Bad Endings in Games 

There is the ZeldaUniverse dubbing of it with Chuggaaconroy in it if you want to watch it.

Funny enough, I was just about to post that!🤣

It already did, it’s called Majora’s Mask 3D.

Doctor: Im sorry. Weve tried every theropy we can. Im afraid its turmeenal. What? Oh sorry I only ever read it.

@@ShockwaveFPSStudiosdoesn’t have voice acting though

Lmao, I'll never understand why everyone at Capcom treats that game like the plague when they're perfectly fine with releasing Megaman X7 as if it were any other Megaman game. I actually really like how different super adventure Rockman is in terms of tone.

​@@thefollower2933probably because it'll ruin MegaMan legacy

@@NetBattler how would it ruin it's legacy?

That's unfortunate. I love how bold the game is. Death and defeat are part of life, I don't understand why people are so sensitive with children watching it.

@@davidsenra2495 I mean, yeah you got a point, but i don't think any children will be happy seeing their favorite character being blown up to pieces in their faces.

Oh, absolutely. And I was stunned that Shaba's idea for a Web of Shadows follow-up wasn't following on from the bad ending. That's what everyone who played the thing wanted to see.

The Shura ending in Sekiro leads to you fighting an older variant of the normal final boss. While I don't think it's as good as the normal one, he pulls out the coolest looking attack in the game: One Mind. It's undoubtedly the worst ending, but there is something badass about seeing this man who's hours away from dying stand up to kick your butt.

Bad endings are the best way to reach catharsis. Very important for mental health.

Cyberpunk Edgerunners anyone? (Tragic, sad, and impactful)

half if these weren't even sad just disturbing

Undertale ahh line

It's also gotta be The Most Heart wrenching Quotes that Hits Hard in Reality as it does in Fiction when we Get Older or Learn it big time while we're Young, Years Generations and Decades Later.

Kinda reminds me of the quote of Final Fantasy 6: On that day the world was changed, forever.

Along with THAT scream.

It happened to me but on a emulator, i was legit surprised and bursted in a nervous laughter when i saw Tooty.

Meanwhile I'm here thinking it's a good trade given what Gruntilda winds up looking like...

I was so conflicted as a kid. The ending scared me but Grundy’s new look woken up the puberty inside me. Imagine being terrified with a boner.

@@Unchainedful JESUS CHRIST DUDE! 🤣😈

@@Unchainedfulyou got erect from it? How. It’s not that hot. Then again tho I am asexual.

The best part though is that sometimes those what ifs turned out to be canon such as Blood Omen 1.

I wonder, which game has the most depressingly bad ending? And when I say depressingly bad, I mean Infinity War depressingly bad.

Omori's endings hit hard...

​@@user-fh6mc9du5n I don't know if you know about Infamous 2 but the bad ending hits really hard. The good as well as I think about it

​@@user-fh6mc9du5nDishonored. Even the neutral higher being makes it sound like you seriously fucked up when you let an important character fall on high chaos.

It also sticks out because even the good ending is bittersweet. If you want a happy ending in a Persona game play the one that starts with the MC getting drugged and tortured. :D

not only that, but against the whole meaning of Persona 2 too

@@TheBlackSeraph I heard they talk about freeing him in persona q

You could say the same thing about both bad endings from persona five and Royal

i would say p4g wins the bad ending prize with the accomplice because not only you betray your friends and the whole truth you been searching, everyone is going to slowly "die" (become a shadow) and there's literally nothing the world can do to stop it. At least on 3 your character can have a fast, peaceful death while narukami has to take all that guilty to his grave.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lz1DKQlo0A8.html Yeah, I made a comment about that last year.

I still have trouble playing that game. There's really nothing else like it on the SNES. Spooky and sad. Some of the endings are _bleak_

I guess you were too slow.

The possibilities are never ending.

