Twilight of the Golden Witch is the eighth visual novel in the series. Ryukishi has officially announced that the eighth is the last, thus concluding the series. It is released at Comiket on December 31, 2010. It has choices that affect the narrative, although all other novels in series don't.

PlotEdit

In Twilight of the Golden Witch, Battler and Beatrice have retaken control of the game board and have created a scenario allowing Ange to attend the family conference on Rokkenjima in October 1986. However, Ange realizes the happy scenario that has been created for her sake does not reveal the complete truth and she chooses to do whatever it takes to learn what truly happened on Rokkenjima, even if it means defying Battler, who wishes to spare Ange the grief that will follow if she learns the truth.

Unlike the other seven games, the last game is nonlinear. The major plot is generally the same, but the player has more influence on the game result.

Before the first twilight occurs, you have to choose a piece of cake and solve several multiple choice riddles that give you a coin for a correct answer. Those decisions decide what kind of plot the player will get. After the first twilight occurs, you talk to survivors and get clues written as purple text, stated as purple declaration. After that, you are transported into the metaworld where you can reread the plot of the first twilight, look at a list of purple declarations, read the rules, get some hints in the metaworld shown as red truth (in most cases), and choose a culprit.

On a later point, the player (Ange) may decide between two choices, "magic" or "trick", which have a major impact on the endings. The two endings make a huge impact to the epilogue.

If the player chose "trick", Ange will appear on the boat to Rokkenjima with a stuffed toy, which she throws away. When Amakusa asks Ange why she discarded it, she explains that she has been "reborn." She subsequently kills both Amakusa and Captain Kawabata because she suspected that they are trying to kill her. Ange's fate afterward is unknown.

If the player chose "magic", Ange will appear back on top of the building she attempted to leap from to commit suicide with the stuffed toy. However, she does not leap and asks the men who have arrived to capture her to give her a cell phone. She resigns from her position as head of the Ushiromiya family and arranges for Okonogi to become the head of the company. Ange disappears to live an anonymous life as a novelist and as the last Golden Witch and the last member of the Mariage Sorcière.

Manga VersionEdit

In manga version by Natsumi Kei, in halloween party (after Ange and Eva got almond in their cake) as a winner who gets almond, Ange decides to do hide-and-seek, not quiz party. But the same thing as the original game is Eva helps Ange to find the others. This difference doesn't make the story crumbled, just different than original, so is worth to read if you curious about it.