Maxen X Ending FAQ/Analysis By Leon/Yugix Created in 2004? Can be used on other websites, but please don't steal the guide. FAQ to another one of DC/PS2 most underrated games. ================= First version (Sometime in 2004?) ----- Second version (Dec 2005) (Typo fix V1) ----- Made a lot of corrections. (Sometime in Dec 08) ----- Made more corrections again. Hopefully got all errors. (1-21-09) One more note I forgot to add: Some of the things I add to the FAQ about the script of the game comes from the debug voice test, so you might not hear some of the things I had put in the FAQ through a ending run. Please be warned that THIS GUIDE IS NOT SPOILER FREE. I REALLY HOPE YOU DIDN'T EXPECTED TO BE SUCH. =============== Introduction Who is Maxen Ending 1: Following the blademasters idea of a better world. Ending 2: The world comes first. Ending 3: The Sacrifice. Ending 4: You choose to save Sagami. Ending 5: You choose to save Kei. Ending 6: Following the Hakke plan to an idea world. Ending 7: Becoming a another Geist. Blademasters ideas The Hakke's ideas ==================== Introduction This is my first time writing an FAQ. I'm know as naga87 on the boards here. So go easy on me. I just hope this is going to be a good FAQ for reading. Sorry if I get some of spelling of the names wrong. ======================= Who is Maxen Maxen is an artificial god. Thought everyone though it was a tool used to cure mental disorders. This sword once in the hands of the user will take over the persons body. This thing is genderless, and can control and take over anybody it chooses. That is why I will refer to Maxen as a he/she though the FAQ. One more thing I notice is I'm sure it was created to replace Geist(another artificial god) since he used to follow the Blademasters, but rebeled against them. I'm sure Maxen was created to fill that spot. ======================= Ending 1: Following the blademasters idea of a better world. Analysis on this ending. This is the only happy ending in the game I feel. This the basic path right here. Maxen in this path, chooses to do what the blademasters tell him/her, and follows their ideas. Not only that, he/she ends up saving Kei and Sagami. Peter will ask Sagami why does he have to seal Maxen since he saved the world, and does he deserve the chance to live a normal life. Sagami said that it will be an bad idea because he could become another Geist, since he now has control of the whole world of Psi. How to get it. Defeat all the Hakke in Eruope Including Hakke Rei, Hakke Magarrite, and Hakke Dal. These are the most commonly missed ones. Then in Libson, Blademaster Kitty, will want you to go to Arabia to talk to Hakke Yusuf the oil man. But Kou wants you to go see Dr. Gennuiss. Say yes to see him, but kitty will offer you one more time to go to Arabia. Say yes to that. After that, you will end up going there, and then see the doctor. After that, go to the U.S. and china, fight Geist, and you will see the ending. Or you can say no to kou to about seeing Dr. Gennuiss and say yes to him when he ask do you want to save kei. I had not really seen what happens but he does say come to the lab when you done in Arabia. I might be wrong about this one though. A secret FMV If you agree with kei on everything she askes you. She will mention that she wants to travel the world with Maxen. After the Ending 1 credits, she will unseal Maxen to live up to her promise. ======== Ending 2: The world comes first. Analysis on this ending. This is almost the same as path 1, but Maxen refuses to see Dr. Gennuiss since its his/her No.1 prority is to deafeat Geist. This will end up having Kei's psi absored into Maxen. In Geist's hideout, Kou confronts Maxen in anger for not saving kei, and makes a poor attempt at trying to fight Maxen. In the end it seems the U.S. and china puts a halt to the comming war with themselves. In the whitehouse, some people question if they can trust china with this cease fire. But the President says that the devil (Geist) in control of China is now gone. He then request to be left alone. Then you can see a sword apearing in his hand showing that Maxen, has took control of the President. How to get this ending. You don't have to defeat all hakke in Eruope, but in libson, say yes to kitty to go to Arabia. Say no to kou's offer to save Kei. That is what you have to do. Everything is straightforward from there or you can do the same thing in ending 1 but go straight to the U.S. after going to Arabia. I think that will work, but I had not tried it. ============== Ending 3: The Sacrifice. Analysis on this ending. This path is the most legit IMO. It makes sense that there is no real good ending in the plot, though its just a possible path. Anyway maken refuses to go to Arabia when Kou ask that he/she needs to see the doctor. Later on, Dr. Gennuiss can do a reverse brainjack on Maken to save kei, but the problem is that Maken will die after doing this. Maken Chooses to take the sacrifice. Later on, they needed to get kei's body to the lab, but the people flying the plane that took the body is Geist's men. At the lab Kou touches a message button, and on the screen appears to be the leader of china. The leader of China (Geist) then tells them to come to Shikin Castle if they want to save Kei. Kou with new body armor, goes to Geist's hideout, and when he makes it to the space-room where Geist is, he sees Kei traped in a crystal, then suddenley he gets stabed by a crystal object. After some words from Geist, kou then throws Maken (in the sword form) at the crystal to do the reverse brainjack. After this, kei is back in her own body. With the power of Maxen, she had enough strength to end Geist. After the battle was over, Maken (sword) started to break into peices. Kei wonders why this is happening. Kou tells her that he sacrifice himself for her. Kei crying, mention that she will never forget what he had done. How to get it. Say yes when Kou wants you to go to the lab. Say no when Kitty wants you to defeat Geist. Sometimes kitty in anger will fight you because you refuse to go to Arabia, at the lab. I'm sure this happens when you don't want to sacrifice yourself or if you take yourself off the path of the Hakke, and do this. =================== Ending 4: You choose to save Sagami. Analysis on this ending. This is if you choose not to sacrifice yourself. 