10 Video Game Protagonists Who Were Doomed From The Start
1. Makoto Yuki - Persona 3
Persona 3 is the story of the final year of Makoto Yuki's life. From the opening animation that plays before the title screen of the original release, to the first cutscene of the game proper, you are told, on no uncertain terms, exactly how the game is going to end: Makoto Yuki is going to die.
This setting of tone fills the player with a sense of dread, as they watch constantly for the moment when the sword of Damocles falls and Makoto's fate is sealed, and also perhaps, a way out of this inevitable fate. But neither comes, because for all the connections Makoto makes throughout the game - for all the development he has as a character - his death is inevitable.
Because Persona 3 is a game about how we deal with the inevitability of death. Some fight against it, some live in denial, and some learn to accept it. Makoto Yuki's journey is about coming to terms with his own mortality, and in the end, facing it.