Restoration is pretty sad, since you see that out of the four of them, only Zulf and maybe Rucks are happy to be back, and then Zulf, Zia and The Kid will have to go through their sad lives all over again.
The funny thing is, every decision seems to be "the correct one", because it doesn't minde what you do, the narrator will always say that this was a very good decision. Personally, I picked Take Zulf/Evacuate.
The game, of course, is simply amazing. I've never played any game that felt so intense like Bastion. I really hope there will be some second part... Of course, also because of the soundtrack. :)
not quite the ending I thought it would be. I thought the kid would stay as he was and that the calamity would rewind to a time decades before the calamity would happen, and he would eventually grow up to be Rucks and go through this whole thing again. The game seems to heavily imply that rucks and the kid are the same person. Oh well. I have to say though, this game has some of the best music and audio I've heard from any game.
@BeAsTm0aD Story-wise, there's not much impact on that decision because the game ends right away. It's more of a personal choice to either judge him as an scheming traitor or a misguided friend.
What if the first time you play through the game is not actually the first time the calamity has occured because until now The Kid has always chosen Restoration. Mind Blown.
All of you seem to think its being stuck in Limbo, but if it were up to me, the chance at saving all those lives and it not happening trumps not saving lives and moving on. Who's to say it will happen again? Plus, even if it did happen again? Haha. It was a damn good story.
On the surface that's the easy question, but a harder one: Given the chance to fix other peoples lives through enormous heroics would you still do it even if it meant that you wouldn't be remembered for it? What if along the way people actively and even violently resisted you? What if the results would be without guarantee? The answer to this question is also rewarded by the game mechanics. Newgame+ allows you to keep your prior accomplishments, a hint that The Kid remembers it all.
Is there atualy a difference in picking *Take Zulf, Restore* or *Leave him, Restore*? I didn't realy notice anything different, but in Evacuation, if you pick Zulf up he is also on the ship.
The whole Zia thing was so sudden. We hardly talked at all during the game and all of a sudden shes all "I WOULDN'T WANNA GO BACK IN TIME I LOVE IT HERE" like srs wtf
It's so sad If u choose the restoration. The same song - different feelings to it. And they all look so sad (including Zia) on the pictures if u choose restoration.
frankly i'd be too scared of getting on an infinite loop so i wouldnt choose ever the restoration ending... Think of doing the same over and over... forever. In the game we have a different perspective. We can change the ending but if the kid'd have chosen the restoration ending, he'd have chosen it again and again. Forever.
@Napsteris well the old man says if they restore the world they will disappear. I don't think anyone is older, it's more like time just resets back to before the calamity
I thought the restoration ending was kind of ironic. All along Zulf is the antagonist (or the closest this game has to a big bad) and yet, he is the only one who really gains from the restoration.
everyone's saying the calamity will start over again anyway, but you dont know. thats why the decision is so hard, either move on and evacuate the survivors or risk running in limbo but at least having a chance to change the events... who knows maybe they COULD remember and somehow stop the genocide
at least thats what made me choose this, i regret letting zulf die though that was kinda harsh :D
@Itasakisan I played it twice, first I choose Evacuation and in the New Game Plus Restoration (for achis)
But It is heavily hinted that if you choose Restoration the Calamity will happen again, with Rucks saying "See you in the next one" said when you start New game plus and with him saying something like "Wait...Haven't I already? Oh never mind."
@xKalisto still "see you in the next one" doesnt have to mean see you when the calamity has happened again... does it? :/ its hinted yeah, yet those hints are more of a reminder that the whole thing COULD just start all over again.. at least to me they are. if you think about it, he cannot know that it happens again if he really lost his memories of the last calamity (assuming that it is limbo).. im still a bit confused by that phrase.. see you in the next adventure maybe?
