Dandelion: Wishes Brought to You: BAD ENDS
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The prospect of actually playing through all the bad ends and their attendant stat raising was incredibly unappealing, so I mostly looked them up on youtube and skipped through anything too boring or depressing.
I guess I'm glad I did it for completeness sake? Some of it was quite creepy D:
Content note: relationship abuse, parental abuse, consent issues, non-consensual drugging, sadness
Before I forget: I have yet to be fast enough to take a screenshot, but the cram school image has words on the blackboard in English. They're hard to read but I think they say
RESLIENCE!! Be ambitious!
Jiwoo like to ... that sh...
refusal isn't an option ...es ins...
ideally she gives u... her m...
what's learned this ... I like d...
Stats failure bad end:
Just to see what happens, I'll try sleeping every chance I get (except weekends, when I work, because it's less clicks)
I get a warning on the 21st June that Heejung needs to study, but the game doesn't stop me from sleeping some more.
And then on the 23rd Heejung decides to just give up. To avoid her mother, try for a normal life, and stop pretending she can be special :( She bumps into Heejae, who notices she seems down, but she says she's fine.
Heejae: You seem really pale, should I take you to a doctor?
And then she collapses and the screen goes dark and says BAD END.
Let's assume she fainted, goes to a doctor, and works for a while in Heejae's family's chicken restaurant before figuring her life out.
I tried seeing what happens if I fail the relationship points checks but it got too boring and I gave up.
Jisoo Bad End:
Based on GirlGotGame's Let's Play with commentary, although I started with this video of the last scene without commentary, not realising it wasn't the full bad end.
Jisoo gets jealous of Heejung spending time with Jihae, even though she spends more time with him. GirlGotGame and I both think Jihae is a better boyfriend lol.
Jihae gives Heejung a pretty hairpin, and puts it into her hair. Jisoo sees, gets jealous, and drags Heejung to her room, where he rips the pin from her hair and throws it to the floor. She kneels down to try and find it.
Jisoo: Is it precious because it comes from him?
Heejung slaps him! WHICH HE DESERVES. BECAUSE HE IS AN ASS.
Jisoo: I will never let anyone take you away from me.
He pushes her onto the bed and kisses her. She pushes him away, and feels very frightened about what he might do if he gets even angrier.
He apologises, saying he's pathetic.
Heejung: Yeah, a little bit. If you behave that way again, I'll pretend I don't know you.
Alas, she does not.
AND THEN I BEGAN TO SKIM
Jisoo sees Heejung talking to Hijae and gets pissy. Jisoo demands Heejung say whether she likes him or not. She thinks that she does like Jisoo as more than a friend, but not the same way he feels about her: he's obsessed. But if she pushes him away, she'll lose him. So she says yes. He hugs her, and she feels like she's become his possession.
He starts showing up in rooms she DIDN'T EVEN CLICK ON, that he WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE IN. He tells her to just stay in her room.
(This is the point from which I watched the commentary free video first)
Jisoo tells her to stop going to school: she doesn't enjoy it and she meets guys there.
"You can just depend on me! I'll take care of you!'
YOU ARE VANISHING IN LIKE TWO MONTHS TIME
haa the cheery background music is really jarring right now. There is a reason I played with it off.
He badgers her to drink some orange juice HMMMM
OH LOOK. IT WAS DRUGGED. She wakes, woozy, and he gives her some water. WHICH IS ALSO DRUGGED.
She's woken by Heejae calling her on the phone, asking if she's ok since she hasn't been to school in several days. As she woozily tries to reply, Jisoo takes the hone and breaks it. He tells her that if she does what he says, she'll even get to go for a walk outside...
THE END
I skipped to see what GirlGotGame thought at the end. She also played this after Nameless and considers this scarier than Tei's bad ends, and I'm inclined to agree. Tei was tropier, Jisoo feels more like...an actual abusive boyfriend. Nnng.
Jiyeon bad end:
I skipped ahead to see the end of this video and it seems to flow pretty naturally from the good end: Heejung is planning on leaving town, and Heejae tells her to stay. But this time he asks her out. She can't deal with it and just runs away.
Heejung has sent all her belongings off to Seoul. She wonders what Jiyeon is doing, and wishes she could talk to him. Heejae comes to give her a lift to the station, saying he won't give her up.
THE END
Yeah, that makes sense given Jiyeon's character. And isn't HORRIFYINGLY ABUSIVE. I'm starting to feel like Jiyeon is too good for Jisoo which is not something I was expecting to feel after the end of Jiyeon's route...
Jihae bad end:
Starting from where she becomes his manager.
She's going to say no to being his manager...but then they offer to pay for her tuition.
Heejung tries to stay professional at work while swooning a little at spending time with Jihae.
