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I'm just vomiting out plurks this morning but I want to talk about the absolutely wild shit that is the Pyre Ending Song
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Pyre is a game with an EXTREMELY fluid plot
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you have eight or nine party members, and at the end of each of the cycles through the Rites you send one party member back out of exile to the Commonwealth
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you can choose who to send each time, and the people you send and choices you make affect the end state of the world
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who made it back home, who's stuck in Downside, what became of the Commonwealth and the rebellion
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then after you go through the epilogues for all the game's characters
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you get the Big Supergiant Game Song
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but
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the entire song is dynamically woven together from different possible lines and verses
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based on what happened in your version of the story
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so you don't just hear The Ending Song
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you hear your Ending Song
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it's unique to your run
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you can't just go look up the song on youtube to listen to it again
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that will be the end to someone else's story
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even assuming you get the golden ending where you win every Liberation Rite and bloodlessly overthrow the Commonwealth
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it's still going to be different based on which characters you sent back
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meaning even that ending has 84 permutations
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each with a different ending song
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I'm thinking they recorded 2 ending songs
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One in which everyone stayed in the downside and one in which everyone went to the commonwealth
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And then they switched back and forth between them
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There's specific things that happen depending on who ends up in the same place together though, isn't there?
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plus technically you can lose and end up with your opponents ascending