Better Than It Sounds/Video Games N-Z: Difference between revisions

** Or: The princess has been kidnapped by demons. Are you a bad enough samurai to save the princess?

** {{spoiler|''Onimusha 3''}}: Samurai from medieval Japan ends up in today's Paris, a policeman from today ends up in medieval Japan. Timetravel extraordinaire to beat even more monsters and the [[Evil Overlord]] from the previous game. Again.

* {{spoiler|''[[Orbiter]]''}}: The Free Spaceflight Simulator. First, you study ''loooong'' instruction manuals. Then, you finally fly various missions. Most of them are mundane hard work. Piloting a spacecraft is not an easy job.

* {{spoiler|''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]''}}: The people are not motivated. A squad of manly cheerleaders tries to alleviate this.

* {{spoiler|''[[Plants vs. Zombies]]''}}: Gardening is your only hope of surviving the [[Zombie Apocalypse]].

* {{spoiler|''Plaque Attack''}}: The game of dental hygiene.

* {{spoiler|''[[Pocket God]]''}}: Be a dick to some islanders.

* {{spoiler|''Pocket Tanks''}}: Tiny vehicles with guns destroy the world with ridiculous weapons yet always come out unharmed. Fireworks ensue.

* {{spoiler|''[[Rez]]''}}: You have to fix an AI that's not working well by shooting stuff to techno music.

** Alternatively, an AI gets depressed, and you shoot stuff to make it feel better.

* {{spoiler|''[[Ring of Red]]''}}: What if the Korean War was fought with [[Humongous Mecha]]?

* {{spoiler|''Rise of the Triad''}}: Five special forces agents must stop a cult whose ranks include the former head of a movie studio. Among your weapons are a magical baseball bat and the ability to turn into a dog.

** {{spoiler|''Super Scribblenauts''}}: Same boy learns what adjectives are. More stars are gathered. [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|The fandom rejoices.]]

* {{spoiler|''[[Second Life]]''}}: Massively multiplayer online CAD (or so the joke goes).

* {{spoiler|''[[Secret of Evermore]]''}}: A boy and his dog try out virtual reality dating from the 1960s.

* {{spoiler|''[[Secret of Mana]]''}}: Boy is [[You Can't Go Home Again|banished from his homeland]] and persecuted by the government for being the legendary hero.

* {{spoiler|''Shufflepuck Café''}}: In the farthest reaches of the galaxy, surrounded by exotic alien beings, you play air hockey.

* {{spoiler|''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]''}}: A sleeping alien god gets a skin disease. It takes decades for it to start scratching and centuries to actually wake up. Meanwhile, [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers|tree-hugging hippies discover that the local fungus is the path to apotheosis, man]]; [[Evil Overlord|Chairman Mao's reincarnation]] is worse than ever; [[The Spartan Way|ancient Greeks]] are apparently lead by a hot Latina; a [[Mad Scientist|scientist goes mad]]; [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Gordon Gekko is alive and well in the late 21st century]]; and [[Eagle Land|American]] [[Church Militant|Bible-thumpers annoy everybody]] ([[Acceptable Targets|just like today]], har har har).

* {{spoiler|''[[Sid Meier's Pirates!|Sid Meier's Pirates]]''}}: [[Wide Open Sandbox|Do what you want]] 'cause a pirate lives free, [[Memetic Mutation|you are a pirate]]!

* {{spoiler|''[[Silent Hill]]''}}: Your daughter gets lost in a foggy resort town, and an antiques dealer tries to convince you that she's actually her daughter. The cop and the doctor don't clarify things.

** {{spoiler|''[[Silent Hill 3]]''}}: A creepy blond woman wants to talk to you about birth. You end up killing God.

*** Alternatively: A young teenage girl avenges her father's murder by aborting her child.

*** Alternatively: A man looks for a way to unlock the front door of his apartment. To accomplish this, he peeks on his female neighbor, and crawls through holes to watch people get killed by an {{spoiler|immortal}} serial killer.

*** Alternatively: A man cannot find a way to get out of his room because his front door is locked from the inside. To get out, he must crawl through a plot hole.

** Or: Aliens {{smallcaps|[[Futurama|Drop down. Increase speed. Reverse direction.]]}}

** {{spoiler|''Space Invaders Extreme''}}: Aliens attack Earth with slightly improved but still well-regimented strategy while [[Rez|getting shot to techno music]].

* {{spoiler|''[[Space Quest]]''}}: A janitor tries to fight bad guys... [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!]]