There's a channel called whoisthisgit that does stuff like this as a main series, also I'm pretty sure this video stole some script from him lol

@@frayzard yeah I used to watch them

Yo Just Reading This Made Me Wanna Go Watch A Retrospective 🖤

iirc someone said that when that happens, the 3DS version forces you back to main menu, reloading your last save really hammering the point home that there's nothing left to save, go back to your last save

@@rokkraljkolesa9317so you fail the game and have to reload? Doesn’t sound very novel to me.

@@mahmud7645 in a game where the gameplay is playing through the same 3 days using the song of time

I imagine Link probably would lose his mind with his death loop, repeating the cycle of 3 days trying to stop the moon from crashing into the planet, but getting crushed to death by it countless times.

Also, shoutout to Blood Omen 1 and Clock Tower 1 (SNES) since the sequel actually takes place where the bad ending left off.

Soul edge had some great endings / alternative endings. They even had the best fighting game intro Shine on

Same thing for X-Com. The bad ending is canon for X-Com 2.

@@prince_nocturne Remove the hyphen and we're good. X-COM are the old games, XCOM's the reboot. Much easier to distinguish and that's also the how the titles are spelt on steam.

@@NealCamerlengo the fact the entire Legacy of Kain series spun off of the BAD ending of the first game is wild.

disgaea:)

Y'all remember the canabalism ending

Or in 2 if Rosalyn falls in battle enough, she can't be brought back from her true self

piggybacking on this cause NIS games - the amount of (sometimes hillarious) bad endings you can get in Soul Nomad and the World Eaters is staggering - so much so they marked all the bad ends and allow you to take em _just to see what happens_ only to dump you back to the choice Also one of the worst Bad Ends (called the "Worst End" by the fanbase in Disgaea 2 but man do you have to work for this one, but damn, you see nothing and the voicework does all the work there - especially in the jp audio

@@MelficeOne yeah the sister eating one

Also in the Splatoon 2 DLC, if you die or run out of time during the final boss, you get a scene similar to the Splatoon 3 bad ending where Inkopolis gets annihilated by Commander Tartar's cannon.

I guess technically the only thing 'worse' about that one is that Sonic was technically more in danger with the bad ending, as if it _weren't_ for Tails, he would've definitely died from fall damage. Still, I think it's better than the alternative of having different endings depending on how many Chaos Emeralds you got where neither are 'bad' endings, as it just makes sense to. After all, you saved the day from Robotnik either way. (Besides, I suck at Sonic 2's special stages anyway.)

I wouldn't necessarily call it a bad ending. It's still a good ending, just not as good as the true ending. I'm assuming it's the canon ending. Actually, yeah, as I write this I remember the start of Sonic 3 has you Super Sonic and then Knuckles punches you or something... it's been far too long since I've played Sonic 3.

Maybe neither is exactly what happened. Maybe Sonic hadn't quite gotten the hang of Super form flight and it kept flickering on and off, making Tails necessary regardless. Plus it's clear they kept the Emeralds in between Sonic 2 and Sonic 3&K, so that way Sonic gets to practice the Super form and Tails gets to study it as well as the Emeralds themselves. Only after S3&K do they do the Sonic 1 thing with the Emeralds-and trigger their eye color changes in the process.

Ya know, I never collected all the gems to get super sonic, so the "bad" ending was the only ending I saw.

Funnily enough, I'm pretty sure Sonic 2 is the only one of the classics to not have the "Try Again" screen. Makes me think the developers knew what they were doing, and also makes it so I pretty much never go for the Emeralds lol

What's the spinoff?

@@nickybluepants Dragon Quest Builders

​@@MozillaVulpixlol your username in your profile picture

Also, even if you decide to fight Dragon Lord, saving the princess is completely optional and would change the ending as well. Honestly, pretty ahead of it's time

What's even funnier is that in that spinoff, the world basically becomes Minecraft.

unfortunately i suck at the special stages in sonic game's

Isn’t there a way to lose because you choked on the ceiling fan at the start? I think that qualifies, because nothing changes for the better.

@@IamaPERSON You can have a HEART ATTACK immediately after waking up if you roll poorly. That's harsh.

@@bloodrunsclear dang!

@@IamaPERSON It's only possible if you have a one endurance, otherwise you just take a single point of health damage and the game continues normally.

