History MundaneMadeAwesome / VideoGames

** Actually, it may be a subversion. It IS awesome.

* No love for ''FireEmblem''? This can be the only thing going through most of the characters' minds when they get critical hits! Flipping about elaborately when striking with your sword, and doing a tornado spin on your way back into position? Done. Stepping back, duplicating yourself, disappearing to strike the killing blow up close, then dropping down from the ''ceiling?'' Done. Throwing your shield the air, jumping higher than you threw the shield, landing before it while striking the killing blow, and catching it when it falls? Done. ''Waiting for your sword to gleam brilliantly in the sunlight''? Done.

* ''[[InNameOnly Dante's Inferno.]]'' That is all.

** In the same vein, [[TheWindWaker Toon Link's]] Baton-taunt is so incredibly overdone that it makes his game-self look humble and modest in comparison. He waves that thing like the fate of the world would depend on it (OK, it once did, but that's not the case ''here'').

** Aaand... they just outdid themselves. ''AceAttorneyInvestigations'' applies the WDYMINA factor to Edgeworth's ''logical thought processes''.

*** The game's many secret theaters merrily jog between this and a CrowningMomentOfAwesome -- for example, let's play [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkkP-UXTN0k&feature=related Rock, Paper, ROCKETLAUNCHER !]] or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPgDIWxgOYA&feature=related Try to change the future to stay a main character]], ogling some breasts in between and getting {{Ho Yay}}'d.

* The creators of ''DukeNukem'' really take the cake with [[http://kotaku.com/5026127/duke-nukem-trilogy-trailer-takes-the-cake this one]].

* ''{{Heroes of Might and Magic}} V'' has a lot of this during the in-game {{cutscene}}s. The characters have very few scripted gestures they can perform, so you often see them waving their arms around and [[PowerGlows glowing with arcane power]] while holding a perfectly normal conversation. {{Narm}} ensues.

* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' in general tries -- and throughout the game [[{{Funny/Psychonauts}} succeeds fantastically]] -- at mixing the epic and the hilarious. Just have a look at the quote on the page for the game and its context. That's only the beginning -- try Kochamara [[CallingYourAttacks Calling His Attacks]], a MilkmanConspiracy, fluorescent pink bulls wearing boots, a DepravedDentist sporting a shower cap and a steel claw arm that doubles as a pepper grinder among the antagonists, and that "in the end, aren't we all just dogs playing poker?"

* In ''ZettaiHeroKaizouKeikaku'', this is {{enforced|Trope}} in the ''ShakuganNoShana''-themed BonusDungeon. All normal attacks are forbidden, and you have to fight using only over-the-top special attacks.

* In ''MassEffect2'', during Thane's loyalty mission, Commander Shepard is told about a Shepard VI, that spouts a line such as "I delete data like you on the way to real errors!" and when it crashes, the error message says that "The fate of the Galaxy is at stake, and you should try to fix the problem yourself". To which Tali or Garrus will comment "That's pretty extreme, Commander."

* ''{{Dustforce}}'' makes cleaning awesome by adding trickjumps, wall running and slow-motion.

** Similar to the potion-drinking in the 3D ''TheLegendOfZelda'' games, where the camera closes on Link, who quickly "draws" the bottle, and after drinking, does an heroic lip-cleaning (sometimes breathing a fog colored as the potion). Only lacks different music and slow motion (though TimeStandsStill as you drink) to try being more awesome.

* ''TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' features a sequence in which Link has to clear the Bokoblins out of an old ghost town, to a faux-SpaghettiWestern guitar piece evocative of high-noon shootouts. Later, if you speak to the resident chicken as a wolf, it'll ask you to befriend all the cats in town. And if you accept, you have to hunt down all twenty cats...to the same high-tension piece they had him shooting Bokoblins to.
** [[TheLegendOfZeldaCDIGames "When I'm crouching, you can make me do the duck walk! Cool, huh?"]]

*** That's actually the standard layout for RealLife Japanese courtrooms, which pretty much look exactly like that. Not as much spiky hair and whip-swinging, though.

** Although by the end of it, it more closely resembles an OverlyLongGag, due to the fact that climbing said ladder takes up the ''entire'' duration of the song. And the part where the song is a thinly veiled parody of spy film songs.

