10 Video Games That REWARD You For Failing

10. The Pity Smash - Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Now, before you start, the Pity Smash is not the title for when the game feels so bad that you lost, it decides to sleep with you.

It's also not the title for when you lose your mind at an "unfair" loss and smash your poor long-suffering console to pieces.

Instead, the Pity Smash is given to players unfortunate enough to have been knocked out several times without knocking anyone else out in that time. Sensing that you're having a rough experience, Brawl gives you a free Final Smash, which you can then use to absolutely annihilate someone at least once. For your dignity, if nothing else.

That said, this was no doubt used by some older siblings in order to absolutely trounce their younger brothers and sisters after giving them a false sense of winning the match. So it can also be used for evil, without a shadow of a doubt.

This was also the game where Lucario was given a mechanic that specifically powered him up the more damage he took, so this instalment definitely had a stronger focus on evening the odds than other Smash iterations.