History PlayingWith / NoPlotNoProblem

* '''Justified''': The gameplay is so good that no plot is needed.

* '''Deconstructed''': [=EoMSR=] fans had hopes of a good story; however, when all they got was nothing, they panned the game, keeping other gamers from even trying it.
* '''Reconstructed''': ... but eventually, gamers decide to give [=EoMSR=] a second chance, and they discover that, despite its lack of plot, it's actually a great, yet [[NintendoHard really hard]], BulletHell game, and [=EoMSR=] becomes a CultClassic. Alternatively, the sequel to [=EoMSR=] finally has a real plot, attracting the fans back to the series.

* '''Justified''': People play games for fun and the experience, so, no story is necessary.

* '''Averted''': '''Mia's Rancorous Expedition: Saving Ollie''', or [=MRE:SO=], has a good balance between story and gameplay, as it unfolds the story in cutscenes between stages.

* '''Inverted''': ''Reality's Style Manual of Everything'', or [=RSMoE=], is a VisualNovel-styled game with a deep story, and there is no gameplay outside of [[Gamebooks choosing between the actions listed in front of you]] and the occasional typing into a textbox.

* '''Inverted''': [=EoMSR=] is a VisualNovel-styled game with a deep story, and it focuses on the story rather than gameplay.

* '''Averted''': [=EoMSR=] has a good balance between story and gameplay, as it unfolds the story in cutscenes between stages.

** The characters are [[AdaptationalBadass powerful fighters who were non-combatants in their source materials]], and the programmers thought it would be fun to throw them into a game, give them powers and make them fight.

* '''Discussed''': "What are we fighting over?" "It doesn't matter!"

%%* '''Implied''':

* '''Straight''': In the VideoGame/{{Touhou}}-styled BulletHell game ''Editing of Magical Self-Redaction'' (Or [=EoMSR=] for short), you control a heroine fighting other danmaku-throwing characters for no particular reason.

* '''Exploited''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': A game, movie, etc, has no plot or story, it's just about the experience.

* '''Inverted''': [=EoMSR=] is a VisualNovel-styled game with a deep story, and it focuses in the story rather than in gameplay.

** The manga is nothing but a bunch of fanservice.
* '''Parodied''': [=EoMSR=] is [[MindScrew an incoherent mess of stages]], where the setting, and sometimes the rules, the bosses, and the gameplay itself, change abruptly, leaving the player really confused.
* '''Zigzagged''': Expanding the '''Parodied''' example, [=EoMSR=] has no introduction, but it regularly gives vague hints about the reasons of your heroine in random cutscenes, and it has NoEnding, or at worst, a GainaxEnding.

** The characters are [[AdaptationalBadass powerful fighters who were non-combatants in their source materials]], and the programmers thought it would be fun to throw them into a game, give them powers and make them fight.

* '''Conversed''': "[=EoMSR=] is an excellent BulletHell game, although It'd have been great if they explained why the heroine is fighting all those characters with danmaku".
* '''Deconstructed''': [=EoMSR=] fans had hopes of a good story; however, when all they got was an ExcusePlot, they detracted from the game, keeping other Gamers from even trying it.

%%* '''Implied''': The creator has no writers working on the game, and has no talent in writing stories.

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Reconstructed''': ... but eventually, gamers decide to give [=EoMSR=] a second chance, and they discover that, despite its lack of plot, it's actually a great, yet [[NintendoHard really hard]], BulletHell game, and [=EoMSR=] becomes a CultClassic. Alternatively, the sequel to [=EoMSR] finally has a real plot, attracting the fans back to the series.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

** A game that doesn’t even have characters is revealed to have a complex plot by the creators that [[BroadStrokes has very little to do with the game itself.]]

* '''Discussed''': Bob asks why doesn’t tic-tac-toe have a plot?”

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Despite not telling anything throughout the game, the ending somehow tries to explain your heroine's reasons to fight other characters.
* '''Double-Subverted'''... But abruptly it ends with a black screen and the words "[[AWinnerIsYou Congratulations. THE END.]]"

* '''Deconstructed''': [=EoMSR=] fans had hopes of a good story, however, when all they got was an ExcusePlot, they detracted from the game, keeping other Gamers from even trying it.
* '''Reconstructed''': ... but eventually, Gamers decide to give [=EoMSR=] a second chance, and they discover that, despite its lack of plot, it's actually a great, yet [[NintendoHard really hard]], BulletHell game, and [=EoMSR=] becomes a CultClassic.

* '''Straight''': In the BulletHell game ''Editing of Magical Self-Redaction'' (Or [=EoMSR=] for short), you control a heroine fighting other danmaku-throwing characters for no particular reason.

* '''Zigzagged''': Expanding the '''Parodied''' example, [=EoMSR=] has no introduction, but it regularly gives vague hints about the reasons of your heroine in random cutscenes, and it has NoEnding, or at best, a GainaxEnding.

%% Not sure how to deal with the following ones, as they need a defined plot and characters.
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Back to NoPlotNoProblem.

* '''Straight''': In the VideoGame/{{Touhou}}-styled ShootEmUp game ''Editing of Magical Self-Redaction'' (Or [=EoMSR=] for short), you control one of three heroines (Among a {{Miko}}, a CuteWitch, or a [[KnifeNut knife-throwing]] [[{{Meido}} maid]]), fighting other danmaku-throwing characters for no particular reason.

* '''Straight''': In the VideoGame/{{Touhou}}-styled ShootEmUp game ''Editing of Magical Self-Redaction'' (Or [=EoMSR=] for short), you control a heroine fighting other danmaku-throwing characters for no particular reason.
* '''Exaggerated''': [=EoMSR=] not only has no story, it has no narrative or defined characters, it's just a piece of mood.

* '''Zigzagged''': [=EoMSR=] has no introduction, and it regularly gives vague hints about the reasons of your heroine in random cutscenes, and it has NoEnding, or at best, a GainaxEnding.