If there’s one genre of gaming that understands the importance of choice, it’s role-playing games. Many amazing RPGs know that seeing the world and your character change based on your decisions is an important part of the formula. As such, you’d be hard-pressed to find major RPG outcomes that haven’t been chosen a fair few times.
Siding with the Imperials or the Stormcloaks in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, romancing Triss or Yen in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, fighting or embracing Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077 – these are but a few of the genre’s most famous and popular dilemmas. That said, while these options offer a sense of binary solutions, they still get a lot of love on both sides, with subsequent playthroughs and countless hours of play allowing large percentages of players to see all outcomes.
However, there is a seething underbelly of choices that barely anyone has seen, with the rarest of the rare appearing in hardly any playthroughs. The following ten entries are such examples, having been collected via achievement/trophy data. If you made any of these choices, you are in the minority.
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This list will contain spoilers for all games discussed.
The protagonist of Cyberpunk 2077, V, is a person in the middle of one hell of a social web, with multiple characters vying to use their abilities to achieve their goals. One of the earliest of these you meet is Goro Takemura, the personal bodyguard to the head of the Arasaka corporation, Saburo Arasaka. Well, he was, at least, until Saburo was murdered.
Takemura’s goal is clear and defined; he wants to avenge the death of his former employee by putting an end to his murderer, Yorinobu Arasaka. It sounds like an easy choice, but there is one roadblock – Takemura needs to survive the mission “Search and Destroy.”
If you manage to help him there, you can pull this off. All you need to do is choose to align yourself with Arasaka in the final mission, getting yourself The Devil ending and achieving his goal. Sadly for Takemura, it’s exceedingly rare for this to happen, with only 12.7% of PlayStation players, 11% of Xbox players, and 7.6% of those on Steam seeing it through.
If revenge is a dish best served cold, then Takemura’s is piping hot.
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