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.”

  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev
    21·
    9 months ago

    Final Fantasy 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 13

    • Start off figuring out why meteors are falling and the wind has died
    • Start off fighting a snail while using magic machines
    • Start off as a terrorist
    • Start off as an emo student
    • Start off sneaking into a play
    • Start off with blitzball
    • Start heading down the hallway
    • JayEchoRay@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      Haven’t finished 1,2,3 but spoilers below:

      spoiler

      Ff4 - have to stop a vengeful manifestation of an advanced race

      Ff5 - stopping a tree

      Ff6 - stopping a clown’s divinity

      Ff7 - well, that is more an alien with support from the spirit of the planet protecting itself

      Ff8 - sorceressess and time shenanigans

      Ff9 - ends with an abrupt challenge from a death god to convince it not to delete the current universe

      Ff10 - and be transported to a land where a dominant religion is enforced through the power of a wmd that is maintained by “faith”

      Ff12 - prevent the folly of a man trying to become a god, through the power of a renegade of the universe godhood pantheon

      Ff13 - become pawns of higher beings wanting to stop the nihilism of one of its brethen tired of the infinite cycle