Trope or not, gods just end up being a common target for games about heroes escalating in power while fighting increasingly world-destroying consequences.
So, for each post, name a game and describe it, with the assumption being that every description automatically ends with the phrase:
“…and then it ends with you fighting a god.”
Terraria.
And Calamity mod.
mass effect. Shepard kills many reapers, which are pretty close to eldritch gods in another setting.
Fable
As a kid you get your village burned down but you’re rescued at the last minute by a Hero.
You’re raised in the Heroes Guild and become one yourself. You help people, kick some chickens, and learn magic.
And then you fight a god, twice.
And then I get the solus greatsword and berserk and win the game.
Earth Defense Force 5 ends with you fighting a god. EDF 6 basically starts and ends with this.
No one has mentioned Noita yet? In Noita, killing a god is part of exploring the game.
God of war?
I mean you fight all the Gods
And it starts with you fighting a God!
I haven’t seen it mentioned yet, but Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is a great game…
I do agree on it being a great game, and she fights gods on her way to her final goal but
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she doesn’t really fight any gods though - it is all in her head
I found when they used that same device to explain the ending of Hellblade 2 really unsatisfying.which is a shame because I’d really enjoyed the journey.
That is a shame, I would have thought that she would have some measure of control after the events of the first game
Especially, since the burden she was carrying was lifted.
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I guess she has a severe case of the “blessing” that she disassociates with reality regularly and is unable to discern what is real and what is not as she lives a life of what she thinks is real as truth.
I guess I can see that happening without any form of medication or therapy and only having her own thoughts to live with after the traumatic events of her past
Most Final Fantasy games and JRPGs in general.
Skyrim. At the end of the main quest you go through a portal to Nord heaven and kill Alduin who is an ancient dragon god.
Loop hero has you trying to rebuild a forgotten world as you traverse round a simple loop…
Hollow Knight is a game where you start out as a little bug discovering a bug’s nest. Then you unlock some secrets, find the secret true final boss, and next thing you know, it ends with you fighting a god.
Another Crab’s Treasure is a cute, fun, cartoony soulslike game where you play as a hermit crab whose shell has been stolen! He heads out on an adventure to get it back.
Persona 3, 4 and 5
Xenoblade Chronicles
Technically you don’t, just a very powerful being who was allowed to powerful by an AI “god”.
Yeah, but you don’t find that out until later games. At the end of Chronicles, it certainly looks and feels like fighting a god.
The AI stated that it was an computer intelligence at the end of the first game. There’s even the cutscene of the project at one point showing what happened, with the computer having the same voice.
The original Baldur’s Gate story (1 and 2 + expansions) begin with you being a barely trained orphan sent on an unexpected journey by your foster father…