@@bluishwolf makes sense.

The Batman Arkham games were so effective on this. The villain coming over your dead (or dying) body and celebrating your defeat, or telling you their plans now that you're out of the picture. Chilling...

Donkey Kong 64's Game Over screen even lives on in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate as part of King K. Rool's Final Smash; even showing the destruction of DK Island. Sheesh...

DK 64s bad ending is my absolute favorite!

The Blast-o-matic wasn't actually properly ready, so it may have exploded too, killing K.Rool and the Kremlings with it.

Bro I can’t even LOOK at old style telephones to this day as that scene absolutely traumatized me

Thanks, nintendo, for traumatizing me in splatoon 2

I've also seen that ending from Dead Rising. When I got it; I thought I did something wrong; letting the pilot get his ass killed by a zombie. And also; I got the bad ending in Pikmin. I hated the game. So I failed it on purpose. Sorry. But I loved playing Dead Rising; it's like the second best horror themed series Capcom theme has. Except for DR 3 and 4. But honestly; as much as I love Dead Rising; I always preferred Resident Evil/Biohazard(if you're in Europe/Japan). But Dead Rising is great too. Although it's lost a bit of quality lately. But that doesn't mean I don't like the first 2 DR games; and the 2 side games? Case West and the other one with both Chuck and Frank. I wish they'd go back to what made those 2 games fun in the first place. And also; Isabella(the girl from the first game); was the one who developed the virus to get revenge on the people; and she was apparently the one Brad and Jessie were looking for back in the Willamette Mall; not Carlito. Because she explains it during Dead Rising 3. I've seen every ending in the original Dead Rising. There's only one good ending; where you escape with everyone; or show up to the rooftop and the pilot DOESN'T see you; and crashes into a wall; or gets eaten by zombies. Because it's a Capcom horror game with zombies that's not Resident Evil. But it's impossible to save either Brad or Jessie; or the pilot. They're SUPPOSED to die; unfortunately. Along with Carlito; and the doctor. It's a great first game for a new series. Too bad it's declined...but maybe someday they'll bring Dead Rising back to star quality...

Abe lured me here as well Considering "Lure" is part of Abe's full name makes this less funny. 💀

Munch's Oddysee was one of the first video games I ever played, so I'm happy to see it here.

The entire Oddworld series, Stranger's Wrath included, are some of my favorite games of all time. Nothing else quite like them.

the world building is unreal

Based Live A Live enjoyer.

**Armageddon go brrrrr**

That game always looked so interesting to me! I think I really do need to play it one day

*SPOILERS* You either watch the universe get destroyed in all the eras or Odio gets to live in a lifeless husk of a world all alone. Either way it’s sad to think about

@@unitlonda4925Ignore my other comment and play it for yourself, It’s really good imo

But also realistic. That's just life, not everyone will get their happy endings

I believe there is a way to complete at least one of them on the same time loop that you save termina

@@ochuspin yes, you can save either of them on the final cycle, but not both

You can actually complete every single quest save for one in a single cycle. It is difficult. You will suffer. But you can give everyone a happy ending. Which quest are you incapable of completing? I forget. But it is one of two and it's up to you to decide. After all, the quest you chose to complete locks you out from finishing the other one.

@@redstonewarrior0152 You can't complete the Kafei quest and the Romani quest in the same cycle as they occupy the same time slots with a very far distance between

Not can. _Will_ happen. It's not a 50/50 chance. The game starts out by giving the good ending, and then the other choice upon reloading.

Only thing I can think of close to it off the top of my head is Far Cry 4. The dictator you'd find yourself warring against across the game tells you to wait a few minutes, and if you do you continue your day's itinery for a nonstandard end.

@@gratuitouslurking8610in Far Cry 5 you can flee to florida per boat

Would you really say that's the good ending? Considering where the flip winners end up...🥲

​@@gratuitouslurking8610Far Cry 5 as well. You let the Father go, and the world won't blow up or neither will your friends get captured

Wtf does that have to do with you being a nerd? Other than those lines being fucking terrible and you having bad taste

"The world doesn't perish with a bang, but ends with a whimper" Heard something like this from the main villan of Saints Row 3 in the "bad" ending

Damn, I forget about that ending...

