14 Saddest Background Stories In Games

Beauty and the Beast Unit – Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

Each member of the Beauty and the Beast Unit is a tragic victim of war. Screaming Mantis saw her village massacred by death squads – she hid out in what was revealed to be a torture chamber and subsisted on dirty water as the screams of the tortured villagers constantly rang out. Laughing Octopus was forced by an insane cult to kill all of her loved ones and act as if she enjoyed it, laughing all the while.

Raging Raven was captured alongside other children by soldiers who beat them. When the soldiers abandoned them, the ravens inhabiting the countryside tore them apart one after another. They freed her, however, which caused her to become enraged, kill the ravens, and then the soldiers responsible. Crying Wolf saw her village massacred but escaped with her baby brother. To prevent themselves from being discovered by the enemy due to her brother’s crying, she kept her hand on his mouth, eventually smothering him to death. She would reach a refugee camp while still holding her brother’s corpse and, tormented by the cries of the children, killed them all, blaming it on a hallucinatory wolf that walked beside her.