Phantom of Inferno - Bad Endings
Many years ago, there was a great Anime called “Phantom ~Requiem for the Phantom”, which was an adaptation of “Phantom of Inferno” done by Nitro+ and Urobuchi Gen. Since the Anime animated only one route, and I played the game, I took it upon myself to make a thread on MAL which summarized other routes and endings.
It was a thread for those who did not have time to play the game... and those who were not masochistical enough because the version that was translated to English was utter garbage: it was played as an interactive video file, you could not skip and you could not pause (at least without risking things like belated audio or the game outright crashing). I usually always recommend people to check the source material, but here it is very hard to do so.
And now my images on that MAL thread disappeared because of Photobucket’s changes of policy or something. So I’m now copying the stuff here to tumblr.
Claudia’s Route and Endings: Check here!
Mio’s Ending: Check here!
Cal’s ending: Check Here!
Ending I: The Endless Nightmare
Ending Type: Bad Ending Can be Acquired during Chapter 1
How to attain: 1. After Reiji's memory is restored and he finds Ein wounded in the warehouse, he has to choose to either save her or not waste time and escape back to Japan. Second option will result in this ending 2. If you save Ein and plan to leave Inferno but don't stop her from returning to Scyhte Master, Reiji returns to Japan and you get this ending 3. If you failed to follow either Ein's or Claudia's path, Reiji returns back to Japan and gets this ending
Ending summary:
Reiji returns back to his family in Japan and six months later he continues his education.
Reiji sleeps in classrom when a friend and classmate of his wakes him up as it is time to go home. He then looks around for himself, obviously paranoid.
As he walks through the streets with that friend of his, he thinks about how it is impossible for him to return to the normal world after killing so many people and we see traces of madness in him.
To make the matters worse, in the crowds he sees Ein for a moment and his paranoia and madness grew. He knows that it is only a matter of time until Ein or someone else from the world from which he escaped kills him.
There’s no unique CG here so have some Ein
Ending II: The End of a Long Dream
Ending type: Bad Ending Can be Acquired during Chapter 2
How to attain: 1) Complete Claudia's path during chapter 1 and in chapter 2, but when asked if you will shoot Lizzie when she points her gun at Claudia and you answer with "See what happens", you get this ending 2) During the sniping mission, you have a choice to kill the sniper immediately or to confirm his identity first. If you shoot immediately and don't follow Claudia's path, you get this ending 3) When Ellen starts shooting at the harbor on the Godoh group, if you don't follow Claudia's path you can choose to either jump into car with Lizzie or to confirm the assassin's identity. If you jump into the car, you may get this ending
Ending summary: After the loft is bombed, Reiji returns to the warehouse where he decides to await his death by hands of Inferno. Suddenly, he feels a pain in his heart and doesn't feel it ticking any longer. Obviously, he was shoot. He looks at the killer.
I don’t think this ending has an actual CG, so just imagine Ein having a gun here
He then says in monologue: "So, it was you after all".
He also asks himself why did she shoot him into heart thus giving him a slow death, but comes to a conclusion that beggars have no right to choose and dies. Ellen/Ein comments that this will leave a scar in her heart and leaves, lamenting on her deed.
Ending III: Vengeful Spirits
Ending Type: Bad Ending Can be Acquired during Chapter 2 How to get it: Complete Cal's path and when the loft is bombed, you will have two options: "Go into hiding" or "Kill 'em all!". If you choose the second option, you get this ending
Ending Summary: Crushed by thoughts that Cal has died, Reiji decides to get his revenge before going to other world to join Cal.
When the Inferno members exit the loft, Reiji kills them. The one in the Benz starts the car and rides towards Reiji. Reiji kills the driver and is hit by the car. His ribs are crushed, but he doesn't care. He opens the doors and lets the corpse fall to the ground. He then takes a weapon from the car.
Crowds start appearing to see what happened, but Reiji doesn't care. He enters his own car and rides to wards Inferno HQ.
We then get a scene where McGuire finds out that Phantom entered the building and is slaughtering everyone inside. He gets paranoid and when lights turn off, he hides while his men go out to kill the Phantom.
After some time, shooting stops but McGuire stays in his hiding. Soon, he decides that hiding won't help him and gets up. Then he notices that someone sits on the couch.
100% of people who saw this in real died
He recognizes the boy as Zwei, Inferno's Phantom. Zwei is wounded so badly that McGuire asks himself if he is alive at all. The boy just smiles at him. McGuire starts demanding answers on how can he dare attack him and what he wants. Zwei just asks: "Where is Cal?"
