10 Awesome Video Game Villains That Died Too Early

3. Higgs - Death Stranding

Death Stranding Higgs
Kojima Productions

The mysterious Higgs is Death Stranding's ludicrously entertaining Big Bad, elevated by his neat character design (that mask!) and Troy Baker's marvellously over-the-top performance.

Players would be forgiven for assuming that Higgs would be Death Stranding's final boss, but alas, his climactic fight with protagonist Sam actually takes place in just the ninth of the game's fourteen chapters.

The fight concludes with Higgs' defeat, after which he decides to commit suicide in order to avoid being trapped on the Beach.

This all occurs roughly 4-5 hours before Death Stranding comes to an end, and though the game admittedly clocks in at around 30 hours on the lower end, Higgs' premature departure still ensures there's a whole heap of story that unfolds without him.

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