Spoil the ending of your favourite video game with no context

[Dekkadeci]

More games I've heard of but not played:

• Turns out that the goddess sealed in the medallion that drives 5/6ths of its holders insane isn't actually evil, just overly emotional. Maybe it's not such a big surprise that a lot of our protagonists join her instead of the established goddess.
• Our main protagonist and the lookalike who's leading a small army are related. But they're not twins. They're not brothers. They're not even cousins. They're father and son. And the villain you've been chasing all along is the son of the respected mage who reversed the father's aging. ...Reversed it so much that she had to raise the father. Oh, and the moon god everyone (protagonists and antagonists alike) has been worshipping is evil and the final boss.
• The evil leader thought it was a good idea to summon the god of antimatter. Just be thankful that your country didn't explode the moment the god arrived.

Games I have played:

• The final boss is your teacher's familiar?!? Sheesh--it's weird enough that your teacher is the second last boss...

A game and its first expansion pack at once:

• After beating his final boss and proposing to his girlfriend, our protagonist blows up the tower that everyone hates. ...Right when our other heroes are still trying to defeat the evil inside the tower.

[Nitro Indigo]

The evil leader thought it was a good idea to summon the god of antimatter. Just be thankful that your country didn't explode the moment the god arrived.

If that's what I think it is...

If you're talking about Pokémon Platinum, that happens in the middle.

[close]

Also, this isn't one of my favourites anymore, but I'm surprised nobody's done this yet:
The evil shadow guy loses his memory after his portal, which is apparently made of glass, is shattered by a dragon.

[BlackDragonSlayer]

If that's what I think it is...

If you're talking about Pokémon Platinum, that happens in the middle.

[close]

Story-wise, it could kind of be considered the end... especially given that the alternative option would be pretty much the same across the majority of games in the series.

[BrainyLucario]

* girl/them/boy teaches a coworker at a cat cafe magic and helps stop a rust creating killer to help break a curse

[Trainer Ave]

You leave an island and then everyone dies.

[BrainyLucario]

* girl/them/boy teaches a coworker at a cat cafe magic and helps stop a rust creating killer to help break a curse

I seriously doubt anyone will guess this game

You leave an island and then everyone dies.

Dead Island?

[Trainer Ave]

Nope Link's Awakening. Good guess tho

[Olimar12345]

You leave an island and then everyone dies.

That's not how Link's Awakening ends though .-.

[Nitro Indigo]

You leave an island and everyone gets erased from existence, then?

I'm not the biggest fan of Link's Awakening, to be honest, so here's another game I really like:
Your friends forget about you. But wait! They don't!

[SlowPokemon]

^sounds like Steins;Gate

[BlackDragonSlayer]

Turns out the planet-destroying final boss was actually a wimp, then you rescue some random woman from the intro.

[mikey]

Daphnes drowns

[E. Gadd Industries]

* girl/them/boy teaches a coworker at a cat cafe magic and helps stop a rust creating killer to help break a curse

Shantae? 

[cashwarrior1]

He's a whale. Good luck figuring out what game this is

[mikey]

He's a whale. Good luck figuring out what game this is

phantom hourglass