Win-Win Ending
A happy ending for ALL.
In short, some stories end in victory for the heroes and villains alike. The Bad Guy Wins, but not in detriment of the hero, and certainly not as a Downer Ending.
How can the story achieve an end like this? Sometimes, hero and villain can work out a compromise to their mutual benefit. Sometimes, heroes and villains can find a way to bypass each other on the way to achieving their goals. Sometimes rain falls on the just and the unjust alike, and both manage to bring in a good harvest.
Old Area, New Enemies
Any nonlinear game with enemies whose deaths the game keeps track of can feel pretty empty once all the enemies are gone in the places you keep coming back to. But there's one way to deal with this that actually kills two birds with one stone: spawning in new enemies to those old locations when an event triggers in the game.
It could be that you triggered an event in the story that causes enemies to show up in the place you have to go next. It could be collecting a key, and now suddenly there are enemies guarding a door you previously couldn't open. Sometimes it's visiting your old hometown late in the story, and finding to the hero's shock (but maybe
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