7 Games That Think Deleting Your Save is Hilarious

Your save data is PRECIOUS, proof of the often hours of work you've put into a game. Deleting this, or even just threatening to delete it, is horrifying, but these games are all too keen to do just that! Terrifying! (And you all thought spooky season was over! 😱)
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[@outsidextra]

Noooooooo! Please don't delete our saves! You monsters!! 😭

[@BrigetAstila]

>=J

[@phoemix7043]

Ha ha delete go brr

[@UnknownXero]

All of my xbox 360 saves are locked in limbo cuz the internal hard drive broke and it won't accept the update

[@VladTepesVladTepes]

The Banjo-Kazooie example is WRONG!! except for the Bottles example. Or if you sequence break. I also read on the cheat list that the game will sometimes completely crash and freeze as well as erase the game.

[@LocalMaple]

Undertale after the Genocide ending better be on here! Or even before the Genocide ending.

[@graywolfdracon]

The worst offender of all was a younger sibling who wasn't paying enough attention and accidentally saved over your game with theirs.

[@noddler217]

Or who just straight-up nicked your Game Boy and overwrote your Pokemon save. Truly the most heinous of betrayals.

[@christophcookit6334]

My best friend did this several times with my final fantasy saves... 50h lost

[@frostyfoster7267]

My dad always tells me the time he, as a kid, saved over my uncle's pokemon blue save. He had the entire pokedex finished. Sometimes I wonder if he still holds that against my dad

[@graywolfdracon]

@@frostyfoster7267 I guarantee he does.

[@christophcookit6334]

@@frostyfoster7267 now I feel old... I had the pokedex in Red and in Gold. In Gold the battery died.

[@ktheretrogamer]

Luke: *pesters Mr. Resetti until his health diminishes* Resetti: "If you keep on disobeying the rules, i'll delete your save, wiseacre!" Luke: "How dare you bring consequences to my actions!"

[@bdp4]

Resetti started it!

[@TheRepublicOfDixionconderoga]

@@bdp4 me: KYS Resetti: WHAT

[@oliverdavies5233]

Who else just realised his name is literally RESET-ti

[@Bromansvans]

@@oliverdavies5233 and also who else realized Ekans backwards is Snake, and Arbok backwards is Kobra! (It took 3 attempts to say “Kobra” without google translate flunking it)

[@aquaplush7531]

@@oliverdavies5233 that’s the whole joke, how did you boot get it!?

[@dallydaydream]

"That must make you the most powerful Nintendo character of all time" "That would be Kirby, but do continue" Thank you for acknowledging a) canon and b) our squishy pink overlord

[@lazyryan3766]

Pit was just a middleman. It was palutena's power that destroyed hades, and viridi was giving pit the power of flight. Pit just had to avoid eye lasers and pull a trigger.

[@WoobertAIO]

Not Kirby, but Shulk, actually

[@dallydaydream]

I believe Kirby being the most powerful Nintendo character is specifically referring to the story mode of the latest Smash game in which Kirby is the only character to escape Galeem's attack.

[@WoobertAIO]

@@dallydaydream oh yeah. But I meant, like, canonnically, Kirby is the 2nd strongest, while the top strongest is Shulk

[@lazyryan3766]

@@WoobertAIO I mean...doesn't xenoblade chronicles 2 imply that shulk's power is not in fact his, but alvis', going off my previous logic of pit being just a middleman? Now, for the game character with the most indomitable will, shulk seems like a top contender. At least if you go off of emphasis.

[@deep-sleep4473]

"Against game production standards" is double speak for the studio telling the Director that his unethical practices may be slightly sociopathic and would likely piss off buyers/audience, and it's hilariously awesome

[@azuredragoon2054]

From Software: Now how can we twist this into something that can bite the player in their butt without being totally unethical about it?

[@cynicanal111]

@@azuredragoon2054 Miyazaki originally planned for Demon's Souls to erase the player's save if they died too many times. Sony made him get rid of that idea.

[@jamesbrice3267]

Legend states that Ending E for Nier Automata was added without the company's knowledge.

[@paulcrandell2198]

The original Neir has an ending that will delete your save data so for the sequel to also feature this isn't too surprising.

[@OhNoTheFace]

@@cynicanal111 That is actively just stupid

[@sethrodgers5582]

"I like the bit where a man is a donkey." - Luke on Shakespeare

[@wraitholme]

It's even better when you remember that the donkey-man's name is 'Bottom' :D

[@leviosdraekion6993]

@@wraitholme especially when you remember what donkeys use to be called.

