History MundaneMadeAwesome / VideoGames

** Which has continually been outdone year after year, with performances from Music/Zedd, Music/AgainstTheCurrent, Music/TheWordAlive, and Music/G-IDLE.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' has a very heavily-stylised approach to showing people arguing. People's sentences fly across the screen and you refute them by ''literally shooting them down''. [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2 The sequel]] even adds debating via verbal swordfighting!

* One of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'''s early cutscenes is of a ''satellite dish being turned on''. It gets the full [[FMVs FMV]] treatment: dramatic camera motion, gratuitously complex machinery at work, the whole nine yards. It even finishes by beaming a [[FrickinLaserBeams frickin' laser]] into space.[[note]] There is a legitimate reason for the overblown segment: the Dollet sequence was used as the demo, from the landing to the escape, and as a result, it was designed to show off how far the developers had progressed since Final Fantasy VII, including in FMV sequences. There were some changes between the demo sequence and the final version (music, Squall and Zell's clothes, Rinoa not being in the game at that point, etc), but from start to finish, the demo sequence and the final game are the same.[[/note]]

* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIV'', placating Literature/BabaYaga when you come to visit involves you bringing her a snack, as in the first game. However rather than bring her a mandrake root, in ''Shadows of Darkness'' you bake her a pie. By letting the skulls which guard her hut with ''FrickinLaserBeams'' cook it.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} Yakuza 3]]'' whenever Kazuma is having a revelation and tapping away on his phone to update his blog.

* In the early ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' games, the eponymous Personae were [[SummonMagic called forth]] by just sort of willing them into being. Perhaps with the occasional cry of "Persona!" or "Help Me!". In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', Personae are summoned by ''shooting yourself in the head''. In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', the gun-shaped Evokers are removed, and Personae are now summoned by shattering tarot cards by [[SpectacularSpinning spinning]], kicking it, smashing it with a [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl chair]], shooting it (with a ''real'' gun this time), or just crushing it with your bare hand.

** Kunio-Kun/Alex himself. He's the freaking hero of the entire series, an incredible fighter (without pulling out any KiAttacks whatsoever, except the stat-affecting kinds of techniques, which kinda makes sense), a super-star sportsman, and he's got a girlfriend who can kick ass. King of Video Gaming Awesome.

** That being said, like in most of [[VideoGame/CapcomVsWhatever Capcom's crossover fighters]], PowerCreepPowerSeep comes into play.

* In the early ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' games, the eponymous Personae were [[SummonMagic called forth]] by just sort of willing them into being. Perhaps with the occasional cry of "Persona!" or "Help Me!". In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', Personae are summoned by ''shooting yourself in the head''. In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'', the gun-shaped Evokers are removed, and Personae are now summoned by shattering tarot cards by [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning spinning]], kicking it, smashing it with a [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl chair]], shooting it (with a ''real'' gun this time), or just crushing it with your bare hand.

* ''VideoGame/MaxsAutisticJourney'': Max gets through ordinary life situations by pretending that he's fighting monsters.

* ''VideoGame/SmackdownVsRaw''. The game will "sell" a created wrestlers finishing the move like it's the most awesome thing ever. Watch as the game goes into slow motion with dramatic "whoosh" sound effect when your created wrestler does his finisher... an eye poke.

* ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'' has a very heavily-stylised approach to showing people arguing. People's sentences fly across the screen and you refute them by ''literally shooting them down''. [[VisualNovel/SuperDanganRonpa2 The sequel]] even adds debating via verbal swordfighting!

* ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'' has [[Music/HotDad Chowder Man]]'s ''Ready to Shave''. [[EpicRocking Nearly seven minutes]] of prog rock. About getting ready to shave. [[FauxSymbolism Possibly as a symbol for]] OrderVersusChaos, but mostly directly about shaving.

** Early in the game, Toriel asks you to perform the "difficult" task of... walking to the end of a perfectly straight hallway (which doesn't even have any RandomEncounters to slow you down). The soundtrack for this event is as mock-dramatic as the request.

* ''[[VideoGame/AdvancedVariableGeo Advanced V.G.]]'' makes waitressing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWfJRKzJdMM look cool and exciting]], by having them duke it out in [[SupernaturalMartialArts a MMA]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvTsagnxr0o competition]], for the title of "Virgin Goddess". Then adds [[NotJustATournament nefarious schemes by the group sponsoring the tournament]] and [[GattacaBabies genetically enhanced hybrids]] to the mix. They may as well call it ''[[VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters The Queen of Fighters.]]''

* In a Pacifist Run in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', you go over (somewhat hesitantly) to Undyne's house. When Papyrus bails, she realizes his cooking lessons were right then, so, as her [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic overly awesome theme tune]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTy9v9a7Tmo plays]], she shows you how to cook... THE HARDCORE WAY.
--> '''Undyne:''' LET'S START WITH THE SAUCE! ''*room shakes as she stomps*'' IMAGINE THESE VEGETABLES AS YOUR GREATEST ENEMY!

** Early in the game, Toriel asks you to perform the difficult task of... walking to the end of a perfectly straight hallway (which doesn't even have any RandomEncounters to slow you down). The soundtrack for this event is as mock-dramatic as the request.

* The aluminum bat power-up in ''VideoGame/BackyardBaseball''. The bat hits the ball, then the ball goes flying high (sometimes over a very, very tall wall) while a whooshing sound plays and immediately the character's {{Leitmotif}} (which is often CrowningMusicOfAwesome) plays.