History MindScrew / VideoGames

** "Killer7" still stands to define Mindfuck but it becomes 'a little' easier when you realize most of the plot elements are supposer to be disjointed. [[spoiler: its all just Harman Smith and Kun Lan playing chess with the world. Emir Parkreiner killed the Smith Syndicate and after he thought he killed Harman, suppressed the memory and became the entire Smith Syndicate in his own mind. All the ghosts were people Emir had killed and in the end he was just the chessboard, the Heave Smile were Kun Lan's pieces, and the ghosts were Harman's pieces… except for Iwazaru… who… ummm… was Kun Lan trying to fuck with Emir to mess with the game but in fact he was helping Emir not remember who he was to keep the game intact? And the bosses were actually Harman's pieces to develop Emir's fake identity and keep him from realizing the truth,]] Yeah… something like that… So, its still a total mind screw.

VideoGames is a medium that still today is treated very vaguely by outsiders, [[PacManFever some of which have a very generic idea of it,]] [[MurderSimulators others have an exaggeratedly negative opinion of the medium]] and [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer don't even bother doing their homework before talking about it.]]

VideoGames is a medium that still today is treated very vaguely by outsiders, [[PacManFever some of which have a very generic idea of it,]] [[MurderSimulators others have an exaggeratedly negative opinion of the medium]] and [[CowboyBebobAtHisComputer don't even bother doing their homework before talking about it.]]

** However it REALLY gets bad when you consider [[spoiler: Before attempting to delete the universe entirely, Lucifer sends the Executioners to manually delete the inhabitants of the Milky Way, including whole civilizations, ships and Earth itself. It is specifically said that these have been deleted. Yet the universe still exists when it is deleted? The implication is that the inhabitants of Earth and such ''didn't'' think they existed!]] This brings it through MindScrew territory right into WallBanger status.

*** It gets EVEN WORSE if you consider ''[=~Star Ocean: The Last Hope~=]'', set within the same continuity; [[spoiler: At one point you visit Earth in the 1950's, which turns out to be a parallel universe. A parallel universe. IN A SIMULATOR THAT RUNS ONE UNIVERSE. How can it run multiple universes!]]

** Majora's mask is filled with mind screw, a good of example of is which [[spoiler: is fact that there's a open field inside the moons mouth (who happens to want to consume all of existence), in which there are children in masks which may or may not have been taken from the main bosses corpses,]]

* ''SuperMarioGalaxy'' has a rather weird one: [[spoiler: in the NewGamePlus, there are two Luigis: the one you play as and the one you don't. This seems especially weird when you see both Luigis getting a star. The thing is, it seems that Peach isn't even aware that Mario isn't even rescuing her, as she gives out letters addressed to Mario.]]

* Each KingdomHearts game just gets more and more like this, raising more questions than are answered. A milder example is the "Dive Into The Heart" segment at the beginning of each major game, where the main character wanders through an apparently empty world atop stained glass with images of Disney princesses, led by a disembodied voice, and finally forced to fight a huge, horrifying Heartless manifestation.

* The SecretLevel in ''BatmanDoom''. It's called "No Comment..." and "Weird!", and both names fit. Imagine Batman on a giant island made of flesh, floating in the middle of inky blackness and with biting mouths in the ground, with clock-adorned trees taken right out of Dali's "Persistence of Memory"; Batman must fight against floating eyes that throw batarangs at him and that leave the eyeholes of a giant mountain made of meat. Once you beat the eyes, you can enter the mountain's toothy mouth and proceeds down its... digestive tract? to the room with the exit. And the level music? The cheesy theme of the [[Series/{{Batman}} Batman TV show]].

* ''RuleOfRose'': Probably AllJustADream, but even then raises a huge number of questions in the vein of what actually happened and in what order, as the chronology is severely muddled up. It has served as fan fodder for five years and counting!

*** '''Desmond Miles:''' "[[ThisIsSPARTA What. The.]] ''[[ThisIsSPARTA Fuck]]''?"

** The plot of ''{{Contact}}'' is largely ambiguous and open to interpretation, especially the Professor's and Mint's motives. The ending is pretty confusing as well, and probably creates more problems than really solves any; there's a divide amongst those who've played the game as to whether it was really unique or just anticlimactic.

** Then comes SilentHillShatteredMemories, which retells the entire first game [[spoiler: as a delusion of the protagonist of the third.]]

* The end of ProfessorLaytonAndTheCuriousVillage. [[spoiler: Everyone in St. Mystere aside from Bruno and Flora is a ROBOT.]]

* The end of ProfessorLaytonAndTheCuriousVillage. [[spoiler: Everyone in St. Mystere is a ROBOT.]]

** Another ''[[HalfLife Half-Life 2]]''modification, ''[[Korsakovia]]'' (made by the same minds behind ''Dear Esther'') ''is'' one big mind screw. At first you think you are simply experiencing things in a screwed mind, while hearing your neurologist, Dr. Grayson, talk to you, but then things get weirder and weirder, until eventually a chapter title reads "[[OhCrap The Assimilation of Dr. Grayson]]".

* The entire ''DeptHeaven'' series. If you can comprehend the entire series thus far, you either are a. part of the team developing the games, b. a VERY dedicated fan, or c. an alien.

** SH 2 gets really mind-screwed in its second half, with the stuff that goes on in the Historical Society Abyss and the Hotel.

* ''[=~Star Ocean: Till the End of Time~=]'' involved a massive MindScrew late in the game. It was revealed that [[spoiler: the entire universe was, in reality, a MMORPG for 4D beings, thus making all the characters computer programs that happened to gain sentience.]] If that wasn't enough, [[spoiler: the BigBad succeeds in ''deleting the entire universe.'' It no longer exists, but it still happens to exist because people still thinks it exists even though it got deleted.]] Is your head splitting open yet?

* The entire ''DeptHeaven'' series. If you can comprehend the entire series thus far, you either are a. part of the team developing the games, b. a VERY dedicated fan, or c. an alien.
* The end of ProfessorLaytonAndTheCuriousVillage. [[spoiler: Everyone in St. Mystere is a ROBOT.]]

* The entire ''DeptHeaven'' series. If you can comprehend the entire series thus far, you either are a. part of the team developing the games, b. a VERY dedicated fan, or c. an alien.