10 Video Game True Endings That Insulted Players

10. MediEvil 2

The original MediEvil told the tale of Sir. Daniel Fortesque of Gallowmere, a deceased knight famed for destroying the demonic hordes of the evil sorcerer Zarok.

Sir Dan doesn’t deserve this reputation at all, as he was actually rather cowardly and was killed in the first moments of the figh against Zarok’s forces. When the sorcerer returned and summoned an undead army, he awoke our ‘hero’ too, who pledged to vanquish the villain once and for all and earn the place he already holds in Gallowmere’s history.

At the end of the original game, he does so, finding a home in the Hall of Heroes in the title’s true ending.

MediEvil 2 is set five centuries later, seeing Dan inadvertently awoken (again) by a dastardly duo (Sir Palethorn and Jack the Ripper) building an undead army. Again, collecting every level’s Chalice unlocks the true ending, but this is quite a slog.

The reward? A brief scene in which Sir Dan and Kiya are whisked away from the comfortable afterlife they were hoping to share, in the time machine, to a reality where Palethorn has taken the place of Zarok in the original game.