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00:00Welcome to Mojo Plays and today we're counting down our picks for the Top 20 Greatest Video
00:11Game Plot Twists.
00:21For this list, we're going over the iconic moments where the rug was pulled out from
00:25under players' feet, changing everything they thought they knew about the game in question.
00:31As expected, major spoilers on the horizon.
00:34Think we skimmed over a twist deserving of respect?
00:37Let us know in the comments.
00:48The Stranger's Identity – The Walking Dead
01:01We all create our own monsters, even if we don't mean to.
01:05After his surrogate daughter is kidnapped, Leech traverses a city filled with walkers
01:09to get Clementine back before he succumbs to his bite.
01:12Along the way, he discovers the one responsible for stealing Clem away is… just some dude?
01:18Turns out the Stranger is another survivor, one who lost everyone due to Lee's group
01:23unknowingly taking all their food a few episodes back.
01:26In a twisted way, the player had a hand in pushing this person to the extent they were
01:30willing to snatch Clementine out of a warped sense of parental instinct.
01:35The Final Boss – Pokemon Gold and Silver
01:44The Pokemon formula has remained relatively unchanged for a while now, especially when
01:49it comes to the classic games.
01:508 gym leaders, 4 elites, 1 champion, done and done.
01:55Or are you?
01:56Turns out there's a final challenge waiting for those who want to be considered a master.
02:01You.
02:02Or rather, the you from a generation ago.
02:04Armed with some insanely powerful Pokemon, players are tasked with taking on the character
02:09they played in Red and Blue to see who really is the best like no one ever was.
02:14The monster is real.
02:16Disco Elysium.
02:27Between the booze, drugs, depression, bouts of insanity, and pressure to solve a murder
02:31before an entire city erupts into chaos, you can forgive Detective Harry DuBois for
02:36thinking he'd finally snapped when, after arresting the real murderer, he comes across
02:40a monster lurking among the grass.
02:43Except it's real.
02:45Turns out that side mission involving cryptozoologists hunting for a new species, yeah, they were
02:50onto something.
02:51If your luck holds out, players can even interact with the Insolentian Phasmid, who in turn
02:56reveals the truth of the world.
02:59Not bad for a down-and-out cop who has frequent arguments about his own ancient reptilian
03:03brain.
03:04Cute anime game becomes psychological horror.
03:07Doki Doki Literature Club.
03:15And this is why we'll never look at potential waifus the same again.
03:19Appearing on the surface as just another dating simulator, gamers everywhere soon discovered
03:23that picking a love interest was the least they should be worried about.
03:27Eventually revealing itself to be a fourth-wall-breaking, trauma-inducing horror that played with conventions
03:32of the genre, there's some legit scares to be found here, especially when it comes to
03:36Monika.
03:37While it heavily relies on shock value and anonymity, there's no denying how effective
03:42this tonal shift was when it first crept into the gaming zeitgeist.
03:45The gun is Marika, Elden Ring.
03:54The mythos in history in FromSoftware's latest venture is just about as rich as a
03:59game could hope to achieve, and woven into it was a twist that left every tarnished slack-jawed.
04:05Come the end of the journey, players were well aware of who Queen Marika was, as well
04:09as her loyal husband, Radagon, both of whom eventually came into conflict over the fate
04:14of the Elden Ring.
04:15Sounded like your typical dark fantasy marriage.
04:18That is, until we discovered, either through a puzzle or the actual boss battle, that both
04:23Marika and Radagon were the same person, or at least shared the same body.
04:28As you can imagine, many questions have since been raised.
04:31After all, they had kids together.
04:34Killing Colossi equals bad.
04:37Shadow of the Colossus.
04:43While there is no debating the spectacle that each of the 16 Colossi bring to the table
04:47as boss battles, turns out that Wander, and by extension the players' willingness to
04:51end them in order to supposedly bring back his deceased love interest, might have been
04:56misplaced.
04:57As it happens, not only was each Colossus a peaceful being in their own right, but by
05:01slaying all of them, the evil entity known as Dormin was freed from its imprisonment.
05:06Wander may have had the purest of intentions, but his willingness to trust in a phantasmic
05:10voice to bring back his beloved eventually cost him everything dear.
05:14It's a bitter lesson learned.
05:26Hathem is a Templar.
05:28Assassin's Creed III
05:39Up until this point, fans had been hidden-blading their way throughout history as the likes
05:43of Master Assassin Altair and Italian Stallion Ezio.
05:47Oh, and Desmond too.
05:49At no point did it ever occur to us that what we were seeing play out was anything other
05:54than another noble assassin undoing the evils of the Templars, one kill at a time.
05:59And then Hathem happened.