* ''[[SuperMarioBros Mario]] Strikers: Charged'' takes soccer--yes, ''[[TheBeautifulGame soccer]]''--and applies a LOT of MundaneMadeAwesome to pretty much every aspect of the game. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX86e2dHk9E But don't take our word for it.]] And yes, everything--''everything''--in that video actually can happen in-game.
** Of course, ''Mario Strikers'' has nothing on ''{{Touhou}} Soccer'', as exemplified in [[KamehameHadouken this]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofnEdB8Blc clip]]. And [[BeamSpam this]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBWNGq72DY one]]... and [[JapaneseVampire this]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFIafpVMh4 one,]] [[MegatonPunch this]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYq-nEdBFoA one,]] [[BulletHell th]][[FoeYay is]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u823w5GI24 one]]... To name a few. What do you mean, [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xr9PqLlMgG4 it's not soccer?]]

** Not to mention that what you are basically doing throughout the series is running an anti-virus program!
*** It IS awesome, when you think about it. What do you think operating actually is? That's right, constantly manually rewriting code to adapt to a virus trying to defend itself. Granted, it IS in the form of ExtremeGraphicalRepresentation, but still, think about that for a minute.

* Most of the ''KunioKun'' series practically lives off this trope. Starting from ''RiverCityRansom'', most of the series has lots and lots of comical violence, even the sports games, where it become so ''absurd'' it's just plain ''awesome''. And it doesn't stop there. One game features a cross-country event where you can run through people's houses. ''Super Dodge Ball'' involves players not just getting eliminated, they ''DIE'' -- not to mention players and the ball go flying all over the place. And there's a lot more where that came from:

** ''Downtown Nekketsu Baseball Monogatari'' allowed you to do things just as drop-kick and slide-kick people, and even throw the ball at the umpires!

* ''Castle Crashers''. From fighting giant literal Cat Fish, weird..Giant fuzzy black things...Cute Teddy bears that attack you with dead fish, using a lollipop or a carrot as your own weapon. Not to mention..FIGHTING TO THE DEATH TO SEE WHO KISSES THE PRINCESSES AFTER YOU BATTLE HEROICALLY TOGETHER TO SAVE THEM.

* ''MegaManZX Advent'' is loaded with this. Here's an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsVdFQRTZcU example]], and a more [[XtremeKoolLetterz X-TREME]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MctUWQsl33Q example!]] Keep in mind that during gameplay, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation [=MegaMerging=] takes less than a second]].

** Bejeweled 3 turns it UpToEleven, with even more epic soundtracks, even more awesome combos and special gems, game modes that are absurdly detailed for a gem matching game, complete with Nightmare Fuel-ish consequences (play Ice Storm for an idea of what I mean), and even an ''instant replay'' available for big combos!

** And in the sequel, ''Yakuza 4'', the other playable characters take this up to eleven. Saejima doesn't cotton to all that newfangled technology, so he makes his Revelations with a ''wood-carving set'', cutting an image from a piece of wood in the most epic fashion imaginable. Tanimura, while perfectly capable of using a cellphone, prefers to create his Revelations by sketchbook, demonstrating in the process that he apparently graduated from the [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami School of Notebook Writing]]. And of course, Akiyama and Kiryu are epic as ever with EXTREEEEEME texting and blog-updating.

** Don't forget hugging.

* In ''MassEffect2'', during Thane's loyalty mission, Commander Shepard is told about a Shepard VI, that spouts a line such as "I delete data like you on the way to real errors!" and when it crashes, the error message says that "The fate of the Galaxy is at stake, and you should try to fix the problem yourself".
** To which Tali or Garrus will comment "That's pretty extreme, Commander."
* ''MirrorsEdge'' is pretty much a game about mail delivery. Via LeParkour, while people try to shoot you.

* ''{{Dustforce}}'' makes cleaning awesome by adding trickjumps, wall running and even slow-motion.

* The cutscenes in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' are full of this, especially the scene where Frog draws his sword, a giant PillarOfLight appears and he ''cuts the mountain in half'' with it! This mixed with epic music, random close-ups and constantly changing camera angles.

* ''DragonQuestSwords'' has the tombola sequence at the item shop, which is given all of the pomp and circumstance of unleashing a [[LimitBreak Mighty Strike]] to what amounts to spinning a wheel for a single ball to pop out, although the balls that give out higher tier prizes do tend to be shot out of the machine with the force of a cannon shot and skid and spark afterwards.

* The prologue of ''DarkCloud 2'' features a circus performance where an ''elephant'' bicycle-kicks a large ball (complete with ''TheMatrix''-style slow-motion pan-around camera work) and bounces it off two clowns' noses before catching it with its trunk.

** The Scorpion can block attacks and flip enemies with its pincers, and has the ability to perform insanely over-the-top finishing kills in very [[GodOfWar Kratos-esque]] ways. For example, it can spear a mantis with its stinger, use the tail to slam it into the ground, grab the mantis' claw with its own pincer, ''stab the mantis with its own goddamn claw'', and finally '''[[NoKillLikeOverkill drive the mantis' claw in even deeper with a slam of its pincer to finish the poor bastard off.]]'''

