10 Disturbing Video Game Plot Twists You Didn't See Coming

8. Origami Killer - Heavy Rain

Heavy Rain
Quantic Dream

For all the criticism David Cage games have gotten over the years, they’ve at least tried to push the medium forward in interesting ways. They don’t all quite land, but at least he tried.

One of his most divisive choices came in 2010's Heavy Rain, when Cage made the killer everyone was looking for, well us, the player.

This choice almost split the player base down the middle and it was actually quite a genius choice to make as the character Scott Shelby was so loveable and welcoming on the surface. To think that a man like this could be the Origami Killer was disturbing, and hardly anyone saw it coming.

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