I love that _Two Worlds_ ending. Beating Sauron to death within ten pages. It's what Tolkien would have wanted, honestly; now there's so much more room to describe flowers!
I would much prefer that they walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, somebody's following them, walk, walk, hide,walk, walk, walk, steal some mushrooms, get on the boat, walk, walk, walk, elves for the first time wow, walk, walk, night time walk. You get the idea.
Actually, you could leave from the road you start on at almost any point in the game. But you might be thinking of denying help after being tied to the railroad tracks. That happens when you enthusiastically say you want to join the guy bullying the girl, they don't even let you fight, they just beat you up in a cutscene and leave you tied to railroad tracks. You can squirm, but there's no way to escape, eventually the opposing samurai clan comes by and offers to help you for a price. If you deny that a train will come and give you a big kiss. I love that series for how the decisions affect the game in progress, not just the endings.
In Mortal Shell if you bring the NPC called Baghead several items, that can all be found in the starting area, he essentially asks if you want to sit and chill with him. If you agree it triggers a cutscene where you sit by the fire with Baghead, jamming out on a lute, while monsters overrun various brigand camps, followed by the credits rolling. Technically the game doesn’t actually end though as you get kicked back to the last check point after the credits end
Can we assume that Jennifer, being murdered by the Scissor-man, crashes the car thus ridding her fellow orphans and the world from this maniacal threat once and for all?
No, but depending on how far away from the mansion the car got things might not have ended well for Bobby, considering his malformed body doesn't actually work too well under the laws of the natural world and thus he'd be in trouble if the car left the mansion's bubble of disrupted time. That being said, considering his mom and brother would still be alive... Jennifer's friends would still be kinda SOL.
I've heard of how Witch's House ends before but I can't help but suspect, in the proper ending, Ellen goes through the puzzles of her own house for two reasons 1, She's a sadistic little twit. 2, to ensure Viola's death, in a way that absolutely reinforces 1.
I believe because, despite being legless and without vision, Viola still owns a body with immense magical power, thus, forcing Viola to retreat and beat her
So, I only played the original a long long time ago and maybe the remake made things clearer but - continued spoilers: I thought Ellen's diary entries followed by the escape sequence were implying that Ellen lured Viola into the house in hopes of some horror delivering her body to her that way, then chased her around when all else failed to finally catch the body you've been piloting this whole time. Point is, in my head-canon, the ending was a "good ending" in that Viola escapes safely and Ellen was put a stop for once and for all. Still sad and brutal that a desperate little girl who spent the last of her talents and mortal life reaching for a life without suffering was outfoxed and shotgunned for her efforts. The Viola-was-Ellen-from-the-start of it all is wild to me!
@@2LettersSho Hate to break it to you, but if you do the hardest ending the scene at the end is a bit more filled out. Then as they enter the forest Ellen stops fleeing and has a conversation with Viola. Amongst other things she tells Viola she will take care of her father for her, and calls her directly by name. Then after that conversation Viola's father arrives and it plays out very similarly to the regular ending. Except Viola more clearly says "father" and "help me" before getting shot. And Ellen stays on screen for a few seconds after dad walks away, laughs at Viola and then runs off. Essentially, Ellen who had lived with her failing body could manage the pain much better than Viola could, especially with the maiming. So once the swap happened Ellen just left the house and was heading out of the forest when Viola manages to order the house to stop her. The house, being magical but not smart enough to know it wasn't Ellen giving it orders does so. That's why you can get a cheap ending by just remaining outside until Viola dies, as the house is using Ellen's original bodies magic to function. It's a shame there's no way to get a good ending where Viola is freed, but that's horror games for you I suppose.
I think it's option 3, Ellen doesn't want to sit around and wait for Viola to die. She wants to enjoy her new life after all. So she simply goes in to ensure she can get out of there as fast as possible. Canonically she knows all the traps and quirks of the house so she's not really risking anything.
In ''The Return of the Obra Dinn'' you can get out of the row boat to investigate the cursed ship all alone...or you can nope straight out of there, get back into the boat and get a canon ending where you just never found out the details of the mystery (You can also just tell people that the Captain killed all the crew, without doing any investigation what so ever. It still counts as one way of solving the mystery)
If you ever come back for another Commenter Edition of this, PLEASE do Way of the Samurai 3. They have a dedicate "Apologize" button which lets you just opt out of most cutscenes and fights, and you can just "Oops, Sorry" your way through the whole game.
If you do another commenter edition I’d suggest Yuppie Psycho’s ‘Better off at Home’ ending in which you take one look at the blood covered room with the ominous contract and decide to nope outta there.
@@emeraldknight6603 I can beat you there. If you have the game Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle for the NES and still have the box, on the box is a picture about the game's password system. The sample password in the picture is the password for the final level (out of about 60 levels) of the game.
I had no idea they remade Myst. That might be fun to check out. Also, Andy, in the American South, the biggest perks of an office job are air conditioning and getting to sit down.
Honestly, it's been remade/remastered several times in various forms. realMyst, legendary edition, etc. (Occasionally they've even gone backwards - the Legendary version is based on the PC version, so actually played *worse* on a Mac than the original Mac version which was where the PC version had been ported from.)
The remakes are just getting progressively more and more brown, and the free walking means it's harder to tell what parts of the world you're actually supposed to be interacting with. Also, *silent gesture at that character animation*
Golden Sun's optional ending is actually really funny, since *SPOILERS* It's revealed in the second game that doing what the bad guys are doing will actually save the world rather than destroy it. I guess without Isaac going to chase them down they somehow fuck up and all die instead of just some of them?
@@tormagnusvallestad7659 That's a good point. Also the fact that at the end of the 2nd game the Wise One actively prevents the game's two villains from reaching the top of Mars Lighthouse, forcing the protagonists to light it instead. The heroes then call out the Wise One on his BS, whereupon the whole thing is revealed to have been a test to see if they were worthy of unsealing the power of alchemy. Fairly typical RPG stuff.
Let's not forget how it was all a thinly veiled attempt from Alex to become a god himself. Without Isaac and the party to stop him, he'd have won and probably destroyed everything as soon as he became omnipotent
@@rickypedia999 Well, Alex did get what he was after, sorta. The ending leaves his fate rather ambiguous until he reappears in Dark Dawn. Alex would be a good contender for a "Video Game Villains Who's Schemes Actually Worked" list
I'd love a list of games ( if there isn't one that I've forgotten ) that just let you say 'no' instead of forcing you to say yes. My favorite was Drawn to Life for the DS. You're meant to be this Almighty creator of these little raposa and one begs for your help at the start of the game to save them. If you say no, the little girl begging for your help, gives up pretty much saying they're doomed and the game cuts back to the rather cutesy opening as if you didn't just leave a bunch of cute little creatures to be consumed by darkness.
