#massive ghost trick spoilers

[facelessfinest]

I came up with a plot for a second Ghost Trick game/ Post-Canon AU. Spoilers for the game, obviously.

The day Yomiel is released from prison, he finds out that Sissel (The woman) has been kidnapped as part of another attempt by the foreign country to erase all the people who know about temsik. Sissel knows about temsik because Yomiel told her in his letters from jail.

With help from the cast of the original game, he tries to find her. When the team tries to confront whoever the country sent to come after them, it turns out to be…Yomiel. Again.

There’s a lot of distrust and confusion, but eventually they find out that there is a ghost who can copy the powers of anyone previously touched by the temsik meteorite, even if their death was erased. Yomiel, as the manipulator, obviously has some of the most useful abilities.

To create a ghost who could use such abilities however, the foreign country killed a lot of animals and people. In order to try and save them, yomiel kills himself in the presence of the meteor fragment in order to regain his ghost tricks. Sissel (the cat) begged him not to, because he wouldn’t be able to come back unless Sissel died as well, and Yomiel had made him promise he wouldn’t do that.

The new manipulator turns out to be a ferret named Fromm who was tricked into thinking he was Yomiel after he died. He can use any ghosts abilities he likes, but he experiences amnesia when switching between them, which is why he does it very infrequently and is very vulnerable when he does, besides, he’s must useful to the foreign country when he thinks he is Yomiel. It comes to light that the foreign country killed Sissel (the woman) to make Fromm believe the detective team had done it, in order to influence him to do the countries bidding. Yomiel finds out his fiancé is dead and goes into a rage and disappears, leading Sissel to give up his life to find him. They team up to get Sissel (the woman) back, and free all the ghosts the foreign country made in order to give Fromm all his abilities, as well as to free Fromm too. The others think he might be too far gone, but Sissel (the cat) insists that can’t be the case, and cites Yomiel as proof. Yomiel has mixed feelings, he knows Fromm is experiencing the same thing he once did, but the loss of his wife after 10 years of trying to get over her death, and another 10 years in prison waiting to see her again weigh on him heavily and alter his judgement.

Yomiel has to learn how to connect with people who haven’t been to the ghost world in order to speak with everyone, along with other new abilities.

[onlyhereforghosttrick]

AS context for this screenshot (because I think it's funnier with): Cabanela just survived an explosion and faked getting shot in the head with a bullet. All in the span of under 10 minutes.

When I first started Ghost Trick I thought Cabanela calling Lynne “baby” was creepy, as if he was some sort of antagonistic pervert character with a flamboyant ego. However, I was proven wrong, oh so wrong!

Cabanela is just a well-meaning fruity detective with experiences and mistakes he learns from while also being a flawed king. And he calls her “baby” because she’s like a daughter to him! His baby girl! And that’s so sweet

He ended up being one of my favorite characters. Love this lad

Anyway this out of context-

[shameless-and-delirious]

i do not play with ghost trick kitty

i just dont know which should be keychains which should be phone charms or both or neither.... Man

[pumpkajelly]

Hi Ghost Trick Fandom!! 👻

[fankawashitpost]

A minor character I feel gets a bad rap is Emma from Ghost Trick. Like, I get it, she's haughty and pretentious and those are traits that are easy to hate, but her behaviour around the Justice Minister and Amelie is what gets her flack from players. People forget that no, her novel writing is not why she took Amelie and left. It's because she knows about SPOILERS the manipulator controlling her husband, and thus knows the Justice Minister is about to sentence an innocent man to death. That's a pretty rational thing to get the hump with your partner for. You can tell from their first conversation that JM has no issue with her novels ("You can write your novel just as well from home!") and it's simply Amelie's childish perspective that it's only because of that.

Obviously shouting at Amelie is not good, but again, Emma is under massive pressure because *she knows what her husband is about to do.* I find it unfair to let this moment of weakness define her entire parenthood, when she's otherwise shown to be very calm and casual about Amelie's misbehaving (not going to piano lessons, etc.) But these are just thoughts.

