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* A tradition in the ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' series. The first game begins and ends with a party, ''[[~~Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door|~~Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' begins and ends with Peach obtaining a treasure map, and ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' begins and ends with {{spoiler|a wedding.}}

* A tradition in the ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' series. The first game begins and ends with a party, ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' begins and ends with Peach obtaining a treasure map, and ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' begins and ends with {{spoiler|a wedding.}}

** The first game has another example. The very first battle is a fight against Bowser in a hall of Peach's castle. The {{spoiler|second-to-last}} fight is another battle with Bowser in the same room.

* Happens in the Mario and Luigi series too. Superstar Saga starts with fighting Bowser in front of Peach's throne, the final battle is fighting Bowletta in front of her throne. Partners in Time starts and ends with fighting Bowser in Peach's castle, except Bowser was a baby the first time. Bowsers Inside Story begins with Bowser fighting Mario after barging into a conference room {{spoiler|and as the penultimate battle has Bowser fighting Fawful in the same conference room.}}

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* ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' can end with [[Good Morning, Crono]]...except {{spoiler|everybody's a Reptite}}.

** In most of the other endings, it closes with the same Millennial Festival that Crono attends at the start of the game.

* ''[[Tales of Symphonia Dawn of the New World]]'': {{spoiler|the story begins and ends with Marta in Palmacosta near the same shop with Emil arriving soon afterwards fulfulling her wish.}}

* ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'': {{spoiler|the story begins and ends with Marta in Palmacosta near the same shop with Emil arriving soon afterwards fulfulling her wish.}}

* [[Bioshock]] begins in the water outside a lighthouse, the endings from Bioshock 2 all show the same lighthouse.

* It's not the same locale, but in [[Kirby 64 The Crystal Shards]], Stage 1 of Pop Star is almost visually identical to Stage One of Ripple Star and shares the same stage music.