Sony has a widely-acclaimed track record ofPlayStationexclusives that have been released since the system’s inauguration in 1994. The PlayStation 4 alone has had titles likeGod of War(2018),Bloodborne,Last of UsPart 2,Ghost of Tsushima,Horizon Zero Dawn, and Insomniac’sSpider-Man. Each of these titles is much-beloved (if somewhat controversial in the case ofLast of Us Part 2) and has memorable characters that players think about long after finishing the game.RELATED:Things We Loved About Moss: Book 2 (& We Don’t)However, heroes don’t always do the right thing. In storytelling terms, a hero is another word for the protagonist, and that means they aren’t beholden to moral standards.There are plenty of PlayStation heroeswho abandon those moral standards at various points in their journey, and the results can be catastrophic for anyone nearby.
7Deacon St. John Inadvertently Causes The Collapse Of Several Survivor Communities
Deacon St. John is the protagonist of thepost-apocalyptic zombie-centric open-world game,Days Gone. He is a biker and runs errands for the local survivor communities with his best friend, Boozer. Deacon had a wife before the world collapsed, and he believes her to be dead.
However, Deacon starts getting rumors that his wife may still be alive, and, after seemingly finding a home with Iron Mike’s outfit, heads north and leaves Iron Mike’s people. This ends with Deacon finding an expansionist and militaristic group and accidentally leading them south to overtake Iron Mike’s camp. Deacon helps dismantle this oppressive group but not before a lot of people die and a lot of chaos is created.
6Jin Sakai’s Use Of Brutal Poisons Is Weaponized By The Mongols
Jin Sakai is the protagonist ofGhost of Tsushima. He is one of the only surviving samurai from the Mongol invasion led by the fictional Khotan Khan. The other survivor of the Mongol invasion is Jin’s uncle, Lord Shimura. With the help of a thief named Masako, Jin is able to save his uncle–but he has to turn away from the Bushido Code to do so.
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This leads to friction between Jin and Shimura, and it comes to a head when Jin, to save the lives of his allies and countrymen, uses a deadly poison to kill all the Mongols in a fortress. Unfortunately, Mongol survivors learn how to make this poison and begin experimenting on villages throughout Tsushima to kill people en masse. This leads to Tsushima falling further into chaos, but Jin and his allies do finally beat back Khotan Khan and the Mongols–even if some inhabitants of Tsushima, inspired by Jin, want to travel to the Mongol Steppes to get revenge.
5Ellie Throws The Entirety Of Seattle Into Turmoil In Last Of Us Part 2
In her quest for revenge for Joel’s death inLast of Us Part 2, Ellie, along with Dina, travels to Seattle to kill Abby. When she arrives, she sees that Abby is a member of the Wolves, a paramilitary organization that keeps the peace in Seattle. The Wolves are at war with a religious cult that lives on an island off the coast of Seattle called the Seraphites.
Ellie, Dina, Tommy, and Jesse kill a lot of people in Seattle, and they worsen the already bloody conflict between the Wolves and Seraphites. While the Wolves and Seraphites are both also brutal and corrupt organizations, Ellie’s interference was ultimately a net negative for everyone involved–herself included.
4Joel Miller Potentially Doomed The Entire World By Destroying The Fireflies
Despite all the destruction caused by Ellie inLast of Us Part 2, Joel Miller still did far more damage to the world at large in the firstLast of Us.He wipes out the Fireflies who, for all their flaws, were an ultimately benevolent organization.
Of course, that’s not all Joel did. In killing the doctors who were going to extract the cure to the cordyceps plague from Ellie, he doomed the world–and he did so without even consulting Ellie. As far as we know, there is no one else left to examine what makes Ellie immune to the disease, so her immunity is a benefit to her and her alone.
3Evil Cole MacGrath Can Potentially Take Over The World As The Beast
A man can do a lot of damage with electrokinesis, and evil Cole MacGrath fromInfamousandInfamous 2really knows how to sew some mayhem. The ending of the first game, if the player chooses the evil option, has Cole essentially overthrowing Empire City through his actions. He rules the city with his powers and allows people to prey upon the weak and unpowered.
Infamous 2takes this to another level, with Cole using his powers to essentially conquer the world as the Beast. Cole teams up with other Conduits and creates an unstoppable army of super-powered individuals that no conventional military could compete against. Of course, even good Cole still creates a lot of chaos, but it’s chaos for better reasons.
2The Good Hunter Of Bloodborne Can Upend The Cosmic Order
There is no saving Yharnam by the time of the events ofBloodborne. The player character is another in a long line of beast hunters that have tried and failed to stop Yharnam from falling to the beast plague and the machinations of the Great Old Ones and the cults that worship them.
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The only options that the Hunter has are to either propagate the status quo or change everything on a cosmic scale. If you choose the latter, you kill another Great Old One called the Moon Presence and become a Great Old One yourself. The implications of this are vast,even ifBloodbornedoesn’t givethe player any finer details on what this means for Yharnam and the other surviving Great Old Ones. It could change everything for the world ofBloodborne, or the Hunter could make the same mistakes as Kos, Ebrietas, and the Moon Presence before them.
1It’s Hard To Overstate How Much Chaos Kratos Has Created
Nothing can compare to the boundless chaos that is Kratos,the Ghost of Sparta and the God of War. He kills a lot of people–a lot of people.Kratos ranks above other PlayStation iconson this list because of how his violence affects the world on a metaphysical level (though the Hunter ofBloodbornedoes the same). He doesn’t just kill humans, he kills gods, titans, and creatures of myth. Kratos leaves the physical and metaphysical plane of his world changed forever.
WhileGod of War (2018)has Kratos trying to change his ways, circumstances force him into conflict with Freya and Baldur and garner the attention of Thor. Kratos has annihilated the Olympian pantheon and is on his way to doing the same with the pantheon of Asgard.
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