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#Gradius gaiden tvtropes series#

The Game Boy game Castlevania Legends, on the other hand, is no longer part of the canon. When Koji Igarashi took over as producer of the games (starting with 2002's Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance), he declared that the Nintendo 64 games ( Castlevania 64 and its Updated Re-release Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness), and Castlevania: Circle of the Moon for the Game Boy Advance were side-stories to the main Castlevania storyline.Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name is a gaiden game that takes place in the interim between Yakuza 6 and Like A Dragon 8, detailing Kiryu's exploits since the conclusion of 6.Yakuza: Dead Souls is a gaiden game taking place after Yakuza 4 that pits Kiryu and company against the walking dead.Ryū ga Gotoku Ishin! is a gaiden game that portrays the life and times of real-world historical figure Sakamoto Ryōma as portrayed by Kiryu and other Yakuza characters.

#Gradius gaiden tvtropes series#

While taking place in Yakuza locales like Kamurocho and Ijincho, and with major events such as the dissolution of the Tojo Clan in Yakuza: Like a Dragon referenced in the background, Yagami's plots tend to run parallel to the Yakuza series and no major characters from Yakuza show up beyond the odd unnamed shout out and Tianyou Zhao's brief cameo in Lost Judgment.

Judgment and its sequel Lost Judgment are spinoffs of the Yakuza franchise focused on a new protagonist, private detective Takayuki Yagami.

Warriors Orochi is a gaiden crossover between Samurai Warriors and Dynasty Warriors.

The original Virtua Fighter roster appears as ghost data that bestow their fighting techniques upon the player.

The Virtua Fighter series has Virtua Quest (released in Japanese as Virtua Fighter: Cyber Generation), a beat-em-up set in Cyberspace.

Resident Evil: Resistance is a gaiden game released alongside Resident Evil 3 (Remake): an Asymmetric Multiplayer game that pits four Action Survivors against a Mastermnd summoning and controlling zombies and deadly traps while taking liberties with series canon for the sake of gameplay.

Metal Gear: Ghost Babel and the two Metal Gear Ac!d games are officially recognized as "Gaiden" games in the Metal Gear series ( see here ), even though they don't really fit in the series' canon in any way ( Ghost Babel ignores the events of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake and Metal Gear Solid, while the Ac!d games serve as alternate follow-ups to Metal Gear Solid 2.However, it was added onto the Updated Re-release released only in Japan for PS2, and the American digital distribution release. Christmas NiGHTS is this for the NiGHTS into Dreams… series.Even if you exclude Ninja Gaiden, which has a troubled approach with its gaiden status. Also of note is that having Gaiden in its title doesn't necessarily mean the game pertains to this trope.

They are often lower budget and can be seen as cash-ins, but can be interesting if they choose a different viewpoint, poke fun at the original, or are simply more innovative than a large-budget game might be allowed to be. Gaiden Games are sometimes titled from the direct translation of the Japanese word gaiden, meaning "another story." Frequently, these games are released on portables or less-powerful systems, but modified appropriately.

Video game cases also frequently (but not necessarily) dip into Genre Shift by being centered around another type of core-gameplay than what is usual for their series. The major stipulation is it is not usually required to canonically fit into the main game or require having played it to enjoy. It can be a simple side story, a Perspective Flip, or a chance to give a popular character background they didn't get in the original work. A work, usually a video game, which takes place in or refers to another work, but isn't really a sequel or prequel.