10 Gaming Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About It
8. A Ton Of People Definitely Drowned In Station Square - Sonic Adventure
Sonic Adventure may be rough around the edges, but it's still one of the best entries into the franchise, and as the first main Sonic game to make the leap to 3D, also one of the most important.
Sonic and dark, depressing endings don't really go hand in hand, though Sonic Adventure's apocalyptic climax curiously downplays the obvious devastation left in its wake.
At the end of the game, the final boss Perfect Chaos shows up and floods the heavily populated metropolis of Station Square with a giant tsunami, near-immediately plunging large portions of it underwater.
Even though Super Sonic of course defeats Perfect Chaos and saves the day, the game curiously ends with Station Square still a waterlogged hellhole, before Tails makes the tone-deaf closing quip, "All's well that ends well, right?"
Well no, Miles. Both he and the game as a whole wildly gloss over the fact that, clearly, a lot of people were just drowned by Perfect Chaos.
Beyond that, there will be mass hospitalisations, extensive displacement as people's homes have been destroyed, and unfathomable economic damage.
But all's well that ends well, right Tails? Get in the bloody sea.