Listen sometimes the hobbies choose us. A blog about playing otome games about cute boys by someone less interested in said cute boys and more interested in the strange and sometimes horror-esque paths otome games run into. Also include other media that's kinda sorta related to this? If you think real hard?
Rewatching Revolutionary Girl Utena a Literal Decade Later - Season 1
So the first time I watched Utena was back in high school, where I didn’t have the tools nor the courage to admit I was into girls. So during that first watch I was very much that “they’re such good friends” kind of viewer. But now its 2020, and I’m bi and maaaaaaybe there’s something more to Anthy and Utena’s relationship. I don’t know its just a hunch I have.
Anyway this is just going to be me making disparate comments on the show that I didn’t notice (or sometimes just avoided noticing) during my first viewing. So if you’re expecting me to explain what Revolutionary Girl Utena’s about...lol. @vraik did an in-deph look into the show if you want explanations that makes sense, and you can also see the episodes on Youtube both subbed and dubbed if you just put the name in (i’m not brave enough to watch dubbed that will forever be a mystery to me) and there’s tons of videos talking about the show’s themes and what it means to them. So this? It’s just going to be nonsense in bullet-point form. So let’s begin!
I have a penchant for liking loud girl characters that others pan as obnoxious and annoying, and Wakaba is no exception. Only now I’ve been infected with vine culture so all I can imagine is the “He doesn’t deserve you” vine when her love letter is posted on the board.
Kale Sandwich man only washes his hair once a week and thinks drinking essential oils makes his breath smell nice no I will NOT be taking questions.
Spinach has quarantine hair before quarantine hair was a thing truly a man ahead of his time.
How did I miss all the rotating rose motifs in the show the first time I watched it?
Fun fact the shadow play was my favorite part first time watching it. Even when I didn’t like the episode I’d watch for the shadow play.
You know what? I’m going to say it - I LIKE CHU-CHU! There! I said it! Take me to the guillotine for my annoying mascot lovin’ crimes!
Touga is funny when Utena brushes him off and he goes, “oh yeah Baby” but the moment his manipulations begin to take hold and he touches my child’s hair I want to spray him with holy water. I’d report him to an authority figure at the school but HAH
Touga better watch his lovingly cared for hair because I got scissors snip snip.
Mickey mouse memes cursed me if I turn the sound off I imagine Miki’s voice being just like Mickey Mouse PLEASE tell me there’s a parody of that on the Internet somewhere. Have Mickey Mouse talk about the meaning of eternity to me.
The realization that Miki’s sister was not as good as he thought and that he was only projecting that image off of her made the Sunlit Garden episodes really compelling to me even during my first watch.
Do you ever think on the fact that if Nanami wasn’t obsessed with her brother she’d have time to make and connect with real friends. Like she gets along with Miki just fine! They could be good friends and could connect with each other if they could only let go of their obsessions...
Anthy manipulating things in the background (funny how she just happened to start playing piano when its Miki’s turn to duel huh) completely flew over my head first watch, even in the last season. Now going in with the knowledge that even when she’s forced to act passive she’s still active in her own way I keep going “oh. OH. oh.” every time she does a thing.
When Anthy showed Jury the orange rose like her “friend” once did HOW DID I NOT REALIZE!?
Vraik’s interpretation of Anthy giving the rose to Jury after the duel is that it’s a way of mocking Jury, but I’d say when Anthy was showing Jury the rose it was a way of showing how Anthy doesn’t spite Jury for hurting her the way Jury spites her “friend” (cough COUGH) for hurting her. Anthy has already let go of what Jury did (because Anthy’s been through worse lets be real) so why can’t Jury let go of what happened to her? Jury walking away without slapping Anthy like she did in the beginning of the episode, but not taking the rose, shows that she’s almost ready to move on, but not quite yet.
...Then again I like Wakaba AND Chu-chu AND that guidance counselor, so maybe I’m not the most trustworthy Utena interpretour
Anyway Nanami almost kills Utena and Anthy with curry. And Touga won a match with a kangaroo. Tell me a modern anime that’s funnier than the Nanami episodes that’s not gross. Go ahead. I’ll wait.
...I’m kidding I won’t wait anyway Seaweed needs to go in the corner and STAY THERE TILL HE THINKS ON WHAT HE’S DONE!
YOU TOO TOUGA YOU TOMATO PASTE
Did Cucumber ever realize that it was Utena who he met as a child? Did the pink hair not give it away or...?
Touga’s the WORST.
Nanami killing the kitten as a kid? Pretty awful. But I don’t think she’s the only person responsible for the cats death, because I think Touga was fully aware that she was the one who did it, and didn’t care. Maybe this is insensitive, but I think by the time we see a flashback to Touga’s birthday he was already manipulative and cruel. The kitten wasn’t the pet, Nanami was, and he was already toying with her emotions.
Nanami was almost okay with what she did until the box opened, and Nanami was forced to see the life she was taking. That’s why in earlier episodes its mentioned that when she hurts people she doesn’t do it directly. Because if she did she’d be faced with what’s she’s done directly, and she might not be able to handle that.
Also its telling that Nanami thinks Anthy keeping animals is what’ll make others dislike her, but when it turns out that Utena and Miki don’t find it strange at all when Anthy keeps even the more odd kinds of pets around, Nanami can’t comprehend why. I think that’s why even when she realizes that Touga is more interested in Utena than Anthy she still holds a grudge for Anthy.
You can’t make me unmute when Touga is being skeezy with Utena. This is MY rewatch and I can avoid be grossed out by Touga’s attitude if I WANT to.
Utena realizing that the only reason Anthy is her friend and says she wants other friends and doesn’t want to be the Rose Bride is because as the bride she’d supposed to be what her “betrothed” wants her to be HURT ME.
Get me the holy water I need to spray it into my EYES
You know what gets me? Out of all the council members Touga is somehow the best person to be “betrothed” to Anthy. Yeah, think on that for a second. He’s not abusive, he’s not obsessed with her, he doesn’t hate her or spite her passiveness, and he also doesn’t treat her like an ornament. He’s the only one who seems to see the engagement as what it is, which is a transaction. Anthy doesn’t interfere with Touga’s life and Touga doesn’t ask much of her in return. Anthy doesn’t love Touga, and Touga doesn’t love Anthy, so there’s no feelings being hurt. She’s safe because there’s no feelings thus no reason for them to hurt each other.