Yeah, Super Paper Mario did that too. You can just say no when Merlon asks you to help save all worlds from the void, and damn the multiverse to entropy because of your apathy!
I like Star Trek: Borg where Q offers to use his omnipotent powers to take you back in time to a previous Borg attack and you can find out what happened to your dad. Or you can follow your captain's orders, evacuate to a safe(ish) location, and let the ships get on with fighting without you. Unlike the other games, Q doesn't imply everything is doomed because of your cowardice, he's just disgusted you didn't want to go on his cool adventure.
now if only that was an option for RPG romances - imagine being allowed to just friendzone or dump an NPC without said NPC leaving forever or having to kill them off to secure your freedom...
To go against the title, there's a totally different (albeit longer) way to play "Two Worlds": avoid the main plot. The wizard Gandohar is waiting outside the Obligatory Starting Village, and he'll continue to wait there as long as you don't get too close. So stay well away from him and do all the side-quests. ALL of them; none are linked to the main plot in any way.
I'm so happy you mentioned the Two Worlds shortcut. To this day, it still tickles me pink that the game devs didn't account for the player cheesing the game like that.
Two Worlds wasn't exactly a balanced game, to be honest. Alchemy was even worse than in Skyrim, by the last third of the game you could be a god obliterating enemies by just sneezing in their direction.
The 'close the door' ending was the very first ending I got in The Stanley Parable, entirely by accident. I just wanted to see what I could interact with...
In Warioland 2 for the Gameboy color, the game starts with Wario sleeping in bed and the sound of an alarm clock ringing, so you press A to jump out of bed and start your adventure - which obviously begins with Wario finding and smashing the alarm clock (that's the whole first level, it's a wierd game). But if you stay in bed, press no buttons and ignore the alarm clock for about 30 seconds - the "level completed" music starts playing while Wario is still asleep. Then you get a cutscene where Wario is kidnapped (still sleeping the whole time), which leads to an alternate branching path storyline with different levels and a different final boss. That game was awesome and Wario is awesome. You can totally see why Luke thinks he's the best fictional character of all time
I played Myst with my brother after leaving for four years on active duty in the US Army. It was a beautiful mystery game that we bonded over. I still remember that game fondly almost 25 years later.
Yeah, Myst aged me a lot here. But it wasn't being told that it's 30 years old, it's seeing footage from a version with actual 3D environments that let you walk around. That was the weirdest thing.
Yeah... Still prefer the FMV. I had more charm to it somehow. Also... Could have sworn the page was sitting next to the book in the original game... or am I misremembering?
You can also say 'no' at the start of Super Paper Mario when Meralin asks you to collect the pure hearts. You have to answer 'no' multiple times, but once he's done asking, the game immediately gives you a game over screen and boots to title without any progress having been saved to the slot.
A similar thing to Golden Sun there was a version of Harvest Moon where the protagonist is conned into buying a dilapidated farm. The quickest way to end the game is just refuse the mayor and the credits will start rolling.
I don't know if you guys have done a list about this already, but I realized a lot of games end in an island completely unrelated to the rest of the game.
I never could get into it. It feels like such a grindfest(like DQ) and they complicate Djinn collection more than necessary. (Oh and water, for only a few seconds, can suffocate/drown someone/something? This is my opinion, so it's just not my cup of tea. It feels like the return of "Nintendo Hard". Had a friend who managed to glitch getting the Sol Blade in GS2 though, so almost everyone had one. Megiddo spam for days.
@@Maniacman2030 Actually it's really not a grind fest, yes there is a focus on Djinn, and if you do that correctly you don't really need to grind at all. The games are quite easy, well except the final bosses. I guess you got stuck on the water lighthouse, well.. I can tell you a little secret. You missed something ;)
In Wario Land 2 you can unlock many alternate endings. Usually in the game you have to wake up out of bed and deal with the monsters stealing your coins. But if you do nothing at the very start, you unlock a new much shorter path. That being said, you can only unlock this path if you have already beaten the game once.
Golden Sun and its sequel were my first JRPGs and having to reload my save file and go through the lengthy cutscene again after saying no out of curiosity was a worse punishment than the world ending
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. If you lose against the first boss, you get an ending where he takes over as Overlord of the Netherworld. Funnily enough, this is actually a common early game levelling strategy, since it uses New Game+.
In Disgaea 1, if you lose to Vyers/Midboss in the first chapter, you get an ending. (You can get this ending by losing to Midboss during any battle against him, chapter 1 is just the earliest you can do it.) This is actually a tactic to unlock new game + as fast as possible.
This week, I was going into a replay of Disgaea 1 with the expectation of actually completing it this time. Little did I realize that this whole time, I could have lost to the first boss and reach an ending after ten or so minutes! Efficient!
You can do this in the DS port to unlock a bonus character early which you would normally need to beat the game once to unlock! Technically, losing to that first boss is an ending, so viola! Free party member.
Hmmm didn't think this would count because it's not exactly a good ending. Unless you think "blowing up the world with a giant death laser then being transformed into a mindless cortex reaver" counts as a good ending. But you can, if you so desire, activate the giant death laser in "System Shock" before you activate the shield that causes it to backfire and self-destruct. Said death laser will destroy the earth, you get captured by robots and transformed into a cortex reaver, yadda yadda yadda. But honestly... System Shock is hard. Why not take the easy way out?
Look at you, commenter, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, unwilling to pant or sweat while running through her corridors. It's clear you could not challenge a perfect creature like Shodan.
The classic farm sim Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland, you can deny the Harvest Goddess' offer to save the village and just leave with your Grandpa's things. Ending the game in the first 10 mins
seeing the entry from Myst reminds me of how you can finish the Witness very quickly with an alternate solution to the first area puzzle that you learn about if you complete that leads to a rather interesting ending minutes into a new game if you know about this solution
You can finish Time Hollow in about 5 mins if you insist you recognise the character at the start. My sister found this out when I persuaded her to play XD
In the game Sekiro shadows die twice there are a number of different endings the player can get one of which is named Shura. In this ending the main character Wolf agrees to forsake lord kuro and battles both lady emma and isshin ashina . After their both defeated wolf kills his father the owl before going on to commit a massacre across ashina province.
I still get a kick outta Breath of the Wild players skipping the entire game and flying straight to fight Calamity Ganon the moment you get the Paraglider.
