/vr/ - Retro Games

>>4859321
seconding

A
FUCKING
TREE

and he's terrifying humanity

Sometimes you just want a villain who's not "deep", "nuanced", "misunderstood" and "relatable". Sometimes you just want a moustache-twirling, guffawing omnicidal tree of pure evil. Besides, he does everything else a villain could do right, right. He has an ominous theme, stays relevant throughout the whole game, is intimidating and threatening while having just enough lighthearted comical flair, and comes close enough to achieving his ultimate goal to keep you on your toes. When you hear that violin screech from Psycho that kicks off his theme (one of the best villain themes, if not the best, imo), you just know that shit is going to immediately go down, kingdoms are going to fall and continents are going to burn. Plus his backstory while not "deep" or "tragic" is interesting enough, and funnily enough actually more developed than Kefka's.

Honorable mentions:

Odio/Oersted (Live-A-Live): one of my favourite actually nuanced villains. A victim of circumstances, the game takes good care to hammer the point home that life shat so much on him that he has a damn good motivation to become standard omnicidal cosmic being fare. In the matter of hours, the good hero of the happy generic fantasy land loses his glory, his fame, is forced to kill his jealous best and only friend and watch as his wife-to-be kills herself over the friend's corpse proclaiming her love for him. Then the good hero proceeds to become the incarnation of hatred and goes back in time to create all the conflict and strife that have ever happened throughout the ages to extinguish humanity. Deep, nuanced and the whole focal point of the game's plot. He's also playable as you can guide him throughout his downfall and even afterwards, helping him to destroy humanity. That only gives him bonus points, because how many playable /vr/ villains are out there?

YHWH (Shin Megami Tensei) and Deathevn (Breath of Fire 2): because you just can't go wrong with throwing the almighty Judeo-Christian God at the player.

>>1574494
>>1574490
>people used to deal with demons, monsters, criminals and shit by throwing them into the Void
>necromancer Enuo trades his immortality to gain control over the Void and starts tossing people into it at a whim
>some heroes defeat Enuo and people decide that the Void better be sealed so its powers no longer could be used for evil
>they split the world because crystals, the Void is trapped in the interdimensional rift
>instead of the Void, people start using a huge tree in Moore as a superprison, sealing all sorts of baddies inside it
>eventually the malevolent souls within the tree develop common consciousness and become X-Death, the destroyer of worlds
>X-Death sets out to return everything into the Void so that all the malevolent souls that were ever imprisoned by humanity could reunite there and rule everything
deepest lore