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-->--Tvark

''Armikrog'' is a 2015 PointAndClickGame created by Creator/DougTenNapel with Pencil Test Studios. Funded on Website/{{Kickstarter}} for release on PC, UsefulNotes/WiiU, and UsefulNotes/Playstation4. It is a SpiritualSuccessor to [=TenNapel=]'s earlier games ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'' and ''VideoGame/{{Skullmonkeys}}''.

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''Armikrog'' is a 2015 PointAndClickGame created by Creator/DougTenNapel with Pencil Test Studios. Funded on Website/{{Kickstarter}} for release on PC, UsefulNotes/WiiU, Platform/WiiU, and UsefulNotes/Playstation4.Platform/PlayStation4. It is a SpiritualSuccessor to [=TenNapel=]'s earlier games ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'' and ''VideoGame/{{Skullmonkeys}}''.
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* TeamworkPuzzleGame: A number of puzzles involve having Beak Beak sit on top of a switch, enabling Tommynaut to pass through a locked area. Beak Beak's ability to fit through small passages and his unusual vision [[spoiler:and later - his wings]] also play an important role.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Tommynaut's first reaction when he sees [[spoiler: his thought-to-be-dead brother Vognaut, now horribly mutated by his greed?]]

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* TeamworkPuzzleGame: A number of puzzles involve having Beak Beak sit on top of a switch, enabling Tommynaut to pass through a locked area. Beak Beak's ability to fit through small passages and his unusual vision [[spoiler:and later - his wings]] also play an important role.
* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Tommynaut's first reaction when he sees [[spoiler: his [[spoiler:his thought-to-be-dead brother Vognaut, now horribly mutated by his greed?]]



* VillainBall: [[spoiler:Tommynaut goes to Armikrog to obtain P-tonium, and, by extension, P, the baby who creates it when she laughs. So is Vognaut. What makes Vog evil and Tommy good? He decides the best way to get the freely-offered material is to forcefully extract it from P, killing her. The game mentions him being greedy, but's largely an InformedAttribute, since every major character of the story is after the same thing anyway, and there's no real reason he can't indulge his 'greed' while keeping P alive and well - like Tommynaut does.]]

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* VillainBall: [[spoiler:Tommynaut goes to Armikrog to obtain P-tonium, and, by extension, P, the baby who creates it when she laughs. So is Vognaut. What makes Vog evil and Tommy good? He decides the best way to get the freely-offered material is to forcefully extract it from P, killing her. The game mentions him being greedy, but's but it's largely an InformedAttribute, since every major character of the story is after the same thing anyway, and there's no real reason he can't indulge his 'greed' while keeping P alive and well - like Tommynaut does.]]

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* {{Expy}}:
** Tommynaut feels like an obvious stand-in for Klaymen, [[spoiler:Vognaut is a shameless retread of Klogg]], and Tvark's ghost acts like Willie Trombone, offering hints to the player, while in the backstory, he feels like an alternate take on Hoborg.
** The room after the one with the puzzle involving the colored planets is this to the Hall of Records from ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'' in which one can read an entire novel worth of text that essentially serves as a prequel to the game itself.

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* {{Expy}}:
{{Expy}}: A lot of elements of this game borrow from ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood''.
** Tommynaut feels like an obvious stand-in for Klaymen, [[spoiler:Vognaut is a shameless retread of Klogg]], Klaymen and Tvark's ghost acts like Willie Trombone, offering hints to the player, while in the backstory, he feels like an alternate take on Hoborg.
** [[spoiler:Vognaut]] is a blatant retread of [[spoiler:Klogg's character. He's the main character's brother, corrupted by his own greed. He disposed of the previous inhabitants of this world, leaving him alone in it aside from a few other creatures. Vognaut is shown wielding a jagged knife, just like the one Klogg used to try and kill Hoborg.]]
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The room after the one with the puzzle involving the colored planets is this to the Hall of Records from ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'' ''The Neverhood'' in which one can read an entire novel worth of text that essentially serves as a prequel to the game itself.



* ProductionThrowback: The game contains several subtle nods to ''The Neverhood'' besides the obvious expies and reused mechanics. For example, pay attention to the dagger that [[spoiler:Vognaut]] is shown wielding in one of the Octovators' backstory video, or to the sound effect used when [[spoiler: Meva brings Beak Beak's spirit back to Tommynaut]] at the end of the game.



* ShoutOut: The game contains several subtle nods to ''The Neverhood'' besides the obvious expies and reused mechanics. For example, pay attention to the dagger that [[spoiler:Vognaut]] is shown wielding in one of the Octovators' backstory video, or to the sound effect used when [[spoiler: Meva brings Beak Beak's spirit back to Tommynaut]] at the end of the game.
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** [[spoiler: That's not even including the idea that Tommynaut's discovery of P creating P-tonium by laughing gives an ''exponentially'' larger amount than Vognaut's method of extracting it simply by keeping the supply available with P being alive. Vognaut is so blinded by his greed he fails to see a route that would grant him ''more''.]]
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* AllThereInTheManual: The actual names of P's [[spoiler:adoptive]] mother and father, how the "soul transfer" machine works, the in-universe origin of the word "Armikrog" and how the fortress came to be are all given within the resident Hall Of Records expy, among a few other things.

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* AllThereInTheManual: The actual names of P's [[spoiler:adoptive]] adoptive mother and father, how the "soul transfer" machine works, the in-universe origin of the word "Armikrog" and how the fortress came to be are all given within the resident Hall Of Records expy, among a few other things.
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* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Tommy has a giant "T" on his upper body.

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* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Tommy Tommynaut has a giant "T" on his upper body.
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* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Tommy has a giant "T" on his upper body.
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Without the power of P-tonium\\

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Without the power of P-tonium\\P-tonium found\\



Our hope's in brother astronauts\\

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Our hope's in hope was brother astronauts\\



This kid is green, does he stand a shot?''

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This kid is green, does he stand do we have a shot?''

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