hi I want to talk about the comment someone made about bad endings.
I first off want to say that of course it’s 100% the creators decision on how they want there story to end but I think it’s always best to have two endings one happy and on not so ( if having a darker ending was the original plan ) because even though to you it may seem silly but VN can be a way of helping someone to cope or to just help them distract from something going on in there’s day to day life and especially when it comes to VNs that aren’t dark from the start it can at a huge shock to them.
As people usually follow VN early on to development and continuing to play the VN with every new update but during the early updates it may not be 100% clear that the story is going to turn out dark.
So I think it’s best to include a way to have either a happy end or a dark end. If it was never the creators goal to have a happy end i think they should focus on there original end first then just quickly add in a happy end that’s not cannon a way to do this is to have two options where it is extremely clear which ending you will get and even ignore you want to be extremely clear with your audience which ending isn’t cannon say that for example the choices would be:
Save him ( happy end )
Let him go ( dark end canon ending )
The non cannon ending doesn’t need to be that fleshed out either If it’s too much work to write two endings I think even having a ending saying they all lived and are happy with an artwork of all the characters laughing with each other is enough
Sorry for such a long comment and if anyone actually reads this thanks!!