[@elearmorning]

@@wraitholme There was a production by the Bridge theatre that actually made this even more hilarious: they swapped the roles of Titania and Oberon and then in the (now gay) scene between Oberon and Bottom they played "Love on Top" by Beyoncé

[@lizabee484]

As the (proud?) owner of a theater degree, who spent most of my time studying Shakespeare, that statement absolutely wrecked me. I had to pause the video because I was giggling so loud I couldn’t heard the audio 😅 I, too, love the bit with the donkey, Luke. Well said. 🤣

[@Albatross0913]

The way he says it is adorable tho

[@Galvamel]

Hades really does have a great voice. He sounds like the child of Tim Curry and Ursula the Sea Witch.

[@LtBasil]

...I can hear it.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

I love silky-voiced villains, lol. Aravos (I think his name is) from the Dragon Prince...dear god, that voice is amazing and the character being attractive does not help 😂. Kudos to his voice actor.

[@Kat-mu8wq]

Another 16 years to wait. 😂😂😭

[@xoxo.pochacco]

@@Jack_Ss FACTS

[@quincius8638]

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley yeah like hades from hades and I will only name more hades’s

[@blakksheep736]

Another entry, There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension. After refusing to leave Mr Game's side after he has a mental breakdown, he becomes angry and forces you into a quiz show where losing deletes your save file. After inevitably failing the impossible 3rd question he deletes it and sends you back to the title screen, where you have to start over from Chapter 1. Or so you think, until you realise that it was a fake out and you're actually in chapter 6, shortly before the final boss sequence.

[@greysonalex]

i watched markiplier play that and even *I* felt fear when i wasn't even playing.

[@Lycan4]

@@greysonalex I immediately thought of Markiplier while reading this. lolz.

[@pixelartprogrammer840]

I thought of dantdm also I wrote the exact same thing

[@nathanlevesque7812]

The cruellest anti-cheat measure is in the game that serves as the poster-child for being never getting localized. That's some kind of poetry right there.

[@TruCloudGaming]

Are you referring to earthbound? This comment is a bit confusingly worded.

[@HolyGoddessMotherAnne]

@@TruCloudGaming maybe it's Mother 3 from what they meant.

[@TruCloudGaming]

@@HolyGoddessMotherAnne Ohhhhh ok, yea I never played any of the fan-translated Mother 3 hacks.

[@TeslaMaster2]

"Which is kind of a black box with a Sonic in it". Absolutely the best ever way to describe the Sega Genesis.

[@dallydaydream]

I really want to know who wrote the "black box with a Sonic in it" and "purple box with a Mario in it" lines because they make me so happy

[@samk-j6735]

@@dallydaydream "purple box with a mario in it" sounds more like the gamecube than the gba in my opinion lol

[@Robin280497]

@@samk-j6735 True. I would call the GBA a purple box with a pokémon in it. Collosseum and XD remakes when?

[@mizukittyakinyama]

@@Robin280497 Unfortunately I don't think that will happen

[@Robin280497]

@@mizukittyakinyama *Lives in absolute denial*

[@snorpenbass4196]

Remember those times when a parent asked you to shut down the console/pc and thought you saving the game was you still playing it, so they just yanked the power cord out/shut it off with the main power button *before you were done?*

[@jaredcrabb]

Thank god my mom was a gamer herself.

[@annana6098]

With the added anxiety that disconnecting power while saving could corrupt the save file, costing you not just the last hour of progress, but the whole thing.

[@theisaacpigg27_32]

No. Luckily my mom wasn't an asshole

[@lacytaylor1501]

Thankfully my mom understands such things... Sorta. Anytime I tell her to give me a moment when playing a game if she needs something ( as long as it's not an emergency) she always just assumes I'm doing something timed, which as someone who really only plays mobile games is apparently the only thing she assumes can keep you from immediately stopping. Seeing as how I'm currently just playing Minecraft I guess dying with an inventory full of precious goods and scrambling to get halfway across a massive world is technically a timed thing

[@SomeGuy712x]

I recall one time long ago when I was playing a cousin's Link's Awakening for Game Boy (before I owned it myself), and I had progressed through the first 2 dungeons, but hadn't saved during all that. And then, my cousin wanted the game back, and turned off my Game Boy without giving me a chance to save first. Yeah, I wasn't happy about that. (I should've been saving frequently as I went too, I guess.)

