To The Bitter EndGames are often left unfinished. Sometimes they’re too difficult, too vast, or too repetitive to see all the way through to the closing credits. To The Bitter End is our look at those endings that are worth fighting for—or at least worth reading about.

To The Bitter End

To The Bitter End

A Way Out saved its best idea for the last 20 minutes

William Hughes

5/22/18 12:00PM

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To The Bitter End

With one final death, Nier: Automata's ending redefines the meaning of life

Anthony John Agnello

8/31/17 8:00AM

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To The Bitter End

Dracula might be dead, but life goes on after Castlevania III’s bittersweet ending

Anthony John Agnello

1/18/17 12:00AM

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To The Bitter End

Without its deleted finale, Metal Gear Solid V has no ending at all

Patrick Lee

10/19/16 12:00AM

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To The Bitter End

After a deadly serious quest, Altered Beast’s ending let us in on the joke

Anthony John Agnello

7/27/16 12:00AM

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To The Bitter End

Fantasy Zone’s daddy issues twist drags it back to bleak reality

Caty McCarthy

7/06/16 12:00AM

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To The Bitter End

Crackdown’s cartoon police state feels more real in 2016

Toussaint Egan

5/12/16 12:00AM

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To The Bitter End

Shadow Of Mordor proves revenge is shallow by whiffing its final battle

Anthony John Agnello

3/08/16 9:00AM

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To The Bitter End

Pulling Noby Noby Boy apart only brought people together

Derrick Sanskrit

1/13/16 12:00AM

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To The Bitter End

Knights Of The Old Republic’s endings provide more proof that good is dumb

Anthony John Agnello

11/18/15 12:00AM

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To The Bitter End

Brothers embodies the best of siblinghood when it breaks your control

Anthony John Agnello

7/08/15 12:00AM

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To The Bitter End

The tragedies of Telltale’s The Walking Dead give meaning to the game’s final choice

Patrick Lee

5/06/15 12:00AM

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To The Bitter End

The truth is more wondrous than the mystery when Professor Layton’s on the case

Patrick Lee

2/10/15 11:00AM