10 Video Game Villains Hiding In Plain Sight

10. Scott Shelby - Heavy Rain

The identity of the Origami Killer in Heavy Rain is an especially egregious example because the game doesn't even play fair about concealing its antagonist right in front of the player's face.

At the end of the game it's revealed that the killer is in fact one of Heavy Rain's playable characters, private investigator Scott Shelby.

The notion that you've been secretly playing the murderer yourself is an interesting one, albeit one the game absolutely fumbles by not being straight about it.

The player controls Shelby during a scene earlier in the game where the owner of an antiques store, Manfred, is murdered by the Origami Killer, seemingly making it impossible for Scott to be the culprit.

But as we later learn when the twist is revealed, Scott's perspective has actually been an unreliable one, and the version of the antiques store scene we played through earlier was one constructed in his own mind.

Given that Heavy Rain's gameplay is implied to be objective, it felt like a cheat to many players, who never had a chance of figuring out the twist because director David Cage effectively moved the dramatic goal posts without telling them. Terrible.