One of the greatest villains of all time once said, “This town needs an enema!” Much like Gotham City, video games need a few of their own too. So we here at VGU wanted to take a moment to bring up some of our favorite villains that we went toe-to-toe with over the years. There are certainly more worth mentioning, but maybe that’s for another future roundtable…

Josh…take it away!

Josh Miller – The Clown Prince of VGU

Luca Blight – Suikoden II

A few years ago, I spent a year focusing on my backlog. One of those games I finally visited was Suikoden II. To this day, I still feel like that was one of the better backlog games to knock out. One of the most fascinating things about that game was the villain Luca Blight. Luca was a monster. He had a bloodlust like no other character I’ve seen with no real end goal other than the joy of seeing people die. And he reveled every second of it.

Unlike so many other villains, there wasn’t any grand plan. There is no elaborate backstory to make you feel bad for him or justify his actions. He was a sociopath, plain and simple. Luca would instigate wars just so he could kill people. He burns down villages and makes people grovel and act like pigs before he unceremoniously murders them. All while laughing maniacally.

“It took hundreds to kill me, but I killed humans by the thousands!!!!”

That’s one of the last things Luca says in the game. Even in his dying throes, he has a way to make you absolutely despise him. His joy in how many lives he took and the effort it required to take him down. But not just that….he saw his victims as “humans” in an almost perverse way of viewing himself as something different. Something more.

Luca Blight is the most sadistic antagonist I have seen in a video game. He makes you hate him from his first appearance, and even after he is gone, his vile actions are so large that the game has to continue proceeding to wrap them up. There is no amount of redemption for this character and I wish more villains were written similar to him.