Tsukihime: Far Side of the Moon Routes

Aaaand~ here's the second part of the Tsukihime post.

In the Far Side of the Moon routes, we have Akiha's True and Normal ends, Hisui's True and Good ends, and Kohaku's True end. Kohaku is the only heroine in the game that only has one ending, nor can you reach her route until you've played either of Hisui's...
The Far Side routes are about 'the threat from within' - in this case, the Tohno family.

The endings in these routes are far less light-hearted than in the Near Side routes (although you could argue the True ends weren't very light-hearted at all), and this became quite apparent when I played both of Akiha's endings.

The Tohno family is descended from demonic blood, and those that inherit this blood all possess something inhuman inside them. Some of them fall prey to the 'inversion impulse', when their demonic instincts come to the surface and reign supreme.

Seven years ago, a child of the Tohno family fell prey to the inversion impulse and killed a child adopted by Tohno Makihasa (the head of the family at the time).

Was that the beginning? Perhaps the beginning was when Makihasa had the Nanaya family - a clan of demon killers - wiped from the face of the earth and, on a whim, adopted the last survivor because the child had the same name as his own son.
Perhaps the beginning was when Makihasa adopted two girls with the ability to help him suppress his inversion impulse, but at the expense of their childhood.
Perhaps the beginning was many centuries ago, when a man fell in love with the Princess of the True Ancestors (vampires that were born vampires, rather than 'Dead Apostles' - humans that became vampires).

The events of Tsukihime are all intertwined. Even if Arcueid isn't present in some of the Far Side routes, her existence itself was one of the root factors behind the events that occurred.

There's no way someone could just play one of the routes and not play the rest. Most people would probably install the non-ero patch though. :P