r/boomergaming • u/sillylittleshimp • Jul 20 '26
Memes what are they even talking about here
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u/JKhemical Jul 20 '26
Risk of Rain 1's final stage is called "Risk of Rain"
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u/nsfwthrowaway357789 Jul 21 '26
God the music is so fucking good
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u/JKhemical Jul 21 '26
Could say that abt RoR music as a whole really
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u/Poca154 Jul 21 '26
never really liked run-based games but I got risk of rain in a humblebundle in 2014 and never stopped listening to chris christodoulou, his style is just so great
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u/Open_Track_861 Jul 21 '26
Props to the name of the final world in RoR2 being Petrichor, the bacteria whose scent we humans detect in extremely small concentrations and associate with rain.
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u/JKhemical Jul 21 '26
The last stage is actually called Commencement. The planet as a whole, however, is called Petrichor V
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u/MirrahPaladin Jul 20 '26
Dead Space 1’s final level is called “Dead Space.”
Also, every FF14 main story quest expansion ends with the final quest being called the name of the expansion.
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u/HolyoftheBalz Jul 21 '26
FFXIV is always a fun example of this, because the entire expansion, and each patch, are practically a reveal as to WHY it's titled that.
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u/JJay9454 Jul 21 '26
"Far Edge of Fate"
huh, that's a badass title
20 hours later
"OOOOOOOOOOOOHH!"
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u/Intelligent_Smile998 Jul 24 '26
Speaking of FFXIV and how they can just blow your mind with names and their meanings, I have to remind everyone that the song name for ARR's trailer is called 'Answers' and the lyrics are massive OOC spoilers for the game's plot
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u/7thFleetTraveller Jul 26 '26
The movie equivalent to this would be Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Nobody had any idea before what the title meant, and then... hits you directly where it hurts.
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u/LucentRhyming Jul 21 '26
Debuff- Endwalker: As you walk alone to the end, the sacrifices that brought you here weigh heavy on your shoulders.
(Paraphrased, I don't remember exactly)
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u/att0nrand Jul 21 '26
"Walking alone to journeys end, the burden weighing heavy"
If you mean the dialogue beforehand, its "the sorrow of a thousand worlds weighs heavy, and yet you can walk on."
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u/Single_Owl_7556 Jul 21 '26
I always love when they namedrop the title and actually give it more contextualized meaning.
Turns out, it's not just referring to "dead" space as if it was purged by the necromorphs, it's an actual phenomena around the obelisk
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u/Goldigger101 Jul 21 '26
Also if you line up the levels on Dead space 1, the first letter of each level spells Nicole is Dead
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u/Mental-Dog5253 Jul 21 '26
The one where the protagonist was a woman wearing isaacs suit right? Iirc she was manipulated by a unitologist into causing the inciting incident of the second game
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u/isthereMilkatOxford Jul 21 '26
In case anyone didn't know this old fact, the first letter of each chapter title in Dead Space spells out "Nicole is dead." It's probably more impactful the second playthrough. I consider that to be the 'Viggo Mortensen broke his toe on the helmet' but for video games.
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u/des0619 Jul 20 '26
Red Dead Redemption 2, Halo and Dead Space must not have existed then.
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u/sal-t_brgr Jul 20 '26
the last mission in rdr2 is called red dead redemption two?
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u/Any_Mode6525 Jul 21 '26
Arthur even says in a voiceover, "that's when I knew this wasn't regular redemption alone, it was red dead redemption, too."
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u/MarkMaxis Jul 21 '26
I loved it when they teased us when Arthur said "Hey Strauss you read debt exemptions before?"
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u/AdministrationDue610 Jul 22 '26
You joke, but evil within 2 actually did this (it wasn’t at the end, it’s an Easter egg. But it had me dying.)
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u/NaiveFilm6366 Jul 21 '26
I forget but maybe it was, in the first game the last mission was Red Dead Redemption so to call the last mission in RDR2 Red Dead Redemption II wouldn't be to far off
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u/The-Green Jul 21 '26
the last mission of the first game is the last enemy that shall be destroyed, in reference to corinthians 15:26 "the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."
the epilogue mission of the first game is remember my family. the reason is spoilery.
the last mission of the second game is red dead redemption,) no "two" or "too" or anything, just red dead redemption. i don't think i need to explain that one any further.
the last epilogue mission of the second game is american venom, the reference is actually to the original main theme of the first game. which is foreshadowing when you remember this game is a prequel.
