Solo Sequence: Difference between revisions

In a party-based game or even multi-unit strategy game, a level or mission in which the player controls only one character - often the main hero on a solo escapade. Many RPGs will start in this mode before the hero meets other party members, so starting sequences don't count - but all further "one person left alone" sequences do. Doesn't count if the rest of the team isn't player-controlled but is AI-controlled and helps the player automatically, the character has to be really alone. Single duel-type fights have [[Duel Boss|their own tropes]], this is about a whole longer level to be completed with a single character.

Might lead to a [[Duel Boss]] (though ''just'' a solo fight, without a solo lead-in, wouldn't qualify for this trope).

See [[Solo Character Run]] when it's the player that decides to play with only a single character, for the added challenge.

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* ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' - When Cecil's ship is attacked, he ends up alone on a beach.

* ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' - Early on in act 2, Galuf goes solo to rescue his imprisoned comrades.

* ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' - fighting boss Dyne with Barret

* ''[[Star Craft 2]]'' - one mission has the player turn the tide of an AI-controlled battle using a single Ghost unit

* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' has a few Shepard-only side missions available as [[DLC]]: "Normandy Crash Site", where Shepard has to wander the eponymous location alone, contemplating the deaths of the soldiers who died under his/her command; "Overlord", where Shepard {{spoiler|has to fight the [[Final Boss]] alone after being thrown into [[Cyberspace]] while the rest of the squad are trapped}}; and "Arrival," where Shepard performs an espionage mission {{spoiler|that ends in the destruction of a solar system}}. Also, a short genre-shift plot mission where you play as {{spoiler|Joker}}.

* The Tihark Orchard and Augury rock missions in ''[[Guild Wars]]''.

* A few missions in ''[[Warcraft 3]]'', using an individual hero. Most notably, ''[[Defense of the Ancients]]''.

* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' has the [[Scrappy Level]] ''Fade'', which the Warden has to navigate on their own, optionally freeing the rest of the party for the [[Final Battle]] of the level.

* ''[[Ace Combat 5 The Unsung War]]'' has a single level that you have to complete without your three wingmen (and any weapons). Justified by the nature of the mission, namely, high-speed stealth recon.

** ''[[Ace Combat Zero the Belkan War]]'' has two sequences where you have to fly without a wingman: {{spoiler|after Pixy deserts you in mission 12 and after he kills PJ in mission 18 and you have to duke it out with him in the most epic [[Duel Boss]] battle of the series}}.

* Happens in [[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]], where [[The Hero|Marche]] has to run away from [[That One Boss|Llendar]] until Cid rescues you.

* ''[[Opoona]]'' has a segment right after {{spoiler|the [[Disc One Final Dungeon]]}}, where you suddenly have to solo your way through a desert as {{spoiler|Poleena}}. Thankfully, you are soon joined by a [[Guest Star Party Member]], but you still spend a significant amount of time alone.

* Annoyingly for a game based on tactically positioning your squadmates, ''[[Rainbow Six|Rainbow Six Vegas 2]]'' has a segment where your squad goes off to join the first game's protagonist, leaving your character to complete a level which has more in common with ''[[Splinter Cell]]'' then anything else, made more difficult by the game's (relative) lack of stealth mechanics. This is the [[Scrappy Level]] for a reason

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