- Oct 25, 2024
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Bad Ending, because happy endings only make me feel happy for a short while and then I forget. If Bad endings, for some reason, are easier to remember and cherish, maybe it's because I rarely finish anything with a bad ending.
Bad ending or good ending, which one do you prefer?
- Thread starter Violetta19
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I don't like bad endings where everyone just dies, so I rarely read them.
Good endings, preferably. I like bad endings too, but they kind of make me feel down, and because of that, I do the bad endings before the good endings so I can finish a game on a positive note.
Also, when it comes to good endings, the ones I like the most are ones where the game gut punches your feelings over and over and gives out a well-deserved good ending after all the things you and the characters went through. :,)
Also, when it comes to good endings, the ones I like the most are ones where the game gut punches your feelings over and over and gives out a well-deserved good ending after all the things you and the characters went through. :,)
- Aug 20, 2025
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I get too attached to the characters, so seeing them hurt or get a bad ending crushes my heart! I need that sweet closure to sleep peacefully at night. 
I play otome to be happy and healed, not to cry! I want happy ending where we get married and live happily ever after!
- Jul 29, 2025
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I like to collect bad endings when possible, some of them can be really unique and serves to show the characters in a different light than usual, but ultimately I would still like a happy ending or at least a bitter sweet one as a pallet cleanser.
- Mar 17, 2024
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As a long time fan of Jumin from Mystic Messenger, I think I actually prefer bad endings, since the characters will give off yandere vibes!! There's just something about seeing that obsessive, possessive side of a character that makes the bad endings so satisfying ヽ(￣▽￣)ノ
Piccolo Tangerine
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- Aug 18, 2026
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Oh God, so hard to pick. I love both, sometimes the good end just not enough to satisfy me, it lacking sth, I need more thrill, so bad end is added up more tension to the progress, it also encouraged me to collect all endings too
- Aug 15, 2026
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Definitely good! I always like to get the full experience of a game so Ill play trough all the bad routes/endings as well, but I cant say Ive ever preferred one over the good endings.
- Feb 28, 2026
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Good endings, I want to end the game feeling happy, although I do see the value on bad ends, but I prefer to remember the game on a final happy note
vonvonv
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For me the bad ending and happy ending is just meh! The ending that I'm always looking for does it make sense with the stories. Sometimes, problem solve happily ever after is just meh. I want ending where male lead and female lead navigating together and reach ending that could be sad ir happy but I don't have problem solve or unsolved in bad way. I want story to be smooth and an ending that could be sad but still it make sense with the story rather than bad ending or it could be other ways. So I am really looking for how story writer brings stories that make senses not randomly throwing out of the boxed the end.
A fulfilling/unique bad ending is better than a mediocre/average good ending. Chou no Doku Shiba's Bad End 2 (iirc) for example.