Dunno if it's quick enough to count, but early on in Suikoden IV you shipwreck on a small island and insist to your companions that you all should just stay the rest of your lives there. Insist enough and you get a game over where exactly that happens.
The Suikoden series all possess multiple endings, but both 4 & 5 are unique by having early endings. And the island ending isn't the only one in 4. There's a second around the halfway point.
Blacksad has the option to simply say "no" right at the start, ending the whole thing in about 2 minutes. I wouldn't advice it though. It's really quite good.
I never did beat Myst but I read the first novel that came with it when I was 9 or 10. It was a bit hard to start but once it found its pace it was surprisingly good. Well I never finished the game so maybe the story got more fleshed out as you progressed but basically it was about writing in books created worlds. It was back when development teams were small and cared enough to hire a author to write 2 books for their game. I’d recommend it though a bit of a slog to start, which I suppose mirrors the actual game fairly well
Can you do a video titled 7 times your best friend or friend was a boss or the final boss? Eight suggestions for this list is Riku from Kingdom Hearts, Pixy from Ace Combat 0 The Belkan War, any Undertale character, Gunther from Fire Emblem Fates Revelation, Weatly from portal 2, Faize from Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Volo from Pokémon Legends Arceus, and Edelgard,Dimitri, and/or Claude (depending on the route you choice) from Fire Emblem Three Houses.
The fact Nier Automata is not here is a crime. It can fill the list by itself. My personal favourite is 9S just fucking off to do his own thing at the start of route B
That's a fun idea, I think. Is there any "flight, not fight" horror game that gives you an unlockable mode after you beat the game where you can just merk everything, like your idea here? If not, I'll have to learn how to code, finally...
@@RedSpade37 There kind of is, with some of the Resident Evil DLC stuff. You don't play through the main campaign again in those, but there are some where you can play as a soldier or superpowered character of some kind that is much stronger than the typical protags. I don't think I've seen it out of one of the _truly_ "run from everything" style horror games though.
@@timogul Neat! Well, we will see what happens. I'll be on the lookout, since I'm honestly a bit surprised there's been no subversion/satire of the "run from everything" trope yet, but I'm sure there will be, eventually.
"Ah, Bandits!" If you actually played Two Worlds, you'll recall that your character said that about every enemy type. You might also recall that the final boss took a fraction of the time his bodyguard took, if you didn't use the early game cheese method mentioned
In the first Fallout, if you know where to go, you can head straight to the end game. And if you're really lazy and don't want to get into a fight, you can just choose to surrender and be turned into a super mutant instead.
Disgaea 2 ; Losing to Axel. It's supposed to be an easy fight but my roommate DIED to him and had to start the game all over again. (With his units and levels still don't worry) Love this series for how many alt endings there are. :3
And then, of course, you get the inversions - there's just no way you're beating Etna on your first playthrough... but if you somehow do, your reward is an elaborate game over sequence.
Similarly, losing to The Dark Adonis in any of the fights against him, including at the end of the first chapter, in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, gets you an ending. There are lots of extra endings in Disgaea games
In the first Fallout, if you just head directly west out of Vault 13 to reach Mariposa Base and then use some exploits to actually survive it, you can finish the game in something like fifteen minutes? I've not checked
My favorite version of this is in Metal Max, where you can choose to not become an adventurer and stay home as a mechanic like your mother within the first two minutes of the game. It also has multiple other opportunities to end the game early, like agreeing to marry your sweetheart about an hour or two in.
Losing to Mid-Boss in Disgaea, particularly the first encounter. In Disgaea DS, this is actually good to do on purpose, since you can unlock a special character right off the bat.
Huh, I wouldn't have thought any ending could count - as in, the very unsatisfying ones and such. Otherwise, I'd have thought of Golden Sun. Such a classic one!
In suikoden 4 pretty early on you get marooned on a deserted island, right when you are about to leave you get a choice to leave. Choosing to stay and confirming so just ends the game with you and your friends starting a new life on the island. Bonus for doing so is all character images are replaced by concept drawings
Don't know if this one was mentioned already, but in Super Paper Mario when you get asked the "will you save the world?" question in the beginning, if you say no enough times, the wizard will give up, you get a game over screen, and presumably the world ends.
Harvest moon Gameboy edition, the mayor I believe asks you if you would inherit your father's land and continue the farm life. If you continue to say no at repeated attempts to try and convince you, the mayor gets upset and leaves. The game ends. Lol
I've got a suggestion, games where you're responsible for making sure every character survives as long aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand they're dead. Exhibit A: Oxygen Not Included.
I swear Two Worlds was in the first video about this. Or maybe outside Xtra made a video about it. I swear someone told me about the villagers beating the shit out of gandohar.
The 16-bit Clock Tower never got an official release outside of Japan (the footage in the video is a fan translation), but it was still a pleasant surprise to see it here. As point-and-click games go, it's an absolute banger.
you can also click here: 15:55 and skip this video to the end. I don't recommend it, because you then miss a big part of the storytelling and character development, but you could technically finish the video quicker.
#4 ~ So, best ending gives you an island with a library on it. An entire island as your private property. Anyone would love that. No man is an island? Apparently not true! Also, as a bookworm with sharpened stainless steel teeth who loves devouring books full of knowledge, this reward of Private library + Island; best reward ever! I now have a place I can display my vast collection of books from my private library. (Seriously, I'm not joking about that last part.)
Thid game is still (relatively) new, but what about Bugsnaxs. You could go around just doing your own thing and ignore all the side quest, but not only will it lock you out of the free DLC that comes pre-installed, but you'll most likely get the worst ending, as one wrong slip up and you'll lose all the friends you've barely made.
A girl named Ellen you say? And the whole plot is started by the path blocked by Roses... Ellen Rose Ellen Rose OH MY GOD!!! This means absolutely nothing!
In Wasteland 2 you can end the game just after the you get access into the Ranger Citatel after the tutorial missions. If you take a tour at the ranger museum and press the big red button, just don't mind the big sign with the DON'T PRESS TE BUTTON just next to it.
Literally the first thing I did too when I saw it! that's just human nature, I guess. It reminded me of a quote my favorite author, Terry Pratchett: "If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."
The Witch's House is intensely disturbing. Time to delete this awful experience by downing some cheap vodka straight from the bottle and hoping I never see or hear about it ever again.
