Sometimes when you're watching a movie, reading a book, or playing a game, you can't help but scream. Why would the protagonist do that? Everything would have been so much easier and less dramatic if they had just done one thing differently. In fact🧔, I probably could've done better.

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So I d♎ecided to envision exactly what that would look like. There are a lot of games out there, and though I would argue that the vast majority are at least competently, if not outright well-written, there are some moments in games, intentional or otherwise, where I felt 🍷like, maybe, I would have been just a little bit smarter.

8 Realised I Was A Mol✤d Monster

Resident Evil Village

Ethan Winters holds a knife as he covers his face in Resident Evil Village.
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168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Resident Evil Village
10.0/10
Released
May 7, 2021

WHERE TO PLAY

DIGITAL
PHYSICAL

ESRB
𝄹 M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Strong Language 𓃲
Developer(s)
Capcom
Publisher(s)
Capcom
Engine
RE Engine
Cross-Platform Play
ps4,ps4,𓆉xbox one, pc
Cross Save
yes
Steam Deck Compatibility
yes
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty
How Long To Beat
10 Hours
X|S Optimized
yes
PS Plus Availability
N/A
Metascore
84

Resident Evil 7 is what the series needed to give itself a new🎶 direction, and so Village was v𒀰ery confident in its first-person action-horror hybrid. And even though Ethan like like little more than a cardboard cut-out in the original, he became, somehow, an actually endearing character in Village.

Though endearing does not mean smart. You see, it takes until almost the very end of the game until Ethan realises he is one of the mold monsters from the Baker home. You would think the magical ability to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:reattach your hands with a 💎bit of steriliser and being basically impervious would give it away. See, I woul♚d have noticed I was made of mold, I like to think, immediately. Hands typically need a b🎃it more surgery to reattach.

7 Helped Bowser And Peach Realise What ꦓThey Have In Common 𒊎

Basically Any Mario

Mario looking on at what looks to be a wedding between Bowser and the Princess
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168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Super Mario Odyssey
Platformer
Systems
Released
October 27, 2017

WHERE TO PLAY

DIGITAL
PHYSICAL

ESRB
𒈔 E10+ for Everyone 10+: Cartoonဣ Violence, Comic Mischief
Developer(s)
Nintendo
Publisher(s)
Nintendo
Engine
Unreal Engine 4 🎶
Multiplayer
ꦚ Local Multiplayer, Online Multiplayer ꩵ
Platform(s)
Switch
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty
How Long To Beat
13 Hours
Metascore
97

In some many🅰 Mario games, our titular hero goes off in search of Bowser in hopes of saving Peach. It is a tried-and-true tale that we have seen countless times over 🔴the decades. And as we have also seen, Peach is typically very capable of saving yourself. It's tradition at this point, a game of cat-and-mouse.

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If I was Mario? No more chasing. This is all an act, a way of getting Mario's attention. After all these years, they s🍨hould just tell ea🔜ch other how they really feel. The chase was fun, but a life together could be even better. Leave Peach out of this as a middleman. I'd get with Boswer, basically. The suits are already there for the wedding.

6 Told My Son I Love Him ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ

God Of War

Kratos and Atreus on a hunt in God of War (2018).
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God of War
9.0/10
Released
April 20, 2018

WHERE TO PLAY

SUBSCRIPTION
DIGITAL
PHYSICAL

ESRB
M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, ꧃Strong Language
Publisher(s)
Sony
Engine
Proprietary Eng𒆙ine 🐟
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty
How Long To Beat
20 Hours
PS Plus Availability
ไ Extra & Premium ಌ
Metascore
94

Look, I'm not strictly criti💜cising the 2018 God of War for its direction with Kratos. He is a character defined by his rage and inability to actually process emotions. Having him come to terms with actually having a child and how to be a role model for him is very cool. But I can only see him reach out his hand to embrace his son before dragging it away again with uncert♌ainty. It's touching the first time, not the fifth and sixth.

