History LateArrivalSpoiler / VideoGames

* Preview material for ''VideoGame/LiveALive'''s 2022 VideoGameRemake doesn't bother hide the existance of the game's unlockable eighth chapter and its protagonist.

* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue''. Kokonoe's a catgirl, Ragna and Jin are brothers, Hakumen is future!Jin, and Hazama is Terumi. The first two barely count as spoilers, since they're both casually mentioned in the FourthWallMailSlot. The opening wall of text for Hazama's Arcade Mode route in ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift Continuum Shift]]'' reveals his status as TheManBehindTheMan and ''[[UpdatedRerelease Continuum Shift II]]'' has a new opening FMV that shows Noel turning into Mu-12. Likewise, ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma Chronophantasma]]'' wastes no time in "reminding" players that Ragna's kidnapped little sister Saya is the Imperator of the NOL, though this has the effect of covering up ''an even bigger'' twist, one that players might only guess in advance if they were privy to [[AllThereInTheManual sidestories]] and/or ''VisualNovel/XBlaze''.

* ''VideoGame/AmateurSurgeon'': ''Amateur Surgeon 4'' casually says early on that Dwayne Pipe and Hubris D'Obscene were the [[BigBad Big Bads]] of the previous games in the series (where their identities as such were meant to be twists).

* ''VideoGame/AmateurSurgeon'': ''Amateur Surgeon 4'' casually says early on that Dwayne Pipe and Hubris d'Obscene were the [[BigBad Big Bads]] of the previous games (where their identities as such were meant to be twists).

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* ''Franchise/XenobladeChronicles'':

* The final chapter of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' directly shows the origins of the BigBad of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' and reveals that that game's protagonist's final objective is to commit deicide.

* The [[PreviouslyOn "History of DMC"]] video unlocked by beating ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' likewise gives away all of the spoilers and plot twists from the first three games.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfLink'': Character profiles [=and/or=] alternate forms very often spoiled twists from their native games, such as Caius's wolf form from ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheTempest''.

* The ''History of DMC'' video unlocked by beating ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 4'' likewise gives away all of the spoilers and plot twists from the first three games.

** TheTwist in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' was that the villain from the first game wasn't who he said he was, and it turned the entire series on his head. Ten years after the fact, good luck trying to get into the series without someone talking about it nonchalantly. While he's still referred to by his fake name, nothing in the games even try to cover it up.

* The ''Earthbound'' fangame ''VideoGame/CognitiveDissonance'' spoils the entire first game by necessity, including that Giegue is the FinalBoss and Queen Maria is Ninten's grandmother Mary. It also spoils that Porky is a major antagonistic force and that Giegue ends up losing his mind and becoming the EldritchAbomination Gigyas from ''Earthbound''.

* ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'': For anyone who hasn't played the preceding game in the series, ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'', Exodus is already a spoiler from the very beginning, because it ''canonically'' takes place after ''Last Light's'' Redemption (Good) ending.

* ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'': For anyone who has played the preceding game in the series, Exodus is already a huge spoiler from the very beginning, because it ''canonically'' takes place after ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'''s Redemption (Good) ending.

** [[https://www.funko.com/products/games/mystery-minis/fallout/curie-synth One of the Funko mini figures]] for ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' is of [[spoiler:Curie after her consciousness is uploaded to a Synth body]].

* The premise of ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}} and the Pirate's Curse'' spoils the ending of ''Shantae: Risky's Revenge'', which had Shantae losing her powers. The trailers are even explicit about it, with the first line being about how "Shantae's magic has been stolen".

* Casual screenshots of ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'' will spoil an event that happens to someone in ''VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness''.... Namely, that Laharl isn't a ''complete'' asshole, and airheaded LoveFreak ultra-pure Angel trainee Flonne has fallen from grace and become an airheaded Love Freak ultra-pure Devil trainee. And don't even try playing it if you mind spoilers, because the intro movie reveals the same thing. Also, Prinny Kurtis is part of the storyline.
** The opening of ''VideoGame/Disgaea3AbsenceOfJustice'' spoils this too. So does merely shopping at the Rosenqueen store in real life. In fact, it's hardly worth tagging the spoiler anymore.
** When playing La Pucelle, a spiritual predecessor to Disgaea, that there is a pair of secret scenes where Priere becomes a Demon Lord and Demon Overlord is technically a spoiler. However, with La Pucelle: Ragnarok, the remake of La Pucelle, Priere's demon form is right on the cover. Of course, it's now a full route, not merely an ending. And she has appeared in four later NIS games as a "secret" character, and another as DLC, in full demonic glory no less, it's not much of a secret to anyone with an interest in their games. On top of that, many secret characters ''aren't''. It's practically expected that the major characters of previous Disgaea games will appear, even in remakes, plus Asagi since Makai Kingdom, plus a splattering of others. It's just a question of ''which'' characters from those games will appear.

