10 Video Games Where YOU Die At The End
2. Shadow Of The Colossus
Regarded as an absolute masterpiece, and a staple entry on 'Best Game Of All Time' lists, 2006's Shadow of the Colossus is a very odd and very heart-wrenching game indeed.
A young man named Wander, spurred on by the mysterious, disembodied voice of Dormin, must restore a young girl named Mono to life by killing sixteen enormous creatures known as Colossi.
Where this title differs from, say, the Monster Hunter games to which SOTC sounds thematically similar in its monster slaying exploits, is that the aforementioned slaying is the only consequential action the player performs.
Seriously; there are no NPCs with side quests, no dungeons to explore, and no 'grunt' enemies to dispatch on your way to the hulking Colossi.
Unbeknown to Wander, however, with each Colossi he defeats (by attacking their specific weak points, obviously), Dormin grows incrementally stronger and Wander's appearance becomes more ghastly in turn.
Pursued by a shadowy retinue of warriors led by Emon, Wander must double his efforts and dispatch the remaining Colossi post-haste at Dormin's insistence.
Upon defeating the final Colossi and returning to Mono, Wander is stabbed through the heart and killed by Emon's men, before Dormin takes over his deceased body and transforms into a huge, shadowy creature.