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Working Title: Excuse Plot: From YKTTW
Pteryx: I decided to just launch this while the Three Examples And A Name were still there, even if I only knew two of those examples personally, and let Wiki Magic do the rest.
Drow Lord: Does Tekken really belong in the list? The games have an assload of plot, even if they do ignore most of it and focus on the Mishimas (dammit Namco! All I wanted was for Asuka's ending to be canon!). I'll leave it alone, but I'm just saying.
Trogga: Removed Super Smash Bros, because the last time I checked, they often don't have a plot.
- Sad that a Final Fantasy has to appear on the list, but Final Fantasy X 2 sadly could fall under this trope. While a person having played Final Fantasy X might argue that the initial plot reasoning given at the beginning of X-2 would make a great sequal idea, it's clear that a third of the way through the game, the Movie Sphere containing what Yuna thinks is Tidus is proven not to be him, but rather an anti-hero turned villain due to the world screwing him over 1000 years before. Once the player gets to this point, they realize that any anticipation they might have had up to that point is completely dashed and the reason for playing no longer has jack to do with the previous game...
Man Called True: This is just Complaining About Shows You Dont Like. We get a lot of this for X-2, don't we?
The plot of Legend of Zelda (the first one) is that Ganon, a power-hungry general invading Hyrule, found one of Hyrule's three triforce pieces, and now wants more. So he captures the Hyrulean Princess Zelda, but she saw him coming, and had already broken her triforce into eight pieces, and hid them in the eight secret hellish underground dungeons that Hyrule has for some reason. Meanwhile, her elderly aide Impa ran away, pursued by Ganon's thugs, and was rescued by a mysterious hero named Link. Impa tells Link everything, so he resolves to find those dungeons, get the eight pieces, and join them back together, thus gaining the power to challenge Ganon. I wouldn't call that, or really any of the Zelda plots, excuse plots.
Specialist290: Alright, I really must ask—given that this is a Video Games Trope, what's the point of all of these other non-game examples on the page?
Removed: The Lord of the Rings, since the plot came first in this case. The locations were just a by-product.
