"Taito Ending" / Bad ending Appreciation thread

[Randorama]

Honestly, when I first saw the endings of Liquid Kids and The New Zealand Story, I was deeply perplexed ("What? We win? With Taito?!").

I saw that New Zealand one and yeah it's still an bad ending, your fellows faced an unknown fate.

Well, the ending tells the player that Tiki (the 1P Kiwi) goes on to rescue each kidnapped sibling and finally saves his beloved Phee-Phee
Same thing for Liquid Kids, too.

The greatest mystery still remains, though:

...why Taito dedicated a whole game to New Zealand? And why no rugby and sailing references, since the game is set in NZ?

Jokes aside, a whole thread could be dedicated to Taito's cutesy games and their wacky settings.

[Lander]

The thread stirs.
Something... Is not as it was.

I see you there, shadowy perpetrator! Your ninja edit would have escaped undetected, if not for RETROACTIVE NOTIFICATION NO RYUU! ┬┴┬┴┤｀w´)

[cj iwakura]

Boy would you all love Yoko Taro's writing, especially Drakengard and Nier...

He even had a bit when he told everyone during an interview that death was inevitable anyway, so everything has a 'bad ending' after the credits roll.

[BIL]

Reminded of the OG Snatcher ending, where it wraps at Junker HQ. Authentic future noir, a bleak lonely struggle on.

Specifically via the OST version of "Beyond Sorrows," where Snatcher taunts Gillian on the futility of man with his goofy robovoice after Gillian blow he head off *bzzt bzzzt*

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But how about... SWERVING BAD END STRONG TEAM presents RIOT - watch to the end, you will be surprised! (■｀w´■)

[Daytime Waitress]

But how about... SWERVING BAD END STRONG TEAM presents RIOT - watch to the end, you will be surprised! (■｀w´■)

Swerve upon swerve upon swerve upon swerve - I haven't seen Vince Russo that outclassed since the last time Cornette opened his mouth!
At first the audience is lead to believe that the terrible pendant is going to corrupt the incorruptible hero.
And then we're teased with a Monty Python origin story.
But no, now we're off to the most redoubtably comfortable Arnold Lobel tale never spun:

"The unspeakably evil stone is calling to us from the depths of the pit, offering us dominion over man and beast and time and space alike!" said Frog.
"I would rather sit in the garden and watch the rain" said Toad.
And so Frog sat with him.

And yet another swerve with the emergence of the traditional ill omen, a night black raven - surely we'll have resolution here?
No?

And it still has another subterranean trick up its sleeve?!

A predictably riotous and yet utterly unpredictable showing, Dr. B!

[BIL]

Sublimely captured.

[BrianC]

Also some endings in Dracula II/Castlevania II were made worse than intended by mixing up the ending text (like bad ending text with good ending picture, etc). Even the original FDS version did this.

[Lander]

Smartarse answer: Any game that loops infinitely and doesn't have a Pac-Man integer overflow bug.

Your victories, no matter how numerous, will eventually be in vain.

[BrianC]

I dunno, the overflow bug is technically a bad ending. No ending, everything just glitches out or players get killed without touching anything (Donkey Kong's bug).