[couldtransitionsaveher]

YOMIEL from GHOST TRICK

JUSTIFICATION:

"Straight up wouldn't have done All That. Less inner turmoil it's fine don't worry about it <3 (don't include this in the propaganda but this characters existence is a massive spoiler please add a spoiler tag to the post)" - @phantomtrax

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[chortlebot]

so me and @jellyjack-cheese finished the ghost trick google translate mod. Um. yeah i'll just say this is not safe for tumblr

MASSIVE GHOST TRICK SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT

volume warning. again. because good lord

[turniptitaness]

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT THE ENDING OF ALL OF US STRANGERS

Massive spoilers under the cut obviously.

So i just read this debate about whether or not the ending was a powerful statement on the nature of love, or a cheap "gotcha" trick.

One debater thought it was weird to have a message about letting go of the past followed by a choice to embrace another ghost. The other debater thought it was a beautiful choice that ensured Adam wouldn't be alone, even if his relationship is unorthodox, to say the least.

But my fellow travelers, they both missed it.

In Adam's last scene with his parents, they tell him keeping them "alive" will hold him back. Then they reenact their deaths, but Adam gets to be with them and hold their hands through it.

When he is on the bed with Harry, Harry says "I'm scared." Then he tells Adam, "don't let this [Adam's heart, and their relationship] get tangled up again." Then Adam says "Come on," in a tone that is both bracing and reassuring.

In the last shot, Harry is in the same position as Adam found him in his own bed, but this time Adam is holding him.

Adam said something earlier about his Mum, how she must have been confused and scared when she died, because her family wasn't there. Harry later said, "how come no one found me? Where was my mum? Or my dad?"

Harry is re-dying, y'all. But this time he isn't alone.

The story is about the nature of love, yes, but also of grief. Letting go of regret and the burden of carrying those who you have lost. Adam's parents are only still here because he doesn't want to let go. Same for Harry. In the end, Adam has to choose to let go of all three ghosts in order to actively choose life. His parents told him to choose a life with the man they believed to be living. I think in allowing them and Harry to "die" that second time, he is promising to choose life for himself. Real life, not the mere existence he had at the beginning of the film.

Please tell me I'm not insane. Y'all saw it too, right?

Anyways, this movie has me in a chokehold and i can't stop thinking about it, but now i need to shut up or else I'll be late to work.

Feel free to share your thoughts.

[magentasky234]

I was messing about in inShot when I saw this MASSIVE Ghost Trick spoiler in the sticker section

[thelocalmuffin]

sissel ghost trick for the character ask :3

Ask me about characters with this meme!

MASSIVE SPOILERS AHEAD UNDER READ MORE.

First impression: Ah yes, a Shu Takumi protagonist. He's got a fun way of expressing himself though.

Impression now: Legitimately my favorite character in the story.

Favorite moment: I think when him and Lynne decided to work together is when I really started to like him. Him using rational logic on how people work versus emotion for a pressing situation to trust someone was really interesting.

Idea for a story: Right now, I don't have any centering around him specifically.

Unpopular opinion: Apparently him being a favorite character is? So I'll go with that.

Favorite relationship: His and Lynne's by far. I didn't start crying until they were reunited, tbh.

Favorite headcanon: He likes curling up with Missile in the good timeline near the crackling fire when it gets cold in the winter.

[battle-of-the-undead]

Round Two!

Sissel

Type: Ghost

Explanation: Self explanatory

Other: He's the titular ghost doing the tricks trying to solve the mystery of his murder. Don't look too much into him or you'll get hit with massive spoilers

Danny Fenton

Type: Half Ghost

Explanation: Lab accident made him half ghost

Other: [the danny phantom theme song was submitted]

[revivedrevengerumble]

Hey just so you know I submitted a character from Ghost Trick but literally everything involving him is a MASSIVE spoiler. Literally everything and I am not joking.

An impressive amount of spoilers then

[darklight-owl]

Ghost Trick fans when they realize they can't talk about Ghost Trick outside the Ghost Trick fandom because every single plot beat is a massive spoiler

[transathenacykes]

TOP TEN GAMES I BEAT THIS YEAR

In 2023, I completed 34 games, from Final Fantasy VII to Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion to PaRappa the Rapper. These are my ten favorite, in order, and a little writeup of each I had a LOT of fun doing. Enjoy!