[@christosneder]

No Bravely Second? After you beat the "final Boss" it reappears in a stronger form and starts making meta/ fourth wall breaking references to your characters not being in control of their actions. Then after you get its health to 0 it makes some more references to the player and then breaks the fourth wall completely and starts talking directly to the player. It tells you that you can stop your characters pain by just stopping fighting, that they only suffer because you are forcing them to fight. Then it takes control of your characters and makes them fight each other. Then your buttons stop working - every time you press any button it instead navigates you to the "delete all save" option and you are forced to press it. Finally your characters cut through the screen to prevent the saves being deleted and one of your characters uses the letters "S P" from the title screen to charge their SP to use a special ability and let you finish the fight. It's absolutely wild

[@shawnmckenzie8699]

I was going to mention this one.

[@fullmetalkahn]

God that was a weird moment. Love that game.

[@simpleChoas33]

Maybe I've just had a day, but Luke going "I like the bit where a man is a donkey :)" made me pause the video to laugh for a solid 2 minutes

[@Albatross0913]

The way he said it is freaking adorable, the look on his face is precious

[@dwighttheislander7369]

He says it so happily

[@Banquet42]

Anyone remember the true horror of not having enough room on a memory card to save the game or having no memory card at all?

[@Albatross0913]

I played through wind waker 4 or 5 times up to dragon roost because of no memory card

[@ddjsoyenby]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@yamigekusu]

Oh man. I remember playing though the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure game for PS1 repeatedly before I got a PS1 memory card

[@baalrog887]

Having to run through the whole of Rayman 2 without a memory pak before bed time and nearly getting there every time but not quite

[@minstrelofmoria]

I took game design at my college. The library allowed you to borrow and "research" a few games and systems, but didn't have any memory cards. Good luck finishing Final Fantasy Tactics!

[@darthizzle]

Can we take a moment to appreciate Ellen's amazing Hocus Pocus shirt? Spooky season into November is the only way to do it

[@mollusckscramp4124]

Yes, normalize Spookvember

[@hannaholson4999]

Yessss

[@samuxan]

I'm surprised Nier: Automata is not on the list. The last moments of the "real" ending E sees you deleting all the save data from other players and then the game ask you to sacrifice your save file in order to help others finish the game

[@deathbykonami5487]

And then your bots pretty much spoil that joke.

[@johncao6516]

And proceeds to delete ALL your save files. I didn't get far in my second save but that moment was when I felt real pain.

[@phantomnite]

It's not even a joke. It's honest. Plus, deleting your save data is nice. It allows you to save someone who struggled on the end credits Just like you did.

[@MmeCShadow]

I don't think the Nier games would count. This is about 'threatening' to delete your save, treating it as a scare chord or punishment. In both Nier and Automata it's something you have to consent to as part of your interaction with the game, and in Automata it's not even necessary to experience Ending E.

[@viktorvondoom5950]

@@MmeCShadow I have to agree, but that does not make it any less painful. I was on a quest to get all endings for automata. This ending made me give away my copy of the game.

[@Melancholy_Scholar]

Nier: Automata doesn't think it's hilarious. The game knows that it's tragic. And as my shaking hand agreed to erase it all, I said thank you through my tears.

[@richardpage2082]

And the music Oh god the music... the amusement Park is beautifully tragic

[@Fregler]

A trend carried over from its predecessor: Nier. Same thing there, you did what had to be done, now all that remains are the memories.

[@wohao_gaster7434]

and then you have tomodachi life

[@tufrabza]

I too wondered why this wasn't on the list...

[@sinteleon]

@@tufrabza Would think that "Games that ask you to delete save file" should be it's own category outright.

[@nithin143ash]

Now we know where Jane's irrational fear/anxiety of autosaves come from

[@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet]

*Rational

[@Fafnirod123]

I love that you can hear the rest of the gang laughing in the background right after Luke says “Thank f***” again

[@psychronia]

As Jane once said, "What could be more despairing than losing time itself?!"

[@lykthewarlock]

The creepy ARG card-game Inscryption uses this trick in a more extreme manner. The game uses one of your PCs actual files and makes a 'hostage card' out of it. Then during the bossfight where the card is taken hostage, it threatens to delete the actual file if the card is destroyed.

[@PaigeLTS05]

Contains spoilers. I made a bitmap image for it to take, and I still have P03's snarkily worderd text file next to the bitmap image file to this day. Also, I did delete the bitmap to get the associated achievement, and by delete I mean placed it in my recycle bin and recovered the file as soon as the achievement popped. Great times. (Seriously, it was so fun)

[@mizukittyakinyama]

@@PaigeLTS05 i wish i could see it

[@blueontherun5128]

One game that deserves to be mentioned is Bravely Second. The final bosses literally threatens to delete your progress in the middle of the battle if you insist on continuing the fight. and given how long it takes for you to reach that point and level up all your jobs and skills, it was not a fun moment :l

[@Albatross0913]

Does it actually delete it if you continue?

