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A common trope in Adventure Games where the hero must achieve three specific goals in order to advance the plot. Bob may want to fight the dragon and save Alice right now, but the giant lizard safety inspector has made it clear that he must first find a magic shield from the haunted forge, a spray can of dragon repellent from the future, and a helmet in spite of the mad king's ban on headwear. Whether true or not, the hero is almost always given the impression that the tasks may be completed in any order. In linear adventures, it'll often turn out that inventory acquired in pursuit of quest object A is required to attempt to get quest item B. In the worst-case, the trope devolves into a fetch quest submitted in triplicate. Although mainly a video game trope, the narrative power of Three invokes this often enough in other media. These Questions Three... uses questions in place of challenges. Compare Plot Coupon and Threshold Guardians. |
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Instead of an intended test, Midna instructs Link to collect the three Fused Shadows, which were placed by Zant in dungeons and entrusted to monstrous creatures, so in practice it works the same way as in other Zelda games. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: Like in A Link to the Past, Link has gather the three Pendants of Virtue, though in practice he visits one dungeon for an unrelated reason, then learns he already acquired the first pendant before entering it, then going after the other two. Instead of the Dark World, Link ends up reaching Lorule after his fight against Yuga. | |
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Hilda Tie-In Series: In order to see the Elf Prime Minister in Hilda and the Hidden People, Hilda has to pass three tests; the test of courage (which involves having to face the Prime Minister’s cavalry), the test of skill (which involves having to navigate a narrow, slippery path into the caves of kismet), and the Test of Exceptional Braininess (where Hilda has to figure out in which of two caves the Prime minister is, by asking two water spirits a single question which one will answer truthfully and the other will answer with a lie). | |
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Tales of Monkey Island: In "Launch of the Screaming Narwhal", Guybrush has to get information from news-starved journalist Davey Nipperkin about a person that can help get him off Flotsam Island, so Guybrush has to board a ship, find a treasure, and start a fight so Nipperkin will have something to write about. In "The Siege of Spinner cay", Guybrush has to find three golden holy items hidden around the Jerkbait Islands. In "Lair of the Leviathan", Guybrush has to join the Brotherhood of the Manatee by impressing de Cava's four former crew members... though Moose always votes the same as his pal Santino, despite him being a skeleton. Later in the chapter you have to interrogate de Cava's crew in order to figure out where the manatee-speaking device is. Again Moose always sides with Santino, lowering it back down to three... but Bugeye cracks the instant you ask him, lowering it down to two. "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood" changes up this trope a bit by charging Guybrush with four crimes to get himself acquitted from, followed by someone remarking "I thought there would be three", and then with having to find six voodoo ingredients. It might as well be three crimes, though, since one is such an obvious lie that all you have to do is press the plaintiff on the obvious lie three times. "Rise of the Pirate God" references the trope namer itself with each of the three possible pirate afterlifes being based on one of the tree trials: Swordfights, treasure hunting, or thievery. The challenges Guybrush must complete in each realm also fit the trope. |
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"The Trial" episode of Angel has Angel going through three Death Trap trials in order to save Darla from dying of syphilis. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has the Springs of Power, Courage, and Wisdom, where Zelda unsuccessfully prayed to awaken her Royalty Super Power in the backstory. A century later, Link can unlock the Shrines hidden behind them by offering the scales of the dragons to them. There are also the Three Korok Trials in the Great Forest. | |
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The trope namer is the Three Trials in The Secret of Monkey Island. To become a full-fledged mighty pirate, Guybrush will need to prove his skills at sword-fighting by finding and beating the Sword Master of Melee Island, prove his skills at thievery by stealing the Idol of Many Hands from the Govenor's mansion, and prove his skills at treasure-hunting by finding the Treasure of Melee Island. | |
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NetHack has many sets of three trials. First you must acquire the Bell of Opening, the Candelabrum of Invocation, and the Book of the Dead; to collect these items, you have to visit and kill special monsters - your role's Quest Nemesis, Vlad the Impaler, and the Wizard of Yendor. Secondly, you must travel to the bottom of the dungeon, find the vibrating square, and perform the three-part Invocation Ritual with these items. Lastly, to complete the over-arcing trials you must take the Amulet of Yendor up to the Astral Plane, identify your alignment's High Altar, and sacrifice it up to your deity. | |
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Tends to show up in Baldur's Gate a lot: By the end of Act 2 in Baldur's Gate III, you learn that the Chosen of the Dead Three are controlling the elder brain that is posing as the Absolute through a powerful Artifact of Doom known as the Crown of Karsus, and each of them carry a Netherstone with which they use together to keep the Netherbrain under control. From there, you are required to acquire the three Netherstones from the aforementioned Chosen before facing the Netherbrain. And while you'll definitely have to kill Ketheric and Orin to claim their respective Netherstone, Gortash can freely provide his Netherstone for your eventual confrontation with the Netherbrain if you accepted his We Can Rule Together offer. |
