Honestly, little Mac retiring has to be the happiest and saddest endings in all of gaming history. Never have I almost cried hearing Doc saying his last farewell to the player😭

Love that the game over scene from DK 64 was turned in to King K. Rool's final smash

What makes Punch-Out Wii's so horrifying? It's PERMANENT. You'll need to delete and create a new save file to play again.

The Luigi's Mansion one seems the darkest to me because it's not that everyone's dead. It's that everyone's trapped in a fate worse than death with no one left to save them. Especially bad because the scientist who makes the technology necessary to save them is trapped too. Truly a hopeless situation.

The Banjo Kazooie and the DK64 game overs scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. Banjo's sister turning green and closing in on K-Rool's face as he's laughing freaked me out.

Honestly, the part that gets me with Shadows of Valentia's Game Over isn't the mass graves. It's the fact that it says _The End_ instead of Game Over.

3:04 Minor Correction: The "Zombie Luigi" Game Over wasn't actually a Game Over. It was simply something made for one of the trailers. I wouldn't blame anyone if they thought it was a Game Over though, since it still is pretty creepy.

The Punch-Out Wii ending isn't so much sad as it is bittersweet. Mac retired, but he retired on what was ultimately a high note - he made it to the top, he defended his title as long as he could, and he went down fighting.

Metroid Prime might have the most abrupt and honest portrayal of death I've ever really seen with a main character and it feels very real in a way that is extremely unsettling.

The worst part about the Banjo Kazooie and DK64 Game Overs was that you'd get them when you Save and Quit whenever you were done playing, not just when you ran out of lives. That always freaked me out as a kid.

For those wondering about the context of the Tingle game over, the player character only became Tingle after Uncle Rupee spoke to him about Rupeeland, a place where you can enjoy feasts, meet hot singles and not have to work or study ever again. Uncle Rupee tells him how the only way to reach it is by throwing loads and loads of rupees into his pond. He also warns Tingle that should he lose all his money in the process, he will die. The game over scene seems to be Tingle's dying dream in which he hallucinates all the things he was promised but never got on his quest. *SPOILERS* It should be pretty obvious that Uncle Rupee is scamming Tingle, but the pond was able to become a tower, so you could also be forgiven for thinking he was being genuine. But no, Rupeeland is what the world will become if Uncle Rupee becomes all powerful: a place where everyone else becomes a Tingle and has to work forever while Uncle Rupee gets all the benefits. In the true ending, the MC is blessed with the power of rupees as a reward for beating Uncle Rupee... but instead of using them for good, he uses them to indulge in everything he wanted at the start of the game.

Imagine getting brutally murdered for shoplifting a single product. Also, one creepy Game Over screen that wasn't shown here is the one at the start of "Super Paper Mario" when you refuse Merlon.

One thing about the Zombie Luigi thing is that it was likely E3 or Spaceworld flair.

I'm surprised Majora's Mask's game over wasn't mentioned. "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?" Gets me every time. Also there are some other creepy ways to die in Twilight Princess, Majora's Mask, and Ocarina of Time.

Dude I'm glad I never really play the Metroid Prime games when I was younger. Seriously the game over screens include Samus' heart stopping and straight up a pool of her blood on the ground? Hot damn...

Samus screaming in metroid prime is kinda terrifying and the screen just starts filling up with blood 😰

The Punch Out!!! game over is actually kind of heartwarming. Doc saying " Good Job son" put a smile on my face.

Banjo loses his life trying to save his sister, and her reaction is "Great, now I'm ugly. Thanks for nothing Banjo!"

Metroid Prime: Shows a crack in Samus' visor with her head tilting while a flatline plays over. Creepy Metroid Prime 2: Literally shows her heart malfunctioning with a constant loud flatline beeping over. Terrifying Metroid Prime 3 Regular Death: Shows her blood splattering all over her visor. Uncomfortable Metroid Prime 3 Terminal Corruption: Phazon fully takes over Samus, turning her into another Dark Samus. Nightmare fuel

Those damn DK country game over screens. All three games were just horrifying and creepy. Yoshis Island was another that scared me a lot growing up.

The wii punch out game over screen almost made me cry as a kid. We need another punch out on the switch tbh

5:58 “I wasn’t kidding when I said pay! Now you’ll pay the ultimate price!” Player: **dies from epilepsy**

I love how in donkey Kong country 3 when you do get the game over you can actually keep the music playing by pressing buttons in the controller which will make those blocks continue to jump and you can play more music. it's like a game within the game over screen

In Minish Cap, right before the final boss, there's a timed enemy rush that you can actually fail. If you do, there'll be a cutscene of princess Zelda dying, which is not only unusual for a series where main character is more or less always destined to win, but also marks one of the two occurences of alternate endings in Zelda series ever (the other one being Link's Awakening).

