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What are some other games with a timeskip like FE:TH? (Spoilers for other games!)

Xavi

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Topic, timeskips are one of my favorite tropes in videogames if done well and I think Three Houses has done it spectacularly. Here are a few examples that I remember right now.

For this thread I have just ONE RULE, the timeskip has to occur during the SAME GAME, not a sequel. So stuff like TLOU I&II don't count for example.
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Dragon Quest V
One of the first games I played that had a timeskip, and it's done really well, imo.

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Breath of Fire II & III

Breath of Fire III timeskip is pretty awesome, there's a 7 year timeskip and the world has greatly changed.


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Final Fantasy VI

A year passes as part 2 begins after Kefka's destruction of the world.

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Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War/Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia/ Fire Emblem: Awakening
There's a massive timeskip halfway through, and you take control of the child units. (Favorite FE game, btw <3) Fire Emblem Echoes is another one.
In Fire Emblem Awakening, there's a 2 year skip but everyone looks the same so it's kinda lame.
I guess PoR and RD technically qualify but the timeskip occurs between each game.


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Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals
Here there's a 1-2 (?) year timeskip. Maxim and Selan get married and have a baby.

 

preta

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No one else is going to mention it, so Sol Trigger. There's a 19-year timeskip halfway through the game, after which you play as the children of the cast of the first half.
 
foxuzamaki

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Zelda ocarina of time might not be a "timeskip" in the traditional sense, tho to get to the future he legit just slept 7 years, but seeing that when i was younger was amazing, especially since i love timeskip in anime like DBZ
 
Jawmuncher

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I'm not here to say what is and isn't a spoiler. But i legit didn't know about the Time Skip for FE until like a week or so before release lol.
 
Lord Vatek

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Rune Factory 2 is basically a spiritual successor to Dragon Quest V in that regard.

You get married, have a kid, time skips, and now the kid is the main character. The biggest difference is that it doesn't chicken out and the kid is the main playable character for the rest of the game while the previous protagonist is now an NPC.
 
Nano-Nandy

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Xavi said:
No, it was heavily advertised by Nintendo and shown during the E3 trailer
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To be fair I learned about it after buying the game and my partner which I recommended the series and preordered the LE; doesn't know about it since he avoided impressions (he's close to it). So some might not know about it.

That said, Mortal Kombat X does a 25 years time-skip. It starts a few years after MK9 then jumps 25 games years.
 

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Honestly, even watching the Nintendo E3 trailer, I didn't realize there was a time skip in FE Three Houses until I was reading the forum posts here on Era. I thought the characters just had costume changes via class upgrades, not that there was a time skip story element to it. So I can certainly see how not everyone would be aware.

Regardless, Breath of Fire 3 has my absolute favorite time jump in any video game I've ever played. It's so masterfully done!
 
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Xavi

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feonando said:
To be fair I learned about it after buying the game and my partner which I recommended the series and preordered the LE; doesn't know about it since he avoided impressions (he's close to it). So some might not know about it.

That said, Mortal Kombat X does a 25 years time-skip. It starts a few years after MK9 then jumps 25 games years.
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Your friend is about to get blown away haha
 
Scheris

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Ar nosurge has one somewhat early into the game, IIRC Ciel nosurge takes place during that year or so the time skip occurs.
 
Admiral Woofington

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[your favorite game]. Because it's so boring I'll literally go to sleep into a coma and wake up 20 years later. And it's still boring then!
 
ggx2ac

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The timeskip is for advancing the plot.
 
CaviarMeths

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The timeskip in Three Houses isn't a spoiler since it was shown in official marketing, but I actually do think they should have kept that under wraps. Would have been a fantastic surprise.
 
Strings

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preta said:
No one else is going to mention it, so Sol Trigger. There's a 19-year timeskip halfway through the game, after which you play as the children of the cast of the first half.
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I was going to mention it lol. It's a bit of a bummer too, since I actually liked the first half of that game a fair bit.
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That's awesome, is the game good?
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Nah, the second half is unfortunately pretty bad. It's written by Kazushige Nojima (FF7, FF8, FF10, etc).
 

preta

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Xavi said:
That's awesome, is the game good?
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It's only particularly remarkable from an audiovisual perspective (the models and animations are outstanding for PSP and the soundtrack is quite good) but it doesn't really do anything particularly poorly either. It's worth a playthrough if it looks interesting to you, especially considering it's also not very long.

For bonus points, Sol Trigger is itself a distant sequel to one of Imageepoch's prior games, Saigo no Yakusoku no Monogatari, though they're not so closely connected that you need to play that first.
 
Aaronrules380

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Tales of Graces has what essentially amounts to a prologue section with a few of the party members as kids before eventually skipping forward many years to them as older teens for the rest of the game
 
Rapscallion

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FFXV is the worst version of the time skip. It barely adds anything to the story, it's over way too quick, and next to nothing is brought up about the time skip.
 
Robin

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Red Dead Redemption in a way. I forget how much of a timeskip it actually is but I'd also say Mother 3.
 
Rei no Otaku

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Dragon Valor. Each section of the game has you playing as a child of the previous section. Depending on who you marry it changes the characters you play as in subsequent generations.
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Biestmann

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Phantasy Star III is subtitled Generations of Doom for a reason. You play through three subsequent generations throughout the course of the game.
 
SonicRift

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How about a Metal Gear Solid 2? The events of what ended up being the cold open were what the primarily used to market the game. I didn't see that coming.
 
Dnomla

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NieR: Gestalt and NieR: Replicant. It's a little more noticeable in Replicant though because you're playing as a teenager that gets older.
 
Forkball

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Maybe technically a flashback, but MGS V opens in 1995 (during the events of MG1), then back to 1984, and goes back to 1995 at the end. Everyone thought, "You're gonna get to play as Solid Snake at the very end! It's gonna be awesome!"

The ending was not awesome.
 
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