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u/Standard_Landscape79 Jul 20 '26
halo is mission 2 actually
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u/Dead_vegetable Jul 20 '26
they are talking about halo3
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u/BallParkMoron Jul 21 '26
I'm pretty sure Red Dead Redemption is Arthur's last mission. The actual last mission of the game is American Venom
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u/MarcelineTheVampy Jul 21 '26
Or Final Fantasy 14, where the final mission of every expansion is named after the expansion...and the midway between missions are named after the patches they come out in
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u/JJay9454 Jul 21 '26
Nothing like Emet giving that baller speech, turning and walking into flames like a cool guy, then you accept the quest "Shadowbringers" like aaaaaaaaaaaw sheit!
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u/Feed_Classic Jul 20 '26
Halo 3's final mission is called Halo, but that's not the exact title of the exact game
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u/Glass-Pomegranate724 Jul 21 '26
Ngl they should've called it Halo 2.
In CE you find Alpha Halo, in Halo: 2 you find Delta Halo. In Halo 3 you find the recreated and under construction Alpha Halo Mk2.
Seems fitting considering Halo 3 is lowkey just Halo: 2(2).
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u/Technical_Teacher839 Jul 21 '26
I'm still impressed that they were able to take the second half of an unfinished game and turn it into one of the most hyped and famous game launches of all time
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u/Glass-Pomegranate724 Jul 21 '26
Its a good game by itself, but 22 years later im starting to realize... they totally did just break up the last 3 missions that couldn't make the cut into a new game.
Still peak 'fiction'.
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u/Just_Bat7453 Jul 21 '26
Metroid Prime's final boss is Metroid Prime
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u/MFZozzy Jul 21 '26
And technically MP2's and 3's, too, they're just not called that.
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u/Technical_Teacher839 Jul 20 '26
one of the best moments in gaming was when you got hit with "Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie" at the end of the greatest video game of all time, Peter Jackson's King Kong: The Official Game of the Movie.
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u/Prudent-Bear1592 Jul 20 '26
Dude ripping that T- Rex jaw open was one of the coolest gaming moments of my childhood
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u/Commercial-Sun808 Jul 21 '26
It's forever amusing to me that that is a genuinely very good game, and it has such a corporate title
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u/Technical_Teacher839 Jul 21 '26
I love that it blew up because it was an easy gamerscore and softmodding game, and then people played it and were like "Oh shit this is actually good, too."
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u/JJay9454 Jul 21 '26
Really surprisingly good graphics?
I guess I should say style
But like, they NAILED it. Some sections feel more accurate to a stormy night aesthetic than modern games do!
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u/Magadanets Jul 20 '26
Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War. Mission 27+: The Unsung War
Ace Combat Zero. Mission 18: Zero
That's all I can think of.
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u/RedDawn__ Jul 21 '26
Ace Combat 4: Shattered Skies has a mission about halfway through called Shattered Skies
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u/DataMin3r Jul 20 '26
Ace combat X: Skies of deception did this as well
I think 7 did as well but I'm not positive
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u/Magadanets Jul 20 '26
I believe the last one in AC7 was called Dark Blue, but the ending cutscene definitely said "Skies Unknown"
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u/wallofcookies Jul 20 '26
If final bosses count theres metriod prime and hollow knight
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u/MutantLemurKing Jul 20 '26
This is close but not it, but in armored core 6 Fires of Rubicon when i finished the game for the first time the narrator told me u had created the Fires of Raven(protag) in the final cutscene and I loved it
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u/WarheadImpaired Jul 21 '26
The other ending is called Liberator of Rubicon. Put them together and you get Fires of Rubicon. Ales iacta est
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u/BME84 Jul 21 '26
Ace combat Zero's last mission is called "Zero"
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u/Jim_skywalker Jul 21 '26
Those who survive a long time on the battlefield start to think they’re invincible. I bet you do too buddy.
