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* The first driving stage in VideoGame/TheSpongebobMovieGame has [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick escape from Bikini Bottom as Plankton starts taking over. The last stage before the final boss has them return to the Krusty Krab by drving the same course but backwards through what is now "Planktopolis".

** The ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' games have the Mirror Cups, which require the player to race on the reversed versions of tracks to win. An extremely nasty version of the Mirror race is in ''VideoGame/MarioKart64'''s Toad's Turnpike. The traffic, which you raced alongside with, is now in reverse.

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* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', after defeating Ganondorf, you have to go back down Ganon's Tower [[CollapsingLair while it's collapsing]].

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' has a variation where different ports of the game are this to each other. The game was originally developed for the UsefulNotes/GameCube before Nintendo decided to also release it for the Wii and incorporate motion controls, which they felt was natural for things like swinging Link's sword. The problem was, however, that most people would want to make the motions with their right hand, and that Link was traditionally TheSouthpaw. They couldn't just flip Link's model, since that would interfere with animations, level design, etc. which they didn't have time to redo, so instead they just flipped the geometry of the entire game to make Link right-handed in the Wii version. The HD UpdatedRerelease for the Wii U uses the original Gamecube orientation for its normal difficulty setting, and the mirrored Wii orientation for [[HarderThanHard Hero Mode]]. The 3DS EnhancedPort of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' has the game's world become flipped in the Master Quest mode, which also makes Link become right handed.

* ''VideoGame/AlienVsPredatorExtinction'': The final level for the USCM is the Alien's first level played in reverse.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonXDGaleOfDarkness'', the Cipher Lab is essentially played backwards from how it was played in ''VideoGame/PokemonColosseum'' as the Shadow Pokémon Lab.

* In ''VideoGame/TransformersPreludeToEnergon'' (The video game based on the ''Anime/TransformersArmada'' TV series) has one level where you fight your way through a space ship. The next level is the same ship, only the ship is now nose-down and you start in the bridge, which is where the last one ended, fulfilling both methods implied with this trope.

* ''{{VideoGame/Castlevania Symphony Of The Night}}'' has two versions of this in one: [[spoiler: The inverted castle is not only played with the same level geometry, only upside-down, but you start the inverted castle from the Dracula fight room, and work your way 'upwards', thus utilising both methods of masking the reused geometry at the same time.]]
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' 4 had half the game as this, only playing as Dante, instead of newcomer Nero. [[InternetBackdraft The fans were not happy]].

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* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' has a variation where different ports of the game are this to each other. The game was originally developed for the UsefulNotes/GameCube before Nintendo decided to also release it for the Wii and incorporate motion controls, which they felt was natural for things like swinging Link's sword. The problem was, however, that most people would want to make the motions with their right hand, and that Link was traditionally TheSouthpaw. They couldn't just flip Link's model, since that would interfere with animations, level design, etc. which they didn't have time to redo, so instead they just flipped the geometry of the entire game to make Link right-handed in the Wii version. The HD UpdatedRerelease for the Wii U uses the original Gamecube orientation for its normal difficulty setting, and the mirrored Wii orientation for [[HarderThanHard Hero Mode]]. The 3DS EnhancedPort of ''VideoGame/TheLgendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' has the game's world become flipped in the Master Quest mode, which also makes Link become right handed.

* The level immediately following your acquisition of the dual-portal device in ''{{VideoGame/Portal 2}}'' is the final test chamber of the original ''{{VideoGame/Portal}}'', only in reverse and [[RemixedLevel in disrepair]].

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* The first ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'' game, thanks to its {{Metroidvania}} overworld, has a couple of examples.

* ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest'' has you backtrack through the icy section of the Valley of the Wind after escaping the Forlorn Ruins, only this time, [[MamaBear Kuro]] [[StealthBasedMission is stalking you]] and there are new barriers to be cleared. Then during the final EscapeSequence, Kuro chases you through several familiar areas of the forest, which now have [[LethalLavaLand encroaching lava flows and falling volcanic bombs]].

* In ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Future Soldier'''s second mission, you first stealthily clear out an enemy-infested refugee camp, then travel to an airfield to stop a cargo plane from taking off. After the plane goes down, you have to trek back to the camp to retrieve the black box, plus the terrorists have retaken the camp and a [[DeadlyDustStorm sandstorm]] [[InterfaceScrew hinders your vision]].

* In ''VideoGame/GhostRecon: Future Soldier'''s second mission, you first stealthily clear out an enemy-infested refugee camp, then travel to an airfield to stop a cargo plane from taking off. After the plane goes down, you have to trek back to the camp to retrieve the black box, plus the terrorists have retaken the camp and a sandstorm hinders your vision.

** This trend seems to be somewhat popular with the series in general. In ''VideoGame/{{Halo2}]'', "The Oracle" and "High Charity" are Flood-infested reverses of "The Arbiter" and "Gravemind", respectively, ''{{VideoGame/Halo 3}}'' had "The Storm" and "Floodgate" being reverses of each other, and ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' had the levels "The Package" and "ONI: Sword Base" sharing similar geometry, but with different start points.

** This trend seems to be somewhat popular with the series in general. ''{{VideoGame/Halo 3}}'' had "The Floodgate" and "The Storm" being reverses of each other, and ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' had the levels "The Package" and "ONI: Sword Base" sharing similar geometry, but with different start points.