The ending sequence is where a lot of video games drop the ball. Mass Effect 3 might be the chief example of this, as the choices you made throughout a trilogy of games were condensed into picking from three different options that each corresponded to an ending. You also have games with confusing endings, like Final Fantasy VII, or games with endings that only exist to set up sequels, like Halo 2. 

You would think that most video game developers would have an ending chosen from ღthe very beginning, but this is not the case. There have been many instances when outside influences have changed the ending of a game before it could be implꦜemented. There have also been endings that were changed during development, in order to fulfill a change in story direction.

We are here today to look⭕ at the abandoned video game endings that anꦦswered questions about their respective games. From the cruel decisions of Lara Croft, to the truth behind the Colossus hunt.

Here are Twenty Deleted Endings That Fix Major Gaming Plot Holes!

20 Th𓆏e Fate O♉f Movie Blanka

One of the reasons why Street Fighter: The Movie was so terrible was due to the fact that it pointlessly changed most of the characters so that they were unrecognizable. One example of this was Blanka, who🥂 went from a savage who grew up in the rain forests to a result of an experimenღt gone wrong.

Blanka was absent from the arcade version of Street Fighter: The Movie, despite the fact that he was a major character in the movie. Fans had speculated for years that his inclusion was planned at some point. This has since been proven by people who have hacked the game and discovered an for Blanka, even though he 𓆏wasn't aꦓctually in the game.

Blanka would later appear in the home console ports of Street Fighter: The Movie.

19 ꦡ Episod🍌e 51

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has a mind-screw ending that polarized a lot of the fans. This ending also left a lot of unanswered questions on the table, mainly relating to t🍸he f♚ate of the young Liquid Snake and the Sahelanthropus that he stole.

It turns out that the entire ending of the game was left unfinished, as Konami wouldn't let the developer complete it before release. This ending is referred to as "" and all of the story content related to it was included on a bonus disc from the special edition of the game. "Episode 51" showed the fates of Liquid Snake and the young Psycho Mantis. It also shows the Sahelanthropus being destroyed, which explains why Liquid never used it to take over the world before the events of Metal Gear Solid.

18 𝓀 The Fate Of Amanda In Tomb Raider

The Tomb Raider series has been broken down into different timelines, with each game being set in one of the various continuities that have been created since the release of the first Tomb Raider title. In the Legend Timeline, Lara Croft has an enemy named Amanda Evert. The two had previously been friends until Lara abandoned Amanda during an expedition, as she believed that Amanda had perished during a cave-in. Amanda would later forgive Lara in Tomb Raider: Underworld. 

There is an for Tomb Raider: Underworld that was found in the files of the PlayStation 2 version of the game. This🍌 ending shows Amanda trying t𝔉o take revenge on Lara, which forces Lara to shoot Amanda and leaving her to slowly perish of her wounds.

17 ඣ Larva Girl Did It 35 Minute🔯s Ago

The Simpsons comics might be the most underrated aspect of the entire franchise. These have included comics based on Radioactive Man, which have acted as parodies of the comics released by DC and Marvel. It seemed as if this element of parody was missing from The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man, which was otherwise a standard action game. The p😼rototype of the game ꧂reveals that a major comic book storyline was going to be parodied in the ending.

Bartman Meets Radioactive Man originally parodied the ending of Watchmen.

The of the game revealed that the entire story was a plot by Larva Girl, who pretended to be the ev⛄꧃il Brain-O in order to get Radioactive Man's attention. This ending was replaced in the final version of the game with one where Brain-O was the real deal.

16 🍌Batman Against The Code

Batman follows a strict rule where he will never take the life of one of his enemies, no matter how evil they are. This rule was created by the writers so that Batman doesn't just throw the Joker off a balcony, resulting in no more Joker stories. The other forms of Batman media have sometimes ignored this. The Batman movie f𝔍rom 1989 ends with 𒀰Batman indirectly causing the Joker's demise.

The video game adaptation of the movie has an even more direct scene, where Batman throws Joker off a tall building.

for the Batman game reveals that Batman was originally just going to beat the Joker up, which means that the earlier version 💙of the game actually followed the movie more closeꩵly than the final product.

15 The Fate Of ꦡThe Exi🦩le's Friends

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords has the most disappointing ending in video game history... because it๊ doesn't have one. You see the end boss falling to their doom and a brief clip of a spaceship... and that's it. There was no resolution to any of the storylines in the game.

The reason why the game had no ending was due to it being rushed out to meet the holiday season. 

The final section of the game takes place on a planet called Malachor V. It is here that the Exile has their final confrontation with Darth Traya. There were originally numerous different events that could happen here, which included the Exile's party members teaming up to try and take down Traya, before being ended. This offered at𓆏 least some explanation as to their fates, rather than the nothing that we learn in the retail version of the game.

14 The Federal Hall Landing ဣ

There were several video games that had to be edited following the terror attacks on New York City on September 11th, 2001. One such game was Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, which had its entire ending sequence reworked.

In the retail version of the game, crashes into Manhattan, w🧸hich results in Raiden and Solidus Snake being trapped on top of Federal Hall. We don't actually see the crash and people are walking around during the end sequence as if nothing happened.

The original version of the ending was meant to show Arsenal Gear crashing into Manhatten, which would have resulted in the Statue of Liberty being moved to a different location. The reason why the reaction from the public is so anemic was to downplay the sever꧃ity of the incident.

13 🌸 Maria's Possession ♛

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night is essentially a sequel to Rondo of Blood. Symphony of the Night even begins with the final battle of Rondo of Blood. The story of Richter Belmont and Maria Renard is tie𒈔d directly into Alucard's own, as he explores Dracula's castle. Maria assists Alucard throughout his quest but neglects to actually intervene direct🧔ly, even though she does so with Richter if you lose during the battle against Dracula at the start of the game.

There is dialogue for an in the game where Maria does intervene and becomes possessed by Shaft. This would have led to a boss battle against Maria, where she summons four demons to fight Alucard. You would then see a new ending where both Maria and Richter have sacrificed🀅 t♍hemselves to stop Dracula.

12 Scrooge's Unlimited ဣFunds 😼

Scrooge McDuck owns a bank vault that is so stuffed with cash that he can swim through it at his leisure. This hasn't stopped him from going on adventures in order to seek out even more treasure to throw on the hoard, even though he could be spending all day on a yacht in the Carribean with that naked duck lady from Howard the Duck. 

The DuckTales video game on the NES followed Scrooge's adventures as he looked for more treasure. Money is an important element of the game, yet the player suffers no ill will for running out of it. It's possible (though inܫcredibly difficult) to see where Scrooge becomes bankrupt. This🍃 requires for you to spend all of your money on healing and completing Dracula's stage.

11 ♓ The Fate Of Ninten's Parents 🥃

EarthBound is a game on the Super Nintendo that has gathered a huge following in recent years. EarthBound was actually the second game in Mother series (as it's known in Japan) with the first game not seeing an English release until 2015, where it had its name changed to EarthBound Beginnings. 

The original Japanese version of Mother ended abruptly and never explained what happened to the cast.

When the English language version of Mother was in developmen𒊎t in the early '90s, the localizers decided to create a new ending which explains what happened to the stolen parents, as well as the main characters. This localization was shelved until 2015, though a leaked version of the prototype meant that players could see this new ending when it was shared online.