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Hybrid Setting Name Settings Included Basic explaination Portal, Worm SHODAN, GLADOS, and Dragon make up the Magi supercomputer. Broken Dreams & Titantic Beings System Shock Broken/Damaged Teens battle Endbringers in giant mecha. Yorokonde Evangelion Giant mecha embued with unique abilites. Endbringers are even more horrifying. Legend of Mana The World Tree has been corrupted by an evil genie. Scattered Islands Dark Cloud And the world has been shattered, fragments placed inside the tree itself. Yorokonde Dark Cloud 2 Now a hero will need to journey inside to recover and rebuild the world. Earthbound After the events of the game, Mae and others must save the world I Have Nightmare Eyes and I Must Scream Night in the Woods from the darkness that hides inside each town. Yorokonde The Mystic Zones must be freed and the Song Sung at The End. If There Was No All-Might My Hero Academia "If I can't be a hero, why shouldn't I be a villain?!" Yorokonde Worm Will he walk the path of Hero or Villain? Or both? Trigun, Generic Western Across the Sands, Thunder Red Dead Redemption HybridAnon Dune Zootopia HybridAnon Animal Kingdoms Redwall Infamous Appropriate Measures X-Men HybridAnon Shadow Ops Action Movies 80s Badasses, Inc. Action Movies Modern HybridAnon Black Lagoon Dark Sun Badder Lands Samuria Jack HybridAnon Sword & Sorcery Adventure Time Worm Capes & Spandex Marvel HybridAnon DC The Incredibles A Practical Guide to Evil Choria Lord of the Rings HybridAnon In Nomine Narnia Naruto Court of War Basilisk HybridAnon Kamigawa True Lies Deniable Assets 7 HybridAnon Kingsmen Archer Bartimaeus Diabolist SMT HybridAnon Nocturne Oroyomegatari HybridAnon Endless Horizon Spice and Wolf Last Exile HybridAnon Existing Conflict Ring of Red GATE Expedition Forces Splinter Cell HybridAnon GURPS Monster Hunter Princess Bride Fabled Coronation Disney HybridAnon Shrek Platoon Fog of War Generation Kill HybridAnon WW2?? Doom HybridAnon From Hell's Heart Hellgate: London Primal Rage Gods and Tribes Actraiser HybridAnon Populous Chick Tract Megaman Classic Hands of Stel Terminator, Robocop HybridAnon Transformers Great Detective Hidden Things Lovecraft, Gravity Falls HybridAnon Conspiracy Theorist Investigation, Night in the Woods Unsounded HybridAnon History of Hubris Path of Exile Elibe Inheritance of Steel and Fire Tellius HybridAnon (Fire Emblem Settings) Valentia Archanea X-COM I/II Invaders Must Die They Life HybridAnon Half Life Gantz Viscera Cleanup Detail Janitor Dead Space HybridAnon Alien Dark Souls 1 King of Souls Dark Souls 3 HybridAnon Demons Souls Equilibrium Leviathan Manifest Demolition Man HybridAnon 1984 Destiny Luminate Void Mass Effect HybridAnon Star Wars Harry Potter Lyceum Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them HybridAnon Dresden Files Youjo Senki (WIP) HybridAnon Magician Ace Gunner in Cerulean Strike Witches Golden Sky Stories HybridAnon Midsummer's Daydream Touhou Innistrad Mordant Darkest Dungeon HybridAnon Ravenloft Penny Dreadful Firefly HybridAnon Nova Trails Cowboy Bebop Jurassic Park HybridAnon Open Season Carnivores CATastrophe HybridAnon Pacificat Aria Lone Wolf Penumbral Tide Dragonlance HybridAnon Dragon Age SBURB Questant Regalia Persona/Persona 5 HybridAnon AMG's Alice Unhollowed Heights Raid Lair Generic Dungeon Builder HybridAnon WoD Mortals Monster Hunter Could possibly add Jurassic Park to this HybridAnon Rangers Pokemon Trainer Zendikar Relics of the Lost Age GURPS Dungeon Fantasy HybridAnon Dwarf Fortress Slice of Life Student Body Katawa Shoujo HybridAnon DXHR A Sword of Ice and Fire HybridAnon Succession Wars Mount & Blade Mob Syndicated Breaking Bad HybridAnon Jormungand Kingdoms of Amalur HybridAnon Tales of Eternity The Elder Scrolls Armored Core Titans of Battle Gundams HybridAnon Battletech Gravity Falls Uncanny Valley Stranger Things HybridAnon Horror Movies Generic Creepypasta Witcher HybridAnon Warden's Road Old Kingdom Spider Man Ultimate Xenomate Symbiote HybridAnon Parasyte Road to El Dorado HybridAnon Yo Ho Pirates of the Caribbean Generic Zombie Apocalypse Zed Men Walking Highschool of the Dead HybridAnon Left 4 Dead STALKER Zone Metro 2033 HybridAnon Generic Post-Apocalypse Gravity Falls All the various Dream Demons and Nightmares are squabbling for control Of Nightmares and Demons NiGHTS Into Dreams of both the dream and real world, while the forces of good desperately DevilSurvivorAnon A Nightmare on Elm's Street try to twart their