Joseph Seed was secretly rooting for you.
It's generally believed that the vast majority of video game villains don't want you to succeed in your quest. Because otherwise, are they really villains?
The point is that heroes and villains are diametrically opposed in philosophy. While this is generally true for most media, there are a few games that deviate from convention.
Sometimes the villain may actually be insidiously rooting for you to achieve your objective. Perhaps they are secretly manipulating you from behind the scenes, or perhaps they are simply fed up with life and are actively seeking death themselves.
Whatever the reason, all the video game villains wanted you to win in your mission, whether you actually did it or not.
Conveniently, some of these games give you a choice at the end of the game to carry out an objective even though you know it will also benefit the villain, or choose a different path and instead frustrate them. was provided to players.
No matter how things turned out, these villains were all secretly rooting for you throughout most of the game, eagerly micromanaging you to get the job done…
8. Dormin – Shadow of the Colossus
Dormin, the Big Bad of Shadow of the Colossus, has an incredible vested interest in protagonist Wonder succeeding in his quest, given that Dormin manipulated him into doing it in the first place. I am.
At the beginning of the game, Dormin orders Wander to defeat the 16 colossi that reside in the Forbidden Land if he wishes to resurrect the dead young female Mono that he brought to Dormin's temple.
And even if we as players accept the deep sense of melancholy we feel every time we defeat a Colossus, the climactic mic drop reveal that Dormin is actually a god-like being sealed in a temple… You can hardly be completely prepared. By Lord Aemon and his men.
Basically, Dormin's shards are trapped inside each colossus, and by defeating the 16th and final colossus, Wander unwittingly performs a kind of ritual to free the imprisoned Dormin. Complete and immediately take control of Wander's body to transform into a gigantic shadow being.
Although Emon was eventually able to seal Dormin inside the temple once again, Dormin essentially takes full advantage of Wanda's desperate desire to bring things back to life, freeing himself in the process. was.
