Odin Sphere Ending - Prophecies are 100% true! (spoilers below)

I like how that every book is moving at its own pace but it all sort of fits into place and meets in the final book the Armageddon. It was nicely done but a let down because all the good characters are dead and all the shitty ones remain. Now about the ending, to get the real ending, you must read the poem in Velvet's book you get from Lord Gallon to understand what is happening.

THE land sinks into
the cauldron's fire
THROUGH blades and
arrows are unleashed,
the flooding fire
cannot be stopped
IT can only be chained

A FIERY 6-eyed beast
speeds the guiding
hand of salvation
THE one who removes
the torment is mine
own son

THE Lord of the
Netherworld emerges in
a triumphant march of
death
ONE that threatens
the darkness is the
shadow of the lost
master

THE looming blaze
cometh, burning
down the forests
THE flood of fire that
man cannot withstand
is halted by the world
tree and vanishes

THE Lord of Snakes
consumes all left behind
BORN in chaos and fire
SLEEP in mother's arms
LIFE disappears from
the land
ALL comes to an end

THE ring shall be lost
THE birthing cry of
newborn souls
WELCOMING two
crownless lords that
shall survive the
Armageddon and
lead the revival

HOLY SHIT!? WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN!? Yeah that's what I said too. But luckily for you a NPC helped decipher the poem for you and dropped a ton of hints. But unfortunately, the NPC is in Velvet's book therefore he does not know about the fate of the people in the other books. So you're going what the hell? Who do I pick for the bosses ahead? Well here is something shitty for you. If you happen to pick something wrong and go "oh wait it must be that other guy!" You're locked in the book and you must finish it and get the bad ending and redo the book all over after you're done. Every ending is a bad ending except the true ending if you follow that poem above.

At first I didn't realize I had to look at the poem as you have to go back into a book to read the text you've collected in the game. The book itself is painful. Because you didn't get the good things from the later books for the earlier books you'll have to go back and replay your books to level up if you didn't and to get some potions and such. The bad thing is, you'll have to start from chapter 1. Yes, you have to go through the whole book AGAIN. How can it get any worse right? Well it can because everything kills you in 1 hit in the final book. So you'll have to stock up on Elixirs and Painkillers. That's a lot of time spent on your characters going back and everything. I guess this is their strategy. Make you repeat the same shit over and over to rack up on game time. The good thing though is that all the bosses in the final book are unique. With the exception of one.

I assume most people will get the bad ending, realize they have to read the poem and get another bad ending because its vague then get the real ending. That is an average of three tries of the book! The worst part is you need to do every boss with every character to get every scene in the archive. Every character has a unique scene for the boss. This just makes everything longer than it has to. I'm not surprised though, considering we had to do everything in the game at least five times through. It is not after you are done that you understand what it means.

The most annoying part of the poem is that you don't know until after you picked the right character and finished it that you go, "oh so this is how it is! What a twist! Let's all go and vomit blood out of our throats!"

After you managed to get through that train wreck of a poem you get the ending. Which is like five minutes long and 4 and a half minutes of it is the credits. It was disappointing because I thought it would continue on and finish off the books but it didn't as the book itself is just a part of the bigger picture, aka the final book. For a game that focuses on storyline, the story itself is really minimal in this game. If you skip the combat you can go though a book in like ten minutes.