Fire Emblem: We have the saddest (and slightly creepy) game over in existence! Dr Louis: Hold my chocolate bar.

Kirby Mass Attack has a pretty sad one, it shows Kirby's ghost while this super sad music plays in this dark area It's honestly kinda emotional haha

Is no one going to talk about that scene in Pikmin?? They literally saw Olimar die, dragged Olimar's corpse and planted in on the floor while watching it grow a plant on its head and everything with a happy song. Edit: I didn't even realize how the machine severs his head! WTF

5:57 (Seizure warning it's the "Ultimate Price" death in Zelda Link's Awakening) _Are you sure the ultimate price is dying in the game if the screen's flashing like that...?_

I love the idea of Banjo telling Bottles that hes good to go rescue Tooty, and then immediately being done in by a carrot.

My sister and I would play Banjo when we were young and the game over screen, honestly, it made us cry, it made us absolutely BAWL our eyes out. I remember being so scared when I'd get low on life and seeing Banjo and Kazooies icon get more and more beat up. I learned to run away from the game every time I game overed.

The people that want to know the context of Punch out wii is that if you defeat everyone Contender and Title defense mode, Mac wants to retire but he cant till he loses 3 times, thats where Mac Last stand starts, and if you lose 3 times, mac gets what he wanted. Retirement.

Super Paper Mario has a ton of forced game over sequences if you know where to look. The ones I remember are: 1. Refuse to find the Pure Hearts in the Prologue. 2. Let Mimi catch you while she's invincible in Chpt.2. 3. Refuse to put the space helmet on in Chpt.4. Tippi even calls you stupid right before you die.😂 4. Refuse to help Queen Jaydes find Luvbi in Chpt.7. 5. Accept to help Dimentio defeat Count Bleck and take control of the Chaos Heart. Tippi again calls you stupid and straight up abandons you before Dimentio brainwashes you with Floro Sprouts.😅 It's actually kind of amazing that literally being in the blast zone of an obliterated world isn't one of these.

As 5 or 6 year old playing Banjo Kazooie when it first came out, I legit feared for my life that somehow grunty would curse me with the evil laugh that happens at game overs. (Even though you hear it throughout the game, it was only the game overs that actually scared me)

3:17 Actually, I think that's more like the intended ending of Wii's Punch-Out, because in the last part of the Career mode (Mac's Last Stand) you keep doing title defense matches until you lose three times.🥊

Honestly,from the metroid games shown here i think metroid could have an actual virtual reality version

The Drawn to Life: The Next Chapter original ending still hits hard. Like the game had to be recalled with a more innocent ending. I had the copy with the original ending and I practically had an out of body experience.

You really didn’t put Majoras mask. Link and Termina literally get obliterated by the moon.

The third Donkey Kong Land's game over screen is actually less creepy than the previous two. 64, however, has a screen rivaling that bad with Banjoo-Kazooie

Luigi's mansion 3's game over screen is terrifying,imagine being Yoshi and waiting for the one you took care of when he was a child and his friends to come back from vacation,but they never do.

There is one missing. The moon crashing and extinguishing humanity from Majora‘s Mask.

Nintendo: "So you plan to make a creepy game over screen, hemmm, to what extent?" Rare studios: "Yes"

Those game over screens scared my face off the first time I saw them

9:39 This death has D&D energy. This feels like something that would happen and has happened in a D&D game.

I'm not going to lie the Metroid one scared the shit out of me I was just rolling around in morph ball mode then Samus just exploded and screamed in agony then turn into dark Samus I had no idea what happened

7:45 Wow. Olimar really just got decapitated and planted into the ground as a seed. What.

Okay ngl that Punch Out!! ending really got me sad, because it relates to real life so much that it's almost like the entire story between Little Mac and Doc Louis was real life history.

What even worse about Banjo-Kazzioe’s game over you also get it for saving and quitting the game as it is taken literally as if Banjo himself quit!

