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The title or box of the game does not match what happens in the game.

Spoilers for the Fire Emblems and Dark Deity, I suppose.

Bleed
Bleed
There isn't much of any blood that comes out of anything.
Dark Deity
Dark Deity
The dark forces are just some guy who's pretty powerful with magic. He wants to try and become a deity but he sure ain't one right now.
Dark Souls
Dark Souls
The Souls are a bright white color.
Dig Dug II: Trouble in Paradise
Dig Dug II: Trouble in Paradise
You can't dig.
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
You are in King K Rool's country, not Donkey Kong's

same thing goes for DKC3 and the bears
The Final Fantasy Legend
The Final Fantasy Legend
Is not actually a Final Fantasy game

applies to Final Fantasy Adventure
by the way did you know that Super Mario Bros 2 is actually a reskin of a game called Doki-
Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright
Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright
Corrin is not related to the Hoshidan family so it is not their birthright to work with Hoshido.
Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation
Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation
The Revelation of who Anankos actually is comes from a separate DLC.
The Impossible Quiz
The Impossible Quiz
It is possible to win the quiz.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
Zelda is completely irrelevant to the legend at hand.

Also applies to Majora's Mask and Triforce Heroes. You could say Phantom Hourglass but Tetra shows up in the intro so they'll just be on thin ice.
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden
It is not a Gaiden (side story) to any Ninja games that happened beforehand, since it's the first in the series.
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All
SPOILERS























Someone may not get brought to justice in this one, apparently.
Shadow the Hedgehog
Shadow the Hedgehog
The gun Shadow is holding never appears in the game.
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
If you just scan another toy then it isn't Spyro's Adventure anymore.
Sonic CD
Sonic CD
(Mobile version)
The game isn't on a CD anymore, it's just a phone app.
Or a console app, I guess. Why was this the only one they brought to consoles/Steam again?
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
This is a video game, not a movie.
Star Wars: Yoda Stories
Star Wars: Yoda Stories
You don't even get to play as Yoda he just tells Luke what to do.
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
The levels were safely tucked away into Nintendo's vaults, they weren't lost, they were just not released in America.
Super Pac-Man
Super Pac-Man
Super Pacman is unable to interact with ghosts so him punching a ghost is an incorrect portrayal of the game mechanics.

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1 year ago

Final Fantasy Legend and Final Fantasy Adventure (neither are Final Fantasy games they were just called that when they were localized to help sales)

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, The Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes (the legend does not have much to do with Zelda at all)

Super Mario 64 (there is only one Mario in the game)

1 year ago

Good thing Super Mario 128 never made it out of the tech demo phase, the lies had to end at some point.

1 year ago

Star Wars: Yoda Stories, in which you don't play as Yoda and his role in the stories is just telling Luke to go do stuff on a different planet

1 year ago

long live the queen, perhaps?
i mean, the title is a bit of a deliberate wink, considering she is not likely to live for long...

1 year ago

Ninja Gaiden is not, in fact, a side story as the name suggests. (Note: This does not apply to the games which are a side story to Ninja Gaiden itself)

1 year ago

The obvious one would be Rayman Origins, which gives us nothing on the origins of Rayman

1 year ago

Super Mario Bros. The Lost Levels. The levels were never lost, they just weren't released in America before the game was titled that.

1 year ago

Street Fighter - they don't fight any streets

Dark Souls - souls are almost always depicted as white

Silent Hill - it's actually pretty loud

StarCraft - you don't actually craft any stars

Final Fantasy III (SNES) - it's actually ffvi

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1 year ago

The issue with Five Nights at Freddy's is that we don't know if this title claims to be an exhaustive catalog of all the nights in the game.

It's certainly true that there are five nights included in the game, which is still true even if there end up being more than five nights in total.

1 year ago

The player cannot dig in Dig Dug II

Arkham Origins is not about the founding of Arkham Asylum

Neither the Impossible Game nor the Impossible Quiz are impossible

The Spongebob Squarepants Movie is a video game


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