10 Video Games Where You Work With The Villain
9. Shadow The Hedgehog - Sonic Adventure 2
One of the most famous villain to hero heel turns belongs to Shadow The Hedgehog in Sonic Adventure 2.
After spending the whole game running rings around Sonic and co. in order to bring about the end of the world that took so much from him, Shadow is convinced at the 11th hour to finally try and put his past behind him. Just in time too because the predecessor to Shadow for the Ultimate Lifeform project has broken loose: a giant kaiju known as the Biolizard.
How you get from Biolizard kaiju monster to little black hedgehog is beyond me, but hey what do I know?
The final act of this game more or less redefined the entire franchise going forward, introducing a new fan favorite character as well as cementing that every Sonic game from then on should have a fight against a big eldritch abomination.
Notably, Shadow never really apologized for trying to wipe Sonic's little blue butt off the face of the planet, so as far as Sonic must have been concerned, he was still a bad guy. But, again, giant kaiju about to crash into the Earth so priorities.