3:36 great memories about the bike theft 🥺

9:08 Could you imagine if the "Game over" screen had a different screen one thats scarier and had evil Peach slaving Mario

It really is odd how unsettling some of these game over screens in Nintendo games can be (although, Banjo-Kazooie is actually a Rare game). Metroid Prime 1's game over screen was missing. I think the first Donkey Kong Country's game over screen, and music not only represent the sign of defeat, but also some of the best game over screens, and game over fanfares of all time (I do find it pretty ironic however that the game goes from the most hilarious death fanfare to one of the most heartbreaking in an instant). Country 2, despite it being my favorite video game of all time, and its game over screen also fits the dark atmosphere, I can't help but feel its game over fanfare is slightly less creepy compared to its predecessor, and successor, though, I think it does still somewhat fit. Country 3's game over screen, and music matches the scary tone as well, you can even mess around with the letters (though, you can't mess around with the letters in the 2005 Game Boy Advance remake for some reason. The fanfare's even less creepier than DKC2's fanfare, and is much shorter too). DK64's game over movie, and music is on a whole other level of tension, and trauma, and in the Mystery Mode on the Theatre section the Blast-O-Matic scene is several seconds longer, and the rest of the fanfare plays out.

Thought Game Over screens were a lost art but I am surprised by how recent some of those were :O

I'm surprised Majora's Mask didn't make it onto the video. It was both scary and sad, especially with that iconic line, "You've met with a terrible fate."

0:46 yeah definitely scary 👀 I'm freaking out

It's oddly that it doesn't show the DK Island gets blown up in Donkey Country 64, but they did show it in SSBU for King K Rool's final smash.

There's also what happens when you don't complete the final phase of the Octo Expansion's escape sequence. It's not as in depth as most of the ones shown here, but it could definitely tug at a few heartstrings.

Metroid prime easily takes the cake, looks like something tat would come out of a sci-fi horror game

1:33 WARNING!!! HEART SYSTEM: FAILURE… SAMUS ARAN STATUS: DECEASED. MISSION: FAILURE!

6:10 HOLY SHT THAT WENT FROM 0 TO 100 in SECONDS

I feel like the Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess Game Over should’ve been shown, especially since the soundtrack of it makes it sound so devastating when you die. It’s almost sad in some ways. And also, I would say the Super Mario 64 Game Over is creepy for some people. Well especially for people who played the game back then in their childhood.

Damn the Punch Out game over made me cry

The Banjo-Kazooie ending is hilarious, anybody disturbed by it must have been *really* young.

I wish we could see some from more Switch games like Breath of the Wild, Metroid Dread, or Astral Chain

1:07 it was rumored that banjo & kazooie were never seen around spiral mountain again until 2019

4:08 I used to do really bad at donkey kong country and get this game over so much i started getting ANGERY and this part of the video just made all of that flash before me, as I couldn't pass minecart carnage lol Note: It was virtual console on wii

NO-ONES TALKING ABOUT HOW MARIO GETS HIS FUCKING LIFE DRAINED FROM HIM IN COLOR SPLASH

Punch Out Wii Ain't A Game Over Screen Its Just The Real Ending

not extremely creepy but I always loved Ocarina of times game over screen. everything fading to black except link is creepy and the music starts out darker emphasizing your mistake but than adds in a few more notes that are uplifting and motivate you to try again. plus the whole game over screen is oddly calming.

Fire emblem echoes is the best modern fire emblem for how unapologetically dark it is, especially since it does it without tooting its horn about it much like a lot of other “dark” moments in fire emblem

I know it is not a Nintendo game...but House of the Dead's Game over cutscene...that's pretty horrifying for a kid...and frustrating for a hardcore player when like they reached so far

the Pikmin one seems charming on the surface until you realize how unsettling that situation actually is.

8:10 OH NO

I forget the name but there was a NES game set in Disneyland (or Disney World) and the Game Over screen always scared me when I was a kid because the countdown screen had this very creepy green faced Death looking being waiting for you to respond. I use to have to hide and wait for him to stop counting to be able to play the game again.

4:56 This cutscene actually plays when you just quit the game normally, so it's a little ambiguous if it is really a game over, since in Donkey Kong 64 you have unlimited lives anyway. This was also done in Banjo-Tooie, where the text "Game Over" appears when you quit the game. So, is this a kind of way from Rare to encourage you to keep playing, so that you won't have to see the "Game Over" screen?🤔

Let's be honest. The Banjo Kazooie game over is the good ending.

6:25 Ayo what-

Okay but the Shadows of Valentia game over screen just attributing the quote to “a famous general” was pretty funny to me

What scared me the most as a kid, I sometimes go over my cousin house to play Conker Bad Fur Day and that scene where conker be tossed like a sandbag.

