DRAKENGARD (PS2, 2004)

The ending
Drakengard isn’t the cheeriest of adventures. There’s no joy, just murder, bloodshed, defeat and gloom, for twenty or so soot-black hours. It has a handful of endings, the penultimate one of which involves babies. Giant cannibal babies with fully-matured teeth. It’s best we show you this first, as a scene-setter:


Got that? Good. Despite being a medieval-styled game featuring dragons, sorcery and endless magical brutality, its closing stages involve Tokyo, and the aforementioned giant canni-babies. And leads to the following conclusion for ‘victorious’ players:


Yep, a humungous pregnant lady’s swollen tummy is transformed into crumbling ash, and a towering funeral pyre that can be seen from space.

Huh?!
But wait! There’s more. Collect all 65 weapons in the game and you’ll unlock Chapter 13, Drakengard’s epilogue. Which leads to the surviving ‘heroes’ getting shot down by fighter jets. We’ll let YouTube do the talking; feel free to stick around for the credits, but they’re just as cruelly oppressive as the rest of the game.