ZENONIA 1 Good or Evil: Choices, Endings and How to Switch
The meter
ZENONIA 1 is the only game in the series where good and evil is a gameplay system rather than flavour. It is shown as a purple and orange bar in the stats menu. Story choices and some side quests (the “forbidden love letter” chain is one players cite) push it one way or the other. The dev team kept it unchanged in the Steam restoration.
The choice that decides most of it
In Adonis Forest, early in the game, Vicious of the Dragon Clan is losing a fight to Vague, commander of the Holy Knights.
- Help Vicious: Vague retreats, Vicious recognises Regret as the baby from TriPalo, and the Guild of Night inducts you. This is the evil path.
- Let the fight continue: Vague overwhelms Vicious, and you join the Guild of Light. This is the good path.
Steam players report that a mis-input here is easy and that undoing it takes a long stretch of opposite choices. If you care, save before entering the forest.
What changes by path
| Good | Evil | |
|---|---|---|
| Guild in Adonis | Guild of Light (Holy Knights) | Guild of Night (Dragon Clan) |
| Nymph who stays after the first seal | Langue | Parole |
| Seal of Despise boss | Vicious (she self-destructs at the end) | Vague (he dies realising Regret is the seed of chaos) |
| Shrine of Shame boss | Virulent, in dragon form | Lady Charity |
| Who sends you to the seals | Vague, then Lady Charity from Leo | Vicious, then the Dragon Clan |
| Sun | Calls Regret a murderer after the truth comes out, appears in the ending | Killed by Regret in his anger |
| Ending achievement | Good Deeds, Good Seeds | Bad Seeds, Bad Deeds |
Pale, the Letter Carrier, Ghost of Ladon, Ladon and Osiris are fought on both paths.
The endings
Both paths end the same way mechanically: Ladon, then Osiris in the Whirl of Despair, then credits, then a reload before the two fights. What differs is the scene. On the good path Lady Charity reveals that Regret’s own power killed Dupre, forgives him and makes him captain of the Holy Knights; Sun and Charity are shown watching over him at the end. On the evil path Regret’s anger turns on the people around him. Two days after launch, 0.7% of Steam players had the good ending and 0.8% the evil one.
Can you switch?
Yes, but slowly. The bar moves with every aligned choice, so a player who helped Vicious by accident can grind it back with good decisions and letters over many hours. Nothing in the Steam version adds a reset item for alignment. Practically: if you are more than a couple of hours past Adonis, finish the path you are on and start a second character for the other ending.
Related
- Bosses for both versions of the swapped fights.
- Walkthrough for where each seal falls.
- Achievements for the two ending trophies.
Thanks for the feedback!