10 Secret Video Game Endings For Doing The Impossible
2. Killing Heldalf Too Quickly - Tales of Zestiria
Tales of Zestiria is an action JRPG telling your typical fantasy story of a young chosen protagonist discovering he has hidden powers that can save the world.
He just can't use them too quickly.
The game's primary antagonist is Heldalf, a powerful hellion whose sole existence threatens the world. Your goal is to defeat him before he can bring about calamity, but the thing is, if you're a little too efficient with it, you might actually get a secret bad ending.
You see, Tales of Zestiria excepts you to beat Heldalf in the final mission, but there are other fights with him besides the final confrontation.
And although he's meant to be an impossible boss early on, you can do it if you have the right strategy.
The developers have actually prepared for this, however, the ending they have in store for those who humiliate their big bad evil guy is quite humiliating as well.
Because defeating him early is done without the right story powers to banish him properly, the game considers it a pyrrhic victory as Heldalf's death releases his evil into the world and plunges it into chaos.
Well, if he could do that all along, why did he even bother to fight you?