What are some games which are direct sequels, but have a completely unrelated title to the predecessor? The only example I can think of is Skullmonkeys, which is a sequel to The Neverhood. Had no idea there was a previous game when I first played it. Any other games with titles that do this?
Bonus points if the sequel is also a completely different genre.
Doremi Fantasy on SNES is a sequel to Milon's Secret Castle. It has subtitle "Milon no Dokidoki Daibouken" so technically, you can catch a relation, but I've honestly had no idea it even exists.
Comfy 16-bit platformer in the vein of Kirby with the music by Jun Chikuma.
Radical Dreamers to Chrono Trigger
Equinox to Solstice (although in-game it says Solstice II during the intro)
Flower, Sun, and Rain is the coolest secret sequel I can think of.
If region shenanigans count, Fire 'n Ice
and Dynamite Cop also come to mind.
Goes into not retro territory, but a part of Travis Strikes Again is a sorta hidden sequel to 25th Ward which is the sequel to FSR.
>Flower, Sun, and Rain is the coolest secret sequel I can think of.
1:00:25 will sound like a meme but this is genuinely one of the coolest scenes in all of gaming
Sequel to what?
the games are the silver case, solomon's key and die hard arcade respectively
Lylat Wars was a sequel to Starwing
>Star Fox 64 is a sequel to Star Fox
No shit Sherlock
marathon takes place in the same universe as pathways into darknss
tvtropes (yeah yeah) has a page dedicated to this concept: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/StealthSequel/VideoGames
>darknss
*darkness
>tvtropes (yeah yeah)
Is TvTropes cringe? I like to read about a game or two there every now and then.
The issue is more the mindset its userbase generates which is a very...I don't know how to put it. The closest thing I can compare it to is SomethingAwful users.
>The closest thing I can compare it to is SomethingAwful users.
Insane communist troons?
Sorry, I meant like 2009-era goons, not current
Obsessive spergs who pretend to be friendly and smart but rapidly reveal that they are mean and stupid?
So, Gankerners should love them.
These days, yeah. It has gotten a lot meaner as other platforms have disappeared or banned users for that sort of behavior.
>The closest thing I can compare it to is SomethingAwful users.
So they should rate higher than what, 99% of the internet? Reminder, the only time Ganker was good was when it was primarily SA goons posting.
Sadly goons have fallen a long way from the EVE Online days of "we're not here to ruin the game, we're here to ruin YOUR game"
The amount of fun "edgy" people on the Internet that turned into the no fun allowed police is monumental. What in the christ happened?
troll remorse + peer pressure
Griefing was never "fun", it was always psycho. And it makes sense that people who used to do that now engage in internet witchhunts. Bad people all around.
Oh, yeah, no, I never participated in into sort of griefing campaign myself whether it's games or IRL. It sure was hilarious to hear about all sort of shit that was done but otherwise I just can't
goonswarm on EVE is the last remnant of that oldschool mindset because they're the goons that are in their 40s now and refused to change. They still operate until the MO of "frick over everyone not us", and because they're the biggest and most powerful corp in EVE, they've kinda ruined the game for everyone else forever.
It's dog shit
It reinforces the idea that everything should be codified into terms and solid ideas when in reality writing is more fluid than that.
Like for instance, there are like 50 pages on different types of magic, but none of them even really approach the idea of magic as you know....actual magic. Not something that can be defined or codified but the realm of God, the miraculous given form that you and I can never truly understand and that what we see as "magic" is in layman's terms God imposing his will upon the world and making it change. Because that is inherently something you can't really DEFINE, persay. Even though that's literally how magic works in Lord of the Rings.
>It reinforces the idea that everything should be codified into terms and solid ideas when in reality writing is more fluid than that.
That's exactly my problem with it, it encourages, for example, people to look at a game that has a safe with something important in it and say
>Ah they're employing the Macguffin Vault trope here! I wonder if it's going to be Not So Secure and cause a Disc 1 Fake Ending or maybe they'll Subvert that and the bad guys are Tumbler Tinkerers and we'll have a Doomsday Device Dilemma trope!
