Another Side, Another Story: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Fire Emblem Elibe|Fire Emblem: The Sword of Flame]]'' has Hector's Story, where you play as Hector (no, really?). Thing is, with the exception of the first chapter, three added side-quests (including a side-quest ''to a side quest''), two extra mandatory chapters, an extra character in one of the extra chapters, an extra character in a chapter that ''was'' there in Eliwood's story but just never showed up for some reason, [[Overly Long Gag|a few dialogue changes, the placement of the enemies, and the two extra endings you could get by playing some or all of the aforementioned side-quests]], it's basically the same thing. Yes, that sounded like a [[Long List]], but really, in a game like ''[[Fire Emblem]]'', that's not a lot of stuff. The music was generally better, though.

** It is also harder particularly on Hector ([[Nintendo Hard|Nintendo]]) ''Hard'' mode, the standard difficulty for accessing the series' [[Serious Business]] [[Character Tiers]].

* ''[[Fire Emblem the Sacred Stones]]'' does this a bit differently. You start the game as Eirika, and after around ten missions you can continue with Eirika or choose to play as Ephraim. The next six missions will be different for each route. Afterwards, you join back up with the other party for the last few missions. Each route actually portrays the principal villain quite differently. {{spoiler|One had him being [[Love Makes You Evil|motivated by love]], the other [[Grand Theft Me|possessed]] by an [[Eldritch Abomination|Demon God]]. Regardless, said Demon God ends up being the final boss.}} Which route's story is canon is unknown, but it's a standalone game anyway.

* ''[[Resident Evil 2]]'' was one of the first to pull this, with one disc for Leon S. Kennedy's side of the story and a second for Claire Redfield's. Players could play both sides of the story in either order, but got more areas to explore in the second run. Additionally, the way certain events transpire also changes depending on which character is chosen first. And once the second scenario is completed, it opens up yet another side story, where the player controls Hunk, a surviving member of the [[Gas Mask Mooks|Umbrella Special Forces]] unit that attacked William Birkin.

** It could be argued that the first game in the Sonic series to do this was ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles]]''. Playing as Knuckles would present different level designs and a slightly different story, and it would even let you play as Knuckles in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]''.

*** The trope is subverted in this case: Knuckles' story takes place not during Sonic's story, but after: the Death Egg and Eggman are no longer on the island (the one Eggman's appearance in Flying Battery Zone is actually an oversight because he has different sprites in that encounter), the ghosts are unleashed in the pyramid during Sonic's game, but are present from the start in Knuckles' game, and while in Sonic's game the Angel Island is at sea level and only raises in the sky at the end of the game, it's always flying in Knuckles' game. Not to mention that Sonic and Knuckles settle their differences towards the end of Sonic's game, they seem friends at the end of Knuckles' game despite not having met during the game. Oh, and that at the end of Sonic's story the main villain in Knuckles's story appears as [[The Stinger]].

* ''[[Lego Adaptation Game|Lego]] [[Batman]]'' allows you to play an episode as the villains after completing it with Batman, showing how they broke into these places and put their nefarious schemes into place before the Dark Knight interfered. The game counts these as separate levels with their own sets of collectibles necessary for [[One Hundred Percent Completion]].

* ''[[Noitu Love]] 2: Devolution'' lets you play as {{spoiler|Rilo Doppelori}} after you beat the game once, and Mr. Almond after beating it with {{spoiler|Rilo}}, although he doesn't have a unique take on the plot like {{spoiler|Rilo}} does.