Bastion All Endings With and Without Zulf 

Hey guys, I realized that I never put timestamps in the description like I had planned to do 4 plus years ago lol. If anyone is still watching here are all the timestamps for the different endings if you want to skip the ones you have already seen. Rescuing Zulf 0:20 With Zulf Evacuation 4:11 With Zulf Restoration 8:45 Moving on without Zulf 13:02 Without Zulf Evacuation 16:24 Without Zulf Restoration 21:07

Bastion gives us a good life lesson. On the first choice, restore, it gives us a chance to bring everything back. But, the time will come where the calamity will destroy everything again. This choice gives you a temporary feeling of happiness yet, an eternal feeling of pain. It's wrong. Whilst the second choice, it teaches you the most valuable lesson in life. Moving on. accepting the fact that you cant bring everything back. But its up to you guys whether you interpret the game the same way that I did.

I love the entire scene of you carrying out zulf, and how at the end they let you leave, and even kill one of their own who attacks you. It’s just an incredible moment, and really shows how people can recognize true compassion, and often respect it.

I chose to save Zulf and evacuate. Zulf is a victim of the Calamity just like everyone else, and after the hard lesson he learned from his actions, he deserves a second chance. Those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. We cannot risk it. Zia expressing that her will to live starts after the Calamity helps.

I did the restoration with Zulf... Can't imagine leaving him behind... I do wish I'd done the Evacuation now... It seems much more hopeful, and a fresh start seems more positive than history repeating itself

Saved Zulf and did the Evacuation, best decision ever

Best way to play No Zulf and Restoration New game plus Zulf and Evacuation Not only do you get every option. But certain narrations are different if you do restoration. Gives you the fullest experience I feel

Saved Zult (he learned his lesson), and evacuated. 1. The kids life before the calamity sucked; and I didn't want him to go through losing his mom again. 2. The Caels & Ura sounded like terrible people, and not worth saving. 3. Zia's life was wretched before the calamity as well. Her saying her best memories were after the calamity said a lot. It was a cleansing worth keeping.

While rescuing Zulf is an obvious choice, I think Evacuating is also a good choice. We can see how the characters struggle through their daily life during the credit of restoration ending. They, in no way looks happy(Maybe Zulf is, he looks like he's smiling). The evacuation just looks and feel better. Zia even mentioned her best memories were AFTER the calamity.

What if Ruck is the kid. Restoration had no effect on those inside the Bastion and the kid we played prepares the Bastion for the next loop knowing the Calamity is inevitable. By the time the Calamity happens again, we're old and meet our younger self at the Bastion and guide him on his journey to repeat the exact same adventure and reach the same result for eternity... until you choose to evacuate leaving behind any chance to save everyone and gambling on your survival.

I saved zulf and evacuated. No guarantee that resetting won’t just repeat what went wrong. Her saying that any memory or time she wants to live in happened after the calamity helped. But I don’t want to gamble for something that might work and might not when I can make something better with what I have.

Just played and beat it. Saved Zult and evacuated. The kid's life before as well as Zia's life were not good. The Ura were being persecuted and still hated the city. The world the kid was in wasn't worth saving at all, and then the time will repeat thing. The Ura bombed hiroshima to this calamity, which was overboard, but just from a selfish perspective of the kid, there is nothing you would be going back to. But Zia having hope for the future was the pure deciding factor for me. Someone wanted to stay.

5:07 also can we bring up that one dude in his closet made this just incredible piece, and it just fricking….works so well. Like it has the themes from your friends implying a spirit of comradery, but also a sense of adventure and hope in one incredibly beautiful piece? Absolutely incredible what talent can do. If I remember correctly, this was supergiants first game, and the amount of studios that get this close to perfection with their first run is so damn low, really goes to show how special supergiant is.

The evacuation ending is the only thing that seems right. If in this world, the kid chose to restore, and all it really did was rewind time in it's entirety, then wouldn't that mean that the calamity is doomed to repeat for all eternity?

