Five Best Endgames

A good game ending may be hard to find--but equally hard to find is a good endgame.  The preceding sentence to an ending's punctuation, too often an endgame is a joyless slog of mindless, difficult combat, or simply deficient in wrapping the game up for the coming finish.

But this post is for the good ones.  These endgames are fun, exciting, and, one way or another, draw everything to a perfect close.

Five Best Game Endings

Well, I've discussed worst endings.  Far more difficult, of course, are good endings.  What makes a good ending?  Well, the game's plot must be concluded satisfactorily--no cliffhangers that leave half of the game unexplained, no abrupt twists of tone, no petering out of the story.  Often, the chance to see how I affected the game world for better or worse with various actions throughout the game is a plus.

As before, this is a list of the best endings of games I have personally finished, and it is the endings themselves I am rating, not the endgames (that will be another list.  Someday.)