I’m embarrassed to say that I have encountered this, this particular type of story on multiple occasions… So I got curious, is there a name to this trope?
I don’t quite think that there’s a name for this genre (yet?) but I’ll take this opportunity to blast out my favorite story-focused game serieses
Xenoblade is a nice fantasy RPG if you really like Storytelling! And all 3 core games are available on Switch!
Generally speaking, Xenogears and Xenosaga have amazing stories too, but Xenoblade got translated and dubbed waaaay better
Edit: just thought of this the last couple of minutes, and, if there was a name for this genre, it would spoil the whole game/movie/book for you! Imagine watching Planet of the Apes for the first time (it’s old by now and I hope there’s no one here who didn’t watch it already) and exactly knowing what planet it is
I have no idea the answer to your question, but I now know like 99% of people on lemmy have shitty reading comprehension.
Assuming it’s a surprise, this is Earth All Along. Genre Shift is similar, but that’s more about tone than plot
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TomatoSurprise is the wider trope
Specifically the After the End variant
It doesn’t have one. I was making a joke.
- Hi = High
- Fanta = Fantasy
- Po = Post(-apocalypse)
- Dys = Dystopian
- Fut = Future
Hifantapodysfut = High-Fantasy-Post-Apocalypse-Dystopian-Future.
It’s in the title.
Yeah, Adventure Time