Games with confusing or misleading titles

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

I just don't get why some games NEED a longer title. "Kingdom Come". Holy shit how wasn't that title taken already? ": Deliverance"... Why?

 

[George Lucas]

There’s a game called Blaster Master Jr. for the Game Boy, but it has nothing to do with Blaster Master. It is an action puzzle game similar to Bomberman, part of a series called Bomber King, being more radical and extreme than Bomberman. It’s really confusing because the titles were changed from the Japanese originals.

 

[Old English Roast Beef]

I just don't get why some games NEED a longer title. "Kingdom Come". Holy shit how wasn't that title taken already? ": Deliverance"... Why?

I was about to post this. Kingdom Come: Deliverance implies a kind of Christian thread that isn't in the game at all. It's set in the Middle Ages but that's it; the plot is completely mundane. It doesn't even work as allegory.

 

[skykiii]

There’s a game called Blaster Master Jr. for the Game Boy, but it has nothing to do with Blaster Master. It is an action puzzle game similar to Bomberman, part of a series called Bomber King, being more radical and extreme than Bomberman. It’s really confusing because the titles were changed from the Japanese originals.

It's European title, Blaster Master Boy, makes a little more sense. "It's Blaster Master, but for GameBOY."

Which doesn't help with the whole "it's actually part of the Bomberman series and has little to do with Blaster Master" thing.

Surprised nobody has brought up Ninja Gaiden Shadow yet, which was originally going to be a Shadow of the Ninja game but Tecmo bought it out before it was finished. And yet... you play it and its still blatantly Shadow of the Ninja.

 

[skykiii]

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Was this a comic included with the actual game or something? It's... quite beautiful.

 

[Cascade]

Slightly off topic; the title is fine, it really is a game about a dolphin named Ecco.
But...
As a young naive child who loves marine life, could you imagine that this game series would become the source of your nightmares for the next few years?

Spoiler: Yes, it would.

 

[skykiii]

Slightly off topic; the title is fine, it really is a game about a dolphin named Ecco.
But...
As a young naive child who loves marine life, could you imagine that this game series would become the source of your nightmares for the next few years?
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Spoiler: Yes, it would.

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Here's a prank to play on kids:

Pull out the Sega Genesis, play a few minutes of Ecco. Act like you're having trouble jumping "high in the sky," then hand off the controller to the kid and see if they can do it.

Watch their reaction.