But then comes the image of Utena who appeared in front of her, silently and without warning. Utena does care about Anthy, and Anthy is starting to care about her, and that’s dangerous for both of them. Maybe for Anthy, its better that Utena thinks that Anthy doesn’t care for anything except being the Rose Bride, so that they can just remain polite acquaintances. Maybe in that sense, Touga is the better choice, which is why Anthy willingly gave Touga power when she never did with the Unripe Tomato. Just rip the band-aid off.
All this to say that in my first watch I kinda fell for the idea that Anthy didn’t care about anything, that she really was emotionless and had no money in this fight over her. So after Utena won the fight and Anthy returned to her like nothing happened, I wasn’t happy about it, because it felt like nothing changed since Utena first won the duel with Unmowed Grass. Anthy still sees this as a transaction. But watching it now I can tell that Anthy is glad to have a reason to be around Utena, even that reason is less than ideal...anyway ThEy’Re SuCh GoOd FrIeNdS HuH!?
SPEAKING of ideal when Akio did the summary episode and Dios moved his head to look at Akio...I like to imagine he gave Akio a middle finger. Just a nice thought to get me through the next season you know?
You know why it takes so long to talk about Nameless Bad Endings? Because they’re so complicated and different from each other! There’s so many bad endings. So. Many. Bad. Endings. So why don’t we shift gears and talk about a game that limits itself to one bad ending per boy. Sometimes you get otome games where each ending is unique and fucked up in their own special way. And then sometimes its just “And then they died.” And you know what? Those endings can be just as valid. So lets get to these shinobis and ninjas and Naruto has corrupted my vision of ninjas permanently I am so sorry.
Nightshade is about Enju, daughter of the Koga Clan’s leader and the sister of the Iga Clan leader. After the Iga Clan was destroyed in a war the Koga Clan absorbed the survivors. Because of this Enju is seen as the glue keeping the Koga and Iga Clan together, and is treasured by the villagers. But Enju wants to be a real shinobi and go on missions like everyone else. One day she gets her wish, and travels with her childhood friends and mentor to complete a mission. Good news, she completed the mission! Bad news, she gets accused of killing the ruler right after.
On the way she travels with her childhood friend and bodyguard Gekkamaru, her other childhood friend and Gekkamaru’s brother Kuroyuki, and her mentor and cousin (oh no) Chojiro, as well as meeting a cold-hearted powerful ninja from another clan, Hanzo, and a libertine totally-not-a-gentleman-thief Goemon. Who’s going to be with Enju beyond the game of life-and-death she’s been forced into? Or in this case, who’s going to see her literal end?
General Thoughts on This Bad End Journey
So before I get to the boys I’ll just do an overview on how choices work here. Note that I’m playing the Switch Version. You got the boys. You got choices. First four chapters you make choices that the boy you want likes and then in chapter five that’s when the route starts (though some routes start a bit early, but each route’s choices still start in Chapter 5.) If you go to the Relationships in the Menu you’ll notice the line of boys and under each one is a line of flowers. Every time you pick a choice a boy would like, the flowers will flash on screen and the next time you check the Relationships you’ll see the flower line begin to fill in with color. Whoever’s flower is colored in the most until chapter 4 will begin the route in 5, and to get the good end you need to continue filling the line with color as much as possible. Don’t fill the line by the end? Bad Ending.
This makes it pretty simple to get the ending you want. Quick Save, make a choice, see the flowers, good. Make a choice, don’t see the flowers, bad, quick load. I’d recommend Quick Saving continuously if you’re like me and can’t stop smashing buttons like I’m trying to speedrun (I can read pretty fast) because if you’re not paying attention you’ll “A” yourself right into picking the first option of a choice that popped up. I did this more times than I would like to admit to.
On the content of the choices themselves, they’re good at connecting to the themes of each boy, so even though you can depend on the flower pop-up to keep you on the path you want you can intuitively see which choices work. This is not true for all otome games.
The Bad Endings themselves basically all lead to the same place - dead and sad. Enju dies, then boy. Or boy dies, then Enju. But each ending differentiates itself in the various flavors of how the deaths occurs and the reaction to it. Also there’s one sad song for all the bad endings and it is a mood. Despite the simplicity of it these endings do genuinely make me sad because Enju is a cutie and I love her and how dare you do this to her and dangit now I’m fond of the boys and now they’re sad and now I’m sad and I’m listening to a sad credit song and want to eat ice cream in a empty bathtub and cry for some reason. So lets be sad...together.
Spoilers for each route. Warning for Descriptions of Death and Suicide.
Goemon - It’s All Fun and Games Until You Need to Pretend You Betrayed a Cute Girl and Cause Her to Be So Sad She Doesn’t Stop Someone From Killing Her
Goemon is a gentleman thief archetype, who’s a player (or in this case libertine?) and steals from the rich to give to the poor. Goemon is the only real one because he doesn't give a single fuck about cops, shinobi rules or the hierarchy, and strives not to shed blood if he can help it, AND is always good to Enju (expect when he was forced to be mean and he literally cried about it later in the good ending.) Usually I’m not for player types, but Goemon manages to pull off being flirty and playful without coming off as pervy and careless. It helps that there’s isn’t a Mean Girl for him to flirt with to cause conflict. But then we near the ending of the route, where Goemon has to pull off a ploy to save Enju without being able to tell her the ploy, and it sucks. I knew it was a ploy from the start, but you still made her be sad gosh darnit! They managed to save the good mood of the route after that spell but just thinking about it left a sour taste in my mouth. Unless you’re in the bad end, in which case you’ll be left with the taste of TEARS.
How to Get the Bad End
Show distrust toward Goemon. Goemon, lets be honest here, looks a little sus. He pressures young ladies into going out for deserts, he’s a little flirty and doesn’t seem to take things with the right amount of seriousness, you fought him on a rooftop because he’s a notorious thief you were sent to capture, you know, it might be hard for Enju to trust him. When Enju trusts in Goemon and is ready to have a good time (no not that kind) the two really establish a bond. But on the road to the bad end Enju always had a seed of doubt in her mind about Goemon.
What Happens
The ploy Goemon came up with was to pretend to rejoin his old shinobi clan, the Fuma Clan, and deliver Enju to the Council of the Five Elder (who all want to be the regent for the late rulers son but need to avenge him by killing his murderer) and then double-crossing both the Lords and his old clan and escaping with Enju with them believing she died. Unfortunately because he’s surrounded by Fuma Clan members during this ruse he couldn’t spill the beans, thus Enju was left in the dark. Also he faked all of her friends murders. It’s not a great feeling to become so connected to someone only to find out that they killed all your friend and will send you to your death.
