was rescued by Yara and her brother Lev, both rogue Seraphites. She eventually found Owen who, disillusioned with the pointless war betweeen the WLF and Seraphites, was attempting to sail to Santa Barbara, where the Fireflies were supposedly regrouping. Afterwards, with Yara's arm broken, Abby took her to Owen and Mel for medical attention, and retrieved medical supplies from the WLF hospital alongside Lev, where they encountered Nora, who helped them, and Lev revealed he was on the run from the Seraphites for shaving his head, against the cult's rules.
After Yara's arm was amputated, Lev ran away to see his mother, forcing Abby and Yara to pursue him. Along the way, they encountered Abby's friend Manny, who later was killed by Tommy. The pair eventually found Lev, who was forced to kill his mother when she attacked him, only to be forced to flee when the WLF assault on the Seraphites begun.
Yara sacrificed herself to allow Abby and Lev to escape, killing Isaac in the process. The pair then returned to find Owen and Mel dead, and a map left behind by Ellie leading to her hideout.
33:25 | I hated her. I became her. Now I don't know who I am.
Five years after the events of the first game, Joel and Ellie are living in Tommy's settlement in Jackson, Wyoming. During this time, Ellie has made friends with Dina and Jesse, and entered a relationship with Dina after the couple broke up. In the winter, when Joel and Tommy go missing while observing the movement of nearby Infected, Ellie and Dina go to investigate.
Joel and Tommy encounter Abby, and the group escape a large horde. Abby reveals herself as the leader of a small group within the larger Washington Liberation Front and the daughter of one of the Firefly surgeons Joel killed while saving Ellie, and beats Joel to death as Ellie finds him. Though affected by the incident, Ellie swears revenge. In the spring, Tommy, frustrated that Jackson does not have the resources to fight the WLF, pursues them to their base in Seattle on his own.
With authorization from Tommy's wife Maria, Ellie and Dina go after Tommy, who has already killed several WLF members. While avoiding WLF patrols in Seattle, the pair are attacked by a large group of Infected and, upon escaping, Ellie reveals her immunity to Dina, who in turn reveals she is pregnant. The next day, with Dina physically weakened by her pregnancy, Ellie pursues Tommy alone and encounters Jesse, who had followed them to Seattle, but has been wounded, leaving Ellie to continue her journey alone. While seraching for a member of Abby's group named Nora, she encounters the Seraphites, a group of religious fanatics who are battling the WLF over control of Seattle.
Eventually, Ellie tracks down Nora and beats her for information on Abby's location. As Nora succumbs to her injuries, Ellie learns she is a former Firefly, causing her to recall how, two years ago, she investigated the hospital Joel rescued her from and learned he lied about the Fireflies being unable to find a cure. The following day, Ellie heads out to track down Abby while Jesse goes after Tommy, upon learning the WLF potentially found his location. Ellie comes across two more members of Abby's group, Owen and Mel, whom she is forced to kill, only to then discover Mel was pregnant, much to her horror.
After Ellie rendezvouses with Dina, Jesse, and Tommy, the group decide to return to Jackson, but are ambushed by Abby, who kills Jesse and holds Tommy hostage, while explaining her motivation to kill Joel. She then narrates her actions in the past three days, prompting a flashback. Upon learning that Owen had gone missing while investigating Seraphite activity, Abby confronted the WLF leader, Isaac (Jeffrey Wright), for keeping the issue a secret, who revealed some intelligence he had indicating Owen might have joined the Seraphites, and explained his plan to assault the Seraphites' island settlement in order wipe them out completely.
Abby then went searching for Owen and, upon being captured, was rescued by Yara and her brother Lev, both rogue Seraphites. She eventually found Owen who, disillusioned with the pointless war betweeen the WLF and Seraphites, was attempting to sail to Santa Barbara, where the Fireflies were supposedly regrouping. Afterwards, with Yara's arm broken, Abby took her to Owen and Mel for medical attention, and retrieved medical supplies from the WLF hospital alongside Lev, where they encountered Nora, who helped them, and Lev revealed he was on the run from the Seraphites for shaving his head, against the cult's rules.
