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

pk j'ai joué a ce jeu ?

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

Le jeux à l'air bien mais la traduction française est désastreuse dommage

Poco que decir aquí, novela visual corta (te puede durar unas 2 horas de lectura tranquila) de terror con una historia interesante, buen arte y una correcta traducción al español. Hay una cosa que puntualizar, la descripción del juego dice lo siguiente: «Una historia corta y emocionante que cambia según tus elecciones". Bueno, eso último no es del todo verdad, la historia es totalmente lineal, es verdad que hay elecciones y 14 finales, pero 13 de estos son finales malos y solo el 14 es el final real de la historia, si no tomas las elecciones correctas para llegar a él, el juego terminará con uno de los otros 13. Por último, por ser quisquilloso y sacarle algún defecto diría que la elección de la fuente para el texto no es la más acertada, no es nada grave, como puede verse en las capturas la fuente es clara y se lee bien, pero es de tipo «serif» y está más que demostrado que en pantallas las fuentes tipo «sans serif» y dentro de estas las «humanistas» (como la que usa Steam) son mucho más legibles y cansan menos la vista, pero como he dicho esto ya es ponerse quisquilloso.

So firstly, Bad End is much shorter than I expected it to be. Every bad ending feels cheap, and the general writing is cringe. There is no creepy horror atmosphere despite this being a horror visual novel. The True End was also boring and made everything MC went through feel pointless. Things I liked were the sound design and the fact that this actually has VAs because I didn't expect that.

La traduction française est INFÂME et sent le gtrad

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.

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.