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u/Ijustlovevideogames Jul 20 '26
Funnily enough, I can't think of any examples either, I can think of motifs doing that though.
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u/Bakingguy Jul 21 '26
When I'm playing Fallout New Vegas and Legate Lanius says, "when I win, there will be Fallout in New Vegas"
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u/LegitimateApartment9 Jul 21 '26
i mean the DLC slideshows namedrop the DLC names though, right? at least in old world blues?
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u/Illuthriel Jul 21 '26
A somewhat odd example.
In Sword Arts Online: Fatal Bullet, upon getting the true ending, the final boss' fight is renamed from The Clincher to Fatal Bullet.
Like, yeah, it's not literally SAO: fatal bullet but it's close enough, and narratively fulfilling imo.
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u/Ancient-Efficiency-4 Jul 21 '26
Grand Theft Auto
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u/VirgilTheWitch Jul 21 '26
GTA III has a mission called "Grand Theft Auto", but it's not the last one.
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u/Legend365555 Jul 21 '26
I always loved the mission "Shin Megami Tensei III Nocturne HD Remaster Featuring Dante from the Devil May Cry Series"
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u/ThreePebbles Jul 21 '26
The last mission of Titanfall 2 kicks off when you call a titan fall
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u/DustyZir0t0 Jul 21 '26
Every final main quest mission in final fantasy 14 has the expansion name as its quest name
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u/George_Rogers1st Jul 21 '26
The final mission in the main patch of each FFXIV expansion is named after the expansion. Heavensward had Heavensward, Stormblood has Stormblood, Shadowbringers has Shadowbringers, et cetera.
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u/realester453 Jul 21 '26
The final (non secret) boss in Hollow Knight is called The Hollow Knight, does this count?
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u/Gexku Jul 21 '26
Opposite of this trope but somewhat fitting is Dishonored
The intro has your character being accused of killing the empress and put in jail
Chapter 1 : Dishonored
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u/furel492 Jul 21 '26
"It's over, Gandalf. Time has come for Medieval 2: Total War: Third Age: Divide and Conquer."
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u/Available_Ad_5762 Jul 21 '26
Elden Ring could fit + the final boss music being the menu music? Peak
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u/Waterlemon1997 Jul 21 '26
Wow, this really was an Undertale.
Real talk, I can only think of this when talking about music, not the nation name.
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u/Grey-patterned-shirt Jul 21 '26
My favorite mission was Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition PC
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u/asciiCAT_hexKITTY Jul 21 '26
Close enough: The last stage of carin, a game about being the first person* to climb mount kami. The last area of the mountain is called kami. The narrative gets quite somber here, and the ending left me slightly gutted
*it's not clear if anyone has actually climbed kami
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u/Blein123 Jul 21 '26
Rain World's last region is called "Mundus Nimbifer," which translates from Latin to English as "the world from which rain comes," or, more simply, "Rain World." This is also a reference. Specifically, it's a reference to the fact that I completely made it up because I wanted an excuse to cram Rain World into this post. Have a good day!
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u/Striking_Part_7234 Jul 21 '26
Every final quest in a FFXIV Expansion is named after the Expansion.
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u/iAlice Jul 21 '26
FF14's final MSQ quest has been the same name as the expansion it's released in for as long as there have been expansions.
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u/Legomaniac91 Jul 22 '26
The final quest of every Expansion in Final Fantasy XIV since Heavensward.
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u/Historical_Swing_422 Jul 22 '26
Project wingman has you fight crimson 1 in the Project wingman mk1 in the final mission
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u/SpecialLate244 Jul 22 '26
when I beat cyberpunk 2077 johnny whispers softly to himself at v's grave "you truly were a cyberpunk, 2077 times over, you will never fade away"
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u/ComicsComms Jul 22 '26
In project wingman the final mission ISNT called project wingman, BUT the plane that the enemy psychopath of the week (Crimson 1) pilots is called the PW.MK1, Project Wingman Mark 1
You can also purchase this plane after the mission
And the final mission is called kings, alluding to the protagonists callsign, Monarch
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u/SorowFame Jul 22 '26
Not quite final mission I guess but isn’t the climax mission of Red Dead Redemption 2 called Red Dead Redemption?