After Yara's arm was amputated, Lev ran away to see his mother, forcing Abby and Yara to pursue him. Along the way, they encountered Abby's friend Manny, who later was killed by Tommy. The pair eventually found Lev, who was forced to kill his mother when she attacked him, only to be forced to flee when the WLF assault on the Seraphites begun.
Yara sacrificed herself to allow Abby and Lev to escape, killing Isaac in the process. The pair then returned to find Owen and Mel dead, and a map left behind by Ellie leading to her hideout.
29:47 | They say wounds heal. They never said what they leave behind.
Five years after the events of the first game, Joel and Ellie are living in Tommy's settlement in Jackson, Wyoming. During this time, Ellie has made friends with Dina and Jesse, and entered a relationship with Dina after the couple broke up. In the winter, when Joel and Tommy go missing while observing the movement of nearby Infected, Ellie and Dina go to investigate.
Joel and Tommy encounter Abby, and the group escape a large horde. Abby reveals herself as the leader of a small group within the larger Washington Liberation Front and the daughter of one of the Firefly surgeons Joel killed while saving Ellie, and beats Joel to death as Ellie finds him. Though affected by the incident, Ellie swears revenge. In the spring, Tommy, frustrated that Jackson does not have the resources to fight the WLF, pursues them to their base in Seattle on his own.
With authorization from Tommy's wife Maria, Ellie and Dina go after Tommy, who has already killed several WLF members. While avoiding WLF patrols in Seattle, the pair are attacked by a large group of Infected and, upon escaping, Ellie reveals her immunity to Dina, who in turn reveals she is pregnant. The next day, with Dina physically weakened by her pregnancy, Ellie pursues Tommy alone and encounters Jesse, who had followed them to Seattle, but has been wounded, leaving Ellie to continue her journey alone. While seraching for a member of Abby's group named Nora, she encounters the Seraphites, a group of religious fanatics who are battling the WLF over control of Seattle.
Eventually, Ellie tracks down Nora and beats her for information on Abby's location. As Nora succumbs to her injuries, Ellie learns she is a former Firefly, causing her to recall how, two years ago, she investigated the hospital Joel rescued her from and learned he lied about the Fireflies being unable to find a cure. The following day, Ellie heads out to track down Abby while Jesse goes after Tommy, upon learning the WLF potentially found his location. Ellie comes across two more members of Abby's group, Owen and Mel, whom she is forced to kill, only to then discover Mel was pregnant, much to her horror.
After Ellie rendezvouses with Dina, Jesse, and Tommy, the group decide to return to Jackson, but are ambushed by Abby, who kills Jesse and holds Tommy hostage, while explaining her motivation to kill Joel. She then narrates her actions in the past three days, prompting a flashback. Upon learning that Owen had gone missing while investigating Seraphite activity, Abby confronted the WLF leader, Isaac (Jeffrey Wright), for keeping the issue a secret, who revealed some intelligence he had indicating Owen might have joined the Seraphites, and explained his plan to assault the Seraphites' island settlement in order wipe them out completely.
Abby then went searching for Owen and, upon being captured, was rescued by Yara and her brother Lev, both rogue Seraphites. She eventually found Owen who, disillusioned with the pointless war betweeen the WLF and Seraphites, was attempting to sail to Santa Barbara, where the Fireflies were supposedly regrouping. Afterwards, with Yara's arm broken, Abby took her to Owen and Mel for medical attention, and retrieved medical supplies from the WLF hospital alongside Lev, where they encountered Nora, who helped them, and Lev revealed he was on the run from the Seraphites for shaving his head, against the cult's rules.
After Yara's arm was amputated, Lev ran away to see his mother, forcing Abby and Yara to pursue him. Along the way, they encountered Abby's friend Manny, who later was killed by Tommy. The pair eventually found Lev, who was forced to kill his mother when she attacked him, only to be forced to flee when the WLF assault on the Seraphites begun.
Yara sacrificed herself to allow Abby and Lev to escape, killing Isaac in the process. The pair then returned to find Owen and Mel dead, and a map left behind by Ellie leading to her hideout.