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Diablo II Act 2 and 3 require you to track down three magical artifacts to combine into a weapon that'd open the way to the endboss. Technically there were four items in the third act, but the last one was obtained right next to where you needed to use them. | |
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Death Road to Canada has three trials in the final stretch, all of them loaded with zombies. First is "Close to the Border", a 1.5 hour siege (90 seconds in real time) in a cramped location. Second is "City of Crushed Hopes", another siege, this one 4 hours which is 4 agonizing minutes in real time. Finally, third is an actual fight at the border where your team must fight their way across a bridge and then assist the RCMP in holding the zombies off until their backup arrives. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), to gain access into Soleanna's old castle, Sonic has to complete three trials to proceed. The Trial of Knowledge places Sonic in a forest with various warp holes that have to be entered in a certain order, The Trial of Courage leads into a battle against enemies with zero rings, and The Trial of Love has Sonic having to choose between Amy or Elise that has no any repercussions whatsoever. | |
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Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: In "Homestar Ruiner" Strong Bad, in order to get Homestar out of his house, must clear Homestar of the public nudity charge against him, get him back together with Marzipan, and make him the winner of the Race to the End of the Race. Note that each of these is undoing the damage inflicted on Homestar by an earlier set of Three Trials (stealing Homestar's clothes, stealing the head from Marzipan's float, and entering the Race to the End of the Race disguised as Homestar). Parodied in "Strong Badia the Free"; Homsar tells Strong Bad that he'll only join him after he completes the "three ancient tasks of great boredom", but very quickly admits that he was only joking. The same game also plays it straight with the Induced Hypochondria puzzle, where you have to make Strong Sad think he's got "acute aphasic pretendicitis" by simulating the three main symptoms of the disease. In "Baddest of the Bands" Strong Bad must get three bands to sign up for his "Battle Royale of the Bands": he has to get Coach Z and Bubs to re-form their rap duo (which itself requires pulling three pranks to convince Bubs that Coach Z is still "hardcore"), get Homestar a job singing with Pom Pom, and convince Marzipan to enter her band Cool Tapes in the contest instead of playing a benefit for an endangered albino bat. Then once the contest starts, Strong Bad must sabotage all three of the other bands. |
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Crops up in The Dresden Files novel Skin Game; Harry and company must pass three "gates" in order to break into Hades' vault. | |
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The later half of Supernatural season 8 revolves around three trials required to permanently seal the gates of Hell. There's an unspecified unpleasant fate for whoever completes them, but Sam volunteers anyway. His reasoning is that wanting a normal life gives him a better shot at surviving than someone treating it as a Suicide Mission. Step one: kill a Hell Hound and bathe in its blood. Step two: rescue an innocent from Hell. Step three: "cure" a demon. | |
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King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne has something similar with most of the game being taken up by having three quests to find three keys to unlock three doors. | |
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Explicitly stated in Epic Mickey, on Mickeyjunk Mountain. The guard will only let you through to meet Oswald if you pass the three trials, in the form of levels based on Oswald The Lucky Rabbit films. After that, there's an example that isn't stated, but is much broader in scope. You have to go to three different lands, and defeat the bosses of each in order to get a piece of them needed for an escape rocket. | |
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Kid Icarus: Uprising: The entirety of Chapter 24; titled "The Three Trials", where Pit has to go through three areas to get the weapons needed to defeat Hades. Lampshaded, naturally. | |
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World of Warcraft: Legion: In Stormheim, before you can visit the Halls of Valor, you need to pass three trials, all of which Skovald perverts in some way, The Trial of Might (best Yotnar in combat, Skovald instead tears him apart), The Trial of Will (have the Thorgnir accept you, Skovald enslaves them), and the Trial of Valor (have the ancient vrykul leaders accept you, Skovald has the bone keepers made to accept him) In Val'sharah you need to find 3 Archdruids to help purify Cenarius, but you have to kill one of them after he is corrupted by Xavius, and thus it fails, setting up the rest of the storyline. |
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Mortal Kombat: Annihilation: Nightwolf tells Liu Kang he must pass three tests before he can defeat Shao Kahn. The first test is courage, which apparently involves having a hatchet thrown at your head to induce a "dream-state." We never learn what the other two tests were. | |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see." | |
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Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge has a variation in four trials per act. To get a Voodoo Doll you need four items - "something of the head, something of the thread, something of the body, and something of the dead". You have to do this twice in the game, once early on for Largo so you can leave Scabb Island, and once towards the end for LeChuck so you can escape the tunnels beneath Dinky Island (using different items in different areas). Between these, you also have to get the four map pieces, which is way more convoluted than it sounds. | |
