Mario
Hi, Majora’s Mask.
Tears of the Kingdom too
Seen the word “Bleakquel” used for it, but since it’s handier to point people at, we have TVTropes with Happy Ending Override. It’s so damn common because a happy ending means they cannot continue the story, so it must be ruined.
Many such cases
Factorio. Your goal is to harness the power of Science! to provide for your vacation expenses; and when you start a new game, you inevitably strand yourself on a new planet with evil communist bugs, just to start all over again.
The Longest Journey. They did my girl April dirty.
“And they all lived happily ever after” should be replaced with “and that’s how they resolved that problem”.
Chronotrigger…
like even WHY!?
How can getting jerked off be ripped away from you?
TLOU
A plague tale
You think with the happy ending, the next game is just being chill going through day to day life, chillmaxxing
Final fantasy 13, kinda. I hated the start of 13-2
