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* The reveal trailer of the eighth DLC fighter for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' has something to this effect. The trailer begins with a bad situation similar to World of Light's beginning with Galeem about to use his laser attack to obliterate everybody. Right before the attack fires, though, Galeem is attacked from behind and cut in two. The culprit makes himself known moments later as his {{Leitmotif}}, 'One Winged Angel' ([[OneWingedAngel Yes, that one]]) starts to play, [[OhCrap with the way Cloud utters the name of the man who has caused him so much pain and trouble]] merely sealing just how much worse things got for the rest of the cast...

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* The reveal trailer of the eighth DLC fighter for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' has something to this effect. The trailer begins with a bad situation similar to World of Light's beginning with Galeem about to use his laser attack to obliterate everybody. Right before the attack fires, though, Galeem is attacked from behind and cut in two. The culprit makes himself known moments later as his {{Leitmotif}}, 'One 'Advent: One Winged Angel' ([[OneWingedAngel Yes, that one]]) starts to play, [[OhCrap with the way Cloud utters the name of the man who has caused him so much pain and trouble]] merely sealing just how much worse things got for the rest of the cast...
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* ''VideoGame/WorldOfHorror'' has "Old God Stirs" events that trigger after each mystery, making the playthrough harder with each victory achieved and further imperiling the world. These include:

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* ''VideoGame/WorldOfHorror'' has "Old God Stirs" events that trigger after each mystery, making the playthrough harder with each victory achieved and further imperiling the world. The Herald of the Shattered Court makes this even worse by triggering ''two'' events instead of one. These include:
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** "Blood Moon": The moon turns an ominous red, causing monsters to gain a whopping 20 power, making them harder to hit and dodge.


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** "Roads Closed": The police have closed all the roads out of town, forcing you to seek alternate routes, and increasing the Doom cost of exploring the Village, Mansion, and Forest.
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** The side story, "Lasting Eden," has a girl who after her homeworld was destroyed by an unknown apocalyptic event, was transported to Arcaea with her memories intact (so she would remember all the horrible things that happened) and just like Tairitsu, saw nothing but horrible memories. The torment reached a point where the girl ''wanted to die''....until a voice encouraged her to run and get out all the way to the outside world. Things don't get better here, as a [[spoiler:creepy stalker-yandere-like OutsideContextProblem with a god complex and reality-warping powers who entered Arcaea on her own volition stands in front of her and abducts her to places unknown.]]

