History Main / JustifiedTutorial

* The opening mission of ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic VII'' was meant to function as one of these, and beautifully so since it doesn't seem contrived or forced. New players will spend enough time hanging around [[NoobCave Noob Island]] to learn the ropes of the game, while veteran players will either have fun blasting through it in a few minutes flat or try to wrestle a DiscOneNuke out of the island's resident dragon.

* Many, if not all, of the ''ArmyMen'' games had a boot camp level and in the case of ''Air Tactics'', ''Air Attack'' and such, flight school.

*** A properly sharp-tounged ChosenOne can talk the dude guarding the way back to the village into letting him go by deconstructing the temple trial as a stupid and senseless waste of time that it is!

* The "tutorial"--a big mess of darkspawn and one pissed-off ogre--in the first five or ten minutes of ''VideoGame/DragonAge2'' is [[UnreliableNarrator Varric]] at his finest. When Cassandra tells him to knock it off and tell the truth, the gameplay shifts into normal mode and the battles become harder to fight.

*** A properly sharp-tounged ChosenOne can talk the dude guarding the way back to the village into letting him go by deconstructing the temple trial as a stupid and sensless waste of time that it is!

* The optional tutorial in the first game of ''{{Thief}}'' is a flashback to Garrett's training as a child just taken from the street, and in it he's given simple tasks to do the way he chooses. The third game's first level is a heavy-handed, mandatory tutorial where Garrett has to follow the blue footsteps on a routine job. The drop in tutorial justification subtlety is staggering.

* ''GhostTrick'' seems to be unique in that it has the tutorial first (Ray explaining to Sissel how to use his Ghost Tricks to save Lynne), but the actual justification doesn't come until later. [[spoiler: Ray is manipulating Sissel into protecting Lynne, so the tutorial was actually a disguised way to make sure he saves her from the hitman.]]

** ''[[VideoGame/{{Disgaea}} Hour of Darkness]]'' has Laharl waking up after oversleeping for 720 days, so his mind and body need a bit of a workout.
** ''[[{{Disgaea2}} Cursed Memories]]'' has Rozalin, who is a princess and obviously has no battle training at all, being given a crash course in fighting by Adell.
** ''[[{{Disgaea3}} Absence of Justice]]'' has Mao's butler Geoffery handling the tutorial like he does [[CrazyPrepared all the time for his master]] along with plenty of {{Lampshading}} and overly polite snark.

* The opening of ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' has Murphy beating a pedophile to death with a knife and a baseball bat in order to teach the player the combat system. It's justified because [[spoiler:it's a major plot point]], and ''much more importantly'', it's always justified and so damned satisfying to beat a pedophile to death.

* In ''SecondSight'', the first level sends the main character-- a parapsychologist accompanying a team of commandoes as a consultant-- through an obstacle course, in order to learn useful stealth and marksmanship strategies.
** Actually, that's the second level. The actual first level may still count, being when John gains his psychic abilities and has to figure out how to use them in order to escape his cell in a hospital.

* The opening of ''VideoGame/SilentHillDownpour'' has Murphy beating a pedophile to death with a knife and a baseball bat in order to teach the player the combat system. It's justified because [[spoiler:it's a major plot point]], and ''much more importantly'', it's always justified and so damned satisfying to beat a [[CompleteMonster pedophile]] to death.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} 2'' has the first day spent controlling Louie, who needs to learn the ropes to someone who's been to the Pikmin planet before.

* VideoGame/PokémonConquest features the player character having recently become Warlord of a new Kingdom. Cue convenient {{Mooks}} trying to take over the place. Since he/she has never been in battle before ([[FridgeLogic don't ask how that works]]), a girl by the name of Oichi hops in and lends him/her a hand in battle.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI'' originally cruelly averted this trope by dumping a brand new player in his starting city with a coupon worth 50 gil, visible body armor and a weapon and, if you matched up the correct race with the correct city, a special ring. Go!

* Similarly, the early ''Franchise/TombRaider'' games allowed you to romp around Lara's house and training grounds to get used to the various different controls.
* ''VideoGame/AnotherWorld'' (AKA ''Out Of This World'') was notable for no-manual, no-tutorial, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou no-mercy]] gameplay. Its ''one'' action button was used for everything from swinging on vines to operating a tank.

* ''GadgetTrial'' averts this: since the player character is a skilled veteran, there is no tutorial mode.

* ''{{Pikmin}} 2'' has the first day spent controlling Louie.

** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has your character just recently recover from a headshot, prompting Doc Mitchell to direct you to Sunny Smiles to set you up to be able to actually survive the Mojave. It's pretty useful to go through the tutorial for a few free items, but it's not necessary to actually do.

* The ''{{Freespace}}'' series has two takes on this. In the first game, you're handed a fighter and a peashooter and have live-fire training with a tutor. In the sequel (32 years later in the continuity) live training has been phased out and you're put into a 'Training Simulator Module.' The stern but fatherly instructor has been replaced by a pre-recorded, overly enthusiastic AI.