8 Video Game Items That Pranked Players

8. The Phil Mask - Hotline Miami

Both Hotline Miami games allow players to unlock a series of masks which grant strange and often awesome abilities, such as the Tiger mask which grants faster executions, the Pig mask that spawns more guns on the map, and the Horse mask which turns slammed doors into lethal objects, because why the heck not?

But the first game also features a pure troll-job of an unlockable mask - the Fish mask unassumingly named Phil.

Phil can be discovered in the game's final mission, "Resolution," and rather than offer even a minor tactical advantage to embattled players, it simply translates all of the game's dialogue into French - and does so bloody badly at that.

Indeed, the dialogue will now not only be written in French, but the grammar, word order, and overall syntax will be totally banjaxed beyond comprehension.

The reason for this? Developers Dennaton Games outsourced the translation work to the online Babelfish translator for a laugh, ensuring the resulting word salad will leave just about any native French speaker ready to have a conniption fit.

Fun fact: the mask's name is a reference to controversial Fez creator Phil Fish, who in addition to being French-Canadian also has the birth name of Philippe Poisson. Neato.