Yeah, the edit reason is nonsensical but I don't know if that really... applies?
It uses "changed it" in a manner that seems like it's doing a lot of heavy lifting the trope wasn't meant to do. It's not so much "they changed it" as it is "the plot developed in a way that some people didn't like."
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Well, the plot was flat out retconned in at least one respect. I think that would unambiguously be considered a "change"
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Was it? It seems more Cutting The Branches than a retcon, at least that's my read of it unless there's some confirmation of what the canon ending was.
Or I could be mistaken. I haven't touched the original game in a while but that was my read.
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Sorry, I forgot I made this query.
Cutting The Branches is for situations where a story with several possible endings (which probably are mutually-exclusive) ignores all but one or a few of those endings to focus on one they deem to be the "true" canon. The problem with calling Curse 2 a case of this is that two of the modes are a single narrative; Normal and Nightmare mode are basically continuations of the same story. Meanwhile, the "Zangetsu Murders Everyone" mode is more of a Nonstandard Game Over than an actual ending, and the last one is Solo Zangetsu.
The problem is that all of these endings wind up ignored. Normal+Nightmare (which was the bulk of the story told) ended with Zangetsu in a futuristic world, which didn't happen. Serial Killer Zangetsu ends with him becoming the dark lord...which didn't happen. At best, fans have speculated that the Solo Zangetsu is the one that's canon (but this has never been confirmed to my knowledge) but even then, the very end of the game doesn't tell us what happened to the other three characters after he kills Gremory, and even then...Gremory just shows up here with no indication that she was fought or defeated before.
Unless there's something official that's been said, calling it a Cutting The Branches doesn't feel accurate when the story 1) ignores the most significant story thread of the first game, and 2) connects to NONE of the events of the others.
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The edit reason makes no sense, as Examples Are Not Recent is about not using dated language like "recently", "currently" or "in the latest episode". The example does not do that. Hide / Show Replies