But in the good path Enju is able to still believe in Goemon. In the bad route...she just gives up on that line of thinking. When they reach the palace, there’s a twist Goemon wasn’t expecting. The late ruler’s Concubine and mother of the later ruler’s son enters before any of the Lords can debate who’ll execute her and kills Enju herself, and in her despair Enju lets her. Goemon then releases the poison that causes people to see illusions and kill each other. Hanzo escapes with his lord Tokugawa before it hits them.
Review
This ending fits well with Goemon because its after Enju dies because of her doubt toward him that Goemon truly betrays his beliefs. He didn’t want to kill anymore. He didn’t want to ever use the cruel techniques he was taught as a shinobi leader. And then he’s left holding Enju’s body covered in blood that’s not his own, tear in one eye. Hearing the screams of lords and servants alike killing each other due to his poison. It’s poetic.
Hanzo - TFW You Go From Cold to Softie But Still End Up in a Double-Suicide Because You’re Girlfriend Didn’t Fully Learn Her Own Self-Worth
So Hanzo is what the kids call, a kuudere. He’s also the oldest, being the same age as Enju’s mom. Enju is 16-17. I am uncomfortable. To be fair Goemon is also around Hanzo’s age, but Goemon doesn’t act as a tutor/guardian in the way Hanzo does, so its less noticeable. Also...he gets real saucy in the last chapter. Saucier than the so-called libertine. Went from 0 to 100 real fast. There are some parts I really love about this route, but given Hanzo’s role and age-gap I feel like this is one of those ones where I wish they left out the romance altogether, but hey this wouldn’t be an otome game without the smooching, so eh.
How to Get the Bad End
Be pessimistic, hesitant, self-defeating, make silly mistakes. Hanzo wants Enju to be smart and willing to improve her skills. This entire route is really about Enju’s growth, both mental and physical, in the face of overbearing odds. So don’t do that and you’ll end up in the bad end. There’s a loooong gap between your last choice and where the bad end hits, and in the last chapter you don’t get any more choices.
What happens.
When Hanzo seemingly disobeys his lord’s order to kill Enju (at least, that’s what the messenger said) he planned to commit suicide. In the good ending Enju stops him and they move on to smooches but in the bad ending...she kills him herself so that he wouldn’t have to do it. Then she ends her life soon after.
Review
I was honestly wasn’t expected this flavor of death from this route, but I suppose its attached to the antithesis of the route. Hanzo, first from orders and then from heart, needed Enju to live and demanded Enju to stay alive, but in the bad end she was able to kill her own lover but didn’t learn to stay alive for herself. It’s sad, but its a little too short for me to really sink in the tragedy. Now if you want tragedy for the entire route, well that’s what our next boy’s for.
Chojiro - This Whole Route is a Bad Ending That the Real Bad End is Almost Cathartic
Chojiro is...*long, drawn out sigh* Enju’s cousin and mentor, whom she calls “Brother Chojiro.” Look there’s a lot of tropes common in otome games that I just can’t get behind, but here I am still playing them. Anyway sliding that fact back under the carpet Chojiro is another seemingly cold-hearted man, but unlike Hanzo, Chojiro already has a developed bond with Enju, and that bond makes it obvious that Chojiro’s got the fuzzies deep down. Unfortunately a lot depends on him being a shinobi who follows the rules and orders to a T, which is awkward when yer girl becomes a fugitive after being accused of murder and you’re sent to kill her. Again, there’s parts of this route I really like if they didn’t bother with the romance. The thing under the carpet aside I feel like there was already an established love between the two from the get go, so to have them smooch, especially after all their friends died, is a little bit...bad timing is all I’m saying. Now the bad ending, well, that just fits right in.
How to Get the Bad End
A good chunk of the choices made are without Chojiro present at all, but if you pick the right choice you’ll still see the flowers. A main theme I suppose would be to get the bad end Enju emulates Chojiro. Try to be cool and calm. It’s not real, but its how Enju sees Chojiro. Think of what Chojiro would do, rather than what Enju truly feels. That’s just a loose thread though. The path to the bad end comes mainly from how the plot of the route happens, which is Enju asking if living is really worth...all this?
What Happens
So uh, that ruler Enju was accused of murdering? Yeah he never died. The double was killed. In this route at least, he set it up so that the Five Elders would play a game to see who would become the guardian. Each of Enju’s friends, tricked into hunting down Enju at risk of losing their entire village, represented one of the five lords. But then, in the ruler’s viewpoint, Enju managed to kill four of her friends (actually they mostly killed each other...it was actually three of them who died) and was so impressed...that he decided to bring her and Chojiro to the castle to set up a death match. Enju’s blood is boiling. Chojiro’s blood is boiling. My blood is boiling.
So what are we gonna do? Go down in style. Enju decides that if they both can’t live in peace, then they shouldn’t have to live while the other dies either. She convinces Chojiro, who’s revealed to be as soft as Chojiro always told her she was, to strike her as she strikes him. They die in each other’s arms with smiles on their faces.
Review
While the choices don’t really connect outside of whether they’re good for Enju or not, the Bad End fits like a glass slipper on this horrific tragedy. It’s poignant that its Enju who takes the lead in how they go out, when its always been Chojiro who had to be in charge. At the end it was like Chojiro was holding Enju’s sleeve. Sad and beautiful...and closed off from the opportunity to escape that was so close.
Kuroyuki - Kuroyuki is a Tragedy with a Neat Scarf and Losing Enju Did Not Help
Kuroyuki was raised alongside Enju and is, FOR ONCE, around the same age as Enju. At age 8 he was sent out on a mission and only returns now to tag along with Enju and her friends during their mission. He’s aloof and playful, but its pretty clear he gots some secrets, and has some feelings for Enju from the beginning. Once you get into Kuroyuki’s route he doesn’t hide that fact, up and saying that he loves Enju early on in his route. He can act very forward (forward enough to make me act like a PTA mom and evoke the three-feet-apart rule), but when he realizes Enju’s upset he’ll quickly apologize and make pouty faces. Despite the fact that he can be a cold-blooded killer (like all the boys except Goemon can be) and also be the most calculating, he can also be a sweetie, and it feels like he and Enju are on a more even playing field than the other boys. Kuroyuki and Enju can be pretty childish toward each other, and it can get pretty cute. That won’t stop the plotwist, and this bad end, coming fast to snap your heart in two.
