These Video Game Character Redesigns SUCK!

5. Bomberman - Bomberman: Act Zero

So when you think of the Bomberman series of games, chances are that your heart is going to melt a little when you remember how utterly adorable the little marshmallow headed protagonist is, and it's quite possible that his design is up there with some of the most iconic of the industry.

I tell you he's so adorable that you often forget he's literally trying to obliterate his friends with explosives.

Still, something even more harrowing than this realization is the redesign that Konami forced upon the series with their 2006 Hindenburg Disaster of a title Bomberman: Act Zero. Maybe one of the higher ups at Konami wanted the mass-murdering tone to match the visuals, or maybe it was yet another example of the company lighting a pile of used condoms on fire, huffing the chemical vapors and throwing up any idea that came to mind into a bucket such is their usual business practice, but either way what we got was as if a BDSM club opened in the Edgelord Realm aka Squall from FF8's mind palace.

It's quite fitting that every character here looked as if they were wearing bin bags, because the visuals and gameplay of this title were sweaty garbage, and it hit the market with all the impact of stepping onto a landmine, except replace the resulting explosion with a deluge of pig offal. Critics hated it, fans despised it, and all one could do was shake their heads at Konami once more.

Zero by name, absolute zero by nature.