Playing the Player: Difference between revisions

* [[Eversion]] doesn't so much play the player as it sends the player into gibbering madness.

* ''[[Portal 2]]'' has fun with this by setting up the player's expectations and then messing with them. Storywise, by pulling the rug out from under the characterization halfway through, turning the game from a straightforward "defeat the villain" plot into a case of [[Evil Versus Evil]]. Gameplay-wise, by forcing you into a [[Violation of Common Sense]] to get several achievements and correspondingly mocking you for doing whatever you're told, no matter how likely it is to be a trap. This despite the fact that the game is purely linear and you have no choice but to do these things.

* ''[[Last Scenario]]'' lies to the player in the opening [[Info Dump]], so as to make [[The Reveal]] all the more shocking.

* ''[[Fire Emblem Tellius|Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance]]'' reveals rather early on that there is a [[The Mole|mole]] in the player's party, but who they are is ambiguous. Potential candidates include [[Tall, Dark and Snarky|Volke]] and Nasir, based on the timing of the reveal, but when [[The Lancer|Soren]] confronts the latter over the possibility during a mid-game conversation, Nasir basically shrugs him off and implies that ''Soren'' is hiding something. It turns out to {{spoiler|have been Nasir all along}}, but the game does a ''really'' good job of making it ambiguous as to who the real one is: to the extent that you may not be using either of the playable units under suspicion until it all clears up for fear of them backstabbing you mid-chapter.