Banjo's Gameover always Cracks me up lol. metroid prime 2 tho....... ._.

4:31 When you leak information about an upcoming console 1 millisecond before release (it was super important)

i believe tooty’s transformaton going “raar” is so cute

The amount of times I saw the DK 64 game over screen as a kid will haunt me forever

Things That Weren't On The List But Still Scare\Make me Sad: Majora's Mask: Moon Crash: Termina Is Destroyed By The Moon as Link Watches In Disbelief...It wasn't Links Fault..but It was yours... Everyone Has met a terrible Fate Because of You.. Super Smash Bros Ultimate: Dharkon Ending: Yeah Sure The Galeem Ending Is World Of light All Over again...But We See the World Consumed By darkness...Oh Yeah... Mario Dies..like Not The Oh No Game Over way, He Actually Freaking Dies.. Twilight Princess: Game over: Probably One Of The Most Realistic Ways Link Can die In The Zelda Series....This Is More Sad With Wolf Link As well Because Midna, Is Confused About links Condition..and Doesn't Think he is Dead... Yeah...That's All I Can Think Of... You Guys Got Suggestions that Didn't Make the List?

The DKC game over literally haunted me until I was almost a teenager.. I was so scared of it.

4:00 Fun fact: the donkey Kong country game over screen it's not creepy is so sad and there's a game boy color version, scares the player

Wow, those games are awesome, but there's creepy moments like the Game Over of Banjo and Kazooie.

Dang Punch Out Wii's ending really hit me hard. Kinda sad but nice at the same time. We all could use a Doc Louis in our life.

4:41 Henry eats and Val Val Val is weird scary and confusing but, this donkey Kong lost, Nightmares. Edit: is looks like the monkeys are Begging to sleep at there parents bed when they are Scared And always see the scariest shadow at night with the most creepiest Graphics

Surprised that none of the deaths in Origami King were in this. Edit: To be more specific, the death where you're trapped in a giant lamp for eternity is one of them and also when Mario gets cut in half by scissors.

I used to be scared of Samus’ scream when she dies in prime games

would say samus is the scariest as it literally shows her dying as well as luigi's mansion 3 just seeing king boo capture everyone(the original scared me a bit until i found out he was depressed.) they should next game have him going against bowser/wario & waluigi as rival ghostbusters alongside adding princess daisy using the original poltergust. & dkc2 when it goes red as with how revenge hungry king k. rool was/how he treated donkey kong in the final battle's beginning wouldn't be out there he just killed the 2(dkc's scared me as a kid.) and is badass we see dk64's bad ending happen in ultimate only for donkey kong to stand his ground and charge at the king with diddy to protect their home. though with how tooty disappears after this game outside ultimate/missing milk poster in tooie grunty might as well have won(even then it's implied she would've just gotten fat again anyways.),wish we saw the link's awakening game over as a cutscene in the remake(still a huge missed opportunity not having the photographs be animated cutscenes in the intro's style.)

The pikmin one is actually terrifying

One that I think would've made the list had it been officially released (besides SNES Classic and Switch Online): Star Fox 2. If Corneria's damage reaches 100%, there's a cutscene where a bunch of Venom fighters start attacking Corneria City, a voice cries out for help, and then the whole city goes up in one big explosion. So yeah, everyone in Corneria City dies because of you. Let that sit on your conscience for a while.

I love these kinds of videos! Keep it up!

Andross scared the living crap out of me when I was a little kid playing Star Fox 64 on Nintendo 64 he's the reason I wasn't able to bet the game all of those years ago

personally the most creepy game over screens from nintendo these days are metroid prime trilogy and Luigi's mansion 3, the developers knows exactly how to transmit a high fear factor in their games

The beta game over for Luigi’s Mansion had a mixture of eeriness and mystery on why is Luigi become like that

I can think of two more: the "bad endings" to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's "World of Light", where defeating only Galeem or Dharkon (instead of both) resulted in the other side winning and destroying the universe. (and if Galeem wins again, Kirby doesn't escape)

That luigis mansion one is terrifying

As a kid I was terrified of running out of time in Majora's Mask. That ending was very scary to me.

1:57 Geo has been infected and is now awakened by the kratosite and... Adyson: and what if ...they resis...t Geo: well I shall destroy them all 5:18 sigma: my plan to keep Repliforce and the little heroes at each other's throats worked perfectly... double did lousy but rogue did excellent as an assassin Gordon: no Sigma: Repliforce are the fools this time and now the only thing left to do is to destroy the universe with the weapon they made