10 Video Games That Went Extreme To Protect Spoilers

Years and years before Danganronpa V3 played us all like a damn fiddle, Hideo Kojima set the bar for ingenious marketing manipulation with his appropriately sneaky trailers for Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty.

Players went into the game assuming they would once again be playing Solid Snake, though of course, Snake gets subbed out for new protagonist Raiden after the opening Tanker prologue mission.

But the trailers did an infuriatingly clever job of not only making it seem like Snake was the player character for the entire game, but also cheekily hiding Raiden in plain sight.

For starters, Kojima cleverly cross-cut separate scenes together along with re-contextualised dialogue, to imply that Snake was interacting with characters from the Raiden portion of the game.

And to take it further, he also included a few brief clips of Raiden in his sneaking suit, albeit with his face covered by the ninja-style mask he wears before his identity is revealed to the player in the final game.

And yet, despite the evidence being in front of fans' eyes, just about nobody guessed that Kojima was gearing up to swap-out one iconic hero for, well, Raiden.

Beyond this, Kojima and Konami also ensured that reviewers were embargoed out-the-yin-yang from mentioning the switcheroo.