10. DARK SOULS

It’s a game I had to want to like, and maybe more than any of the others on the list, I had to meet it halfway. I’m a fan of challenging games, and - stop me if you’ve heard this one before - Dark Souls is pretty hard. But it’s not bullshit. Mostly. I ran into some hard walls here and there, but those walls turned into my favorite fights in the game once I finally mastered them. The reason it’s so low on the list is because the back half is… Well, it’s not very good, folks. Of the four bosses you need to defeat to open the door to the final area, I could call two of them good fights, and I could only do one of those without hesitating. 

9. THE CASE OF THE GOLDEN IDOL

I love a detective game, and what makes Golden Idol really stand out is its incredible format and mechanics. Given a series of still* images, and the contents of a bunch of random people’s pockets, can you determine what happened? It feels cheap to compare games and not just speak about what I enjoyed of a game of its own merits, but I can’t talk about this game without talking about Return of the Obra Dinn, which had a similar sort of ‘fill in the blank’ approach to its mysteries. Golden Idol’s supernatural elements, twists and reveals, and charmingly off-putting art style lend themselves well to one of the most unique games I played this year.

8. SIFU

This is the best rhythm game I played this year. Finding the flow of Sifu’s combat felt like a dance, going from a steady beat to a frenetic scramble in the span of a single missed step. I’ve never hidden the fact that I’m a massive sucker for good movement in games, and Sifu’s jives extraordinarily well with its combat and environments. Really, the only problem I had with Sifu was that it felt a bit short - well, and it didn’t quite deliver the challenge I was looking for, but that’s the fault of whoever described it to me as a Soulslike first just because it has, like… a revival mechanic? Also, the first time it transitioned to a side view for a hallway fight, it basically secured a spot on this list.

7. GHOST TRICK

I tried to play through this game in high school, but got stalled out on some puzzle or another. I honestly don’t remember which, but I’m SO glad I came back to it. I’ve always loved Shu Takumi’s writing and character work in the Ace Attorney series; Ghost Trick is just as good, if not better than any individual AA game in that regard. Really, the characters feel like the ones in the AA spinoffs like Investigations, Great Ace Attorney, or the Layton crossover, which are some of the best characters in the series - but with none of the self-defeating energy of having to be largely unimportant to the mainline games. Also, Missile might be the greatest character in video games ever.

6. PARADISE KILLER

Some games make you fervently pitch their merits to friends, hoping that they’ll play it so you can chat with someone who gets it. This is the fate of many detective games, which live and die in the territory of spoilers. There are detective games that try to get around this by having procedurally generated cases or multiple endings with multiple ‘real’ culprits, which can often be antithetical to what makes a detective game truly sing. Paradise Killer’s answer is that not only is it never going to tell you what the truth is, but that ambiguity is the point. The clues never change, and the only objective is to find a truth that satisfies you. All that is made even better by the premise being steeped in synths and neon, with a vibrantly occult cast who are all just the absolute fucking worst.

5. TEARS OF THE KINGDOM

I mean, come on. It’s Tears of the Kingdom. While I’d really hoped for playable Zelda, what we did get of the character was far more moving than whatever her deal usually is. The chasm was an incredible surprise, and since Skyward Sword is one of my favorite Zelda games, I had a ton of fun with the skydive mechanics. There’s also the building system, which managed the near impossible feat of having things control basically how you’d expect them to once you slapped a steering wheel on them. It felt like there was just so much love for the previous games in the series, without being overly reliant on them. If I had to pick a favorite moment in the game, it would have to be during the Wind Temple’s boss fight, when the Dragon Roost Island theme from Wind Waker cut through the track and made me feel like I could have taken on Ganondorf with a tree branch in that moment.

