The Player Is the Most Important Resource: Difference between revisions

 

A specific form of [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] applicable only to [[Video Games]].

 

Also compare [[It's Up to You]].

 

* The "Welcome, Ace" segment in the ''[[Eagle Eye Mysteries]]'' game manuals, where you're introduced to Jake and Jennifer Eagle before you actually start playing the game, has an example of this. According to their speech, you are invaluable as an Eagle Eye Detective Agency member because you can pick up clues that they might have missed during the course of sleuthing.

{{quote|Our most important resource is you. You're our partner in all the Eagle Eye cases, and we depend on you to notice things we might miss and help us out during the course of our investigations. And in the end, it's up to you to point to the guilty party.}}

* The computer game ''Royal Envoy'' has this; you go from one town to the next on a series of islands directing repair/reconstruction work accompanied by a clerk named Cedric who praises your efforts from time to time (particularly when being awarded a trophy and at the end of the game).

* The ''Chocolatier'' series of games, particularly at the end when the Baumiesters' firm is rebuilt, and when major human relationships get patched up (between two sisters in the first game, between the boss' daughter's boyfriend and the boss, rescuing the same boyfriend-cum-husband from captivity after WWII).

** Ditto with ''[[Pharaoh]]''. What would the Egyptians do without you...

* In the first ''[[Advance Wars]]'' you, as the tactician, get frequently commended by the Commanding Officers you play as for allowing them to win.

* At the end of ''[[Hotel Mario]]'':

{{quote|'''Luigi, Mario, and the Princess:''' '''You're''' the ''best'' player '''ever'''!}}

** Also happens if you {{spoiler|stick around after the end credits}} in ''[[Mother 3]]''.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWkKKSckNk This commercial] is a rather recent example of this.

* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', where the "Almighty Player Who Watches Over Us" is said to be the only one who will understand the [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|fourth-wall breaking]] control instructions.

** In ''Red Alert 2'', the video cutscenes after the final mission acknowledge that the success of the final battle was due to your leadership.

** ''In Tiberian Dawn'', winning the Nod campaign results in Kane praising the player's skills, and allowing you to decide what target to use the captured GDI ion cannon on.

 

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