A young protagonist plans to confess to his crush. Unfortunately, on the day the two of them were meant to meet, he wakes up late. When running across the street to make it on time, he's hit by a car and immediately sent to hell. Desperate to go back and confess, he begs the demon assigned to torturing him, Wayne, to let him return, which in turn makes the demon decide to test his resolve. So Wayne puts the kid through three trials in which he must perform mundane tasks like leaving office or getting to work, but with extra things to make it more difficult for our main character.
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Too Impatient contains examples of:
- Asshole Victim: The protagonist, who died in a car crash trying to make an "important confession", turns out to be this. The "good" ending and a secret journal entry reveal that, apart from being extremely lazy and impatient, he also dated another guy's girlfriend behind his back. And his "important confession" to Violet, said girlfriend's sister, just turns out to be him rubbing this in her face, for which he is killed again by Violet.
- Big Bad: Wayne is the demon who is assigned to torture the protagonist and decides to put him through three trials of horrible mundanity.
- Butt-Monkey: The protagonist couldn't be more this trope if he tried. The game starts with his painful death by hit-and-run, everyone around him makes fun of him and the way he died, and Wayne uses his suffering as a source of personal amusement.
- Disproportionate Retribution:
- Sure, crossing the street without looking both ways is a really stupid thing to do, but does it really warrant eternal torture? The MC lampshades this in the "good" ending and Wayne later on admits that he didn't actually care about the protagonist no looking both ways - he just wanted an excuse to torture him.
- Violet murders Benjamin after he confesses to her about dating her sister (albeit, he did so in a very mocking manner). Keep in mind they weren't even together yet.
- Fatal Flaw: The protagonist's impatience. He runs out into the street without looking both ways because he wants to get to his confession and is promptly hit by a car. The trials continue this theme:
- In the first trial, the protagonist gets tired of waiting for someone on the help-line to attend to him and instead takes the key hidden behind the note to leave the office. He ends up in a building that's set to be demolished just as he enters.
- In the second trial, he refuses to wait until the customer digs out five dollars and doesn't want to accept their 75 cents for perfect change. An optional game over can also have him get fed up with the chores and go knock on the bosses' door repeatedly. Wayne comes out instead, chides the protagonist for calling the boss when there was no urgent matter that required his presence and kills the protagonist then and there.
- In the third trial, a combination of being annoyed by his grouchy grandfather's attitude and impatience lead to him repeatedly pressing the A/C-remote when it doesn't react right away. The air conditioner malfunctions as a result, falls down and crushes grandpa to death.
- Hell: Where the protagonist finds himself after his brutal death.
- Here We Go Again!: In the good ending, Benjamin manages to escape Hell and confesses to Violet... that he has been dating her sister behind her back, in a manner clearly meant to rub it in. Furious, she kills him, and he ends up in the exact same room he started, back to be tortured by Wayne.
- Hope Spot: The bad ending. After leaving the last trial, the protagonist meets up with Wayne, who informs him that he has survived all of Wayne's trials and directs him to a portal leading back to the human world. When the protagonist tries to go through, Wayne stops him and tells him "surviving" the trials isn't the same as "passing" the trials, then gives him a "The Reason You Suck" Speech in which he calls the protagonist out on always being impatient. He then drags the protagonist back to hell to be tortured for all eternity.
- Horror Comedy: The game is an Explorer Horror, but the horror elements are solely played for Black Comedy and the story never takes itself seriously.
- Jerk Jock: Wayne frequently calls the protagonist a nerd, physically abuses him and makes comments about how weak and boring he is.
- Multiple Endings: The normal/bad ending and the "good" ending.
- Normal/Bad Ending: After the last trial, the protagonist is greeted by Wayne, who congratulates him on surviving them all and seemingly grants him passage back to the living world through a portal. Just as the protagonist tries to go through, Wayne blocks his way, revealing that he wasn't actually gonna let the protagonist go and delivering a cheerful "The Reason You Suck" Speech about how every trial's gruesome end could have been avoided had the protagonist been patient. The protagonist admits he hasn't learned anything at all and Wayne drags him back to hell to be tortured forever.
- "Good" Ending: Can be achieved by using the tokens on the capsule machine to get the mysterious capsule. The ending starts to play out like the normal ending, with Wayne baiting the protagonist, then denying him passage to the living world on account of him still being impatient. The protagonist then turns it around on him, pointing out the ridiculously Disproportionate Retribution at play and giving a heartwarming speech on how being human naturally means making mistakes and how he would gladly take a shortcut again if it meant being on time to an important confession. When that fails to convince Wayne, the protagonist opens the capsule in an attempt to bribe Wayne off, only to find its content to be a gun. Wayne reads the room and vacates the premises, allowing the MC to return to the living world. The MC, whose name is revealed to be Benjamin, meets up with his crush Violet to confess - that he's been seeing and is now dating her sister behind her back. Violet kills him and Benjamin is sent right back to hell where he's cheerfully greeted by Wayne.
- No Name Given: The protagonist is only referred to as "MC" or "kid". He actually attempts to give his name to a receptionist at one point but is interrupted and told that no one cares because this is hell. Subverted in the good ending where his name is revealed to be Benjamin.
- Oh, Crap!: Wayne's reaction in the "good" ending after the protagonist reveals that the mysterious capsule contains a gun.
- Running Gag: The protagonist's description in the stats menu changes with every trial. It starts out as "Stupid MC when he first arrives in hell, switches to "Escape Artist MC" in the first trial and changes to "Murderer MC" after the protagonist accidentally kills grandpa.
- Sadist: Wayne happily puts the protagonist through harrowing trials and flat-out admits that the protagonist's suffering amuses him. Justified, since torturing people is his job.
- Skewed Priorities: The protagonist's only concern after finding out that he literally died is that he'll be late for his confession. Wayne lampshades this.Wayne: Are you serious? Why should anything matter to you in the living world, you're dead.
- Too Dumb to Live: Mercilessly lampshaded at every turn. Just about everyone in the game, up to and including the menu, will call the protagonist out on being a colossal idiot who couldn't stop for five seconds to check if a car was coming before crossing the street.
- Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: The protagonist is established to not just be a pathetic loser, but a lazy, idiotic, and impatient jerk who, as revealed in the good end, was dating a girl’s sister behind her back and was on his way to tell her so he could mock her for it. This helps make Wayne’s torment of him comedic and somewhat deserved.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Wayne has white hair and is a sadistic, petty bully who tortures the protagonist just for the heck of it.
- Yank the Dog's Chain:
- One of Wayne's favorite tactics to make the protagonist suffer. In the third trial, he pretends he and the protagonist are in the living world, not in a simulation. The protagonist is overjoyed by this until Wayne informs him that he was lying and they're actually still in hell.
- Both endings start out with Wayne pretending that the protagonist has earned his return to the living world, only to stop him from entering the portal at the last second and gleefully informing him that, actually, he failed and now has to return to being tortured.
- Year Inside, Hour Outside: Time in hell goes by much slower than in the living world, which means Wayne can put the protagonist through whatever trials he wants and it won't affect his schedule up there.