plans Generic Zombie Apocalypse WW3 rapidly turns into WWZ as biological weapons go out of control. Necromancers War of the Dead Nechronica turn on the countries that gave them their powers and everyone is unleashing hell. DevilSurvivorAnon Highschool of the Dead (Optional) The name of the game is survival. Can you manage it? Super Smash Brothers, Street Fighter, World of Battle Generic Fighting Game, Darkstalkers, Worlds collide as the Grandest Fighting Tournament opens its doors! DevilSurvivorAnon Skullgirls, and any other fighting game Who will emerge the Champion of the Multiverse? Last Exile, Ring of Red Conflict Long in Coming Wolfenstein, Killzone HybridAnon Red Faction Nechronica, BLAME Elan Vital Neir: Automata Everything falls apart, even people. HybridAnon Biomega But people can sometimes be put back togheter. Firefly, Cowboy Bebop Free Space Red Dwarf, Cryptark HybridAnon (Outlaw Star, Tenchi)? (Yorokonde) Katawa Shoujo, Remember Me Life Enhanced Deus Ex: Human Revolution Private corporations offer (experimental) miracles cures and money, HybridAnon Ghost in the Shell, Va11 HALL-A, Blade Runner in exchange for ethics wavers Unholy Heights Lair, Sweet Lair Generic Dungeon Builder HybridAnon Dungeon Keeper Ragnarok Online World of Adventure (Working Title) Eterian Odyssey Guilds adventuring into the unknown with all the traditional fantasy Yorokonde Golden Sun elements! (Add in Ogre Tactics?) GUNNM Pale Blue, the unfinished game, except as a Jump. Pale Blue is the Night Resident Evil Companies with far too much money, and not enough legal oversight, Yorokonde VA11 HALL-A have created weapons of war unlike anything ever before seen. And they escaped. Sword and Sorcery Gemstones and Giants (?) Steven Universe See pictures in folder (Thief Lapis, Dragon Tamer Amathyst) Yorokonde (Forgotten Realms?) Monster Hunter Korra the Barbarian Avatar: The Legend of Korra Yorokonde Pokemon Trainer Train and fight groups of young women gifted with Unnamed magical equipment that gives them the abilities of Pokemon. Yorokonde Shipgirls, Tankgirls Harem Shenangians are mandatory. Both seem like they could play off of each other fairly well. Unnamed Undertale Monsters, but in highschool, defending against negative emotions Yorokonde Persona using the power of positive ones. Plus, finding oneself. Friendship. Determination Kingdom Hearts Unnamed Fate/Grand Order Yorokonde Factorio Basically crammed together because I want Thaumcraft Unnamed Minecraft but I also don't want to deal with the stupid game-logic of the Minecraft Jump Overlord (Anime) The mortals, finally having had enough of Odin harvesting their finest warriors for souls, Journey to Valhalla Valkyrie Profile have turned against their creator. Ragnarok comes in a way no one expected. 42 is the number of teeth in a wolf's mouth. They have killed Fenrir and made swords from his teeth. Swords capable of killing Which makes it an excellent parallel for the even the All Father. (42 of them) Boss Monsters of Overlord. WE MUST CLAIM THE HIGH GROUND The high ground is already ours. For though we slog through the mire, our souls drift above the petty concerns of mortals. Thus we are without fetters, and are truly free. Flavor Text for Journey to Valhalla Come. We will sail the skies even as we coat our hands in blood. And when it is time, we will not feel the final stab of pain. But the joy of fullest release. *Roars in viking* Valkyrie Profile Odin takes the place of the announcer. Heroes from the Norse myths fought against This is just silly Team Fortress 2 the villains, led by Fenrir, to accomplish tasks like defending a town, sneaking an enchanted device into a magical nexus point, and occassionally just killing each other endlessly for a few hours for points. Matches had to be won by the heroes to keep Ragnarok at bay, while every match won by the villains slowly edges the universe closer to the end. Except nobody knew exactly how many points were needed to bring about Ragnarok. And all of this was done to the sound of epic rock music. Sabaton Blood and Rock (?) Black Lagoon Just basically doubling down on the violence (Brutal Legend for Fantasy elements) and the hard rock. Grim Fandango Grim Fandango for the settings of the Underworld. Hazbin Hotel Undertale Undertale to represent Charlie's attempt to save everyone in spite of all evidence. Yorokonde Saints Row Saints Row for the unmitegated crime and comedic approach to everything. .
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