** Fans of the ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' series that haven't played its sequel, ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'', may want to avoid ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]''. ''Brawl'' and includes one of the last areas of the game as a stage, the next-to-last boss of the game serves as a boss in the Subspace Emissary mode, and Lucas's trophy text mentions how he would eventually have to fight his brother Claus in the end. Possibly in response to this, Lucas's trophy in ''Wii U/[=3DS=]'' doesn't mention ''anything'' about the plot of the game, and while New Pork City returns in ''Utimate'', Porky himself is one of the few major characters from the ''[=EarthBound=]'' series to lack ''any'' appearance as a spirit (while the Absolutely Safe Capsule, a device connected to Porky and eventually [[AndIMustScream his eternal "prison"]], does, it explicitly uses the sprite without him inside).

** Fans of the ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' series that haven't played its sequel, ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'', may want to avoid ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]''. ''Brawl'' and ''Ultimate'' include one of the last areas of the game as a stage, the next-to-last boss of the game serves as a boss in the Subspace Emissary mode, and Lucas's trophy text mentions how he would eventually have to fight his brother Claus in the end. Possibly in response to this, Lucas's trophy in ''Wii U/[=3DS=]'' doesn't mention ''anything'' about the plot of the game, and Porky is one of the few major characters from the ''[=EarthBound=]'' series to lack ''any'' appearance as a spirit (while the Absolutely Safe Capsule, a device connected to Porky and eventually [[AndIMustScream his eternal "prison"]], does, it explicitly uses the sprite without him inside).

** Fans of the ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' series that haven't played its sequel, ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'', may want to avoid ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]''. ''Brawl'' and ''Ultimate'' include one of the last areas of the game as a stage, the next-to-last boss of the game serves as a boss in the Subspace Emissary mode, and Lucas's trophy text mentions how he would eventually have to fight his brother Claus in the end. Possibly in response to this, Lucas's trophy in ''Wii U/[=3DS=]'' doesn't mention ''anything'' about the plot of the game, and Porky is one of the few major characters from any ''[=EarthBound=]'' game to lack ''any'' appearance as a spirit (while the Absolutely Safe Capsule, a device connected to Porky and eventually [[AndIMustScream his eternal "prison"]], does, it explicitly uses the sprite without him inside).

** Fans of the ''VideoGame/EarthBound'' series that haven't played its sequel, ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'', may want to avoid ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl Brawl]]''. ''Brawl'' (and ''Ultimate'', for that matter) includes one of the last areas of the game as a stage, the next-to-last boss of the game serves as a boss in the Subspace Emissary mode, and Lucas's trophy text mentions how he would eventually have to fight his brother Claus in the end. Possibly in response to this, Lucas's trophy in ''Wii U/[=3DS=]'' doesn't mention ''anything'' about the plot of the game.

* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'', being the TropeNamer for SamusIsAGirl, manages to combine this with ItWasHisSled. [[VideoGame/Metroid1 The original NES game]] had multiple endings, with the reveal of Samus Aran's gender being hidden behind the best ones. Almost every installment afterwards has similar endings where you see her outside of her PoweredArmor, but are also pretty open with communicating that Samus is a woman during gameplay itself (feminine grunts when she takes a hit, occasional glimpses of her face through her visor, her suit dematerializing when you die, etc) and the manual for the [[VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus second game]] outright states Samus's gender [[note]]the first game's manual used male pronouns in the manual to make the reveal a surprise[[/note]]. The 2004 remake of ''Metroid 1'', ''VideoGame/MetroidZeroMission'', even goes as far as adding a new {{playable epilogue}} where most of it is spent as Samus outside of her armor in a lengthy StealthBasedMission.

** In the case of ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', the 3DS version of ''Wii U/[=3DS=]'' lacks any major spoilers, but the Wii U version features a clearly labeled trophy of Mecha-Fiora as an item in Smash Tour, and the trophies for Xord and Jade Face spoil major plot points regarding Faced Mechon. ''Ultimate''' adds Mecha-Fiora to Shulk's Final Smash, and Sakurai even pointed out the change in the E3 2018 Direct.

* The final chapter of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' directly shows the origins of the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'' and reveals that that game's protagonist's final objective is to commit deicide.