10 Video Game Deaths You Couldn't Avoid

10. Sacrificing Yourself To Save The World - Persona 3

When a game has a good and a bad ending, you usually presume your death is reserved for the bad ending - as a sort of scolding for making more evil decisions in your playthrough.

And then you play Persona 3, and this concept is more or less thrown out the window, as both the good and bad ending see you die.

If you opt for the bad ending - by killing Ryoji, the avatar of Nyx - you and all your friends lose your memories of your quest to save the world, and spend your last days goofing around unaware the world is ending and is going to take you with it.

However, your fate isn't exactly any better in the good ending, although it is substantially more noble. Instead of just killing Ryoji, you face his avatar form, and then use your Social Links to turn yourself into a seal to barricade Nyx from ending the world. Unfortunately, doing so turns you into a Great Seal in Tartarus, and kills you off in the real world too.

While Persona 4 raises the possibility of our protagonist being saved, thus far they're still dead and a door seal simultaneously - although you can also fight him in Persona 5's DLC, paradoxically.