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** Or: The princess has been kidnapped by demons. Are you a bad enough samurai to save the princess?

** {{spoiler|''Onimusha 3''}}: Samurai from medieval Japan ends up in today's Paris, a policeman from today ends up in medieval Japan. Timetravel extraordinaire to beat even more monsters and the [[Evil Overlord]] from the previous game. Again.

* {{spoiler|''[[Orbiter]]''}}: The Free Spaceflight Simulator. First, you study ''loooong'' instruction manuals. Then, you finally fly various missions. Most of them are mundane hard work. Piloting a spacecraft is not an easy job.

* {{spoiler|''[[Osu Tatakae Ouendan|Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]''}}: The people are not motivated. A squad of manly cheerleaders tries to alleviate this.

* {{spoiler|''[[Paradroid]]''}}: The player uses the power of [[Mind Rape]] to clear a spaceship of cleaners, [[Battle Butler|battle butlers]] and even [[Doctor Who|daleks]].

* {{spoiler|''[[Parasite Eve]]''}}: Genetic warfare breaks out at the opera. Your organelles hate you.

* {{spoiler|''[[Patapon]]''}}: As God, you command dancing eyeballs with weapons to war. You cannot control them directly so you have to use commands more complex than they need to be and be forced to wait after each command.

* {{spoiler|''[[The Path]]''}}: An adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood in which following the game's instructions means [[Game Over]].

* {{spoiler|''[[Radiant Silvergun]]''}}: An arcade shmup, only port was on a failed console and [[No Export for You|released in only one country]], contains tons of Engrish but no powerups.

* {{spoiler|''Rally Trophy''}}: You struggle with the steering wheel of your old 60s car. You start your racing career in the middle of nowhere in northwest Russia. Your co-driver is a bossy [[Jerkass]] and panics when seeing cows.

* {{spoiler|''[[Rampage]]''}}: You punch buildings until either they collapse or you fall and turn into a naked person.

* {{spoiler|''[[Raptor: Call of the Shadows]]''}}: An '''''[[Made of Iron|extremely durable]]''''' plane shoots down enemies.

** {{spoiler|''[[Ratchet & Clank|Ratchet and Clank]] Future: Quest for Booty''}}: Vaguely catlike repairman faces two pirates with the intent of finding where his factory-rejected robot friend is working.

** {{spoiler|''[[Ratchet and Clank Future A Crack In Time]]''}}: Vaguely catlike repairman finds out he isn't the [[Last of His Kind|only one]]. In the meantime, factory-rejected robot is now employed in the exact center of the universe, give or take fifty feet.

* {{spoiler|''[[Rayman]]'' series}}: Limbless man fights evil despite disability.

** {{spoiler|''Rayman'' (1995 game)}}: Limbless man must rescue dozens of his fangirls before he can confront the villain, who lives in a fortress made of candy and cake. There, he defeats the reassembled body parts of all the game's bosses, then lets the villain go free.

** {{spoiler|''Rance Quest''}}: The mercenary is saving {{spoiler|his frozen slave}}. He decides to take a detour so he can do what he does best.

*** Alternatively, one man's continuing struggle against [[The Loins Sleep Tonight|impotence]], so he can do what he does best.

* {{spoiler|''[[Razing Storm]]''}}: Two commandos and their squad kill an evil dictator. And ''lots'' of [[Humongous Mecha]].

* {{spoiler|''[[Recettear]]: an Item Shop's Tale''}}: In a world full of adventurers, you play as the shopkeeper.

* {{spoiler|''Resistance''}}: You must stop a bunch of aliens that are digging up funny looking towers and trying to destroy humanity for some reason.

* {{spoiler|''[[Retro Game Challenge]]''}}: Game show host has become a disembodied evil head and sends you back in time to play Nintendo, so his 10-year old self can help you defeat himself.

* {{spoiler|''Revolution X''}}: Rescue Aerosmith from an [[Culture Police|evil government]] by shooting CDs at its troops.

* {{spoiler|''[[Rez]]''}}: You have to fix an AI that's not working well by shooting stuff to techno music.

** {{spoiler|''Project Justice''}}: A lunatic in tight clothing and extendable claws sets out to take over all the schools. The obvious solution from the last game is again the only option.

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

* {{spoiler|''[[Riviera: The Promised Land]]''}}: A fallen angel and his harem attempt to stop his old companions from bringing about [[The End of the World as We Know It]].

