8 Video Games That Made You Regret Killing Bosses
The all-timer feel-bad boss fights.
Most video game bosses are a mere obstacle to be knocked down - an enemy you need to plow through one way or another in order to keep progressing towards the end of the line.
Most of the time you probably won't feel too bad about killing a boss, especially if they're similarly trying to kill you and perhaps even instigated the encounter.
But there are certainly exceptions to this - those rare times that a video game actually makes you regret killing a boss, whether you had a choice in the matter or not.
Case in point, these games all guilt-tripped the hell out of everyone by piling on the emotional torment, typically after the deed was done and it was too late to undo all that murder.
Again, though, in most instances you had no choice but to Do The Thing if you wanted to roll credits on the game, and yet a few games on this list did actually allow you to spare these bosses if the thought crossed your mind.
If you killed them regardless, though, you almost certainly felt completely terrible about it...
8. Nier: Automata
Simone is one of the most memorable bosses in Nier: Automata - a robotic opera singer who lures 2B and 9S to the amusement park where she's holed up to do battle.
Simone's aggressive and highly theatrical attempts to make mincemeat out of the duo don't evoke much immediate sympathy at all, even as her moment of defeat offers a brief hint that there's far more to her story than meets the eye.
And indeed, players who battle Simone once again as 9S in Route B will learn about her tragic backstory during the fight's various hacking mini-games.
Basically, once upon a time Simone was a regular machine who grew obsessed with another, Jean-Paul, and believed that if she adorned herself with more machinery, he might finally notice her.
This obsession ultimately turned Simone into a psychotic robotic cannibal who covered herself with dead machines.
And when she's finally defeated this time around, it's accompanied by her final plea for someone, anyone, to just look her way. Poor lass.