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In almost every Xanth book, someone will go to the Good Magician's castle to get information, where they will have to get past three challenges of varying nature before he will see them. Typically, the first challenge is something chosen to keep out anybody but his expected visitor and is harmless except to somebody willfully stupid, the second is a static barrier with a hidden way in, and the third (now that it's just as hard to get out again) is something picked to be lethal to anybody who makes it this far but in an environment which can be used against it. | |
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Parodied in Hoshin Engi when Yozen first encounters Taikobo. He's reluctant to recognize his leadership, especially after the fiasco resulting in the creation of the Snake Pit and the death of so many innocents, so he forces Taikobo to undergo three trials... with the last one being improvised, as he never thought Taikobo would be able to pass the first two. Said trials include attacking him while transformed into Dakki to test his tactical acumen and cold blood (Taikobo is able to see through his disguise), pulling an Hostage Situation with Taikobo's reiju Supushan to force him to fight (Taikobo points out that this conflict is useless and guesses that Supu's not in real danger). Finally, he has him help some refugees get through a guarded pass to reach Seiki (Taikobo passes by pretending to side with the guards out of spite for Yozen's arrogance, which results in Yozen actually helping the refugees pass unharmed and with only Taikobo hurt, showcasing his cunning and his willingness to sacrifice himself to help others). | |
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In Mission 6 of Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening, you enter the appropriately-named Chamber of Three Trials and are presented with three challenges representing strength (Trial of the Warrior), skill (Trial of Skill) and intelligence (Trial of Wisdom). These trials reward you with their respective "Essence" key item which can be slotted in the previous room, the Mute Goddess' Chamber. Passing one of them gives you nothing, passing two breaks the rubble blocking the gate in the previous room, and passing all three nets you the Artemis Devil Arm. | |
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Peasant's Quest: You have to stink like a peasant, dress like a peasant, and be on fire like a peasant before the knight will let you go fight Trogdor. And then there are the three guardians who ask you questions outside Trogdor's lair and give you the equipment you need. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins: Much of the midgame revolves around gaining support for the Grey Wardens by bringing old treaties to various leaders. There are three treaties — one for the elves, one for the dwarves, and one for the mages — and you can visit the three groups in any order. There is a fourth one though that's unrelated to the treaties, the Castle Redcliffe that Alistair believes will be able to assist. Naturally, none of these four people are able to help you right off the bat, and you have to save their asses before they'll help you. At Redcliffe specifically, you have to 1) save the village, 2) save the lord's son, then 3) save the lord himself. |
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In The Legend of Huma, Huma must face three trials in order to gain the power the gods gave to humanity to save the world from the Dragonqueen and her draconic hordes, but in a twist, he only even realises he's facing one of them. While the first is single combat against the ancient father of all dragons, the other two are both a different type of Secret Test of Character (one of of his duty and compassion, the other of his honour and ability to put the needs of the world ahead of his own glory), and he doesn't even realise he was still being tested until after he's passed the third (particularly the second, which seemed to him like a particularly bizarre coincidence). Having succeeded at all three, he finally becomes worthy of receiving the gods' gift: the Dragonlance. | |
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By the end of Act 2 in Baldur's Gate III, you learn that the Chosen of the Dead Three are controlling the elder brain that is posing as the Absolute through a powerful Artifact of Doom known as the Crown of Karsus, and each of them carry a Netherstone with which they use together to keep the Netherbrain under control. From there, you are required to acquire the three Netherstones from the aforementioned Chosen before facing the Netherbrain. And while you'll definitely have to kill Ketheric and Orin to claim their respective Netherstone, Gortash can freely provide his Netherstone for your eventual confrontation with the Netherbrain if you accepted his We Can Rule Together offer. | |
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Dora the Explorer lives this trope. Every episode has three obstacles to get past before Dora and Boots reach their goal. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: "The King of Omashu" sees the titular king hold Team Avatar captive until Aang completes three trials. Turns out there was one extra item at the conclusion of the trials, where the king challenged Aang to figure out his name...which he does in a matter of minutes. | |
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Grim Fandango Year 2 is built around one of these. Manny must acquire unionised worker bee equipment for Glottis (and sober up his sidekick in the process), forge a maritime union membership for himself (and steal from a major mafia boss in the process), and finally prevent a ship's cook from showing up for work (and dig through giant kitty litter in the process). | |
