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Why I Like Bittersweet Endings

By: Zanpakutou in defaultposted at 12:32 pm Apr 14,2012

Tags: rant  good  happy  sad  bad  ending  bitter  sweet  bittersw 

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Generally, you have 3 types of endings in any form of media. The first is the good ending. This is where everything works out fine. The second is the bad ending where you did something wrong resulting in a nonstandard game over. The last is a bittersweet ending where you win, but you had to pay a heavy price to achieve it. Sometimes, it might also overlap with a tragic ending which is almost the same except that the ending is just an outright depressing. On rare occasions, there are special hidden endings in games with multiple endings that break away from these paths often requiring extra work in order to select all the right options to achieve the true ending of the game.


The problem with good endings is best exemplified with "Victory is boring". This means that you are basically the invincible hero and everything always works out fine. More often than not, this results in a reset button where the main villain is stopped and everything is fixed. The problem is

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