* ''AsurasWrath'', with Wyzen turning Giant sized, bigger than the planet, trying to poke asura to death with a single finger. a finger as big as a country, but still a finger nonetheless. It's practically a SignatureScene for the game in how mundane it is.

** [[http://www.rareware.com/extras/tepidseat/music/index.html In this interview]] the game's compositer Grant Kirkhope admitted he likes to "write big melodramatic tunes that are a bit tongue-in-cheek" and that "Bosses are always a good opportunity to do this." It was only expected for this other projects like [[{{Banjo-Kazooie}} the Banjo games]] and ''GrabbedByTheGhoulies'' to follow this trend.

* The cutscenes in ''ChronoTrigger'' are full of this, especially the scene where Frog draws his sword, a giant PillarOfLight appears and he ''cuts the mountain in half'' with it! This mixed with epic music, random close-ups and constantly changing camera angles.

* ''{{Dustforce}}'' makes cleaning awesome by adding trickjumps, wall running and even slow-motion.
* In ''TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]] don't [[BreathWeapon breathe fire]] so much as [[RealityWarper wish it into existence]] with the [[MakeMeWannaShout Thu'um]]. Whichever smart-ass wrote the loading screen dialogs took this fact to the conclusion that when two dragons fight, they're really having an intense verbal debate.

** And this is without even mentioning that Seth looks an awful lot like Dr. Manhattan from {{Watchmen}}. With a Yin-Yang symbol in place of his genitals.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' has... almost hilariously mundane PressXToNotDie events are. For example, you get one to shake someone's hand.

** And in the sequel, ''Yakuza 4'', the other playable characters take this up to eleven. Saejima doesn't cotton to all that newfangled technology, so he makes his Revelations with a ''wood-carving set'', cutting an image from a piece of wood in the most epic fashion imaginable. Tanimura, while perfectly capable of using a cellphone, prefers to create his Revelations by sketchbook, demonstrating in the process that he apparently graduated from the [[DeathNote Light Yagami School of Notebook Writing]]. And of course, Akiyama and Kiryu are epic as ever with EXTREEEEEME texting and blog-updating.

* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed2'' has... almost hilariously mundane PressXToNotDie events are. For example, you get one to shake someone's hand.

* In ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'', players take part in a game for their survival, where they have to complete missions while facing insanely tough enemies, which can only be fought using reality bending, psychic ''pins''. [[ImprobableWeaponUser (Or a stuffed cat, a cell phone, or a skateboard...)]]

* ''{{Psychonauts}}'' in general tries -- and throughout the game [[{{Funny/Psychonauts}} succeeds fantastically]] -- at mixing the epic and the hilarious. Just have a look at the quote on the page for the game and its context. That's only the beginning -- try Kochamara [[CallingYourAttacks Calling His Attacks]], a MilkmanConspiracy, fluorescent pink bulls wearing boots, a DepravedDentist sporting a shower cap and a steel claw arm that doubles as a pepper grinder among the antagonists, and that "in the end, aren't we all just dogs playing poker?"

* ''{{Dustforce}}'' makes cleaning awesome by adding trickjumps, wall running and even slow-motion.

* ''RhythmHeaven'' is all over this trope, with games dedicated to picking vegetables, eating dumplings, and kicking soccer balls made incredibly awesome by the music and settings.

* How do you vent your frustration over ''VideoGame/MegaMan2's'' [[ThatOneBoss Air Man]]? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUVdA9ABzpg Put it in the form of a music video]].

** Aaand... they just [[BeyondTheImpossible outdid themselves]]. ''AceAttorneyInvestigations'' applies the WDYMINA factor to Edgeworth's ''logical thought processes''.
*** [[RunningGag Aaand... they]] [[BeyondTheImpossible outdid that even further]] by combining two fandoms: ''ProfessorLaytonVSAceAttorney''. [[AndTheFandomRejoiced Cue the rejoicing.]]

* In ''MegaManBattleNetwork 1-5'' Lan jumps into the air and shouts "Jack in!! Megaman! ''EXECUTE!''" every time he does what is simply putting a plug in a slot (and he isn't even doing that in BN 4, 5, or 6 due to the [=PETs=] being wireless). This is taken a step further when he spins the PET it to make the "[=MegaMan=] Symbol".

* How do you vent your frustration over ''Game/MegaMan 2's'' [[ThatOneBoss Air Man]]? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUVdA9ABzpg Put it in the form of a music video]].