6 Completely Insane Things Video Games Asked Us To Do
1. Kill One Of Your Parents - South Park The Fractured But Whole
It was a real toss-up between this and that time in The Stick Of Truth where you have to fight a giant aborted zombie nazi foetus, but as admirably insane as that is, this sequence towards the end of the game absolutely takes the top spot.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone are far from strangers when it comes to tackling controversial material, having lampooned everything from Scientology to Barbra Streisand, and they continue to showcase their virtuosic talent for the contentious by demanding the player to choose between which of their two parents to kill, in order to escape a mutant infested genetics laboratory in The Fractured But Whole.
Do you rip of Mum’s arm and allow her to die from the bleeding, or chop of Dad’s head so you can carry it over to the door an activate the unlock system? The intensity is only increased in the way both of your parents plead desperately with you to spare their lives, remind you how much they love you, and try and talk you into murdering the other one instead.
Ultimately, they both end up alive through some time travel shenanigans changing key events in your history at the end of the game, but that’s a small consilation when you’re forking out £200 a pop for daily anxiety meds.