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Tragic or Happy Ends in Otome—Which Team Are You On?

Games with dark themes, but with happy endings. I know it's naive, but I like the idea that, despite all the odds, good triumphs in the end.
Bad endings can be okay too, as long as they make sense. I don't like bad endings that are bad just to make the player feel sad. Or because the characters simply behaved stupidly, even though they were well-developed characters beforehand.
That was my issue with Hakuoki, because most of the bad endings were the result of exceptionally poor choices made by the characters:/
 
i love tragedy it's what gets me invested into a story and i'd appreciate the happy end more after experiencing a really good sad end. i also love happy ends that aren't really happy ends and are just complicated in the middle type of ends stuff like that will keep me thinking about the game forever
 
I prefer happy endings, but I really enjoy stories where the journey has twists and turns, or where misunderstandings arise along the way. It makes the eventual happy ending feel even more satisfying.
 
there are some tragic ends that i like from olympia and collarxmalice. But I generally like happy ones more
 
I love angst and tragedy and bad ends but my specific taste in otome (especially if they're labeled as true ends) is happy ending after the MC has gone through numerous hardships!
 
i can say i'm too fragile for tragic ends, so if i have to choose, i'll definitely pick happy ends. no doubt :D

however there are some cases where i'm quite intrigued with tragic ends/what-ifs, especially if the theme of the said game is quite a dark one to begin with. i think for those kind of games, darker or tragic ending will 'make sense' more since it suits the general concept/universe!
 
私はハッピーエンドが好きです。

登場人物の、自分が知りたくなかった一面を知ると、少し悲しい気持ちになる。

以前読んだ物語で、私が好意を抱いていた登場人物が別の女性と付き合い始め、結婚して子供をもうけたのですが、その時は複雑な気持ちになりました。

彼らの幸せを祝福したい気持ちもあったが、彼とヒロインが築き上げた絆があまりにもあっけなく断ち切られてしまったことに、私は悲しみを覚えた。

Reading the heroine's pathetic monologue, I was reminded once again that the feelings and thoughts she had poured her heart and soul into were so easily discarded.

おそらく、私がこれまでプレイしてきたゲームはどれもバッドエンドが悲劇的で、悲しい思い出しか残らないものばかりだったからだろう。
 
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I usually prefer Happy Ends, but a change of pace to a Tragic Ends once in a while isn't too bad.
 
I enjoy fluffier, happier endings; I'll only play tragic endings to complete all possible ending routes.
 
I prefer happy endings, but I'll play the tragic endings if I can play the happier endings later as a palette cleanser lol
 
I'm Team Tragic Ends, provided there's a happy end too. Not all games know how to write a tragic ending well
 
I love tragic stories, but I need the ending to be happy or at least bittersweet. I'm pretty sensitive and cry a lot, so tragic endings are just too emotionally draining for me
 
Happy endings! Life is tragic enough already. Bad endings leave me with a feeling of emptiness.
 
Usually a Happy ending enjoyer but might like merry bad or bad ending sometimes if ending story is peak and CG is cool enough(like jacks bad ending in roroari)
 
i prefer happy ending because it feels like a reward after going through so many angst routes T__T
 
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