I did the restoration with Zult, because I think it was the right thing to do. But then I see those images of everyone kinda sad, instead of Zult and I regreated it. But yeah that was my main thought about how to do the things. Great game.

it's really stupid how you have to restart the whole game to get all the endings, thank you so much for making this

When I played this game I fell in love with Zia so I did what I thought was best for her so I evacuate

Thanks for the video! I saved Zulf cuz who knows why, but he probably learned his lesson after getting jumped by his own. Evacuation seemed like the real way to go forward, the old world seemed screwed over and nobody needed to go through everything again. With the crew back together and the future open there must be better options.

It seems evacuation is the most popular choice in this comment section so I will give my best reasoning of why I chose restoration. 1: The cycle does not NECESSARILY repeat itself. Massive changes in the direction of a future can often come from or chased back to a very minor event or decision (it's called the butterfly effect). A real life example of this is Vladimir Petrov not reporting a few stray american missiles on (which turned out to be a bug on the interface) his radar during the apex of the arms race during the cold war. If he did, the Russians would have retaliated and the Americans would have launched nukes as well. This minor decision has saved the lives of BILLIONS OF PEOPLE AND PREVENTED A NUCLEAR WINTER. Then throw quantum mechanics adding randomness to everything as well making it very possible to end with the country being saved from the calamity. This is somewhat strengthened by the fact that Ruck sais it's unlikely they will forget all their memories in the end credits of restoration. 2: There seem to be very few survivors in general. The Ura you fight seem to still have some numbers but anywhere else in the world is completely devoid of human life. How would one propogate the human race with just a handful of survivors? I feel like this would quickly lead to inbreeding problems. By restoring, you could save the lives of the VAST majority of the population 3: Why would the Ura suddenly bury the hatchet after you evacuate? To them, the fact that you chose not to restore their homeland after you had the chance to but rather evacuated probably sounds like a massive betrayel which either 1: makes it unlikely that they will join you on the evacuation leaving you with even fewer survivors or even worse 2: will actively work against you evacuating. 4: How do we know there is any fertile or habitable living space outside of the country? For all we know we could end up evacuating to a place without any kind of life whatsoever leaving everyone to die. The one key point that could make me change my mind is that if I accept point 1, I also have to concede that it's possible that not only a second calamity DOES happen, now the kid or anyone of similar capability/competence are also dead and there is no way to restore the bastion, leaving the survivors with no other option than to survive in a post-calamity country. But is this even that bad of an option? The handful of people could just chill at the bastion and try to artificially build it out as a village for anyone left alive. idk

I made the wrong choice. I’m going to replay. I’m going to revert my decisions.

Restoration seemed like I was killing everyone, there was no guarantee it would work as intended, and, even if it worked then it could end up as a time-loop with history repeating itself for eternity!! Gotta suck it up and evacuate ...

i chose to evacuate without zulf, and i somehow dont regret it

Unfortunately I didn’t really understand my paths. I saved Zulu and chose restoration. Evacuation would have seemed like a nice new fresh start. That being said Rucks said that there is no way of knowing if the calamity would happen again. So.........maybe it wouldn’t happen again. Maybe they have their memories from before the restoration. Maybe they can prevent the calamity........

save zulf/evacuation is the best ending. If you reset time, chances are it will happen again. Lorewise, if you don't save Zulf and do evac, he's gone forever. That is why it suddenly becomes the worst ending.

I love this game! The art style is amazing and I really like your channel!

