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** The story: {{spoiler|The back-story reveals that Unova's two dragons, Reshiram and Zekrom (and probably Kyurem) were once one, and twin heroes formed Unova alongside it. However, one twin wanted things to remain natural and the other was in favor of urbanization. The dragon then split in two as a result, the older twin forming Reshiram and the younger twin forming Zekrom. N and Ghetsis are said to be the decendents of one of these twins.}}
** The Pokémon: Drilbur and its evolution, Excadrill, are reminiscent of the Mischievous Mole and Reconstructed Mole enemies respectively. Garbodor is similar to the Forlorn Junk Heap. Many others resemble enemies from the other Mother series games.
** One could make a case for the entire [[Pokémon|Pokémon series]] being a spiritual successor to the [[MOTHER]] series, considering that the two series were made in part by a common developer (Creatures Inc.), and share [https://web.archive.org/web/20130410093358/http://fangamer.com/forum/Games/Mother2/Earthbound-nods-references-and-similarities-in-the-Pokemon-games a number of uncanny similarities.]
* Raw Thrills, the arcade game devhouse headed by [[Eugene Jarvis]], has three instances of this.
** ''Target: Terror'' is a Spiritual Successor to ''Area 51'' and ''Maximum Force'', down to the similar graphical style.
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* The ''[[Boktai]]'' series (including ''Lunar Knights'') can be considered a spiritual successor to ''[[Metal Gear|Metal Gear: Ghost Babel]]''. The game engine is very similar, and Ikuya Nakamura, the director of all the ''Boktai'' games, was also the character designer of ''Ghost Babel''.
* The ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]'' series seems like a Spiritual Successor to ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'', where they took everything that set that game apart from the earlier Mario games and expanded on it, and the gameplay was even reminiscent of a Mario game. Keep in mind that ''[[Yoshi's Island]]'' only picked up its sequel status for American release.
* Nintendo recently announced a Chinese company is developing an MMORPG featuring all of the Disney franchises separated into different worlds that the players can visit called "Disney Fantasy Online". That's right, it's an MMORPG version of [[Kingdom Hearts]] with the Square elements subtracted. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131031115557/http://dsn.91.com/ The website] really screams it out, since the Disney characters are wearing the same outfits they do in [[Kingdom Hearts]].
* The Wii's menu system (including the default channels and at least part of ''[[Wii Sports]]'') is a Spiritual Successor to ''[[Mario Paint]]''. The music is too similar to be a coincidence, and the Wiimote works a lot like the old SNES Mouse did.
** The way you can customize the Wii menu through drag-and-drop is also very similar to the GBA Movie Player. Both the Wii and GBAMP also have 512MB of memory.
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