Personally, >!I think Dante would have been more forgiving if Nicola was not killed by Orlok. Dante would have most likely inflicted serious wounds upon Orlok and may have made him a cripple, but would have not stolen Lili away from him.

But Orlok did kill Nicola, the sole person Dante relied upon since childhood. It's really effed up but I get the logic as to why Dante inflicted the most painful emotional wound that he can do to Orlok, as Orlok "stole" the two most important people from him.!<

The bad end was unexpected by not illogical, based on how Dante acts in the other love interests' routes when he's the "bad guy". Still covering Gilbert's, so I may be incorrect in my current assumption.

Maybe I'm looking at everything logically that I'm unaffected, but it may also be because I've never really seen any of the love interests as "good"; they're all shady and effed up in their own way. Yang's the sole character who doesn't even bother to hide it.

Also the Vacanza Burlone event on DVD I watched may have cleansed all the angst after Orlok's bad end...