If you guys make a part 3 of this video, you have to include the one in Contra: The Hard Corps. In the stage where you start out in a garbage dump, you take a hidden path up an inconspicuous wall, then get transported to an arena where you fight several bosses. If you win all the fights, you're somehow blasted to an ending where you end up in the jungle with monkeys worshipping you for some reason
I remember in Harvest Moon Wonderful Life, at the beginning when that old guy is showing you your father's farm, he asks if you'd be willing to live there and it over. If you tell him no, the game will actually end with your character leaving and the old man taking the place instead.
I was playing farcry 6 and saw a big oil tanker out to sea at very bottom of map at torrero bay(forget name of base nearby and not sure if it works at all map edges), spawned a boat from the very base and went to investigate, I got a warning saying I was leaving Yarra and to turn back, I tried but wasn't quick enough and got a cut scene. Not gonna spoil it but it was funny and I didn't get close to the tanker
In Super Paper Mario, you can refuse to start your quest when asked, and if you refuse enough, the game ends. Technically more of a quick game over though. Not really all that fast, but in Cave Story, after leaving for the Sand Zone and eventually returning to Mimiga Village, you're sent to the Egg Corridor again, but it's changed and is now known as the "Egg Corridor?" After beating the boss of the zone, you're offered a chance to escape on the back of a dragon. If you do so, you're never seen again and everyone dies. This does count as the Bad Ending, but it does come earlier than the other endings, cutting out the last few zones and a good chunk of the game. Similarly, in Devil Survivor, a SMT spin-off, there is another early bad ending, but it's still towards the end of the story. On day 6, you participate in a fight between angels and demons with some humans trying to escape. You can side with the angels or the demons, or fight both and side with the humans. If you side with the humans, you are given the chance to escape early. However, while this does count as an ending... It's a false ending, as the angels wipe out all of humanity. No New Game+ is unlocked, it just makes you continue again. This is also technically early, but... The true endings happen or start on day 6 as well, it just takes a few more cutscenes and fights depending on the ending you do. So depending on the ending you go for (and if you're playing the original or the 3DS remake), it probably only saves an hour or two of normal gameplay at most, maybe 3 if you're not great at the game and are doing your first ending still. All of that aside, though, I hope they put Golden Sun onto NSO's GBA player...
I love that _Two Worlds_ ending. Beating Sauron to death within ten pages. It's what Tolkien would have wanted, honestly; now there's so much more room to describe flowers!
It's what would have happened if the eagles flew them to Mt. Doom
I would much prefer that they walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, somebody's following them, walk, walk, hide,walk, walk, walk, steal some mushrooms, get on the boat, walk, walk, walk, elves for the first time wow, walk, walk, night time walk. You get the idea.
@@Sogeking79 not to mention being attacked by *twees*
And songs! Oh, the songs!
*Gil-Galad was an Elven King*
*Of him the harpers sadly sing*
I could have sworn they've covered the Two Worlds ending in another video 🤔
In the original "Way of the Samurai" at the start of the game a villager asks for your help. if you say "No" you just keep walking and the game ends
The series as a whole tends to have shorter endings somewhere, but that is one of the best
Actually, you could leave from the road you start on at almost any point in the game.
But you might be thinking of denying help after being tied to the railroad tracks.
That happens when you enthusiastically say you want to join the guy bullying the girl, they don't even let you fight, they just beat you up in a cutscene and leave you tied to railroad tracks.
You can squirm, but there's no way to escape, eventually the opposing samurai clan comes by and offers to help you for a price. If you deny that a train will come and give you a big kiss.
I love that series for how the decisions affect the game in progress, not just the endings.
Haha! Classic Way of the Samurai. Those games were hilarious! Wish we could get a Way of the Samurai 5 in the future
A 'Choose Your Own Adventure" where if you don't choose adventure with the first option, the story ends. Makes sense.
@@ARUCARDFTEPES I remember that ending vividly
In Mortal Shell if you bring the NPC called Baghead several items, that can all be found in the starting area, he essentially asks if you want to sit and chill with him. If you agree it triggers a cutscene where you sit by the fire with Baghead, jamming out on a lute, while monsters overrun various brigand camps, followed by the credits rolling. Technically the game doesn’t actually end though as you get kicked back to the last check point after the credits end
I can't remember if I've seen a "fake-out" ending video, but that sounds something like the fake Catwoman ending in Arkham City.
I think they already talked about that one?
@@SidereusOfTheFallen yeah, they did.
you just helped me discover the song used in the ending of that game. thanks man
@@smokagaming It’s an absolute banger right?
In 12 Minutes, you get what is arguably the best ending by just not doing anything during the first 12 minutes.
As someone who couldn't wait for it, thanks trailers, sadly I have to report that you're not wrong.
Finally, I have a reason to finish 12 minutes.
I swear ro god if there's a Far Cry game on this list
The best ending of 12 minutes is the ending where you don’t play 12 minutes
@@Beeyo176 Pretty sure there were one or two of them on the list that generated the comments that this list was based on.
Can we assume that Jennifer, being murdered by the Scissor-man, crashes the car thus ridding her fellow orphans and the world from this maniacal threat once and for all?
Sounds like a good ending to me. She's not craven. It's a sacrificial act.
ah, what a classic. as courage is to perform in spite of fear, not a lack of it, only a coward can experience true bravery. what a heroic sacrifice.
No, but depending on how far away from the mansion the car got things might not have ended well for Bobby, considering his malformed body doesn't actually work too well under the laws of the natural world and thus he'd be in trouble if the car left the mansion's bubble of disrupted time.
That being said, considering his mom and brother would still be alive... Jennifer's friends would still be kinda SOL.
I've heard of how Witch's House ends before but I can't help but suspect, in the proper ending, Ellen goes through the puzzles of her own house for two reasons
1, She's a sadistic little twit.
2, to ensure Viola's death, in a way that absolutely reinforces 1.
I believe because, despite being legless and without vision, Viola still owns a body with immense magical power, thus, forcing Viola to retreat and beat her
no wonder Jane Likes her
So, I only played the original a long long time ago and maybe the remake made things clearer but - continued spoilers:
I thought Ellen's diary entries followed by the escape sequence were implying that Ellen lured Viola into the house in hopes of some horror delivering her body to her that way, then chased her around when all else failed to finally catch the body you've been piloting this whole time. Point is, in my head-canon, the ending was a "good ending" in that Viola escapes safely and Ellen was put a stop for once and for all. Still sad and brutal that a desperate little girl who spent the last of her talents and mortal life reaching for a life without suffering was outfoxed and shotgunned for her efforts. The Viola-was-Ellen-from-the-start of it all is wild to me!
