Love At First Sight/Video Games

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Examples of Love At First Sight in Video Games include:

Action

  • In the Assassin's Creed series, Altaïr does so with Maria, a Christian woman who pretended to be his real target, Robert de Sable. Despite killing dozens of guards just to get to the fake Sable, Altaïr immediately and instantly spares Maria's life, leading, as we learn in the sequel, to Ezio Auditore da Firenze and Desmond Miles, your other two protagonists in the series.

Action Adventure

Action Role-Playing Games

  • In Odin Sphere Oswald the emotionless Shadow Knight fell in Love At First Sight with Odin's daughter Gwendolyn when he saw her wearing her late mother's dress while on a spying mission in Odin's realm. A feather she left behind reminded him of the prophecy of the dragon Hindel: "Seek the bird... that shall be your destiny."
  • Neverwinter Nights 2 has Neeshka, who starts acting rather possessive towards the player almost immediately after he rescues her (except that the conclusion to that story was cut). The two romances that stayed in the game are much more realistically played, due to both of the non-player partners being quite shy.
    • Though Neeshka admits later on that the player was the first person to be nice to her. It's understandable that she'd latch on to him.
  • Possibly occurs with the player and Silk Fox/Sun Lian in Jade Empire. Their first conversation after she joins the party can end with her commenting that their flirting has gone much further than she originally intended and breaking off abruptly.

Adventure

  • Seeing as King's Quest is based on fairy tales, this trope gets thrown around liberally. In the Backstory, this happened for King Edward the Benevolent (Graham's predecessor), and it turned out badly (she was a witch scheming to get the magic chest of gold). Graham gets hit with this himself when he sees Valanice imprisoned in Kolyma, and his son gets a dose when he meets Princess Cassima. The exception to the rule, like usual, seems to be Rosella. While Edgar got a case of this upon seeing her in King's Quest IV, it took her a while to share the opinion.

First-Person Shooter

  • In Left 4 Dead‍'‍s The Passing, Ellis instantly falls in love with Zoey the second he sees her. Even saying they will skip the dating part and get right to the marriage. Well considering it is the Zombie Apocalypse, there probably wasn't time to date anyway.

Role-Playing Games

Stealth Based Game

Turn-Based Strategy

  • In Sengoku Rance, Kenshin ends up falling for Rance after beating him in a fight and getting a close-up look at him.

Visual Novels

  • Couple of examples in the Nasuverse:
    • First, Tsukihime, where Arcueid admits that she fell in love with Shiki at first sight at first being horribly butchered, something he pretty much reciprocated and spent 90% of the story denying to himself. Arcueid acts rather annoyed if Shiki goes for the other girls in their routes. Shiki counts much more than Arcuied does. She was more fascinated with him at first, rather than in love, and she was pretty much an Emotionless Girl before Shiki "broke" her. Shiki, on the hand, lusted for her, to the point of insanity, even if it largely due to his bloodline. He even admits that she was easily the most beautiful girl he's ever seen or will probably ever see.
      • There was also Roa for Arcueid hundreds of years ago. Didn't end well.
    • Second, in Fate/stay night, where Shirou falls in love with Saber upon first seeing and doesn't actually realize it for two weeks. The other two routes get around this by not letting Saber get enough contact with Shirou for them to really hit it off. Each route is... rather... different as to how it goes about it.
    • In Rin's route, Saber gets captured early on and then has an important argument with Archer, who uses his future Shirou credentials to make her reconsider her own motivations, a process which took past Shirou an entire route and many arguments to complete. She does not spend enough time with Shirou for the remainder of the route for them to hit it off, but the finale then has either her letting Rin have him or deciding to share. Saber, however, does not realize why Rin's so happy to have her stick around.
    • It's rather more tragic in Sakura's route, where the love at first sight is destroyed in the most soul-crushing way possible. The method? Kill Saber early in the route. Then have her come back. Evil. Then have Shirou kill her, and get so torn up doing it that he deliberately kills every memory he has of her, promising himself that he will forget her and move on to be with Sakura. Much like everything in the last route, a bit... sad, especially since Shirou never understood what he felt towards Saber, but continued anyway.
  • Esperia in Eien no Aselia fell in love with Yuuto at first sight, however, she wasn't sure what kind initially. She also has a lot of difficult actually opening up to people. In Kyouko's route, Yuuto becomes an Eternal without her, so she forgets him. When he comes back, she falls in love at first sight and is extremely confused and upset. When she becomes an Eternal as well to follow him, her newly ex boyfriend does the same. Minus following her, because he probably can't.
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