8 Video Games Ruined By ONE Specific Character

8. Hope Estheim - Final Fantasy XIII

Final Fantasy XIII is easily one of the weakest entries in the entire franchise, but that doesn't meant it's entirely bereft of charm.

Sure its battle system basically plays itself, and the game doesn't really even open up until about ten hours in, and the plot feels like the scrapings that even Hideo Kojima thought were a bit too silly, but... wait where was I going with this?

Oh, the characters! Yeah, they're mostly s**t as well, but at least they have enough personality to pull you through the game.

Hope on the other hand, is a literal charisma vacuum.

Whenever he's on screen it feels like the game just sighs and rolls over, waiting to be kicked by the critics as there is precisely zero reason to enjoy his character or his arc.

Whiney, timid, and thoroughly unlikeable, Hope is meant to inspire sympathy but ends up only garnering enough heat to melt the polar ice caps.