BAD END

BAD END is a B-movie-esque, contrived visual novel, but it's surprisingly not [i]too[/i] bad. The synopsis is basically what it says on the box: Kyuuhei's friend Yuuji dies while playing the mystery-surrounded, supposedly death-inducing mobile game BAD END, and then, at least in the true route, Kyuuhei plays the game himself to discover how it caused Yuuji's death. The writing quality and premise are, again, at the level of a B-movie, but I can sometimes be pretty partial to those types of stories. I'd almost say I liked BAD END, but it was the number of endings and process of reaching them that soured it for me to the level of ambivalence. It turns out that BAD END (the game within the game) gives [spoiler]you one freebie—you don't immediately die if you reach one bad end, but you do die if you reach two.[/spoiler] Half of the endings in the game stop there, and play in the more or less the same way every time. And the other endings beside the true ending aren't much better. It's not surprising that a game called BAD END has a lot of bad endings, but that doesn't mean that I like them. Overall, BAD END is mediocre. It seems like it goes on sale often and for very cheap, and it's only about two hours long, so if nothing else, it could be a decent time killer, but don't go into expecting to be blown away. 5/10

I can't lie, when I first got into the game, I thought it was REALLY bad and REALLY stupid. Like, it feels like the first half of the game is "this game... le kill people" and "my best fried... le died? but how? did he... play le game?" over and over again, and its REALLY obnoxious. But after it gets going, the story gets kind of interesting and intriguing in a way that genuinely took me by surprise. As others have mentioned, the game is kind of cliche and silly, but I really liked learning more and putting the pieces together as it went on. I got the good ending and I don't really care to get all of the other bad endings, and its pretty solid. I'd say its worth checking out if its on sale and you wanna kill an hour. I actually first played this game way back in 2015 when I was like 12 and I think I genuinely got scared so bad by some jumpscare that I just stopped playing. I wonder if I would have liked this game more if I kept at it, it def feels like it would be hella impactful if I was younger when I played it first...

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La traduction française est INFÂME et sent le gtrad

Its an alright visual novel. The horror isn't too bad and its just right for those with faint of heart. The gameplay may be short as said on the store page description and the other endings are just as. Music is decent and is just enough for the situations you're put in. The graphics are decent as well although lacking in some expressions which makes some conversations quite dull to go through. Personally, the sprites are positioned too high which lets my eyes drift from the text bar to the sprites to see expression changes but as I said, didn't happen much unfortunately. Characters were unfortunately not as memorable but for a VN that can be completed in less than 4 hours, you can at least etch their names in your mind for the whole game. All in all, its a decent enough VN to read through if you have less than 4 hours to spare with your free time.

Choices close like doors Every path leads somewhere dark Hope ends on repeat

Decent short VN. Art is decent and writing is OK (albeit predictable). If you have a few hours to kill it gets the job done. But if you're expecting anything unique outside of its general premise it will probably fall flat for you. Overall I don't regret my time with this game.

Expected more from the story, but it’s still a good VN. It’s short (around 1.5 hours to get the true ending), but you can play longer if you want to get all the endings. It kept me entertained and curious the whole time, and more importantly, it’s free.