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If you've completed enough endings of Nier Replicant/Gestalt you'll already know the twist at the end of Nier Automata, but less known is that the triggering event of Nier's plot, White Chlorination Syndrome, is introduced by ending E of Drakengard, where the Japanese Air Force shoot down a dragon that just killed a god in a dance off.

This means that the reason you can find the Drakengard weapons in the Nier games is because Caim was carrying all 65 different swords, axes, maces, hammers, spears, staves, and polearms on his person when he was blown to fucking bits by an air to air missile, scattering them across Tokyo.

What was "the war" in Pokemon? Lt Surge fought in it, and apparently Pokemon did too, but there hasn't been any prequel game that explores it.

But here's an interesting reading: so in early Pokemon content guns were a thing, but later on it was decided that guns don't exist in the Pokeverse. This could be explained in-universe - perhaps guns were a common sight at one time, but they've faded out as the Pokeverse's society has gotten more utopian. This can also be seen in the schemes of the Pokeverse's organized crime - Giovanni and Team Rocket were up to some bad stuff, racketeering, gambling, poaching, but as you go forward in time the worst crimes committed by society's anti-social element are tagging and petty larceny.

Could it be that "the war" was the final war, and Lt Surge was a member of the People's Army that finally defeated the bourgeoisie, allowing for the creation of utopian post-capitalist societies where lotteries are held just for fun, kids can go on cross-country trips unsupervised, and the only vestige of currency is play money paid out just for participating in society and used to buy non-essential things because all of the necessities of life are distributed for free?

It's not impossible!

The whole plot line about the Templars from Assassin's Creed inventing capitalism

Fan theory that is sorta supported: Star Fox is a furry retelling of a real war that happened in the F-Zero universe. James McCloud is a human F-Zero racer.and the weird DS star fox game has an ending where fox totally fucks up his life and he gets it back together when he and Falco join the f-zero grand prix. The Arwing and F-Zero machines are both powered by a G-Diffusor System. The F Zero world not being full of anthropomorphic animals leads me to believe Star Fox is a sanitized telling like Disney's Robin Hood is Robin hood was a real historical guy or weird furry ww2 fanfics

In Warhammer 40k, vehicles such as the Land Raider or the Land Speeder are not named that because they're land vehicles. No, they're named that because they were invented by Arkhan Land, the techpriest who designed them.

My favorite is probably anything from TES. Explaining CHIM or mantling or even breaking down this diagram

In Super Mario 64 if you go to the courtyard and jiggle the joystick around really fast for 30 mins Mario will eventually go "Oooh Mama Mia time to cook a da pasta!" And he will cook you an entire delicious pasta dish he will then turn to the screen holding the dish and say "You want-a dis?" And a menus asking you to select yes or no will appear.

If you select yes he will say "Okaaaaaay~ you-a asked for it!" and he will take a big dump in the dish and throw it at the screen laughing maniacly saying "You still want-a da pasta, nerd?".

If you select no he will loudly cry "MAAAAAMAAAAAAAA" until you switch off the console/emulator.

This is 100% real my dad who works at Nintendo told me it was Miyamotorolas dying wish to include it.

hatoful boyfriend is a dating game that first seems like a joke since all the dateable characters (and characters besides yourself) are sentient birds. its all good fun, but if you keep getting into the lore it gets so weird (in the best way). your main character is a human going to a school for sentient birds, but theres a secret lore reason as to why, rather than just a simple joke

::: spoiler big spoilers the reason the birds are sentient is because a bird flu wiped out most humans, but the countervirus developed by humans to stop the spread of the disease also made all birds develop human level intelligience. theres a massive bird-human war which the birds win because humans still end up dying of bird flu. birds now keep humans away and segregated and living in the wild. about ~100 years later your character is a human from the wild invited to go to the normally bird-only school :::

In Fallen London/Sunless Sea the Bazaar is actually a sentient space crab that collects love stories to present them to the Sun to convince it to love her.

It's not super deep, but the theory that the Gen 1 Pokemon evo lines were reworked for Butterfree/Venomoth to better conform with children's understanding of metamorphosis in bug species. Based on visual design, some fans speculate that the original evo lines were:

Venonat > Metapod > Butterfree

Caterpie > Venomoth

But then changed to Cat > Met > Butt and Ven/Ven

Idk i read up on it that sugimori did intend it as it ended up but there's enough doubt and prima facie convincing stuff to make it fun, enduring lore

The Tribes games are actually in the same continuity as the earthsiege/starsiege/cyberstorm mech pilot series.