1 of 2 things will happen. One Geist's men will break into the lab, and kill Dr. Gennuiss (that is if you fight Kitty outside the lab) or you just go off to the U.S. as if nothing happened (to what I remember). When you get to Geist, he will offer you a truce. Say no to this truce, and Geist will say your foolish for not thinking about Kei, and some other stuff. After the fight, Kei's Psi will be asorbed. Later Sagami wakes up from his temp death state, and Maxen will wake up inside Kei's body. Then a few seconds later, he relizes that he is not looking at his daughter anymore, but Maken. How to get it. Do everything in ending 3, but say no when your ask to go along the reverse brainjack. From there go to geist, and say no when he wants you to call a truce. Fight him, and you will get the ending. ======== Ending 5: You choose to save Kei. Analysis Like on Ending 4, Geist wants to make revisions to his plans since he realizes the path Maken took is to save humanity, and geist feels that his goal are the same. He feels that he has alot in common with Maken. He then wants to come to a cease fire. Like in path 3 Geist will offer a truce. Say yes, and he will give you Sagami's infomation on how to save Kei. You end up going back to the research place in the end, sealed. Anne and Peter with the infomation they got from Maken will extract the lost psi back into kei saving her. But Kei is upset that Maxen did'nt save her father due to the truce. Can't blame Maken. It was him or Her. How to get this ending Do everything in ending 3 or 4 up until Geist offers you a truce. Say yes, and there is the ending. ================== Ending 6: Following the Hakke plan to an idea world. Analysis on this ending. The one of the things I love about this game is there is no generic good or evil side. Both sides have both pros and cons in this game. Maxen Refuses to take the blademasters orders, and ends up wiping them all out. Later on he defeats Kou, and Blademaster Kitty who seems to be the 2nd-in-command of the Blademasters. Once you enter the oil palace, Hakke Yusuf will be happy to see you. He then give you a message from Geist about the nature of humans. He has a good point in his message about one calles the other side evil, and repeats the history of war. Anyway, Yusuf explains more on their plans about what they're doing. He even mentions that Blademaster Kitty allowed Sagami to die when he got kidnapped just so they can have an excuse to fuel Maxen more into killing Geist (Debug Test Dialogue). Yusuf after this, asks you to join the Hakke. Maxen takes the offer, and Yusuf orders Maxen to get rid the leader of the Blademasters, Fu Shou Lee. Later he goes to the Blademaster's headquaters, and confronts Fu Shou Lee. Lee criticizes Maxen for the path he takes, then you fight him. In the end, the war with the U.S and China started. Anne and Peter talk about the war, then suddenly Peter drops dead, then Anne (there psi been taken by Geist?). Then in the shadows, Geist talks about creating a utopia by controlling human thoughts, and having a certain amount of people living on the earth. Then shows a scene of Kei absored into Maken wanting to get out. How to get the ending. Do not fight any hakke in this game. Fight any blademaster in your way. When you get to Libson, Kitty questions what you are doing. Say yes when she askes you if you are taking their side. Say no when Kou wants you to see Dr. Gennuiss (Sheesh, this kid really likes this girl). Then Kitty convices Kou that if he defeats Maxen, he could free her psi. Then you fight both of them. Later you go to Arbaia. There when Yusuf offers you to join the Hakke, say yes. Then you will fight Fu Shou Lee in the Kulun mountains of China? ================== Ending 7: Becoming a another Geist. This ending is almost the same as Ending 6. This time Maxen refuses to join the Hakke. Yusuf wonders why he refues to take orders from the blademasters, or the Hakke. He wonder if he/she to become the King of chaos. Then you fight him. Later when you get to the U.S. Hakke Brown questions Maxen as well. He makes a very good guess on what Maxen wants to do. He sums it up by saying that he/she want to defeat Geist, then take over the world. You fight Brown then you get to Geist. Geist comments about what Maxen wants to do, then you fight him. In the ending Fu Shou lee mentions that you did your job to defeat Geist, but the problem is that Kei was a vital part of restoring the world. Since Maxen did'nt give time to try to save Kei, and defeated all blademasters. Lee tells Maxen that he/she has to rebuild the world since he now has the power of chaos and order. How to get this ending Take path 6 and refuse to join the hakke. Its straightfoward from there. ============= The blademasters ideas. This is not really apart of the FAQ but this is just to give a better understanding on what side your choosing to get these endings. The blademasters are people that want to peserve the current state of humanity, they do it with the aide of an Deus EX. They do this so they can keep most of the worlds problems toned down. Geist, the first Deus EX, then started to have his own ideas on how should world order work. At the same time, they try there best to stop most of the problems, and keep the human mind free. The Hakke ideas. The Hakke are deformed humans that had had there psi altered to think like Geist. In some cases, most had joined the Hakke on their own freewill according to the Character bios from Maken Shao (PS2 Remake). Their goal is to completly control the world of psi so they can make huamns think like Geist, at the same time inslaving there minds so they don't rebel against his ideas on utopia. They kidnapped Sagami to steal his information on the world of psi to do this. Ironicly, they cause alot of the worlds problems to get worse before starting the war with the U.S and China which is the final stage of their plans. ====== Debug info gameshark/Codebreaker Code E9071AB600000001 You will have to wing it to find the vocies in the game. Well that is the end of the FAQ.