10 Dumbest Plot Reveals In Gaming History
5. Star Ocean: Till The End Of Time - It's All A Game
The Star Ocean games, prior to TtEoT, have been well written if a little formulaic when it came to their stories. They are, in short, massively sprawling space adventures, often added multiple endings to encourage different choices. Hell, The Second Story has eighty odd endings.
So, when it came to the leap to the PlayStation 2, Till The End of Time had a fair bit riding on it to continue that storytelling style.
And boy, did it drop the ball on that one.
Familiar players are going to expect/want some big, massive reveal about a world destroying evil, or something JRPG-like. And what did those who persevered get for their troubles?
The big reveal that all of the events in the game are a simulation.
That's right, the big twist is that we're playing a game within a game. That's what players got, after the [inter]stellar efforts the first two games laid out.
From time-travel, planetary destruction and councils of wisemen to... "it's all a game". No wonder the next game was called The Last Hope, as this game sank a lot of enthusiasm and faith in the series.