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** The side story, "Lasting Eden," has a girl who after her homeworld was destroyed by an unknown apocalyptic event, was transported to Arcaea with her memories intact (so she would remember all the horrible things that happened) and just like Tairitsu, saw nothing but horrible memories. The torment reached a point where the girl ''wanted to die''....until a voice encouraged her to run and get out all the way to the outside world. Things don't get better here, as a [[spoiler:creepy stalker-yandere-like OutsideContextProblem with a god complex and reality-warping powers who entered Arcaea on her own volition stands in front of volition, ran into her and abducts her to places unknown.]]
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* ''VideoGame/{{Arcaea}}'':
** One side of the main story begins with our cute, naive protagonist doing nothing but relishing in watching and collecting delightful memories. Then it disintegrates into said protagonist collecting too much of those memories and overdosing on them until she became completely numb and catatonic. And if she doesn't end up there, she runs into another girl who tries to kill her and the story gets worse from there, with both protagonists becoming more and more insane as they try to kill each other. It eventually ended with [[spoiler:our protagonist reaching a breaking point and killing off the girl she tried to befriend and turning herself into a broken wreck out of guilt and remorse.]] She does get better on the first ending [[spoiler:as she atones for (sorta) resurrecting the girl she killed and befrinding her]], but [[spoiler:it is possible to reach another ending where she just leaves the other girl dead, traps everyone else inside Arcaea and letting all of them become catatonic after a millennium and becomes an insane and nihilistic wreck of a MadGod]].
** The other side of the main story is really no better. Another girl awakens in a tower, sees nothing but horrible memories of "pain, betrayal, envy and dark", becomes so desenetized that she loses all hope of expecting anything good will happen and goes out of the tower trying to find someone to hurt and kill. It reaches the point where when she ran into our main protagonist and saw a premonition that she would kill her, she didn't just try to aim for the kill, but evolved into something trying to sadistically toy with her bit by bit before aiming for the kill...[[spoiler:only to get herself on the receiving end instead.]] The DownerEnding gives bonus information on how did she end up like that; [[spoiler:she was a practictioner of some power from a destroyed world where she was shunned and hated by other people because of possessing said power. Then a god or angel arrived, obliterated her entire world, and made her the final victim as there's absolutely nothing she can do about it.]]
** The side story, "Lasting Eden," has a girl who after her homeworld was destroyed by an unknown apocalyptic event, was transported to Arcaea with her memories intact (so she would remember all the horrible things that happened) and just like Tairitsu, saw nothing but horrible memories. The torment reached a point where the girl ''wanted to die''....until a voice encouraged her to run and get out all the way to the outside world. Things don't get better here, as a [[spoiler:creepy stalker-yandere-like OutsideContextProblem with a god complex and reality-warping powers who entered Arcaea on her own volition stands in front of her and abducts her to places unknown.]]
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** First, Shinjiro dies. Then [[TreacherousAdvisor Ikutsuki is revealed to be evil]] and that he tricked SEES into not ending the Dark Hour, but instead bringing about The Fall, AKA TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, and manages to kill Mitsuru's father before dying himself. Then [[spoiler:a NewTransferStudent comes and turns out to be the one who will bring about The Fall. And as he regretfully informs everyone, The Fall involves Nyx, the invincible embodiment of death, inflicting Apathy Syndrome on everyone, effectively killing humanity, and that she will arrive before spring comes (it's late Fall at this point). And to make things worse, Takaya learns about this and starts up a doomsday cult which rapidly engulfs the entire town. And then when SEES goes and fights Nyx anyways, she turns out to actually be invincible and the only way to seal Nyx and stop the Fall is for the player character to make a HeroicSacrifice.]]
** [[spoiler: The protagonist's death causes the main party to be overcome with despair which causes them to be trapped in their dorm in a Groundhog Day loop and opens a new labyrinth known as the Abyss of Time under their dorm. In the Abyss they discover a way to bring back the protagonist and some party members are all for it while others think the last shouldn't be messed with. This causes a schism in the group and Aigis is forced to fight ALL of her friends in order to obtain pieces of a key that will unlock a door that allows the party to travel back to the moment of the protagonist's heroic sacrifice. After doing so, they discover that the protagonist used his soul to create a seal to prevent Erebus, the manifestation of humanity's despair and negative emotions, from reaching Nyx, which is what would bring about The Fall. The party defeats Erebus, but it will keep coming back every year until humanity no longer feels despair, which will NEVER happen, meaning that it will reappear over and over, likely until the end of time. ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' confirms that it is still reappearing years later and Elizabeth has taken it upon herself to destroy it every time it returns. She laments that in a year's time she will have to defeat it once more.]]

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** First, The game starts going from bad to worse on 10/4. [[spoiler:First, Shinjiro dies. Then [[TreacherousAdvisor Ikutsuki is revealed to be evil]] and that he tricked SEES into not ending the Dark Hour, but instead bringing about The Fall, AKA TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, and manages to kill Mitsuru's father before dying himself. Then [[spoiler:a a NewTransferStudent comes and turns out to be the one who will bring about The Fall. And as he regretfully informs everyone, The Fall involves Nyx, the invincible embodiment of death, inflicting Apathy Syndrome on everyone, effectively killing humanity, and that she will arrive before spring comes (it's late Fall at this point). And to make things worse, Takaya learns about this and starts up a doomsday cult which rapidly engulfs the entire town. And then when SEES goes and fights Nyx anyways, she turns out to actually be invincible and the only way to seal Nyx and stop the Fall is for the player character to make a HeroicSacrifice.]]
** [[spoiler: The In "The Answer", [[spoiler:the protagonist's death causes the main party to be overcome with despair which causes them to be trapped in their dorm in a Groundhog Day loop and opens a new labyrinth known as the Abyss of Time under their dorm. In the Abyss they discover a way to bring back the protagonist and some party members are all for it while others think the last shouldn't be messed with. This causes a schism in the group and Aigis is forced to fight ALL of her friends in order to obtain pieces of a key that will unlock a door that allows the party to travel back to the moment of the protagonist's heroic sacrifice. After doing so, they discover that the protagonist used his soul to create a seal to prevent Erebus, the manifestation of humanity's despair and negative emotions, from reaching Nyx, which is what would bring about The Fall. The party defeats Erebus, but it will keep coming back every year until humanity no longer feels despair, which will NEVER happen, meaning that it will reappear over and over, likely until the end of time. ''VideoGame/Persona4Arena'' confirms that it is still reappearing years later and Elizabeth has taken it upon herself to destroy it every time it returns. She laments that in a year's time she will have to defeat it once more.]]

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