8 Ridiculous Video Game Premises That Make No Sense
Some storytelling classes are in order.
As it should be, fun is the main ingredient of fictional entertainment.
It's the reason why kooky creations like Game Freak's world of fictional fauna to be caught and used in battle works, but only if there's a catalyst or believable explanation for why.
If there's no semblance of rationale to back each scenario up, then suspension of disbelief gives way to utter absurdity, relative to its own established laws.
Sega's fiercely competitive mascot can run a marathon in mere seconds, but he decides to get behind the wheel for a bout of competitive racing? The disconnect is humorously obvious. Konami's attempts to iterate on the Metal Gear series following its creator's departure by introducing concepts that, up until that point, had never been touched upon, let alone used as a core plot device? It'll always be the jigsaw piece that doesn't fit the wider picture.
When established laws such as those are shattered, how are we expected not to take one look at the box and scoff at its contradictory, borderline satirical selling point?
8. Resident Evil 4
The premise: Leon S. Kennedy, six years previously having survived a zombie-spawning viral outbreak in Raccoon City as a fresh-faced cop, finds himself promoted to an unknown position within the U.S. government.
After the president's daughter is kidnapped by a cult based in Spain, Leon's sent in, alone, to retrieve the girl and earn a pat on the back.
Why it makes no sense: The president of the United States of America and the most powerful man in the world, who has specially-trained task forces, cutting-edge technology and an entire military at his beck and call, sends one man to retrieve what's most precious to him rather than, oh, we don't know, contacting the Spanish authorities and requesting their help and/or support in the matter?
But hey, why follow sound advice such as that, when you can send a lone government-backed agent into the remote Spanish countryside with vague intel that declines to mention the presence of a parasite-worshipping cult so widespread that the native authorities would almost certainly know of its existence.
Nice try, Capcom.