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MGS 2 is the goat of endings that fuck with the player. Two games by Yasumi Matsuno in SquareSoft’s heyday are Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story, both have nice little twists at the end.
Oh yes, FFT has a low-key ending, but it’s absolutely crazy with what happens.
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“…and then he was burned at the stake.”
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“Ramza…What did you get?”
I love how ambiguous the ending is too, did Ramza and his sister really survive? What the hell was the netherworld you fight the reincarnation of god in? Poor Ramza gets remembered by history as a heretic.
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It’s a sad, but satisfying ending. I hate ‘historical accuracy’ used in reference to the sci-fi/fantasy genre, but that ending felt really apt and parallel to real-world history. Along with the rest of the game
If you get all 120 stars in mario 64 Yoshi can be found on the roof of the castle…
he gives you 100 lives
but, you’ve already 100%'d the game at this point
SO WHAT FUCKING GOOD IS THAT HUH, YOSHI?
red dead redemption 2 lets you kill pinkertons and kkk members and both of the redemption games have pretty good endings
I have never had a game make me want to save someone’s soul as badly as RDR2 did. I started out as cowboy psycho and by spoiler times I was fully invested in making something go right one fucking time.
exactly. I never have the heart to go full murderous rampage in story mode because part of me thinks I should realize Dutch’s Robin Hood ideology but the game has a way of making you examine what you’ve been doing over the course of your playthrough. those usury missions were hard to watch
Death Stranding:
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It doesn’t lead up to a climactic boss conclusion. Rather, you fight a gigantic tar-being controlled by the character who’s been foiling you throughout the story. Then a shooting match with him. Then you have a fistfight. But the game doesn’t end there, and then you have to rush back to the beginning of the game, but not before fighting a gigantic whale made of tar. Then the game goes on for another hour with more exposition. Less shocking and more an absolute mindfuck, but that’s Kojima for you and quite frankly I loved it.
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Then you find out that Maads Mikkelson is your dad.
Final Fantasy 3 (6 in Japan)
Castlevania:SOTN
Silent Hill 2
Metro 2033 was for me. Then I played the remaster and it seemed really obvious, so IDK if I was really oblivious back then, they made it more obvious in the remake, or my potato of a computer at the time made it really hard to notice
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the alien helping you survive all the anomalies that were killing everyone else.
Prey 2017 is worth mentioning
