10 Hardest Moral Choices In Recent Video Games

10. Pascal's Fate - NieR: Automata

Anyone who played NieR was probably prepared for some weighty moral choices in the sequel, NieR:Automata. The first NieR was universally praised for heavy moral themes on the harsh responsibilities of parenthood. However, the tragedy of Pascal takes this to a whole new level.

Pascal is one of the rare friendly machines, the antagonists of the game. Secluded in the woods, he leads a village of similarly pacifistic machines, dreaming of a peaceful future.

Tragically, his village is destroyed by a signal that causes his friends to turn berserk and cannibalize each other. As a result, he flees with the children - built so he could raise them as independent blank slates. One thing he teaches them, for their safety, is fear.

While fighting off machines with protagonist 2B, Pascal returns to the children to find that, in their fear, they killed themselves. Feeling responsible, Pascal begs the player to erase his memory. Or, if you choose, you can leave him be.

Select the former and he returns his village as a merchant, ignorantly selling the scrap parts that were once his loved ones. Or the latter, where you abandon him to wander the Earth in his guilt.

There is no happy ending for poor Pascal.