How to Get the Bad End
Okay also Kuroyuki’s a yandere. Probably should have said that sooner. Anytime you’re in a yandere route the choices that lead you to the good end are basically to be sensible, because your yandere pal sure won’t. Its the same here, though its good to show some care. So get to the bad end...don’t be sensible. Be reckless. He’s says they’d live together and die together. That’s not worrying at all! What if I want to be with the yandere who gaslit me, mom!? Ever thought about that!?
What Happens
So in this route, the ruler was killed for realzies this time...by Kuroyuki. He was probably killed by Kuroyuki in every route except in Chojiro’s and Gekkamaru’s, because when he kills the ruler there’s no blood or open gash, which is a mark of his type of power. There was a deal between the Kaga Clan (who Kuroyuki was sent to train in 8 years ago) and the Koga Clan to kill the ruler, bringing the country back into war. There’s no use for shinobi in times of peace. What Kuroyuki wasn’t planning was for Enju to be accused of the murder. So uh...he basically sets it up so that he’d be the only one to save her from prison and travel with her. He lied about her friends possibly coming after her, which even I was set to believe because I was in a couple of routes where they did come after her, which was clever. He was spot on about Enju’s father disowning her though, even if he didn’t know it when he told her, which goes to show how much of an ass her dad is.
I need to set this all up to say after all this is revealed Kuroyuki decides that if he can’t be with her, he’ll at least make a better world for her, first by killing her ass of a dad (which, like, same.) Coincidentally Enju, determined to find out who ordered Kuroyuki to kill the ruler to save Kuroyuki, decides to confront her dad on the matter as well. So they both meet again while facing off her dad. Enju wants to live and die with Kuroyuki, and in her reckless rush to protect Kuroyuki her dad stabs her. Kuroyuki kills her dad (good) then carries Enju to a clear field. He gives Enju the only thing he can give her at that point - a happy dream that everything turned out alright, and that he and all her friends are together and happy. Enju dies peacefully in his arms. He promises to join her soon.
Review
I feel like I’m going to say this every time we meet a yandere, but while I like seeing yanderes as obstacles, I don’t believe in good endings with yanderes, at least romantically. Like if a boy can only see happiness by keeping one girl by his side with rope and a red eye that freezes your shadow so you can’t move, maybe he should, at the very least, try to connect with people other than her? Like, maaaaaaybe take a break from each other, clear your mind? No? Enju wants to be with you forever now too? Tch.
That being said, I’m glad this was the bad end for this route, and not a yandere ending where Kuroyuki kills Enju or Enju gets trapped in an illusion so that she couldn’t escape or something. Much as I like “WTF” bad endings this bad ending struck a chord in how...sad it is. Hands down, this one made me cry for Enju and Kuroyuki. Much as Kuroyuki’s got issues, he gave Enju a way to pass peacefully. It hurt me when she closed her eyes, and it hurt me when Kuroyuki cried.
Gekkamaru - The Overprotective Childhood Friend to End All Overprotective Childhood Friends
Gekkamaru is Enju’s childhood friends and bodyguard, and is overprotective to a...concerning degree. No matter which route you’re in he’ll come to Enju’s aid, ranging from “well that’s sweet” to “oh gawd Gekka pls calm tf down.” So you can imagine how he acts in his own route. Despite the over-protectiveness (though I suppose when you become a wanted criminal over-protectiveness is a welcome trait) Gakkamaru is probably the Best Boy of the whole game. He’s earnest and a real sweetheart. Its too bad that this route is about as tragic as Chojiro’s, except the tragedy happens gradually, over and over again, not to mention his bad end...
How to Get The Bad End
So that whole servant-and-master thing? Yeah it’s fine. Gekkamaru wants to act as a servant towards Enju? Eh, don’t worry about it. Pick options that don’t rock the boat on their relationship. Don’t pay attention to Gekkamaru’s growing feelings, it’s fine. It’s fine! Not like he’ll die or anything.
What Happens
So he dies. Turns out Gekkamaru’s been hypnotized not once, but twice! Enju’s mother hypnotized him into protecting Enju at all costs, and his mother hypnotized him into want to kill Enju, due to her father killing his parents before she was born. Enju was tricked into releasing Gekka from her mother’s spell, leaving him with the curse forcing him to attempt to Enju. Before he could do the deed, Enju tell him she loves him. Rather than her love breaking the curse, Gekka’s role as her servant and bodyguard wins over, and he stabs himself fatally. Enju follows after him.
Review
This ending isn’t far off from what actually happens in the good ending, but it mattered how Gekkamaru broke the curse. What killed him was his duty trumping both the curse AND his love. It’s what Enju feared - that his devotion was only due to the spell, and that it would kill him. It’s poetic, but given the roller coaster of tragedy that’s happened throughout the route it feels like just another addition to it.
Conclusion
If I were to rank these bad endings from least interesting to most interesting, I’d say Hanzo - Gekkamaru - Chojiro - Kuroyuki - Goemon. Obviously if you’re looking at good ending ranking or best boy the ranking would be different, but that’s not what we’re here for! This is BadEndVille babey! Chojiro, Kuroyuki and Goemon are a bit of a toss-up, since all three of those bad endings match the character and evoke a unique sort of pain. Hanzo and Gekkamaru’s endings are also sad, but I don’t think they’re as strong a finish as the others. Chojiro, Kuroyuki and Goemon’s bad endings feel like a real conclusion to a tragedy, while Hanzo and Gekkamaru’s bad endings feel like a “whoopsie you killed yer boy from the top!”
Still, all the bad endings are fitting for how they occur: Enju and Her Love learned the wrong lessons. Enju constantly has to face being hunted down by shinobi stronger than her, being abandoned by the village who treasured her and the father who never acknowledged her, and sometimes she has to face her own childhood friends. But on the way she’s often with someone who loves her, who’s willing to carry her through. What she needs isn’t just strength and willpower, its the desire to live. Live even when it feels like it’d be easier for everyone if you were gone, because your life is not for others to use up and wilt.
And in the bad end, Enju fails to learn that lesson. She dies because she can’t see happiness in living, not without the person who loved her by her side, and doesn’t realize that there is a way out, that they can both be saved. With Kuroyuki, they both agreed that they will live together and they will die together, and in every bad end Enju decided that dying together was the better option.