I left Zul and did Restoration just a moment ago... And well, since I binged the game, the time that ZulF* was with me was very VERY short, seemingly. In IRL time anyways. * (see, I don't even know his name properly, he was THAT unimportant to me) And, in that short amount of time he hijacked and boarded our home and lived like a parasite, then got a book that only he could read, didn't cooperate with it, then left and betrayed & then freaking INVADED us (which killed MY beautiful SQUIRT, how dares he?!), and then even stole our girl... Like... What?? Yeah, nah fam. Toodles bitch, you stay dead, and don't worry, since the beginning of the story, our quest was to restore the Bastion, and because Ruck knew what for - and since he MADE IT - yeah, the quest from the start was to turn back time and undo the calamity and the war. So I did that. You're good, and alive, and thank me in the next life. And while I do all that, you can lie there on the floor and rethink your awful actions. On the subject of Zia, though... Yeah, I kinda simped. Even got the game itself because I heard "her" song (waaAAy too many times... Like, that song needs a restraining order haha) on RU-vid first :) Buuut, the simping is not the only thing required in that relationship. The gramps is the OG here, and it's basically his (Ruck's) story, we just help develop it. He's the narrator. Hell, he might've already heard or lived this story a few times by turning back time, or he might've even BEEN the kid ("reminds me of myself when I was a kid" + he knows everything in vivid detail, but how when we know from the dream sequences that the protagonist/the kid/we are not the talkative type). Anyhow, just theories here, from a great and fun story and game ^^ But, alas, yes. Simping ain't enough, and she left, for Zulf non-the-less, soooo... Gramps gets the Restoration ending.

So in my mind Evacuation is the only option. The restoration doesn't work the way the old man thinks, it just brings the story back to where the game begins. So in a way there are only bad options: live in eternal loop or stay in a world in ruins

Restoration with Zulf. Was going through everything for the whole game and abandon all efforts? Not my choice

This game seems pretty awesome

Evacuation ending is the only good choice because otherwise history repeats itself.Also Ruckus (the narattor ) has to be Kids dad.Kid ending with Zia ftw

Yo... took me years to notice this game. Although short it was good!!! And I feel bad for Zia, when you talk to her about the evacuation she suggest for Kid to stay with her and Rucks because she liked her life after the calamity more than in the past. And then when you watch the end credit picture of their life depending on the ending. If you choose restoration Zia sits alone on the stairs playing her harp, she looks lonely and sad. But if you choose evacuation she's on the bastion waiting to for an adventure to come. Also thanks for doing the 4 ending. I didn't want to run the game 4 times although I did 2 times already. But had to see what happens if zulf is not save.

I'm watching a playthough but I need all endings so I came here to deside the best one for my personal canon.

Am I the only one who didn’t take Zulf and restored?

I assumed restoration was going back in time with your current memories. That's why i picked it.

am I the only one who didn't save Zulf? Didn't really feel like saving him after all that fuckshit he pulled

I did not save this guy so come here to watch ending with guy :)

i misclicked and did restoration when i wanted to evacuate :(

I feel like the first is the best ending All People you learned to love and everyone who never had anyone befor (exept zulf) finally haveing each other

I didn´t save Zulf because i didn´t like what heś done to the bastion

there is a problem in this choices endings: speed runs players xDDDDD

Why does she just swing the damn bull hiting em one by one, smash it on the ground already

Saving Zulf does nothing. He doesn't even come back with you.

Restoration with Zulf

Evacuation without without zulf is just so fucking sad

Oh I didn't even realize that restoring everything meant the calamity will happen over and over. Yikes.

Hey so there is a song in the ost called pantheon, where the narrator sings about how the gods won’t help you, you’ll be sorrry for what you’ve done. I thought that played when you abondoned zulf, as it’s implied that the enemies you killed where the last of his people, meaning you committed genocide. It’s not there thought, which is kinda weird. When is it played again?

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I saved Zulf and undid the Calamity. He was right to be angry that the people from the city had tried to....basically kill all his people. So couldnt quite kill the guy. Even if he had crimes to pay for. And living around with 3 people to MMMAYBE find other place to live and find other people...just sounds crap. Particularly when I saw the statues of all the people who died. When I saw the kid's friend. All the poor creatures trying to survive. Even if it was unlikely to succeed I thought it was better to try and reverse the Calamity. Overall the game is fun. I like that it allows you to play the way you want, increasing the difficulty level with gods, and different weapon combos are fun to try. The story however is fairly bland, and the choice ending is kinda crap. I did however like how the uhura attack you at first with zulf, and then some stop attacking, and they stop each other...that was quite a nice scene. But everything after that......MEH

Que sad music ;-;

why bother showing things like credits.... ecah and every time