>Side quest: search for a missing person
>Find them
>They're dead
>turns out they were murdered you got bait-and-switched into an absolutely typical "kill-5-guys-then-return-to-quest-giver" side quest
>Side quest: escort NPC
>Escorts them to the destination
>They die in the cutscene afterwards
>Side quest: find this old man's dog
>the dog is dead
>go tell the old man
>he died while you were looking for his dog
>>320214834
>go to tell his son
>his son is missing
>turns out his son was the dog
>>320214967
Name a game where this happens?
>go tell dog his son is missing
>old man is dog's son
>>320215060
undertale
Nier: the thread
>side quest is available later only if you do something at the start that you'd have no idea about without a guide
>wasting time: find an original thread
>see this
>you failed
