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One use of this trope is to emphasise that you and your opponents are playing as yourselves. If the game has a single-player campaign, its protagonist will be toward the higher end of the scale of PlayerAndProtagonistIntegration, somewhere between HeroicMime and "you are you."

* In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword]]'', you play as the Tactician.

* ''Videogame/DungeonCrawl'' gives the player a title based on the level of player's highest skill. The game goes as far to having different titles for different gods (if the player's Invocation skill is their highest), and if the player's highest skill is Unarmed Combat, it even differs between higher Strength (Grappler and the like) and Dexterity (Black Belt and the like). All these combinations mean that there are way over ''two hundred'' different titles possible.
* ''Videogame/DragonAgeOrigins'' casts you as a Grey Warden, a member of a rather secretive order dedicated to stopping the rampaging darkspawn at any cost. Unfortunately, all but one of your fellow Wardens are dead or too far off to be of any help, the Regent wants your head, and everybody else has decided now is the time to start fighting each other. Nevertheless, your job is to unite them and put down the darkspawn for good. Good luck!

* ''Anime/AngelicLayer'': The series is centered around a game where players control fighting dolls called "Angels". The game's term for a player is "Deus". The early episodes play up the "initiation" angle in fine detail, with Icchan taking Misaki to buy a starter set, and Misaki going through the Angel-creation process upon arriving at her new home.

* ''Anime/KidouTenshiAngelicLayer'': The series is centered around a game where players control fighting dolls called "Angels". The game's term for a player is "Deus". The early episodes play up the "initiation" angle in fine detail, with Icchan taking Misaki to buy a starter set, and Misaki going through the Angel-creation process upon arriving at her new home.

* ''Videogame/RuneScape'' dubs the player character the World Guardian starting with the beginning of the turn of the Sixth-Age.

Another reason a game uses this trope is to create a sense of [[TrueCompanions cameraderie and inclusion]] among players. When you buy this game, you're not just buying a game. Your purchase serves as your initiation into an exclusive group, and your starter set is your ticket to a new world of friends and [[CallToAdventure adventure]] beyond the dullness of everyday life. When you sit down for a match, you're not just Bob the OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent or Bob the WhiteCollarWorker anymore. You're Bob the [[MagicTheGathering Planeswalker]]. You're one of us!