@@2LettersSho Hate to break it to you, but if you do the hardest ending the scene at the end is a bit more filled out. Then as they enter the forest Ellen stops fleeing and has a conversation with Viola. Amongst other things she tells Viola she will take care of her father for her, and calls her directly by name. Then after that conversation Viola's father arrives and it plays out very similarly to the regular ending. Except Viola more clearly says "father" and "help me" before getting shot. And Ellen stays on screen for a few seconds after dad walks away, laughs at Viola and then runs off.
Essentially, Ellen who had lived with her failing body could manage the pain much better than Viola could, especially with the maiming. So once the swap happened Ellen just left the house and was heading out of the forest when Viola manages to order the house to stop her. The house, being magical but not smart enough to know it wasn't Ellen giving it orders does so.
That's why you can get a cheap ending by just remaining outside until Viola dies, as the house is using Ellen's original bodies magic to function. It's a shame there's no way to get a good ending where Viola is freed, but that's horror games for you I suppose.
I think it's option 3, Ellen doesn't want to sit around and wait for Viola to die. She wants to enjoy her new life after all. So she simply goes in to ensure she can get out of there as fast as possible. Canonically she knows all the traps and quirks of the house so she's not really risking anything.
In ''The Return of the Obra Dinn'' you can get out of the row boat to investigate the cursed ship all alone...or you can nope straight out of there, get back into the boat and get a canon ending where you just never found out the details of the mystery
(You can also just tell people that the Captain killed all the crew, without doing any investigation what so ever. It still counts as one way of solving the mystery)
That game was amazing. Got so many chills and felt so much for the characters. Don't think I could nope out
I like to imagine my boss after doing that. "So the captain ate everyone else and killed himself? Uhhh, good work I guess."
As a bonus, if you say the Captain killed everyone you can get an achievement out of it.
I mean, a captain _is_ responsible for the lives of those under his command. So _technically..._
If you ever come back for another Commenter Edition of this, PLEASE do Way of the Samurai 3. They have a dedicate "Apologize" button which lets you just opt out of most cutscenes and fights, and you can just "Oops, Sorry" your way through the whole game.
Way of Canada
If you do another commenter edition I’d suggest Yuppie Psycho’s ‘Better off at Home’ ending in which you take one look at the blood covered room with the ominous contract and decide to nope outta there.
If they do another commenters edition they better include some entries not on the other lists lmao
@@causewhynot6485 in destiny 2 there is a raid called the last wish where you can put a code on a wall it will teleport to the final boss
lmao I just commented that too without seeing this comment
@@emeraldknight6603 I can beat you there. If you have the game Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle for the NES and still have the box, on the box is a picture about the game's password system. The sample password in the picture is the password for the final level (out of about 60 levels) of the game.
I had no idea they remade Myst. That might be fun to check out.
Also, Andy, in the American South, the biggest perks of an office job are air conditioning and getting to sit down.
It's called realMyst, and it's great!
Honestly, it's been remade/remastered several times in various forms. realMyst, legendary edition, etc. (Occasionally they've even gone backwards - the Legendary version is based on the PC version, so actually played *worse* on a Mac than the original Mac version which was where the PC version had been ported from.)
The remakes are just getting progressively more and more brown, and the free walking means it's harder to tell what parts of the world you're actually supposed to be interacting with. Also, *silent gesture at that character animation*
There's even a VR port. It's pretty cool to experience Myst in VR.
Golden Sun's optional ending is actually really funny, since *SPOILERS*
It's revealed in the second game that doing what the bad guys are doing will actually save the world rather than destroy it. I guess without Isaac going to chase them down they somehow fuck up and all die instead of just some of them?
Well, Isaac has the mars star.
Unless the come back for that, all they can do is throw the elements out of balance.
@@tormagnusvallestad7659 That's a good point. Also the fact that at the end of the 2nd game the Wise One actively prevents the game's two villains from reaching the top of Mars Lighthouse, forcing the protagonists to light it instead.
The heroes then call out the Wise One on his BS, whereupon the whole thing is revealed to have been a test to see if they were worthy of unsealing the power of alchemy. Fairly typical RPG stuff.
Let's not forget how it was all a thinly veiled attempt from Alex to become a god himself. Without Isaac and the party to stop him, he'd have won and probably destroyed everything as soon as he became omnipotent
@@rickypedia999 Well, Alex did get what he was after, sorta. The ending leaves his fate rather ambiguous until he reappears in Dark Dawn.
Alex would be a good contender for a "Video Game Villains Who's Schemes Actually Worked" list
@@HylianFox3 still waiting for the 4th game so we can decide if it did or not
I'd love a list of games ( if there isn't one that I've forgotten ) that just let you say 'no' instead of forcing you to say yes. My favorite was Drawn to Life for the DS. You're meant to be this Almighty creator of these little raposa and one begs for your help at the start of the game to save them. If you say no, the little girl begging for your help, gives up pretty much saying they're doomed and the game cuts back to the rather cutesy opening as if you didn't just leave a bunch of cute little creatures to be consumed by darkness.
Yeah, Super Paper Mario did that too. You can just say no when Merlon asks you to help save all worlds from the void, and damn the multiverse to entropy because of your apathy!
I like Star Trek: Borg where Q offers to use his omnipotent powers to take you back in time to a previous Borg attack and you can find out what happened to your dad.
Or you can follow your captain's orders, evacuate to a safe(ish) location, and let the ships get on with fighting without you.
Unlike the other games, Q doesn't imply everything is doomed because of your cowardice, he's just disgusted you didn't want to go on his cool adventure.
The far cry games are notorious for that.
now if only that was an option for RPG romances - imagine being allowed to just friendzone or dump an NPC without said NPC leaving forever or having to kill them off to secure your freedom...
This NEEDS to be a thing. I know there's a bunch.
To go against the title, there's a totally different (albeit longer) way to play "Two Worlds": avoid the main plot. The wizard Gandohar is waiting outside the Obligatory Starting Village, and he'll continue to wait there as long as you don't get too close. So stay well away from him and do all the side-quests. ALL of them; none are linked to the main plot in any way.
I'm so happy you mentioned the Two Worlds shortcut. To this day, it still tickles me pink that the game devs didn't account for the player cheesing the game like that.
They must have eventually patched it. Tried it a while back myself and he just butchers the villagers.
Two Worlds wasn't exactly a balanced game, to be honest. Alchemy was even worse than in Skyrim, by the last third of the game you could be a god obliterating enemies by just sneezing in their direction.
The 'close the door' ending was the very first ending I got in The Stanley Parable, entirely by accident. I just wanted to see what I could interact with...
