I'm playing Shadow of the Colossus right now. I meant to play it when it came out, but I kind of forgot about it. But I found it at a used video game store for only ten bucks! Score!
Except... not score. I don't know about this game, you guys. I mean, it's pretty straight forward: your task is to find and defeat sixteen Colossi, which are these enormous part-organic part-mechanical creatures. There are no dungeons, no side quests, and hardly any characters. Seems fairly simple, right?
The thing is, the Colossi aren't evil. At least, there's no evidence to suggest they are. They're just these big things that sort of wander around. They certainly don't do anything to deserve death. But you have to kill them anyway. Speaking personally, I feel like a murderer every time I take down one of these majestic giants. Especially the ones that are just minding their own business, until I come along and brazenly stab them. When they die, it's awful. They fall all slowly, crying out in pain, and you absorb their life force. ICK.
I'm starting to wonder if I'm actually the villain in this game.