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* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' (first one), if you play the Light Side way, has a happy enough ending: Malak is dead, the Star Forge is destroyed, and the Republic is saved. This is only if you discount the fact that the helpful, generous character is really [[Evil Overlord|Darth]] [[Big Bad|Revan]]. Which means the past [[Pronoun Trouble|he/she]] remembers [[Heel Face Mind Screw|never happened]], and he/she is responsible for the deaths of countless people. Add on that in ''Knights of the Old Republic II'' we learn {{spoiler|Revan has gone off by him/herself to face down the True Sith, and as far as everyone knows, never comes back.}} Happy indeed. It was eventually [[retcon]]ned into Darth Revan actually intending to destroy the True Sith the entire time, which means there was a [[Plan]] going on. It just turned out there was a [[Spanner in the Works]] named Malak who screwed every thing up... [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|Then fixed it by giving Revan a way to do what he was intending WITHOUT being evil]].
** Well, the ending ''is'' happy enough. That his/her past self was the ultimate cause of most of the troubles doesn't mean joy cannot be found in having ''fixed'' most of them. It's a classical redemption story, only with the redeemed person [[Amnesiac Dissonance|not remembering his/her evil past self completely]].
* ''[[Crusader of Centy]]'': In a game which not only [[Broken Aesop|breaks its aesop, but jumps on the pieces]] a lot of time has been spent setting up that monsters aren't evil, and just want peace, except when you have to fight them, which you spend the entire game doing (as I said, really broken aesop), with scenes with them begging you to find way for humans and monsters to live in peace... You go back to before humans existed and send all the monsters off to their own world, because [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|Humans Are Bastards]], and will never, ever accept them. This is meant as a happy ending, evidently.
* Like a lot of works that feature both [[Reality Warper|reality warping]] and a "face reality" Aesop, ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'' ends with the characters returning to the real world and facing all the problems they'd previously tried to escape from. This makes a certain degree of sense in the Japanese version, but the English translation puts less emphasis on how many people are suffering in Mewt's world, and more emphasis on the idea that perhaps said world is just as real as their own, making the whole thing somewhat pointless. What's more, Doned is still crippled.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Adventure]]'': Sonic and friends sit in the middle of Station Square, congratulating themselves on beating [[Eldritch Abomination|Chaos]] and stopping Eggman's evil plan...but the city has been completely destroyed, and there may be thousands, if not ''millions'' of people dead. ''[[Karma Houdini|And Eggman gets away!]]''
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