Valentine's Day is a time to show the special person in your life just how much you love them (or a way for retailers to cash in on love, depending on your point of view), but not everyone is lucky in love. For everyone out there planning to spend the day wooing someone in Mass Effect 2, here's a list of doomed video game romances that ought to cheer you up - or maybe just make you even more depressed. Beware of spoilers.
It's a good job Mario isn't the jealous type. For the majority of the time they're not together at all. Peach is usually off somewhere with koopa king, Bowser, or his son, Bowser Jr. God knows what they get up to, but Mario is always risking life and limb to get her back as quickly as possible.
Can there be anything worse than your love interest mutating into a massive tentacle-wielding monster, coming at you with a big axe? Well, the mutant could take his own life in front of you. Poor Steve Burnside now lives on through YouTube tribute videos.