@xKalisto and that other hint you mentioned, maybe he was having a dejavu? hes old too, sometimes old people think they have already done things when they only thought about doing them or they forget to have done certain things. i dont know, i just dont see that its as simple as "its limbo anyway so go evacuate already".. also did you notice how similar rucks and the kid look? at one point he says that kid reminds him of himself, maybe its him from another time or dimension? just thinkin^^
so I picked evacuation because it felt like a reward for the kid that he deserved and I guess Zia would be happy as well....but the old-man claimed almost openly that he would prefer to go back and let's not forget about all the families that were lost in the Calamity and were innocent also the kid as a hero would surely put other's lives over his own...except that Rucks never said that the Calamity WILL happen again he said he didn't know and there is a possibility that they would stop it
Its a tough call to be honest. You care about Zia and Kid, and their lives are made so much better by evacuating. However, restoration could potentially be the greater good for thousands to millions of people. All it takes is one of the characters to remember(Zia or Rucks especially), to even have vague memories where Zia won't make the choice to try and go with the boy who betrayed her, and warn her father, or Rucks stopping the Mancer's project. Its not so cut and dry.
Its a tough call to be honest. You care about Zia and Kid, and their lives are made so much better by evacuating. However, restoration could potentially be the greater good for thousands to millions of people. All it takes is one of the characters to remember(Zia or Rucks especially), to even have vague memories where Zia won't make the choice to try and go with the boy who betrayed her, and warn her father, or Rucks stopping the Mancer's project. Its not so cut and dry.
i went for the Evacuation cause if you look at it none of them were truly happy except for Zulf. the kid had no one. the girl had no one. the old man had no one. Zulf had his wife. With the Evacuation they have each other be sides the Ura and Caelondia, would have had another war. They more then likely would be fighting one another. this way at lest they can be a family.
@marine606 Good choice. I actually picked Restoration, but then when I replayed in New Game Plus, realized that the calamity would just repeat itself again and it would do so over and over again as long as you keep restoring. Thus, It seems that the only way anyone could move forward is if you pick Evacuation. It's a choice between the comfort of limbo or discomfort of the unknown. Just like a metaphor for some big choices we make in life.
@knightstormbringer However, if the calamity is bound to repeat because of "fate" then so too is the adventure of the Kid and, ultimately, his decision to restore the world.
The calamity didn't leave much. Just a story, doomed or blessed to repeat itself for eternity.
@rabidbeavir True that. I really don't think there is a right choice here. It's up to you to do what you feel is right. That's one of the things that makes this game so awesome. The only choice which really defines your values and principles was the one involving helping Zulf. I do think however that the Kid and Zia had more than they ever had after the calamity. Before then, their life was depicted to be utter shite. Now, at least they have the company of genuine friends.
@knightstormbringer Couldn't have put it better myself, that's why I picked evacuation during my first playthrough, rather to move on than to repeat the cycle :)
@knightstormbringer I say that you to restore is to bring back an entire world, at the expense of losing your current, good world. Back before the Calamity, the Kid and Zia had absolutely horrible lives - a child serving a second term on the Rippling Walls after losing his mother and his money on the first term lost, and a foreign girl betrayed by the guy she loved into selling out her father whom then she lost to indentured servitude. Restoration sacrifices their lives.
@DwwwD I agree. but I'd rather live in a future with a whole world(+ the people that inhabit it)to explore then a past that has already happened with the specter of the calamity hanging over it.
besides I like that bunch, I didn't want to break them up
@knightstormbringer I'm not sure why anyone would want to restor the old powers anyway the 'good old days' sound like some sort of tug-of-war between a fascist police state (Caelondia) and a feudal subterranean tribe (the Ura).
@knightstormbringer In a world where material comfort (eg. imagine the internet) is available, rather than being forced to always travel the world to find a living; I'd choose to pick the Restoration every time, limbo or not.
i chose to go back in time because rucks said it could cause some people to retain some memory, and then , maybe zulf wouldn't go mad, and the ura would know better then to attack the kid for their own sake, and who knows, maybe the one responsible for sabotageing the system to backfire could still tweak it not to do that, preventing the calamity.
