Posted on: February 8, 2023

von_Hardenberg
Verified ownerGames: 601 Reviews: 17
Short, but sweet...
Bad End Theater can best be described as four intertwined, super-short visual novels, whose endings are determined by your choices for the four acting characters. It's half puzzle, half visual novel, held together by the metasetting of you, the player, interacting with the playwright that wrote those tragedies. You unlock more actions (well, switches, really, yes, those novels are THAT short for a reason...) as you progress, enabling you to access more (bad) endings. Well, it's not called "Happy End Theater", so yep, expect plenty of pain and suffering. The visuals are held in an adorable chibi-style, even when people die left, right and center. The game has an overview of the paths you have and have not yet taken, so it's impossible to get stuck, and can be completed in a couple of hours. It's also a sweet story about hope, which I won't spoil. Well, I liked it. The game cost me as much as a decent pizza, lasted and entertained me longer than that, and left a warm fuzzy feeling inside. 5/5, would eat the maiden and overthrow the overlord again.
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