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20th May '13 7:11:09 AM 2heartgirl

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19th May '13 7:46:34 AM Stratadrake

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In the vast majority of {{RPG}}s, once you beat the game, you get to sit through the final cutscenes, maybe get an option to save your game, but when you start up the game again on the same file, you find yourself either in a NewGamePlus, or [[EndgamePlus right before the final boss again]] -- you never get to enjoy the world after saving it. This is often because the nature of their plots means the ending goes into story cutscenes that radically change the gameplay world.

A Playable Epilogue, however, lets you continue playing after beating the final boss. In some cases this simply means that the scenes taking place during the epilogue are interactive (you can talk to [=NPCs=] at your leisure, but not go out and explore the world map or battle monsters), and your save file still reloads the game as it looked before the final boss. In other times the epilogue is an actual bonus chapter set in the "saved" world, after the main plot has been all wrapped up, often featuring extra side quests or dungeons to explore at your leisure.

A form of ExtendedGameplay. See also MiniGameCredits, where only the closing credits are interactive, and the videogame version of DenouementEpisode, where instead of an interactive cut scene there's an actual mandatory level/quest set after the FinalBattle and before the ending of the game. Compare ModularEpilogue.

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In the vast majority of {{RPG}}s, once you beat the FinalBoss and save the world, you don't get to freely explore and experience the world ''after'' it's been saved.  If you're allowed to save your game file at all after the credits roll, it will probably just start you off from the [[NewGamePlus first chapter]] (or [[EndgamePlus final chapter]]) again.

A playable epilogue is the exception to this rule.

Sometimes this simply means that the cutscenes in the usual epilogue are interactive:  You can walk around and chat with NPC's at your leisure, but not (e.g.) leave the town for some DungeonCrawling or LevelGrinding.  (You probably won't have access to your usual SavePoint either, so reloading your save file will necessarily return you to where you last were before facing the FinalBoss.)

Other times this is an actual bonus chapter set ''after'' the story's epilogue, which allows you to return to the game's world and explore it to your heart's content with no BigBad or TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt to threaten you.  These are sometimes referred to as a "clear game" or "postgame", indicating that while you've cleared the ''game'' (i.e. story), the ''game play'' continues more or less as normal.

When it's the latter case, expect to see a few bonus side quests or [[BonusDungeon dungeons]] to provide motivation to keep playing.

A form of ExtendedGameplay, loosely analogous to AndTheAdventureContinues. See also MiniGameCredits, in which only the closing company credits are interactive; and the videogame version of DenouementEpisode, where instead of an interactive cut scene there's an actual mandatory level/quest set after the FinalBattle and before the ending of the game.

Compare ModularEpilogue.

12th May '13 5:11:48 PM wolftickets1969

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9th May '13 10:12:05 PM TheMysteriousTroper

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* In {{killer7}}. everything after [[spoiler: Greg Nightmare]] is a two part epilogue, the first part being a run through the Union Hotel, now clear of Smiles, to learn backstory and finally [[spoiler: make Garcian fully realize he's Emir Parkreiner.]] The second part is a whole Target: Target 06: Lion, which has two highlights: The SadisticChoice that determines the fate of the world, all determined in whether or not you [[spoiler: kill Kenjiro Matsuoka or not.]] Then, the PostFinalBoss afterwards with the Last Shot Smile, who [[MindScrew has a completely unexplained identity, resembling two people.]]
* Used in the first BatenKaitos; [[EldritchAbomination Malpercio]] has been vanquished, [[FloatingContinent The islands]] have descended upon [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Earth(?)]][[spoiler: And you fight a PostFinalBoss in the form of TheEmperor]].
* In the second LegoIsland game once you defeat the Brickster you get a seemingly fitting cutscene to end the game on- then you simply get to run around the Island. It's actually somewhat boring, though- all anybody says is to congratulate you for defeating the Brickster, you can travel to some of the other islands but all you can do on Castle Island is talk to players and you can't even get out of the desert on Adventurers' Island, let alone talk to anyone from that area, and the only real EasterEgg is just an unusual way of doing the credits.

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* In ''{{killer7}}''. everything after [[spoiler:Greg Nightmare]] is a two part epilogue, the first part being a run through the Union Hotel, now clear of Smiles, to learn backstory and finally [[spoiler: make Garcian fully realize he's Emir Parkreiner.]] The second part is a whole Target: Target 06: Lion, which has two highlights: The SadisticChoice that determines the fate of the world, all determined in whether or not you [[spoiler: kill Kenjiro Matsuoka or not.]] Then, the PostFinalBoss afterwards with the Last Shot Smile, who [[MindScrew has a completely unexplained identity, resembling two people.]]
* Used in the first ''BatenKaitos''; [[EldritchAbomination Malpercio]] has been vanquished, [[FloatingContinent The islands]] have descended upon [[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield Earth(?)]][[spoiler: And you fight a PostFinalBoss in the form of TheEmperor]].
* In the second ''LegoIsland'' game once you defeat the Brickster you get a seemingly fitting cutscene to end the game on- then you simply get to run around the Island. It's actually somewhat boring, though- all anybody says is to congratulate you for defeating the Brickster, you can travel to some of the other islands but all you can do on Castle Island is talk to players and you can't even get out of the desert on Adventurers' Island, let alone talk to anyone from that area, and the only real EasterEgg is just an unusual way of doing the credits.

27th Apr '13 11:54:57 AM RJSavoy

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