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Battle for Wesnoth: In The Rise of Wesnoth, upon arriving in the Great Continent, Haldric is given four tasks to do (read: four scenarios to play) by the elvish council, which can be done in any order as long. The story progresses once all four scenarios are completed. | |
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A staple of The Legend of Zelda games: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past set the tradition in itself and subsequent games of having Link go to three dungeons to collect three items for initial quest of the adventure, almost always to claim the Master Sword. In this game specifically, the three Pendants of Virtue: Courage, Wisdom and Power. To Link's dismay, by the time he returns to Hyrule Castle and meets Agahnim at the top, Zelda is taken to the Dark World, and after the ensuing boss battle so is Link. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has Link gather the three spiritual stones of forest (Kokiri's Emerald), fire (Goron's Ruby), and water (Zora's Sapphire), needed to open the Door of Time and lift the Master Sword from its pedestal. Unfortunately, Ganondorf pulls a Trick-and-Follow Ploy on Link, gaining access to the Sacred Realm and claiming the Triforce of Power. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has Link collect the Goddess Pearls (Din's, Farore's and Nayru's) to unveil the Tower of the Gods and prove his worth. The last pearl is collected outside a dungeon, due to the destruction of its initial whereabouts (thus making the Tower of the Gods itself as the actual third dungeon before the obtainment of the Master Sword). The usual plot twist ensued doesn't occur until after Link completed the fourth dungeon (Forsaken Fortress), but it makes up for a big Wham Episode. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Instead of an intended test, Midna instructs Link to collect the three Fused Shadows, which were placed by Zant in dungeons and entrusted to monstrous creatures, so in practice it works the same way as in other Zelda games. The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass does it twice: First, Link must rescue the Spirits of Power, Wisdom, and Courage to find and access the Ghost Ship, then find three pure metals to get a sword capable of hurting the Big Bad. The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: Though the overarching quest averts the trope (its structure is more comparable to those of Majora's Mask and The Minish Cap), there are three trials which must be passed to gain entrance to the Sand Temple, where the sacred Bow of Light lies. The trials are based on, respectively, defeating Rocktite, traversing a convolute maze, and destroying the turrets protecting the Sand Temple itself. All of them must be done while driving the Spirit Train. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: On Zelda's side, she has to visit three regions in the surface (the first two to purify herself in sacred springs, and the third to activate and enter Lanayru's Gate of Time) in order to prepare her journey to the past and prevent the return of Demon King Demise. Those three places happen to be located at the end of dungeons, but Link simply goes through them to try to meet Zelda, unaware that she has to do her destined part like Link has to do his. On Link's side, there are the three first Silent Realms to obtain Hylia's sacred tools, tied to the three Sacred Flames to empower the Goddess Sword and upgrade it into the Master Sword. Afterwards, Link has to meet the three Dragons' to assemble a song that unlocks the access to another Silent Realm and eventually the whereabouts of the Triforce. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: Like in A Link to the Past, Link has gather the three Pendants of Virtue, though in practice he visits one dungeon for an unrelated reason, then learns he already acquired the first pendant before entering it, then going after the other two. Instead of the Dark World, Link ends up reaching Lorule after his fight against Yuga. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has the Springs of Power, Courage, and Wisdom, where Zelda unsuccessfully prayed to awaken her Royalty Super Power in the backstory. A century later, Link can unlock the Shrines hidden behind them by offering the scales of the dragons to them. There are also the Three Korok Trials in the Great Forest. |
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Mass Effect has three planets that must be visited to unravel Saren's schemes: Therum, Noveria and Feros. These may be visited in any order, and after two of them are cleared a lead also appears on a fourth planet, Virmire. | |
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Nettle & Bone: The dust-wife sets Marra three Impossible Tasks to win her aid in killing The Evil Prince. However, she's genuinely hoping for Marra to fail and leave, and when Marra shows enough self-destructive determination to complete the first two, she lets Marra skip the third and agrees to help. | |
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Steven Universe: In "Serious Steven", the Gems find a series of hallways that each lead to a set of three trapped rooms. The thing is, each set of rooms leads back to the center chamber somehow, and the Gems can't find the right one. Steven figures out that the rooms are actually moving around by a hidden mechanism, and they're a decoy to protect the inner sanctum of the temple and its power source. In "The Test", the Gems set up a series of three tests for Steven, who's worried he needs to prove himself as a Crystal Gem after being reminded of the disastrous events of "Cheeseburger Backpack". The tests turn out to be rigged in Steven's favor, but when Steven overhears the Gems discussing their own worries about being good parental substitutes for Steven, he doesn't have the heart to expose their ruse. |
