History SpoilerOpening / VideoGames

* One of the attract demos for ''VideoGame/{{Descent}}'' takes place in [[spoiler:Secret Level 1]], showing off endgame weaponry and the [[spoiler:Fusion Hulk]]. Another that plays in [[spoiler:Level 10]] reveals [[spoiler:the hidden (and first in the game) Fusion Cannon in the huge arena just past the entrance]].

** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''
*** The opening to ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'' spoils a few things if you're paying close attention. Most glaringly, it shows the texts "Remember you are mortal" and "Memento Mori." Granted, it doesn't make sense in context. It's only after you beat the game that you realize it flat out told you the main character would bite it before you ever started playing.

*** ''Persona 3 Portable'''s Opening also has the obligatory spoilers. Memento Mori is still there, but the very last shot of the opening is Minato and the Female Protagonist preparing to use their evokers while a field of Dark Hour Coffins rush by in the background. Just before the final shot, each protagonist aligns perfectly with one of the coffins, looking as though they are resting in them. Of course, anyone whose played the original knows that the new girl is doomed to the same fate as Minato, so it's only a spoiler if you've never played it on the [=PS2=].
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}''

** The PSP UpdatedRerelease of the original ''VideoGame/{{Persona 1}}'' continues this with the imagery of a head and a town springing from it and the end shot shows Maki standing over the town. The presumed AlternateUniverse is just a dream world of hers that's slowly starting to take over.
** The pre-game loading screen for ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'' shows every single playable character in the game, including Akechi, who only [[GuestStarPartyMember briefly]] joins very late in and is treated as a villain for most of the game ([[spoiler: although he actually ''is'' a full-on villain, and he only joins the Phantom Thieves with the intent of betraying them]]). Given that Akechi did not get a trailer, unlike every other playable character, it seems him being playable was meant to be a spoiler.

* SHODAN's presence in ''[[VideoGame/SystemShock System Shock 2]]'' would probably be more surprising if she weren't on the game's cover. She also provides narration for the intro cutscene, which recaps the events of the first game.

* The intro to the ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry HD Collection'' spoils key plot points for each game, 3 in particular, as it shows Arkham taking the form of Sparda, Vergil's supposed suicide, and even has Dante's final line of the game.

* The default box cover of ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'' features BJ with his new body. If you look close enough, you can even see the neck piece that connects his head to it, but it's easy to mistake as a necklace.

* ''VideoGame/DeusEx''. It doesn't get more spoilery than seeing ''a fellow augmented agent and the BigBad discussing their plan''.

* Flonne's appearance in ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten'' is kept a secret in the plot until late into the game - and back to being an angel, no less - but she is impossible to miss in the animated intro.

* The intro to the Devil May Cry HD Collection spoils key plot points for each game, 3 in particular, as it shows Arkham taking the form of Sparda, Vergil's supposed suicide, and even has Dante's final line of the game.

*** There's also spoilers in the opening of the UpdatedRerelease ''Persona 4 Golden'', showing both that there is a third victim of the serial killings, as well as showing the final dungeon of the game at the end of it.

* The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series likes to play around with this. Each episode begins with a sequence related to the case at hand. While each of these sequences does depict actual events which are revealed as the case progresses, they are often times misleading or only tangentially related to the murder. Only five times throughout the series is the real killer clearly shown in the act in the prologue scene.

* Each time you start a new game in ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', you are shown a pretty cool opening video for the game displaying many beautiful [=CGs=]. The problem is that a ''lot'' of them are from late in the routes and so implicitly or explicitly spoilery.

* In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'''s opening movie, a few brief images of Leon's execution are visible, including an almost-clear shot of his face just before being executed. It also shows brief footage of Makoto's execution in Chapter Five. TheAnimeOfTheGame went out of its way to avert this by showing all 15 students in the courtroom and the elevator leading down to it, in order to avoid spoiling who dies first.
* In Takeshi's perspective of ''VisualNovel/{{Ever17}}'', it's revealed near the end of each route that there is a [[UnderwaterBase secret facility deeper underwater]], directly under [=LeMU=]. However, the observant will notice something very clearly visible under [=LeMU=] [[http://youtu.be/8BtV0a5M2xk in the very first shot of the opening video]]. It's not clear ''what'' it is, but after reading the story for a while, one can guess it's pretty much unknown to the characters and [[ChekhovsGun will probably become important eventually]].

* The PC opening of ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' was not subtile about its images compared to the other versions (Mainly because they use FreezeFrameBonus or the scenes were used out of context); showcasing Moeka's death, Mayuri's first death by head shot, Mayuri's second death by car crash, Tennouji's suicide, Dr Nakabachi trying to kill Kurisu and the satellite who crashed into Radio-Kaikan being a time machine. All of them being major plot twists.

