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[Dio]

A lot of people will tell you adding "Zero Dawn" to Horizon turned it from a good name into a boring, stale title name, that made you imagine a marketing company trying to come up with the coolest nonsense title they could to maximize sales.

Can we post awesome game subtitles instead?

Brandish 2: The Planet Buster. The second game in one of Falcom's lesser known, but still beloved, series.

The game centers around a goddamn sword called The Planet Buster, which can do what the name implies.

Every time I remember the game I remember "THE PLANET BUSTER" and think about how awesome that name is. In all caps inside my mind, somehow.

Legend of Heroes VI: Trails in the Sky. Another Falcom title.

Most people in the west know this by 'Trails in the Sky,' but the full game name is The Legend of Heroes 6: Sora no Kiseki. This subtitle is so evocative of the game's atmosphere and so many things that happen in it. An iconic subtitle IMO.

Any good ones you'd like to post?

 

[Syrus]

Star Ocean 4
'Kay?


Oh you wanted real subtitles.

 

[nkarafo]

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition.

 

[SolidSnakex]

Summertime High School: A Young Man's Notes—How a New Exchange Student Like Myself Ran Into His Childhood Friend on the School Tour, Then for Some Reason Became Super-Popular with the Girls for His Daily Scoops on the School Photography Club Even Though He Only Takes Panty Shots, and What He Thinks as He Goes on Dates During His Summer of Island School Life.

 

[Dio]

Summertime High School: A Young Man's Notes—How a New Exchange Student Like Myself Ran Into His Childhood Friend on the School Tour, Then for Some Reason Became Super-Popular with the Girls for His Daily Scoops on the School Photography Club Even Though He Only Takes Panty Shots, and What He Thinks as He Goes on Dates During His Summer of Island School Life.

I can accept this. The title's supposed to be a parody of long-ass light novel names that are just a summary of the plot - which are all the rage in Japan right now.

 

[SatoAilDarko]

Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

Metroid: Other M

 

[Producer]

Let Us Cling Together

 

[Foxxsoxx]

The Phantom Pain. Real cool subtitle for the themes it goes for.

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

Every single DS game that had "DS" in the initials.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow

Advance Wars: Dual Strike

Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword

Lunar: Dragon Song

Guilty Gear: Dust Strikers

Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy

Trauma Centre's protagonist, Derek Stiles

 

[etrain911]

Jak 2: Renegade


Really hammered home that this wasn't the Jak who was jumping around cutesie environments collecting power cells.

 

[Nielm]

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

It's much better than 'Ground Zeroes.'

 

[SpaceWolf]

 

[StrangeRoboMemory]

Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon

No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

Metroid: Other M

Maybe it's just me, but your posts are always legit. Keep rockin'.

For my part,

Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
Sin and Punishment: Star Successor
Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode
Ninja Gaiden II: Dark Sword of Chaos
Thief II: The Metal Age

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

Metal Gear Rising: Revengance

 

[HawthorneKitty]

358/2 Days; all the feels for its meaning and everyone hating it

 

[Barrow Roll]

 

[PrinceOfWhatever]

the Kingdom Hearts game for the 3DS

Kingdom Hearts - Dream Drop Distance

 

[Alavard]

Ogre Battle already sounds awesome, but Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen sounds fucking metal.

 

[Lord of Ostia]

Every single DS game that had "DS" in the initials.

Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor

Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow

Advance Wars: Dual Strike

Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword

Lunar: Dragon Song

Guilty Gear: Dust Strikers

Fullmetal Alchemist: Dual Sympathy

Trauma Centre's protagonist, Derek Stiles

You are missing Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. It's reversed but it still qualifies.

 

[womp]

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[Zap Rowsdower]

Planescape: Torment
Garou: Mark of the Wolves
Marvel vs Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
Shadow Hearts: From the New World
Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl

 

[Lord of Ostia]

Brandish: The Dark Revenant is also pretty cool.

I also really like Shiren the Wanderer: the Tower of Fortune and the Dice of Fate.

Akiba's Trip: Undead and Undressed isn't exactly cool, but it is fairly clever.

 

[PtM]

Also sprach Zarathustra
Sanity's Requiem
The Official Game of the Movie

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

You are missing Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon. It's reversed but it still qualifies.

Fuck me, I legit never noticed that.

Garou: Mark of the Wolves

This is I think the best one because both actually work as the title of the game. You can call it either "Garou" or "Mark of the Wolves" and both are instantly recognizable and equally fitting for the game.

 

[MattKeil]

Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber

 

[Gai Murakumo]

Star Ocean 5: Integrity and Faithlessness

 

[JinjoUnchained]

Majora's Mask and Twilight Princess sound really cool.

 

[Caim]

Digital Devil Saga: Avatar Tuner
GGXXAC+R also known as: Guilty Gear XX Accent Core Plus R (just because of how ridiculous it sounds.)

 

[Order]

New Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

 

[Theswweet]

Earth Defense Force 2: Invaders from Planet Space.

 

[JayEH]

Every metal gear subtitle.

Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days

 

[zombieshavebrains]

Scholar of the First Sin. Pretty badass.

 

[To Far Away Times]

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

 

[Tali'Zorah]

Deus Ex: Human Revolution is one I really like, perfectly and succinctly sums up the themes of the game in just 2 words. Mankind Divided continues that trend pretty successfully too.

Elsewhere, I've also thought The Last of Us: Left Behind was pretty cool too, though that's an expansion rather than full game so not sure it counts

 

[Altazor]

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings

damn fine.

 

[Hedonism Bot]

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

I'm struggling to think of any that are better.

 

[HardRojo]

Part II.
I like the fact that they went with Part II instead of simply II for The Last of Us. Makes it look like the second part of a single story, which I think the game will actually be, plus it doesn't mess with the title, no "The Rest of Us" jokes.

 

[The Bankslammer]

what's up idiot motherfucker. going to the arcade? wanna play some puzzle games? gonna play some fuckin columns? some weak-ass sega tetris? or are you gonna play

 

[PtM]

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.

Supertitle.

 

[SciencePilot]

Let Us Cling Together

I never played this game, but this subtitle always stood out to me as cool.

 

[13ruce]

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess:

Sounds awesome and Midna was a fantastic character. It was nice to have someone else steal the show for once and be the center of the story.

Anyway honestly most of the Zelda games have cool/neat/nice subtitles that fit the gameplay or story (in some cases even both) very well.

 

[Dany]

The subtitle Zero Dawn is perfect if you play the game.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Growlanser II: The Sense of Justice

 

[CAR105 3]

Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition.

this is the GOAT

 

[SalvaPot]

Breath of the Wild is just...

 

[Mozendo]

The subtitle Zero Dawn is perfect if you play the game.

Horizon Zero Dawn doesn't have a colon though

 

[_Final_Phoenix_]

Ehrgeiz: GOD BLESS THE RING

Spoiler

obligatory "BWAAAH"

 

[Fou-Lu]

Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

 

[BiggNife]

what's up idiot motherfucker. going to the arcade? wanna play some puzzle games? gonna play some fuckin columns? some weak-ass sega tetris? or are you gonna play

Hahahahahah I forgot about TERROR INSTINCT


Still makes me laugh

 

[FireBeaver]

I've always liked Metroid's subtitles like Zero Mission and Corruption.