For me it's the other way around. I always leave the canon ending for last, so i usually go the evil route first (UNLESS the evil route is the canon one, then it's the opposite). This way, it feels like "this is how everything went to shit, but this time (my second playthrough), you have the chance to fix everything" If a game is too long however (i.e. Witcher 3) then i'll just go the canon route right away

The reason I was very interested with little nightmare The game only had bad ending for now,but it always makes me curious on why and what is going on

Suffering From Success

Really? That's so weird. I was able to use a turbo controller with my original PSX copy of the game and Ocelot didn't do a damn thing. What in the world...

the Dead rising series was great (the ones I played. Up to OTR) and the psychos made sense in what they wanted to do, cept maybe the mascot that guy was a bit too crazy, and all the songs I listened to again just by themselves because they had kinda that Nu-Metal sound to them that they popped up when I was listening to Korn and Slipknot and I had to see "From Dead Rising 2:Off the Record" to know it was even from Dead Rising

@@someguywithamic9 Dead Rising 1, 2 and 3 are all amazing. Never played 4, but i hear this one is bad

Just like a really short 1 screen explanation in Breath Of Fire 2 if choose not to hunt the demon.

Tbf that's how you would pronounce that word in Spanish. Termina means finish or end in Spanish, which makes sense in context of the game story

​@@REDEEMERWOLFhmm well I learned something new today.

@@theonlybilge no offense, That is bout the stupidest shit I've ever heard.

@@REDEEMERWOLF even though that’s true I’m a Spanish speaker also but that wasn’t how I pronounced Termina when I first played the game.

@@neoPeake I never pronounced it that way either. Just saying, it's not completely unfounded

I wasn't even certain Rock _could_ cry; the _X_ games strongly imply that the robots before X and Zero weren't fully self-aware. Mind, it's _also_ disturbing that my thought about seeing that bad ending was that that sounded a lot like setting up the world of _MegaMan Zero,_ only with a memory-edited X rather than a copy running the 'perfect' city.

Plus the first time that Dr. Wily actually becomes victorious over our hero

True

@@retropixel1272 Yeah I said the same thing on riverscuomo7140 comment

@@boobah5643I thought the whole with with mega man is that he was actually more human. I mean in one of the games he was literally about to murder dr wily (or dr wawee)

Cellystix

@@Cellystix3.0 bro is out here reaping his favorite obscure bugsnax

@@gegnabean Cellystix :P

I find it weird that snorpy is roger craig smith aka sonic the hedghog

@@I_doen_kwno holy shit ur right I always forget that

Yeah, my immediate thought was that Clement just never got far enough to see that one; dude didn't do some kind of search for 'bad ends,' it's apparent that these were all bad ends that touched him emotionally.

Yea your wrong bout starkiller. Disney would not even give him the choice to go to the dark side.

Live A Live comment! Whoo!

What still blows me away about how genius Live A Live handles the endings & choices therein is that this was originally on the Super Famicom. That era of RPGs, especially from Squaresoft & Enix (they hadn't merged yet for those confused), were already peak but the fact us in the west didn't get to officially experience this game until the remake on modern consoles a few decades later is insane with how good the quality is. And on the note of extra endings, the fact said remake gave us a new final boss that lets us actually SAVE Oersted from himself. That fight became one of my favorite final bosses INSTANTLY!

​@@Triforce_of_Doom tbf if this was released in the west it would have prolly been a big a hit as chrono trigger. but however the original true ending only added extended credits compared to a new finaler boss the remake adds (doing all side dungeons in the finale). The original true ending is much more tragic. He fades away as he explains his wrongdoings rather than fight one last fight then do that.

"Let All Creation Yield To My Command Let Blinding White Subsume And Cleanse The Slate" Odio (most likely), 2023

Have you played Firewatch? It has a great atmosphere, and great story. And really unexpected turns. I'm not gonna tell you anything more in case you haven't played it 👀

@@Litepaw I've watched a bunch of videos regarding the game. It's as great as they say.