At one time Rucks said that even if the Bastion would restore everything to a previous time he wasn't sure that the Calamity wouldn't happen again. That's why I chose the evacuation ending. The Calamity can't be stopped and there's no point in going back in time. Man...this game is awesome
@0oSCHMILLENo0 he's no SURE about it. I like to think that after the restoration, the Kid and the others will remember what happened and will try to stop the calamity. Even if they didn't make it in the first try, they will try again and again until they stop it.
if you restore you simply go back in time, instead of Restoring the world. thus its not a real restoration, just going back in time.
If your restore the world and the calamity won't happen again, I'd take it, but if not, you're better off evacuating.
pandafuhrer 2 weeks ago
Restoration is pretty sad, since you see that out of the four of them, only Zulf and maybe Rucks are happy to be back, and then Zulf, Zia and The Kid will have to go through their sad lives all over again.
TheRedeemedX 4 weeks ago
The funny thing is, every decision seems to be "the correct one", because it doesn't minde what you do, the narrator will always say that this was a very good decision. Personally, I picked Take Zulf/Evacuate.
The game, of course, is simply amazing. I've never played any game that felt so intense like Bastion. I really hope there will be some second part... Of course, also because of the soundtrack. :)
merlineon 4 weeks ago
evacuation is so much happier.
sxysteve87 1 month ago
BASTION 2 WHEN!>!>!??
tarapapi 1 month ago
@tarapapi that isnt a good option the story needs to end off a cliff to add to it a sequel is stupid
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"Just like a metaphor for some big choices we make in life." This is why I hate indie game fans.
Malrune 1 month ago
i picked this exact one with my first playthrough
leetmuffinsftw 1 month ago
not quite the ending I thought it would be. I thought the kid would stay as he was and that the calamity would rewind to a time decades before the calamity would happen, and he would eventually grow up to be Rucks and go through this whole thing again. The game seems to heavily imply that rucks and the kid are the same person. Oh well. I have to say though, this game has some of the best music and audio I've heard from any game.
KuraMad2000 1 month ago 4
I don't understand the point of taking Zulf or not.
BeAsTm0aD 1 month ago 3
@BeAsTm0aD Story-wise, there's not much impact on that decision because the game ends right away. It's more of a personal choice to either judge him as an scheming traitor or a misguided friend.
harhan321 1 month ago
What if the first time you play through the game is not actually the first time the calamity has occured because until now The Kid has always chosen Restoration. Mind Blown.
GMackzy 1 month ago
does the restoration mode also erases the memories of all they did to restore the bastion?
TheChaosKhan 2 months ago
@TheChaosKhan It does...that's why he says "Maybe we'll meet each other in the next one."
zidaneradek 1 month ago
@zidaneradek man that sucks! i wish they could keep their memories so they can actually prevent the calamity from happening again
TheChaosKhan 1 month ago
You don't know whether or not the Calamity will happen again, but you have to have faith that it won't happen if you restore the world.
I may be in the minority, but Restoration is the best option to me.
DjUmKuE 2 months ago
@DjUmKuE allow me to quote something from the video... "So long, Kid....Maybe I'll see you in the next one."
solittleusernames 2 months ago
All of you seem to think its being stuck in Limbo, but if it were up to me, the chance at saving all those lives and it not happening trumps not saving lives and moving on. Who's to say it will happen again? Plus, even if it did happen again? Haha. It was a damn good story.
TheGodOfGuitars 2 months ago
fuck I get goosebumps whenever I hear this song
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On the surface that's the easy question, but a harder one: Given the chance to fix other peoples lives through enormous heroics would you still do it even if it meant that you wouldn't be remembered for it? What if along the way people actively and even violently resisted you? What if the results would be without guarantee? The answer to this question is also rewarded by the game mechanics. Newgame+ allows you to keep your prior accomplishments, a hint that The Kid remembers it all.
MegaMythic 2 months ago 4
@MegaMythic yeah i guess thats why they didnt give him a voice and "The Kid" is supposed to be the player
persiangeorgiev 2 months ago
Really Zulf and all the people u kill survive if you pick this ending
MrMas35 2 months ago
Is there atualy a difference in picking *Take Zulf, Restore* or *Leave him, Restore*? I didn't realy notice anything different, but in Evacuation, if you pick Zulf up he is also on the ship.
