Alien Isolation was amazing, but critics said the alien AI made it too hard and stressful...I think they missed the point.

Mario Kart 64 was ironically given a 6.4 by Gamespot, and they claimed it was "very likely to disappoint you after about a week." Obviously, we know that wasn't the case.

Really? No Far Cry 4? That’s probably one of the best early endings in videogames ever!

The fact that critics rated alien isolation so low is a crime against humanity! That was the fourth game I ever played on my ps4 me and my girl played it in the dark and the fact that the alien was scaring her and she was hitting me out of fear I got the double whammy of terror! Still play that game to this day

Two Worlds when you first meet the final boss attack him and run into the village. Watch the NPCs kill him and then interact with his dead body. complete the game in under 3 minutes

I'm surprised that Zero Time Dilemma wasn't on this list. Not only is it a game where you can get to an ending after the first cutscene, but the game forces you to reach that ending before the rest of the game even becomes available to play.

While technically not under a min, the short endings in the Far Cry games are pretty funny 😂

I was hoping that The Witness would be on this list. You can beat it in less than a minute after exiting the tutorial tunnel by opening the first gate you come to.

Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town also gives you an option if you wish to continue your grandfather's legacy in the beginning and when you choose to decline, the credits will roll.

I learned about metal saga, because my friend was a game tester for it at Atlas. He hated it, but gave us a free copy. Our entire college frat house got together to try the game and immediately picked the option of being a mechanic. Watching the protagonist get such a boring ending at the very beginning of the game, we were all dying laughing, and immediately declared the game of masterpiece.

Prey (2017) by arcane. One of the best games I have ever played and it was really hit with a terrible review by IGN at launch

Marios Game.Over acreen is more a death screen than an ending in the traditional sense really if you think about it.

Now Jules has to cut the mightiest tree in the forest with a herring after collecting 2 shrubberies.

Mad Max comes to mind as a game that got a bit of a raw deal but was solid if not derivative.

One of Sweden's biggest newspaper gave Tekken 3 the lowest possible score because you could kick someone who was down.

Did not know this about Fractured But Whole. So awesome hahahaha😂

With Super Paper Mario, I would not argue that a "Game Over" screen counts as "completing the game". Otherwise you can beat the original Super Mario Bros. in under 60 seconds by running into the first goomba 3 times.

I would say two somewhat hidden gems are Jaws Unleashed and Scarface on Xbox OG. Maybe I'm blind by nostalgia but I thoroughly enjoyed both as a child and no one else seemed to like them

What the Fudge?!? I just went from watching Jules on another channel to stumbling upon this video on a channel I've never watched before. He's everywhere!!!

Video game terribly reviewed by critics "GOD HAND"

Two more: 1. Shacked - the arcade version, there is a secret path in the very first area of the first room that takes you right to the ending. It probably takes about 15 seconds to beat. 2. Infernax - When you get off the boat in the beginning and encounter the first zombie, you can turn back to the boat and trigger an ending that shows you running away from all the danger. That maybe takes 45 seconds.

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There was a review by IGN years ago about Mugen Souls, when it transpired the reviewer didn't even have the trophy for starting the game. It was not a good review... Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory has a trophy for starting the game that takes a pop at this in the flavour text.

_A Link to the Past_ also has a similar quick win as Spyro where you clip through the walls in the castle and blind walk your way to the Triforce ending cutscene.

Eee! Crisp high five right back at ya, Jules. You’re a massive ledge! ❤

A boring life…dying quietly in my bed. Sounds awesome!

I remember my older bro telling me about that Monty Python game. I haven't thought about that in years XD

Monty Python and the Holy Grail? "I fart in your general direction! Your Mother was a Hamster, and your Father smelt, of Elderberries" (John Cleese with a bad French accent)

Inescapeable is a utterly fascinating visual novel that has a metacritic in the 50s, I find it interesting because the kind of game that you think you are playing becomes that kind of game. For instance, if you are distrustful of people it becomes a murder mystery, if you try to spend your time with all the sexy characters, it becomes game very fanservice-y game, and if you tried to complete minigames to their fullest, it becomes a competition between the characters.

I loved The Holy Grail! Fond memories.

I remember staying at my aunt's place and playing the Monty Python game. Was an amazing laugh, even back then.

10 games that everybody but me loves. For me Shadow of the Collossus is number 1

Woah what! When did Jules leave what culture?! I must have missed something 😮‍💨 but good to hear you back for Tuesyourownadventure! Glad the algorithm brought me this nice tidbit!

