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[[Book Ends|So you played the game from beginning to end...]]
''Note that some [[Book Ends]] can be spoilers, so beware.''
* In ''[[Portal 2]]'': {{spoiler|Beginning: "Catch me catch me catch me!" Climax: "GRAB ME GRAB ME GRAB ME!"}}
* At the end of the first level of ''[[Killer7]]'', Harmon shoots Kun Lan in the hand; Kun Lan catches the bullet and rides its momentum to the top of the Space Needle. At the very end of the game, the same scene is repeated 100 years later in China. The implication, as Kun Lan mockingly states, is that their battle will never end.
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* In ''[[Planetarian]]'', the game begins and ends (not the very end, but this does qualify) with Yumemi/Reverie's pitch for the planetarium.
* In ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'', the game opens with Clank learning of a plot, flying from his home planet to Ratchet's and crash landing. This is repeated with both characters late in the game (complete with crash landing after the final boss battle), and the tutorial level is the first part of the last level. The [[Big Bad]] points out it's poetic.
** Goes [[Beyond the Impossible]] if you consider the games' endings. The first game ended with {{spoiler|the eponymous duo falling from a great height and then, once the danger had passed, apparently splitting up. In this case, it was Ratchet leaving Clank on his own, then coming back.}} Compare [[Ratchet
* The Good End of ''[[Silent Hill 1]]'' has Harry (and {{spoiler|Cybil, if you saved her}}) {{spoiler|find infant Cheryl in the cemetery}} just like in the opening cutscene. If you got the Good+ ending, the opening cutscene of a [[New Game+]] begins with {{spoiler|Cybil in the place of Harry's wife}}.
** ''[[Silent Hill Origins]]'' ends with Travis finally being able to access the truck he ditched when he saw the Gillespie house on fire.
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* The first three games of the ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' series form the Loto trilogy. The trilogy begins and ends in much the same way. The last third or so of ''[[Dragon Quest III]]'' almost exactly mirrors the plot of the first game, taking place in the same world {{spoiler|in the past}} with essentially the same plot.
** The beginning of ''[[Dragon Quest VII]]'' is during the Amitt Harvest... and so is the end. Each time, you also are woken up by your mother to get out of bed and bring a fish sub to your father. That also happens at one other point in the game, but not during the festival.
* ''[[Crysis (series)|Crysis]] 2'' has
** Regarding the series as a whole, we see Prophet and his Raptor Team sent to Lingshan Island near the Philippines as part of a rescue mission to evacuate a group of archaeologists who discovered {{spoiler|an ancient alien structure.}} By the end of the third game, {{spoiler|Prophet re-enters Earth after being pulled to space by a wormhole, eventually ending up landing on the very same islands he and his team first served in.}}
* The first dungeon in ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'' is Shrine Island, an ancient, ruined temple. You come back to it at the end of the game {{spoiler|to enter the final dungeon, Soltis, which Shrine Island was originally a part of.}}
* ''[VideoGame/BrokenSword: Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars]'' begins and ends with an explosion, even apparently reusing parts of the same animation. Averted in the Director's Cut, in which the game starts with Nicole (sidekick to the main hero) witnessing a politician being shot instead.
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