Video games, like most fiction, tend towards happy endings. After the player has struggled through challenges, puzzles, enemies, environments, and bosses, they expect to see the world of the video game made a better place, the heroes retire happily, the crisis averted, and generally to have made things better for everyone. Sometimes, this isn’t the case.
Sometimes the hero fails at the last second, no matter how hard the player tries. Sometimes, the hero’s struggle has unforeseen…
