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WHAT DO YOU MEAN, THERE'S ''ANOTHER'' GREAT EVIL?!

 

 

It is ''not'' [[New Game+]]; the story does not start over. It does, however, sometimes reset to the state just before the [[Final Boss]], probably so the developers don't have to write new dialogue for all the NPCs.

* ''[[Baten Kaitos]]: Origins'': Defeat {{spoiler|Wiseman 2,000 years in the past and he appears as the final boss in the present after one beats Verus.}}

* ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'' had a lot of these: Batttling a swarm of enemies during the credits (kill 100 for an extra scene), extra difficulty levels and Bloody Palace.

** ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]'': After you defeat Rhapthorne, you can find the quest to the kingdom of Dragovia...{{spoiler|and find out the Hero's heritage}}.

** Also in ''[[Dragon Quest V]]'': Okay, you've grabbed the [[MacGuffin]] and used its power, gone on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] and killed the underlings of the evil priest of death who killed your father, and now you finally get to finish him off climactically. Is it over? No. Now you have to {{spoiler|[[To Hell and Back|go to Hell]] and [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|kill the devil]]. Hope you remembered those [[Chekhov's Gun|rings]].}}

* Done sneakily in the Wii game ''No More Heroes'', where at the end of the game, AND after becoming the #1 Assassin, {{spoiler|The player is given the choice to save a clear file and watch one of two endings. The SECOND ending, which is only made available after you buy all the beam katana upgrades, involves you killing one more boss - the same boss that cheated you out of one of your own boss fights, the putative endgame boss being a [[Anticlimax Boss]].}}

* All of SSI's old ''[[Gold Box]]'' games had this. After completing the main quest you could continue playing and do any side quests you'd previously missed. ''Death Knights of Krynn'' and ''Pools of Darkness'' each had a [[Bonus Dungeon]] that was only accessible after completing the main game.

** Thought you were almost done when you defeated {{spoiler|Albus}} in ''[[Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia]]''? Guess again. Welcome to {{spoiler|Dracula's castle, which is at least half as big as a typical [[Metroidvania]] castle!}}

** All Castlevania games feature this to an extent, unlocking at least one final area with the [[True Final Boss]] by doing something specific during a boss battle (Defeating Graham with the right set of souls, defeating Aguni during the battle with Dario, etc.)

* Another Day from ''[[The World Ends With You]]''.

* ''[[Dark Cloud|Dark Chronicle]]'' (or ''Dark Cloud 2'', depending on where you live) does this, with an entire extra chapter past the end of the game.

* N64 classic ''Blast Corps'' does a real whammy. After solving the central problem of the leaking nuclear carrier, the heroes are suddenly given a new assignment to rescue a damaged space shuttle about to make an emergency landing. This seems like the final mission as well, but getting [[One Hundred Percent Completion]] suddenly has the Blast Corps team being sent for a mission to clean up debris ''on the moon''. Beating ''that'' mission unlocks more missions throughout the solar system. And then there's the platinum medals...

* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]: The Lost Levels'' has four more worlds for you to complete after World 8-4. (Five if you beat the first eight without any Warp Zones.)

* ''[[Dead Rising]]'' has several endings, depending on what you have and have not completed when the timer runs out. ''All'' are downer endings. But the A ending is a downer ending which, post-credits, leads to Overtime Mode. Overtime Mode offers a couple more hours of story, introducing along the way several new environments and new kinds of gameplay, finally allowing you to get the "True Ending". Which itself leads to ''another'' mode of gameplay (although there is no story after this point).

* After you beat the main plot in ''[[Tales of Legendia]]'', there's character quests that go into the backstory of every single character.

** The GBA remake of ''[[Tales of Phantasia]]'' has the "Let's Go Arche" minigame after you beat the game, in which Arche and Suzu have to solve people's problems in five minutes.

** Similarly in ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'', once you complete the game, there is some more content available around the game world including titles, a [[Boss Rush]] [[Bonus Dungeon]] and fully unlocking the arena.

* Both of the GBA ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]'' games have this. If you beat the final boss with all the gems in ''The Huge Adventure'', {{spoiler|all the bosses in the game become a [[Biological Mashup]], and you're subjected to [[Chasing Your Tail|a race to the end of an extra level]] before the boss hits you too many times.}} In ''N-Tranced'', collecting all the gems {{spoiler|allows you to subvert N. Tropy's [[Villain Exit Stage Left]] and give you a batch of new levels, climaxing with a battle with N. Tropy himself}}.

* Done cleverly with the [[Game Mod|ROM hack]] ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario World]]: The Second Reality Project Reloaded''. When you reach the end of Bowser's castle, {{spoiler|you'll find that Bowser escaped to the Second Reality, and you follow him there.}} Additionally, after clearing World 4, Ludwig's castle crashes into World 3. Upon activating at least the Blue Switch and subsequently exploring the Crashlanded Castle and its secret paths, you'll access {{spoiler|the secret dimension, Thirdspace}}.

* ''[[Operation Flashpoint]]'' has a very tame 'bonus level'. Years after the conflict you fly a Cessna to Everon island to reunite with old war buddies, and you can go wherever you like and explore the island with no threat of combat.

* ''[[Splinter Cell]]: Double Agent'' ends with an extra level that's only playable after the credits have rolled. In it, Sam Fisher takes out the remaining terrorists who escaped the JBA stronghold in the final mission, defuses a bomb, then swiftly escapes before the authorities can catch him.

* In ''[[Assassin's Creed]] 2'', there is a segment of the game after the final boss where you are allowed to roam free and complete sidequests for as long as you like, which is described in-game as the Assassins letting Desmond play around with the Animus as they relocate. Just don't expect anything exciting to happen.

* In [[Shining Force|Shining Force II]], if you wait for several minutes after the game credits have finished rolling, there is an optional [[Boss Rush|battle against almost every plot-important boss]] from the game.

* [[Bemani]] games often have some form of an Extra Stage which you can play if you perform well. In arcade versions, this gives you an extra song for free, and most games usually have one or more secret boss songs which can only be played on Extra Stage (and sometimes only if you fulfill an even stricter set of unlock requirements simultaneously while earning the Extra Stage) for a short while after they're released. In console releases, this usually gives you a single chance to play a boss song even if you haven't unlocked it, and may automatically unlock a boss song if you beat it on Extra Stage (whereas they're usually the hardest or take the longest to unlock normally). Do well on the boss song on Extra Stage and you might get the Encore Extra Stage (a.k.a. "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|One More Extra Stage]]" in some games), which usually allows you to select the [[True Final Boss]] song (or in some games, ''forces'' you to attempt it).

* The ''[[Inazuma Eleven]]'' games all allow you to unlock repeatable friendly matches against any story team you've beaten as well as extra teams not found in the story, of which some can only be unlocked by finishing the main story. Beating these can also unlock even more stuff, such as the ability to permanently recruit a previous [[Guest Star Party Member]] or previously unplayable NPC into your team. So far, each successive installment has increased the amount of content, with the third game having '''over a hundred''' such teams that can only be unlocked post-story.

* In ''[[The Quest of Ki]]'', after completing floor 60 and getting the game's ending, the player is invited to play through 40 more floors featuring trickier puzzles and elements borrowed from other Namco games.

* In ''[[Angband]]'', after defeating [[Final Boss|Morgoth]] on level 100, you can dive as deep as level 127.