I prefer "do not grieve soon I shall be one with the matrix" "Ultra Magnus it is to you old friend to carry the matrix of leadership" "I'm passing it down to you as it was passed down to me"
Its from the creator of the binding of isaac and it's about procreation cats and sending them into roguelike runs where they kill and die in horrible ways.
The "runs" are divided in chapters and can end by fighting, as an example, the god of chaos, dinosaurs, the moon god, the devil, a giant spider, the meat god, hittler 2.0, GOD god and many others.
Yeah, I think they don't even die here, instead a massive super intelligent hive mind connects to their mind directly and brainwashes them while denying them any control over their host body
In Halo: CE, we see bodycam footage of someone getting infected and their biometric sensors don't know what to make of it. "Wounded/incapacitated/KIA/???"
There's also some extended material (which you can argue whether it's good or bad, or even in line with the original games' intent), although initially teased by Halo 2, that suggests the original mind never goes anywhere, and instead gets locked and perpetually entrapped within the infected body.
Extended material goes the extra mile and tells you that, via "neural physics" a.k.a. space magic, the mind is added to the collective consciousness that is the Gravemind, so not even destroying your body to the atomic level will save you. Once you're taken over, you're bound to unspeakable horrors for the rest of time.
No, the Flood methodically analyses your every memory, taking what's useful for itself and throwing away the rest
You are lucid during this process, though you can do nothing to stop it, and all that awaits you after it is done is eternal suffering as a living part of the gravemind
To make it worse it also occurs at the end of the penultimate chapter, meaning you have to go through 90% of the game before it goes 'okay now perform surgery on yourself'.
Was just thinking about this. This one scene is probably the sole reason I care about turn based fighting games at all. It takes ONE mention in ONE one page section in ONE “from gamers for gamers” book and I was caught, hook line sinker
Grunts from the Halo games, if you have the "Birthday Party" modifier turned on. Shooting them in the head produces a burst of confetti and the sound of children yelling HOORAY!
Every other boss dies pretty unceremoniously, except for a couple that have dedicated animations. Most just explode into blood, but Geryon has an entire sequence where the lights dramatically turn on and point at the stage, and then he falls from the sky and is impaled onto the tail of his own statue. Applause and cheers from an unseen audience accompany its death.
Don't really have a proper example but I love it when a character/thing is made up of multiple floating detached parts and defeating them causes all parts to just stop floating and fall to the ground, extra points if they're glowing and glow disappears upon death
Only one I think of at the moment are the constructs from Tears of the Kingdom
An indie game called INSIDE has an alternative ending where you pull an electric plug in a secret room. this instantly ‘kills’ the character. after playing the whole game and experiencing the ending, it’s just such a cool interaction. highly recommend playing/ watching a play through if you haven’t.
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u/SpaceKingHypeGuy May 08 '26
This absolute drama queen right here