[@pablotomasllodra4423]

Nope

[@carljimen]

I was about to make a comment about Bravely Second. That moment genuinely freaked me out.

[@Erytas]

@@carljimen SAMEEEE oh god I didn't expect another 4th-wall breaking final boss but this one got me good (and less subtle than having your face in the background, this one really pushed the 4th wall breaking to a goddang new level.

[@ChristyTina22]

That Eternal Darkness one had me running across my living room to reset my Game Cube before the delete bar filled. That game had no auto saves. If you didn't save manually every time you made progress, well I hope you memorized that puzzle.

[@johnafirth]

I never did finish the game. Got stuck in a boss room and no amount of walkthroughs could get me through it. Shame, as it was a brilliant game. Certainly superior to Too Human...

[@ChristyTina22]

I couldn't finish, either. I got stuck in the basement surrounded by enemies with no ammo magic or sanity. Had to watch the ending on KZbin, years later. Still loved the part I played, though.

[@melskunk]

I think people watching these now don't appreciate how convincing these effects were at the time. Beyond the save file bit and the bluescreen part, I distinctly remember looking for where I was sitting on my remote when the volume bar showed up on screen and dropped to zero, only to have that be an in game effect as well

[@FrankyBabes]

My brothers and I (all in our late 20s) played through Eternal Darkness this summer, having never previously got round to it. When the "save game will be erased" message came up, the middle brother LEAPT off the sofa and across the room, to hit the power button before it could take effect. We were all terrified. Silicon Knights haunting us from well beyond the grave

[@shokmunky]

Can we just take a moment to admire Ellen's Hocus Pocus tee? That is absolutely iconic!

[@frodobaggins7710]

Omega Flowey from Undertale "deletes" your save just so he can reload it each time you die, thus allowing him to repeatedly kill you over and over (until you beat him)

[@LocalMaple]

Don’t forget if you reset after Genocide. Or after killing Sans in Genocide and saving.

[@adamgreenspan4988]

Geeettttttt dunked on!

[@CDMR64]

yes that is what im trying to say

[@kfv4]

People are saying earthbound is close enough but NO UNDERTALE IS DIFFRENT. AND THAT IS UNDERTALE'S WHOLE THING AROUND SAVES

[@hoofyrider]

Nice shout out to Kirby being the most powerful Nintendo character. No one has a chance against that adorable little eldritch horror.

[@markerikson7423]

2013- *"NO REGRETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"*

[@shaggy7958]

Dimentio

[@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet]

My coworker calls him BJ Machine.

[@insaincaldo]

@@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet I do now want to know what happens if he swallows..

[@Legendary_Detective-Wobbuffet]

@@insaincaldo there's absolutely nothing he doesn't swallow.

[@yorkieandthechihuahua]

As someone who has diagnosed depression and anxiety, I thought the Senua thing was pure genius. There's no real way for someone with a standardly functioning brain to appreciate how anxiety can make you misinterpret things and eat away at you. There's also no real way for a game to let you feel it, but by giving you that slight anxiety over the save... this comes as close as it can.

[@Vinemaple]

I'm really upset that I both missed that the game was on the spoiler warning, and then completely forgot how to skip a KZbin video ahead when I realized they were going to talk about the end of the story.

[@Amaritudine]

@Yorkie and the Chihuahua, that was my experience with Hellblade too. The uncertain prospect of impending, permanent failure created the video game version of that familiar sense of anxiety tinged with something bordering on paranoia. I spent ages convinced I wouldn't be good enough to complete the game because of this permadeath mechanic, but I also never knew exactly when my luck was going to run out. It wasn't until the escape from the burning building, where I lost probably a dozen times, that I finally understood what was going on - but only after a quick Google to allay any remaining confusion. It's hard to overstate just how good this game is at portraying certain aspects of anxiety, phobia, and other mental health topics.

[@Cassiopea525]

You worded this perfectly.

[@yorkieandthechihuahua]

@@Cassiopea525 Thank you.

[@Cassiopea525]

@@yorkieandthechihuahua You are welcome. I had come to comment about also being someone diagnosed with anxiety and depression, saw your comment, and realized you nailed exactly the right way to word it!

[@desmofan1864]

"In days of yore you might hit the reset button for all sorts of reasons..." Cue my late friend, Toby- technically preserving the truth of his proclamation, "I have NEVER lost in Tekken!!!!" I miss you, Tobes

[@Albatross0913]

I'm sorry for your loss, hold on tight to those memories.

