The craziest plot twist is how Odin got Freyr's sword Ingrid. Ingrid is a peculiar sword that can only be obtain if willingly given. Odin was disguised as an attractive woman to which Freyr willingly given Odin Ingrid "embarrassingly" fast according to Freya.
The Callisto Protocol twist was actually really heavily foreshadowed and extremely obvious, but the timing of the actual reveal was done at an unexpected point, and it lands a lot better because of the length and nature of the journey to get to it. The game bangs the drum of "you are in this horrible place because of something you did" very hard right from the beginning, so obviously your main character did something terrible that they either forgot or are lying about (or both, technically, as it turned out), but the fake-out in the middle of the game, as well as the relationships to Dani and especially Elias give the right amount of emotional weight for the character. It may not surprise you, but you can feel how it affects Jacob quite well.
i might add something to the last one, if you continue exploring the realms post game and return to the ravens a prison ship will have crashed where you find the REAL tyr
@@heyfuckass there are VERY few games and movies over the years that even get me remotely emotional, the last time it happened was that damn Last of Us Intro (as a father it hits hard) as well as a certainly "brotherly" moment. and then GoWR comes along and grabs you right in the feels. That twist moment wasnt the only time I got weepy during that game.
As for the merchants in Elden Ring, I believe they were imprisoned prior to finding the imprisoned flame of frenzy. The flame provided them with a way for them to escape their prison.
The thing about the Frenzied Flame, it is summoned by despair. The merchants didn't worship it, at the sheer horror and anguish of being buried alive, their collective torment and pain invoked it It's actually more of a 'self fulfilling prophecy' Marika and her Golden Order imprisoned them because Shabriri spread rumors about them worshipping the Frenzied Flame, and it was inflicting such a horrible fate on them which ended up invoking it
...which was just as Shabiri had wanted, like as not. In short, her means of bringing the Flame to power was to sacrifice others to despair, and using the Flame itself as the pretext was just that much crueler.
Would really appreciate chapters on videos like this with the name of the game you’re going to spoil. When you put the spoiler up front before saying what each game is, I can’t avoid the spoiler if it’s for a game I expect to play.
I agree. I didnt care about most of these spoilers so I watched anyways but God of War I did not want spoiled. Would have been helpful to know when that is coming.
Oh man The Forgotten City is one of the most amazing games I have ever played. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!! For the love of the Gods play it if you haven't
The Ragnorak one definitely took my by surprise. I was skeptical at first but after doing this and that put that doubt in the back of my mind until it was too late. Also Star Ocean 3 despite how divisive it is.
The Calisto Protocol one was barely a twist. Who could have known the shady crate that came from the target of a bio-terrorist attack and the outbreak of a virus at the destination of said crate could be related.
I just need to put this here. About Callisto Protocol: they were moving stuff From the prison/Callisto to where the civilian outbreak happened, the "attack" the "terrorist group" was blamed for. That group made it to the orbit of Callisto in order to board the transport ship looking for the evidence. And the combination of Jacob trying to "save" his ship/kill the boarders, and the woman shooting the window caused the ship to crash back onto Callisto...which apparently the prison decided you need to have permission to crash?!
Plus, the terrorist plan was awful. Why attack the ship so close to the prison they can just come get what they lost and capture you. And if you don't see yourself as a terrorist why kill innocent people. Plus, crashing the ship? There's no way to make sure what you're looking for isn't destroyed.
Oh my god! As soon as I saw the title I just knew you had to include the twist in God of War: Ragnarok. Let’s be honest we all hated tyr’s character for being nothing like what we pictured and just lowering our confidence until it was revealed that it was actually Odin in disguise. It was both an amazing twist, a way that didn’t break Tyr’s characterisation and a demonstration how smart Odin truly was.
I'm pretty sure the woman who speaks to you in immortality was once in a creepy yogurt or ice cream commercial. Could be wrong but it looks a lot like her.