** {{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|''Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves''}}: While about to be eaten by a dinosaur, the career criminal remembers how he talked other career criminals into helping him break into his own vault.

* {{spoiler|''[[Smash TV]]''}}: Two shirtless guys compete in a game show to win fabulous prizes.

* {{spoiler|''[[Solatorobo]]''}}: A dog on a robot does odd jobs while trying to [[Save the World]].

* {{spoiler|''Solitaire''}}: Winning just means you beat the odds against being screwed over from the beginning.

* {{spoiler|''[[Soul Series]]''}}: A [[BFS|big]] (and powerful) [[BFS|sword]] enslaves and maddens its users [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|(naturally)]]. Fight against an opponent over [[Bottomless Pits]] to obtain, destroy, or help it. Maybe you'll get its [[Inverted Trope|good]] [[Evil Twin|twin]] to help. [[Bloodless Carnage|It's hard to tell if anyone dies.]]

** {{spoiler|1=''SoulCalibur IV''}}: [[Clothing Damage|You can break your opponent's clothing.]] [[Fan Service|What do you mean that sounds gratuitious?]] Also, [[Rule of Cool|Darth Vader fights ninjas]].

* {{spoiler|''[[Space Channel 5]]''}}: A newscaster enlists the aid of [[Michael Jackson]] in out-dancing rubber aliens.

** {{spoiler|''Space Channel 5 Part 2''}}: The President has been kidnapped by robots. Are you a good enough dancer to rescue the President?

** {{spoiler|''Clear Sky''}}: Man wakes up, is sent on a quest to stop the place from exploding every hour. Figures out the way to stop it is to kill the previously mentioned man. {{spoiler|He fails at the killing part.}}

* ''{{spoiler|[[Star Control]] II}}'': A young man solves his caterpillar problem through genocide. Sort of like Centipede... [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!]]

** ''{{spoiler|Star Fox 64}}'': Another way the plot of the first game might have happened. You face the difficult moral decision of abandoning your target to save your teammates. Frequently.

** ''{{spoiler|[[Star Fox Adventures]]}}'': Our hero saves a bunch of British lizards from a bunch of smaller lizards using a stick. For the money. And maybe a romantic interest/furry [[Fetish Fuel]].

** {{spoiler|''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation]]''}}: The Mary Sues get their own game series. Now there's only a few groups, but instead, they're making a ''lot'' of robots.

** {{spoiler|''[[Endless Frontier]]: [[Super Robot Wars]] OG Saga''}}: Multiple sets of [[Expy|suspiciously similar partnerships]] team up with robots, [[Humongous Mecha|giant]] and otherwise, to fight every villain from at least four games. Much [[Gainaxing|fanservice]] ensues.

** {{spoiler|''Super Smash Bros. Melee''}}: Trophies are brought to life in order to fight each other.

** {{spoiler|''Super Smash Bros. Brawl''}}: The trophies are brought to life again, only this time there's an actual plot. Much of it involves trophies being brought to life to fight each other.

** {{spoiler|''System Shock 2''}}: The computer the first man hacked finds another man, knocks him out, and gives him the same operation.

*** Alternatively: Squishy space zombies and insane computer duke it out on FTL ship. Man becomes insane computer's surprise nuke, beats a Russian collectivist, and rebels.

* {{spoiler|''[[Sweet Home (video game)|Sweet Home]]''}}: Five uninvited visitors enter a private home and anger the lady of the house at the moment of their arrival. They also take photos of the valuable paintings in the house without permission and kill a notable amount of the inhabitants with kitchen utensils. In the end, they evict the lady using the corpse of her child, who was killed in an incinerator.

* {{spoiler|''Taiko no Tatsujin''}}: Talking drum has two notes.

** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Destiny]]''}}: A boy with a talking sword must save the world from evil businessmen.

*** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Destiny]] 2''}}: [[Kid Hero]] tries to avenge the previous hero. The man who betrayed his father comes back to life to help him.

** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Eternia]]''}}: The sky is falling. The world's only hope is a guy in a really fruity hat. Failing that, a guy in a really fruity shirt. You are the guy in the shirt.

** {{spoiler|''[[Tales of Symphonia]]''}}: You fight against angels led by a spandex bodysuit-wearing legendary hero and ruin his plans for world peace.

** Alternative the seventh: Ethnic stereotypes fight to the death in a cartoonish [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|desert and/or industrial]] [[Zero Punctuation|environment]]. Remember, it's not whether you win or lose, it's how many hats you have.

