10 Worst Video Game Heroes Of All Time
2. John Yesterday (Yesterday)
Worst Offence: Does. Not. Compute.
Did you ever play Yesterday and its sequel Yesterday Origins? Probably not, since it’s a low-rent Broken Sword-a-like that’s completely over-priced. Heading up the two games is the impossibly named John Yesterday, an immortal who, upon each resurrection, must re-remember who he was before. It’s basically Memento meets the Spanish Inquisition.
‘All right,’ you’re thinking, ‘That sounds pretty cool.’ You’re right – it does. But it’s also unutterably ruined by our so-called hero, John. Chiefly, it’s his voice: A slow, monotone drawl that, we guess, is supposed to come off as laid-back, but actually sounds more like he’s comatose and being forced to read from a script he’s never seen before, in a language he’s unfamiliar with.
And that lasts throughout the game, John never once dips and rolls into anything approximating emotion.
Despite a promising concept, thanks to the vocally challenged John, the Yesterday games are largely unplayable for anyone with ears that work. Hell, the voice-acting in Resident Evil was Oscar-worthy compared to this shtick.