Would you be fine with a bittersweet ending?

Most of the gothic and horror stories have bittersweet, bleak and unease endings, so I think it's fine if Bloodstained wants to take the dark and gloomy true ending approach. 

^That also works out.

I'd be interested to see if collecting all shards gives an unexpected benefit that none of the characters were aware of!

Ehh… I understand why people like bittersweet endings and why they want to see more of them but... It feels like now every gaming writer has to have a "bittersweet at best, downer at worst" outcome for their story nowadays; I mean they're great when done right but- I dunno I'm just a sappy old school gamer who likes to have their heroes leave the adventure with at least a personal victory.

On your question Bloody Miri, depends like I wouldn't be fine if it was something like OoE or, God forbid, Miriam outright dying; I'm not asking for something with rainbow, lollipops, jump-in-the-air-freeze-frame ending. But I would like Miriam to leave the castle feeling like she's accomplished some personal victories. Call me sappy but I just like happy and bitterSWEET ends you know, part of the reason for that being, like dhampir said, escapism.
Real life's depressing enough, got no needs to in video games


Now that being said I do especially like it when a darker/heavier story has a good ending makes the victory more satisfying, I wouldn't want it to be Grimdark
as I do get "Darkness-induced Audience Apathy" syndrome but that's my personal feeling on the matter

Yan does make a good statement, there will probably be a "bad", "normal", and "good/true" ending in the main game.

But regarding multiple endings, what I am praying to God does not happen is that the bad ending is gotten by having to many shards on your person; Like come don't punish me just because I want to enjoy the to it's fullest extent, I agree with Bloody Miri on that part a LOT.

Yeah I can see that.  Bittersweet is one thing, and I do not even mind a MC dying, if written well, but these days people are always shilling grimdark garbage (IMO) like Game of Thrones, where basicly it's "life sucks and then you die"  I don't want that, I want Evil was destroyed, and the MC sacrificed herself to make it possible.  That sort of thing.

mThis is how I expect avoiding the bad ending to be like, since the demo's implication that the bad end route is "shard overload" seems very much possible.

You know what? THAT kind of ending I could see, 'specially if they emphasize they that the MC's sacrifice gave the people a second chance. Sekiro's Purification ending for example: Wolf gives his life so his master could live a happy, normal life, the game puts so much emphasis on how heartwarming it is, that i'd go so far as to say if it weren't for the secret ending feeling like a sequel hook, I could see that as the true ending.

Miriam becoming the enemy for the sequel sounds cool to be honest. Other than that, I don't want to think about it too much. It'll be 11 days from now, I just want to be surprised.

ROTN needs to have the "normal ending" in which you play the game normally without trying to 100%. But after the ending, you realize that there is something you missed, so you gotta figure out what's missing. It's prominent in all IGAVania games. My favorite one has to be SOTN's and AOS's. You get to explore the castle, but inverted. The other, you get to explore the realm of Chaos.

Nah, totally means 1000%.