History SignificantAnagram / VideoGames

* The name of ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand's'' BigGood, Elfilin, is an anagram of "Nil Life", hinting at his nature as [[spoiler:the kindness and compassion within Fecto Elfilis, an OmnicidalManiac, given form.]] It should be noted that, in Japan, Elfilin is named Efillin, which is a SdrawkcabName

** Another puzzle also qualifies as a Significant Anagram; the player is presented with a tic-tac-toe-like board on which Scrabblesque tiles are arranged. The letters must be rearranged to spell three words, one in each row. [[spoiler:The words are GET BOY TAD, which gives the player some idea of what Stauf wants from his guests and how the game is going to end.]]

** Susie is an anagram for "issue". She's got issues. But compared to Kris and Ralsei, this is arguably more mysterious in authorial intent than theirs.

** In ''Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney'', [[spoiler:Kristoph's name in the Japanese version is Kirihito, an anagram of 'hitokiri', meaning 'killer']].

** Ralsei is an anagram of [[spoiler:Asriel]]. And this is significant.

** The [[http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0014/1962/products/product_UT_deltarune_shirt_designview_1024x1024.jpg?v=1449349072 crest of the Dreemurr family]], which symbolizes [[spoiler:a prophecy foretelling the events of the game]], is called the "Delta Rune", an anagram of the game's title.

** ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', the spinoff-sequel-thing, is an anagram of "Undertale".
*** On that note, [[spoiler:Ralsei is an anagram of Asriel. And this is significant.]]

*** "Memento Mori, if the nineth lion ate the sun" = "The man on the moon rules the infinite time". [[spoiler:The man on the moon refers to Sigma, and infinite time refers to sending his unconscious back decades into the past. Memento Mori when the nineth lion ate the sun also acts in itself as the key for Sigma to pull the from login and password from other timelines when the ninth lion he's seen so far is eating a sun on the login screen. Phi also brings up the intentional typo in "nineth", where the extra "e" was needed to make the anagram work.]]

* ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'': Meagan Foster's [[TheAllegedCar alleged boat]] is named the "Dreadful Wale". She's already been asked before why there's no "H" in "Wale". [[spoiler:That's because it's an anagram to "Farewell Daud", which is a hint that she's definitely Billie Lurk, who's had a past with Daud's assassin guild.]]

* The name of ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand's'' BigGood, Elfilin, is an anagram of "Nil Life", hinting at his nature as [[spoiler:the kindness and compassion within Fecto Elfilis, an OmnicidalManiac, given form.]] It should be noted that Elfilin is named Efillin, which is a SdrawkcabName

* The name of ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand's'' BigGood, Elfilin, is an anagram of "Nil Life", hinting at his nature as [[spoiler:the kindness and compassion within Fecto Elfilis, an OmnicidalManiac, given form.]]

* The name of ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand's'' Big Good, Elfilin, is an anagram of "Nil Life", hinting at his nature as [[spoiler:the kindness and compassion within Fecto Elfilis, an OmnicidalManiac, given form.]]

* The name of ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand's'' Big Good, Elfilin, is an anagram of "Nil Life", hinting at his nature as [[spoiler:the kindness and compassion within Fecto Elfilis given form.]]

* ''[[VideoGame/TrailsSeries The Legend of Heroes - Trails]]'': In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Trails of Cold Steel IV]]'', the team receives a request from a woman called Rimabella to recover her stolen dolls from Bleublanc, the {{phantom thief}} from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky''. Once the dolls are retrieved, the group is ambushed by Rimabella, who (as Musse figured out) reveals her actual identity as [[spoiler:Mariabell]], one of the villains in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki Trails to Azure]]''.

* In ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'', Sou Hiyori's first name is an anagram of "Uso", which is Japanese for "Lie". [[spoiler:Shin Tsukimi has [[DeadPersonImpersonation taken on the identity of a dead man]]]].

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': The Sheikah monk ''Oman Au'' and his shrine is an anagram of [[Creator/EijiAonuma (Eiji) Aonuma]], the game's producer. [[https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Monk Many (but not all) of the monks' names]] are based on partial phonetic anagrams of other developers.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Tetra's Italian name is "Dazel". Now switch around the letters and see what you get. The weird thing is that this painfully obvious anagram actually sounds a lot better as a name than her real, original Japanese name...

* ''[[VideoGame/TrailsSeries The Legend of Heroes - Trails]]'': In ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel IV'', the team receives a request from a woman called Rimabella to recover her stolen dolls from Bleublanc, the {{phantom thief}} from ''VideoGame/TrailsInTheSky''. Once the dolls are retrieved, the group is ambushed by Rimabella, who (as Musse figured out) reveals her actual identity as [[spoiler:Mariabell]], one of the villains in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki Trails to Azure]]''.

* ''[[VideoGame/TrailsSeries The Legend of Heroes - Trails]]'': In ''VideoGame/TrailsOfColdSteel IV'', the team receives a request from a woman called Rimabella to recover her stolen dolls from Bleublanc, the {{phantom thief}} from ''VideoGame/TrailsInTheSky''. Once the dolls are retrieved, the group is ambushed by Rimabella, who (as Musse figured out) reveals her actual identity as [[spoiler:Mariabell]], one of the villains in ''[[VideoGame/ZeroNoKiseki Trails to Azure]]''.

** Eraqus is an anagram of Square, one of the series' developers. This is to parallel [[{{WesternAnimation/Fantasia}} Yen Sid]], which as noted in the Western Animation section is [[Creator/WaltDisney Disney]] backwards.

* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGate 2'', the famous ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' character Elminster may appear to speak to one of the party. When doing so, he uses the rather transparent anagram "Terminsel".

* ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2'' has Nagito Komaeda, whose name is mostly an anagram of Makoto Naegi, the first game's protagonist. [[spoiler:No, they're not the same person, but Komaeda can be seen as an EvilCounterpart to Naegi]]. Incidentally, the part that's unused is "Da", a less-polite form of "Desu", roughly translating as "Is" or "Am." Keep in mind that Japanese normally doesn't use pronouns and merely implies them.

* ''VideoGame/KingsQuest 2'' features an appearance by Literature/{{Dracula}}. In the FanRemake, he's replaced by a similar vampire named Cauldar.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'', Captain Olimar's name in Japanese is Orima, an anagram of [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]. In Olimar's DummiedOut cameo in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'', he dubs Mario "Marlio".

** Earlier in the series, the founding member of the Fey spiritualist clan is Mystic Ami. This name was chosen in the English version because it anagrams to another phrase, "I AM", which, aside from [[FauxSymbolism being grounds for the localization to be struck by the Judeo-Christian God]], is relevant in a certain case.

*** On that note, [[spoiler:Ralsei is an anagram if Asriel. And this is significant.]]

** ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', the spinoff-sequel-thing, is an anagram of "Undertale". So is the game's battle music, "Rude Buster".

** ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'', the spinoff-sequel-thing, is an anagram of "Undertale".