Greatest fake-out moments in games

What were the moments where you had to put the controller down and process what had happened and how you got it so wrong? Spoilers as you feel necessary.

Mine was the end of sequence 3 in Assassin's creed 3, where

player character Haytham Kenway, who is an impeccable gentleman; shows inhuman dexterity and balance; and uses a hidden blade, leads a toast with 'May the father of understanding guide us'. I thought he was an Assassin: I'd being playing as a damn Templar!
(the PS trophy for completing this part is How d'ya like them apples?)

Final Fantasy X

Spoilered just in case:

What comes to mind immediately is first time beating Evrae in Final Fantasy X. No save point in between and got blasted by the warrior monks before getting to Seymour/Yuna’s wedding. No save point when the party crashed the wedding.

Took me ten tries to first beat Evrae. After doing that and the monks killing me, threw my controller down and had to bloody do it again after more tries lol.

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Originally Posted by Badger

Spoilered just in case:

What comes to mind immediately is first time beating Evrae in Final Fantasy X. No save point in between and got blasted by the warrior monks before getting to Seymour/Yuna’s wedding. No save point when the party crashed the wedding.

Took me ten tries to first beat Evrae. After doing that and the monks killing me, threw my controller down and had to bloody do it again after more tries lol.

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You might want to at least mention the game so people know if they want to read the spoiler or not.

I don't have a specific thing in mind but those fights at the beginning of games where you're supposed to lose usually get me.

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Originally Posted by Bert

You might want to at least mention the game so people know if they want to read the spoiler or not.

I don't have a specific thing in mind but those fights at the beginning of games where you're supposed to lose usually get me.

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Fair point. Put the game in. :yes:

Also a couple of other things.

Donkey Kong Country SNES:

Hopefully not the only on here faked out by the credits when the game fooled you into you had King K. Rool beat.

Persona 5 Royal (perhaps MMH knows this too, to do with one of the last battles lol. If not then don’t read my spoiler lol).

Shido battle thinking he was beat and he pulls Joker into the last round alone. That got me good and was a great twist having them fight one-on-one.

Eternal Darkness had about ten of these. What a fucking game that was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuERQ-uQLoQ

BBF scoring a decent finish in clubs

Excuse me this is a kind forum for kind people and I'd appreciate it if you took this negative hate speech to another place.

Hmm. Kind of a hard one for me because I can't honestly think of too many moments where it hit like that. But I can think of three after thinking about it.

MGS3: The fight with The Sorrow. Figuring out how to finish that fight was pretty mind-boggling, and I was pretty floored when I figured it out

Also from MGS3:

Finding out Shalashaska was actually a triple agent all along legit made my jaw drop

And more recently, Death Stranding, with a major ending spoiler:

A lot of that twists and plot start becoming obvious where nothing really surprises you as much as it's just nice to get clarity on when/how everything happened, and how it comes together. But figuring out Sam was the BB from the flashbacks/Cliff Unger's son was something that, again, literally dropped my jaw and made me verbally say, "Whaaaaaaaat?!?"

No surprise they both come from Kojima.

The MGS series is full of them.

MGS 2 - The Snake/Raiden switcheroo
MGS 3 - The truth according to EVA
MGS 4 - Big Boss lives!
MGS 5 - The Zero conversations with Paz/Skull Face/Ocelot/Kaz/Big Boss