11 Video Games Where You're The Bad Guy - Commenter Edition

3. Shadow Of The Colossus

Shadow Of The Colossus Dormin
Bluepoint Games

Big, big spoiler warning for this one, but Shadow of the Colossus has a final act about turn that’ll chill you to your core and make you feel like human garbage because it turns out you’re the bad guy. Somehow, our heroic steed-riding Wander taking on foes 100 times his size was actually not doing the right thing after all as we had been acting on behalf of an evil entity called Dormin in an attempt to resurrect a pretty girl.

Oops.

For hours we were tricked into thinking we were doing the right thing by killing towering, beautiful Colossi to save our girlfriend. Well, I guess we learned a hard lesson here: never assume.

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Jess has been a journalist and content creator in the games industry for over 15 years and has been WhatCulture's resident Australian import and sorry cop since 2020, upping the quotient of swearing and apologising in WhatCulture Gaming's annual blooper videos considerably. She previously worked at GameSpot for 10 years, most notably hosting GameSpot News in addition to E3 live shows, and PAX panels. She regularly livestreams a variety of games on her 'jessmcdonell' YouTube and Twitch channels and hosts the 'Do It On The Day' podcast. She has won awards for her news and feature work in gaming as well as an accolade for her comedic writing (likely an admin error). She can be found on X at @jessmcdonell and Instagram at @jessicamcdonell sharing her current videogame fixations, industry insights, and videos of her cat, Karma.