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** ''Ys III: Wanderers from Ys'' and its remake ''VideoGame/YsTheOathInFelghana'' take place in Dogi's homeland of Felghana where an evil Count terrorizes the land. Felghana is home to a huge mining complex, a volcano, a massive mountain range, and a beautiful palace.

%% * ''Film/MyGirl'': First one was in Madison, Pennsylvania for the whole film while ''Film/MyGirl2'' mostly takes place in LA with the film's {{Bookends}} being in Madison.

* The first installment of ''Film/TheMightyDucks'' takes place in Minneapolis, Minnesota; the second is in Los Angeles, California; the third one goes back to Minnesota.
* ''Film/MyGirl'': First one was in Madison, Pennsylvania for the whole film while ''Film/MyGirl2'' mostly takes place in LA with the film's {{Bookends}} being in Madison.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'' after the high tech sci-fi of the past two games, this one returns to medieval/steampunk technologies. While the last games had world's separate but in contact countries, the continents of ''IX'' are completely cut off from each other. While ''VIII'' had the world at large unaffected by the plot, the world of ''IX'' is damaged but reparable at the end.

* The first two ''Franchise/{{Metro}}'' games including ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' and ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'' all take place in the titular Moscow Metro and the above surface of Moscow. ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'' takes place in ''multiple'' locations above the surface across the continent including the Volga, Yamantau mountains, the Caspian desert in Kazakhstan, the Taiga in northeastern Kazakhstan and Novosibirsk. While Metros make an appearance at the end of the game, it takes place in an entirely different metro that is a complete stranger to both Artyom and Miller. The second DLC ''Sam's Story'' takes place in Vladivostok, a PortTown where most of the buildings are destroyed by the tsunami due to the warheads being launched into the ocean, remarkably contrasting Moscow as it was destroyed directly by the nukes.

* The first two ''Franchise/{{Metro}}'' games including ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' and ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'' all take place in the titular Moscow Metro and the above surface of Moscow. ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'' takes place in ''multiple'' locations above the surface across the continent including the Volga, Yamantau mountains, the Caspian desert in Kazakhstan, the Taiga in northeastern Kazakhstan and Novosibirsk. While Metros make an appearance at the end of the game, it takes place in an entirely different metro that is a complete stranger to both Artyom and Miller.

** ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' introduced the lush Naboo and the mass metropolis of Coruscant. ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' introduced the watery Kamino and another desert planet, Geonosis. ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' featured the rocky Utapau, the jungle planet Kashyyk and the lava planet Mustafar.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls1'' is set on Lordran, a kingdom in twilight founded on the glory of a dragon-slaying lord who keeps a tomb for giants near the royal capital. ''VideoGame/DarkSouls2'' has Drangleic, a fractured but more lively land with multiple kings, the most notable of which made war with Giants but has a working relationship with the local dragon descendants. ''VideoGame/DarkSouls3'' setting goes back to Lordran's ruins, which have decayed even further and fallen into darkness with the First Flame flickering lower than ever before as you must now journey to take down the Lords of Cinder resurrected in a last ditch effort to keep the flame going just a little longer.
* The original ''VideoGame/DeadSpace'' is set on the USG Ishimura, a planet cracker class vessel. ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' takes place on Titan Station, also known as "The Sprawl", a space station located on what's left of one of Saturn's moons. [[spoiler:And also part of the Ishimura.]] ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' is set largely on and around a mysterious, icy forgotten planet.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

** ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles'' is set a century before the main games and explicitly takes place in Meiji Japan and Victorian Britain as opposed to modern "Japanifornia".

* ''VideoGame/SlimeRancher''[='=]s ranch was located in the Dry Reef, a desert dominated by yellow and orange hues. ''VideoGame/SlimeRancher2''[='=]s ranch is a glass-dome conservatory in the predominantly blue and green Rainbow Fields.

* Franchise/Trolls:

** ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorneyChronicles'' is set a century before the main games and explicitly takes place in epoch Japan and England as opposed to modern "Japanifornia".
** ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsPhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' takes place in a medieval city plagued by witchcraft.

* The first ''WesternAnimation/{{Trolls}}'' movie sees the main Troll characters and their friends going outside their home to travel to Bergen Town, the home of the Trolls' longtime non-Troll rivals (the Bergens), and stop the BigBad Chef. The second movie ''WesternAnimation/TrollsWorldTour'' has them travel through the homes of the other [[ThereIsAnother newly-revealed Troll Tribes]] under a similar goal.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': The first five games took place in worlds were magic was such common place that no one ever really questioned were it came from. The world of ''VI'' has magic being a foreign power granted by the Warring Triad gods to the Espers and from them to the player characters. Midway through the game Kefka usurps the god's power and turns the planet into a ruined husk of itself that the party must find meaning in what life is left.

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* ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' is set in the [[ElaborateUndergroundBase Black Mesa]] Research [[BlackSite Facility]], while ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' is set in City 17, a [[VichyEarth Combine-controlled]] city in Eastern Europe.

* The first few games in the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series took place in areas with mystical design and ancient ruins populated by intelligent animals overtaken by Eggman's plans. ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' mostly takes place in Station Square, a modern city populated mostly by humans where Eggman doesn't have a lot of sway over.