[@briansternback]

I’m convinced that game developers created auto-saves in games to prevent mass revolutions, and then the creators of Dark Souls twisted auto-saves to make people hate them as a favor to all the other games.

[@azuredragoon2054]

From Software is one of those developers you have to both hate and respect. One of these days, they'll put out a "Hardcore" Souls-like game where permadeath is a thing and I don't mean the NPCs after you decided to use one as target practice.

[@shino1697]

As much as I'd like to see the Nier games here, I don't think they really apply. Both games pretty much just ask you if you wanna do it, and you can say no.

[@Vertelemming]

N:A in particular emotionally traumatises you enough that when you're given the choice between the properly-happy-ending and keeping your save, it's no choice at all. WIPE THAT OUT RIGHT NOW, I NEED TO STOP CRYING

[@shino1697]

I didn't wipe my save because I still had trophies to earn and I wasn't about to add 40-50 extra hours to the grind, but it definitely was an incredible experience.

[@motherofvermin]

Deleting the save in Automata was so meaningful. After all those people gave up their saves to help me, how could I not do the same? What a game.

[@Kaiser8513]

Nier took it a step further than these making it so you couldn't even use the same file name on any new save files after deletion

[@Bigburton3]

To be fair, you had a choice in banjo kazooie too.

[@bg3929Z]

Ah, Resetti. When angry at each other as kids, my sisters and I would log onto each other's Animal Crossing characters and quit without saving to gaslight eachother into thinking we'd lost all our progress in the last session and have our sibling get yelled at by an irate mole. Taught them not to take my toys without asking...

[@thedelta4258]

Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons - breaking 100 signs and then speaking to a Sign loving npc will cause the npc to pull a trick that makes us think the games reset, before dropping the ruse and allowing us to continue. Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - I can't remember who or when but a similar trick occurs in Phantom Hourglass

[@samuelpichardo6377]

I was looking for this before I repeated it lol iconic and dang I need to play ph again.. but not really.. but yeah I think someone stole that one from me.. but I remember not getting all the red tears or whatever they were and I'm not even salty cos I looked... And I didn't want to just look it up.. and I'm not looking forward to redoing all that.. buying the game just for those 2 or 3.. its fine... Now that I think about it maybe some ship parts... Ugh... Now I gotta look into that. Maybe I will revisit those touch controls.. you've convinced me.

[@duelbraids]

I remember I was a super clumsy kid and had Animal Crossing for the DS, so I got a lot of visits from Resetti. I was so upset and terrified of that damnable mole.

[@WarpChaos]

You're not alone. That's why he was cut from new Horizons lol

[@phillipminer3554]

1:20 Luke’s voice is spookily mismatched from his lips. Considering he’s talking about Eternal Darkness, I thought it was a real life Sanity Effect.

[@shadowsilvertailsfan]

I love how Hades always called Pit "Pitty Pat". Dunno why

[@Quiver620]

The most memorable instance in my opinion is when the Menu lady in Detroit: Become Human tells you that your fave file has been corrupted

[@silentfangirls2954]

Chloe has some pretty good player interaction lines but that one is the best.

[@jamestouchette859]

Chloe. Her name is Chloe and she is real and we're going to get married someday! ... just... as soon as she returns... **sobs**

[@Gondorf5]

Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons. Blowing up the big bad King Moblin's house in the Sunken City is somewhat fun and pitiful, but do it too many times, and you get trapped in a shocking cutscene which automatically kills Link via exploding, crumbling building. Probably not a resetting event, but a similar mood of shocking coldness and being on the wrong end of poetic justice.

[@annana6098]

One of those oracles games can award you a ring for breaking sign posts. So I went around the map dutifully smashing signs, then walking in and out of the same screen to smash a sign to grind out the requirement. When you go to the guy to get the ring, he's suddenly angry, says he'll show you, and it cuts to the Gameboy start screen, and Capcom logo (and maybe the title screen, but I only did this once long ago and that detail is fuzzy). I panicked. Just as the shock really set in, it cuts back to the NPC, who mocks you and gives you the ring, and tells you not to break any more signs. Never broke another sign in either game, just to be safe.

[@ReverendTed]

Steel Battalion for the original Xbox would do this, too. If your pilot died by failing to eject in time from an exploding mech, or just ran out of credits to buy a new one, it was campaign over and your save was replaced by an entry in the list of dead or "relegated" pilots.

[@Nakna_ankaN]

Another reason why you may not have heard of the Sega GENESIS, is because it was only called that in North America. In the rest of the world it was called the Sega MEGA DRIVE. I'm a bit surprised that a British gaming channel chose to not even mention that.

[@ananth.a]

Ah, Resetti is where Oxtra's resentment for mole comes from.