Absolutely insufferable.
And the user base loves to list nonsense just to fill space. Never look at the Hilarious in Hindsight category, it's always shit like 'This actor played an android in this movie, and in another movie later he played a friend of an android!' Hilarious.
I do admit, sometimes it's interesting to try and come up with plot scenarios that don't fall into their predefined boxes as much as possible.
TV Tropes is a fun concept and has a fair amount of good pages, but it's just obnoxiously informal for what is essentially a wiki, and has very poor quality control, so it's just full of stupid shit like people thinking a children's cartoon is nightmare fuel, thinking Gurren Lagann invented drills, or coming up with the most contrived ways of applying a trope to something just because the editor wants to mention their favorite video game on as many pages as possible.
The mods are also complete and utter spergs when it comes to censorship.
there's no way the site could've ended up as anything other than what it is, everything about it attracts autists, and I mean actual, clinical autists.
I often forget this game exists, it's rarely brought up in conversation compared to the first one, likely didn't sell as many copies which may have also had to do with both the change in publisher and the fact that it's an SNES exclusive this time. And maybe it's just not as good idk, I haven't played it. Sparkster is a more obvious one that most people know. The most confusing one is probably Secret of Mana, which is technically Final Fantasy Adventure II.
Forgot to say, Ghoul Patrol is the sequel to Zombies Ate My Neighbors
I haven't played a lot of Ghoul Patrol, maybe if you deep dive in it it's better than Zombies Ate My Neighbours in every way, but my first impression was that it was much worse
Does um jamma lammy count?
sort of
you can't really tell the games are at all related just based on their titles, you would have had to at least played parappa first. although um jammer is more spin-off, since there is an actual parappa 2.
pirates of caribbean 2003 is direct sequel to sea dogs 1
>Sabre Wulf
>Knight Lore
>Underwurlde
>Pentagram
Those four games were all direct sequels. So are
>The Staff of Karnath
>Entombed
>Blackwyche
>Dragon Skulle
age of mythology?
at the time it seemed like a sequel (or maybe a prequel to AoE 1), but then they went ahead and did aoe 3 a few years later, so it's just a spin-off
wtf is "Raiders of the Lost Ark"? i wanted to watch that Indiana Jones movie i'd always heard about. is this a knockoff?
me as a kid
Dragon View, although I get the overseas name change. Who the frick would proudly announce being a sequel to Drakkhen
Ketsui is a part of the DDP universe although in the dumbest way possible
Alien Carnage/Halloween Harry - Zombie Wars
Baron Baldric: A Grave Adventure - Mystic Towers
Pharao's Tomb - Arctic Adventure
The Lawnmower Man - Cyberwar
ITT:
scenarios are fake by definition
blood gear is "aurail scenario 2"
air zonk is a spiritual sequel to coryoon
parasol stars is subtitled "the story of bubble bobble 3" in its original release
one of the kunio games on snes is essentially a direct sequel to renegade
vigilante is basically a spartan x sequel
sunset riders got a couple spiritual sequels, one is a ninja game and the other is based on some cow cartoon
wonder boy 3 the dragon trap was first released in japan on the pc engine under the name "adventure island" so wonderboy fans probably had no idea at the time
star soldier on N64 is story wise a direct sequel to soldier blade
>parasol stars is subtitled "the story of bubble bobble 3" in its original release
basically Bubble Bobble had separate lines of gameplay sequels (the numbered games) and story sequels (Rainbow Islands and Parasol Stars). the latter continue from the ending of the first BB game, so you're playing Bub and Bob after they got uncursed from their dino forms.
X-Wing
TIE Fighter
Another World / Out of This World
Heart of the Alien
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Ghoul Patrol
DecAthlete / Athlete Kings
Winter Heat
Flashback
Fade to Black
Smash TV
Total Carnage
Shonibi
Shadow Dancer
Holy shit, thanks for that anon... I LOVED Another World and Heart of Darkness legitimately had zero clue Heart of the Alien existed. Does it hold up compared to the other two ??
It has no input from Eric Chahi and it's even more frustrating with worse controls. I didn't like it.