Every TES game has you smash, vanish, or otherwise mess up one of the key structures of reality in the world as the goal of the game. None of them can be truly destroyed but at this point things gotta be looking bad.

The indie game called Heaven's Vault has your characters foster mother as a primary antagonist and a religious fanatic but the Ng+ implies she might be right about everything.

Pretty much all the archaeology of Elden ring and the fact that even the earliest civilisation visible might not have been the first.

In final fantasy 15, Bahamut has Noctis's face. The first king of Lucis, Ardyn's brother Somnus, also looks the same. You can never see Bahamut's full face in-game because his mask covers everything except his eyes, but the novel mentions his appearance explicitly and makes the connection textual. They clearly have a father/son/holy spirit thing going on between them where Ardyn is Satan. Well not clearly, but it's there.

Really, the full plot of FFXV could be described as deep lore because it's scattered between the games, DLCs, movie, book, and OVA. Here's some more important details that the main game glosses over:

Growing up there was lore of being able to play as Master Hand in SSBM. I thought that shit was made up for the longest time because no one I knew figured out how to unlock him despite all the theories, but no it is actually possible with an input glitch. Blew my mind

Maybe not favourite but the most recent i encountered and in surprising place: Path of Exile 2 which belongs to a genre not famous for even having much lore in the first place:

When you fight Doryani in act 3 he call you "Demon of Atzoatl", despite protagonist of PoE 2 is not the same person as the protagonist of PoE 1 who travelled in time and ruthlessly pillaged the Temple of Atzoatl and by doing so possibly significantly influenced the fall of Vaal civilization and destruction of entire continent. But Doryani never met the MC of PoE1 and he possibly makes mistake because you too travel in time and do absolute mayhem at key time and place of the Vaal. What's best: Doryani, while genius and one of the most impactful people in game world history, is a complete psycho and one of the worst mass murderers in history of Wraeclast but he figuratively* shit his pants on the mere thought of "Demon of Atzoatl" so it's a nice detail too that finally some boss is scared of you.

*Figuratively because he don't wear pants

I've been playing the games for nearly 30 years now and I still haven't fully wrapped my head around the Zelda game timelines.

I like the backstory of the first generation of Resident Evil (1,2,3, CV, 4, REmake, Zero) and the twists and turns of Umbrella Inc and it's like monarchy-themed evil corpo business.

Dwarf Fortress: you are Armok, the dwarven god of blood/destruction/creation

In UFO 50, the characters Amy and Alpha are the same person.

Amy traps her little sister in the back room so she can throw a party (Party House + Mini & Max). Mini helps the Mol Duk civilization of mold-people, and hears their prophecy that they'll become a technologically advanced people (Mini & Max). An unnamed friend of Amy gets kidnapped by a man who has become an infested mold zombie after drinking Mol Duk tea (Night Manor) given to him by a therapist (probably one of the counselors from Party House). Amy and friends fight a zombie apocalypse, get abducted by aliens, beat up the aliens, and continue their journey, presumably keeping the flying saucer (Fist Hell). The Mol Duk people become Woogie's species (Onion Delivery; yes it was Earth all along). Amy escapes the planet using the space ship, then goes on a series of adventures under a new assumed name, Alpha (Velgress, Overbold, Pingolf, Quibble Race). Further evidence for this is that both Amy and Alpha have wildly inconsistent hair color from game to game.

In dota, 2 cosmic powers, radiant and dire, fight each other in a prison. Prison is made by arc warden to protect rest of the universe. Arc warden is actually weaker than a single of them but they only focus on each other so it is ok. One day they come to an agreement that they want to fight elsewhere and beat arc warden to get out of prison. They then fight on a planet with mercenaries they hire which would be the heroes you control. After they win the confrontation, loser cosmic power is destroyed and winner cosmic power reverts the time back. Firstly, because they hate each other so much they want to beat each other again and again, secondly loser is destroyed and winner is weak so the winner is vulnerable to arc warden.

Because of the time reverting, every single match that has been played is part of the canon.

Mario was actually a high profile lawyer with a love of turtles and a hobby of mushroom hunting. He was on his way to a sentencing hearing for a case that was going to be the pinnacle of his career when he was hit by a drunk driver. Every Mario game takes place in his mind while he lays in hospital in a coma.

There's an easter egg in Gunstar Heroes if you survive against Timeron for 100 minutes in the spaceship level. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpyW0-Oi50g