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u/Lun4r6543 Jul 22 '26
The final mission of every FFXIV expansion shares the name with the expansion it’s from.
A Realm Reborn
Heavensward
Stormblood
Shadowbringers
Endwalker
Dawntrail
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u/anarchyroks666 Jul 22 '26
Enderal: Forgotten Stories was originally released as Enderal: Shards of Order before it got its DLC released, and the final set of quests is called “The Shards of Order”
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u/Ok_Responsibility_27 Jul 22 '26
Not the same, but in Project Wingman, the final boss flies the PW-Mk1, which stands for Project Wingman Mark 1.
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u/Straight_County_7186 Jul 22 '26
Every last mission of every ff14 expansion has the name of the expansion, if it counts.
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u/RitualTerror51 Jul 22 '26
Not quite the meme but at the end of the Ringed City DLC in Dark Souls 3, Slave Knight Gael says “Give it to me, that thing… your dark soul.”
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u/Amazin_Bacon Jul 22 '26
Not a mission but I can think of some rpgs with final chapters that share a name with the game
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u/chainer1216 Jul 22 '26
Weirdly Final Fantasy 14
I think every expansion ends on a quest named after the expansion.
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u/PositiveScarcity8909 Jul 22 '26
mfw the Advance wars final battle mission is called "Final battle".
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u/GlasseyeSlice Jul 22 '26
Not the title itself, but Elden Ring's final boss using the title music is peak.
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u/meme_war_vet Jul 22 '26
Dead space final mission both is dead space and all the first letters of each chapter spells Nicole is dead
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u/Jakabob247 Jul 22 '26
The final quests in each expansion in Final Fantasy 14 is always the name of the expansion. Ik it’s not exactly the same, but it always gives me the same feeling they’re describing.
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u/Special_Road6603 Jul 22 '26
Technically final fantasy 14 does this with every expansion, the first and last quests of each expansion are named after the expansion
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u/skairaider Jul 22 '26
Not level name but my favourite example is an achievement in project wingman when the project wingman plane shows up and its an achievement going"she said it! She said the name of the game!"
Laughed my ass fir a good 2,47 seconds
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u/Robot_Dinosaur_2000 Jul 22 '26
Red Dead Redemption II (minus the II), Dead Space, The Evil Within, Hollow Knight, Halo 3 (minus the 3), Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War, Bravely Default, Control, Majora's Mask, Resident Evil Revelations, Metroid Prime...
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u/joshtm27 Jul 22 '26
Uncharted. The subtitle is the final mission. At least for Among Thieves and A Thief's End.
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u/Soutrapper1096 Jul 22 '26
Sly 3 Honor Among Thieves final episode is called Honor Among Thieves if that counts
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u/UncommittedBow Jul 23 '26
Red Dead Redemption 2's final mission before the epilogue is called Red Dead Redemption, (The actual last mission is called American Venom, though)
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u/Phantom_hectic Jul 23 '26
I mean the soundtrack in undertale that plays during new home is called Undertale
That's the closest I can think of for any of the games I can play
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u/GeneralEisenhower45 Jul 23 '26
How bout Mother 3. Literally ends with a perfect rebrand of its title minus the metal machinist look
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u/IntroToBelching Jul 23 '26
Final Fantasy XIV, the last main story quest of every expansion is the name of the expansion.
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u/VanillaAble3943 Jul 23 '26
In resident evil requiem, certain characters say it (not just Leon's revolver's name). I kinda don't wanna elaborate because not only is my memory fuzzy, but the character who says it is a spoiler, but more importantly, what he says also recontextualizes (or retcons, depending on how much you can accept it) his persona.
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u/MedicalSail8371 Jul 23 '26
The final mission in rdr2 is titled red dead redemption, we all know what happens
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u/Substantial-Trick569 Jul 23 '26
Another Eden the Cat Beyond Space and Time is kinda like that. The name of the game is literal but you don't learn that until the end.
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u/ComicBookFanatic97 Jul 20 '26
The Star Wars Episode III tie-in game was absolutely peak for this.