It’s the same for the boys: Goemon fails to keep his beliefs after Enju dies, Hanzo fails to save Enju because he couldn’t change his beliefs as a shinobi, Chojiro fails because he’s so certain that everything he loves with eventually wilt, Kuroyuki fails because he realizes the consequences of what he’s done too little too late, and Gekkamaru fails because he couldn’t truly see himself as anything other than a loyal servant, ready to die even if that dooms the one he serves to misery. They all became Romeos and Juliets, too short-sighted to see the light beyond the horizon.
All this to say that if you have the time after completing the good endings for all the boys, grab some ice cream or any other sweet treat that suits you and go through these bad endings. Let those sad feels wash over you for a bit. Then get to those bonus stories in the extras because I THOUGHT I WAS DONE-
A Road Paved with Bad Endings - Nameless ~The One Thing You Must Recall~
It’s been eighty years since my last one so to remind everyone this is a series about bad ends in otome games - currently I’m talking about the bad ends in Nameless and I already did Lance’s bad endings. This one’s going to be about Yeonho’s.
Yeonho - Bought Used, Highly Damaged, Needs Proper Care
Oh Yeonho. Sweet. sweet little Yeonho. Made to instill mother instincts in young ladies. Surely his route will just be ADORABLE right...right!?
Okay so Yeonho has some serious issues stemming from an extremely painful past (which is bad enough as a doll but then when translated to human terms YIKES) and most of his route is about confronting that past. Sure there are cute moments here and there, but mainly its just about how to confront the things that were done to him and how to cope in a more healthy way.
One thing I’m not keen on is that with these kind of characters (I will elaborate on this when talking about the bad ends) I wish they just left out the romance aspect altogether. So much of this route is about understanding Yeonho’s trauma and how it affects his view of the world, that its not until the last couple of chapters that the writers were like, “oh FUCK this is an otome game they’re supposed to date” and slapped on two or three romantic scenes. It doesn’t help that in this route compared to the other routes it’s painfully clear that Eri favoring Yeonho can go real bad for both of them if not treated correctly. I’m worried about them is what I’m saying.
If you are suffering from abandonment and/or other forms of abuse, this route might make you uncomfortable. I say they do a not-bad job in confronting trauma, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be the same experience with you.
Also two of these three ending go into the “WTF WTF WTF” end of the bad end spectrum, and they do include implied violence and assault so tread lightly.
Bad End 1 - Unforgiven Doll - Surprise! YOU Are The First Yandere in the Game!
How to Get It
Eri. Basic female protagonist in an otome game. Most female protagonists in otome games range from “blank slate/silent” to “this is clearly a story about this particular gal.” Eri falls closer to the latter half of this spectrum, but she still shows some of those tried and true female lead traits, mainly her naivete. This isn’t just to show innocence in this route though: her naive and relaxed attitude toward Yeonho in the beginning becomes a detriment to Yeonho’s growth. She doesn’t realize until around a quarter into the route that Yeonho’s devotion and to her isn’t just a phase, and she doesn’t know how to confront it at first. Yeonho wakes her up every morning, makes the same rabbit-shaped eggs every morning, texts her every morning, noon and night, and it gets to the point where he refuses to leave her side.
One rainy day, Eri’s friends finally have an opportunity to talk to her without Yeonho around. They’re worried about both of them, and they decide to take the chance to separate them by taking Eri out while Yeonho’s on cleaning duty. Yeonho seems pretty dejected at the idea but still stays for cleaning duty. But then...Eri gets worried and goes back. And its a good thing she did, because Yeonho was waiting for her in the pouring rain.
Now, you don’t have to go back right away though...you could choose to be dismissive and cold when it comes to Yeonho...its not like he’ll ever dislike you for it...
Once Yeonho’s taken inside he’s tending to by Eri. Yeonho’s not looking so great after getting a rain shower. He tells Eri he’s cold and doesn’t want Eri to leave but...its not a big deal right? Leave Yeonho’s side to grab blankets.
Alternatively, you can also be dismissive of Yeonho in earlier parts as well. At one point you can almost push Yeonho into riding big rides at a theme park which you know Yeonho doesn’t like but refuses to admit he’s not having fun. Because its all for Eri.
What Happens
Seeing Yeonho shivering and sad...Yeonho who would do anything for her...Yeonho who would always be hers no matter how cruel she is...something in Eri snaps. She WANTS to hurt Yeonho.
Yeonho doesn’t mind right? He’d never hate her. When Yeonho wakes up and sees Eri...he knows what’s going to happen. And he does let her hurt him. And he cries. All he wants is to be cherished.
How I Feel About This One
Honestly when it comes to otome games I expect there’s always going to be at least one route route where somebody goes yandere and/or the main girl gets killed. But this is the first one I’ve encountered where the the main girl becomes the yandere character. It was a real shock to me, because all of the sudden I wasn’t just causing Eri to be run over by the truck, I’m causing Eri to be cruel. When we reach a bad end, our character’s the one who usually gets hurt the most, not the one who directly causes the hurt.
As such while other endings are theoretically worse for Eri and some of the characters involved in their specific route, this one I just can’t stomach revisiting often. Hearing Yeonho crying in pain and asking to be cherished makes me feel like my hearts being used as a needle ball...so as a bad end its pretty good! 7/10 stop making me feel bad please.
Bad End 2 - Competitor - Now Yeonho’s the Yandere! But Wait! A YANDERE CHALLENGER APPROACHES!!! (how many yanderes are in this game!? the answer may shock you)
How to Get It
So after you stay by Yeonho’s side while he’s sick and assure him that you’re there for him and that you WON’T become a yandere things seem to start to improve. Yeonho’s less clingy, and he’s no longer willing to be pushed around by his fans at school (btw all of the boys got fans because they’re all beautiful doll people so yeah.) Eri’s a little concerned that Yeonho is now being too off-putting, but hey it feels like Yeonho is changing so...that’s something.
Then Eri has to go see her parents at a hotel for dinner (btw her parents travel a lot for work and are mainly based in the U.S. so she rarely sees them thus when they do come by they meet her at a hotel nearby where they usually go to for business.) Yeonho begins to wonder if Eri’s parents, her family, matters more than him, who’s just a doll. How can he assure himself that Eri won’t forget him?
Eri leaves promising that she won’t be long. The visit goes fine, except uh...her parents pressure her into staying at their hotel room for way longer than she planned. It’d be nice if you chose to say you have to go back, but choosing to stay isn’t what’ll cause the camel’s back to break in this one. That happens when Eri returns home to see Yeonho, again, waiting for her outside. It’s not raining, but its cold, and Yeonho looks cold both physically and emotionally.
