1. Final Fantasy VII
Yes, really. Im not usually one to jump on the revisionist bandwagon, but with this one the fan-boys need to be dragged kicking and screaming into the light. Isnt is odd that, (SPOILERS!) despite Aeriths death appearing on every classic video game moments list on the web, the rest of the games narrative gets nary a mention? Theres a good reason for that; the plot of Final Fantasy VII makesnosense. Whats more, its wilfully baffling. Theres something about the planets life-stream and an evil bloke who wants to unite with it to become a god, but hes actually a clone of an alien invader and the planet has created monsters to defend itself from him, but then it turns on its own human population for some reason and the monsters start killing everyoneand theres a sort of tiger-thing? In writing this list I went through a refresher course by playing the game to completion again, then I went on Wikipedia to try and decipher its plot but Im still none the wiser. This game commits all three of the cardinal sins of writing: over-complexity for the sake of it, a confusingly vast roster of characters and a conclusion that fails to provide any proper closure to its sprawling narrative. Add to that the fact that Aerith
might not actually have died in
that scene, and youve got yourself the fattest sacred cow of classic videogame storylines.