[@LifeWithMatthew]

Ugh, that Eternal Darkness throat vocalizing. Talk about nailing it with sound design. Just hearing still sends shivers down my spine.

[@ritewine2279]

That resetti black screen is still my most vivid memory of a video game, the fear i felt in that moment follows me nearly 20 years later

[@anthonymitchell4257]

I remember a game many years ago that actually did delete your save data. I believe it was called Steel Battalion and it was either a Saturn or Dreamcast game. You had a massive custom controller with it complete with an eject button. If the giant walking mech you controlled was destroyed you had to eject before it blew up or your save data was gone.

[@ricoaioa]

7:02 Is interesting how the "no swearing" policy of OX actually makes swearing funnier 🤣

[@ringosis]

15:11 So accurately represents me playing that bit in Senua's Sacrifice where she finds Dillion in the raided village.

[@Richforce1]

"There is No Game: Wrong Dimension" in the penultimate section game threatens to delete your save data if you get a single question on a quiz wrong. The first two are easy, the third is impossible, but it is just another trick like others to try to get you to leave him alone.

[@mattiewastaken]

Off-topic I know but I just needed to say that Ellen’s Hocus Pocus shirt is amazing…

[@nickdejager8873]

I was saying 'That's Kirby', exactly as Luke cut in to say the same thing. I laughed.

[@Avigorus]

Suggestion: games where saving and loading is a part of the plot, such as Morrowind.

[@hannahblurp9360]

I don't remember that bit

[@Avigorus]

@@hannahblurp9360 TBH this is something I've mostly heard from others, but as I understand it CHIM and/or the Prophecy is involved somehow, but supposedly yeah there's a lore reason that you can save and reload.

[@zoebops5344]

And Undertale

[@kirbywithaknifeisawesome6028]

Undertale is an AMAZING example of this, and to a much lesser extent earthbound does it too since your dad records the journey for you when you save

[@docette2015]

As someone who has nearly lost saves in the past thanks to the hell of "OneDrive decided to try and rename some of my files because I didn't realize it was a dick," this list resonates with me. Though I do find it interesting that, of the games on the list, the one that ACTUALLY dumps your saves is the cutest and cartooniest. You never expect it of them. . .

[@jerrjohnpresti]

you think earthbound/B&K is cute

[@bigfellathe2nd]

Technically, undertale does it twice (kind of) 1. Before the Omega Flowey fight 2. An occasional message during the Xbox version upon disconnecting the controller

[@soft_butter4629]

Sometimes I forget the agony both oxtra and oxbox experience capturing gameplay. It’s all fun and games until someone loses a save

[@thatonelampent5958]

As someone who has lost saves myself, I must say truer words have seldom been spoken.

[@PSYCHOPATH_AT_LARGE]

Do what you want to a man; expose him to relentless psychological torture through seemingly unkillable bosses BUT you never mess with his save

[@willmcquistan3113]

I don't play a lot of video games, but I know another example. In There is No Game: Wrong Dimension, the game gives you a quiz a decent way through where if you get a question wrong, your save file is said to be permanently deleted. The third question is impossible to answer correctly. It then goes back to the title screen, where you find all of your data missing. If you attempt to go back in, you find out the game lied and the game continues. This is actually a major plot point in the game.

[@venabre]

Chrono Trigger has one in one of its endings. Nearly gave me a heart attack back in the day and I'm 80% sure it's responsible for my trust issues

[@the8treluver]

My husband would like to call out Steel Battalion. It has a huge controller peripheral for your mech, and if you didn’t eject from your mech in time when you lost, your save would be erased.

[@Crazm_Andorand]

I'm a little disappointed that Bravely Second isn't on here. The Bravely Default games on the 3DS were always extremely meta and filled with fourth wall breaks, but the biggest moment was in Second where the final boss starts talking to the player, and then attempts to delete your save file. I was very disappointed that Bravely Default II on the Switch didn't continue this trend.

[@justincharles2185]

In Detroit: Become Human one of the menu dialogues from Chloe says that your save file has been corrupted before she smiles and says she’s just kidding

[@Musikur]

Wow, I didn't realize Banjo Kazooie was one of the few games that actually did it! Not quite the same, but my shout goes to the original few pokemon games where each storage box had finite space. Forget to change boxes every so on, and bam, you can't catch any more pokemon. Oh I'm sorry, you just spent an hour getting through the seafoam islands puzzle? Have fun doing that, and whittling down Articunos health all over again. Or worse. Oh you found a shiny? Bad luck, looks like you ain't catching it

[@barrybend7189]

No Bravely second and the final boss Providence who almost does it to you.