Vault
7:27 | Choose your fighter, seal your fate
Mortal Kombat Mobile was a tie-in mobile game for Mortal Kombat X. It was released on April 7, 2015 on iOS devices and later released for Android devices on May 5, 2015. The name was changed to Mortal Kombat on February 27, 2019. The game grants the player the ability to assemble a team of fighters in 3v3 Combat mode and upgrade their team by gaining experience, teaching them new special attacks, and improving their capabilities with artifacts.
The game incorporates the roster of the console version along with exclusive characters that are playable only in the mobile version. X-Rays and Fatalities have also made a return to the game but with a twist. Fatalities done in the game must be accompanied by an interactable prompt to perform them. A new standalone featured introduced in the mobile game is the option to set one of your characters as your champion. Doing this will allow other players to call your champion into battle to aid them.
To level up your character, you must participate in the offline Battle Mode of the game and defeat bosses. You can also progress your character by taking part in Faction Wars, the equivalent of online mode. There are 4 different tiers of characters: bronze, silver, gold and diamond, with different variations for each character to collect. You can buy souls and koins with each being given out during gameplay through the towers or daily bonus missions. To obtain gold or diamond characters, you must either get them through a random pull from soul based packs, complete challenges or by buying them directly in the store.
A third new currency called Blood Rubies, introduced with the anniversary update is exclusive to Faction Wars and is used to purchase characters/equipment from the Faction Wars Store. This currency is earned by completing specific battle rating milestones in a season and based on the player's leaderboard ranking at the end of the season.
9:57 | Ride the desert wind toward wonder
Alto's Odyssey keeps the same basic gameplay of the original, being a side-scrolling endless runner based around snowboarding (now sandboarding). The player can jump by tapping the screen and do tricks by holding down on it. By doing tricks the player can increase their score which gets added to a online leaderboard at the end of their run. The sequel is set in a desert which features three "biomes" that each focus on different mechanics.
One of the areas is the dunes, which features rolling hills and rocks for the player to avoid. Another is the canyons that highlights the new wall riding mechanic, allowing the player to climb up the side of canyon walls by holding down on the screen. The final biome is the temples, which has vines which the player can ride on and waterfalls that can speed up the character. Later in the game it is possible to unlock a compass which allows the player to travel between biomes for a fixed cost in coins.
The game adds new features, such as wall-riding, water mechanics, tornadoes, falling platforms, a new power up, and balloon bouncing; and mechanics returning from the first installment such as a day-night cycle, weather, and the wingsuit. Like its predecessor, in addition to its original game mode, it also has a Zen mode, in which the player is invulnerable and can get up after hitting obstacles. The game also retains the challenge system of the first game, where completing challenges allows the player to level up and unlock new characters. In Odyssey's "Workshop", the player can spend coins they collected in order to upgrade power-ups or unlock new abilities and features.
1:08:26 | Sand, silence, and the self revealed
Journey is an indie adventure game developed by Thatgamecompany and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It was released on the PlayStation Network in March 2012 and ported to PlayStation 4 in July 2015. It was later released on Windows in June 2019 and iOS in August 2019 by Annapurna Interactive.
In Journey, the player controls a robed figure in a vast desert, traveling towards a mountain in the distance. Other players on the same journey can be discovered, and two players can meet and assist each other, but they cannot communicate via speech or text and cannot see each other's names until after the game's credits. The only form of communication between the two is a musical chime, which transforms dull pieces of cloth found throughout the levels into vibrant red, affecting the game world and allowing the player to progress through the levels.
The developers sought to evoke in the player a sense of smallness and wonder and to forge an emotional connection between them and the anonymous players they meet along the way. The music, composed by Austin Wintory, dynamically responds to the player's actions, building a single theme to represent the game's emotional arc throughout the story. Journey has received critical acclaim, with praise for the visual and auditory art as well as the sense of companionship created by playing with a stranger.
Critics have called it a moving and emotional experience, and have since listed it as one of the greatest video games of all time. Journey won several "game of the year" awards and received several other awards and nominations, including a Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media nomination for the 2013 Grammy Awards. A retail "Collector's Edition", including Journey, Thatgamecompany's two previous titles, and additional media, was released in August 2012.
