I can't help it, I'm a sucker for nuclear war being described in mythical terms >But the princes, putting the words of their wise men to naught, thought each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough, and in secret, I shall destroy those others in their sleep, and there will be none to fight back; the earth shall be mine. Such was the folly of princes, and there followed the Flame Deluge.
Chrystalis for the NES was probably one of the first. Though it's not a twist and you already know it's a postapocalyptic future where magic and shit came back.
Etrian Odyssey does this
Xenoblade did it twice with two different but related stories.
>Game starts out with two knights in the employ of a greedy king that's unjustly ransacking neighboring kingdoms >Ends with an alien from the moon (which is actually a space ship) attempting to terraform the planet with a giant robot
>opening cutscene is space sci-fi with some fricking evangelion tier bullshit going on >yep life sure is peaceful here in my quiet medieval village that raised me despite being an mysterious amnesic orphan, gotta help my friend get ready for his wedding tomorrow and try not to cuck him, sure hope nothing bad is ever gonna happen here...
The original NieR. So fricking kino. No... they still live on. You know them as Shades. Each Shade is a twisted remnant of what was once a human being.
>playing a historical game with a touch of sci fi here and there >suddenly turns into fantasy shit with ancient advanced civilizations and shit
thanks jade I remember that really surprising me at the time
Kind of unrelated, but does anyone have that meme drawing of the player character at level 1 and at level 100? I remember the player having a wand, a beret, and a bandolier, he looked pretty cool
Also, since I'm not a dick I'll give some names >Might and Magic >Nier >Rise of Legends
>humans are ancient astronauts and all of the out of place technology is just dug up from the crashed space ship that brought them to the planet
besides xenogears what else does this?
There are two games I played that pulled this twist. It was pretty neat.
Names?
Alienshield tale.
Alienshield tale 2
When TBC came out WOW went from fantasy to sci-fi and I quit. Fricking garbage
newbie didnt play wc3
big if true
>whoaaaaaaaaaaa Bloodeborne/Elden Ring is sci-fi looool!!!
>it's just celestial horror
Wait, this isn't an evil residence, this is a bioweapons laboratory
>you wouldn't genetically engineer humans to have cute animal ears and fluffy tails...
>legend tells the ancient world became decedent and was consumed by a fire of their own making
yep it's nukes.
I can't help it, I'm a sucker for nuclear war being described in mythical terms
>But the princes, putting the words of their wise men to naught, thought each to himself: If I but strike quickly enough, and in secret, I shall destroy those others in their sleep, and there will be none to fight back; the earth shall be mine. Such was the folly of princes, and there followed the Flame Deluge.
name 10 games where this happened
Etrian Odyssey
Xenoblade
Breath of the Wild
Kingdom Hearts
That's all I got
Isn't that the plot of Might and Magic? The planet was made by robots and shit? Hell you can find laser guns and mind controlled aliens.
This is a reach but i guess Elder Scrolls too
Chrystalis for the NES was probably one of the first. Though it's not a twist and you already know it's a postapocalyptic future where magic and shit came back.
Etrian Odyssey does this
Xenoblade did it twice with two different but related stories.
Endless Legend and its fricking great
I would play a sequel. Loved my dragon bros.
Wild Arms xf
>Game starts out with two knights in the employ of a greedy king that's unjustly ransacking neighboring kingdoms
>Ends with an alien from the moon (which is actually a space ship) attempting to terraform the planet with a giant robot
I got stuck on the demon wall
Adding Shining Force 1 to the list
Like a good half of final fantasy games
You mean pretty much every final fantasy game that isn't III.
Elden Ring.
Well yeah haven’t you seen Spirits Within?
>when even the ancient astronauts get more pussy than you
Im watching ancient aliens right now. They just said that dragons COULD BE ancient underwater UFOs that can fly into space
you COULD also not be a virgin anon
but i highly doubt that true
I just got a father’s day sloppy bj, cope and sneed rebbitor
The Xenoblade Chronicles trilogy does it well.
All the OG rpgs went sci-fi because they were all made by legit nerds
>opening cutscene is space sci-fi with some fricking evangelion tier bullshit going on
>yep life sure is peaceful here in my quiet medieval village that raised me despite being an mysterious amnesic orphan, gotta help my friend get ready for his wedding tomorrow and try not to cuck him, sure hope nothing bad is ever gonna happen here...
I love Xenogears.
The original NieR. So fricking kino. No... they still live on. You know them as Shades. Each Shade is a twisted remnant of what was once a human being.
Absolute kino.
if you arent super familiar with SMT then SMTIV does this pretty well.
>playing a historical game with a touch of sci fi here and there
>suddenly turns into fantasy shit with ancient advanced civilizations and shit
thanks jade I remember that really surprising me at the time
>play a sci fi game
>It was fantasy the whole time
Frick this game for ruining the series
>it's literally a videogame
I hate Till the End of Time so fricking much.
Which fricking sucks because up till the stupid twist the game was fun and had different routes depending on your party
It's absurd how much these games cuck you out of the sci-fi premise by making you spend 90% of the game on some backwards medieval fantasy planet.
kino trope
Kind of unrelated, but does anyone have that meme drawing of the player character at level 1 and at level 100? I remember the player having a wand, a beret, and a bandolier, he looked pretty cool
Also, since I'm not a dick I'll give some names
>Might and Magic
>Nier
>Rise of Legends
One piece
>humans are ancient astronauts and all of the out of place technology is just dug up from the crashed space ship that brought them to the planet
besides xenogears what else does this?
I think I remember Mass Effect doing something similar. Been quite a while
Halo
That was more or less the plot of Halo until that shit eating janny Frank retconned it
Star Ocean.
tales of legendia
Homeworld Deserts of Kharak
Nobody took me seriously but look who's laughing now.
Does it count?
>play a sci-fi game
>it was actually fantasy the whole time
That never happens, but the opposite happens constantly.
Old game. It was based on the books Dragon riders of Pern.
>play sci-fi game
>fight with swords
Strife(: Quest for the Sigil)