10 TERRIBLE Video Games (You Should Play Anyway)

Darkened Skye is about as average a game as you can get.

A 2002 third-person adventure title that stars hero Skye exploring a fantastical setting looking to restore magic, light and rainbows to her world. Its action is bland, its puzzles are horribly cryptic and its platforming is painful.

Still, it’s got a very kooky sense of humour. Lead characters often quip sarcastically between each other and the fourth wall is broken so many times that it might as well not be there. Any other reason to play it?

With most video games that are licensed (like the aforementioned Pepsiman) you know pretty much immediately but Darkened Skye, the rogue that it is, doesn’t have the company logos emblazoned on the box nor does it hurry to reveal the truth that it is, in fact, a licensed product.

In one of gaming’s most surreal moments, Darkened Skye goes from a relatively blasé action-adventure into a total head-screw when Skye bends down to pick a Skittle up off the ground. The dark secret of Darkened Skye is the moment you realise that the magic system in the game is all based on brightly-coloured candy.

It doesn’t make Darkened Skye any more an exciting gameplay experience, but I can't think of any other games where your spells are powered by sweets so it's got that going for it.