I looked at the 20 minutes ahead of me and couldn't be bothered so skipped ahead.
Heejung gets attacked by jealous fans of Jihae's. She wakes in bed in pain. Jihae is blaming himself for her being hurt, and saying it's not safe for her to be with him. But she's too busy having a panic attack to pay attention. Leaving her room isn't safe!!
THE END
Aww. I just feel for both of them here. They weren't able to overcome their issues and make each other happy but instead ended up hurting each other, and alone :(
Jiwoo bad end:
From Dirili's Let's Play with commentary.
It's just after the point where Heejung hit Jiwoo with the textbook.
Heejung has been spending time with other guys and Jiwoo gets pissy and avoids her. Jisoo thinks he's being immature which is a BIT RICH.
Jiwoo sees Heejae and Heejung together at the bookstore and gets jealous and gets even more standoffish.
Heejung's mom visits and sees all the men's shoes and clothes everywhere. She picks them up and throws them off the balcony!
Mom: When does he come home? I want to see that little bastard's face!
Heejung: They didn't do anything wrong!
Mom: THEY?!
Heejung: I'll do anything you want, just leave them alone.
But her mom hyperventilates and collapses??
Heejung vows to stop making her own decisions.
We see her mom giving her shit for not trying hard enough on her law exam. Back at their house in Seoul :( Find a stable job, find someone decent, and get married. "This isn't the life I imagined for myself. But I am happy as long as mom doesn't give up on me. Life will be easier if someone else make my decisions."
She wonders what Jiwoo is doing and if he's still mad. "I hope you find someone better than me. I will always cherish the time we had together" :(
THE END
Oh no. That's really sad :( But Jihae didn't know that would happen and it's entirely in character for him to push her away at the slightest provocation.
Jieun Bad End:
HE DOESN'T HAVE ONE. BECAUSE HE IS THE BEST BOYFRIEND. HOORAY FOR JIEUN.
THE END
So yes. Everyone but Jisoo (and Jieun) is just that little bit worse than on their good ending, but still basically the same, it's just that circumstances mean things end up going much much worse for Heejung.
Meanwhile Jisoo is a TERRIFYING ABUSIVE CREEP. I can't imagine how freaked out I'd have been if I actually played his bad end through D:
And Jieun is perfect (except for that one time he kinda murdered an innocent woman, but he felt bad about it so its ok)
The prospect of actually playing through all the bad ends and their attendant stat raising was incredibly unappealing, so I mostly looked them up on youtube and skipped through anything too boring or depressing.
I guess I'm glad I did it for completeness sake? Some of it was quite creepy D:
Content note: relationship abuse, parental abuse, consent issues, non-consensual drugging, sadness
Before I forget: I have yet to be fast enough to take a screenshot, but the cram school image has words on the blackboard in English. They're hard to read but I think they say
RESLIENCE!! Be ambitious!
Jiwoo like to ... that sh...
refusal isn't an option ...es ins...
ideally she gives u... her m...
what's learned this ... I like d...
Stats failure bad end:
Just to see what happens, I'll try sleeping every chance I get (except weekends, when I work, because it's less clicks)
I get a warning on the 21st June that Heejung needs to study, but the game doesn't stop me from sleeping some more.
And then on the 23rd Heejung decides to just give up. To avoid her mother, try for a normal life, and stop pretending she can be special :( She bumps into Heejae, who notices she seems down, but she says she's fine.
Heejae: You seem really pale, should I take you to a doctor?
And then she collapses and the screen goes dark and says BAD END.
Let's assume she fainted, goes to a doctor, and works for a while in Heejae's family's chicken restaurant before figuring her life out.
I tried seeing what happens if I fail the relationship points checks but it got too boring and I gave up.
Jisoo Bad End:
Based on GirlGotGame's Let's Play with commentary, although I started with this video of the last scene without commentary, not realising it wasn't the full bad end.
Jisoo gets jealous of Heejung spending time with Jihae, even though she spends more time with him. GirlGotGame and I both think Jihae is a better boyfriend lol.
Jihae gives Heejung a pretty hairpin, and puts it into her hair. Jisoo sees, gets jealous, and drags Heejung to her room, where he rips the pin from her hair and throws it to the floor. She kneels down to try and find it.
Jisoo: Is it precious because it comes from him?
Heejung slaps him! WHICH HE DESERVES. BECAUSE HE IS AN ASS.
Jisoo: I will never let anyone take you away from me.
He pushes her onto the bed and kisses her. She pushes him away, and feels very frightened about what he might do if he gets even angrier.
He apologises, saying he's pathetic.
Heejung: Yeah, a little bit. If you behave that way again, I'll pretend I don't know you.
Alas, she does not.
