History ArcWords / VideoGames

* ''VideoGame/OneTwoThreeSlaughterMeStreet'': "Salvation Awaits."

* ''VideoGame/AliceIsDead'': "Kill the Rabbit."

* ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'': "Nothing built can last forever."

* The ''VideoGame/{{Mother}} / ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' trilogy: "No Crying Until The End."
** The [[FanSequel fan made]] {{Interquel}} ''[[VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance Mother Cognitive Dissonance]]'' has "Who has lost his tail?"
* ''VideoGame/{{Myst}}'': "Perhaps the ending has not yet been written."

*** The Shadows of various party members often say "You're me, and I am you." While the party members, unable to accept the most shameful parts of their personalities (as well as ones they may not be aware of), initially respond with "[[ShutUpHannibal You're]] [[OneWingedAngel not]] [[BerserkButton me!]]", they ([[spoiler:except for Mitsuo]]) ultimately repeat the Shadows' lines back to them, accepting their Shadow and gaining a Persona in the process.

** "The Crownless King", and "The [[TitleDrop No More Hero]]" in the sequel. "Travesty" shows up often as well.

** Priority: Rannoch has two, reflecting to the overall desires of the two warring races of the Quarian-Geth/Morning War: their homeworld and their creator's acceptance, respectively:

** Priority: Rannoch has two, reflecting to the overall desires of the two warring races of the Quarian-Geth/Morning War: their homeworld and acceptance, respectively:

** Priority: Rannoch:

--->"[[DoAndroidsDream Does this unit have a soul?]]"

** In In the ''Leviathan'' DLC of:

** The Rannoch Arc:
--->"Keelah se'lai"
** Throughout the entire series, the arc words for the Geth species as a whole are "[[DoAndroidsDream Does this unit have a soul?]]"

* ''VideoGame/Killer7'' has the phrases "Don't gain the world and lose your soul," "How soon is now," and "[[NumberOfTheBeast 666]]" scrawled in various places.

*** "How Soon is Now" may reference the inscrutable timeline of killer7's backstory and how past events seem entwined with the present and future, something the supplemental ''Hand in killer7'' draws extra attention to. [[spoiler: When did Dan die for the first time? Was the massacre of the Union Hotel in the 1st or 2nd half of the 20th century? Which Harman Smith was present for which events?]]

** "In the name of Harman..."
** [[BookEnds "Let's dance."]]

* ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'': "Don't open it." (The 'it' in question is [[spoiler:the sarcophagus MacGuffin the plot revolves around,]] and [[BadEnding God]] [[FateWorseThanDeath help]] [[WhatAnIdiot you]] if you don't listen.)

** In ''MIND CONTROL DELETE'', there's "MORE". [[spoiler:Even when the System keep providing [=Avar1ce=] with MORE and eventually making them give up everything, it's still not enough to keep them from wanting MORE.]]

** In ''MIND CONTROL DELETE'', there's "MORE". [[spoiler:Even when the System keep providing Avar1ce with MORE and eventually making them give up everything, it's still not enough to keep them from wanting MORE.]]

** "We'll go together", a line that first appears in [[VideoGame/KingdomHearts1 the first game]]'s secret ending (well, in the English version at least, as the Japanese version has it stated early in the game, but was changed in the translation due to its significance not being known at the time). It returns at the end of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' [[spoiler:as said by Sora, just before he and Riku go through the Door To Light and return home to the Destiny Islands]]. The game's final boss also says a variation of the line, "We shall go together," as a battle quote. The line also appears in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance Dream Drop Distance]]'', said by [[spoiler:Young Xehanort]], though it once again gets changed in the English translation (translated to "Come with me").

* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': "Ruin has come to our family."

* ''VideoGame/DonPachi'' series: ''Shinu ga yoi.'' Literally "dying is good" and a way of saying [[PrepareToDie "Die!"]], it's often directed at the player as they take on the TrueFinalBoss.

* "This is my story." from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''. Frequently by Auron to Tidus and Yuna as "This is your story."

* According to the WordOfGod, the title ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts358DaysOver2 358/2 Days]]'' won't make sense to players until the game's end. [[spoiler:More specificially, the game's title is pronounced 358 Days '''Over 2''', which causes some confusion. It refers to the 358 days that the protagonist, Roxas, experiences during his time in Organization XIII]].
** The concept trailer "Another Side, Another Story [deep dive]" from Kingdom Hearts Final Mix is entirely ''composed'' of ArcWords. The thing is ''filled'' with quotes and random concepts that are subtly included in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' (non-existent ones and "You are the source of all Heartless," anyone?), excepting the final quote ("We'll go together"), that itself being a [[MeaningfulEcho line from early in the first game]], changed to a different line in the English version before the translators had a chance to cotton on to its ArcWords status, which they eventually did with Kingdom Hearts II ([[spoiler:said by Sora, just before he & Riku go through the Door To Light and return home to the Destiny Islands]] at the end). It can make chills run up and down the savvy fan's spine. The game's final boss also says a variation of the line, "we shall go together," as a battle quote.
** Another set appears at the end of ''Kingdom Hearts II'' in Kairi's letter, ending it with "There is one sky, one destiny." Those words reappear in ''Kingdom Hearts III'' spoken by Master Xehanort, who reveals he can summon the titular Kingdom Hearts anywhere as all the worlds are connected.
** ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX'' introduces "May your heart be your guiding key", words of encouragement stated by the Foretellers and the Master of Masters. The words make a come back in ''0.2'' and ''Kingdom Hearts III'' as words Yen Sid would always say before seeing off his pupils. It's implied the phrase was lost to time and thus few people know it. Xehanort learns of the phrase from the mysterious Subject X, a girl displaced in time. [[spoiler: Xigbar saying it at the beginning of III foreshadows his reveal as Luxu, one of the apprentices of the Masters of Masters]].

* ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'': "it hurts", the final entry, in its entirety, in a diary belonging to one of the game's murder victims. [[spoiler:It's never explicitly mentioned precisely ''how'', but it's implied that John Defoe was born twisted or deformed, and was locked up and eventually beaten to death by his own father.]]
** [[spoiler:The tie-in story, The Expedition, explains that these words are the only/last thing that is going through the mind of Chzo and his servant's victims.]]

** Furrowfield: Dreams
** Khrumbul-Dun: Love
** [[spoiler:Moonbrooke]]: Conviction