On your first few goes the stories of the people interest and sometimes touch you repeating chapters to try and pass difficult checkpoints turns you into a stamp-bot, ruthlessly refusing to engage in your quest to pay for heating so your kids don't freeze.
Processing enough hopeful travellers to pay your bills requires concentration, accuracy and speed, and it's very hard to muster those virtues when you're being threatened, abused, pleased with or even almost blown up. If you think about it too long you'll never look at games the same way again. Bioshock deliberately foregrounds the lack of choice and pressing linearity of narrative shooters, as well as most players' unconscious acceptance of that. It's hard to convey the impact of this moment in text form, but there's more going on here than just a surprise ending. You were being controlled all along, and you never even knew. Meanwhile, the meaningless red herring moral dilemma of whether to harvest the Little Sisters or not keeps your attention away from the questionable nature of the rest of your actions.Īnd then the punch: it turns out that none of your actions and choices mattered a jot.
Rapture is such a beautifully realised world that you're inexorably sucked into the lore and backstory almost without noticing that a great deal of groundwork is being laid you arrive at the end fully briefed on the warring philosophies of the undersea utopia without realising it, thanks to a masterclass in embedded narrative. We may as well start with the Big Daddy of twist endings: Bioshock, the delightfully sandboxy combat of which distracts you from all the narrative warning signs - until it's too late. Please note that there will be massive, weighty, egregious SPOILERS in the discussion, so please skip straight past any title you want to experience for yourself these games are most successful when you go in clean. The games below all have the capacity to affect the player deeply. Games that linger in the mind - or blow it entirely. We mean games that leave you breathless and confused, hurting and betrayed, cowering and whimpering. We’re not just talking about the elation of victory, getting a bit teary over a melodramatic cutscene, or looking over your shoulder nervously after an hour of horror gaming in the dark. We love games that inspire a strong emotional reaction. Video games that will profoundly mess you up
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