History Main / EarnYourBadEnding

* ''VideoGame/UnicornOverlord'' has achieving the absolute worst ending as am monumental accomplishment, much more difficult then getting the best ending. The player needs to complete the level 40 "Unicorn Overlord" quest before they've fully unlocked the Ring of the Unicorn's power, and the worst variant of that ending requires doing so before [[DamselInDistress saving Scarlett]] [[spoiler:as it's the only way to see Norbelle, the Zenoiran who possesses her]]. This not only means that the player's level is going to plateau around 14, but that they'll have to somehow overcome the most difficult version of that quest, which increases in difficulty for each region not yet liberated before the final battle. [[spoiler: And for all that effort, Galerius just pulls a GrandTheftMe on Alain, who has no protection against it, and takes the Liberation Army as his own, continuing Zenoira's reign of terror]].

* ''VideoGame/UnicornOverlord'' has achieving the absolute worst ending as am monumental accomplishment, much more difficult then getting the best ending. The player needs to complete the level 40 "Unicorn Overlord" quest before they've fully unlocked the Ring of the Unicorn's power, and the worst variant of that ending requires doing so before [[DamselInDistress saving Scarlett]]. This not only means that the player's level is going to plateau around 14, but that they'll have to somehow overcome the most difficult version of that quest, which increases in difficulty for each region not yet liberated before the final battle. [[spoiler: And for all that effort, Galerius just pulls a GrandTheftMe on Alain, who has no protection against it, and takes the Liberation Army as his own, continuing Zenoira's reign of terror]].

* ''VideoGame/NanashiNoGame Me'''s normal ending is lrather bittersweet, with the three souls imprisoned in the cursed game but Ren entering a permanent coma from having to protect the protagonist from evil Akane's influence. The second ending, which requires a second playthrough and collecting all of the Faceless body parts (by beating each area of the game at least once across both playthroughs), is the same up to the point where the game tells you you can still save Ren. [[SchmuckBait Ignore Ooyama's warning that it is most likely a trap]], and the game corners and kills you in front of Ren's trapped soul, which makes her give in to despair and become a new vessel for the game to spread its curse.

* The first Soviet mission in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert'' is actually impossible to lose under normal circumstances ([[VillainProtagonist your objective is to massacre a town of civilians and token resistance]]), as the bridge that connects your base with the rest of the map gets destroyed at the start of the mission. Seeing as how this is before the usual mission failure condition is losing all the buildings in your base and is instead the extermination of ''all'' your units, this becomes a problem when selling your structures nets you infantry as compensation (in addition to a cash refund). However, it ''is'' possible to lose this mission through careful planning, as shown in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLDNqN2gaow this]] video. All missions in this era of the franchise have an opening, victory, and defeat cutscene, including this one. You'd have to be ''crazy'' prepared to see the failure cutscene of ''this'' mission.