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** {{spoiler|''Princess 30''}}: ...for the guards to shut the castle gates because the crossbow-wielding adventurer princess missed her curfew.
** {{spoiler|''Knight 30''}}: ...for a wizard to set off a magical nuke while he uses an undead warrior as a meat shield.
* {{spoiler|''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]''}}: An ancient ring possessing ultimate power must be destroyed before the evil forces seeking it can obtain it and use it to destroy all life. [[The Lord of the Rings|No, not that one]], this one has [[Space Marine]]s.
** A child soldier and his imaginary friend fight against nasty people for a giant hula-hoop.
** {{spoiler|''[[Halo 2]]''}}: [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]] disagree on what fairy tales they want to believe more. [[Little Shop of Horrors|Audrey]] chats up [[Space Marine]]s while sitting in his grave, and [[The End of the World as We Know It]] is on the way.
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* {{spoiler|''[[Myst]]''}}: In the early nineteenth century, a person finds a book in a New Mexico desert and becomes involved in the life of a troubled man and his family problems.
** {{spoiler|''Riven''}}: You run around five islands situated in an archipelago and try to outsmart an old guy with a gun [[A God Am I|who thinks he's God]]. The world violently implodes into outer space at the end, but it's okay.
** {{spoiler|''Myst III: Exile''}}: You have to save a magical book from [[The Lord of the Rings|Grima Wormtongue]] armed with a hammer. To defeat him you have to [[Zeppelins from Another World|build a blimp]] and a roller coaster pinball machine and electrocute a [[Man-Eating Plant|bird-eating plant]].
** {{spoiler|''Myst IV: Revelation''}}: A guy kidnaps his sister and you have to [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|fall asleep in a giant fungus and travel through a trippy dreamworld]] to save her, but first you have to decide which of the girl's brothers did it. One is a [[Psychopathic Manchild|murderous psychopath]] and the other has [[Made of Explodium|exploding musical crystals]].
** {{spoiler|''Uru: Ages Beyond Myst''}}: In the present day, a whole bunch of people get to wander around various worlds touching cloths and moving pillars back and forth. However the company keeps losing funding, making you do it on your own.
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