/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.9895672]

>game has you fighting a dark/shadow/clone version of the player character
I love this classic trope. Can we list all the games in which it appears? For starters a surprising amount of Nintendo IPs do it:

>Zelda
>Metroid
>Mario
>Kirby
>Kid Icarus
>F Zero

[Anonymous No.9895678]

Not your personal army faggot

[Anonymous No.9895682]

Would you consider impersonators with evil intentions as a similar concept?
The fight with Zoicite on the Sailor Moon game for Sega always was super memorable to me, also based on events that did happen in the series.

[Anonymous No.9895691]

>>9895672
In one of Shining Force CD's maps you fight a cloned version of your army that has the same stats and equipment as you

[Anonymous No.9895695]

>>9895678
What the fuck do you mean lol

>>9895672
I think this is a cool trope as well. Oblivion even incorporated it.

[Anonymous No.9895697]

>>9895672
Megaman 1 has a copy Megaman
Castlevania 3 has some ghost or something that mimics your character

[Anonymous No.9895710]

Does Axel Gear from Rocket Knight Adventures count?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wLQIvqI9zg

[Anonymous No.9895712]

>>9895672
Kirby doesn't count
Shadow kirby doesn't fight, he leaves the screen if you don't attack

[Anonymous No.9895715]

>>9895672
Metroid has two different ones even, Sa-X and Dark Samus.

[Anonymous No.9895723]

MMZ1's Copy X first form plays a lot like your character, which always makes for cool bosses, besides being a clone of X.

[Anonymous No.9895727]

thoughts on these lads?

[Anonymous No.9895750]

>>9895672
One of my favorite takes

[Anonymous No.9895770]

>>9895672
Also Vergil if we count evil brothers

[Anonymous No.9895782]

>>9895672
The first Onimusha game

[Anonymous No.9895785]

>>9895672

[Anonymous No.9895823]

>>9895697
>Megaman 1 has a copy Megaman
He shows up again in MM3 with hologram doubles.

[Anonymous No.9895830]

Love this trope. Love it even more when the dark version or shadow version has some of the original in their too. The Flash tv show for all its faults actually did a really good job of this trope.

[Anonymous No.9895836]

>>9895727
Brilliant

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[Anonymous No.9895868]

Does Fake Crash count?

[Anonymous No.9896663]

FFIV has Cecil fight his Dark Knight self as he becomes a Paladin.

[Anonymous No.9896674]

>>9895672
Persona 2

[sage No.9896846]

>>9895672

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[Anonymous No.9896857]

>>9895672
The og. Also Reala in NiGHTS

[Anonymous No.9896860]

>>9895712
Meta Knight though

[Anonymous No.9896863]

I kind of like this character

[Anonymous No.9896886]

>>9895672
If impersonators with evil intentions are ok then Baldur's Gate comes to mind. Dopplegangers are central to the story of the game and some impersonate friends and try to convince you of atrocities.

[Anonymous No.9896917]

>>9895678
He's just trying to start a discussion you don't have to be such a little shit

[Anonymous No.9896918]

>>9896917
it's a bot

[Anonymous No.9896929]

>>9896846
Never played Prince of Persia, but I can imagine that obliterating my mind if I had played that as a kid

[Anonymous No.9896934]

>>9896918
What a horrible bot

[Anonymous No.9896935]

>>9895782
Damn. Gotta replay Onimusha one of these days. I don't remember this at all. Loved it back in the day.

[Anonymous No.9897619]

>>9895672
Ryu, Evil Ryu, Eviler Ryu.
https://youtu.be/ZP30tRrxuBs?t=164

[Anonymous No.9897625]

>>9895672
A lot of Castlevania games have a doppelgänger battle. SOTN and Lament of Innocence stand out in particular.

[Anonymous No.9897942]

>>9896857
>OG
>released years after famous bosses like Dark Link
>not even the first Robo-Sonic in its own franchise
oy, but yeah Metaru is the goat

[Anonymous No.9897951]

I LOVE this trope, Dark Link is cool as fuck

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[Anonymous No.9897981]

>>9896929
Everything about the shadow prince is cool, but the final confrontation with him stands out the most, it's a really sweet moment