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

* {{spoiler|''[[Okami]]''}}: A magical wolf paints her way to victory.

** Alternatively: A dog and a bug go stargazing and practice calligraphy. They are insulted by everyone.

** {{spoiler|''[[Okamiden]]''}}: A wolf pup gains many friends, populates a small town and saves the world.

* {{spoiler|''OMGWTFOTL''}}: [[Schmuck Bait|DON'T GENUFLECT. EVER.]] Other than that... [[Mind Screw|good luck figuring this one out]].

* {{spoiler|''[[Paper Mario (Video Game)|Paper Mario]]''}}: [[The Everyman|Everyman]] tries saving a land of sentient fungi from a dragon turtle. The characters are flat.

** {{spoiler|''[[Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door (Video Game)|Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door]]''}}: [[The Everyman|Everyman]] hunts down keys for a door, while his love interest gets [[Stalking Is Love|stalked]] [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?|by a computer]] on the Moon, his brother goes on an unseen adventure, and the villain of the previous game parodies the first ever game the four appeared in.

*** Or: A turtle marries a princess and dooms the whole universe. The day is saved when a man in a top hat marries a digital butterfly.

* {{spoiler|''Para Para Paradise''}}: Wave your hands to the tune of fast-paced eurobeat music.

** {{spoiler|''[[Parappa the Rapper]] 2''}}: A dog stops a brat with an afro from turning the universe into noodles using the power of cake.

** {{spoiler|''[[Um Jammer Lammy]]''}}: One of his friends from around town fronts an all-girl garage band.

* {{spoiler|''[[Parasite Eve]]''}}: Genetic warfare breaks out at the opera. Your organelles hate you.

** {{spoiler|''[[Parasite Eve 2]]''}}: [[Nietzsche Wannabe]] cultists create genetic abominations. Your heroine has wonderful powers thanks to an eye transplant she received as a child.

** {{spoiler|''Samorost 2''}}: A gnome tries to rescue his dog from fruit poachers. Again, this usually involves him standing around waiting for his problems to solve themselves.

* {{spoiler|''[[Samurai Champloo]]: Sidetracked''}}: A prototype for [[No More Heroes]], based on an anime, doesn't affect the anime's canon [[Gaiden Game|in any way]].

** {{spoiler|''[[Samurai Shodown]] II''}}: The guy and the girl from the previous game fix an evil god's evil doing.

** {{spoiler|''[[Samurai Shodown]] III''}}: The guy and the girl from the first game beat the crap out of an huge evil guy. We see an emo kid with a parasol instead.

* {{spoiler|''[[Shadow Hearts]]''}}: A guy saves a girl in a short skirt from a man in a suit, then gets his friends to gang up on him. The [[Bittersweet Ending|bad ending]] is canon.

** {{spoiler|''[[Shadow Hearts]]: Covenant''}}: The same guy gets stabbed with a plant. He gets picked up by an old puppeteer and a German soldier in a quest to stop a minor character from the last game from doing what the guy in the suit wanted to do.

* {{spoiler|''[[Shadow of Destiny]]''}}: The main character dies during the first cutscene and is resurrected by an androgynous time traveller who may or may not be Satan. He tries to prevent his own death while avoiding accidentally causing it. This is repeated several times.

* {{spoiler|''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]''}}: An oddly named [[A Boy and His X|boy and his horse]] set upon destroying sixteen statues in order to revive his dead girlfriend.

** {{spoiler|''The Sims 2''}}: The same group of people's descendants are placed into the hands of the same god, who now can bring fates worse than the plagues of Egypt upon them. Death itself occasionally ignores their corpses and watches their telly.

** {{spoiler|''The Sims 3''}}: An indescribable force of darkness has forced itself onto the world, making the little people capable of exiting the pool without a ladder. This same force makes killing them slightly less desirable for the god.

* {{spoiler|''[[Sin]]''}}: An angry police officer battles a beautician with [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|a lot of money]], a lot of chest, and no ethics.

* {{spoiler|''[[Sin and Punishment]]''}}: Genetically-enhanced humans kill an onslaught of monsters, followed by killing the army responsible for defending against them. Then they betray the one who helped them do so, [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|turn into a giant monster]] and destroy the Earth by reflecting its attacks. Delivered entirely in [[Surprisingly Good English]].

*** ''{{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|''[[Star Tropics]]''}}: 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.

** Alternative the fifth: A sandbox killing game with no story mode and half the weapons are broken. Requires players to kill anyone who's a different color than they are because they are inferior.

** Alternative the sixth: A war between a piss-throwing Australian, a smartass who drinks radioactive soda, a cyclops with a grenade gun, a fat sandwich addict who obsesses over his "sasha", a mad German doctor with technology that hasn't even been invented yet, a [[Ambiguous Gender|gender-unknown person]] who doesn't have the balls to take their mask off, a French pervert, a brainwashed American who thinks a shovel is an effective weapon, a redneck who, again, has technology that hasn't been invented yet, and their hordes of clones.

* {{spoiler|''[[Tekken]] (entire series)''}}: Members of a dysfunctional family violently argue over property.

** {{spoiler|''Tekken''}}: A [[Shotoclone]] fights in a tournament hosted by his father, a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]. Shotoclone wins and tosses his dad off a cliff.

* {{spoiler|''[[Transformers War for Cybertron]]''}}: An unemployed librarian and his friends fight a downsized blue-collar worker and his friends.

* {{spoiler|''[[Transformice]]''}}: A multiplayer version of ''Lemmings''.

** {{spoiler|''Trauma Team''}}: Play as six different doctors, learn the destructive power of butterflies.

* {{spoiler|''Tribes''}}: In an online game where you fly around like a fairy, a major exploit to move really fast is found in the first week. Sequels would build this feature right into the game.