06:01After traveling to America, we see him take down numerous targets, setting himself up
06:05as the lead we'll undoubtedly be playing throughout our adventures in the New World.
06:09At least until he reveals himself to be a Templar, and by doing so, makes the player
06:14complicit in his actions to overthrow the Brotherhood of Assassins.
06:17No wonder we have trust issues.
06:20Kessler is future Cole, infamous.
06:33The orchestrator of everything painful in Cole's life, from granting him electrokinesis
06:38all the way to murdering his wife, Kessler quickly established himself as the ultimate
06:42big bad, with zero mercy, a cult-like following, and his own array of deadly abilities as a
06:48conduit.
06:49You'd think Cole bringing him down would be cause for celebration.
06:52Only for Kessler to then reveal that he is Cole, albeit one from an alternative future,
06:57who came back in time in order to harden and prepare his past self by removing any emotional
07:02attachment, all so he could be ready for the eventual arrival of a conduit monster known
07:07as the Beast.
07:08Talk about a conflict of interest.
07:17Aerith's Death – Final Fantasy VII
07:28The one moment that caused retro gamers everywhere to lose their minds.
07:32As the soul of the group, Aerith was as kind as she was charming, not to mention an incredible
07:37support in battle.
07:39Sure would be a shame if a certain one-winged angel came out of nowhere, stabbed her, and
07:43essentially removed her from the party altogether.
07:46It's the cruelest of fates dealt out to the purest of characters.
07:49It left such an impact that fans have spent endless hours looking for a way to prevent
07:54Aerith's demise, with no luck whatsoever.
07:58The Government Goes Back On Their Word – Red Dead Redemption
08:07A brutal reminder that crime doesn't pay.
08:09In the role of cowboy John Marston, you're tasked by the government to track down and
08:13execute your old outlaw crew in exchange for immunity.
08:16When all is said and done, you return to your family and everything seems peachy for what
08:20seems like your last couple of missions, setting up your new life as a rancher.
08:25But unfortunately, you are denied your promised happily ever after with your family when the
08:29law shows up at your farm.
08:31This leads to a gun battle where you are given no way out and are forced to watch John's
08:35bloody execution by firing squad.
08:37This leads to you taking up the role of his son Jack years on in one final mission to
08:41claim vengeance.
08:43Like father, like son.
08:55Umbrella – Resident Evil
09:05Sure this blonde tool has cemented himself over the years as one of the franchise's
09:08biggest baddies, but there was a time players considered him a friend and mentor.
09:12The original game establishes him as your commanding officer at STARS, before dropping
09:16the bombshell that he has been working for the Umbrella Corporation from the beginning.
09:20In Jill's story, Wesker has also been blackmailing teammate Barry into working as his henchman.
09:24Not only is he the double agent you were warned about, but he's been using his agents
09:28as guinea pigs for Umbrella's twisted experiments.
09:31He is seemingly killed just prior to the player's final boss battle, but if we've learned
09:34anything, it's that the best bad guys don't stay dead for long.
09:42Colonel Conrad was in your head.
09:44Spec Ops – The Line
09:55Going through Walker's recon mission to war-torn Dubai, you maintain radio contact
09:58with your predecessor Colonel Conrad, whose distress call acts as your call to action.
10:02This former commander is in contact with you throughout the game, frequently questioning
10:06the morality in Walker's decisions and actions.
10:09It is clear that violence has poisoned the disgraced colonel's mind, and that you are
10:13in danger of following him down the same dark road.
10:15But when Walker finds Conrad's corpse at the top of the tower, having shot himself,
10:19the horror of the truth dawns on you.
10:21The guilt he had been feeding the player was coming from Walker's head the entire
10:25time.
10:26It is then the player's decision to live with his actions, or die like Conrad.
10:30James Killed His Wife – Silent Hill 2
10:42Through the gloomy streets of Silent Hill, you search for your long-presumed dead wife,
10:46Mary.
10:47The hope your wife may still be alive is your driving motivation as you encounter tortured
10:50souls, lost companions, and pyramid-headed monsters on your journey, all the while haunted
10:55by a headstrong doppelganger of your wife dubbed Maria.
10:58But happy endings don't suit horror well.
11:00The retrieving of a videotape is the turning point in the story, and not only do you discover
11:04Mary really is dead, but that you were the one who killed her.
11:08Whether it was an act of mercy for his dying spouse, or a desperate attempt at getting
11:11your life back is left ambiguous, but the tormenting truth is certainly enough.
11:16You Were The Villain – Braid
11:27What begins as an archetypal rescue-the-girl platformer subverts into something much more
11:31complex and meaningful.
11:33As guilt-stricken Tim, you embark on a journey to rescue the princess from harm, using a
11:37limited ability to stop, bend, and even reverse the flow of time to aid you in your quest.
