10 Awesome Video Game Mechanics Introduced WAY Too Late
1. Force Crush - Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
It'll take most players around 30 hours to blast through Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic II's critical path, and it's only in the final hours of the game, once you return to Dantooine to meet with Kreia and trigger the endgame, that you'll unlock the greatest ability of all.
The ability you unlock depends on whether you take the Light or Dark Side path, but the latter results in the most giddily, savagely enjoyable of them all - Force Crush.
Force Crush allows you to levitate any enemy into the air and crush their body from the inside, dealing massive amounts of damage in the process.
It is admittedly shamelessly OP in every sense of the word, allowing players to make short work of just about anybody who stands in their way for the rest of the game - even the final boss.
But for a game that's supposed to be unapologetic wish fulfilment, it's a damn shame we don't get to toy around with Force Crush until the very later stages.
Unsurprisingly modders got up to their usual tricks and eventually hacked the ability to be usable both earlier in the game and on numerous enemies at once.