** {{spoiler|''Space Quest: The Sarien Encounter''}}: A janitor gets lost in the desert on his quest to destroy a device that makes stars... [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!]]

*** ''{{spoiler|[[Starcraft II]]: Heart of the Swarm}}'': The bitch gets her groove back and goes on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]. [[Running Gag|Korea gearing up to love it.]]

*** ''{{spoiler|[[Starcraft II]]: Legacy of the Void}}'': That [[Apocalypse How|Class X-4]] we mentioned [[Schrodinger's Gun|either does or doesn't happen]]. The bitch's role TBD. Korea will probably [[Running Gagged|lov--]][[Killed Mid-Sentence|*gunshot*]]

* {{spoiler|''[[StarTropics]]''}}: A boy goes on a tropical vacation. Halfway through the game he must solve a [[Copy Protection|mysterious riddle]].

* {{spoiler|''[[Steambot Chronicles]]''}}: Amnesiac kid walks around during the Industrial Revolution. Sometimes he plays harmonica. Pirates and terrorists show up.

** {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter Alpha]]''}}: Stereotypes from around the world trek the globe to explore their grudges and randomly fight other stereotypes, while the dictator plays with dolls.

** {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter III]]''}}: Stereotypes from around the world explore their grudges in a secret worldwide tournament hosted by a [[Dark Messiah|messianic]] corporate executive [[Stripperiffic|in a banana hammock]].

** {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter EX]]''}}: Stereotypes from around the world explore their grudges in a secret worldwide tournament hosted by a dictator...IN 3D!

* {{spoiler|''[[Street Fighter X Tekken]]''}}: A bunch of colorful stereotypes, including a psycho, a couple vagrants and a dysfunctional family fight over a box in the middle of a snowstorm. Most of whom [[Exposed to the Elements|are dressed as skimpily as possible]].

* {{spoiler|''[[The Suffering]]''}}: A guy who either did or didn't kill his wife and kids breaks out of a prison being attacked by [[Anthropomorphic Personification|anthropomorphic personifications]] of ways to die. Along the way, he frequently hallucinates that he turns into a hideous monster with a sword for an arm.

** {{spoiler|''[[The Suffering]]: Ties That Bind''}}: The guy from the last game returns to his old neighborhood, and finds the monsters from the last game have followed him home. Also, both his old partner in crime and [[The Government]] want a word with him.

** {{spoiler|''[[Suikoden II]]''}}: The most murderous, [[Ax Crazy]] psychopath imaginable gets put in charge of an invasion force, with predictable results.

** {{spoiler|''[[Suikoden III]]''}}: Longstanding territorial dispute is seen from multiple viewpoints as outside forces take advantage of the conflict to further their own goals.

*** {{spoiler|''Super Mario 64 DS''}}: In this [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|oddly named]] [[Updated Rerelease]] of the above title, the duo and the fat guy also need rescuing. The hero ends up being the green dinosaur, though one of the duo takes on the villain.

** {{spoiler|''[[Super Princess Peach]]''}}: Everyone decides the damsel is more interesting and helps her have adventures with her umbrella.

** {{spoiler|''[[New Super Mario Bros]]''}}: Turtle king decides to re-enact the first time he kidnapped the damsel, only to [[Kill It with Fire|get his skin]] [[Family-Unfriendly Death|burned off]]. His [[Replacement Scrappy|son]] takes over.

*** {{spoiler|''[[New Super Mario Bros Wii]]''}}: Turtle king decides to re-enact the first time he kidnapped the damsel again, but this time his original seven children return after a long absence and team up with [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|his other son]]. The duo enlists the help of two mushroom folk and the dinosaur, but end up tripping over each other.

*** To be honest, it really isn't any better than it sounds.

* {{spoiler|''[[Super Monkey Ball]]''}}: Tiny primates are permanently locked inside plastic globes and careen around collecting bananas.

** {{spoiler|''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]''}}: The Mary Sues get their own game series. Now there's only a few groups, but instead, they're making a ''lot'' of robots.

** {{spoiler|''[[Endless Frontier]]: [[Super Robot Wars]] OG Saga''}}: Multiple sets of [[Expy|suspiciously similar partnerships]] team up with robots, [[Humongous Mecha|giant]] and otherwise, to fight every villain from at least four games. Much [[Gainaxing|fanservice]] ensues.

** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Eternia]]''}}: The sky is falling. The world's only hope is a guy in a really fruity hat. Failing that, a guy in a really fruity shirt. You are the guy in the shirt.

** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Symphonia]]''}}: You fight against angels led by a spandex bodysuit-wearing legendary hero and ruin his plans for world peace.

** {{spoiler|''Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon''}}: A fanboy and a fangirl alternately break and fix the timeline through cosplay. ''Extreme'' cosplay.

** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of the Abyss]]''}}: A young aristocrat suffers a severe emotional crisis, is betrayed by his most trusted ally, abandoned by his family and country, treated with contempt by his friends, and attempts to kill himself repeatedly.

** {{spoiler|''Subterranean Animism''}}: The goddesses from the tenth game needs electricity badly. She decides to give a bird from Hell nuclear powers to start an Industrial Revolution. The bird decides to incinerate the [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] instead.

** {{spoiler|''Undefined Fantastic Object''}}: The mains + the priestess of the tenth game are off to find a treasure ship. They end up fighting Magical Gandhi instead. Also, [[Fun with Acronyms|UFOs]].

** {{spoiler|''Double Spoiler''}}: The rest of everyone in the series is defeated by the same paparazzi. Then, a blogger is added.

** {{spoiler|''Ten Desires''}}: Conspicuously colored divine spirits appear out of nowhere. To fix that, the mains, the priestess and the samurai gardener from the seventh game have to beat the tar out of angry, if dimwitted taoists who are threatening the newly-built temple as well as heralding the ressurection of a DJ.

* {{spoiler|''[[Tower Madness]]''}}: Evil [[The Greys|aliens]] are going to steal your sheep and turn them into a scarf for their Emperor! You must defend them!

*** {{spoiler|''World of Warcraft: Cataclysm''}}: The natives and immigrants resume their war. A senior official, formerly in exile because of his skin color, decides to return home. This causes property values to plummet. Furries and insane corporate executives join the grassroots campaign to kick him out of the country.

*** {{spoiler|''World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria''}}: The immigrants discover the [[Far East]] and, ignoring the protests of the natives, proceed to fight over colonization rights. Almost all of the immigrants decide to learn [[Bare-Fisted Monk|new things]] from [[Pandaing to the Audience|bears]].

** {{spoiler|''Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Winter Assault''}}: A [[Humongous Mecha]] was wrecked on an [[Single Biome Planet|icy planet]] some years ago. The [[Redshirt Army]], reluctantly aided by [[Our Elves Are Better|Better Elves]], fight against [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]] and [[The Legions of Hell]] to get to the 'mech, only to find [[Terminator]]-wannabes with pyramids waiting.

** {{spoiler|''Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade''}}: A planet belonging to greyskins weak in melee gets invaded by [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]] and [[The Legions of Hell]]. The [[Redshirt Army]] arrives to conquer the planet but attack their [[Super Soldier]] "allies" in the process. [[Terminator]]-wannabes wake up from a long sleep and [[Our Elves Are Better|Better Elves]] arrive to stop them.

*** Except that [[Canon Discontinuity|didn't really happen.]]

* {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land]]''}}: Fat man does a [[Heel Face Turn]], travels through lands named after food, blows up [[Pirate]]'s gothic tower, and gives his nemesis a priceless object. And there's a [[Genie in a Bottle]] involved, who also does a [[Heel Face Turn]] and gives a castle...if you give him enough money.

* {{spoiler|''[[Within a Deep Forest]]''}}: A ball rebels against its creator.

* {{spoiler|''[[Wolfenstein 3D]]''}}: You have a knife. They are wearing [[Gatling Good|chaingun-equipped]] [[Powered Armor]]. Good luck!

** {{spoiler|''Wolfenstein RPG''}}: Like the previous games, but with turn-based combat and [[Everything's Better with Chickens|chickens]]. Oh, and it's for cell phones.

* {{spoiler|''[[The World Ends With You]]''}}: For dead people, fashion is incredibly [[Serious Business]]. They overcome difficulties and [[The Power of Friendship|learn to love]]. And kill people with Myspace Flare.

** Alternatively: Dead people kill things and eat food in order to dress the most macho of them in the girliest clothing ever.

* {{spoiler|''[[World Heroes]]''}}: Historical figures duke it out against each other, and then a shapeshifting alien.

* {{spoiler|''[[World in Conflict]]''}}: Uh oh, the Cold War didn't end and the Soviets invade. [[America Wins the War|Already sounds propagandic...]]

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