Video Games That Ruined Great Endings With Sequels

Final Fantasy VII's ending wasn't your typical "world is saved, hooray" finale. Sure, the world was saved ... from the player. Before dying, Sephiroth summons a giant meteor to destroy the planet, but a combination of the Holy spell, the planet's Lifestream (where dead people's spirits go to chill) and Aeris' spirit destroys the threatening

Final Fantasy VII's ending wasn't your typical "world is saved, hooray" finale. Sure, the world was saved ... from the player. Before dying, Sephiroth summons a giant meteor to destroy the planet, but a combination of the Holy spell, the planet's Lifestream (where dead people's spirits go to chill) and Aeris' spirit destroys the threatening space rock ... or so it seems. 

As a "500 years later" post-credits scene shows, Midgar — the largest city on the planet — is covered in vines and other greenery, a scene straight out of Life After People. Basically, without any words or exposition, we learn that either Meteor killed all humans, or the Lifestream said "enough of humanity's crap, let's start over." The green you see is proof that the planet is piecing itself back together without humans to muck it up again.

It wasn't a traditional ending, but it was absolutely an ending. Humans are gone, and the planet moves on. It's such a "you can't end it any differently" ending. And then ... it ended differently. Both a movie sequel and a spinoff game completely discarded the original's awesome end. Now, everybody survived, including people you thought you saw die. This includes Sephiroth, now magically resurrected because fan service. Also, there's no mention of humans possibly going extinct at all. We don't even get a single hint like, "It's been two years since that Meteor thing — ever notice how we, as a species, are getting a lot sicker lately?"

As for Midgar being covered in green? That's semi-explained by Midgar being destroyed, but nothing else was — everyone's just living in a new city now. How convenient. Perhaps Midgar will be rebuilt so it can succumb to the undergrowth and humanity can still die off in the 400-some years remaining until the post-credits scene rolls. Too bad a meteor didn't hit the office of whoever wrote that script.

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