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* ''Franchise/GuiltyGear'': [[DeadlyDoctor Faust's]] story began when he tried to save a little girl, [[MyGreatestFailure failed]] and subsequently went mad and became a SerialKiller named Dr. Baldhead. When he discovered her death wasn't his fault, he became TheAtoner. [[spoiler:In ''Another Story'', he [[HeroicSacrifice saves Delilah by taking in an overload of energy from the Backyard, mangling his limbs and turning him into a]] TechnicallyLivingZombie.]]

* In ''VideoGame/KirbyPlanetRobobot'', the first level ends with Kirby running away from Clanky Woods. The final SecretLevel ends with Kirby, this time in his Robobot Armor, running away from Clanky Woods.
* It's not the same locale, but in ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'', Stage 1 of Pop Star is almost visually identical to Stage 1 of Ripple Star and shares the same stage music.

*** Also at the very beginning of the game, when Rosalina rescues Mario after he is thrown off Bowser's spaceship while attempting to rescue Peach, he can be seen lying unconscious in the middle of a field full of flowers. At the end of the game, after Bowser is defeated for the last time the universe collapses and recreates itself for some reason, and after Mario sees a giant Rosalina talking to him in the middle of a black void, he, Peach and Bowser are all seen lying unconscious in another field of flowers.

** As the plot of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'' kicks off, Link leaves his hometown with the pirates. In the last scene of the game... Link leaves his hometown with the pirates. The tone of the latter scene is much more positive, though. Especially notable is that the first departing-scene had Link waving his grandma and neighbours goodbye with one hand, stoping for a few seconds, suddenly running foreward a few steps and then starting to wave at them again, but this time with both hands. The second departing has his sister Aryll (who stays behind on Outset) doing this just the same way.

* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'': Each of the three [[PlayerCharacter V]]-centric [[MultipleEndings endings]] bookends nicely into one of their three possible [[MultipleGameOpenings lifepath intros]]: both "The Corpo-Rat" intro and "The Devil" ending see V put their trust in the Arasaka MegaCorp and get screwed over by it; "The Nomad" intro sees V smuggle a live lizard into Night City, while "The Star" ending has them smuggle a [[HoverTank Basilisk]] out of it; and finally, both "The Street Kid" intro and "The Sun" ending have V accept on a suspiciously lucrative job from a shady fixer at a seedy bar.

* ''VideoGame/MaximumCarnage'': The ComicBook/SpiderMan and ComicBook/{{Venom}} videogame begins after Carnage's escape, with Spider-Man pondering how his enemies never seem to stay locked up. At the end of the game, Black Cat tells him that she fears that "monsters like that have a way of '''returning'''," and he reassures her that she should have faith, and hopes that some monsters stay locked up forever.

* The Franchise/SpiderMan and Venom video game, ''VideoGame/MaximumCarnage'' begins, after Carnage's escape, with Spider-Man pondering how his enemies never seem to stay locked up. At the end of the game, Black Cat tells him that she fears that "monsters like that have a way of '''returning'''," and he reassures her that she should have faith, and hopes that some monsters stay locked up forever.

** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' starts and ends with Green Hill Zone, the game's (and as well as the franchise's) first level.

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'': Ezio's life as an Assassin really begins with [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII his family getting executed]] in UsefulNotes/{{Florence}}, and it ends in the same place when he [[WesternAnimation/AssassinsCreedEmbers dies there]]. Moreover, he was born in Florence, and died there as well.

* ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'': Ezio's life as an Assassin really begins with [[spoiler: his family getting executed]], and it ends in the same place [[spoiler: when he dies there]].

** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3''

* Most games in the ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' series will begin with a stage hosted by Wario, typically with simplistic microgames designed to ease the player into the game, then end with another stage hosted by Wario, typically going under some kind of alias, with more difficult microgames designed to test the player's mastery of each of the game's mechanics.
** Wario is the host of both the first and last stages of ''VideoGame/WarioWareIncMegaMicrogames''. Both stages also have a similar plotline of Wario getting trapped inside one of his belongings, namely his boom box in the first stage, and his computer in the last.

** ''Videogame/PaperMario64'': The very first battle is a fight against Bowser in a hall of Peach's castle. The [[spoiler:second-to-last]] fight is another battle with Bowser in the same room.

* The office in the first area of ''VideoGame/ThePedestrian'' features in the background a picture of a boat at a dock facing the sun. [[spoiler:The game ends with the sign designer having teleported to that same area to take a well-deserved break from their work.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Farpoint}}'' begins with a SwirlyEnergyThingy dragging the main characters from Jupiter - en route back home to Earth - all the way to an alien world, which turns out to be [[spoiler:3 billion years away from earth]]. It ends with the player character and SoleSurvivor entering another SwirlyEnergyThingy again, but this one [[spoiler:leads to a WhiteVoidRoom]]. The end.

** If you take the main story path in ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'', you'll start off in Wario's Castle and end up in Syrup's Castle. However, the chapter "Invade Wario Castle" is a more appropriate example. It begins with Wario being tossed out of the castle by the Black Sugar Gang [[WaitingPuzzle after the alarm clock failed to wake him up]], and it ends with Wario reclaiming his castle and going back to sleep.

** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaISatellaview'', Ganon's lair is in the back of the Old Man's cave.