4. PERSONA 5 ROYAL/PERSONA 5 STRIKERS/PERSONA Q2

Is this cheating? Yes. But hear me out. I knew Royal was going to be on the list, and then it turned out that I liked Strikers and Q2 as much, if not more than Royal. While Royal has higher highs, it also has much lower lows - Strikers and Q2 don’t engage in nearly as much of the weak parts of Royal. But they also don’t function even a little bit without it. Strikers dragged in the gameplay department a little bit, but I loved being able to play as every Phantom Thief - and Q2 was such a vast improvement over Q1 in pretty much every department. So my number four spot on my top ten games of the year is ‘every game I played this year that has Akira Kurusu in it.’ So, since I started Tactica, maybe that counts too… and if you want to be technical, I think I played a few rounds of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in June, so I guess that has the number four spot too.

3. ARMORED CORE 6

In 2023, I really and truly entered my mech era. I built Gunpla this year, I started playing in a really fun new Lancer campaign, and I played the shit out of Armored Core 6. I’d never played one before, but I was hooked from the tutorial boss alone. I beat the game once and, at the advice of a few friends, started a new game plus run - and before I knew it, I’d already beaten it again. I’ll do a third run too, at some point. Once I learned the all-consuming power of the pile bunker, I was out there decimating the arena foes like nothing else - and, once I figured out how to time out my missile strikes, I managed to slam through 75% of the final boss’ health in a single blow. That was the single most satisfying hit of this year across any game. Oh, and - keep an eye out, because I have a hankering to write some Maeterlinck-focused fic at some point. Because I sure do love me my one-off characters.

2. SCARLET NEXUS

Up until the final entry swung through and claimed the top spot, Scarlet Nexus seemed like a complete and total shoo-in for number one. Very few games have ever motivated me to complete them to the degree I did this one, including getting all Steam achievements and a ton of the optional content in game you don’t need for that. Kasane and Yuito are endearing protagonists with cool powers, genuine flaws, and vastly different outlooks. There were some plot threads from chapter one I thought had been dropped, but as it turns out they were only really dropped in Kasane’s story, and were far more focused on in Yuito’s, while he didn’t engage with most of her whole deal until the endgame. She spends most of her story dealing with causality and time travel, and he doesn’t even know time travel is a thing at all until there’s maybe 25% of the game left. And at the end, it still manages to feel complete coming from either side. The supporting cast is extremely strong, too, and the way powers flow together make the fights feel dynamic, fun, and tie to the themes of combining disparate people to make things better for everyone - to stop holding onto the past and strive for a better future, no matter how much work it takes.

1. 13 SENTINELS: AEGIS RIM

You should play this game. There’s no two ways about it. It’s a severely underrated title with incredible art, writing, gameplay, voice acting - 13 Sentinels fires on all cylinders. It’s half visual novel walkarounds with the occasional puzzle, exploring the individual stories of the thirteen protagonists across a variety of genres. One character is doing 80s high school movie hijinks with his exposition-loving best friend, while another is trying to solve the disappearance of her best friend. Said best friend is engaging in escapades with a small alien just like her favorite UFO movies, and a fourth guy entirely is doing Blade Runner shit. At one point, there’s a character who has appeared fairly infrequently and finally becomes available to play, and when he appears on the select screen, he’s standing in front of a sea of flames while the other characters typically appear in front of schoolrooms, city streets, their own homes. The emotional beat when you click through and hear him start talking about how he’s proud to be enlisting as a Japanese soldier in 1944 is one of the strongest in the game. Each story weaves around another and provides further depth to events you’ve already seen, while the entire chronological story is combined into a single timeline of events you’re free to look at whenever. But then, on the other side of the game from the character stories, you have the fights - or, rather, the fight. Because the combat side of things all takes place within  pretty much a single day - a grueling, nonstop battle where the characters must drive away wave after wave after wave of invaders without letting even a single one through. Each has their own mechs and certain special abilities that gear them for different scenarios, and if you want to experience everything, you have to bounce back and forth between the stories and the fighting, constantly unlocking aspects of the other. The biggest problem with the game is just choice paralysis - there’s so much to do, it’s hard to know where to start. But once you’re able to bite into it, chipping away at the Gordian plot rewards you with a deeply moving story about the plight of a generation thrust into a ceaseless strife, burdened by the heavy expectations of their predecessors to finally solve it and the even heavier feeling that there just are no answers to find in the first place. And also, there are sick as fuck giant mechs. I told you I was in my mech era this year.