Same
In Warioland 2 for the Gameboy color, the game starts with Wario sleeping in bed and the sound of an alarm clock ringing, so you press A to jump out of bed and start your adventure - which obviously begins with Wario finding and smashing the alarm clock (that's the whole first level, it's a wierd game). But if you stay in bed, press no buttons and ignore the alarm clock for about 30 seconds - the "level completed" music starts playing while Wario is still asleep. Then you get a cutscene where Wario is kidnapped (still sleeping the whole time), which leads to an alternate branching path storyline with different levels and a different final boss. That game was awesome and Wario is awesome. You can totally see why Luke thinks he's the best fictional character of all time
I played Myst with my brother after leaving for four years on active duty in the US Army. It was a beautiful mystery game that we bonded over. I still remember that game fondly almost 25 years later.
Yeah, Myst aged me a lot here. But it wasn't being told that it's 30 years old, it's seeing footage from a version with actual 3D environments that let you walk around. That was the weirdest thing.
Yeah they did a remaster. I'd prefer the original though.
And it's the second remake with full 3D environments that let you walk around, after realMyst (2000) and its 2014 remaster!
Shame to lose the FMV actors though
Yeah... Still prefer the FMV. I had more charm to it somehow. Also... Could have sworn the page was sitting next to the book in the original game... or am I misremembering?
You can also say 'no' at the start of Super Paper Mario when Meralin asks you to collect the pure hearts. You have to answer 'no' multiple times, but once he's done asking, the game immediately gives you a game over screen and boots to title without any progress having been saved to the slot.
I loved the Clock Tower quick ending. I remember thinking I discovered a quick way to beat the game, but then SCISSORS!
A similar thing to Golden Sun there was a version of Harvest Moon where the protagonist is conned into buying a dilapidated farm. The quickest way to end the game is just refuse the mayor and the credits will start rolling.
"Which is as viscerally upsetting as it is, presumably, logistically challenging." 😂😂😂 Man I love Jane.
Viscerally upsetting is certainly a way to put it.
I don't know if you guys have done a list about this already, but I realized a lot of games end in an island completely unrelated to the rest of the game.
Does Fallout 2 oil rig ending count as "an island"?
Because I hope it does.
Of course it counts! Oil rigs are the most 'Murican islands ever!
Golden Sun is definitely worth saying "yes" to, though.
Go play it, if you haven't yet.
Indeed maybe the best RPG ever.
I never could get into it. It feels like such a grindfest(like DQ) and they complicate Djinn collection more than necessary. (Oh and water, for only a few seconds, can suffocate/drown someone/something?
This is my opinion, so it's just not my cup of tea. It feels like the return of "Nintendo Hard". Had a friend who managed to glitch getting the Sol Blade in GS2 though, so almost everyone had one. Megiddo spam for days.
@@Maniacman2030 Actually it's really not a grind fest, yes there is a focus on Djinn, and if you do that correctly you don't really need to grind at all. The games are quite easy, well except the final bosses.
I guess you got stuck on the water lighthouse, well.. I can tell you a little secret. You missed something ;)
@Sander Evers best rpg ever made?!pfft ROTFLMFAO 😂🤣😂you internet people always make me laugh with your lies.
@@drizztdourden666 I was honest, after playing many RPGs. Golden Sun and Golden Sun The Lost Age are still my favorite.
Here's a classic, metal saga, you can choose to not leave your hometown right at the start of the game and never go on an epic adventure
In Wario Land 2 you can unlock many alternate endings. Usually in the game you have to wake up out of bed and deal with the monsters stealing your coins. But if you do nothing at the very start, you unlock a new much shorter path. That being said, you can only unlock this path if you have already beaten the game once.
Golden Sun and its sequel were my first JRPGs and having to reload my save file and go through the lengthy cutscene again after saying no out of curiosity was a worse punishment than the world ending
Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. If you lose against the first boss, you get an ending where he takes over as Overlord of the Netherworld.
Funnily enough, this is actually a common early game levelling strategy, since it uses New Game+.
Ironically, Midboss having been the original Overlord of the Netherworld.
You Dare lose to Vyers? He's nothing but a Mid-Boss! (JK. Honestly, its the easy ending for a reason.)
I misread this as “Diarrhea: Hour of Darkness”, and hoo boy, does that sound like a harrowing play. 😅
Having played the considerably easier Disgaea 5, I was incredibly unprepared for that fight and got destroyed.
In Disgaea 1, if you lose to Vyers/Midboss in the first chapter, you get an ending. (You can get this ending by losing to Midboss during any battle against him, chapter 1 is just the earliest you can do it.) This is actually a tactic to unlock new game + as fast as possible.
In The Witness, you can spot the world pattern above the first gate, which leads to you waking up and a "it was all just a dream" ending
This week, I was going into a replay of Disgaea 1 with the expectation of actually completing it this time. Little did I realize that this whole time, I could have lost to the first boss and reach an ending after ten or so minutes! Efficient!
You can do this in the DS port to unlock a bonus character early which you would normally need to beat the game once to unlock! Technically, losing to that first boss is an ending, so viola! Free party member.
I knew I'm not that good at this type o games, but wow, I lost to this guy the first 5 or so times
If you do a second commenter’s edition, ctrl+W in monkey Island one and two (maybe three as well? I don’t remember) is literally a “win game” shortcut
Never thought I'd see the witches house in an outsidexbox video!!
Hmmm didn't think this would count because it's not exactly a good ending. Unless you think "blowing up the world with a giant death laser then being transformed into a mindless cortex reaver" counts as a good ending. But you can, if you so desire, activate the giant death laser in "System Shock" before you activate the shield that causes it to backfire and self-destruct. Said death laser will destroy the earth, you get captured by robots and transformed into a cortex reaver, yadda yadda yadda. But honestly... System Shock is hard. Why not take the easy way out?
Look at you, commenter, a pathetic creature of meat and bone, unwilling to pant or sweat while running through her corridors. It's clear you could not challenge a perfect creature like Shodan.
What part of this video made you think only good endings are valid?
@@insaincaldo The title. ("Shortcut" implies you still get where you want to go, just quicker.) The video itself made me realise otherwise!
I wouldn’t call the scissor ending good so I think you’re fine 😂
@@H0lyMoley Shortcut also imply taking the easy way out, not necessarily to a more satisfying end.