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Psychonauts 2: The second act of the game revolves around repairing Ford Cruller's shattered mind, which is done by tracking down three of his teleporting split personalities working at Psychonauts HQ - in the mailroom, the bowling alley and the hair salon - and jumping into their minds to recover fragments of the original Ford's sense of self (assuming the form of shards of a broken mirror). Just like in the first game, the fragments can be recovered in any order; Barber Ford's fragment can be recovered immediately, while Mailroom Ford and Bowling Ford's fragments require some setup first (as they are both locked behind doors they won't open without permission from a superior and a Senior Bowling League membership card, respectively). | |
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Tress of the Emerald Sea: To win Charlie back from the Sorceress, Tress has to cross the deadly Midnight Sea, get past her indestructible guardians, and find a way into her magic-proof tower with No Entrance. It's subverted — the Sorceress is a petty sadist who didn't conceive of her defenses as a test and doesn't care to honor Tress's victory. | |
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Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge has the Three Trials of Soloho - Marksmanship, Courage and Skill. | |
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Escape from Monkey Island: Guybrush has to prove his innocence on Lucre Island by finding and retrieving the stolen loot, find the real perpetrator, and finding a piece of evidence that ties him to the crime...and later on when Guybrush has to find the three pieces of the Ultimate Insult (a bronzed hat, a golden man, and a silver monkey head) on Jambalaya Island. Played with in the Melee Island segment at the start. Guybrush is told that he'll need a crew, one of which will have to be a navigator. The other two, Carla and Otis, are recruited at the same time by the same method, and the actual third trial turns out to be requisitioning a ship. |
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Day of the Tentacle: The entire game between the prologue and the endgame. Interestingly done in that each task is set in its own time period and pursued by a different character. Hoagie needs to find power to his Chron-O-John in the 1800s. This involves finding the blueprint for a super battery, components to build said battery, and managing to charge the finished product. Bernard needs to find a replacement diamond. Or rather, managing to change history so that the Edisons become rich, find the safe code and order one. Laverne needs to escape from a tree, escape from tentacle jail, find a disguise and in the end power on her Chron-O-John. |
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: On Zelda's side, she has to visit three regions in the surface (the first two to purify herself in sacred springs, and the third to activate and enter Lanayru's Gate of Time) in order to prepare her journey to the past and prevent the return of Demon King Demise. Those three places happen to be located at the end of dungeons, but Link simply goes through them to try to meet Zelda, unaware that she has to do her destined part like Link has to do his. On Link's side, there are the three first Silent Realms to obtain Hylia's sacred tools, tied to the three Sacred Flames to empower the Goddess Sword and upgrade it into the Master Sword. Afterwards, Link has to meet the three Dragons' to assemble a song that unlocks the access to another Silent Realm and eventually the whereabouts of the Triforce. |
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In the Popeye short "Giddy Gold", the Wiffle Bird tells Popeye and Olive that they must pass "three dangerous dangers" in order to carry the treasure out of the cave. | |
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In Quest for Glory III, the rite of manhood for Uhura's tribe involves three contests: spear-throwing, a balance beam "fight", and a footrace (though there are "mini-contests" within the footrace as well). | |
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In the second Avernum game you have to complete three trials (Strength, Speed and Patience) in order to become a member of the Vahnatai tribe. However, earlier in the there are three opportunities to do things that aid the Vahnatai (recover a spell book, awaken Vahnatai in suspended animation and honoring one of the crystal souls) and for each one of these you have done you are counted as having already completed one trial. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass does it twice: First, Link must rescue the Spirits of Power, Wisdom, and Courage to find and access the Ghost Ship, then find three pure metals to get a sword capable of hurting the Big Bad. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has Link collect the Goddess Pearls (Din's, Farore's and Nayru's) to unveil the Tower of the Gods and prove his worth. The last pearl is collected outside a dungeon, due to the destruction of its initial whereabouts (thus making the Tower of the Gods itself as the actual third dungeon before the obtainment of the Master Sword). The usual plot twist ensued doesn't occur until after Link completed the fourth dungeon (Forsaken Fortress), but it makes up for a big Wham Episode. | |
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The last 3 puzzles in the first Dark Fall game, even called such in the backstory. The first one is solved by finding a set of colors and inputting them in a certain order; the second via matching the 4 elements to sounds you hear in said trial. The third relies on a sequence of sounds in the room with the trial. | |
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An unspoken Three Trials sequence takes up most of the latter half of Psychonauts, once Raz gains access to the asylum. He must acquire three items - a straitjacket, an acting trophy, and a portrait of Dr. Loboto - to cobble together a disguise that will fool the short-sighted 'orderly' into thinking he's Loboto and letting him use the elevator that will take him to the upper levels. These items are in the possession of three of the asylum's four remaining patients (the fourth had already been dealt with on the way in), and must have their mental problems solved via Journey to the Center of the Mind before they'll hand them over. As usual, the patients' minds are full levels, and may be done in any order; and yes, this is the only way, as the 'orderly' is immune to all of Raz's psychic powers (Hand Waved as being some sort of protection offered by Loboto). The presence of this trope should come as no surprise given creator Tim Schafer's previous experience with adventure games, including Monkey Island. | |
