10 Video Game Endings That Get Worse The More You Think About Them

The culmination of the two branches of the Legacy of Kain series, Blood Omen and Soul Reaver, Defiance finally wrapped up the saga of protagonist Raziel's vendetta against his former master (and fellow protagonist) Kain, in a satisfying and unexpected way.

After chasing each other across time for three games, the saga finally ended with Raziel sacrificing himself for Kain, enabling him to be the hero he was meant to be before breaking bad. This frees him to focus on the true threat facing the world: The demonic Hylden, thus perfectly seeing up the plot of Blood Omen 2 - a previous game in the franchise's release calendar.

Arguably the worst in the series, Blood Omen 2 was made by a different team who riddled the story with massive plot holes. This still retroactively put the burden on Defiance to somehow justify those plot holes, resulting in the creation of a time loop.

Presumably, the next game would have involved breaking that loop, but we'll never know. Since we have to take Defiance's ending as the only ending, we didn't really accomplish anything.

Our heroes achieve a temporary, Pyrrhic victory that leads directly into a game where the bad guys already won. And such a bad game, too.