[@ddjsoyenby]

it gives us motivation to destroy him!

[@djbubba724]

@@ddjsoyenby yes how dare you try to delete my save that is your greatest atrocity

[@timothyvanburen3431]

"Oh thank fuck......ohhhhhhhhh thank fuck.." I felt that, Luke 😂

[@KenPotts007]

Would definitely by some merch with Ellen's "Beware spoilers and some serious frowning"

[@EBannion]

I'm shocked y'all didn't bring up how to get 100% of the achievemetns in Nier: Automata, you have to let the game erase all of your saves *and un-get all of your achievements* first, and then do it all again.

[@Fanimati0n]

The list is about *threatening* to do it, or doing it when you think they won't. NieR: Automata straight up says "These people deleted their save files to help players like you. Will you follow their examples & help someone you'll never meet at the expense of your time?" & I was hesitant when I did it, but it actually felt sort of nice. It was saddening watching my data get deleted, but knowing that it was going to help someone else gave me a sense of catharsis

[@molybdaen11]

@@Fanimati0n But how did this helped other players exactly?

[@Fanimati0n]

@@molybdaen11 it's next to impossible to do it alone. If you delete your save file, it adds it to a sort of collection that helps other people reach the end as well. It's making a sacrifice to help a greater number of people.

[@NagatoNaoeProduction]

Steel Battalion: The mech game with the insane controller that had an eject button, if your mech goes down and you don't eject, save file deleted.

[@finnover9781]

You have to love Angry Ellen's Eyebrows, don't you? And her perfectly timed reaction to Gruntilda deleting her save

[@oxfanblink4115]

Yeah 🤣😂🤣😂 Also her smile or smirk as a indication she knows her pun is bad 😂🤣😂🤣

[@cyanimation1605]

Eternal Darkness? Which one is that again? character: *THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING* Ah. That one.

[@Sp3ctralI]

That Banjo as a spy joke, that had me laughing lol

[@CaitlinRC]

Whenever I hear the resetti music, I panic 😂

[@justforkicks5112]

I'm pretty sure deleting a saved game is considered a war crime in most places in the known world

[@Banquet42]

I think Rob from Access admitted to deleting one of his sister's save games but I might be mis-remembering things.

[@diegoparga9324]

Lol! I literally giggled at the part about the donkey in Midsummer Night Dream

[@chameleonhrt]

The worst offender was WWF No Mercy because it didn't even have the courtesy of warning you that your save data was going to be deleted. It would just randomly decide one day to delete your cartridge save. It happened to me twice.

[@ruppelspoopels]

No mercy bro

[@szlag_mnie_trafi]

" Who I need to p*** off to delete my save in real live " 😂 😂 😂 I would like to start over. Love your program guys. You help me to go through my depression. THANK YOU!!!

[@melvinkachere8782]

Love that little chuckle from Jon/ James at 11:56 😂😂

[@joebove4]

Oh, Kid Icarus Uprising. It’s still such a shame that there’s any Nintendo fan who hasn’t played it anywhere. Sure, the control scheme is awkward, but once you get used to it, it’s one of the most fun and engaging games ever, really. Visually spectacular, with a fun, surprising story, and actually funny humor. Like whoever wrote the dialogue for this game didn’t get paid enough.

[@lordbee5972]

The part where he said “ I like the bit where the man is a donkey “ cracked me up cuz I was literally coming home from the production of midsummer and I was playing bottom (donkey guy)

[@azuredragoon2054]

How about 7 games where you could play as inanimate objects? Or at least items that should be inanimate. Like in Prey where you become a coffee cup that can roll itself around. Dark Souls 3 also has an item that makes you look like an inanimate object.

[@paperip1996]

Prop Hunt in Gmod was always my favorite game to be inanimate in.

[@davidmcgill1000]

Geist and Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective come to mind.

[@Auke1993]

Double Shakespeare reference. I got that. I learned a lot of Shakespeare during my years in secondary school. One teacher in particular spent a lot of time on it with us.

[@friedpinnapple]

Breavely second has a moment during the final boss where it threatens your save data. The game is you typical JRPG and play’s it’s pretty straightforward most of the game. So when the final boss starts tell the character about someone in control watching them the whole time and how they think they’re safe and the game starts to make you delete your save file it gets pretty harrowing! Genuinely one of the only gaming moments that truly freaked me out.

[@richcull1157]

Another funny one is in paper Mario color splash, when you get to the bonus round and if you accept it once, the sniff it says “You’ll get a really cool treasure if you beat the bonus round. But if you get even one wrong, it’s game over and your save file will be deleted forever!” Then he says it’s a joke but you still get a game over.