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The Matrix: Path of Neo has the Merovingians set three trials that Neo has to pass to escape the chateau. The first is escaping an M.C. Escher type maze, the second trial is fighting your way through a club of vampires and the third is a fight with the Witch Queen to finally escape. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has Link gather the three spiritual stones of forest (Kokiri's Emerald), fire (Goron's Ruby), and water (Zora's Sapphire), needed to open the Door of Time and lift the Master Sword from its pedestal. Unfortunately, Ganondorf pulls a Trick-and-Follow Ploy on Link, gaining access to the Sacred Realm and claiming the Triforce of Power. | |
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Paper Mario: The Origami King: Inside Diamond Island are the three trials: the Trial of Power, the Trial of Wisdom, and the Trial of Courage. (The aspects of Power, Wisdom & Courage being a shout-out to the three pieces of the Triforce in The Legend of Zelda.) The Trial of Power involves smashing bricks, the Trial of Wisdom involves answering questions in a quiz, and the Trial of Courage involves having a large object falling from high above, about to crush Mario, where Mario must not stop the object until the last moment. Upon completing each trial, Mario will be gifted the corresponding orb, and when he has all three he can then enter the Sea Tower. | |
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind: The main quest can be solved after acquiring three things - the two artifacts the sword Keening and the hammer Sunder and a means of wielding them for more than a second without dying. The straightforward path to the third requirement is getting Vivec to give you the gauntlet Wraithguard; the backdoor method is killing Vivec, stealing the item, and asking Yagrum Bagarn to fashion the Left Wraithguard (sometimes called the "Backhand"). |
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Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures: These appear to varying extents throughout the series. In "Fright of the Bumblebees", Wallace needs to find three ingredients for his growth formula. Then, Gromit has to subdue three groups of bees (in the house, out on the street, and downtown). "The Last Resort" has three batches of these. First, to set up the indoor beach, Wallace needs three items (an umbrella, a bright light source for sun, and sand). Later, Wallace has to please three of his six guests (Constable Dibbins, Mrs. Gabberly, and Mr. Paneer). Lastly, to solve the mystery, Gromit needs to find three clues (motive, witness, and weapon). In "Muzzled!", Gromit has to deal with three trouble-making dogs and solve the three problems they cause to get their ice cream truck back in order, after which he's tasked with finding the three missing pieces of a cryptic message calling for help. |
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Return to Monkey Island: Played With in the second part aboard LeChuck's ship; Guybrush, magically disguised as a zombie pirate swabbie, must convince LeChuck's five crew members to vote in favour of going to Monkey Island, which is accomplished by doing favours for them (or in Iron Rose's case, restoring her confidence in her captain). Played Straight in the third part, where Guybrush must acquire three pieces of personal information about LeChuck (his theme song, his favourite food, and his Catchphrase) to decipher a magically-encrypted map. The fourth (and longest) part again has Five Trials, in the form of five golden keys Guybrush must find to unlock the safe containing the Secret of Monkey Island, which - much like the map pieces from the second game - are scattered across multiple islands (it's practically only three trials, though, as you can get one key simply by going down the street from where you first learn about the keys and asking the key's current owner for it, and another by finding two other keys and then going to an easily-accessible point of the map and picking it up; both times Guybrush points out how surprisingly easy it was). The same part also features Three Trials within those Five Trials, as to get one of the keys Guybrush must be crowned Queen of Brrr Muda by defeating the current Queen in Three Contests (Intelligence, Heartiness, and Seriousness). Guybrush even compares them to the original Three Trials, though the Queen insists they are completely different; they are Contests, not Trials. |
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In Lost in Oz, to open Horn's Gate, the heroes must answer three riddles. Selina answers the first two and Alex answers the third. | |
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Back to the Future: The Game: About half the episodes feature this. For example, the three demeanors in Ep. 3: "Citizen Brown", in which Marty needs to commit three felonies to get an audience with Alternate Doc. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past set the tradition in itself and subsequent games of having Link go to three dungeons to collect three items for initial quest of the adventure, almost always to claim the Master Sword. In this game specifically, the three Pendants of Virtue: Courage, Wisdom and Power. To Link's dismay, by the time he returns to Hyrule Castle and meets Agahnim at the top, Zelda is taken to the Dark World, and after the ensuing boss battle so is Link. | |
