Video game tutorials are designed to be pretty much impossible to fail, as their sole purpose is to teach you how to play. Usually when the player is about to make a mistake, the tutorial will simply prevent them from it, but some tutorials are actually less hands-on with their lessons.

Meaning that they will let you make a dumb and regrettable choice and then make absolute fun of you for doing it.

If you think you might be given some slack for being a beginner, think again. Some video game developers love to hide a mischievous secret for their less than competent player base that will destroy any and all confidence you have in your gaming skills. You don't do the tasks the game expects you to, and suddenly you're stuck with a bad ending, a vicious mockery of your character, or some other kind of equally punishing easter egg.

Losing the one thing the game doesn't expect you to can hurt your ego, but the following acts of mockery make this humiliation ritual even more potent.

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is a 2018 role-playing video game developed by Obsidian Entertainment. The game is rich with story and different decisions you and your team can make along your quest, to the point where you can actually refuse to start the main quest… and then suffer the consequences.

Pillars of Eternity II starts with a prologue in which your character nearly dies and their soul is summoned by the goddess Berath for a special audience.

Berath informs you that she pulled your soul into the beyond right after another god, Eothas, awoke in your world and killed hundreds of people. She then demands that you serve her and pursue Eothas before he unleashes more devastation or accept death and be returned to the Wheel.

Choosing to cooperate with Berath starts the main mission and the game. However, you can actually choose to refuse her. Doing so will make the goddess order her servant to escort you to the beyond, after which a secret ending scene will play, describing your soul fading away and then reincarnating as a cat.

It’s supposed to be a bad ending, but honestly, starting a new life as a blissfully ignorant feline doesn’t sound half bad.

Michael Fincher

Video games enthusiast with a love for bizarre facts about his favorite titles. Really into old-school strategies and RPGs of all shapes and sizes.

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