"The price you pay may be heavy indeed" - Shadow of the Colossus. Games with the most shocking endings

Every prince will do anything to save his princess. He will jump across platforms in dungeons and cross swords with skeletons. In fact, you don't even have to be a prince. You can also be jumping in a pair of dungarees on mushrooms and turtles. Wander – the main protagonist of Shadow of the Colossus – has an extremely difficult task to accomplish, because Mono – the girl he wants to save – is dead at the beginning of the game. His only hope is Dormin - a mysterious creature able to bring back to life. However, to convince him to help you, you have to beat the sixteen eponymous colossi. A difficult mission, true, but quite typical for video games - after all, we've taken down tougher opponents in the past.

Except we didn't. Not in Shadow of the Colossus. After the victorious fight with the last colossus, as we return to the hall with lifeless body of Mono in our hands, armed horsemen appear and for some reason want to kill us. More enemies standing on our way before we can resurrect Mono? Quite the opposite. It turns out that these warriors are the good guys of Shadow of the Colossus, who want to stop a powerful evil from returning at all costs. Evil in the form of Dormin - a cursed, banished creature, who was separated from people somewhere at the end of the world.

However, Wander spoiled everything. He became a puppet controlled by the evil demon. With our hands he killed the harmless colossi, whose task was to guard and keep separate the pieces of Dormin. We provided him with energy and body so that the sinister being could be reborn. Our initial protagonist at the end turns out to be a stupid and selfish antagonist, and eventually transforms himself into Dormin. Fortunately, the warriors are able to perform the right ritual and drag the demon into an open portal. Only... what's that infant with horns doing there?

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