11:42It is only once you help her escape an evil night that you are forced to enable the rewind
11:46mechanic and realize that your beloved is actually running away from you, the true villain,
11:51into the arms of her hero in shining armor.
11:54A devastating blow on its own, the game's meaning is deepened further in the epilogue,
11:58which hints towards Tim's identity as a scientist on the Manhattan Project and a father
12:02of the atomic bomb.
12:04GLaDOS Is Caroline – Portal
12:16Given how she's always throwing us into one lethal experiment after another, players
12:20didn't have a whole lot of sympathy for the sassy killing machine.
12:23That is, until we learned about Caroline.
12:26Turns out that before she was robotic, GLaDOS was the meek assistant to Cave Johnson, who
12:30over time found herself uploaded into a mechanical form free of empathy, one that only existed
12:36to continue on Aperture's experimentation.
12:38The saddest part being that throughout the events of Portal 2, we can see parts of Caroline
12:43sneaking out, and then she gets reinstalled, where GLaDOS swiftly deletes her old personality
12:49without hesitation.
12:50Wheatley turning evil, we could see coming.
12:53The cake being a lie, we could get over.
12:55But this, this was just painful.
13:04Odin Is Tyr – God of War Ragnarok
13:14We had heard stories in regard to the Allfather's cruelty and manipulation, but none of us were
13:19prepared for his most elaborate and wicked of deceptions.
13:22Disguising himself as Tyr in order to spy on and influence Kratos and Atreus, the lord
13:27of the Norse gods truly was playing 4D chess with everyone's lives, all to pursue his
13:32own ends.
13:33Alas, even when he's exposed, it comes at a cost, as he slays Brokk on the spot.
13:39It's Odin at his most vicious and selfish, the reveal of which was one even the God of
13:44War was unable to stomach.
13:56You are not Solid Snake in this one.
13:58Metal Gear Solid 2 – Sons of Liberty
14:00Oh, Kojima, you rascal.
14:11You always know how to throw your fans for a loop.
14:13High off the first entry in Solid Snake's saga, hardcore Metal Gear fans were eager
14:18to see his return as he took on the terrorist group known as the Sons of Liberty.
14:22And they did… sort of.
14:24While Snake is playable in the opening level, the true hero of the franchise's second
14:28mainline installment is pretty boy Raiden.
14:31While he would go on to become beloved, back in the day, this was fairly inconceivable
14:35to fans, and a pretty bold move at that.
14:38Naturally, Kojima would go on to repeat this twist later in The Phantom Pain.
14:43Oh, you thought you were Big Boss?
14:45Guess again.
14:46Shepard's Betrayal – Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2
14:50As Task Force 141 Sergeant Roach, you face many foreign dangers around the world, failing
14:55to see the domestic one right under your nose.
14:58Toward the campaign's conclusion, as you hand a DSM to your faithful superior, Shepard
15:02remarks on one less loose end before gunning down you and Ghost.
15:17Incapacitated, all you can do is put down the controls and watch your leader and squad
15:22set your corpses ablaze, and then ponder on the backstabbing brutality of it all.
15:27The sequence is hauntingly accompanied by the radio cries from Price warning you not
15:31to trust Shepard.
15:32Going forward, the player takes control of Captain Soap on a mission of retribution against
15:36the treacherous General, and thus the trust of a million gun-toting gamers was shaken.
15:42You Were Darth Revan All Along – Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic
15:57In a twist that would even make Darth Vader green with envy, you begin this Star Wars
16:01RPG as a mere Republic rookie and end it as one of the most feared Sith Lords of all time.
16:07Throughout your journey against Darth Malak's vicious Sith Armada, you hear legends of his
16:11master Darth Revan, only to discover that you had once been the tyrannical conqueror
16:15before amnesia forced you to the Jedi who reprogrammed your mind.
16:19Fallen Heroes and Villains is not exactly new to the Star Wars universe, nor are dubious
16:23Jedi councils, but even so, fans didn't expect this from what was thought to be a
16:28simple tie-in game.
16:29Where Revan goes from that point is a choice left to you.
16:33Choose wisely.
16:41Would You Kindly – Bioshock
16:48This steampunk adventure takes you through the seabed city of Rapture as you try to free
16:52it of Andrew Ryan's hold with the help of mystery man Atlas.
16:56Deep into the story comes the infamous kicker as you reach Ryan's office.
16:59Not only do you discover that he is your illegitimate father, but that Atlas has been hypnotizing
17:04you into completing the game's tasks up to this point through mind control brought on
17:08by the trigger phrase that is prefaced each objective.
17:11In a shocking demonstration of the programming, Ryan has you beat him to death with a golf
17:15club leaving you to turn your sights onto your former puppet master.