SlayerOfPlayer 3 months ago
@SlayerOfPlayer Seems like it. For Restore doesn't matter if you take him or not in the ending. Evacuation it matters a lot.
MrBubbleKing 3 months ago
i chose restoration because of zia will be alone if i chose the other one
thisisbk201 3 months ago
The whole Zia thing was so sudden. We hardly talked at all during the game and all of a sudden shes all "I WOULDN'T WANNA GO BACK IN TIME I LOVE IT HERE" like srs wtf
P00p00face1234 3 months ago
@P00p00face1234
this seems like a troll
if not, her conversation with the old man (she doesnt speak but you hear him reply), he implies that she wants things to be the same
also the kid didnt talk at all
DarkestFayt 3 months ago
It's so sad If u choose the restoration. The same song - different feelings to it. And they all look so sad (including Zia) on the pictures if u choose restoration.
Matticitt 3 months ago 3
That was kinda obvious id doesn't really matter if you're taking Zulf with you. After all, you will restore him eventually.
Elleander1 3 months ago
frankly i'd be too scared of getting on an infinite loop so i wouldnt choose ever the restoration ending... Think of doing the same over and over... forever. In the game we have a different perspective. We can change the ending but if the kid'd have chosen the restoration ending, he'd have chosen it again and again. Forever.
Dante2001 4 months ago
Just a thought....
Maybe that old man is the KID...after countless of restorations....since you getting older each time u participate throught it arent ya ?
Napsteris 4 months ago 13
@Napsteris An open ending really makes you think. I belive he is.
FierceRaindrop 3 months ago
@Napsteris Woah...Total mindfuck... O.o
DjArpeggi0 3 months ago
@Napsteris That's what I thought near the end of the game too
cheesepuff18 3 months ago
@Napsteris
No you don't
Time is reset so your age doesn't become older
unless possibly the crest he carries negates the effect on the wearer in order for testing
since rucks does say : you can't test something that sents everything back into time
but since the kid seems to be dissolving in the last picture I doubt so
bmombaerts 4 weeks ago
@Napsteris well the old man says if they restore the world they will disappear. I don't think anyone is older, it's more like time just resets back to before the calamity
shiva1055 3 weeks ago
@Napsteris
Or the father they never talked about?...
FiushionKiller88 6 days ago
This seems..even more depressing then the other ending...;-;
TopHunter 4 months ago 2
I thought the restoration ending was kind of ironic. All along Zulf is the antagonist (or the closest this game has to a big bad) and yet, he is the only one who really gains from the restoration.
PhyreSpore 4 months ago
everyone's saying the calamity will start over again anyway, but you dont know. thats why the decision is so hard, either move on and evacuate the survivors or risk running in limbo but at least having a chance to change the events... who knows maybe they COULD remember and somehow stop the genocide
at least thats what made me choose this, i regret letting zulf die though that was kinda harsh :D
Itasakisan 4 months ago
@Itasakisan I played it twice, first I choose Evacuation and in the New Game Plus Restoration (for achis)
But It is heavily hinted that if you choose Restoration the Calamity will happen again, with Rucks saying "See you in the next one" said when you start New game plus and with him saying something like "Wait...Haven't I already? Oh never mind."
xKalisto 4 months ago
@xKalisto
awww,i thought it was a hint at a sequel :(
Lok10din 4 months ago
@xKalisto still "see you in the next one" doesnt have to mean see you when the calamity has happened again... does it? :/ its hinted yeah, yet those hints are more of a reminder that the whole thing COULD just start all over again.. at least to me they are. if you think about it, he cannot know that it happens again if he really lost his memories of the last calamity (assuming that it is limbo).. im still a bit confused by that phrase.. see you in the next adventure maybe?
