Line #50 ExpositoryThemeTune/VideoGames


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6	* The Dutch Flash game ''Bouterdart'' ("Gnome Darts") features a catchy theme song in which the gnomes sing about how they're not as famous as other fictional "little people" like ComicBook/TheSmurfs, and have to make ends meet by letting people use them to play darts.
7	* ''VideoGame/GodHand'' qualifies, although the song itself actually plays during the ending credits. ("''Lost a limb/in a fight/but don't worry babe, I'll be cool/the ultimate/power of a god/is now my secret tool''")
8	* Take a listen to "Still Alive", played at the end of the game ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''. This catchy, sweet-sounding, yet also slightly sinister song pretty-much sums up the plot of the game.
9	** Similarly, the theme to the spoof Flash platformer ''You Have to Burn the Rope'' tells you exactly what you just did.
10	** Then ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'' does the same thing with the song "Want You Gone". "So here we are again, it's always such a pleasure. Remember when you tried to kill me twice?"
11	* As the credits role on ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 4'', lead animator Mark Grigsby raps about the events of the game in character as Staff Sgt Griggs. He actually had a burgeoning rap career before joining Infinity Ward, so it doubles as TheCastShowoff.
12	* The intro to ''VideoGame/ClayFighter: {{Sculptor\|s}}'s Cut'' is essentially a breakdown of the game's ExcusePlot in the form of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlprydzYWKY cartoony theme song.]]
13	* At the very least, the intro song of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3\|AbsenceOfJustice}}'' gives you all the information about the game's setting you need.
14	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3UNOEWBDN8 Headdy the Hero]] in ''VideoGame/DynamiteHeaddy'' qualifies as this.
15	* ''VideoGame/TheWonderfulEndOfTheWorld'' does this with the menu music.
16	* ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' shows you -- via commercial -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVo98qkUoTc how's it's done.]]
17	* In part, Chris Ballew's "Get Together" from ''[[VideoGame/BackyardSports Backyard Baseball 2007]]''.
18	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' for the song ''Otherworld''. "An Other-world awaits you", "and you will fight, fight, fight... fight, fight, FIGHT", "Go now, into the sand and dust in the sky, go, for it is better to do than to die".
19	* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' gets in on the fun with the boss theme for ''Shadowbringers'', ''Insatiable'', which describes the plot of the expansion.
20	-->''The road that we walk\
21	Is lost in the flood\
22	Here proud angels bathe in their wages of blood\
23	At this, the world's end, do we cast off tomorrow!
24	* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies''. "''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N1_0SUGlDQ There's a zombie on your lawn~]]''"
25	* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' and its theme song for battles, ''Reach Out to the Truth'', qualify for this trope. The entire game, for instance, is about seeing through the lies that cloud the truth from one's eyes, both self-imposed and those that cloud our view of others. Within the chorus, the lyrics include gems like "Oh god let me out / can you let me out / can you set me free from this dark inner world / Save me now, last beat in the soul". The majority of the game is about venturing into dungeons full of shadows - dark, repressed inner emotions given form - to save whichever character has been kidnapped that month.
26	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' has the main theme song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVy7YPNP_zI Dragonborn]]". While the lyrics are sung in [[ConLang the language of dragons]], when translated, [[https://lyricstranslate.com/en/dragonborn-skyrim-theme-dragonborn-skyrim-theme.html they succinctly describe the game's overall plot]], of how one "who was kin to both wyrm and the races of man" would come to deliver Skyrim from destruction when the dragons return amidst a brutal civil war.
27	-->''Dragonborn! Dragonborn!\
28	By his honor is sworn\
29	To keep evil forever at bay!\
30	And the fiercest foes rout\
31	When they hear triumph's shout!\
32	Dragonborn, for your blessing we pray!
33	* ''Videogame/AlanWake'' does this in the song "[[https://youtu.be/GLxb7m0j5Jg?list=PLjACqN5i5sDUo3MfGtqogz7P3u5JUm3c- The Poet and the Muse]]," which tells basically the whole plot of the game. The song itself is even a MacGuffin!
34	* Parodied in ''VideoGame/IMadeAGameWithZombiesInIt''. The song is about, well, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXXlNrcoPFc some guy making a game, putting zombies in it, and charging a dollar for it.]]
35	* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' brings us [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoYGKrkNWLg a rap]] song summing up the basic story behind CJ, and some explanation about the game's defining elements.
