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* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' begins with our antiheroine and Jeanne in their flashback garb fighting angels on the face of a falling clock. It might be a clever symbol for a compressed backstory narration, but it's hard to tell when the actual game is so trippy. Despite the game's reputation for putting some of the most spectacular fights in cutscenes, it's fully playable, with no control guidance for first-time players, but also no way to lose. Then, there's a whole prologue chapter, filled with control tutorials and some minor exposition. Then there's an expository cutscene and an Indy-style travel montage. ''Then'' the opening tiles play as 'netta struts off the train in Vigrid.
* ''[[Chrono Cross]]'' begins with an action/tutorial dream sequence which mimics/foreshadows an extended gameplay sequence from a (much) later dungeon.
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** ''Uncharted: Drake's Fortune'' opens with Nate and Elana unearthing Sir Francis' journal in the middle of the ocean, when suddenly, pirates attack and the player has to defend the boat.
** Nate wakes up, wounded, his clothes covered with blood, in a wrecked train, the train ''dangling over the edge of a mountain!'' He has to climb to safety (which despite the terrifying scene, is easy to do). This scene is, incidentally, a [[How We Got Here]] scene, as once the player gets Nate on solid ground, the plot shifts to many days earlier, part with the train resuming halfway through the game.
** ''Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception'' opens with a bar brawl in an English pub populated by [[Mooks]], after a deal goes bad. It's a great excuse to teach the player the new unarmed combat system.
* [[Guild Wars]] Nightfall throws the character into a corsair battle for its first quests and mission, before the "training" sequences more common in other MMO's (and other guild Wars chapters)
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* [[Dark Souls]] introduction cutscene has this, featuring Gwyn, Nito and the Witch of Izalith taking on the dragons.
* ''[[Xenoblade]] Chronicles'' begins in the middle of the war against the Mechon, where you play as Dunban in the battle that would make him a legend among the peoples of Bionis.
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