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{{trope}}
{{quote|''"C'mon!"''|'''Link''', taking a break from being a [[Heroic Mime]] to demonstrate this trope in ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
Video games with a holler button allow the [[Player Character]] to call out to [[NPC
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** A glitch led to a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0uCWjQ6Og&feature=player_embedded hilarious showdown.] Warning, some spoilers.
* In ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'' you can have Wander call for his horse, Agro.
* ''[[
* Can be done in the ''[[Dead Rising]]'' games to herd survivors. Oddly, it also works in Infinity Mode, where it is completely useless (all the survivors are [[Everything Trying to Kill You|trying to kill you]].)
* The up button in ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' calls your horse. As an [[Acceptable Break From Reality]], you will always call a horse even if the one you legally own has died. This can be [[Game Breaker|abused]] for a source of income.
* In ''[[Samurai Warriors]] 2'', Keiji can call for his horse, and so can any player character as long as they have a horse equipped in ''[[Dynasty Warriors]] 5''. ''[[Warriors Orochi]]'' expanded it so anybody could call a horse (with the default being the worst horse in the game).
* In most of the ''[[Harvest Moon]]'' games, there are buttons to whistle for your dog or horse. In some games this also catches the attention of nearby [[NPC
* ''[[The Maw]]'' has a button so the main character can yell "Maw!", usually to call him to you.
* If a Shadow Pokemon goes into Hyper Mode during battles in ''[[Pokémon Colosseum]]'', there is an option to use up a turn calling out to the Pokemon, which snaps it back to normal. It also wakes them from sleep and, in the second game, boosts their accuracy. It's also useful for passing turns when trying to catch a trainer's shadow Pokémon.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
* The ''Zelda'' series has Epona's Song in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
* [[Valve]]'s online games tend to have a series of voice commands that you can use to alert your teammates to something quickly if you don't have a mic.
** ''[[
** ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'': There's a generic "look" command that is [[Context Sensitive Button|context-sensitive]] and will alert other teammates to whatever weapons, health, enemies or allies that you happen to be looking at. Similar to ''TF2'', there are also a bunch of meaningless-but-amusing [[Taunt Button]]-style commands.
** Atlas and P-Body of ''[[
* The Team Fortress example is obviously inspired by the [[Starsiege: Tribes]] series, which had dozens of voice commands you can use in a well-designed system to communicate without a microphone. V-F-D stands for "defend the flag!" (V = voice, F = flag-related commands, D = defend.) At the end of a round, you'll hear a lot of V-G-C-G "good game!" (V = voice, G = global, goes to both teams, C = compliments, G = good game.) The most famous of these is V-G-S, "[[Mork and Mindy|shazbot!]]"
* The first ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' used the Triangle button to call over your friends to you (or, if you where in the air when pressing Triangle, make them jump). The second game his Triangle as the [[Action Commands]] button instead, where it functions as this when escorting Minnie to the throne of Disney Castle.
* Hunting for Ames in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]'' is done by pushing Triangle with the Directional Microphone equipped, causing Raiden to ask "You're Ames, aren't you?". There's just the one inflection, but if you spam it repeatedly Raiden's questions will get increasingly bored ("I bet you're not Ames either."). Perhaps [[Lampshaded]] by the fact that there's a parrot who can learn to say the phrase if you spam it at it enough times.
* ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]'' let you give orders to your party members.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy|Final Fantasy XII]]'', there is a minigame of sorts where you must spread the word throughout the town of Bhujerba that your comrade Basch, contrary to popular belief, is still alive. By pressing a button, you could call attention to this by yelling out such things as "I'm Basch fon Ronsenberg of Dalmasca!" Your effectiveness in spreading this message would rise or fall upon your proximity to sympathetic or unsympathetic ears. ''Don't'' do this next to guards; the local guides, however, are particularly effective ({{spoiler|they're all members of [[La Résistance]]}}).
* ''[[Battlefield (
* In ''[[Drakengard]] 2'', there's a button that calls your dragon down. What makes it fall under the trope is that Nowe shouts out ''"Legna!"'' when you hit it. (Caim would likely have done the same with Angelus [[The Voiceless|if he had vocal cords]].)
* ''[[Disaster Report]]'' has this, as part of the point of the game is to look for other survivors in the huge (not-so-)natural disaster going on at the time.
* In ''[[Haunting Ground]]'' you can use the right analog stick to give commands to your canine companion, Hewie. Pushing it down calls him, leading to different hollers in different situations, from "Hewie!" to "Hewiiiieeeee! Help!"
* In ''[[
* ''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]'' briefly allows Harry to call out for his daughter Cheryl in the first several minutes of the game. He even has two
* In ''[[Pikmin]]'' and ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]
* In ''[[Okami]]'' you can press a button to make Amaterasu bark
* The ''[[X
* [[The
* ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' has a button for controlling Ashley, which alternates between "Follow" and "Wait," along with "Hide" if you're near a dumpster.
* ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' uses a button to change how your A.I. partner reacts; "Attack" makes your partner fight more aggressively, while "Cover" makes your partner fight more defensively and stay closer to you.
** You also have a button to shout encouragement {{spoiler|during the boss fight with Jill}}. Doing so will sometimes make the boss hesitate and open for an attack.
* ''[[
** ''Brotherhood'' also features, like ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' above, a button to call your horse. Luckily, all horses in the game know the art of [[Offscreen Teleportation]] and will gladly appear even on the top of the Coliseum's ruins for you - not that you can do much with them there.
* In ''[[SWAT 4]]'', pressing the use button with no context makes you yell at a suspect to drop the weapon and get down. You ''must'' do this for every suspect you see or lose points for unauthorized use of deadly force should they resist.
* Practically the entire point of the ''[[
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