10 Genius Shortcuts To Beat Video Games Early

8. Take The Blue Pill - The Matrix: The Path Of Neo

The Matrix: The Path of Neo is an ambitiously bonkers attempt to adapt the trilogy of movies into a single game, and in a rare feat of filmmakers being intimately involved with a video game adaptation, the Wachowskis actually directed the game themselves.

Unsurprisingly, they include many deeply meta and eyebrow-raising moments throughout The Path of Neo - "best" of all a final battle against a gigantic mecha Agent Smith - and in true Matrix style, they present the player with the very same choice that Neo is given shortly after meeting Morpheus.

In the game's very first scene, Morpheus offers the player two pills - the red pill (to unplug from The Matrix) and the blue pill (to return to The Matrix and forget this exchange ever happened). If players take the blue pill, they'll be ejected from The Matrix and booted back to the menu screen.

You can literally beat the game in under 90 seconds using this method, though you'd be missing out on a ton of insane action in the process.