32:32 | Walk onward into the waiting light
Journey is an indie adventure game developed by Thatgamecompany and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. It was released on the PlayStation Network in March 2012 and ported to PlayStation 4 in July 2015. It was later released on Windows in June 2019 and iOS in August 2019 by Annapurna Interactive.
In Journey, the player controls a robed figure in a vast desert, traveling towards a mountain in the distance. Other players on the same journey can be discovered, and two players can meet and assist each other, but they cannot communicate via speech or text and cannot see each other's names until after the game's credits. The only form of communication between the two is a musical chime, which transforms dull pieces of cloth found throughout the levels into vibrant red, affecting the game world and allowing the player to progress through the levels.
The developers sought to evoke in the player a sense of smallness and wonder and to forge an emotional connection between them and the anonymous players they meet along the way. The music, composed by Austin Wintory, dynamically responds to the player's actions, building a single theme to represent the game's emotional arc throughout the story. Journey has received critical acclaim, with praise for the visual and auditory art as well as the sense of companionship created by playing with a stranger.
Critics have called it a moving and emotional experience, and have since listed it as one of the greatest video games of all time. Journey won several "game of the year" awards and received several other awards and nominations, including a Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media nomination for the 2013 Grammy Awards. A retail "Collector's Edition", including Journey, Thatgamecompany's two previous titles, and additional media, was released in August 2012.
0:26 | Eat my goal!
1:03:04 | Every time it does, I wake up here and we go through this all over again.
Players control Cole Mason, an amnesiac surgeon trapped in a time loop. As Mason comes to in a research lab, he is required to operate on a patient who has a monstrous parasite growing in her. At various points in the story, which is presented via full motion video, players must choose between two options. Some choices reset the time loop with Mason's death.
Others reveal information about what is going on or advance the plot down different paths. Cinematic sequences are skipped over if players have seen them before. There are multiple endings. It includes a "streamer mode", which allows people watching a livestream to influence outcomes.
48:21 | Find the poison. Find the proof. Find the killer.
An eccentric FMV murder mystery with a twist: someone has poisoned Uncle Marcus. Uncover the truth in the yearly family quiz and try to save him before it is too late.
57:47 | You grip your sword tighter, heart pounding in the gloom.
Deathtrap Dungeon is a fantasy adventure taking place in a hazardous labyrinth in the city of Fang. The player takes the role of an adventurer who decides to enter Baron Sukumvit's "Trial of Champions" and brave "Deathtrap Dungeon". Competing against five other adventurers, the player must defeat monsters, navigate the maze of dungeons and collect certain gems, which are the key to escaping and winning the Trial.
41:39 | A foul stench rises from the black waters as something moves below.
Deathtrap Dungeon is a fantasy adventure taking place in a hazardous labyrinth in the city of Fang. The player takes the role of an adventurer who decides to enter Baron Sukumvit's "Trial of Champions" and brave "Deathtrap Dungeon". Competing against five other adventurers, the player must defeat monsters, navigate the maze of dungeons and collect certain gems, which are the key to escaping and winning the Trial.
1:19:23 | I listen to liars every day. You’re not a good one.
Having treated the victims of a chemical attack in the totalitarian state of Kindar, Dr Amy Tenant is a leader in the advancement of Nanocell Technology. Now, in London, news breaks of a blood-vomiting civilian whose identity is far from coincidental. Reunited with an old friend, Amy is trapped in an impenetrable HQ of laboratories—a womb of scientific advancement with a perilous secret.
The Complex is written by Lynn Renee Maxcy, part of the Emmy award-winning writing team from The Handmaid’s Tale. The interactive movie stars Michelle Mylett (Letterkenny, Bad Blood), Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones, The Witch) and Al Weaver (Grantchester). Featuring guest acting performance by Twitch streamer and former Xbox UK presenter, Leah Viathan. The Complex is a 2020 interactive science fiction full-motion video game.
In this choose-your-own-adventure style video game the player portrays Dr. Amy Tennant, trapped in a bunker after a bio-weapon attack on London in a race against time to escape alive. Engadget said in their review "Fundamentally, it's a mostly entertaining way to spend $13, and an evening, but I doubt that you'll feel too compelled to find all nine endings unless you're a real obsessive." Screen Rant said "Overall, The Complex is another FMV game that does not live up to the potential this genre of interactive movie/gaming hybrid could potentially offer."