AND THEN I BEGAN TO SKIM
Jisoo sees Heejung talking to Hijae and gets pissy. Jisoo demands Heejung say whether she likes him or not. She thinks that she does like Jisoo as more than a friend, but not the same way he feels about her: he's obsessed. But if she pushes him away, she'll lose him. So she says yes. He hugs her, and she feels like she's become his possession.
He starts showing up in rooms she DIDN'T EVEN CLICK ON, that he WASN'T EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE IN. He tells her to just stay in her room.
(This is the point from which I watched the commentary free video first)
Jisoo tells her to stop going to school: she doesn't enjoy it and she meets guys there.
"You can just depend on me! I'll take care of you!'
YOU ARE VANISHING IN LIKE TWO MONTHS TIME
haa the cheery background music is really jarring right now. There is a reason I played with it off.
He badgers her to drink some orange juice HMMMM
OH LOOK. IT WAS DRUGGED. She wakes, woozy, and he gives her some water. WHICH IS ALSO DRUGGED.
She's woken by Heejae calling her on the phone, asking if she's ok since she hasn't been to school in several days. As she woozily tries to reply, Jisoo takes the hone and breaks it. He tells her that if she does what he says, she'll even get to go for a walk outside...
THE END
I skipped to see what GirlGotGame thought at the end. She also played this after Nameless and considers this scarier than Tei's bad ends, and I'm inclined to agree. Tei was tropier, Jisoo feels more like...an actual abusive boyfriend. Nnng.
Jiyeon bad end:
I skipped ahead to see the end of this video and it seems to flow pretty naturally from the good end: Heejung is planning on leaving town, and Heejae tells her to stay. But this time he asks her out. She can't deal with it and just runs away.
Heejung has sent all her belongings off to Seoul. She wonders what Jiyeon is doing, and wishes she could talk to him. Heejae comes to give her a lift to the station, saying he won't give her up.
THE END
Yeah, that makes sense given Jiyeon's character. And isn't HORRIFYINGLY ABUSIVE. I'm starting to feel like Jiyeon is too good for Jisoo which is not something I was expecting to feel after the end of Jiyeon's route...
Jihae bad end:
Starting from where she becomes his manager.
She's going to say no to being his manager...but then they offer to pay for her tuition.
Heejung tries to stay professional at work while swooning a little at spending time with Jihae.
I looked at the 20 minutes ahead of me and couldn't be bothered so skipped ahead.
Heejung gets attacked by jealous fans of Jihae's. She wakes in bed in pain. Jihae is blaming himself for her being hurt, and saying it's not safe for her to be with him. But she's too busy having a panic attack to pay attention. Leaving her room isn't safe!!
THE END
Aww. I just feel for both of them here. They weren't able to overcome their issues and make each other happy but instead ended up hurting each other, and alone :(
Jiwoo bad end:
From Dirili's Let's Play with commentary.
It's just after the point where Heejung hit Jiwoo with the textbook.
Heejung has been spending time with other guys and Jiwoo gets pissy and avoids her. Jisoo thinks he's being immature which is a BIT RICH.
Jiwoo sees Heejae and Heejung together at the bookstore and gets jealous and gets even more standoffish.
Heejung's mom visits and sees all the men's shoes and clothes everywhere. She picks them up and throws them off the balcony!
Mom: When does he come home? I want to see that little bastard's face!
Heejung: They didn't do anything wrong!
Mom: THEY?!
Heejung: I'll do anything you want, just leave them alone.
But her mom hyperventilates and collapses??
Heejung vows to stop making her own decisions.
We see her mom giving her shit for not trying hard enough on her law exam. Back at their house in Seoul :( Find a stable job, find someone decent, and get married. "This isn't the life I imagined for myself. But I am happy as long as mom doesn't give up on me. Life will be easier if someone else make my decisions."
She wonders what Jiwoo is doing and if he's still mad. "I hope you find someone better than me. I will always cherish the time we had together" :(
THE END
Oh no. That's really sad :( But Jihae didn't know that would happen and it's entirely in character for him to push her away at the slightest provocation.
Jieun Bad End:
HE DOESN'T HAVE ONE. BECAUSE HE IS THE BEST BOYFRIEND. HOORAY FOR JIEUN.
THE END
So yes. Everyone but Jisoo (and Jieun) is just that little bit worse than on their good ending, but still basically the same, it's just that circumstances mean things end up going much much worse for Heejung.
Meanwhile Jisoo is a TERRIFYING ABUSIVE CREEP. I can't imagine how freaked out I'd have been if I actually played his bad end through D:
And Jieun is perfect (except for that one time he kinda murdered an innocent woman, but he felt bad about it so its ok)
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Date: 2019-03-05 05:08 am (UTC)... I have only experienced Heejae-related bad ends.
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Date: 2019-03-05 05:11 am (UTC)Amazing. Thank you, I am happier for knowing that :D