10 Video Games That Punish You For Playing Perfectly

The clever thing about Saw II is that it really emulates the difficult decisions that individuals in the film series and its awful traps have to make.

This is best shown in your playthrough as Campbell, as - after overcoming countless traps and maiming yourself repeatedly in the process - you are given the option between saving yourself, or saving someone your son's age but condemning yourself to death.

While dying counts as "failing" this trial (because you're dead), saving yourself will come to bite you in the ass far harder, as it's revealed that the game's main character, Michael Tapp, is the person Campbell kills if he chooses to save his own hide.

As such, if you want the best ending of the game, you're gonna have to kill off Campbell in order to do so. To be fair, given Michael has done nothing wrong - but is instead in the Saw traps because of his dad - it does seem like the fair choice to make, just one you don't really realise you're making the first time around.