Anoter really cool aspect of the Tyr twist is that when other people talked about him, there is an accent symbol over the Y but when Tyr talks, it's absent. It was right in front of us the entire time.
SOMA, nothing comes close, that game hit me so hard that more than half a decade later, i am still torn about it, same as DOKI DOKI LITERRATURE CLUB, that was brutal, i mean BRUTAL, both games rank highly, but SOMA ? that ending will leave u in stitches.
I was actually disappointed with the Forgotten City's plot twist. I was hoping that the gods would actually be gods, higher beings outside our comprehension, but instead we got the overused "super-advanced aliens mistaken for gods" trope. Game was pretty decent overall but that twist took some of the air out of my sails.
Guy who seems aware of monsters turns out to be a monster isn't really an unexpected plot twist, but rather a common and fitting horror movie troupe in a horror game paying homage to horror movies.
Ahhh immortality. I had heard it was good but didn't read anything about the game. I was getting bored and about to quit the game when I stumbled across the hidden scenes. Spiked my interest and got me hooked for the rest of the game.
The Tyr twist is hinted at throughout the entire game if the player notices that every time Odin-Tyr talks his subtitles call him "Tyr", but every time someone else mentions Týr by name, it's spelled "Týr". Odin-Tyr doesn't have the accent on the 'y' when he talks.
For me it was that gut punching moment in xenoblade 3 where I thought Mio died.Then came the plot twist and my tears of absolute sorrow became tears of joy.
My choice would probably be Tales of Arise's twist at about the 80% of the way through the game in regards to who the final enemy of the game is...granted unlike the others in this video this twist was probably a bad choice for Namco to go with as the story kinda got iffy with it and it would've been stronger imo, especially given the first half's story was great, if they just kept the main enemy as the expected leader of the group you deal with at the start (basically the Renan Sovereign that won the previous Crown Contest...as far as what he does, well you can play to find out). While the final boss of the game does play a role I feel like said boss would've been better off used as a tool of said Renan Sovereign's ambitions rather than made into the final boss (and I'm not counting the final 1 on 1 duel as the final boss as once you get that guy's HP to halfway you can no longer die in that fight so it feels more scripted than anything, I'm talking about the 2 phase boss before that duel). But ya they could've turned a passable story into a great one if they handled the second half of the game's story better/didn't go with the twist even if the plot would be a bit more straightforward (not like that's bad as the previous game, Tales of Berseria, did exactly that with its main villain and it's story was leagues better...in fact the 2nd best in the series imo).
I can think of several plot twists no one saw coming: in Halo 5 Guardians, there's when Cortana deliberately betrays Master Chief, believing what she was doing was right, in Call of Duty Black Ops, it's when it's revealed that Reznov actually supposedly died while escaping Vorkuta, in Fallout 4 it was when Shaun was revealed to be the Father all along, and then, most recently, in Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, it's the professors being the main antagonists of their respective games, even though they're also dead.
Forgotten City is/was great. As good as the Skyrim mod it began life as was, the standalone game was something else. That ending has me cheering quite loudly. To the point my daughter all but demanded to play it herself after seeing bits of it while I played. She did the same.
The Signalis fake out was so stupid. It caught me out and i can't be arsed going back to finish it. I only found out about the fake out months after I thought I'd finished it
3:15 COME ON MORE OBVIOUS IT POKE YOUR EYE I KNEW FROM THE START THAT THEY ARE WERE WOLF'S ALL WAS SAYING TO ME WHY HE DIDN'T TURN THE STORY WAS FULL OF WEREWOLF KLISE STORYs 5:18 Atropos or ANTHROPOS (in Greek means human) 10:02 Pluto is the the name of God of the underworld In Greek mythology in Roman mythology they name him Hades
@@crazymus_pride Nope. I just checked several sources, including cultural mythology sites run by Greek professors. Hades was the Greek name. The Romans used Pluto.
