Doomed Hometown/Quotes

You know how in some RPG's you start off in your lovely idyllic greengrass home village where smiling neighbours bid you howdy-do, and which is virtually guaranteed to get Hiroshima-fied before the second act?

—Zero Punctuation review of NieR

Bevil: We're under attack! West Harbor is under attack!
PC: What? Why would anyone want to attack us?

Bevil: I don't know! For food? For fun? What does it matter!

—Neverwinter Nights 2

Our hero resides in the quaint idyllic fishing village of Arni. Despite being a remote, harmless berg full of peaceful folk living simple lives alongside Serge, shockingly enough nothing bad ever happens to Arni. Really. It's never razed to the ground by an evil empire, its citizens are never butchered by raiding hordes of monsters, and Serge is never even exiled from the place. It just remains a chill little town.

I know, it's bananas!

—The Dark Id's Let's Play of Chrono Cross