The Top 7... WTF?! Endings, Part 2
Even more cross-eyed climaxes from gaming's gibbering psyche
AMPED 3 (Xbox 360, 2005)
The ending
It’s the ‘Grand Musical Finale’, a foot-stomping, knees-up cabaret affair that, much like the rest of the game, pokes fun at both itself and videogames. The bad guy laments and repents, the good guys throw their hands in the air, and the whole damn cast (including cloud-pooping unicorns) rejoice with a massive boogie.
Huh?!
“Thank you, thank you, thank you for playing our game!We’re sorry, sorry, sorry if the story was lame”...goes the chorus. Then a Dickensian orphan pops up to hope that “you’ll want to play it again”, before everyone chimes in to warn you that it’ll “jusssstt beeee the saaaaaaame!!”
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