Archive /Patches
0:31 | We built the future in code and circuits. It responded with silence.
Created for the final Jan van Eyck Akademie Open Days exhibition, Emulation Edition consisted of 12 multiplayer gaming levels, stripped of all realism and reduced down to their core constituent parts, and represented the culmination of all the game design I had worked on during my second year. My end of year show was supported by Apple Benelux and Bungie.
This was one of the projects which contributed to my winning of the 1998 Jan van Eyck Purchases and Collections award, and my work being acquired by the institution for their permanent collection.
0:15 | The AIs don’t sleep. They dream in logic loops and broken protocols.
Created for the final Jan van Eyck Akademie Open Days exhibition, Emulation Edition consisted of 12 multiplayer gaming levels, stripped of all realism and reduced down to their core constituent parts, and represented the culmination of all the game design I had worked on during my second year. My end of year show was supported by Apple Benelux and Bungie.
This was one of the projects which contributed to my winning of the 1998 Jan van Eyck Purchases and Collections award, and my work being acquired by the institution for their permanent collection.
4:50 | You’re not here to survive. You’re here to witness the unraveling.
As I deepened my experimentation with disassembling game engines and reassembling them with new and different experiences, I made several versions of Quake, notably taking the idea of applying classic game mechanics to more immersive gaming engines, and simplifying how the user played the game by taking them away from the sense of reality the original game offered.
By the late nineties, games were becoming increasingly realistic, powered by better, faster 3D engines, becoming more complex in terms of narrative, and were moving away from simpler platformers, often to the detriment of actual gameplay. I publicly presented some thoughts on this idea in the form of a talk entitled ‘From Kindergarten to Total Carnage’ at the ISEA98 conference in Liverpool, and at the Stichting de Geuzen in Amsterdam.
I also shared a more comprehensive overview of the current state of game development from a design and user experience perspective for Eye Magazine entitled ‘Live. Die. Eat. Cheat.’ in the Winter 1998 issue (also included in the same issue was my review of Quakeadelica, a London-based multiplayer Quake tournament). With a nod to how I’d eventually start thinking about product development, the notion was ‘how might we apply the gameplay and user experience from a simpler gaming era to modern games in a way which allows users to focus on the challenges, instead of the immersion?’
Quake Radius displayed a fixed, flat base of color around the user, out around them for a specified radius of space during the game. So as you moved through the environment, you could only experience it in terms of the pure, flattened gameplay in your immediate vicinity.
3:35 | The stars were never empty. We just weren’t ready for what filled them.
My first year at The Jan van Eyck had been defined by experiments resulting in CD-ROM production, but during the summer of 1997 I spent 3 months in Phoenix, Arizona where I discovered Bungie’s Forge (map editor) and Anvil (physics editor) engines, which powered their Marathon gaming platform. These tools allowed users to create their own customized environments, sprites, and game design experiments.
They also unlocked the ability for me to take everything I’d been doing with CD-ROM design, and apply it to the mechanics of multi-user interaction in a live environment. My love of Bungie’s products returned much, much later in a different form.
I created a large number of multi-user network gaming environments, including several sprite-based typographic executions. These were all eventually gathered together as a series of custom designed and packaged CD-ROMs.
0:15 | Reality fractures when you stare at it through too much data.
My first year at The Jan van Eyck had been defined by experiments resulting in CD-ROM production, but during the summer of 1997 I spent 3 months in Phoenix, Arizona where I discovered Bungie’s Forge (map editor) and Anvil (physics editor) engines, which powered their Marathon gaming platform. These tools allowed users to create their own customized environments, sprites, and game design experiments.
They also unlocked the ability for me to take everything I’d been doing with CD-ROM design, and apply it to the mechanics of multi-user interaction in a live environment. My love of Bungie’s products returned much, much later in a different form.
I created a large number of multi-user network gaming environments, including several sprite-based typographic executions. These were all eventually gathered together as a series of custom designed and packaged CD-ROMs.