Me? I am not emotionally stunted. Sure, I am not the literal God of War, either, but my emotional strength definitely surpasses Kratos. So I would have told Atreus, as his parent, that I loved him. I feel like a lot of angst and some Norse-myth related shenanigans could have been avoided with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:a sit-down and some mature conversat🌟🍎ions, and maybe a little crying.

5 Not Kill My Wife 🤪

Silent Hill 2

James looking at a forest in Silent Hill 2 Remake.
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168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Silent Hill 2
Survival Horror
Systems
Released
September 25, 2001

WHERE TO PLAY

DIGITAL
PHYSICAL

ESRB
Mature 17+ // Blood 🐠and Gore, Violence
Developer(s)
🍒 Team Silent
Publisher(s)
Konami
Engine
▨ Unreal Engine 5 🍸
Number of Players
1
PC Release Date
𒈔 December 2🎉, 2002
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty
How Long To Beat
8 Hours
How Long To Beat (Completionist Runs)
🔯 15.5 hours 🔯

rAs it stands at the moment, I quite like my partner. I'd even go so far as to say I love them. I remember the things they like, the places we visit as a coupl🍨e, and so on. There's some hard work involved, and there are the odd down moments, but it's a pretty sturdy relationship I like to think. Nothing that would ever have us drawn to Silent Hill for a weekend getaway at any rate.

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So if I was in James' shoes, the events of Silent Hill 2 would never have happened. Why? Well I wouldn't have killed my wife, to start. Typically that's like the worst possible thing you can do regardless of the situation. And so James ended up in Silent Hill filled with perverse monsters 🉐and even conjured up another woman to manifest his fears and desires. Not me. I have a clear conscience and a loving view of my loved one. That's part of the whole 'in sickness and in health' thing.

4 To🗹ld Everyone I Found🦹 Zelda

Tears Of The Kingdom

Link kneeling next to Zelda in a field of flowers in Tears of the Kingdom.
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The L♎egend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
5.0/5
7.9/10
Released
May 12, 2023

WHERE TO PLAY

DIGITAL
PHYSICAL

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a direct sequel to the Nintendo Switch hit Breath of the Wild. In it, Link mus♛t team up with Princ🐻ess Zelda to rid Hyrule of another threat to its existence.

ESRB
Rated E forಞ Everyone 10+ for F😼antasy Violence and Mild Suggestive Themes
Developer(s)
Nintendo
Publisher(s)
Nintendo
Engine
Havok
Cross-Platform Play
N/A
Cross Save
N/A
Steam Deck Compatibility
n/a
Nintendo Switch Release Date
⭕May 12, 2023
Nintendo Switch 2 Release Date
June ♕5, 2025
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty
How Long To Beat
59 Hours
X|S Optimized
n/a
Wiki

Metascore
96

In Breath of the Wild, L♚ink awakens to a Hyrule slowing rebuilding itself from the calamity that still looms over the nation. The story, overall, is light with most of it focused on singular areas that all lead to the ultimate defeat of Calamity Gan💙on. In Tears of the Kingdom, Hyrule has had time to rebuild properly, and the world is bustling and changing. And with that came a more curated story.

Though curated as it was, it was not always linear, either. In fact, Link could discover the faith of Zelda quite early on and locate her. Except he, um, doesn't tell anyone else. They report sightings of her, take about the necessity of her recovery and Link just...stands there. Stoic as ever. I would not have done that. I would have said '168澳洲幸运5开奖网:hey, I actually found Zelda. She's a dragon now'. Would anyone ൲believe me? Who knows, but it's better than being an even more silent tha꧅n usual protagonist.

