Better Than It Sounds/Video Games N-Z: Difference between revisions

** {{spoiler|''Paperboy 2''}}: Same as above, but now girls can do it too.

* {{spoiler|''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]''}}: [[The Everyman|Everyman]] tries saving a land of sentient fungi from a dragon turtle. The characters are flat.

** {{spoiler|''[[Super Paper Mario]]''}}: The wedding of the [[Fan-Preferred Couple]] nearly causes [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. [[The Everyman|Everyman]] fixes things by repeatedly breaking the third wall.

*** Or: A turtle marries a princess and dooms the whole universe. The day is saved when a man in a top hat marries a digital butterfly.

* {{spoiler|''[[River City Ransom]]''}}: Two high school [[Delinquents]] beat up an entire city worth of gangsters for the sake of one guy's girlfriend.

** Or: Beat up people to hear them barf.

** {{spoiler|''[[Yggdra Union]]''}}: Princess with a [[BFS|big sword]] and a deck of cards has to reclaim her kingdom from an empire with larger numbers (and, obviously, more cards).

*** {{spoiler|''[[Yggdra Unison]]''}}: Empire captures fortress; [[Lighter and Softer|very cutesy]] world war between twelve countries, each armed with a deck of cards, ensues.

* {{spoiler|''Shufflepuck Café''}}: In the farthest reaches of the galaxy, surrounded by exotic alien beings, you play air hockey.

* {{spoiler|''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]''}}: A sleeping alien god gets a skin disease. It takes decades for it to start scratching and centuries to actually wake up. Meanwhile, [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers|tree-hugging hippies discover that the local fungus is the path to apotheosis, man]]; [[Evil Overlord|Chairman Mao's reincarnation]] is worse than ever; [[The Spartan Way|ancient Greeks]] are apparently lead by a hot Latina; a [[Mad Scientist|scientist goes mad]]; [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Gordon Gekko is alive and well in the late 21st century]]; and [[Eagle Land|American]] [[Church Militant|Bible-thumpers annoy everybody]] ([[Acceptable Targets|just like today]], har har har).

* {{spoiler|''[[Silent Hill]]''}}: Your daughter gets lost in a foggy resort town, and an antiques dealer tries to convince you that she's actually her daughter. The cop and the doctor don't clarify things.

** Alternatively: A man keeps finding ways into parallel versions of buildings in which floors are a luxury, everything's rusty, and important things are marked by blood.

* {{spoiler|''The Simpsons Arcade Game''}}: The [[Yes-Man]] of the richest man in the city unintentionally kidnaps a baby during a botched robbery. Her family comes to her rescue.

* {{spoiler|''[[Sin]]''}}: An angry police officer battles a beautician with [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|a lot of money]], a lot of chest, and no ethics.

* {{spoiler|''[[Sinistar]]''}}: A guy in a spaceship gathers shiny rocks to keep a giant roaring head from eating him.

* {{spoiler|''[[Skies of Arcadia]]''}}: Two pirates and a [[Mysterious Waif|Waif]] go on an epic adventure to collect moon rocks. In the sky.

*** Or: A black mammal uses a gun to fight The Man. But The Man is an alien. [[Multiple Endings|Sometimes.]]

** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Storybook Series|Sonic and the Secret Rings]]''}}: Blue mammal <small>[[Recycled in Space|IN THE ARABIAN NIGHTS!]]</small> Also, he has a really bad case of heartburn.

*** Or, a hammy demon executes a complicated gambit that defies common sense to make a girl cry.

** {{spoiler|''[[Sonic Unleashed]]''}}: Blue mammal cursed to become a [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Blue Mammal That's Different.]]

* ''{{spoiler|[[Star Ocean]]}}'': The Japanese version of [[Star Trek]] minus the science fiction.

** ''{{spoiler|[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]}}'': Teenager gets marooned on a fantasy planet. His girlfriend is whomever he sucks up to the most.

* ''{{spoiler|Star Soldier R}}'': A [[It's Short, So It Sucks|five-minute]] [[Shmups|shoot-em-up]] that costs $8.

* ''{{spoiler|[[Star Wars Battlefront]]}}'': Fight wars of attrition with large numbers of infantry in a setting that clearly makes the concept obsolete.

** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Vesperia]]''}}: A hooligan goes on a quest to fix a fountain, but ends up in everyone else's quests. His friend disapproves.

** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Hearts]]''}}: A girl's heart breaks, and her friends take her on a journey to put it back together. Later, they save the world from a giant soul-eating flower from space. All this happens by way of [[Power of Friendship]].

** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Graces]]''}}: A young knight gets in a fight with his best friend. The little girl who follows him around frequently has to save him.

* {{spoiler|''[[Task Maker]]''}}: An all-powerful leader has you run his errands. If at any point you swear, you instantly die and go to hell.

* {{spoiler|''[[Twisted Metal]]''}}: Sadistic millionaire grants a single wish to the person who can survive an all-out war with people in cars that shoot missiles, ice beams and tactical nukes.

** {{spoiler|''[[Twisted Metal]] 2''}}: He does it again, around the world.

** {{spoiler|''[[Twisted Metal]]: Black''}}: He does it ''again'', in some clown's nightmares.

** {{spoiler|''[[Twisted Metal]]: Head-On''}}: He does it ''again'', '''''[[Department of Redundancy Department|again]]'''''.

** {{spoiler|''Unreal Tournament 2003''}}: Same as above, but shinier.

** {{spoiler|''[[Unreal Tournament 2004]]''}}: Same as above, but with vehicles.

** {{spoiler|''[[Unreal Tournament 3|Unreal Tournament III]]''}}: Same as above, but grittier.

** {{spoiler|''[[Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict|Unreal Championship 2 The Liandri Conflict]]''}}: They do it again, with melee combat and [[Mortal Kombat|Raiden]].

** {{spoiler|''Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade''}}: A planet belonging to greyskins weak in melee gets invaded by [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]] and [[The Legions of Hell]]. The [[Redshirt Army]] arrives to conquer the planet but attack their [[Super Soldier]] "allies" in the process. [[Terminator]]-wannabes wake up from a long sleep and [[Our Elves Are Better|Better Elves]] arrive to stop them.

** {{spoiler|''Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Soulstorm''}}: A system with four planets develops a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] and [[The Legions of Hell]] show up. The [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]] get a stronger leader and try fighting against the human [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]] and greyskins weak in melee. The [[Redshirt Army]] gets another leader to replace the one the greyskins shot dead, but has to face the [[Church Militant]] [[Amazon Brigade]]. [[Terminator]]-wannabes wake up from a long sleep and [[Our Elves Are Better|Better Elves]] arrive to stop them. The Not-So-Much-Better Elves arrive to take slaves and torture people.

* {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land]]''}}: Fat man does a [[Heel Face Turn]], travels through lands named after food, blows up [[Pirate]]'s gothic tower, and gives his nemesis a priceless object. And there's a [[Genie in a Bottle]] involved, who also does a [[Heel Face Turn]] and gives a castle...if you give him enough money.

** {{spoiler|''[[Wario Land]] 2''}}: After being robbed by a [[Pirate]], fat man sets out to kick her ass.