3:42:51 | Hope survives in shattered kingdoms
In his teenage years, Clive serves as Joshua's bodyguard, being a Bearer and blessed with some power from the fire Eikon Phoenix. The brothers live with their parents Duke Elwin and Duchess Anabella, with Jill as their ward. The brothers accompany Elwin to a ceremony to awaken Joshua's powers when they are ambushed by Sanbreque soldiers. Elwin's death triggers Joshua's destructive awakening as the Phoenix, and an Eikon named Ifrit emerges moments later and kills the Phoenix, with Clive swearing revenge. Anabella, who despises Clive's lack of blessing, betrays Rosaria to preserve her bloodline and has Clive enslaved to Sanbreque's army.
Thirteen years later, Clive is sent behind enemy lines during a fight between the Dhalmekian Republic and the Iron Kingdom to assassinate the latter's Dominant, revealed to be an enslaved Jill. Upon recognizing her, Clive deserts to free Jill, and the two are rescued by Cid, who agrees to help Clive search for Ifrit's Dominant. Tracking word of an unknown Dominant, they fight Benedikta, from whom Clive takes the power of her Eikon Garuda.
A defeated and disturbed Benedikta is then attacked by bandits and transforms into a raging Garuda, which in turn triggers Clive to transform into Ifrit and kill her. While Clive briefly despairs at the fact that he is Ifrit and the one who killed Joshua, Cid encourages him to keep searching for the truth behind his transformation. After Clive and Jill see the full oppression inflicted on Bearers and their sympathizers in occupied Rosaria, they join Cid in a quest to destroy the nations' Mothercrystals, which are causing the Blight by draining aether from the land.
They infiltrate Sanbreque's capital, but within its Mothercrystal are faced by a being called Ultima, who mortally wounds Cid before the Mothercrystal is destroyed. When Ultima attempts to possess Clive, Joshua−who survived Ifrit's attack due to the Phoenix's powers−redirects Ultima into himself. Hugo, who was in love with Benedikta, is manipulated by Barnabas's agents into seeking revenge against Cid for her death.
Five years later, Clive, now using the title of "Cid" and carrying on Cid's mission, destroys the Iron Kingdom's Mothercrystal with Jill, who takes revenge on her enslavers. With Sanbreque having occupied the Crystalline Dominion for its Mothercrystal, Anabella has Dion replaced as heir to the throne with Olivier, her son by Sanbreque's emperor Sylvestre. Hugo invades Rosaria to lure out "Cid", prompting Clive to mutilate Hugo in a fight and reveal himself as Benedikta's killer. Desperate for revenge, Hugo transforms into a raging Titan.
Having gained full control of Ifrit, Clive kills Hugo and destroys the Dhalmekian Mothercrystal. Under Joshua's advice, Dion stages a coup against Anabella, but in the process, Dion inadvertently kills Sylvestre and is transformed into a raging Bahamut by Olivier, revealed to be a vessel for Ultima. Clive destroys the Dominion's Mothercrystal as he reunites with Joshua, helping him defeat Bahamut.
Now aware of Ultima, Dion kills Olivier, causing an unhinged Anabella to kill herself in despair. Barnabas later confronts Clive and reveals Ultima's plan to shape Clive into "Mythos", a vessel for Ultima to inhabit. After Jill gives him the power of her Eikon Shiva, Clive kills Barnabas and destroys Waloed's Mothercrystal. Joshua's research into Fallen ruins reveals that Ultima's people seeded Valisthea with the Mothercrystals to siphon aether for a resurrection spell after succumbing to an earlier Blight.
The Fallen and their human descendants were created to breed a vessel powerful enough to cast the spell. Clive, Joshua, and Dion assault Ultima's sky fortress of Origin, where Ultima's fragments merge to complete their plan. In the ensuing fight, Ultima kills Dion and rips his fragment out of Joshua, mortally wounding him.
Joshua sacrifices himself to give Clive his Eikon. After killing Ultima, Clive heals Joshua's wounds and destroys the final Mothercrystal within Origin to remove magic from Valisthea. A post-credits scene in Valisthea's future, where magic is considered a myth, shows a family living in peace and owning a book credited to Joshua recording the game's events.