Kafka from Final Fantasy VI was a good example of such. It was 1994. 16 bit JRPG. Kefka had this bizarre, repetitive laugh simulated through a midi file. An iconic soundbyte. It was before video games could emulate speech or video. A few years ago I met someone who still had Kefka’s laugh set as a ringtone. After 3 decades, I was one of the only people encountered who knew what it was.
What is your favorite video game trope?
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Oct 18, 2025
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MacGuffins. You can scarcely have a quest without mysterious, powerful objects the nature of which is inscrutable and often irrelevant to the story but which could be apocalyptic in the hands of The Ultimate Evil. Every wants MacGuffins—that goes without saying—and they get dragged all over the place and hidden in dangerous, exotic locales. MacGuffins help drive the story’s frenetic globetrotting.
I guess I would say a funny main villain