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* In ''[[Scratches]]'', Arthate's working notes contain his musings over whether the threat in his latest horror novel should turn out to be natural, supernatural, or [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]. {{spoiler|This corresponds to the original ending of the game itself, and to each of the multiple endings of the Director's Cut version.}}
* ''[[Touhou Project]]'' occasionally breaks the fourth wall, but more often makes passing comments in throwaway puns that give translators headaches that lean pretty heavily on the fourth wall. A good example is Marisa's comment in ''Imperishable Night'' where, when asked what she was doing out at night early on in the game, Marisa replies, "It's my annual [[Youkai]] Extermination Month. I'll go wherever youkai live." - ''Imperishable Night'' and the other Windows ''Touhou'' games before it were all released in the same month of consecutive years. It's worth noting that even though the game came out in the same month in real life, the games take place during different seasons in-game (with the seasons being important basic elements to several of those games, like ''Perfect Cherry Blossom'' being about someone stealing the season of Spring, keeping Winter from passing), meaning the joke only makes sense when it is referencing the fourth wall.
* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'''s [[Downloadable Content|DLC]] ''Lair of the Shadow Broker'', Shepard must battle waves of mooks with Liara as a hacking tool slowly unlocks a door for them--Shepard will reminisce about the days when you could just slap [[Mass Effect 1|omni-gel on everything]]. Liara says [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|the change made a lot of people angry]].
** In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'' the player meets with recurring character Conrad Verner once again. A well-known glitch in the second game was that Conrad would claim you had drawn a gun on him, even if you had not taken that option in the first game. Conrad apologizes for the mistake, saying he was really stressed out.
* In ''[[No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle]]'', after Travis kills Alice, the 2nd ranked assassin, he unleashes all his bottled rage due to [[Character Development]] at Sylvia. Except if you take the rant for yourself, [[You Bastard|it strikes]] ''[[You Bastard|really]]'' [[You Bastard|close to home.]]
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