The classic farm sim Harvest Moon: Save the Homeland, you can deny the Harvest Goddess' offer to save the village and just leave with your Grandpa's things. Ending the game in the first 10 mins
seeing the entry from Myst reminds me of how you can finish the Witness very quickly with an alternate solution to the first area puzzle that you learn about if you complete that leads to a rather interesting ending minutes into a new game if you know about this solution
So many classic entries in this list. Especially happy to see Golden Sun and The Witch's House on the list
You can finish Time Hollow in about 5 mins if you insist you recognise the character at the start. My sister found this out when I persuaded her to play XD
In the game Sekiro shadows die twice there are a number of different endings the player can get one of which is named Shura. In this ending the main character Wolf agrees to forsake lord kuro and battles both lady emma and isshin ashina . After their both defeated wolf kills his father the owl before going on to commit a massacre across ashina province.
WITCH'S HOUSE THUMBNAIL CALLED. I'M HERE. I'M HERE. IT'S GO TIME BABY
I got to the part of The Witch's House where you have to feed your frog friend to the snake and just could not go on.
I wish I stopped there.
I mean, you arguably saved your friends if the only enemy creature is in the car with you. Unless they're trapped I guess. Idk, haven't played it lol
Having a Mackerel in Nier Automata. In a game with so many endings, might as well go with the most delicious one.
It takes a while to get that one. You can desert Yorha early on IIRC, or self destruct at the bunker for faster ones.
I still get a kick outta Breath of the Wild players skipping the entire game and flying straight to fight Calamity Ganon the moment you get the Paraglider.
There's always Commander Keen 4: Goodbye Galaxy. Hold down E, N and D simultaneously... and there you go.
Dunno if it's quick enough to count, but early on in Suikoden IV you shipwreck on a small island and insist to your companions that you all should just stay the rest of your lives there. Insist enough and you get a game over where exactly that happens.
The Suikoden series all possess multiple endings, but both 4 & 5 are unique by having early endings. And the island ending isn't the only one in 4. There's a second around the halfway point.
Blacksad has the option to simply say "no" right at the start, ending the whole thing in about 2 minutes. I wouldn't advice it though. It's really quite good.
The voice actor in The end is Nigh sounds a bit... "Oh my GOOOOOOOOOOD" for my tastes.
Jane's comedic deliveries are always spot on.
I never did beat Myst but I read the first novel that came with it when I was 9 or 10. It was a bit hard to start but once it found its pace it was surprisingly good. Well I never finished the game so maybe the story got more fleshed out as you progressed but basically it was about writing in books created worlds. It was back when development teams were small and cared enough to hire a author to write 2 books for their game. I’d recommend it though a bit of a slog to start, which I suppose mirrors the actual game fairly well
Also the books were more of a tan color and a slightly darker navy blue from what I recall
Can you do a video titled 7 times your best friend or friend was a boss or the final boss? Eight suggestions for this list is Riku from Kingdom Hearts, Pixy from Ace Combat 0 The Belkan War, any Undertale character, Gunther from Fire Emblem Fates Revelation, Weatly from portal 2, Faize from Star Ocean: The Last Hope, Volo from Pokémon Legends Arceus,
and Edelgard,Dimitri, and/or Claude (depending on the route you choice) from Fire Emblem Three Houses.
The fact Nier Automata is not here is a crime. It can fill the list by itself.
My personal favourite is 9S just fucking off to do his own thing at the start of route B
Why is there no Clocktower Remake in which Rockman is a selectable character? He could whip out that Rock Buster and go to town!
That's a fun idea, I think. Is there any "flight, not fight" horror game that gives you an unlockable mode after you beat the game where you can just merk everything, like your idea here?
If not, I'll have to learn how to code, finally...
@@RedSpade37 There kind of is, with some of the Resident Evil DLC stuff. You don't play through the main campaign again in those, but there are some where you can play as a soldier or superpowered character of some kind that is much stronger than the typical protags. I don't think I've seen it out of one of the _truly_ "run from everything" style horror games though.
@@timogul Neat! Well, we will see what happens. I'll be on the lookout, since I'm honestly a bit surprised there's been no subversion/satire of the "run from everything" trope yet, but I'm sure there will be, eventually.
@@RedSpade37 Oh, I almost forgot another example, "Pacman."
@@timogul Oh damn, you're a genius. It was there the whole time!
"Ah, Bandits!" If you actually played Two Worlds, you'll recall that your character said that about every enemy type. You might also recall that the final boss took a fraction of the time his bodyguard took, if you didn't use the early game cheese method mentioned
Golden sun 1 + 2 are in my top 10 favorite games of all time. Love you see some talk about it again after so long
In the first Fallout, if you know where to go, you can head straight to the end game. And if you're really lazy and don't want to get into a fight, you can just choose to surrender and be turned into a super mutant instead.
There's also a even shorter (but cut content) ending where you can straight up refuse the Overseer's request to go look for the Water Chip
Disgaea 2 ; Losing to Axel. It's supposed to be an easy fight but my roommate DIED to him and had to start the game all over again. (With his units and levels still don't worry)
Love this series for how many alt endings there are. :3
And then, of course, you get the inversions - there's just no way you're beating Etna on your first playthrough... but if you somehow do, your reward is an elaborate game over sequence.
Similarly, losing to The Dark Adonis in any of the fights against him, including at the end of the first chapter, in Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, gets you an ending. There are lots of extra endings in Disgaea games
I like the ending in Mortal Shell where you ignore all the scary monsters, and just chill and play your lute with your new friend.
In the first Fallout, if you just head directly west out of Vault 13 to reach Mariposa Base and then use some exploits to actually survive it, you can finish the game in something like fifteen minutes? I've not checked
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"A streamer that's GOOD at games? Now you've lost me."
Couldn't have said it better myself lmao
My favorite version of this is in Metal Max, where you can choose to not become an adventurer and stay home as a mechanic like your mother within the first two minutes of the game. It also has multiple other opportunities to end the game early, like agreeing to marry your sweetheart about an hour or two in.
Clock Tower is proof of two things 1) Always check the backseat and 2) Always bring a weapon, no matter where you're going
I haven’t watched your videos in the longest time. So glad I finally came back.
Really didn't expect the angelic voice of Sir Richard Evans III to show up here.
I can't believe the twist ending of Clock Tower is that there's a Pinsir in the back of the car. How horrible.
Ah I went to look up the original 'Lazy Players' vid and its from *eight* years ago, bless everyone looks so young :3
To be honest, that’s the best gameplay you can get out of two worlds
Hearing Rich Evans' voice on Oxbox is stirring my brain
12:14 I think I finally get the reference now between sleepy princess Sya Lis and her nickname of scissor demon.😮
"Think of all the things you can get done"
Isaac can now wash his socks
What she actually said: " ...as suggested by you, the commentors!"