36	* The theme for ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' sums up what you have to do over the course of the game while still sounding like something out of a James Bond movie.
37	* ''VideoGame/{{Octodad}}: Dadliest Catch'' features "Octodad (Nobody Suspects A Thing)", setting up almost the entire plot (except for the deranged sushi chef BigBad).
38	-->''Who's that man in the three-piece suit?\
39	Making a doll with logs and fruit?\
40	Who's that man with the eight strong legs?\
41	Tried to make breakfast, but he broke my eggs\
42	Octodad, nobody suspects a thing\
43	Octodad, he's got a good thing going on\
44	Octodad, nobody suspects a thing\
45	Octodad, Octodad''
46	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvvbJO_IH3E Kickstarter trailer]] for ''VideoGame/ToejamAndEarl: Back in the Groove'' is a catchy hip-hop tune detailing the plot of the game. It's even sung by their voice actors [[RoleReprise from their last game.]]
47	* ''Rock Paper Scissors Champion'', as featured in a [[WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}} Jim Sterling]] Best of Steam Greenlight video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZyrpPtR4-s here]], has one that has to be heard to be believed. And yes, the game is what you think it is.
48	* "[[https://youtu.be/Ocqtd4SYo7M?list=PLIXpL9mz02mJS0ox-8Ll9lxlOzM8D6I7- Grinder's Blues]]," Music/PoetsOfTheFall's {{Rockabilly}} ThemeSong of SciFi {{Platform\|Game}}er ''VideoGame/{{Rochard}},'' where the AsteroidMiner protagonist laments that he and his crew can't deliver on the quotas set forth by their boss, and he can't think of any solution.
49	* ''VideoGame/{{Armikrog}}'' sums up why exactly the protagonist is on a DeathWorld planet in the game's opening cutscene:
50	-->''The people of planet Ixen\
51	Are surely going to die\
52	Without the power of P-tonium found\
53	On planet Spiro 5\
54	Our hope was brother astronauts\
55	Vognaut, Numnaut and Tommynaut.\
56	Two are dead, Tom's all we've got\
57	This kid is green, do we have a shot?''
58	* ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'', [[{{Homage}} being heavily inspired by Pokemon and other Mons series]], has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaFE07Yyj-I theme song]] that ''heavily'' resembles cheesy dubbed anime openings that explain the monster combat.
59	* ''VideoGame/SuperDarylDeluxe'' has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCwUGEPAqS0 rock-opera styled theme]] that plays over the trailer and the credits. [[labelnote:*]]\
60	''[[VillainWorld When the shadows descended and brutes had the throne]]''\
61	''[[TheHero Like a creamsicle champion he fought them alone]]''\
62	''[[OneManArmy With the flail of his fist every scoundrel lay slain]] ''\
63	''[[LivingLegend And forever more we remember his name]]''\
64	''Daryl! ''\
65	''[[RubberHoseLimbs Like a scoliotic juggernaut he’s]] ''\
66	''Daryl! ''\
67	''[[DudeWheresMyRespect Like the waterboy to Hercules he’s]] ''\
68	''Daryl! ''\
69	''[[EightiesHair With a power mullet baptized in luck]] ''\
70	''He is Super Daryl Deluxe!'' [[/labelnote]]
71	* ''VideoGame/ChromaSquad'''s AnimeThemeSong "[[https://beholdstudios.bandcamp.com/track/power-of-love-chroma-squad-feat-shuu-koyama Power of Love, Chroma Squad!]]" lays out the premise of the game's setting and gameplay... [[GratuitousJapanese Entirely in Japanese]]. It was originally written for the game's Website/{{Kickstarter}} pitch, which gives it a double kind of meta as it was used to advertise the intended features of the finished product.
72	* ''VideoGame/CyberGrannies'' opens with [[https://youtu.be/0b49JOPEd9c a song]] by Atoz and a sentient airplane explaining that the grannies are called Cyber Grannies because they live in a computer. The song also promises words to learn and games to play.
73	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQTk4eK2fP4 The theme song]] for ''VideoGame/{{Bugsnax}}'', performed by Music/KeroKeroBonito, basically tells you all you need to know about the gameplay, story and what Bugsnax are.
74	-->Kinda bug and kinda snak\
75	Try to catch them in your trap\
76	Feed somebody and you'll see we are whatever we eat!\
77	Find them hiding in the sand\
78	Tearin' up a ketchup patch\
79	Come to Snaktooth Island and discover: It's Bugsnax!

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