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King's Quest uses trope in several of its entries. King's Quest I follows this pattern pretty straight, with the three treasures as a magic chest, a magic shield, and a magic mirror. (The difference being in KQI, the treasures are required to win the game, not just to solve the first quest). King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne has something similar with most of the game being taken up by having three quests to find three keys to unlock three doors. King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella has the player's character being assigned three tasks by an evil fairy (capturing a unicorn, a goose that lays golden eggs, and Pandora's Box), which need to be completed to get close enough to recover the magic amulet she's stolen. |
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet has three storylines that make up the game's plot; "Victory Road" in which you collect the eight badges as usual, "Path of Legends" in which you journey across the region with the professor's son Arven to restore Koraidon/Miraidon's strength, and "Starfall Street" in which you become a Bully Hunter and take on Team Star. The three storylines can be tackled in any order the player chooses, and it's also possible to choose which order you face the individual gyms, titans, and squads. | |
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Monkey Island uses this one a lot. The trope namer is the Three Trials in The Secret of Monkey Island. To become a full-fledged mighty pirate, Guybrush will need to prove his skills at sword-fighting by finding and beating the Sword Master of Melee Island, prove his skills at thievery by stealing the Idol of Many Hands from the Govenor's mansion, and prove his skills at treasure-hunting by finding the Treasure of Melee Island. Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge has a variation in four trials per act. To get a Voodoo Doll you need four items - "something of the head, something of the thread, something of the body, and something of the dead". You have to do this twice in the game, once early on for Largo so you can leave Scabb Island, and once towards the end for LeChuck so you can escape the tunnels beneath Dinky Island (using different items in different areas). Between these, you also have to get the four map pieces, which is way more convoluted than it sounds. Done several times in The Curse of Monkey Island. First you need to find a map, a ship and a crew (of 3) in the second act. Then in the fourth act you need to find a ring, a diamond, and a means of removing a cursed ring (hand lotion). Escape from Monkey Island: Guybrush has to prove his innocence on Lucre Island by finding and retrieving the stolen loot, find the real perpetrator, and finding a piece of evidence that ties him to the crime...and later on when Guybrush has to find the three pieces of the Ultimate Insult (a bronzed hat, a golden man, and a silver monkey head) on Jambalaya Island. Played with in the Melee Island segment at the start. Guybrush is told that he'll need a crew, one of which will have to be a navigator. The other two, Carla and Otis, are recruited at the same time by the same method, and the actual third trial turns out to be requisitioning a ship. Tales of Monkey Island: In "Launch of the Screaming Narwhal", Guybrush has to get information from news-starved journalist Davey Nipperkin about a person that can help get him off Flotsam Island, so Guybrush has to board a ship, find a treasure, and start a fight so Nipperkin will have something to write about. In "The Siege of Spinner cay", Guybrush has to find three golden holy items hidden around the Jerkbait Islands. In "Lair of the Leviathan", Guybrush has to join the Brotherhood of the Manatee by impressing de Cava's four former crew members... though Moose always votes the same as his pal Santino, despite him being a skeleton. Later in the chapter you have to interrogate de Cava's crew in order to figure out where the manatee-speaking device is. Again Moose always sides with Santino, lowering it back down to three... but Bugeye cracks the instant you ask him, lowering it down to two. "The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood" changes up this trope a bit by charging Guybrush with four crimes to get himself acquitted from, followed by someone remarking "I thought there would be three", and then with having to find six voodoo ingredients. It might as well be three crimes, though, since one is such an obvious lie that all you have to do is press the plaintiff on the obvious lie three times. "Rise of the Pirate God" references the trope namer itself with each of the three possible pirate afterlifes being based on one of the tree trials: Swordfights, treasure hunting, or thievery. The challenges Guybrush must complete in each realm also fit the trope. Return to Monkey Island: Played With in the second part aboard LeChuck's ship; Guybrush, magically disguised as a zombie pirate swabbie, must convince LeChuck's five crew members to vote in favour of going to Monkey Island, which is accomplished by doing favours for them (or in Iron Rose's case, restoring her confidence in her captain). Played Straight in the third part, where Guybrush must acquire three pieces of personal information about LeChuck (his theme song, his favourite food, and his Catchphrase) to decipher a magically-encrypted map. The fourth (and longest) part again has Five Trials, in the form of five golden keys Guybrush must find to unlock the safe containing the Secret of Monkey Island, which - much like the map pieces from the second game - are scattered across multiple islands (it's practically only three trials, though, as you can get one key simply by going down the street from where you first learn about the keys and asking the key's current owner for it, and another by finding two other keys and then going to an easily-accessible point of the map and picking it up; both times Guybrush points out how surprisingly easy it was). The same part also features Three Trials within those Five Trials, as to get one of the keys Guybrush must be crowned Queen of Brrr Muda by defeating the current Queen in Three Contests (Intelligence, Heartiness, and Seriousness). Guybrush even compares them to the original Three Trials, though the Queen insists they are completely different; they are Contests, not Trials. |