@@blockeontheleafeon ❤️ It was heart-wrenching. And beautiful. It really made me think about life.

@@Litepaw I see.

That kinda reminds me of the game over's you can get in the paper mario games, super and thousand year door if you make the wrong decision

Trying to find the good ending in a Yoko Taro game will always fuck you up

Hey, but the final ending led to the Nier series, so that's a good ending for us at least!

@@tatltails3923 Not really. Humanity is dead 100% in the NieR timeline, but at least the androids can carry on humanity's legacy after finally breaking free from their self-imposed YorHa cycle and finding their own reason to exist. NieR Automata is literally the only Yoko Taro game with a happy ending, unless you count those weird card RPGs on Switch.

Yeah in Yoko Taro games almost every ending is a bad ending. Ironically, DG1's standard "ending A" is actually the "happiest" ending by far in spite of its bittersweet nature. DG1 Ending A: Your dragon buddy dies but you save the world. Leads to Drakengard 2. DG1 Ending B: Seed of resection creates army of monsters. Everyone dies. DG1 Ending C: Apocolypse is triggered. Everyone dies. DG1 Ending D: The apocolypse is triggered, but the entire main cast sacrifices themselves to stop it with each one dying gruesomely. The world is saved, but at what cost? DG1 Ending E: MC goes to another world (aka modern day Japan) to kill the queen beast. The queen beast is killed, but the MC is shot down by the Japanese military and dies. The queen beast's death spreads a virus that causes humanity's extinction, with humanity coming up with a master plan to preserve their species leading to the events of NieR Replicant. NieR Ending A: Cliffhanger ending leading to the second half of the game. NieR Ending B: Yona dies, humanity is doomed. NieR Ending C: Yona is saved but Kaine is killed. Humanity is doomed. NieR Ending D: Yona and Kaine both survive, but the MC erases himself from existance to save them, erasing all the players save data. NieR Ending E: Alternate route in a post-ending D save that's exclusive to the HD Remaster. When meeting Kaine for the first time it cuts back to modern day post-ending D and you play a new 3-5 hour senario as Kaine. NieR is revived (meaning that your save file is restored) but humanity is still doomed. DG3 Ending A: Everyone dies. DG3 Ending B: Zero game ends herself. DG3 Ending C: Zero turns evil and destroys the world. DG3 Ending D: Zero is revealed to be the queen beast and now her dragon has to seal her away. Automata Ending A: Adam and Eve are defeated and it's revealed that androids and machines might be the same after all. End of part 1. Automata Ending B: Same as ending A but from 9S's perspective. Automata Ending C: A2 defeats 9S and sends him to safety. She then sacrifices herself to destroy the tower. Automata Ending D: A2 and 9S kill each other, and 9S's conciousness joins Adam and Eve on a spaceship to visit other worlds. Automata Ending E: With the player's help, everyone is revived and the world is restored. Only truely happy ending made by Yoko Taro.

@@KrimsonKattYT Dude. While your recaps of all the endings were delightful, I said a good ending for US. The PLAYERS. Because we ended up getting to play the Nier series, a set of life-changing games that base their entire timeline off of Drakengard 1's joke ending. And therefore wouldn't exist as we know them without that ending existing first.

Had no idea choosing not to return led to a bad ending.

@@zer0w0lf94 Its very brief and sends you back to the start of the day. Or you can just reset the system and go to the last save

I never finished Gates, but I really think its story was way better than Super. Gates felt original, whereas super felt like a mix and retread of previous games, abandoning its original ideas so quickly. Super just refined the gameplay so if Gates had Super’s gameplay I feel like it would’ve been perfect. That ending sounds so haunting.

