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[[File:its_not_a_video_game_but_it_still_fits.jpg|link=Mahou Sensei Negima|frame|Welcome to the [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place|Gravekeeper's Palace]]]]

 

 

{{quote|''"This door just'' screams ''endgame."''|Shiki, [[The World Ends With You]]}}

 

== [[Fighting Game]] ==

** {{spoiler|And the ominous shadowed gate with the trophies of all those you defeat inside the Great Maze. The Very Definitely Final Part of the Very Definitely Final Dungeon ''within'' the Very Definitely Final Dungeon.}}

 

** [[Pacifist Run|Or the knowledge that you're going to have to kill your first, and last opponent.]]

* The final level of the third (and, so far, final) ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' game is the Cooper family vault, where not only are you going through the entire history of the Cooper family, but you're also having to use all your moves to get through it.

** {{spoiler|Instead, the '''actual''' final level is the Bank, which has been just out of reach for the entire game until the very end, similarly teasing the player.}}

* The final level of ''[[Psychonauts]]'' is Very Definitely Final not only in appearance, but theme. Visually, it's a [[Circus of Fear]] made entirely out of [[Level Ate|raw, bloody meat]]--quite possibly the creepiest thing in the game thus far. Thematically, it's inside the head of the [[Big Bad]] himself, and, due to [[Applied Phlebotinum]], the ''hero's'' head as well. In the previous level, you've fought the [[Freudian Excuse|Freudian Excuses]] of assorted people; now you're fighting your ''own'' demons, and those that made the [[Big Bad]] who he is.

 

== [[Real Time Strategy]] ==

** In fairness, the expansion pack (and sequel) show that it wasn't the only Temple of Nod. It later becomes a standard building for Nod. Then the third game reveals that there is Temple '''Prime'''... [[Disc One Final Dungeon|Which gets besieged (three times, by different forces) and blown up by a]] [[Kill Sat]] [[Disc One Final Dungeon|in the middle of both campaigns.]] [[Xanatos Gambit|exactly what Kane wanted.]]

** Similarly the final missions of Tiberium Wars certainly feel like a final dungeon. You start off the campaign in the Blue zones either containing Nod insurgents or causing havoc as Nod, where the tiberium levels are low and contained. Then the action moves into the yellow zones as the fight is taken to Nod's front door, where tiberium proliferates and structures are all dilapidated. The final levels take place deep in red zones, where tiberium contamination is so high there are whole glaciers of the stuff and the blasted landscape looks more alien than anything, and that's besides the gigantic,glowing towers.

** [[Final Fantasy IX|Ancestral memory]].

** [[Final Fantasy X|Some sort of crazy dimension]] {{spoiler|inside Sin, though the game does a fake out with Zanarkand looking like the end.}}.

** ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' gets special mention because of having ''several'' of these dungeons, all [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]] of their storylines. Such examples are the Shadowlord's Castle for the original storyline, {{spoiler|the floating Zilart city of Tu'Lia}} in ''Rise of The Zilart'', and {{spoiler|the Zilart ''Capital'' of Al'Taieu... in ''another dimension''}} in ''Chains of Promathia'', which also has the very last boss fight take place {{spoiler|''Above Vana'Diel!''}} Yes, the FFXI teams love being over-the-top, why do you ask?

*** Special mention to the final fight in the ''Treasures of Aht Urghan'' expansion where you fight {{spoiler|a newly summoned [[Light Is Not Good|Alexander]] inside the giant shell of his previous summon.}} Although you don't have to fight your way there and you could enter the area before that, it is still kind of freaky.