Itasakisan 4 months ago
@xKalisto and that other hint you mentioned, maybe he was having a dejavu? hes old too, sometimes old people think they have already done things when they only thought about doing them or they forget to have done certain things. i dont know, i just dont see that its as simple as "its limbo anyway so go evacuate already".. also did you notice how similar rucks and the kid look? at one point he says that kid reminds him of himself, maybe its him from another time or dimension? just thinkin^^
Itasakisan 4 months ago
@xKalisto i have to admit i havent played new game plus yet, so i may be trippin badly. great game anyway :D
Itasakisan 4 months ago
so I picked evacuation because it felt like a reward for the kid that he deserved and I guess Zia would be happy as well....but the old-man claimed almost openly that he would prefer to go back and let's not forget about all the families that were lost in the Calamity and were innocent also the kid as a hero would surely put other's lives over his own...except that Rucks never said that the Calamity WILL happen again he said he didn't know and there is a possibility that they would stop it
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Its a tough call to be honest. You care about Zia and Kid, and their lives are made so much better by evacuating. However, restoration could potentially be the greater good for thousands to millions of people. All it takes is one of the characters to remember(Zia or Rucks especially), to even have vague memories where Zia won't make the choice to try and go with the boy who betrayed her, and warn her father, or Rucks stopping the Mancer's project. Its not so cut and dry.
AdamPsencik 4 months ago
Its a tough call to be honest. You care about Zia and Kid, and their lives are made so much better by evacuating. However, restoration could potentially be the greater good for thousands to millions of people. All it takes is one of the characters to remember(Zia or Rucks especially), to even have vague memories where Zia won't make the choice to try and go with the boy who betrayed her, and warn her father, or Rucks stopping the Mancer's project. Its not so cut and dry.
AdamPsencik 4 months ago
This is the worst ending out of all of em.
myusnadine 5 months ago
This ending kinda sucks because it makes everyones life worse except Zulf and i didnt like him
MafiaRooster 5 months ago
@MafiaRooster This ending is bad since it starts the calamity again anyway, and the kid had that seal to fix things by luck before
ANGRYMAPLE 5 months ago
@MafiaRooster -totally agree with u there.
tinmit 5 months ago
so this is easier if you save him? cool!
daniel10129100 5 months ago
Cool...I have been looking for the 4 finals
Manzana1C 5 months ago
i forgot the old world and moved forwards, rather than leave things trapped in an infinite time loop like ocarina of time
stabbystabbystabbyst 5 months ago
i went for the Evacuation cause if you look at it none of them were truly happy except for Zulf. the kid had no one. the girl had no one. the old man had no one. Zulf had his wife. With the Evacuation they have each other be sides the Ura and Caelondia, would have had another war. They more then likely would be fighting one another. this way at lest they can be a family.
marine606 5 months ago
@marine606 Good choice. I actually picked Restoration, but then when I replayed in New Game Plus, realized that the calamity would just repeat itself again and it would do so over and over again as long as you keep restoring. Thus, It seems that the only way anyone could move forward is if you pick Evacuation. It's a choice between the comfort of limbo or discomfort of the unknown. Just like a metaphor for some big choices we make in life.
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@knightstormbringer However, if the calamity is bound to repeat because of "fate" then so too is the adventure of the Kid and, ultimately, his decision to restore the world.
The calamity didn't leave much. Just a story, doomed or blessed to repeat itself for eternity.
rabidbeavir 4 months ago
@rabidbeavir True that. I really don't think there is a right choice here. It's up to you to do what you feel is right. That's one of the things that makes this game so awesome. The only choice which really defines your values and principles was the one involving helping Zulf. I do think however that the Kid and Zia had more than they ever had after the calamity. Before then, their life was depicted to be utter shite. Now, at least they have the company of genuine friends.
knightstormbringer 4 months ago
@knightstormbringer Couldn't have put it better myself, that's why I picked evacuation during my first playthrough, rather to move on than to repeat the cycle :)
TigerClaws12894 2 months ago
@knightstormbringer I say that you to restore is to bring back an entire world, at the expense of losing your current, good world. Back before the Calamity, the Kid and Zia had absolutely horrible lives - a child serving a second term on the Rippling Walls after losing his mother and his money on the first term lost, and a foreign girl betrayed by the guy she loved into selling out her father whom then she lost to indentured servitude. Restoration sacrifices their lives.
yanivp1 1 month ago
@yanivp1 It does. But what about everyone else's lives? That's why I picked Restoration. All those stone statues of people you encountered....