[nihiltism]

i thought its about time i finally made one of these so hi!!! im veebert "the kazoo" deebert, this is my real name, you can call me vee or whatever other nicknames you think up though! i go by it/its (though if you use it/its you can use she/her for me) and im a little beast full of generally good video game taste and Massive Amounts Of Propaganda for those. the fastest way to make friends with me is just to ask me for recommendations im 100% serious.

uhhh what else do i put here. okay so my main Things^tm right now are live a live and hatoful boyfriend, but the larger list of interests is:

wandersong, kirby, hatoful boyfriend, live a live, ghost trick, mad rat dead, pokemon mystery dungeon, the world ends with you, (also everhood, shovel knight, in stars and time and bug fables but i probably won't talk about those as frequently. also metal hellsinger but i only really talk about that to bark about it. yknow how it is.). also in Non Video Game interests i also like wander over yonder, cucumber quest, fashion, metal music (my favorite albums are the gallery by dark tranquillity and damnum by allegaeon! please dont ask me to pick a favorite band i can't choose) and probably some other stuff you'll see when you see it! (also its not really an interest but i do Love beasts and creatures and anything youd describe as a Little Guy. if anything gives you little guy energy please send it to me)

i do my best to spoiler tag stuff, since i have so many recommendations going out at any given time. that said, the ones i use most commonly are #live a live spoilers , #hatoful spoilers and #holistar spoilers (for people who've played the first hatoful boyfriend and not the second).

my other tags are:

#vee shut up : general talking tag!

#the beasts they are demonic in nature : my pets!

#veedia 2023 / 2024 : my first thoughts on whatever media I've just experienced! good way for me to keep track of everything I've seen.

#veepaganda : recommendation posts!!

#veesketches : my sketch tag! everything unfinished basically

#look at my art boy : my finished art tag! its. kind of small rn.

#blorbos from my brain : braindumping or notes about my ocs! for specific ocs I'll also use #(insert name here)posting

#ratclips : me showing off in mad rat dead <3

#peace and love on planet earth : peace and love tag what doesn't add up here

please don't follow me if you consider yourself a proshipper or bring lgbt infighting onto my dash, also.

thank u for reading!! ill make this nicer later maybe probably not. look at nigel

[wigster07]

So spoilers for the final episode of Xena if people want to avoid that. Also trigger warning for suicide mention…

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This ending was a massive big flop with the fans because of the choice the writer’s made with Xena’s redemption arc.

Long story short (and cutting a few corners) Xena was tricked in her past by someone she loved and when they died/ kind of committed suicide she was beside herself. While mourning them, she was bullied by these townspeople and in protecting herself she started a massive fire that spread through a village and killed 1000’s of people. I don’t remember how many but it was a lot. She didn’t even know the damage she caused years later when she was already reformed and trying to do better for other past mis deeds.

Stay with me, there’s also this other supernatural element of a ghost that consumes souls so when the people died their souls were trapped and never found peace.

End of the episode saw Xena having to become a ghost herself to fight the ghost and only in staying dead did she redeem herself and the innocent souls could be put to rest.

The fans hated it and I don’t want to see the same self- sacrifice for Kit. Part of it is that we love Kit of course but the whole 6 seasons of Xena was about her never really forgiving herself for her past but working hard to make up for it. Yes the souls of those that died deserved to find peace but she had more good to do in the world still. Her dying in the end was a waste when she would have gone on to keep fighting for another innocent another day.

I think Kit just needs to not wallow. She’s got a 2nd chance now. She needs to mourn and accept her mistakes but she needs to channel her guilt too and realise she can do more for others now by being alive and using the skills she has to protect people.

Kit won’t die in the end. I promise. She’ll live and be a protector when her skills are needed as such.

I tease the idea of her job with the Reavers being a goat farmer or something. Plus Jade is princess to the Reavers so there’s that too.