I am so glad you brought up the premature death thing in the garden, because I thought maybe it was a glitch. It just booted me back to the start screen with no game over, no credits....I actually deleted the game and reinstalled it hahahah. I'd kind of like to know what's up with that too. It's literally why I'm back at the game's home page, actually. I was hoping that either someone found the same "glitch" or had an explanation....
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Well, the game over like endings at the end of the routes are the same - they send you directly to the title screen. This isn't the first game I see that has credits only for the good endings, but because of that, I'm not really sure what can be considered a bad ending (and part of the 9 endings) and what is a mere game over.