@@ma.2089 I do like gates, but I feel like that secret bad ending is kinda the only part where it feels like it pulls off any sort of edge well. The story is like "The world is going to freeze over because there are no good pokemon left". But then half of the scenes are like odd romantic plot lines and "V-WHEEEEL!" I think the dialogue is good, but I personally just find it too tonally confused

when i was younger, i never had the balls to say no to returning, even when i finished the game several times. lowkey glad i saved myself from that haunting ending bc if my 12 year old self saw this, i would have nightmares lol

dam same i fell off a while back but i remember enjoying his old LP's back in the 2010's

I remember finding him in 2010 when he was doing Sonic Triple Trouble with that really crappy microphone. Yep, good times!

and this channel is about fifteen years old

Same here. He's the very first youtuber/lets player I ever watched, and only because I needed help for Sonic 3.

I remember first watching his videos was during high school back in 2009

In ways I am like that

They don't bring depression and trauma at all. You missed the whole point of the video which is explained in the end.

Same

Where can I find this game? I have heard, very briefly, about the Conquest Ending, but know very little. Can you point me in the right direction?

@@RedSpade37it’s on PS3, but there was essentially a remaster on Vita and Steam. The remaster is called Re;Birth 2

Im.. Confused. I thought maya never died?

@@littlebadassgaming Maybe im misremembering? There might only be a bad ending where you sentence Adrien Andrews and Maya never speaks to you again, lol

That case was one of the best in the series

@@pompadorbz9168 Only the first one. But from what i remember it was phoenix who was too ashamed of himself and never seen her again. Convicting the real killer is the good ending. SPOILER Cause Phoenix showed that Engarde (his defendend who hired an assasine to kill his rival) tried to blackmail Shelly Dekiller (The assassine). This broke the contract Dekiller hat with Engarde and he released Maya

@@Acacius1992 ahhh i probably just misremembered then, lol

I will *NEVER* get the "dog doesn't love you" ending. I love animals, especially dogs, way too much for that.

I more see the base game ending of Frontiers as the Normal Ending rather than a Bad Ending because The End is still defeated, albeit at the cost of Sage but Dr. Eggman was able to bring her back none the worse for wear thanks to technology, and considering The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (it's not what it sounds like, it's a Murder Mystery party) doesn't seem to contradict the canon to my knowledge and Sage appears at the end of that game (and if you pick "Don't turn us into robots.", Eggman will mention Sage because she can control robots) I think it's fair to say that either scenario could be used.

I never actually understood Final Horizon DLC as I haven't played much of it yet. Is it an alternate timeline to what happened in the base game, forking off at Ouranos island therefore creating a new ending?

@@SocksFC From a story perspective Final Horizon (or Another Story in-game) takes place immediately after Sonic's friends cure him of his Cyber Corruption (after Rhea Island), so yes it's an alternate Ouranos Island.

@@SocksFC Yup. If you play through Rhea and then Another Story immediately afterwards, that first cutscene is Eggman and Sage stopping Sonic and proposing the idea to restore his Cyber Corruption and use it as power against The End

That sounds interesting as hell, unfortunately im poor. Time to watch someone else play it.

@@cdogthehedgehog6923 And the final bit after that ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y7D_gjytpnA.htmlsi=3e-0FXlat5QCjXmb

What was said atrocity?

@@littlebadassgaming Killing 100 million people in the span of 3 minutes. There are these stations called cradles where half of humanities population live. They're thousands of meters above the surface of the earth to keep them safe from the pollutants of the world below. And if you accept the mission, you can drop them from the skies. 10 cradles to destroy. 20 million on each.

@@littlebadassgaming kill 140 million people on cradle ships.

Part of this is an unwillingness to create fail states, and some of this is just that it's so expensive to do _anything_ in the AAA environment; bad endings are an obvious place to cut when things get tight.

@@boobah5643 frankly, with how complex and expensive it is to do anything, most triple a games can't even really have more than just the one ending let alone a bad end

He decided to finish the job.

Me too w/ Super Adventure Rockman, I've been a huge Mega Man fan for several years now and I found that one's story really underrated.

Love that you gave whoisthisgit a shoutout.

I love his content, best/worst/wierdest levels ever, creepy bad endings, the most powerful/weakest characters in gaming, creepy time limits, leave my eyes/ears/mind alone, all pretty good stuff!