Quote Originally Posted by RyougaZell View Post
I don't really know about older Megaten titles... but Nocturne, while not completely free, did allow you to take different paths based on your actions and decisions.
Think about it, really. You had three "reason" endings (musubi, shijima, yosuga), the "neutral" ending, demon and true demon.

I would argue that the reason endings are ultimately equivalent, in terms of loss of freedom. Musubi, you're "free" but you live the future of your existence in solitary confinement, free to move around your bubble but incapable of reaching into others. In Shijima, you're not even free to move about the place, you and all other living things are silent cogs in a celestial machine. In yosuga, you're essentially agreeing on Highlander rules ("there can be only one"), because the strong destroy the weak.

Neutral is an abdication of the freedom to create, instead opting for a return to the previous world. Demon is an abdication of will, as a whole - you approach kagutsuchi with no vision, and the world flickers out.

Only true demon is a truly free option, and to get there you are challenging the creator over the order of the universe and the very fabric of creation.

Freedom is the ability to topple the order of the universe and the very nature of creation, to challenge the worst demons and the highest angels, to assault the throne of creation itself. All other freedom is illusory. That's all I'm sayin'...