ReStory Endings Guide

ReStory has two endings: the rock concert ending and the mega mall ending. A single conversation with Hashimoto in Episode 9, the last episode, decides which one you get. Your earlier choices still matter, since they decide which friend moves in with you and which friend achievement you can earn, but nothing before that conversation changes the ending itself.

Spoiler warning: the quick answer only names the deciding choice. The sections after it cover the last stretch of the story and how each ending plays out.

Quick Answer

The decision comes in Episode 9, when Hashimoto visits right after Yamato runs in to warn you that the bulldozers have arrived. The left column is the ending, the middle column is what you tell Hashimoto in that conversation, and the right column is the achievement the ending unlocks.

You can only see one ending per playthrough, and only one friend gets the watch scene that awards a friend achievement. That makes three playthroughs the minimum for all five story achievements: one for each friend, with the concert ending in at least one of them and the mega mall ending in another.

The Deciding Conversation

Episode 9 opens when Yamato runs in to tell you the bulldozers have already arrived down the street. That happens soon after your friend leaves with the repaired watch at the end of Episode 8 or, if no friend moved in with you, soon after Yamato takes away the Stranger’s laptop at the end of Episode 7. He sends Hashimoto over, and Hashimoto explains the problem: the money raised for the concert falls short, and the gap is close to what your repair shop is worth. His own funds are frozen, so he can’t cover it.

You get two chances to answer. The table lists each answer in the order the menus appear.

Your first pro-mall answer isn’t final. Hashimoto challenges you, and you can still switch to the concert. Only the second pro-mall answer locks in the mega mall ending.

Rock Concert Ending

Pick the concert and Takumi turns up soon after, gloating that he has bought your shop. Hand him the keys and the concert begins.

When the concert is over, the game skips to the next day. Overnight your shop is cleared out:

• Tools are stolen, apart from the basic Brush and Screwdriver.
• Licenses and your sticker collection are stolen too.
• Your internet is cut off and its bill is dropped.
• Anything still on its way to you is delivered at once.

Next, Kaneko drops by. The concert worked: the district has been protected for its history, so no mall can be built, and he and the others bought your shop back for you. Take the keys and Rock for the ages! unlocks.

A string of farewell visits follows, each friend sending the next one along. The table lists them in order with what each visit gives you.

Baketsu, Kaito and Kiyoko each bring back part of what was stolen. Between them you get all your licenses and stickers back, plus the best tool you owned of each kind. Lower-grade duplicates are gone for good: if you had both brush upgrades, only the Dense Brush comes back, and with several ultrasonic baths you keep only the largest.

After the ending screen and credits you can keep playing the shop in sandbox mode. Your friends stop visiting, but online orders keep coming in.

Mega Mall Ending

Side with the mall twice and Takumi visits a little later. He’s delighted you chose progress and says the demolition crew needs your shop as storage. Hand over the keys and the game skips ahead two months, delivering anything you had on order.

Takumi then comes back with the results. The mall stands right behind your workshop, the building was left alone, and your rent goes up to ¥5,000 a week. He warns you not to expect walk-in customers now that everyone shops at the mall, then hands you the Mega Mall Storefront 02 Rental Agreement decoration and Globalization unlocks.

The ending screen appears the first time you pick up that rental agreement and put it down. After the credits you can keep playing in sandbox mode on online orders.

Ending Comparison

The Friend Who Moves In

In Episodes 5 and 6, around the time of the repair competition, three friends get into trouble and you can offer each of them a place to stay. The friend who moves in gets a short story of their own before the finale and gives you one of three achievements.

The table shows when each offer comes up, what to choose, and the achievement that friend leads to.

Kaito only offers to move in if neither Haruhi nor Baketsu is already staying with you. If two friends say yes, Haruhi takes priority, then Kaito, then Baketsu. Only that friend gets the follow-up visits and the watch scene.

Once a friend has moved in, they drop off a few repairs and ask you some personal questions. At the end of Episode 7, Yamato takes away the Stranger’s IDM ThinkerDad laptop. In Episode 8, your friend turns up with the old master’s watch, a Nerdio W-91F, and wants to know how it ended up in your home. They leave it with you to repair. Fix it, and when they come back for it there’s one more round of hard questions. Your answers to their earlier questions change a few of your replies, but the scene always ends the same way: your friend leaves, the achievement unlocks, and soon after Yamato arrives with the bulldozer news.

If nobody moves in, there’s no watch scene and the story skips Episode 8: once Yamato takes the laptop away, it goes straight to the bulldozers in Episode 9. You can still reach either ending, but you can’t earn any of the three friend achievements on that playthrough.

Story Achievements