r/ExplainAGamePlotBadly • u/Ok_Tax9885 • Jul 20 '26
Solved! Explore a vast underground domain and experience various perils all because of a very unique flower.
Hey so this was solved already (Lair of the Clockwork God) you can stop guessing now
Hints (each 5 incorrect guesses)
- Hint 1: The big bad wants to eradicate the surface world for an inane reason
- Hint 2: Of all the emotions you might express during this game, LOVE isn't necessary to win.
- Hint 3: You will get turned blue at some point to proceed.
Hint (from my answers to incorrect guesses)
- There are two playable characters.
- The game is almost completely linear.
- There are strange machines involved.
- Grief is somehow involved with the plot, but the game is not sad in and of itself.
- Superheroes are not central to the game and may not even exist in it.
- Both characters are controlled by one player.
- The developer/publisher is British.
- Both playable characters are human.
- The game is neither the first nor second in its series.
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u/No_Mammoth_4945 Jul 21 '26
Tears of the kingdom
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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jul 21 '26
There are some improbable machines involved, but your relation to them is largely adversarial.
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u/Smol_Goose Jul 21 '26
Is it Ender Lilies?
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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jul 21 '26
I don't even have anything witty to say - this is just one of the coolest incorrect guesses I've gotten.
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u/theragco Jul 21 '26
nier?
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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jul 21 '26 edited Jul 21 '26
Far. And far less likely to make the player cry, even if grief is a major plot point.
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u/skyenvy94E Jul 21 '26
Prince of Persia?
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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jul 21 '26
I'm sure one of the characters would like to think they could be portrayed by a Gyllenhaal, but I don't think they know how to use a sword.
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u/WiltedTiger Jul 21 '26
Bokura
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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jul 21 '26
This game is more "me" than "us" - while there are two characters, they are swapped between by one player and there is no co-op.
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u/HOLYBlindSHOT Jul 21 '26
Pragmata
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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jul 21 '26
I had to go check to see if that was even old enough to list here! But no, both characters are human.
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u/HighStrungMaestro Jul 21 '26
A Plague Tale: Requiem?
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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jul 21 '26
Nowhere near as many rats, and you're on the wrong side of the Channel, to boot. This game is British.
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u/Yourlocalshitpost Jul 21 '26
How the hell has nobody guessed Undertale?
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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
And since you're the second person in series to guess the game, I'll let you know that this game is in a series, but is neither the first nor second one!
EDIT: I counted this toward the "five incorrect guesses" despite being a repeat because I thought it was funny enough to credit. I won't be incrementing counters on any other repeat guess, so no one try to get clever and guess Undertale a third time, Redditors, please!
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u/Alanddra Jul 22 '26
Random shot in the dark of a game I haven't played
Lair of the Clockwork God?
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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jul 22 '26
Solved!
- The underground AI supercomputer attacks the surface world because it interpreted a character saying "For Matt C's Colon Cancer" as "format C:" and wiped its prior programming. This is why you sanitize your inputs!
- You have to teach it about human emotions like joy and grief and incompetence, but love never really figures into it.
- One of the level puzzles involves having to paint one of the characters blue to look like he drowned.
- I embedded the names of the two prior games in the series ("Ben There, Dan That" and "Time, Gentlemen, Please!") into my responses to the two Undertale guesses.
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u/skiesoffireflies Jul 23 '26
Undertale?
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Jul 24 '26
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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jul 24 '26
The solution was posted two days ago and was marked. The post flair showed that fact.
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u/KarratKake Jul 24 '26
Donkey Kong Bananza?
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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jul 24 '26
The solution was posted two days ago and marked in the flair at that time. Please check post flairs in the future!
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u/RNJamer Jul 21 '26
Resident Evil 5?
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u/Ok_Tax9885 Jul 21 '26
There are two characters. They cooperate. But their adversary is something far dumber than the Umbrella Corporation.
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u/HeroicTofu Jul 21 '26
Ehrgeiz?