People love a good sidekick. I have one of my own - a small, scruffy white dog with a messy face, named after Trico from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last Guardian. He’s a little stupid, but I lo✨ve him nonetheless. In video games, there are so many more sidekicks that each of us will have individual experiences with, an🦩d we all have our favourites.
Seriously, the number of times I’ve watched my dog fall over and then try toꦍ play it off; that’s pretty iconic, tbh.
Regardless of how you feel about some sidekicks in video games, only a few des🐼erve to be called the most iconic. And here they are, in the most definitive, official, and indisputable article you’ve ever read.
5 ꧟ Companion Cube
Portal
A block. A big block. That’s all it is, and yet we’d all die for it. The Companion Cube from Portal is a beautiful creation, and if you’ve ever mistreated it in any way, I hope you never get your cake. Or better yet, I hope you find the cake, and 🐻then it’s stale. And then the table falls over. And then you fall over.
It’s pretty easy to be iconic when we’re just talking about a square with a heart symbol on it, but you know, it works. It’s been almost 20 years since we were graced with the appearance of this beautiful thing, and I’m really hoping we get a Companion Cube 2 before GTA 6.
4 Clank
Ratchet & Clank
Our good ol’ buddy 168澳🧸洲幸运5开奖网:Clank f🦹rom the appropriately named series. To be honest, this entry could have been about Daxter from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jak & Daxter, but it’s been a much longer time since that series resurfaced, and ♈even then, the sequels dropped Daxter from the title anyway, so… Clank it is.
But Clank is a great little robot, full of sass and propeller blades, which is all I want to achieve in life. He’s also had his own PSP spin-off (so did Daxter, but nobody cares about th🌠e orange ferret, apparently) named Secret Agent Clank, and if you played that one, you’re 💛extra cool.
3 Ellie
The Last Of Us
Back in 2013 - and I mean aaaallll the way back - we first got our hands on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Last of Us. Not Left Behind, Remastered, Part 2, Part 1, or Part 2 Remastered, but ﷺthe first appearance of the iconic duo of Joel and Ellie on our PS3.
Just saying The Last of Us withoꦯut anything after it feels weird now. It's like saying a sentence that just
Despite the sequel putting us firmly in the shoes of Ellie and newcomer Abby, in the first title, Ellie herself was one of the s🤡trongest sidekicks we'd seen in any video game. Maybe it was the dynamic, maybe it was the character growth, or maybe it was the terrible puns. Either wܫay, you'll probably now recognise Ellie at a glance.
2 Dogmeat
Fallout
If you've ever played Fallout, you've probably encountered the goodest boy, Dogmeat. That goes for 1997’s Fallout, all the way up to 2015’s 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Fallout 4. Unless you've only played Fallout: New Vegas, in which case you'll know ▨Rex. Rღex is good, too.
Dogmeat also makes an𒁏 appearance in 📖the Fallout TV show on Amazon Prime. No form of media can stop this good boy from showing up.
Most ꦺof us will recognise Dogmeat from either Fallout 3 or Fallout 4. In the former, he's modelled after the dog from Mad Max. In the latter, he's a German Shepherd that will stand in doorways, bark at things, and can wear silly little goggles. But if you dare send him back to the Red Rocket on his o♛wn, you never deserved him in the first place.
1 Luigi
Super Mario Bros. Series
And finally, everyone’s favourite: Luigi. Or maybe second favourite. The second half of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mario Bros. duo is used to being the underdog, and not always the first choice, despite a brilliant spin-off series in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Luigi’s Mansion. Still, he remains iconic as ever, thanks to his numero𝔍us appear🧸ances across dozens of Nintendo games over the decades.
Well, it also helps just being the green version of thಌe red guy we all know. If you don’t recognise Luigi, you probably don’t know who Mario is either, or that video games have evolved past the technical achievements of Pong.
