10 Video Game Decisions You Immediately Regret Making

10. Chopping Your Own Finger Off (Heavy Rain)

What would you be prepared to do to save the ones you love? Pay a hefty ransom, upwards of five figures? Kill a fella or two? Trade your Charizard Pokémon card? Something unimaginably even more extreme than that?

That's the core question driving the narrative of David Cage's 2010 "Jason!"-em-up Heavy Rain. Having rather carelessly lost another of his kids, hapless father Ethan Mars is goaded by a series of increasingly hideous challenges, each offering another part of the cipher supposedly revealing his son's location should he successfully pass them.

It starts off relatively simple; the first trial asks him to drive against traffic for five miles. Things quickly ramp up - he's next asked to traverse a vicious obstacle course of broken glass and live electricity - before it all takes a stomach-churning turn with the third and most brutal task.

Decoding another origami clue, this time in the shape of a lizard, Ethan finds himself in a room with a small table laden with all manner of very sharp objects. A recording soon confirms our worst suspicions: he must cut off part of his finger within five minutes.

No matter how you look at it, there's no easy way to saw/hack/chop off a digit. It's an utterly butt-clenching sequence with no easy option. Surely your son is worth more than your trigger finger? And besides, at least Ethan wasn't asked to chop something else off.