Book Ends/Video Games: Difference between revisions

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** There's even a sort of ''middle'' Book End. It is explained in other series media that the player lives on Earth. At the beginning of ''Myst'', you link to Myst from a book on Earth, which is where the fissure leads and where you're trying to get at the end of ''Riven''. But in between, you {{spoiler|rescue Atrus by taking his missing page to D'ni/K'veer, which is a cavern underneath the surface ... of Earth.}}

** Moreover, most of the games and Ages start off with an early glimpse of the place you'll need to get to at the end. In ''Riven'', for example, the site where {{spoiler|the starry fissure can be opened}} is directly in view from where you first link into that world.

* ''[[Warhammer]]: Dark Omen'' begins and ends with a similar conversation between Bernhardt and Klaus. "The crows never lose."

* ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]: Dark Omen'' begins and ends with a similar conversation between Bernhardt and Klaus. "The crows never lose."

* ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'' begins with a shot of a hawk, which flies into the scene from behind the camera, and it ends with a shot of a hawk, which leaves the scene as the camera overtakes it.

* ''[[Fallout]] 3'' begins and ends with "War never changes."

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** ''[[Metal Gear Solid|Metal Gear Solid 4]]'' stretches it a bit, but it still fits; after an opening-titles sequence in the Middle East, the story flashes back several days to what kicked off the events, taking place with Snake in the cemetery Big Boss and the Boss are buried at. He salutes Big Boss' grave, and then Otacon arrives to start the plot, arriving by helicopter to give him the appearance of coming out of nowhere. The final scene takes place in this same cemetery, where {{spoiler|Big Boss, alive this whole time, appears out of nowhere and after some dialog, salutes the Boss' grave before he dies.}} ''Both'' of these scenes mirror the end of the previous game, where Big Boss stood in the same place and saluted the Boss' grave forty years previous. That scene itself could be considered the actual "opening" bookend depending on plot interpretation.

** Also, you revisit the ruins of Shadow Moses, the site of the first ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''.

** The final boss fight of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]'' calls back to the first and last boss fights of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''. The last of ''MGS'' and the last of ''MGS4'' are both [[Fisticuffs Boss|hand-to-hand fights]] with Liquid on top of a Metal Gear. The first of MGS and the last of ''MGS4'' are both {{spoiler|against Revolver Ocelot. The difference is that in their first fight, they were both agile, powerful warriors. In the second, they're dying old men.}}

** The final boss fight of ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots]]'' calls back to the first and last boss fights of ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]''. The last of ''MGS'' and the last of ''MGS4'' are both [[Fisticuffs Boss|hand-to-hand fights]] with Liquid on top of a Metal Gear. The first of MGS and the last of ''MGS4'' are both {{spoiler|against Revolver Ocelot. The difference is that in their first fight, they were both agile, powerful warriors. In the second, they're dying old men.}}

* ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' does this -- even though Shirou is the protagonist, both the prologue to the entire game and the epilogue to the True Ending of Heaven's Feel (the last route in the game) are played from Rin's perspective.

** Similarly, ''[[Tsukihime]]'' has Shiki Tohno meeting Aoko Aozaki in the prologue and epilogue.