The game casts the player as a hero who must fight his way through a mystical tower in order to save the world.

I've come to treasure the slightly surreal quality of games that cast the player as both creator and visitor.

The game casts the player as Ragnar, a young Viking warrior.

The game casts the player as a Buck Bumble, a volunteer bumblebee that gets implanted with cyborg technology.

Unlike its two immediate predecessors, Sangokushi IX always casts the player as a ruler.

The original arcade games cast the player as a member of a special military unit that must battle an invasion of aliens called the Kronn.

It casts the player as a stressed stage manager who has to complete a variety of tasks before the curtain can go up.

It casts the player as a human freighter captain who finds himself transported to an alien ship.

According to Grossman, they wanted to cast the player as someone "interestingly morally compromised" who had a stake in the situation.

The Fifth, for trombone, which casts the player as a lugubrious clown, puts in his or her mouth a summarizing word, "Why?"