McGuire screams, takes out his gun and adds another wound to Zwei's belly. But Zwei doesn't seem to notice it and kills McGuire with 10+ bullets. Reiji feels cold and asks himself why he is cold. He also starts calling for Cal: "Where are you Cal? Where are you?". He also comments on how he is sleepy and cold and how he wants to hold her warm body again. He then asks again "Where are you Cal?" and dies. Then focus shifts back to the loft:
Well fuck.
Cal waits for Reiji to return back to her. After three days of waiting, she starts crying and calls him a liar.
Nayrael’s Opinion: this is one of the only two endings where McGuire dies, and the only one where it happens “on screen”. That makes it a badass ending in my books! Unfortunately, Cal is still left alone due to Reiji’s misunderstanding, but maybe at least Scythe won’t find her because he still has Ein... though that means Ein is cursed to be his slave forever. So overall... yeah, a bad ending. Badass, but bad.
Ending IV: Southbound
Ending Type: Untrue ReijixEllen ending How to acquire: Complete Ein's path but don't complete Cal's path
Ending Summary: watch episode 18, imagine there are no Cal bits and imagine that this is where the story ends.
To Mexico the birdies go!
Ending V: Fugitives
Ending Type: Untrue ReijixCal Ending How to acquire: in chapter 1, play through Ein's path, but when time comes to give Ein a new name at the motel, don't do it. After that, fully complete Cal's path Ending Summary: As usual, Reiji arrives in front of the loft when it is bombed. As in the Anime, he emoes over the death of Cal but it seems that he stayed a little longer as suddenly Cal appears and angrily demands to know who did this to her house.
Reiji goes WTF and hugs her without a word. Cal stays speechless. Then Reiji has a monologue in which he says that he saw abyss itself and that he doesn't want to feel those cold, sad feelings again.
After few minutes, Cal suggests that it might be a good idea to go away before the police arrives or they will be in trouble. Reiji agrees so they enter Reiji's car and they drive away.
Some time after they exit the city, they stop and exit the car. Cal asks him if he thought that she was dead and Reiji nods. They they talk a bit about the burned house and when asked if she is sad, Cal replies with: "Not really. As long as I am with you, I am happy. Tough I did get attached to that dress."
Reiji then says in monologue that the problem isn't the fact that they lost their home, but the fact that they have nowhere to go.
Cal asks if the Bloodies were the ones who destroyed their home and Reiji confirms, but in himself says: "Not only are Bloodies after us, but Inferno itself is hunting us."
Cal also comments on how she felt as if she were protecting him when he hugged her a while back and smiles.
Reiji looks at her smile and asks himself how long that bright smile will last. He just resolved himself to give up on his life of assassin and now it seems that he needs to continue to kill if they are to survive. It is only a question of time when she will get tired of all this hunting and her smile will finally dissapear. However, he will protect her even if he needs to make a contract with the devil himself.
A smile to protect
Nayrael's opinion: As you can see, this ain't really the most optimistic ending. Seriously, this story is twisted: if Cal dies, it is bad. If she survives and he finds her, it is bad. If she survives and he doesn't find her, it is bad, but at least later on it will be possible to get a happy ending with her... after they both suffered a great deal.
Ending VIII: Gazing at the Starry Sky (only available in Phantom Integration and newer releases)
Ending Type: Bad ending How to acquire: finish both Cal’s route in chapter and Cal’s route in chapter 2. I don’t know how it goes for uncensored versions, but when offered to have sex with Cal in chapter 2, have sex with her (yes, I know... I know...). Then in chapter 3 go for Elen’s True Ending
Ending Summary: When Reiji at Cal have their duel, Reiji will be unable to pull the trigger at Cal. As a result, Cal will pull the trigger and fatally wound Reiji.
Cal goes into shock, as she was certain that Reiji would be faster and win. So she has to look as Reiji dies in front of her.
Months or years later, angry Elen tracks down Cal, intend on killing her and avenging Reiji. But she finds out that Cal has no will to fight, and instead she just gazes at the stark in the night sky. Elen joins her in gazing up and reminiscing on Reiji (ugh, how cringy...)
Oh ‘mah Reiji, oh how do I miss thou. Why did though have to do at these sinful hands of mine?
Reiji o, avenge thou I have come! But my heart hurts much, for thou here aren’t!
But damn, these shick clothes are so fine!
Thou are ruining the moment, Cal!
Nayrael's opinion: He got what he deserved tbh. He made love to a girl (ahemLoliahem), and then tried to kill her to bang another (ahemaftershegrewupahem). Hopefully Elen and Cal form a badass assassin girl duo or something.
Well, that’s all for now. I’ll post the full summary of Claudia’s path, as well as the summaries of Mio’s and Cal’s paths later
