Your ultimate reward for overcoming all the challenges and tribulations of a game is the final cutscene. The best games of all-time all have amazing endings that leave you with a strong impression one way or another, or perhaps set itself up for an eventual sequel. But for almost as long as games have had actual endings, there have been secret endings.
From the best NES games to the best PS5 games, more and more titles have hidden away extra content that players could unlock if they put in a little extra effort. Typically, this means meeting specific requirements like collecting every item, doing every task, or a combination of the two. They’re not usually easy, but some games take that to a ridiculous level.
These games have hidden endings so hard to get, you’re better off just watching them on YouTube.
The endings in particular are, without spoiling them, a bit of a disservice to the power of the original’s ending. Ironically, the game’s final and most difficult ending might be the worst of them all, even if it wasn’t so brutal to get. To unlock the game’s true ending you need to 100% the entire game.
That sounds fairly standard until you realize just how strict that actually is. If you’re not following a detailed guide step-by-step, it would be almost impossible to 100% this game naturally because of what actually counts toward that percentage. Aside from things you would expect, like doing every side quest, it also means speaking to every NPC at every opportunity, choosing the correct dialogue options, getting the correct outcomes in specific.
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