Now I need to remind you fellows that these boys are not people first: they’re dolls first, people second. Their world is limited by the very few experiences they had on top of a shelf. In Yeonho’s case, his experience was being put on a literal pedestal, used essentially as a stress toy whenever his first owner got mad, left on the floor when his owner got bored of him, then left in a very badly put box for who knows how long to be sent to a new owner who, once again, puts him on a pedestal. Eri takes great care of her dolls, but to Yeonho, this doesn’t mean she won’t abandon him like his previous owner did. Because his previous owner seemingly treasured him too.
And with the previous bad end, we know Eri is capable of the same cruelty as the previous owner. And even without that context what’s stopping Eri from abandoning him too? How can he be permanent in Eri’s heart so that doesn’t happen? Yeonho doesn’t have the means to see beyond his own experience, so he can’t see how he won’t be abandoned eventually, and even though he’s human now he still sees himself as needing to belong to someone. What can he do? He’s not being threatening at this point, he’s just begging for answers.
So what answer do you give? Well, if you were listening to his plea, you tell him that no, he doesn’t need to do anything to earn love, because he’s already deserving of it. Yeonho already holds a place in Eri’s heart, and she means that earnestly.
...Buuuuut if you’re looking for a bad end, dismissively say “eh, just stay by my side like usual.” This’ll calm him down right? His deep-seated feelings aren’t that serious. It’s fine. It’ll be fine. Really, it’s fine.
...So turns out it was not fine, because you didn’t give him a real answer. He still doesn’t know how to be permanent in Eri’s heart. So he’s going to find is own answers. Spoilers: the answer he comes to is bad. For both of them. In more ways than expected.
What Happens
Oh wait, no he’s fine. He was cool with that answer! See, he’s smiling, although his smile is a little off, but that’s fine, because me and Eri are sure that he’ll just go back to his usual self by morning. Time to go to bed.
Fun Fact: There’s a diary entry in Eri’s journal that only appears in this ending. Check it out before Eri closes her eyes. It’ll be awkward to read it after Yeonho tries to choke Eri to de-oh-OH GAWD YEONHO’S CHOKING ERI TO DEATH!
Another Fun Fact: If you want to revisit this bad ending save right after you made the bad choice. For some reason in the Memories (the menu that lets you revisit past events) it starts in the middle of the bad ending!
So it turns out the answer Yeonho came to was, “I guess I need to be a yandere” and kill Eri. BTW despite being advertised in the Crobidoll line as “babey” for some reason he was given the ability to see ghosts? So I’m guessing his plan was to have Eri’s spirit tethered to him so she literally can never leave (and thus in his eyes abandon) him.
Funny thing about Yeonho: he’s referenced as similar to a chick a lot in this game. He’s got corn yellow hair that’s feathery and he’s got big ol’ red eyes. Except...when he’s chocking Eri, suddenly his eyes don’t look so cute. His pupils literally shrink. They’re no longer the eyes of a chick, but the eyes of a snake.
So Yeonho kills Eri. Bad End reached. Pretty typical of a bad ending in an otome game, huh?
Well, JUST KIDDING Tei barges in and stops Yeonho from completing the task. Phew Eri was saved. That was close. Good thing someone as kind and dependable as Tei arrived to help her out right...right?
Ha...haha...HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!
Surprise! Turns out Tei is the Alpha Yandere ‘round these parts.
Friends...may I introduce you to...Bad End Tei? He’s going to be a regular on the series. In fact he’s probably the main character in this Nameless Bad End Journey. He’s a constant shadow that looms across almost all the bad paths we follow. Just remember in this series we’re going to be talking only about Bad End Tei, not all of who Tei is. If you want me to talk more about Tei as a whole character you’ll have to wait until we get to Tei’s bad endings, which, spoilers, have a lot of Bad End Tei in it too. You cannot escape Bad End Tei.
Anyway back to what was SUPPOSED to be Yeonho’s Yandere moment.
After stopping Yeonho from killing Eri, Tei starts by saying he’s dissapointed...at Eri? She really shouldn’t have let herself be hurt. Kinda victim-blamey there Bad End Tei. After all, I’M the one who almost got her choked to death here. No need to blame her!
Secondly Tei wants nothing more than for Eri, his owner, to be safe. But if she does get hurt...it should be him who does the hurting. The reason for this is explained further in later bad endings and in Tei’s Route, but in this ending we discover that Tei is just as obsessed with his owner as Yeonho is. Difference is Bad End Tei doesn’t need to be remembered by Eri, or even have a place in her heart. What he wants is Eri herself, and to have that he wants control of her pain. So when someone else tries to cause Eri pain...well that’s stealing his control of her pain, and that just won’t do.
Unlike Yeonho, who ultimately just wants to belong to Eri and to never be abandoned by her, Bad End Tei wants Eri to belong to him the same way he belongs to her.
It’s ironic that a doll wants ownership over the doll’s owner huh. Feels like maybe bringing dolls to life wasn’t exactly what its cracked up to be.
Anyway if Eri’s going to get hurt, then there was no reason for Tei to have held back for so long. If this was going to happen, he should have hurt Eri when this all started. He justifies that he can hurt Eri better than Yeonho can (weird flex but ok) and its getting late so could Yeonho like, leave? And even Yeonho in yandere mode is taken aback. But then he’s like, “No wait I’M the yandere in this bad ending!” and tries to attack Tei.
Tei doesn’t want to hurt or even touch anyone that’s not Eri, but since Yeonho won’t be good and go to bed he’ll just have to put him down. Even though all the dolls are in human form now, their doll forms are still on Eri’s shelf. And doing things to the doll forms affects their human forms. So, instead of going after Yeonho the human...he grabs Yeonho the doll. And squeezes.
Meanwhile Eri is, quite justifiably, shocked and disgusted by all this. Yeonho’s a yandere? Tei’s a yandere? I could be a yandere!? How many yandere’s are in this game!?
While Tei is committing doll homicide he says since Eri’s good at keeping her hobbies (collecting dolls) a secret from her friends, it shouldn’t be hard to pretend that everything’s fine from now on. Of course, she doesn’t have to pretend she loves him. So long as Tei can have her, he doesn’t care.
After the deed is done, Tei approaches her. Eri desperately wants this to all be a dream, but when Tei holds her face she knows its real. Tei tells her to be quiet and asks if she’d ready. The last thing we hear is a chime, and the scene fades out.