** The PSP UpdatedRerelease of the original ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' continues this with the imagery of a head and a town springing from it and the end shot shows Maki standing over the town. The presumed AlternateUniverse is just a dream world of hers that's slowly starting to take over.

* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTenseiPersona''

* There was a game for [=LeapFrog's=] Leapster called ''Spider-Man: The Case of the Sinister Speller,'' [[https://youtu.be/Bp0jFlpSPoE the intro for which]] spoils every major plot point in the game, right down to the titular villain being the Green Goblin.

** The opening of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' spoils Perfect Chaos flooding Station Square in the game's final story.

* The opening video in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' spoils Chaos's final transformation and the destruction of Station Square, which are events that don't occur until the end of the game.

* ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 2|SonsOfLiberty}}'''s opening briefly spoils the [[ItWasHisSled infamous]] FirstEpisodeSpoiler of the game - [[spoiler:Solid Snake is the DecoyProtagonist and the real Player Character is a rookie named Raiden.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'''s opening movie, a few brief images of Leon's execution are visible, including an almost-clear shot of his face just before being executed. It also shows brief footage of Makoto's execution in Chapter Five. TheAnimeOfTheGame went out of its way to avert this by showing all 15 students in the courtroom and the elevator leading down to it, in order to avoid spoiling who dies first.

* ''KingdomHearts'' comes to mind here. It has a good opening and song to go with it, but you notice certain things, especially when playing the game over. The entire thing seems to be symbolism. You see odd, somewhat creepy looking, white-haired teen holding out a hand as the brown-haired protagonist hesitates and looks somewhat scared. A wave goes to engulf white-haired teen and brown-haired kid runs out finally, trying to help him. The wave crashes down, washing away brown-haired boy, but the white-haired boy is still standing, smirking. This is pretty much telling you that Riku is going to be "evil" and Sora afraid of that darkness. In fact, the scene in the game is almost exactly like this, but there is actual darkness rather than a wave. It also pretty much says who the three original main characters are and who of your friends on the Island won't be appearing again. ''Kingdom Hearts 2'' shows pretty much the entire plot of the previous two games, hot older Kairi in the costume that doesn't appear for about half the game, an odd connection between Kairi and Namine, and connection with Sora and Roxas, for all those people who didn't play the first one or ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories'' or are just getting into the series? Well, there you go, everything told for you and you didn't even have to try. Of course, it somewhat manages to avoid this with a good about of symbolism.

** VideoGame/KingdomHeartsDreamDropDistance has a recap of ALL 6 previous games.

* ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius Radiant Dawn]]'' (the GC and Wii ''Radiance'' games) have an opening cinematic of some of the game's plot. While it technically has minor spoilers (e.g. Ike fights the Black Knight, what a shock), everything happens so fast that one is more likely to be confused than spoiled if they haven't played the respective game.
** A particularly notable case, in the opening for ''Radiant Dawn'', there's a section showing various characters in the game; one of the characters shown is Renning, Elincia's uncle and former leader of the Crimean Army, who was supposedly killed early on in ''Path of Radiance''. While it was a popular theory that this character was the true identity of Bertram of Daein's Four Riders, him being still alive after you 'killed' him was a plot point that only comes up near the end of the game.

* ''Last Battle'' on the Sega Genesis -- a license-less port of ''FistOfTheNorthStar'' -- gives away the entire plot in the introductary scrawl.

* The attract mode for ''SinAndPunishment'' shows Saki's transformation scene in full.

* ''Franchise/{{Persona}}''

* In ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'''s opening movie, a few brief images of Leon's execution are visible. It also shows a brief footage of Makoto's execution in Chapter Five. TheAnimeOfTheGame went out of its way to avert this by showing all 15 students in the courtroom and the elevator leading down to it, in order to avoid spoiling who dies first.

* ''VideoGame/StellaGlow'''s opening spoils two revelations: that Mordimort is the Earth Witch and not Niki as the game proper initially leads you to believe, and suggesting that--via the Witches' tuning cutscenes briefly shown at the start of the opening--[[spoiler:the main antagonist for the first 2/3's of the game, Hilda, [[HeelFaceTurn would join Alto at some point]]]].

*** There's also spoilers in the opening of the UpdatedRerelease Persona 4 Golden, showing both that there is a third victim of the serial killings, as well as showing the final dungeon of the game at the end of it.

* In ''VisualNovel/DanganRonpa'''s opening movie, a few brief images of Leon's execution are visible.
** It also shows a brief footage of Makoto's execution in Chapter Five.

* The intro to ''Videogame/YuGiOhMonsterCapsuleGB'' reveals that the Millennium Ring has possessed Kaiba, something the characters don't learn until just before the final RPG world.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' does it too, in an artwork in the instruction manual. Alongside the main characters, you can see Zant and an unknown young woman. Zant is revealed relatively early on, so it's not much of a spoiler, but the young woman ''is'' a spoiler: That's Midna's true form.