Going to try this on the spyro 👍

God Hand. That 3/10 score that IGN gave it forever doomed its popularity.

Whoa Monty Python had a video game head 🤯

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FarCry 6 has a similar "shortcut" ending, once you pass the tutorial opening. Hop on the boat and leave instead of fighting for the cause.

🤔 Hey Jules, What are 10 Terrible Games made better by DLC??

Lol I remember taking the blue pill the moment I first played Path of Neo. I consider it doing QA work.

I'm shocked Zelda a link to the past isn't in here. Thanks you a glitch you can beat the game in minutes.

To be fair, any game can be completed in seconds, Even if its just ALOT of seconds

GameInformer’s Mario Party 1 & 2 reviews are absolute gold when you look at them more than just the plaque Nintendo sent them as a thank you. Their aggregate score for the first game was a 3.5/10, but this was based on 3 separate reviews they made. One of these rated it a 2.25/10 for being (and I quote) “extremely boring and more of a chore than anything else” (he rated it a .25/10 for playability and entertainment). Another rated it 2.5/10 and called it “'Satan' and 'Torture.'” Mario Party 2 faired better, but received a 5.25/10. One of the 3 reviewers for GameInformer wrote that “anyone who purchases this game is mentally deficient.” He did make a good point that the game was very much reliant on luck. Another reviewer wrote that, like the first game, “this release brings out the devil in me as well.” He rated it a 5.75/10, compared to his 2.25/10 for the first game

I would like to point out that Metal Saga, that ending? It's as long as the 'real' endings the game offers(There's technically two, though one is after the other). Maybe even longer honestly, and more detailed. That said, yes, some of that is the listing of things found in the game...like the doggie with a gun on its back. Which is adorable...and sadly it can't drive a tank so it slowly loses out to those metal monsters for which the game is named.

In the PS2 title, Soul Nomad & the World Eaters, your protagonist is possessed by an ancient evil named Gig. Very early on in the game is a “supposed to lose” fight against one of Gig’s minions (the titular World Eaters) but Gig gives you the opportunity to win if you give him full control of your body and…yeah, that’s not a good idea, but it DOES get you to an ending a heck of a lot faster!

alpha protocol which was fair since it was pretty buggy but the actual story and characters were awesome

If you have god like TAS hands... you can beat Super Mario 3 in about 4 frames.

Whoa, wait a minute Jules from FGS???

My favorite quick win game is The Legend Of Zelda A Link To The Past, not a feature but a glitch allows you to jump in the castle, reset, back to the castle, get hit to the first floor out of bounds, up a screen, right one screen and keep going up and end credits

Going to the end credits is not technically finishing the game. Just like going to the end credits of a movie is not watching a movie.

Great game reviewed terribly by critics is definitely Days Gone.

It takes "seconds" to beat every game out there. If it takes an hour to beat a game, that's just 3,600 seconds....

I remember back in like 2012 my buddy let me borrow his copy of enter the dragonfly because I was so astounded that that was his first experience with Spyro so in exchange I lent him my copies of the PS1 games and when I booted up enter the dragonfly mind you I played it at release, I completely by accident clipped into the ripto final boss and yeah,, very well may have been a world record contender

Pokemon Yellow also has a glitch where you can skip directly to the end credits.

The pokemon games are my favourite for any % super quick speedrun lol

I thought I recognized the voice. I did. Wasn't aware Jules was on a new channel.

It takes longer than these, but Far Cry 5 always comes to mind in these scenarios

With path of neo, if you complete the game on easiest mode, you can redo the last mission on hardest difficulty and unlock all the cheats without having to play the whole game again

I have to give an honorable mention to Chrono Trigger which has multiple endings. The quickest one is achieved by dieing in battle. The game fast forwards about 1000 years, and the world more or less ends. The crazy thing is that this is technically what's "supposed to" happen.

First thing that came to mind with bad reviews for good games was "too much water" if you know you know

Days gone was a fantastic game that was overlooked by critics for various reasons

How about Achievements you get for starting up game for the first time or just pressing start?

There was also Shadow Complex. Righr after the protagonist's girlfriend is captured, you can just get back into the car. He'll drive off saying it wasn't worth the risk. The player DOES miss out on a really good game by doing so.

If you play bad enough you can finish any game in seconds. You just almost always get the worst ending.

Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. Why? because after they fixed a few big bugs, it was a fairly decent game to play. I kinda dislike the fact that games like No Man's Sky and Cyberpunk get praise after initial bugs are seen, laughed at, fixed but then forgotten, but Sonic Boom gets flack even after the biggest of the bugs get fixed like the infinite Knuckles jump, just because it's Sonic. I'm not a Sonic fanboy, I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about with the game and found it to be quite a delightful romp tbh.

you can also beat Far cry 4 in like 15 mins

Axiom verge was reviewed terribly by IGN. I'm not sure even if they played it ...... As for games you can finish quick besides a ton of Atari 2600 games, there's The Legend of Zelda: A link to the past that you can beat in about two minutes. Also speed runners have got King's Quest 1 for the PC down to about a minute! You should check that out. The "zips" are next level.

I would make a little difference between "finishing the game" by completing it, or skipping it. And "getting an instant game over" as punishment.

Farcry 4 and Farcry 5 both had ways of ending the games shortly after starting them. In 4 you don't leave Pagan Min's dining room and in 5 you don't arrest Joseph Seed.

What’s odd with Metal Saga is that, the end of the game involves you stopping the evil AI from killing every human left on the planet, so it’s sort of a mystery how you would live very long as a mechanic.

It took me way too long to figure out how to play Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

One of my favourites I’ve played is matrix path of Neo take the blue pill and that’s it end of the game instantly

Death stranding, always rated as a walking simulator with no story when it was kojimas greatest work since sons of the patriots

can't believe super mario world didn't make the list. current world record is around 45 seconds

Never played the Monty Python game, but after seeing it on the list, that wasn't what I expected, I was expecting you could select one of the grail knights as a player character, including Sir Not Appearing In This Film

Herzog Zwei for the Sega Genesis, one of the very first FPS games ever made. Hated by critics, especially EGM. Too far ahead of its time. Now considered a classic.

One of the gamecube resident evils can be beat in minutes. Idr which one i think it was veronica x?

Dark Souls- it was bombarded with negative reviews because critics couldn’t beat the Asylum Demon

Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero is actually a great action adventure game with interesting puzzles and an interesting storyline and good cut-scenes, BUT: (1) you have to play the PS version (the N64 version can't show the video cut-scenes), (2) you have to remap the controls to make sense (the default settings are terrible), (3) you have to enter the cheat code for 1000 lives because the game is full of instakill booby traps that ruin the game when combined with limited lives, AND (4) you have to play on at least "Normal" difficulty, or you miss half the game. Do these four things, and it's not just playable--it's downright good.

Are you having a giraffe, mate?

Days gone would be my pick for games that were awesome that did not do well on reviews. I don't know why, but I thought the game was amazing

Shadow complex had a quick ending of you chose not to save the woman.

I believe GTA SA had a glitch that allowed you to skip to the last mission

I think Dead Island was unfairly panned by critics at the time. By no means a perfect game, but I felt it was much better than what the reviews said.

Far cry 4. The only way to get the good ending is to actually wait 15 mins when min tells you to wait.

Phantasy Star 3 can be ended quickly too.

clocktower first fear I think ending E with the car you can get in a minute with quick start

You can beat pokemon blue red and yellow in minutes if you use a useful glitch

Pokemon scarlet and violet, I played it on day one and it was amazing. And hearing people complain about a buggy open world is like hearing people annoyed by heat in the summer. All open world games have game breaking bugs it is what it is

I don't remember if it was reviewed poorly or if it was the fan reaction but my favorite poorly received game is final fantasy 13.

Legand of Zelda a link to the past

Metal Gear 5 - Received over the top rave reviews considering the game clearly needed another year in development to give it an actual story.

I think 'skip game button' games should be handled seperately from games where you actually have to do something in the game.

Far Cry 4 deserves a spot on here, if you know, you know.

i prefer games like the 5th and 7, Island Hoppers is the best one ever🔥

Super Mario World can also be besten in under 1 minute with RAM manipulation and using 4 controllers and some clamps 🥲

To be fair, you can finish ANY game in seconds. Just depends how many seconds.

What about Farcry 4? You can beat that in under 5 minutes.

The name was "Harleystwin", but, "Harleytwins" is much more clever.

Suggestion for great game with crap reviews: Days Gone. Because of a slow start, it was written off as a dull zombie wannabe, but once you start encountering hordes, it turned into one of the whitest knuckle gaming experiences ever. And a beautiful open world to explore too. Such a shame the follow up got cancelled because of its initial poor performance. A real gem.