What I was expecting: "...as suggested by you, the lazy players!"
Losing to Mid-Boss in Disgaea, particularly the first encounter. In Disgaea DS, this is actually good to do on purpose, since you can unlock a special character right off the bat.
Huh, I wouldn't have thought any ending could count - as in, the very unsatisfying ones and such.
Otherwise, I'd have thought of Golden Sun. Such a classic one!
And after that Witch's House entry, my chances of sleeping tonight have been shattered.
Oh my god! I was not expecting to see Golden Sun in a video like this ever! It was one of my faves growing up!
In suikoden 4 pretty early on you get marooned on a deserted island, right when you are about to leave you get a choice to leave. Choosing to stay and confirming so just ends the game with you and your friends starting a new life on the island. Bonus for doing so is all character images are replaced by concept drawings
I loved Golden Sun so much!
Plot twist: Stanley Parable is actually set in 2020 and is about a guy who didn't get the memo about working from home.
Don't know if this one was mentioned already, but in Super Paper Mario when you get asked the "will you save the world?" question in the beginning, if you say no enough times, the wizard will give up, you get a game over screen, and presumably the world ends.
Harvest moon Gameboy edition, the mayor I believe asks you if you would inherit your father's land and continue the farm life. If you continue to say no at repeated attempts to try and convince you, the mayor gets upset and leaves. The game ends. Lol
I've got a suggestion, games where you're responsible for making sure every character survives as long aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand they're dead. Exhibit A: Oxygen Not Included.
I swear Two Worlds was in the first video about this. Or maybe outside Xtra made a video about it. I swear someone told me about the villagers beating the shit out of gandohar.
Its in a lot of videos.
The 16-bit Clock Tower never got an official release outside of Japan (the footage in the video is a fan translation), but it was still a pleasant surprise to see it here. As point-and-click games go, it's an absolute banger.
Suikoden IV when asked if you want to stay on the island. I thought that was how I was going to start building my empire.
you can also click here: 15:55 and skip this video to the end.
I don't recommend it, because you then miss a big part of the storytelling and character development, but you could technically finish the video quicker.
#4 ~ So, best ending gives you an island with a library on it. An entire island as your private property. Anyone would love that. No man is an island? Apparently not true! Also, as a bookworm with sharpened stainless steel teeth who loves devouring books full of knowledge, this reward of Private library + Island; best reward ever! I now have a place I can display my vast collection of books from my private library. (Seriously, I'm not joking about that last part.)
And the books are portals to other dimensions, so uh...
"With nary a rock man to beat him, or a scissor man to keep him busy..." I love this channel
Thid game is still (relatively) new, but what about Bugsnaxs. You could go around just doing your own thing and ignore all the side quest, but not only will it lock you out of the free DLC that comes pre-installed, but you'll most likely get the worst ending, as one wrong slip up and you'll lose all the friends you've barely made.
in yuppie psycho you get one of the best endings by saying no to the contract
A girl named Ellen you say? And the whole plot is started by the path blocked by Roses...
Ellen
Rose
Ellen Rose
OH MY GOD!!! This means absolutely nothing!
In Wasteland 2 you can end the game just after the you get access into the Ranger Citatel after the tutorial missions. If you take a tour at the ranger museum and press the big red button, just don't mind the big sign with the DON'T PRESS TE BUTTON just next to it.
Literally the first thing I did too when I saw it! that's just human nature, I guess. It reminded me of a quote my favorite author, Terry Pratchett:
"If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying 'End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH', the paint wouldn't even have time to dry."
It’s scary how accurate Jane’s intro was.
Good lord that body swap game o_o
Right 😧
Yeah, not going to be playing that any time soon.
@@tba113 Looks interesting but only on a very good mental health day 😅
Yeah wtf. Now I'm sad :(
The Witch's House is intensely disturbing.
Time to delete this awful experience by downing some cheap vodka straight from the bottle and hoping I never see or hear about it ever again.
Was not ready for that ending scene.
Ironically, I wasn't sure about this video the first time I click on it, because I instantly hit 'skip' and finished it.
Legitimately surprised the Space Quest 2 lazy ending wasn’t included! Just type “cheat” in the command line and the game is over.
If you guys make a part 3 of this video, you have to include the one in Contra: The Hard Corps. In the stage where you start out in a garbage dump, you take a hidden path up an inconspicuous wall, then get transported to an arena where you fight several bosses. If you win all the fights, you're somehow blasted to an ending where you end up in the jungle with monkeys worshipping you for some reason
That was a fun game, had lots of endings. Really threw me for a loop when I found this secret encounter.
I remember in Harvest Moon Wonderful Life, at the beginning when that old guy is showing you your father's farm, he asks if you'd be willing to live there and it over. If you tell him no, the game will actually end with your character leaving and the old man taking the place instead.
I was playing farcry 6 and saw a big oil tanker out to sea at very bottom of map at torrero bay(forget name of base nearby and not sure if it works at all map edges), spawned a boat from the very base and went to investigate, I got a warning saying I was leaving Yarra and to turn back, I tried but wasn't quick enough and got a cut scene. Not gonna spoil it but it was funny and I didn't get close to the tanker
In Super Paper Mario, you can refuse to start your quest when asked, and if you refuse enough, the game ends. Technically more of a quick game over though.
Not really all that fast, but in Cave Story, after leaving for the Sand Zone and eventually returning to Mimiga Village, you're sent to the Egg Corridor again, but it's changed and is now known as the "Egg Corridor?" After beating the boss of the zone, you're offered a chance to escape on the back of a dragon. If you do so, you're never seen again and everyone dies. This does count as the Bad Ending, but it does come earlier than the other endings, cutting out the last few zones and a good chunk of the game.
Similarly, in Devil Survivor, a SMT spin-off, there is another early bad ending, but it's still towards the end of the story. On day 6, you participate in a fight between angels and demons with some humans trying to escape. You can side with the angels or the demons, or fight both and side with the humans. If you side with the humans, you are given the chance to escape early. However, while this does count as an ending... It's a false ending, as the angels wipe out all of humanity. No New Game+ is unlocked, it just makes you continue again. This is also technically early, but... The true endings happen or start on day 6 as well, it just takes a few more cutscenes and fights depending on the ending you do. So depending on the ending you go for (and if you're playing the original or the 3DS remake), it probably only saves an hour or two of normal gameplay at most, maybe 3 if you're not great at the game and are doing your first ending still.
All of that aside, though, I hope they put Golden Sun onto NSO's GBA player...