7 Video Game Plot Twists That Divided EVERYONE

2. The Last Of Us Part II - Joel's Death

The Last of Us 2's launch window controversies were a big ol' thing, but now the dust has settled, the leaks were mostly proven wrong and more people have actually played through the entire story... we've still got two split camps of thumbs up or down.

Yes, Joel's abrupt death at the very beginning of the game will forever be the linchpin of why Naughty Dog should be celebrated as one of the riskiest creatives in the business, or berated for removing one of the most fascinatingly complex characters in gaming history.

Reframing the events of the original to show that the head surgeon Joel killed was a beloved father and community member, we now played everything out from their daughter's perspective.

The result is either a 40 hour exploration into how perspective and time spent in another's shoes can make you reconsider any conflict, or it's the same "Your enemies have families too, y'know!" parodic takeaway that even Austin Powers was doing in 1997.

Does the idea of fleshing out the lives of the Goombas being stomped on by Mario elevate that fiction, or break it entirely?