Story endings you disliked

[Mikan!]

Hey there! I’ve read a lot of COG/HOG books and was wondering which ones you’ve read that left you disappointed with the ending. I’ve had a few myself where the ending didn’t sit right with me or didn’t match what I had imagined, so I’m curious to hear about others’ experiences. I’d love to know which book it was and what exactly you disliked about the ending, or what you would have changed.

 

[certain]

Soul Stone War, mainly because, up till the final third of the game, you get the feeling that this is going to be a nice LOTR-esque journey with a group of, if not deep, interesting characters, but then it just devolves into... I don't even know how to describe it. It's just ***. It tries to be angsty, but it never sets itself up in that manner, so the sudden transition into hollow angst is jarring, and it happens right at the end of the first book. Up to that point, it's alright, nothing ground-breaking, but still fun.

 

[daniellwtf]

Soul Stone War, mainly because, up till the final third of the game, you get the feeling that this is going to be a nice LOTR-esque journey with a group of, if not deep, interesting characters, but then it just devolves into... I don't even know how to describe it. It's just ***. It tries to be angsty, but it never sets itself up in that manner, so the sudden transition into hollow angst is jarring, and it happens right at the end of the first book. Up to that point, it's alright, nothing ground-breaking, but still fun.

Are you sure about that? Because I dropped in the first game (very early on, when you meet the two guys whom I believe are ROs), and even then, I already knew the game was angst-ridden; the game is obviously coded for a woman's MC.

 

[AGoldenExperience]

Undying Fortress, great book imo, great ROs, would've been a solid 9/10 it not for the absolutely terrible endings, 2 pages, you only get an epilogue with the RO, you don't even know what happens to your friends, absolutely dogshit.

 

[certain]

Are you sure about that? Because I dropped in the first game (very early on, when you meet the two guys whom I believe are ROs), and even then, I already knew the game was angst-ridden; the game is obviously coded for a woman's MC.

I played it, so yeah? Lmao, it's not angst-coded for the first two halves of the game. I understand what the author was going for, that 'Oh, look, the Soul Stones are evil and booooo, you will lose all your emotion and all that jazz' but it just never translates through.

 

[Shadow1904]

Soul Stone War, mainly because, up till the final third of the game, you get the feeling that this is going to be a nice LOTR-esque journey with a group of, if not deep, interesting characters, but then it just devolves into... I don't even know how to describe it. It's just ***. It tries to be angsty, but it never sets itself up in that manner, so the sudden transition into hollow angst is jarring, and it happens right at the end of the first book. Up to that point, it's alright, nothing ground-breaking, but still fun.

If you spend the whole game being stubborn and resisting everything it rewards you up until the end and if you try to resist the stone it just insta kills you, the end. What a joke lol.

 

[Shadow1904]

For me, two really stand out as annoying me.

Unsupervised: if you're doing the hero path it literally just ends in the middle of everything with no conclusion. Just a "lol see you next time"

Professor of Magical Studies: you literally save the world from magic destruction by a dark god thing and get nothing. The guy who nearly destroyed the world? He keeps his job and doesn't get punished. He can even end up in a leadership position and everyone just shrugs and handwaves him killing and torturing and mind controlling people to literally destroy the entire world.

 

[Barack2Bama]

Eldritch Tales: Inheritance. I understand what they were trying to do, but I still hate how the game is basically punishing you for actually playing it.