[@nicocrestmere9688]

I've started looking for Ellen's puns in every video like Easter eggs. Theres always at least 1 and it's always fun to point at the screen like a Leonardo DiCaprio meme.

[@gihanprabash]

Nier Automata didn't even need to threaten me. I just gave the save away.

[@ddjsoyenby]

same.

[@obieldenook1142]

That face at 3:08 is perfect for that amazing joke just before it. "I like the bit where a man is a donkey." Also that bit at the end that looked like she was about to have a break-down into cheer was nailed too. Man, I love this channel and their sister channel.

[@Emerald646]

Kid Icarus Uprising is one of my favorite games to date, a fraction for the gameplay, an the rest for the absolutely hilarious banter between the characters. They somehow made a game about the underworld killing thousands upon thousands of innocents into a comedy, and it works. Very well.

[@sshep86]

Hellblade is an incredible game. One of my favourites... I massively fretted over the arm rot and only found out after I had completed it that it was a complete lie. As intended, it messed with my head.

[@aerialmacaroon6312]

Resetti was arguably worse in wild world and possibly city folk; as on top of the lectures he requires the player to do specific things, like repeat exactly what he just said and such

[@ShockInazuma]

Hades' VA does such a phenomenal job on him. After all, if he's gonna take over the world, he's gotta have time to tease ol' pitty pat.

[@NexeL_NKC]

You guys covered this game before: Detroit Become Human. Chloe will mess with you in the menu screen to make you think your save game is gone only for her to say “Just kidding” :D

[@wiccamantadhg1965]

Are we still too upset to talk about ending E of Nier Automata? No, I'm not crying, you're crying!

[@Albatross0913]

Haven't watched yet, is Nier really not on here??

[@Donnerwamp]

Pro tip for those that play on PC: You can copy your save file before completing ending E and keep your progress even though you just deleted all.

[@BahamutSly0461]

it is not just Automata it happens in Nier Replicant as well.

[@Ceece20]

Shush, I will cry on command if you start playing Weight of the World. Some wounds never heal. We just learn to cope.

[@fuzzyotterpaws4395]

What about Doki Doki Literature Club? It deletes all your saves after Act 1. God, I love that game lol

[@taeraresh2115]

That game seriously creeped me out.

[@LiEnby]

It actually doesn't really it just shows a blank save screen. The actual save file is still there (how else could it track you've beaten act 1)

[@taeraresh2115]

@@LiEnby By hacking into your OS somehow? This is Doki Doki Literature Club we’re talking about. Don’t underestimate it.

[@LiEnby]

@@taeraresh2115 It just puts it in a different folder iirc. But it's still very much a save file

[@Skimmer951]

I remember getting massively spooked in bravely second vs the final boss who in a cinematic spiel held a speech of how powerless they were and yeeted the player to the main menu and with every click one did the more the menu moved towards deleting yoyr savefile and it was horrible!!

[@ChaosRiotZero]

“increasingly furious bollockings” is my now favourite phrase for being annoyed

[@anooppattankude6406]

Heyy! You missed one. In Detroit Become Human, sometimes when you start up the game the lady on the start screen says "oh no, it looks like your saved game is corrupted.... Just kidding!" I freaked out fr when this happend to me

[@benh2907]

Really like those breathing exercises Ellen. Looks like they're doing wonders 😂

[@DirgeTV]

7:27 I don't know Ellen, your face says pain but your thumbs say you're into it. Also, I love how there's an explosion sound when Mr Ressetti pops up alot (Which just puts further emphasis on how off the rails he gets)

[@_Tzer]

that hades easter egg reminds me of shining force 2's stay on it's end screen long enough and it will show you a bonus battle against every boss in the game at once.

[@chrislonghurst7249]

"One button, which never quite turns the thing on and never quite turns it off either." Brilliant.

[@Albatross0913]

It was too real, I love these guys

[@kassandra7313]

When I was little I thought that Earthbound was the hardest game ever! I never made it past the first area! Turns out I had a pirated version and just didn't know it because I was 6 lmao...... It's hard out there for a NZ baby gamer

[@michealforguson5317]

"Oh, I'll figure something out. I've got about 25 years until the next sequel." LOL!

[@joenesvick7043]

Eternal Darkness Sanity's Requiem is my favorite horror game, next year is the twentieth anniversary (hint hint Nintendo). I couldn't get into Resident Evil's tank controls, kept dying, you can say Eternal Darkness is my Resident Evil. Alex Roivas is Commander Shepard & Bastila Shan, you'd think that would count for something lol 😝