How I Feel About This One
So this has to be one of my favorite bad endings. I mean what happens in it makes me go “WTF WTF AAAAAAGH” but in an interesting way, ya know? The kind that makes my hair stand on end. It’s a story in and of itself. The set-up, the plot twist, the monologue, just...mwah. Perfect. It’s exactly what I want in my bad endings.
Plus if you’re doing the bad endings in order, this’ll be the first time you see Bad End Tei. You don’t see Bad End Tei in the routes themselves (outside of his and Red’s, which is only unlocked after you complete all the other routes so at that point you had to have seen Bad End Tei) but suddenly there’s hints of Bad End Tei throughout all of his encounters. I didn’t say this in Lance’s Bad End Post, but a part of me thinks that maybe Tei had something to do with what happened to Lance in one of his bad endings...there’s no proof, but still. He was in the room with Lance by themselves when Eri left so...who knows.
This also hints at also aspects of the story. Bad End Tei’s an obvious hint to who Tei is as a character, but there’s also the use of the doll bodies, and that chime at the end.
Anyway this Bad Ending sets up Bad End Tei’s character in the most dramatic and creepy of ways and if every otome game had bad endings as good (well, not good in that way but-you know what I mean!) as this one this series would never end. I mean, it won’t if I post every four to five months.
Also what makes me appreciate this one is that it cuts off before we see what happens to Eri, and it doesn’t go into detail on what Bad End Tei did to Yeonho either. If we had detailed descriptions of whatever happened I might not have stomached it. Implication are far more sinister than outright statements. This is also one of the only Bad End Tei endings where Eri’s vocal about how messed up this is.
Bad End 3 - Disappeared Yeonho - That’s It. Pretty Anticlimactic Compared to the Previous Endings
How to Get It
So Eri takes Yeonho’s worries seriously and no one turns yandere and Bad End Tei stays firmly in the back of Tei’s mind (btw after you make the good choice with Yeonho once they go back inside Tei gives Yeonho some comforting words. At their worst they can be cruel to each other, but when they’re not at that breaking point they do have this solidarity with each other, both having previous owners before Eri.) Things start to improve a lot. Yeonho can now enjoy things outside of Eri, and is back to being willing to hang out with others. He’s grown a great deal, and the people around him notice. Things are looking up for Yeonho and Eri now.
Of course, then the writers realize, “wait romance” and Yeonho needs to like Eri now. Not as a doll loves their owner, but as a person wanting to be with another person...okay I don’t hate it when its put that way, but I still feel like this wasn’t necessary. Let me remind you, Yeonho tried to kill Eri in a bad ending because of his fear of her forgetting him. He was so desperate to remain at her side, and then things get better, but even after all that he still wants to refer to her as “Master” while trying to pursue a romantic relationship with her. All I’m saying is maybe give each other a little distance for a just a tiiiiiiny bit to figure things out before going into this yeah?
Still they’re pretty cute together in the end. Things don’t get nearly as saucy as it did in Lance’s route, and its all very innocent and sweet. I don’t hate it. Now Tei on the other hand-
Alright alright back to how this bad end goes down. Before Yeonho confesses to Eri there’s a school festival and he has a fortune reading stand. (Also aside from seeing ghosts he can also read tarot cards and talk to animals.) After he read your fortune he tries to make a move, but then a very haughty girl barges in to get her fortune read. Suddenly Yeonho clams up and runs away.
Where did he go!? Eri could check the rooftop, where he’s likely to be at...or she can just give up and see if he came home.
...That’s it. That’s all it takes.
What Happens
So Yeonho never came home. They made missing photos and everything! Where could he be...?
...Yeah that’s it.
How I Feel About This One
Honestly I don’t feel like this one needed to be there. Maybe it’s because if they didn’t, then for the last few chapter there’d be no need for choices. But they did that with Lance! In Lance’s route after the play there’s no choice for the last few chapter, and while he has the shortest amount of bad endings, they both are still creepy and at least a little intense. Why didn’t they do the same for Yeonho?
I don’t know. I don’t hate it. It’s like, nothing terrible happened to characters I love, which is nice, but that’s not what bad endings are for! They’re supposed to make you feel bad and maybe give you the heebie jeebies! Or they’re supposed to fulfill some fantasy in a safe way like they do sometimes in Mystic Messenger! Or be a joke ending where you at least get a chuckle before having to restart! I don’t know! Give me Yeonho joining a ghost detective agency with a cat sidekick running away from his past! Something! ANYTHING!!!
Anyway overall I really do like Yeonho’s route in its emotionally heartfelt moments and really disturbed by the intensity of some of its bad endings (which make them pretty good in my book!) Now we move on to Yuri’s route where I need to turn off Yuri’s voice in the options menu to pull through it! WAHOOO!!!
A Road Paved with Bad Endings - Nameless ~The One Thing You Must Recall~
Lance - Bought New, Popular and Mass-Produced
Lance is a straight-laced silver-haired young man, who likes to keep everything neat and tidy and hates messes. He can act very cold, and can act harsh even toward Eri, but he is protective of her, and does not put up with other dolls bothering her, especially Red and Yuri. Anytime Yuri tries to flirt with Eri in a way that upsets her, Lance has a slipper in hand ready to strike. In his route its clear that even though he acts cold he, like all of her dolls, cares for Eri. It’s just that as a doll, who’s personality was meant to be malleable for their owner to shape, Lance feels he doesn’t have enough of an identity to be interesting.
Lance was Eri’s First Doll, and he’s expected to be your first route. His route and the ending involved foreshadow story beats later, but its mainly a way to dip your toes into what routes will be like and how even the most composed doll gots some issuuuuuuuues.
I will say that when Eri and Lance get together in the end I am...the least concerned about their relationship. It does get a little cliche and then it gets more intimate than I expected, but overall its a good start. Now lets ruin it with bad endings.
Bad Ending 1 - Broken Heart - TFW You Can’t Imagine Being Anything More Than A Dull Blank Slate Destined to be Thrown Away So You Just Stop Having a Soul
How to Get It
This one happens about halfway through Lance’s route. One rainy day Lance stayed outside after seeing a barbie doll in the trash, reminding him of the fact that he’s mass produced like the barbie doll, and like it he might be thrown away when Eri gets bored of him. Because he stayed out in the rain he got sick, so Eri worried over him sitting next to his bed. After falling asleep she wakes up to find him patting her hair, asking her to Stay Still.
So what do you do? You Stand Up and Look At Him. Sounds like a pretty innocent decision to make right? Weeeeeeeeell...
