10 Cruel Tricks Video Games Played On Co-Op Players
5. Making You Both Murder An Adorable Stuffed Elephant - It Takes Two
Josef Fares strikes again, this time in his most recent co-op offering, It Takes Two.
The two-player multiplayer game puts players in the shoes of Cody and May, a married couple imminently planning to get a divorce who are magically transported into the bodies of two handmade dolls created by their distraught daughter, Rose.
Together, the pair must co-operate in order to complete a series of relationship tests while making their way back to Rose, and for the most part the co-op gameplay is both absurdly entertaining and wonderfully creative.
Except, that is, for that scene.
Mid-way through the game, Cody and May reason that making Rose cry on them - the very act that turned them into dolls in the first place - will undo the spell, and decide upon one sure-fire way to wring tears from her eyes.
Players are then tasked with teaming up to take down Cutie, Rose's adorable, sweet-voiced stuffed elephant. And when we say "take down," we mean kill, as the sequence requires players to drag the poor creature over the edge of a cabinet to her doom.
Making this act mandatory to progress the story is harsh enough, but Fares clearly relished making players feel like absolute garbage, given Cutie's desperate pleas for help throughout the prolonged sequence.