DwwwD 1 month ago
@DwwwD but the calamity might happen again. so you haven't saved them by restoring
shiva1055 3 weeks ago
@shiva1055 You said it yourself. It MIGHT happen, so at least there is a chance :) hehe
DwwwD 3 weeks ago
@DwwwD I agree. but I'd rather live in a future with a whole world(+ the people that inhabit it)to explore then a past that has already happened with the specter of the calamity hanging over it.
besides I like that bunch, I didn't want to break them up
shiva1055 3 weeks ago
@shiva1055 Hehe understandable. I just kept thinking about all the other people who had been turned to statues... Poor ppl ^^
DwwwD 3 weeks ago
@knightstormbringer I'm not sure why anyone would want to restor the old powers anyway the 'good old days' sound like some sort of tug-of-war between a fascist police state (Caelondia) and a feudal subterranean tribe (the Ura).
ExaltedLeader 3 weeks ago
@knightstormbringer In a world where material comfort (eg. imagine the internet) is available, rather than being forced to always travel the world to find a living; I'd choose to pick the Restoration every time, limbo or not.
loopofpoop 2 weeks ago
So saving or letting Zulf die doesnt even matter if you restore? Thats lame.
billytamer 5 months ago
i chose to go back in time because rucks said it could cause some people to retain some memory, and then , maybe zulf wouldn't go mad, and the ura would know better then to attack the kid for their own sake, and who knows, maybe the one responsible for sabotageing the system to backfire could still tweak it not to do that, preventing the calamity.
Zralf 5 months ago
I cant leave Zulf behind before playing his Who Knows Where...
Hardlife
Skillerz0r 5 months ago
At one time Rucks said that even if the Bastion would restore everything to a previous time he wasn't sure that the Calamity wouldn't happen again. That's why I chose the evacuation ending. The Calamity can't be stopped and there's no point in going back in time. Man...this game is awesome
0oSCHMILLENo0 5 months ago
@0oSCHMILLENo0 he's no SURE about it. I like to think that after the restoration, the Kid and the others will remember what happened and will try to stop the calamity. Even if they didn't make it in the first try, they will try again and again until they stop it.
Nvmbzd 5 months ago
Even though the other ending kind of seems like the selfish one, it seems like the happier one :/
Zulf is cooking with a squirt, Zia is happy, and the kid gains a father :/
Antikukafe 5 months ago
@Antikukafe Yep, restoration is saving the world and evacuation is saving yourself and your new friends.
Sharangir 5 months ago
Oh many the ending for this game is so epic, it leaves you tapped with sorrow. Characters were built so strong in this game :i .. need Bastion 2..
SenitelKJ 5 months ago
i wathced this only because i didnt have the heart to leave zulf behind ;_;
clozard 5 months ago
who knows where to get that green Restoration wallpaper !?
TheEdgarzz 5 months ago
@TheEdgarzz try wallbase, search for Bastion
bielburgerFTW 5 months ago
@bielburgerFTW many thanks for you bro
TheEdgarzz 5 months ago
lol my ending choices were exact opposite.
momo1tm 5 months ago
i want that wallpaper!
TheEdgarzz 5 months ago
whats a SUPER ULTRA AUTO COUNTER LOG OF DEATH?
daM1NT3 5 months ago
@daM1NT3 I think he's talking about the battering ram
spamspom 5 months ago
@spamspom Yes I was. thank you.
DarkStealMan 5 months ago
Thanks for uploading the parts that matters of the endings ;)
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Evacuation was soooo much better!
kelltwoot 6 months ago