14 Most Insane Video Game Dream Sequences

Ending your story with the last line "and it was all a dream" is something you're told to never do since as far back as your school days. With the technique rendering just about everything that happens in your story redundant by design, its easy to see why movies and TV shy away from including such a lazy conclusion. 

However, video games aren't only about the stories they tell, and an emphasis on mechanics and gameplay means that a last minute twist revealing a title to be nothing more than a dream of the main character doesn't land with the same thud as it would in a big budget movie.

So, when it turned out that both The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening and Super Mario Bros. 2 took place entirely in the head of their respective main characters, no one batted an eyelid, and it even proved to be an entirely unexpected plot twist in its own right. 

Until then, no game had really tried to pull this type of last minute revelation off, yet both of these titles had enough charm and humour to turn a usually maligned storytelling cliché into a memorable gaming moment.