* {{spoiler|''[[Tekken]] (entire series)''}}: Members of a dysfunctional family violently argue over property.

** {{spoiler|''Tekken 2''}}: [[Shotoclone|Shotoclone's]] father lives. He returns the favor with interest.

** {{spoiler|''Tekken 3''}}: [[Shotoclone|Shotoclone's]] son asks his grandfather for help. Things don't end very well.

* {{spoiler|''[[Vacant Sky]]''}}: An [[Ordinary High School Student|ordinary high school girl]] gets murdered and spends a lot of time complaining about it.

* {{spoiler|''[[Vagrant Story]]''}}: A royal peacekeeper is sent into a haunted town to rescue the son of the duke of a kingdom. A creepy pale-skinned guy dressed in chain mail taunts him every step of the way.

** Alternatively: It's WWII with women of mass destruction. The [[Fantastic Racism]] is due to the fact that you have the wrong hair color. And yes, you are Poland.

*** Alternative to the alternative: Battlefield 1942: JRPG Edition.

* {{spoiler|''[[Vectorman]]''}}: A garbage-hauling robot has to stop a sentient nuclear weapon from taking over the world, using only his shooting hands and burning feet. He encounters fat versions of himself, killer light bulbs, and pesky mosquitoes.

** {{spoiler|''[[Vectorman|Vectorman 2]]''}}: A garbage-hauling robot has to stop a bunch of over-mutated bugs and their big-brained queen from taking over the world.

* {{spoiler|''[[Viewtiful Joe]]''}}: Movie fanboy obsesses over movies, pretends to be his hero.

** {{spoiler|''Viewtiful Joe 2''}}: Said fanboy teams up with his girlfriend to punch his father in the face.

*** {{spoiler|''World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King''}}: The immigrants realize they have yet to colonize the Arctic and surrounding areas. They seek to rectify the situation. Meanwhile, a group of natives become disgusted with anti-foreigner sentiment and decide to help the immigrants.

*** {{spoiler|''World of Warcraft: Cataclysm''}}: The natives and immigrants resume their war. A senior official, formerly in exile because of his skin color, decides to return home. This causes property values to plummet. Furries and insane corporate executives join the grassroots campaign to kick him out of the country.

* {{spoiler|''[[Warhammer 40000]]: [[Dawn of War]]''}}: A bunch of red-[[Powered Armor|armoured]] [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]] land on a planet to help the local [[Redshirt Army]] fight off an invasion of [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]]. A [[Church Militant]] shows up, looking for an invasion of [[The Legions of Hell]]. [[The Problem with Licensed Games|It's also licensed.]]

** {{spoiler|''Warhammer 40000: Dawn of War: Winter Assault''}}: A [[Humongous Mecha]] was wrecked on an [[Single Biome Planet|icy planet]] some years ago. The [[Redshirt Army]], reluctantly aided by [[Our Elves Are Better|Better Elves]], fight against [[Our Orcs Are Different|Different Orcs]] and [[The Legions of Hell]] to get to the 'mech, only to find [[Terminator]]-wannabes with pyramids waiting.

** {{spoiler|''[[Marvel vs. Capcom Clash of the Superheroes]]''}}: Non-humans, [[Badass Normal|humans with skill]], humans with super powers and a human with power armor battle martial artists, a monster, robots, a mech pilot, an assassin, and another human with power armor in a tag team match. There is occasional outside interference.

** {{spoiler|''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]''}}: The same characters from one side of all the previous games plus more non-humans, another human with power armor, a non-human-hunting robot, and a space alien battle the same characters from the other side of all the previous games plus more martial artists, more monsters, a monster-hunting bounty hunter, more robots, a pirate, a fat walking cactus, a transforming monkey girl, a human with skills and guns and zombies, and a futuristic swordsman in a 3-on-3 tag team match.

* {{spoiler|''[[X Wing]]''}}: Slaughter thousands upon thousands of relatively unarmored people just doin' their jobs in your quest to overthrow a perfectly legal government. [[You Bastard]].

** {{spoiler|''[[TIE Fighter]]''}}: You fly [[We Have Reserves|a foil can armed with laser pointers]] [[Villain Protagonist|against the good guys]].

** {{spoiler|''[[X Wing|X-Wing Alliance]]''}}: Join the guy from the first game because of daddy issues. Continue to be a terrorist.

* {{spoiler|''Yosumin!''}}: You force smiling shapes to kill themselves in order to repair a stained-glass window.