VXAce - Northwall v1.0.1

It seemed like Suven's downfall towards the end was too sudden and the motivations for the girls to work with the imp were kinda... weak after all he had done to them and others even if he was ordered to do so. Most importantly, the ending was disappointing in that it is pretty contradictory to have a cliffhanger ending only to be met with a "the end" screen. You could have just removed the "unnamed female conspirator" part, because it doesn't really serve any purpose if we are not supposed to hear anything more about her. In fact, I am fine with that nothing was solved by the end and consequences of the final confrontation were left to player imagination (I guess?). It is just that the story builds up to a cliffhanger only to be wrapped up with a "the end" screen when nothing is really finished.

Really, the ending is that Varsena returns to Elblum to force it to open to outsiders because she thinks that the same thing that happened to Northwall will happen to it if everyone remained in isolation. That's what she was doing in Silth in the first place - trying to open up relations between Elblum and Silth.
However, as shown in Varsena's section of the final dungeon, she's already had a bit of a dark bent. She'd been experimenting with magic that's verboten in Elblum. Although Maestro's minions caused her a lot of anguish by ripping her soul apart into several pieces, she also decides that working with Maestro may ultimately feed into her end goal. She tells him, "I know what you're doing and I won't be a puppet - but I will play along."

Tilana is just struggling to find a place in the world. She's livid about what Maestro did to her and would never forgive him, but she really only travels with Suven because she thinks he will cure her and she doesn't know what to do otherwise. She may not feel strongly about his purpose of saving Northwall, but it IS a purpose. When she realizes that he's become totally hellbent on revenge in his grief and is basically just using her to get back at Maestro, it throws her whole perspective into question.
She also is faced with the decision to let herself be killed by her brother or to save herself by embracing her curse in the final dungeon. She only lives because she shatters the power source that strengthens her hybrid form abilities and turns them darker. She knows she's going to be seen as a savage monster at this point and decides that she wants to see what Maestro is offering - she wants nothing to do with him, but maybe the other "monsters" could give her a purpose and a home again.
After the last battle when she realizes she's just been used again, she decides that Aylan won't be safe if there really is a bigger threat looming, so even though she expects to be turned away, she tries to convince them to come back with her to the monsters. Of course, nobody's going to listen to that, except for Victor - who never hated her nearly as much as Maestro made it seem. It's even suggested that Victor's the only one in town who would forgive her if you talk to him when you first visit Aylan.
So the ending scene is Tilana and Victor returning to the monsters, presumably where Tilana will finally find a new home and a sense of belonging in the world.

I've thought about expanding the world and exploring what might be happening on other continents, where Tilana, Victor and the monsters might go, what may come of Elblum, and if there's any truth to what Maestro said about this mysterious woman. Keep in mind, he's been lying throughout the entire game - there may not even be another force out there. He could've been lying about being "trapped" as yet another manipulation. However, I think Northwall is going to be my last foray into making a fairly major game on my own. I didn't want anyone to get the idea that I was working on a sequel or anything and I felt that this particular story was done - the story of Northwall and Suven, which ends with the fall of both.
The story of Varsena, the story of Tilana, and the story of Maestro could certainly be expanded upon, but they're not intended as cliffhangers - they're just other stories that would require entirely new games.