3 Wrote A Better Stor♊y

Alan Wake

Alan walking through the spiral door in Valhalla Nursing Home to be met with the same exact Writer's Room attic as in the earlier sections.
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168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Alan Wake 2
5.0/5
10.0/10
Released
October 27, 2023

WHERE TO PLAY

DIGITAL

ESRB
M For Mature 17+ Due To Blood and Goꦏre, Intense Violence, Nudity, Strong Language 🐼
Engine
𝄹 Northlight Engi🧜ne
OpenCritic Rating
Mighty
How Long To Beat
17 Hours
PS Plus Availability
N/A
Metascore
90

Alan Wake, overall, seems like a decent guy. I'm not going to call him a nice guy, he♊ definitely had a lot of anger issues, though you can temper that a bit with how much he was swarmed by paparazzi. It wasn't anything worthy of being trapped in the Dark Place. A bit too literally evil for a man who was otherwise quite mundane. And ye𓃲s, Alan Wake was absolutely a mundane writer.

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If you've picဣked up any of his manus𓆉cripts, in the original especially, you'd know that Alan's are absolutely a cliché-fest. Yes, I know the Dark Place demands consistency and rewrites the story, too. But surely you can mess with the rules a little bit? The whole point of writing is that you can write anything! There doesn't need to be a loop, a spiral, a sacrifice. We have plenty of happy endings. And I would have written exactly that. And then everyone lived happily ever after.

2 Not Been Corrupted By A Ring Of🀅 Power 💞

Middle-Earth: Shadow of War

Talion Celebrimbor Shadow of War
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168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Middle-Earth: Shadow of War
Action RPG
Systems
Released
October 10, 2017

WHERE TO PLAY

SUBSCRIPTION
DIGITAL
PHYSICAL

ESRB
M for Mature: Blo𝓀od and Gore, Intense Violence
Developer(s)
Monolith
Engine
lithtech
Multiplayer
Online Multiplayer, Local Multiplayer 𒆙
Franchise
The L🌟ord of the Rings
Platform(s)
PS4, Xbox One, PC
OpenCritic Rating
Strong
How Long To Beat
21 Hours
X|S Optimized
No
File Size Xbox Series
60 GB (November 2023) 🧸
PS Plus Availability
N/A
Wiki

Talion is, for all intents and purposes, just a dude. He was important in that he was a ranger of Gondor, though he wasn't particularly special in that regard otherwise. He just so happꦓened to be the one that Celebrimbor chose. And despite their differences (and Celebrimbor's ego especially), the duo did a good job in the original game. Not so much in the sequel.

You would think being a ranger of Gondor that Talion would have been better at detecting a threat. And Celebrimbor was the most obvious red flag in existence. The man was obviously just looking for power of his own. And to his credit, Talion did survive ♕through the use of Isildur's ring for quite a while. But honestly, I would've done even better. Oh, the ring is finally turning me into a loyal Nazgul? I would've just taken it off and died a true death, no serving S🔥auron here.

1 🔥 Saved Aerith ꩵ

Final Fantasy 7

aerith standing behind cloud in final fantasy 7 rebirth.
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168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Final Fantasy 7
6.0/10
Released
January 31, 1997

WHERE TO PLAY

DIGITAL
PHYSICAL

ESRB
T for Teen: Blood, Fantasy Violence💧, Language, Mild Suggestive Theme🎀s
Engine
🐎 Unreal Engine 4 ꦺ
Cross-Platform Play
ps, pc
Cross Save
P🌠layers who have already started their adventure on iOS or Android can take advanta𒐪ge of cross-save capabilities
Steam Deck Compatibility
yes
OpenCritic Rating
Strong
How Long To Beat
37 Hours
X|S Optimized
yes
Supported VR Headsets
🀅 Oculus Quest 2 🐠

In what is often seen as one of 🎃the most impactful moments in gaming, Aerith's death in the original is a pivotal moment. A showcase of the strength of storytelling in gaming, and the catalyst that shifts the focus of the entire journey in Final Fantasy 7. It's an important event, one that needed to happen. However, emotions as very strong, and so many us, selfishly, want Aerith to live forever.

And of course, I could have saved her. You see, I am built different from Cloud, quite literally. He's a Sephiroth clone. I am not. Therefore, no need for a grand reunion or Sephiroth's mind tricks. I would have just saved Aerith before his sword could meet her. It's really that easy. Maybe if Cloud wasn'ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚt having an endless identity crisis, this could all have been avoided.

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