History PlayingWith / CommonPlaceRare

** The heroes have to travel the world in order to collect the twelve {{MacGuffin}}s that open the door to the World of Doom and then fight legions of extremely powerful demons, followed by a battle with the game's BonusBoss, in order to acquire a single sheet of paper.

** The type is a lost art… finding a Bob Smithian sword? Easy. finding a '''functional''' (even if just barely) Bob Smithian sword? Good luck, with that.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Large shiny jewels are everywhere, and you can gather piles of them just by going through the grass everywhere you go.]]

* '''Invoked''': "[[GenreSavvy Something tells me]] I'm going to have a hard time getting a sword..."

* '''Justified''': There's a demon in the mines, so metal can't be used to forge a sword.

* '''Zig-zagged''': There are only four swords in the kingdom. TheHero heads to the nearby kingdom of [[IncrediblyLamePun Sword-i Arabia]] where he finds hundreds of swords. He brings them back to Tropeland, where they are all burned due to being illegally bought.

* '''Implied''': All characters are shown using weapons such as spears or axes for combat, with swords being seen only lightly.

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* '''Deconstructed''': TheHero put so much effort into finding the sword that he was too exhausted to even use it.
* '''Reconstructed''': So he gets a [[CoolGuns gun]].

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* '''Downplayed''': ???

'''Basic Trope:''' Something relatively easy-to-find in real life is rare in a video game.
* '''Played Straight:''' There are only four usable swords in the kingdom of Tropeland, and they're hard to find, despite all of the enemies wielding them.
* '''Exaggerated:''' There is one sword, a wooden sword, going for [[MemeticMutation 9001]] Dollars.
* The heroes have to travel the world in order to collect the twelve {{MacGuffin}}s that open the door to the World of Doom and then fight legions of extremely powerful demons, followed by a battle with the game's BonusBoss, in order to acquire a single sheet of paper.
* '''Justified:''' There's a demon in the mines, so metal can't be used to forge a sword.
* '''Inverted:'''

* '''Subverted:''' There are only four swords, but you can mix-and-match to have six more.
* '''Double Subverted:''' And the six others are just clones of the first four.
* '''Parodied:''' The entire game is a quest to find a sword.
* '''Deconstructed:''' TheHero put so much effort into finding the sword that he was too exhausted to even use it.
* '''Reconstructed:''' So he gets a [[CoolGuns gun]].
* '''Zig-zagged:''' There are only four swords in the kingdom. TheHero heads to the nearby kingdom of [[IncrediblyLamePun Sword-i Arabia]] where he finds hundreds of swords. He brings them back to Tropeland, where they are all burned due to being illegally bought.
* '''Averted:''' There are plenty of swords.
* '''Enforced:''' The developers designed the entire game around the concept of limited ammunition, and so a weapon which doesn't need ammunition is a near-GameBreaker.
* '''Lampshaded:''' "Where's a sword when you need one?"
* '''Invoked:''' "[[GenreSavvy Something tells me]] I'm going to have a hard time getting a sword..."
* '''Defied:''' There's a sword delivery store.
* '''Discussed:''' "You know, swords really shouldn't be ''this'' rare..."
* '''Conversed:''' "I can't believe how badly the recent sword famine's hit!"

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* The heroes have to collect the twelve MacGuffins to open the door to the World of Doom and then fight legions of extremely powerful demons, followed by a battle with the game's BonusBoss, in order to acquire a single sheet of paper.

* '''Enforced:''' "We are going to destroy all weapons of war!"

* '''Inverted:''' There are swords everywhere. You can take enemies' swords.

* '''Conversed:''' "I can't believe how badly the recent sword famine's hit!"

** The wooden sword was once used by a legendary warrior, and thus is sought after by collectors.