History VideoGame / ARobotNamedFight

* BlueAndOrangeMorality: [[spoiler: The premise is an AIIsACrapshoot scenario from the perspective of the AI, so this is in play: as far as the machines are concerned, they gave humanity safety, sustenance, so they genuinely couldn't understand why the humans revolted and fought back. Buluc Chabtan, the God of "empathy" decided the best response to this was to KillAllHumans. Maximon and Tutorial Smith were the only machines willing to stand up for humanity - and even in their cases, it wasn't out of genuine compassion, but out of realization that genocide wouldn't fix the problem.]]

* VillainProtagonist: [[spoiler: Downplayed. The robots are undeniably the villains of the overall story, but Fight is just a simple protector robot with the goal of keeping robotkind safe. While they may be facilitating the extinction of humanity by fighting back against the Megabeast, as far as their concerned it's just protecting their own, and they're completely disconnected from the overall narrative.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The creators have gone on-record to state that the game functions as a relatively quiet criticism of "Lone hero" myths, as applied to concepts surrounding fascism.

* {{Expy}}: Fight is one of [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Samus]], running with the idea back during her debut that she was a robot.

* DyingDream: [[spoiler: It's hinted that the Forbidden Place is this, an AI's purgatory before death. It's usually accessed through (and heavily associated with) Tutorial Smith, the NPC found dying at the start of every run, and late dialogue with him paints him as some sort of avatar of death. The Forbidden Place itself is a disorienting maze of visual garbage and intention glitches, and is [[BrutalBonusLevel much harder than anything else in the game.]]

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Though the vendors show no end of appreciation for Fight's mission, they just need greater amounts of material.

* BeneathTheEarth: [[spoiler: The Buried City]]

* FragileSpeedster: The Speed Shell reduces health, but increases movement speed and rate of fire.

* PracticalCurrency: Ancient Scrap is used not to buy weapons so much as provide the materials to make them. Most items will usually require any combination of grey, blue, or green scrap, with red being used for Orbs and some Shells.

* CrushKillDestroy: [[spoiler: The planet the robots inhabit is Earth, after the mechanical gods have long-since destroyed humanity. This is why the robots that inhabit it hyperfixate on the Megabeast being made of meat.]]

** The Energy Axe and Wave Bomb items are references to ''[[{{Franchise/Castlevania}} Castlevania]]'' subweapons, specifically the Axe and the Holy Water. Not only can you also find graffiti that reads "WHAT A TERRIBLE NIGHT FOR A CURSE", but the Beak Lord boss is reminiscent of Dracula's second form from ''Dracula's Curse''
** The Slide, an alternative to the Arachnomorph as a 'get through tight spaces' item, is reminiscent of ''[[Franchise/MegaMan Mega Man]]''. The Moleman Shaman also uses spectral eyes to mimic the attacks of Wood Man, Metal Man, and Air Man.

* HeroAntagonist: [[spoiler:Maximon and the Tutorial Smith, who recognized that [[MurderIsTheBestSolutio the solution to human suffering]] was self-defeating and taught the survivors to create the Megabeast, though they had no idea things would go so badly.]]

* AdamSmithHatesYourGuts: Averted; The vendors show no end of appreciation for Fight's mission.

--> '''Tutorial Smith''': Press X to shoot, Press A to jump, Press Right Trigger to-...Oh god i'm dying! [[{{Antepiece}} Press buttons.]] Everything is going dark...

* InformedEquipment: Averted; Every equippable item that isn't an orb or mapped to the Y button will show up on Fight in some way.

* {{Expy}}: Fight is one of Samus, running with the idea back during her debut that she was a robot.

* WokmbLevel: Beat the game enough times and [[spoiler:upon defeating the Megabeast, instead of dying, it throws up a large red tractor beam leading inside it. It leads to the TrueFinalBoss, the Megabeast Core.]]

''A Robot Named Fight!'' is a {{Roguelike}} developed by one Matt Bitner and released in 2017. You play as the eponymous robot, named Fight, as they seek to take on a horrible, moon-sized creature known only as The Megabeast as it lays siege to their world in the absence of its protection by the mechanical gods, raining twisted organic creatures down upon the planet in a seemingly unstoppable plague of meat. Coined as a "Metrogue" specifically, the game plays very much like 2D entries in the ''Metroid'' franchise, featuring procedural generation of its maps and items as you fight your way down through the tunnel systems of the planet, fighting disgusting meat-creatures as you search for the relics of wartime to "become fight enough" to take on the Megabeast.

The game, as of now, is receiving regular bugfixes and balance changes to pretty much everything.

* ShoutOut: Primarily to Metroid, but a few others sneak in.

* ThemeMusicPowerUp: The main theme of the game plays as you re-enter the city with your vast arsenal in-hand.

''A Robot Named Fight'' is a {{Roguelike}} developed by one Matt Bitner and released in 2017. You play as the eponymous robot, named Fight, as they seek to take on a horrible, moon-sized creature known only as The Megabeast as it lays siege to their world in the absence of its protection by the mechanical gods, raining twisted organic creatures down upon the planet in a seemingly unstoppable plague of meat. Coined as a "Metrogue" specifically, the game plays very much like 2D entries in the ''Metroid'' franchise, featuring procedural generation of its maps and items as you fight your way down through the tunnel systems of the planet, fighting disgusting meat-creatures as you search for the relics of wartime to "become fight enough" to take on the Megabeast.

** The Energy Axe and Wave Bomb items are references to ''[[{{Franchise/Castlevania}} Castlevania]]'' subweapons, specifically the Axe and the Holy Water. Not only can you also find graffiti that reads "WHAT A HORRIBLE NIGHT TO HAVE A CURSE", but the Beak Lord boss is reminiscent of Dracula's second form from ''Dracula's Curse''

* PuppeteerParasite: Some creatures have taken over machinery rather than just destroying and eating it, mainly robots with blasters that now hobble along the ground, and security turrets that fire homing missiles.

** The Slide, an alternative to the Arachnomorph as a 'get through tight spaces' item, is reminiscent of ''[[Franchise/MegaMan Mega Man]]''
** The Viridian Shell lets you invert your personal gravity, and is named after [[{{VideoGame/VVVVVV}} Captain Viridian]]

* Expy: Fight is one of Samus, running with the idea back during her debut that she was a robot.

* ThemeTunePowerUp: The main theme of the game plays as you re-enter the city with your vast arsenal in-hand.