@@Dyrnwynn yes you are obviously right because this guy doesn’t know what he’s talking about, image how bad it would of been if all these games, movies, and books had the names backward for the mythologies. Image if absolutely no one checked 😂
@@Dyrnwynn WHAT YOU WILL SAY NEXT THE BRUTISH MUSEUM KNOWS MORE ABOUT GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND NOT THE GREEKS YOU KNOW THE WINNERS ALWAYS REWRITE HISTORY IT DOESN'T MEAN IS THE CORECT HISTORY AND MANY UNIVERSITY TEACHING GREEK OR ANCIENT GREEK ARE SO WRONG THAT IF YOU TALK TO A ANCIENT GREEK PROFESSOR THEY WILL LAUGH AT YOU
Literally the first thing I said after we found Tyr was that he was Odin in disguise. Like, narratively, it just felt too early for them to find the real Tyr, plus we already knew that Odin could disguise himself as other people, and what better way to manipulate the heroes than to infiltrate their ranks, which would be super thematically consistent for him. My suspicion was just further reinforced as the game went on and it seemed like Tyr was passively trying to sabotage the group at every turn. Maybe it was just a lucky guess, but that one felt pretty obvious to me.
@@Logan7281X super obvious once the big reveal was made and you think back, sure.. But I had absolutely no idea. I mean you see how Centuries of torture from Odin affected everyone else and it would just make sense that Tyr would break eventually. EVERYONE has their breaking point. The problem was that Tyr/Odin was called out pretty hard at that moment and at that point, there was no explaining it away.
@@claytonmason174 They explored that a bit in Remake. Supposedly they toyed with the idea of Barret dying in the original FF7, so Barret almost dies but is saved by the plot ghosts.
That Callisto Protocol twist isnt really a twist exactly; it's pretty frickin obvious the whole time. GOW Ragnarok has so many though; Tyr being Odin the whole time is the obvious one, but people that kept playing after the game actually find the real Tyr unexpectedly right as you have started to forget about him.
You guys should have had the list in the video. Because you're talking about games in general so you don't know what you were going to spoiled. Until you watch the video where you guys spoiled the twist right after you said the name of the game. So there's no time to prepare adjust.
If you want to talk "Recent", how about a game that has a Steam release date of April 2023? Yeah, not been release officially yet, but if you know the right sites, can keep up with the Dev as it's being made and that game is Projekt Passion, and without going into spoilers on an unreleased game, I will just say, there are several plot twists from the characters that I have been enjoying thus far.
The biggest clue that Odin was Tyr was also the most obvious: He keeps referring to Atraeus as "Loki". They literally spelled it out to us several times that Tyr, at the very least, already knew things about Atraeus that he shouldn't have. First time I ever shouted "I KNEW IT!!!" at the top of my lungs. Because the fact that I did indeed know something was wrong didn't lessen the impact of it.
Star Ocean 3 had a whopper of a twist concerning the first 3 games. Xenoblade 1 had 2 big twists. It'd take too long to talk about the twists in The Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver games.
I think people are still going with the narrative that its a 'bad' game based on the early reactions from people who didn't seem to actually play much of the game.
God of War Ragnarök Initial release date: November 9, 2022. The Callisto Protocol Initial release date: December 2, 2022. You guy can even get that right.🙄
I have to say this about The Callisto Protocol. It is an excellent game, and if you want a real in-depth look at it go watch Digital Foundry’s video on it because Josh from WhatCulture is probably the worst judge of good video games on any channel on RU-vid. He routinely callas good games bad, and bad games good. He isn’t very smart.
Some of my favorite games became such because of the plot I was invested in Joel after his daughter died for example, gameplay is huge if not what I play for entirely, but these twist are definitely favorable
What about Pokemon Scarlet and Violet where *SPOILERS* Prof. Sada/Turo turns out to be dead all along and the one you've been conversing with was actually an AI she/he created.
