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* The third ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' game for the NES, ''Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom'', is an interquel between the original NES ''Ninja Gaiden'' and ''Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos'' (since Ryu lost the Dragon Sword at the end of ''II'', but still has it in ''III''). ''Ninja Gaiden Shadow'' is a very distant prequel to the first NES game, while ''Ninja Gaiden'' for Xbox and its sequels (''Dragon Sword'' and ''2'') are set before the NES series (and presumably after ''Ninja Gaiden Shadow'').
* The ''[[Metroid]]'' series isn't a particularly confusing chronology, but the release order of the more recent games still doesn't necessarily match the order in which they take place, so it still qualifies. The order, as far as this troper knows it, is: Metroid/[[Enhanced Remake|Metroid Zero Mission]] > Metroid Prime > ...Prime Hunters > ...Prime 2: Echoes > ...Prime 3: Corruption > Metroid II: Return of Samus > Super Metroid > Metroid: Other M > Metroid Fusion, with [[Oddball in the Series]] page-image-provider Metroid Prime Pinball being somewhere tangentially related to the first Prime game.
* The games in [[Nihon Falcom]]'s ''[[Dragon Slayer]]'' series are largely unrelated to each other. While ''Dragon Slayer VIII: The Legend of Xanadu'' is a sequel to ''[[Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu]]'', and ''Dragon Slayer V: Sorcerian'' has tenuous connections to ''Dragon Slayer Jr.: Romancia'', it's perhaps just as well that "Dragon Slayer" was stripped out of the titles of most of the localized versions and the later sequels and remakes.
== Fighting Games ==
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** Square Enix's Ivalice realm is a consistent world visited by the player at various different point in history, each time centered on completely unrelated protagonists. The titles are non linear; the ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' games, ''Vagrant Story'' and ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]''.
*** That said, even Ivalice's continuity is a little haphazard. Back when they were new, the only indication of a connection between ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' and ''[[Vagrant Story]]'' was a few small references; FFT's own sequel later on, ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'', also had ''very'' little to do with its predecessor. Making Ivalice a more explicitly consistent setting was a later development, and it's [[Continuity Drift|still a bit different than it started out]] since it took some [[Retcon|retconning]] to fit things together.
** However, some games are now getting sequels, probably inspired by the success of the ''Compilation of [[Final Fantasy VII]]''. For example, ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' has a cellphone/WiiWare game sequel, ''[[Final Fantasy IV:
** And as of ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'', the entire series takes place in a larger [[The Multiverse|Multiverse]]. Provided ''Dissidia'' is [[Canon]], anyway.
*** ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' already hinted at a multiverse; ''[[Dissidia]]'' just elaborated on it.
*** As did ''[[Final Fantasy X 2|Final Fantasy X-2]]''. The [[All There in the Manual|Ultimania]] notes that {{spoiler|Shinra, the kid genius of the Gullwings, was the ancestor of [[Final Fantasy VII|Rufus Shinra]]. He even babbles about a concept remarkably similar to that of [[The Lifestream]] at one point in the game.}}
*** A Japanese guide for ''[[Final Fantasy II]]'' (''[[All There in the Manual|Final Fantasy IV Settei Shiryou Hen]]'', [http://www.sceneryrecalled.com/trans/ff4comp.htm for those curious]) states that the world of that game is the same of [[Final Fantasy IV|the Blue Planet]], only 100 years beforehand. It also states that the Deathbringer that King Fabul gives to Cecil was left to him by Leon from ''II'', who then renounced his status as a Dark Knight to become a priest (as a parallel to Cecil's own class change from Dark Knight to Paladin). However, this is possibly shot down ''[[Shrug of God|again]]'' in ''[[Final Fantasy IV:
** ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' is the first game to be made with other games (''[[Final Fantasy Versus XIII]]'' for example) in the same setting in mind. However they have nothing to do with each other for the most part, with the exception with the direct sequel ''[[Final Fantasy XIII-2]]''.
* Likewise, there are only two continuities in the ''[[Tales (series)]]'', non-canonical [[Crossover|crossovers]] ''[[Tales of the World]]'' notwithstanding. The first is the "Aselia" timeline, encompassing two ''[[Tales of Symphonia|Symphonia]]'' games and ''[[Tales of Phantasia|Phantasia]]''. All of them have different protagonists (the ''Symphonia'' sequel has a different protagonist, and both are set around 4000 years before ''Phantasia''). The second is the ''[[Tales of Destiny|Destiny]]'' timeline, the second game being about the son of the heroes of the first. In all cases, no [[Bag of Spilling]] is invoked.
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* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' series all take place in the same world and are roughly chronological, but have different locations and, for the most part, characters.
** Except for the spin-offs. Battlespire takes place just before and during the first game, while Redguard takes place roughly 300 years before the first game.
** The up-coming ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim|Skyrim]]'' is going to take place two centuries after Oblivion, but has been announced as a more direct sequel, events-wise.
* ''[[Dragon Quest]]'': Several titles are taken place in the same universe with similar past events. ''[[Dragon Quest III]]'' is the prequel of the first two games, which are collectively known as the "Loto Trilogy" or "Erdrick Trilogy" (depending on your translation).
** The [[Dragon Quest IV|fourth]], [[Dragon Quest V|fifth]], and [[Dragon Quest VI|sixth]] games are also part of their own saga (the loosely-connected Zenithian trilogy), albeit in [[Anachronic Order]].
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** It goes like this: ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]'' start off the series. At the same time that these are happening, the events of ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]'', games released six years later as part of the third generation, take place. Three years later, the events of ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' take place. A very short time afterwards, the events of ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'' occur. (It helps if you consider the remakes; ''Ruby and Sapphire'' and ''FireRed and LeafGreen'' are part of the same generation and take place at roughly the same time, as are ''Diamond and Pearl'' and ''HeartGold and SoulSilver''.) And then, some unknown, as of right now, time later, (likely multiple years) the events of ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' take place. ''[[Pokémon Colosseum]]'' and ''[[Pokémon XD]]'' go wherever you want them to.
** Until now, when [[Pokémon Black 2 and White 2]] are coming out.
* [[Dark Souls]], despite being a [[Spiritual Sequel]], is this to [[
* Most of the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' sequels are like this, the major exceptions being ''[[Shin Megami Tensei II]]'', the second ''[[Digital Devil Saga]]'' game, and the [[Raidou Kuzunoha vs. the Soulless Army|Raidou Kuzu]][[Raidou Kuzunoha VS King Abaddon|noha games]]. Some games are hinted/confirmed to take place in the same continuity as their predecessors (''[[Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne]]'', ''Persona4'') but feature completely different plotlines and characters, with only a handful of [[Call Back|Call Backs]] connecting them.
== Shoot Em Ups ==
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