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Mortal Kombat: The Movie: Kitana advises Liu Kang that, in order to defeat Shang Tsung, he must overcome three trials: To face his prior enemies (resentful souls summoned by Shang himself), to face himself (as soon as he sees Shang transform into Liu's deceased brother), and to face his destiny (not falling into Shang's attempted guilt trip onto him for what happened to Chan). When Shang realizes Lui won't give up easily, the fight between the two begins for real. | |
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Done several times in The Curse of Monkey Island. First you need to find a map, a ship and a crew (of 3) in the second act. Then in the fourth act you need to find a ring, a diamond, and a means of removing a cursed ring (hand lotion). | |
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In the first episode of Hector: Badge of Carnage, Hector meets the three demands of the terrorist: fixing the clock tower, destroying the porn shop, and funding the town beautification project. And in episode 2, to get Hector out of the ruined building, you need to find some explosives, a fuse and a means to light the fuse. | |
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The Ultimate Evil: Those who want to inspect the Book of Ages must first pass the Guardian's three tests. When Valerie Payne enters the temple, the Guardian first tests her heart through touch. He then tests her mind by turning his staff into an inland taipan, which she realizes is only an illusion since the Guardian's shadow is holding just his staff. And lastly, he tests her spirit by having her look into his fire and see something. With the tests passed, Valerie is allowed to go to the Book, at which point Shendu (who has hidden himself from the Guardian) retakes over her body and rewrites history before the Chans arrive too late to stop him. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: Though the overarching quest averts the trope (its structure is more comparable to those of Majora's Mask and The Minish Cap), there are three trials which must be passed to gain entrance to the Sand Temple, where the sacred Bow of Light lies. The trials are based on, respectively, defeating Rocktite, traversing a convolute maze, and destroying the turrets protecting the Sand Temple itself. All of them must be done while driving the Spirit Train. | |
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Voltron: Legendary Defender: In issue #4, Pidge has to complete the challenges of the Great Universal Sphinx — a test of the body, a test of the mind, and a test of the spirit. | |
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In the Warrior Cats book Shadow, the leaders decide that a cat wishing to join another Clan must first pass three challenges set by the Clan they're trying to join. One of the protagonists, Nightheart, must face these tasks during the course of the book. | |
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Turgor has one of the brothers announce you will be given three trials to determine your worthiness, given one after another. However, the second trial is failed before you even start it. | |
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King's Quest IV: The Perils of Rosella has the player's character being assigned three tasks by an evil fairy (capturing a unicorn, a goose that lays golden eggs, and Pandora's Box), which need to be completed to get close enough to recover the magic amulet she's stolen. | |
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Yaga does this several times, seeing as it is based on slavic folklore where the trope is overused. The Tzar gives Ivan three impossible tasks to serve as the main plot of the game: Find Strength without Measure, Bottled Youth and The most beautiful bride Maria Morevna asks of Ivan to do three tasks as well, dealing with returning to previous areas to settle their conflicts. She also asks for three cauldrons to be forged at the Golden Anvil, but they are all made at once. If one wishes to marry Maria, they must once again pass three trials, dealing with being submerged in the three cauldrons and surviving if they have the requisite artifact to tie to that stat: The Golden Apple for Body, Bottled Youth for Mind and Likho's Ring (or eye) for Luck. Notable is that the Tzar must do them and will most likely fail since Baba Yaga strongly encourages you to not give him the real artifacts. If the player chooses to give him the real artifacts, he will pass (he will ask for the ring, but not the eye), but also if the player keeps all the real artifacts for themselves they can pass the trials and marry Maria. |
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Deadpool's lady-friend Death needs a few mutant souls set free, so he goes through three trials to get them back, each activated by picking up a statue which activates a portal opening to its respective trial. There's a pit with a bunch of enemies raining down, a few pop quizzes from 'Deadpoolio the Amazing', and a fairground shooting gallery with the ultimate test of endurance. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: To reach the Holy Grail, Indy must get past three traps: The Breath of God,note "Only the penitent man shall pass" (humbling oneself by kneeling below blades that would otherwise decapitate him) the Word of God,note "Only in God's name shall he proceed" (stepping only on tiles with letters that spell "IEHOVA", what with there being no J in Latin script) and the Path of God.note "Only in the leap from the lion's mouth shall he prove his worth" (taking a leap of faith onto a path rendered invisible by Forced Perspective) | |
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An episode of Mighty Max was built around his bodyguard having to pass three contests against an ancient champion to renew his immortality for another 10,000 Years. | |
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