History Main / SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity

** The last level of the game start you off in a room with more gear than you could possibly carry! Unfortunately, it's mostly useless, because the only enemies you'll need to kill in the level are Maggots and Imps, handled easily enough with either the Shotgun or Chainsaw.

* ''{{Heretic}}'''s [[ExpansionPack Shadow of the Serpent Riders]] ends with [=E5M8=], Field of Judgement, where you're given all the weapons (other than the Firemace), a good load of ammo, one of pretty much every item in the game and a full load of big Phoenix Rod spheres at the center of the arena. Now why would they give you this generous loadout? You're going to need it all against the ''eight fucking Maulotaurs'' that are waiting to kick your ass.

* The final Rite in ''QuestForGlory V'' culminates in a battle right in the villain's storeroom, and wouldn't you know it, he succeeds in lifting the seal on the [[FinalBoss Dragon]] [[SealedEvilInACan of Doom]] before you can stop him. Played with in that everything is locked behind a row of booby-trapped doors, requiring the player to work for it.

* It's fairly easy to pinpoint the locations of the bosses in any ''{{Metroid}} Prime'' game by just looking on the map and finding save stations (which in some games also recharge your health) that are next to unusually large rooms. The 2D games (the ones with maps, anyway) cut out the middleman and just label where bosses are on the map. Strangely, [[UnplesableFanbase the fanbase]] has also been known to complain about the bosses not being next to the save room, and having to fight one's way back to them after each death.

* One interesting example in ''FinalFantasyVII'' involves a point immediately after leaving Nibelheim. Traveling through an eerie passage, you get a savepoint at the very beginning of a largish room with a snakelike pathway, very innoculous, as many winding paths are common in areas throughout the game. In fact, there's a T-shaped intersection immediately after the save point. Head right, a chest and dead end. Head left, what some players consider [[ThatOneBoss that one boss]], Materia Keeper.
* In Final Fantasy IX, right before the first Black Waltz, there's a split path. [[spoiler: On the left is a Moogle, which can save and heal you, and on the right is the cutscene for the boss. The problem is this: you need Vivi to free the Moogle from the block of Ice it's trapped in, but if you went right and then went back, Zidane's alone and Vivi can't help him. It doesn't help that the boss has to be fought with just Zidane, so if you went right first, Good Luck!]]

* It's fairly easy to pinpoint the locations of the bosses in any ''{{Metroid}} Prime'' game by just looking on the map and finding save stations (which in some games also recharge your health) that are next to unusually large rooms. The 2D games (the ones with maps, anyway) cut out the middleman and just label where bosses are on the map.

* ''{{Heretic}}'''s [[ExpansionPack Shadow of the Serpent Riders]] ends with [=E5M8=], Field of Judgement, where you're given all the weapons (other than the Firemace), a good load of ammo, one of pretty much every item in the game and a full load of big Phoenix Rod spheres at the center of the arena. Now why would they give you this generous loadout, you may ask? You're going to need it all against the ''eight fucking Maulotaurs'' that are waiting to kick your ass.

* ''{{Heretic}}'''s [[ExpansionPack Shadow of the Serpent Riders]] ends with [=E5M8=], Field of Judgement, where you're given all the weapons (other than the Firemace), a good load of ammo, one of pretty much every item in the game and a full load of big Phoenix Rod spheres at the center of the arena. Now why would they give you this generous loadout, you may ask? '''[[spoiler:EIGHT FUCKING MAULOTAURS]]''', that's why!

* ''{{Heretic}}'''s [[ExpansionPack Shadow of the Serpent Riders]] ends with [=E5M8=], Field of Judgement, where you're given all the weapons (other than the Firemace), a good load of ammo, one of pretty much every item in the game and a full load of big Phoenix Rod spheres at the center of the arena. You're going to need them all against the ''eight Maulotaurs'' that are waiting to kick your ass.

** In the last level, you start in a room filled with a Soul Sphere and every single weapon available in the game.

* ''{{Heretic}}'''s [[ExpansionPack Shadow of the Serpent Riders]] ends with [=E5M8=], Field of Judgement, where you're given all the weapons (other than the Firemace), a good load of ammo, one of pretty much every item in the game and a full load of big Phoenix Rod spheres at the center of the arena. You're going to need them all against the ''eight Maulotaurs'' that make up the final battle.

* ''{{Heretic}}'''s [[ExpansionPack Shadow of the Serpent Riders]] ends with E5M8, Field of Judgement, where you're given all the weapons (other than the Firemace), a good load of ammo, one of pretty much every item in the game and a full load of big Phoenix Rod spheres at the center of the arena. You're going to need them all against the ''six Maulotaurs'' that the game throws at you for the final battle.

** And then we have the Omega Dungeon, who lacks the generosity. A Save Sphere at the start, have fun fighting yourself through powerfull fiends, including the horrible Great Malboro who always starts with a ambush and then goes to inflict a variety of Status effects on your party.

* In ''Doom'', especially custom levels, cyberdemon battles are almost always preceded by you finding a massive supply of [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame rockets and a rocket launcher]].

* A form of this shows up in ''MegamanBattleNetwork 6'', where the spot in which the pre-boss cutscene kicks in is noted by a big skull on the floor. Considering how previous games left this up to "best guess" or "chronic paranoid saving", it's pretty generous. For that matter, so is the fact that most of the chips in the game can be acquired with "*" codes, preventing the "alphabet soup" problem that plagues many players while they're working through the main story mode.

* If you are playing a ''MegaMan'' game and you see an extra life and/or an E-Tank without a bottomless pit or a horde of instant death spikes around, you can pretty much know for sure that you'll find an insane platforming segment right in the following screen. Or a boss that will kill you in less than 30 seconds. Or both.

* Every player of Windows ''{{Touhou}}'' games know that the [[ThatOneBoss 4th]] and final boss are ussualy the more difficult ones, so the game gives you an extra life (or a extra bomb in case you already have too much lives) exactly before the boss or a really heavy [[BulletHell Danmaku]]

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The game designers are being nice and giving you a chance to gear up and heal up before [[TheUnpronounceable The Unpronounceable One]] eviscerates you and sticks your head over his mantle. {{Bonus Dungeon}}s tend not to feature these before the BonusBoss, as they're intended to be [[FakeDifficulty extra challenging]]. Also not necessarily limited to {{Boss Battle}}s, SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity may occur before the DeathCourse or any other noticeably difficult segment. An [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Acceptable Break From Reality]].

Compare AfterBossRecovery, for when the fight's over, and ForebodingArchitecture, for when you can predict based on the level design.

** The room before fighting [[BonusBoss Yukabacera]] contains enough red nano to refill you from near-dead to full health about five times over. He drops even more when you kill him. [[spoiler: Not that it matters, because you get sealed into a tiny enclosed area to fight him, away from all that lovely nano.]]

** The room before fighting [[BonusBoss Yukabacera]] contains enough red nano to refill you from near-dead to full health about five times over. He drops even more when you kill him.