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Tuesday’s Trope: New Game Plus

[Tuesday's Trope is a weekly department highlighting an amusing video game trope from TVTropes. Aggrogate is not affiliated with TVTropes.org in any way. All trope examples come from TVTropes and are shared via the Creative Commons license.]

Just because you've finished a game doesn't mean you're done with it. Sometimes it helps to start all over again, with all the experience and equipment you built up or a few extra items you can't even find in your first playthrough. This ability to start again while carrying over things from your previous game is called New Game Plus, and it's become a popular feature in many games. Chrono Trigger wasn't necessarily the first game to do this, but it pioneered the concept and gave it its name. This is actually one of the few video game tropes with its own Wikipedia page!

Examples of New Game Plus include: