As video games have moved forward with technology, developers have become more and more preoccupied with the story that they're able to tell. Back in the day, there was very little they could convey to the audience, limited as they were by the technology at the time. However, these days many companies attempt to create a genuinely good story, a narrative that keeps the player playing and one that they will be talking about long after they actually finish. Do꧑ing a plot twist can be a gamble sometimes; everyone wants to be the next M. Night Shyamalan, but not every game warrants having a huge plot twist in the first place.

What we've done is pull together some of the worst plot twists of all time in PlayStation games, when writers really didn't get it right. We'll also be showing you some of the plot twists that we really love in PlayStation games, ones that people are still talking about to this day. We think it's important to remember when writers get it right so that modern developers can take a loไok at how to do it right!

So, we think it's about time that we take a look at some PlayStation games, and when the developers got their plot twists right and when they managed to get them wrong. If we've missꦰed any fan favorites, let us know; there's certainly no shortage of unwanted or badly received plot twists in video games!

30 💛 Wrong: Heavy𝐆 Rain's Main Villain

This game spends a lot of time throwing 🔯red herrings around, attempting to throw the player off the scent, to the point where the are a lot of plot holes that are not resol𒀰ved at the end of the game.

We find out that one of the main characters has been the villain all along, but it doesn't make any sense.

The playe♚r knows that it's impossible for this to be true, as they were playing as him when o🤡ne of the victims was taken down...

29 Right: Red Dead Redemption's Epilogue ﷽

Red Dead Redemption has 🌊become a modern classic, a video game that people point to as a masterpiece, and part of this is down to the epic world that it offers to the player. However, the other reason is the narrative.

The ending of the story really took everyone by surprise, and had a lasting effect.

Just when it seems like the character may have finally got their happy ending, he is taken down by the lawmen that he has be✤en helping throughout the entire game, before the player is given his son to play as from t🅰hen on.

28 Wrong: Detroit Become Humꦓan's Android Probl✨em

This entire game is about the concept that androids may one day be fighting for basic rights, that AI will one day get to a point where that could become a genuine issue, and that is a great basis for a story. However, like a lot of David Cage's work, it is bloated and filled with unnecessary twists and turns. One of these twists is the fact that the little girl in the story has actually been an android all along. It makes no sense and waꦜs only put there in the hope of making players feel they were playing something deeper than they are.

27 Right: Shadow Of The Colossus Shows🐼 T𒉰he Dangers Of Not Being Able To Let Go

The main character in thi🍒s game is a man that is attempting to bring back a woman, but we're never told what her relation is to him, although we assu♏me that they were partners. He journeys to a temple, where a mysterious voice speaks to him from an unknown place, telling him that to save the woman, he must take down the colossi that are scattered around the land.

It's only at the end of the game, when the player has taken down the colossi, that he real๊izes they were actually the good guys, and that he has now unleashed the dark power of the mys✤terious voice...

26 😼 Wrong: Who Is The Villain In Until Dawn?

Much like Heavy Rain, Until Dawn is too obsessed with trying to throw the playe𒉰r off that they don't realize they're ruining the rest of the narrative in the process. The beginning of the game revolves around the concept that Josh has lured his friend👍s to the place where his sister passed on, due to a cruel prank played by them all.

Players ꦕare even lead to believe at one point that they helped him pass on, but in the end, this isn't true. However, he's not the big villain of the game either. It's like four stories mashed into one...

25 🅘 Right: Joel Is A Selfish Man In The 🌜Last Of Us

The Last Of Us is considered a modern masterpiece by many, a game that takes players on an emotional journey through a post-apocalyptic world. One of the truly fantastic things about the writing in this game is the fact that it grips the player and bonds 💜them to the characters, which makes the ending all the more tense and sad. Joel chooses to go against Ellie's wishes, taking her from the scientists that could use her to save the human race, not willing to let go of the young girl he has become attached to.

24 Wrong: The Little Girl Isꦆ Bayonetta

Bayonetta is a woman that spend🐈s her life kicking and shooting angels and demons, giving the player a chance to live out a fantasy that they'd neve﷽r be able to in real life.

That being said, there is a story somewhere in there, a story that nobody really cares about, which is why we imagine this plot hole was overlooked.

The twist is that a young girl that is found by the player is s🎃upposed to be a younger version of Bayonetta, despite th💫e fact that she was supposed to have been trapped in a coffin for millennia...

23 ✃Right: Final Fantasy VII Kept 🥀Us On Our Toes

Writers spend a long time trying to come up with characters that are well rounded and that the audience cares about, so to eliminate one early on takes some guts, which is exactly what Final Fantasy VII did, ꧂and did well. After getting the player to bond with Aerith in a major way, they end up having the major villain Sephiroth take her out. When this game first came out, people couldn't unꦯderstand how the writers pulled this off, aghast at what happened before their very eyes.

22 𝔍 Wrong: Kratos Losꦬt All Hope Years Ago...

Most of the original God Of War trilogy༺ is spent trying to take down Gods, which is why Kratos is constantly looking for new ways to do just that. However, we weren't happy with what was inside Pandora's Box.

Kratos was told that whatever was inside Pandora's Box would help him take out Zeus, once and for all.

There's nothing inside their though, not anything that looks like a weapon though. No, all th🍸at's inside the box is the concept of hope. It was so jarring in a game that seems to be entirely about beating people up...

21 Right:🐻 We Never Saw It Coming In DMC⛦: Devil May Cry

DMC was a reboot of the original Devil May Cry trilogy, and while some people don't like what it did to the legacy, it was actually a very good game by all accounts, it just 👍had a lot to live up to.

In the main trilogy, Dante's brother Virgil is an enemy, someone that Dante has to fight on a regular basis.

However, in the reboot the two brothers🌼 work together, that is until the end when Virgil lets Dante know that this entire thing has been about getting exactly what he wants, making him the final boss.