The last thing you do in Zork is PUT ALL TREASURE IN CASE (then go through a door).
The last thing you do in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is LEAVE SHIP
The last thing you do in Infidel is OPEN SARCOPHAGUS (then die from a collapsing ruin)
The last thing you do in A Mind Forever Voyaging is WAIT in a skycab with your wife as the world celebrates a future without Ronald Reagan Richard Ryder
The last thing you do in Trinity is CUT WHITE WIRE WITH KNIFE, but nuclear proliferation is an unavoidable certainty demanded by the laws of physics and human nature!
The last thing you do in Super Mario Brothers is get thanked by the Princess.
The last thing you do in Super Mario Brothers 3 is get TRICKED by the Princess!!
I never thought about this before but in both endings Peach speaks to Mario, then takes the tone of the developers speaking to the player. By 64 this character/narrator role would be shared by Mario, but in these games, Peach is the only one with the voice and rotated body to address the camera. And convention now is to put developer narration inside bland text boxes to let you know you don’t need to care about them - not very theatrical or true to the medium, more like legalistic warning labels.
The last thing you do in Half-Life 2 is get talked to by a suit
The last thing you do in Slay The Spire is stab your heart
The last thing you do in Way of the Samurai 4 is get boiled alive
The last thing you do in Symphony of the Night is reassure your dad
The last thing you do in Doom is mourn your dead rabbit
The last thing you do in life is die
The last thing you do in Bruce Lee is jump thirteen times.
The last thing you do in Defender is die, failing to defend the planet.
The last thing you do in Missile Command is die, failing to defend the planet.
The last thing you do in Incredible Crisis is meet your family back at home.
The last thing you do in Legacy of the Wizard is meet your family back at home.
The last thing you do in Out of This World/Another World is drag yourself to a teleporter with two broken legs and fly off with your fellow escaped prisoner, stranded on a hostile world.
The last thing you do in SOMA is face the reality of your situation.
The last thing you do in Wing Commander I is to stand in place motionlessly.
The last thing you do in Wing Commander II is accept an invitation to your commanding officer’s quarters for sex.
The last thing you do in Wing Commander III is take a shuttle back to Earth.
The last thing you do in Wing Commander IV is take a joyride in space.
The last thing you do in Wing Commander Prophecy is think about the protagonist from Wing Commander I-IV.