What Happens
So Lance is on the verge of an existential crisis. Its not so much that she was wrong somehow, but its easy to forget how bad a state he’s still in. Eri looking him in the eyes when he wasn’t ready triggered a full on panic attack. At one point Lance grabs Eri’s hand and presses it to his chest, asking her to remove his soul. If he’s destined to be empty and thrown away, why should he have emotions to comprehend that emptiness?
After Eri screams, Tei runs into the room and pushes him away from her (I’ll get to get him later.) Quickly the other dolls assure Eri they’ll watch over him and asks her to stay in her room.
The next morning...Lance stopped moving. He doesn’t breath. His body no longer felt human. It was like his human body turned into a doll’s. Tei assures Eri they’ll do whatever it takes to turn him back, but Eri is heartbroken. She’ll never get to hear Lance again.
Meanwhile a mysterious voice comments that Lance lost his feather. Game failed. The voice asks to turn back time, but the man he’s talking to says that requires memories. The voice suggests...why not that person looking at us from across the screen? The man laughs. They can’t touch them, but who knows, maybe the person across the screen will be a future client? Anyway should they continue the game? End.
How I Feel About This One
Listen I said this one was tame compared to the other endings. I didn’t say it wouldn’t be horrifying.
While I think the single seemingly innocuous choice leading to this end is jarring, the ending itself fits perfectly with both Lance and Eri’s fears.
Throughout this route in particular, Eri is absolutely terrified that the happiness she gained when the dolls turned to life will end, that eventually they’ll all turn back to dolls and she’ll once again have to get used to living alone with only memories. Lance is scared of this as well, but mainly he’s scared of Eri leaving him behind for the other colorful dolls, who with the ability to communicate with her now can show their unique personalities.
Lance turns back into a doll in the end because he couldn’t imagine being anything more. He gave up trying to be more than what he was made to be: plastic. And Eri’s worst nightmare came true. It’s a haunting, fitting bad end for Lance’s route.
Now the person our mystery buddies were talking about might be us in the meta sense, but at least in the localization they referred to them in he/him pronouns, making me think that they’re referring to someone specific. Who it is, we might never know.
Bad Ending 2 - Accident - TFW You Really Wanted The Heroine To Bang A Doll But She’s Not Showing Enough Interest In It So You Just Have A Truck Run Over Her
How To Get It
This is the only route where you have to continuously make the wrong choice, from the beginning right until the last choice.
In most routes, choosing the wrong choice doesn’t automatically get you into bad route mode. Rather, if you pick the wrong choice, you’ll miss things from cute moments between Eri and her Doll of the Week, to CGs. It might also remove a chance to pick another choice later down the line. So even when you’re not going for a bad end it’s a good idea to Q.Save and try out both choices and let it play out for a little while.
This one, however, requires you to constantly show disinterest in Lance’s opinion, avoid interactions with him, and basically not listen to Lance’s worries and concerns. The only choice that you have to do right is to Stay Still during the emotional scene after the rain.
What Happens
Basically while a lot of emotional beats still remain intact, Lance can’t initiate that penultimate moment where everything clicks together. Because Eri acts uninterested and dismissive of his opinion, Lance doesn’t want to initiate anything. It’s not like he suddenly hates her, its just he’s not going to try...what he did in the good route...in this timeline.
Which is awkward, because our mysterious voice really needs Eri to get cozy with Lance, but it looks like that’s not gonna happen. Hmmm...what to do...
...Oh well lets just have a truck run over her. Eri is sleepwalked right into the line of traffic and dies. Rude.
How I Feel About This One
While Lance fearing his presence can’t sway anything comes to fruition, I think this ending could happen in Yuri and Yeonho’s route just as well...give and take. The way their routes shake up shifts drastically after finishing the common route, and their bad endings are in drastically different places in the story.
Honestly I feel like they just couldn’t think up other bad endings for Lance, because his issues are not as harmful to him and to Eri as the other dolls. But the other routes have 3 to 5 endings so they need to do something so...guess she’ll die?
Anyway I suppose this one is different in that its the only one where she dies. The things that happen to her and her Doll Band later...woof. Maybe her dying is one of the better scenarios. Stay tuned for Yeonho’s Bad Endings, who’s mental state actually worsens in his own route because Eri gives him more attention and thus encourages his behavior. YAAAAAAAAY.
A Road Paved with Bad Endings - Nameless ~The One Thing You Must Recall~
Introduction
Hello void. It seems I once again got hooked on a game that’s no longer relevant in the current space. I feel like I’m writing a note left in an empty house, hoping that at least someone out there decides to head in and find it. Except its not one note they’ll find it’ll be like twenty, and they’ll probably be very concerned for my tastes.
Because I like otome games for story and cute moments and all but do you know what I really want in otome games? Well-written bad endings. Horrifying endings that you lose sleep over. Creepy ending that are cut short leaving you wanting to know more. Cafe AU Endings? Those are good too!
And Nameless in particular has a lot of varied bad endings to go around, ranging from “oh okay back to the previous save” to “WTF WTF WTF WTF-”. From being run over by a truck for being disinterested in following the route you picked to losing all your memories and working in a cafe, to spoiler-y endings that will leave you screaming inside your mind for the rest of the day, it sure is an adventure.
If you haven’t played Nameless before, I recommend you do. Basically the story is about a high school girl (default name is Eri) who collects these ball-jointed dolls from this store called Crobidoll. There’s Lance, the most popular doll who wasn’t given a default personality trait, Yeonho, a sweet doll that brings out motherly instincts, Yuri, a mature and stylish drummer, Tei, a premium limited edition doll who can make you a real good cup of tea, and Red, an action hero doll who protects Earth. Lance and Yuri were bought new, Yeonho and Tei were bought second-hand, and Red was given away to Eri to test whether it’ll gain popularity, which sadly it never did.
Eri’s lives alone in her late grandpa’s house (her parents travel for work a lot) until one morning all her dolls come to life. I’m sure these dolls, who’s only experience in life is through their experience as dolls, will act like fully-functional humans and everything will be great!
Its essentially a visual novel-style game where every once in awhile you get to pick choices (and at some points you don’t make choice for whole chapters) that’ll either keep you on the road to a good end, give you an opportunity to see certain events, or lead you into Bad End Land.
Now I’ll let you get to experience each route’s happy end for yourself. I on the other hand, am just going to talk about the bad endings, starting with Lance, who only has two bad endings, of which are pretty tame compared to the later ones. If someone happens to find this, stick around why don’t you.
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