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HudGard
10/02/25 11:14:34 AM
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General plot spoilers here, if it wasnt obvious. Tread carefully.

I always enjoy a good coming of age story set in a more epic/fantasy light within a game, and your parents or guardian end up being the adversary.

I immediately thought of MGS3 and Expedition 33

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SAlYAN
10/02/25 11:36:34 AM
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Among the Sleep

And Final Fantasy X

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Unsuprised_Pika
10/02/25 11:37:39 AM
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Hades

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LightSnake
10/02/25 11:38:47 AM
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Kinda the Baldurs Gate series

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aarrgus
10/02/25 11:40:00 AM
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The Binding of Isaac.

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SAlYAN
10/02/25 11:41:33 AM
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Throne's path in Octopath 2

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Skittycream
10/02/25 11:43:53 AM
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Does Bayonetta 1 count?

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Killmonger
10/02/25 11:44:44 AM
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God of War 2/3

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Doe
10/02/25 11:45:06 AM
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Funny you thought of MGS3 but not MGS2

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Letsago
10/02/25 12:06:58 PM
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FFX. Another game in the series FF8, also has your fighting your mother figure initially

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SAlYAN
10/02/25 12:45:24 PM
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Does FF7 count if it's technically someone else's "mom?"

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misterbum
10/02/25 12:57:24 PM
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First thing I thought of, to some extent, was Suikoden

Maybe not in the boils down to sense, but its certainly one of the earliest games I can recall where it had a pretty large and meaningful impact to the overall experience.

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-Unowninator-
10/02/25 12:58:18 PM
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aarrgus posted...
The Binding of Isaac.
This is what I was going to say.

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Metal_Gear_Raxis
10/02/25 1:03:38 PM
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Does Tales of the Abyss count?

Tales of Berseria, arguably, though Velvet's exact feelings on Artorious and whether she saw him as a brother, father figure, teacher, or even someone she was in love with are intentionally left ambiguous.

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HudGard
10/02/25 1:09:58 PM
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Doe posted...
Funny you thought of MGS3 but not MGS2
Yeah good observation. I love 3 but only played 2 one time so its just not in my head as much. Also the remake had made it fresh in my algorithms.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...
Does Tales of the Abyss count?
I would say so. Its actually the exact game for why I specified that or guardian in my OP.

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GiftedACIII
10/02/25 2:51:28 PM
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Fire Emblem Fates
Bioshock Infinite

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LightSnake
10/02/25 2:55:55 PM
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Oh, forgot Bloodrayne. And Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. And Bayonetta, Bioshock, Assassin's Creed 3, a whole lot of Fire Emblems, God of war 3,

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DuneMan
10/02/25 4:11:03 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

With that classic line at the start of the fight, "Yes, I fucked your mother."

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A_Good_Boy
10/02/25 4:11:41 PM
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Bioshock

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Srk700
10/02/25 4:14:12 PM
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Fire Emblem: 3 Houses in the Crimson Flower route. Kind of in the Silver Snow route but Rhea becoming the final boss comes out of left field in the final chapter.
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divot1338
10/02/25 4:16:40 PM
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Donkey Kong Country

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BlackScythe0
10/02/25 4:20:31 PM
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It's been a while since I played them but don't Legend of Dragoon and Jade Cocoon have the father be one of the main bad guys? Might be remembering wrong.
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Shrek
10/02/25 4:25:58 PM
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dragoon sort of lampshades it

darts dad was the original red dragoon 11,000 years ago, but when he tried to stop the wingly dictator he was petrified for some time. eventually he got free, but the guy he was trying to kill put his soul in the red dragoon stone.

so when the black monster, rose, showed up around his town looking for the moon child, darts dad transformed to protect, but it freed the soul in his stone who then possessed him, and then 18 years later rose shows up again but not as the black monster this time, finds dart while not knowing who he is and sees he has the red stone.

eventually it's revealed that the black monster is actually the good guy, so they go to stop the main guy behind everything which turns out to be darts dad. they fight, it's revealed what happened, darts dad is freed and then he and rose sacrifice themselves to save everyone else

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HudGard
10/02/25 5:05:56 PM
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divot1338 posted...
Donkey Kong Country
This is lore Im not familiar with >_>

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creativerealms
10/02/25 5:10:10 PM
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Chrono Cross in a very very weird way.

the main antagonist for 3/4th of the game, Lynx is the main character's father, brainwashed and altered beyond recognition and for a good third of the game swaps bodies with the main character. So you are the son in his father's body chasing his father in his body.

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