History VideoGame / CandyBox

* EasyLevelTrick: The Giant Nougat Monster. It hits for an incredible amount of damage- on hard, when your maximum health is capped, it will one-shot you ''even with'' the enchanted armor. If you have the rocket boots, you can fly over it and spam it with spells until you win, avoiding its lethal attack completely since it cannot get off the floor.

* EasyLevelTrick: [[spoiler: The Cow Level in Hard Mode, where your HP is capped at 100. Use an Earthquake Scroll to render the regular cows to 0 HP (but still alive), which allows you to kill them without taking any damage. A potion during the Cow King fight helps too.]]

* MightyGlacier: Using the Giant Spoon or the Giant Spoon of Doom. You deal ridiculous damge per hit. You also have an insanely long interval time between attacks.

* StoneWall: The enchanted knight armor reduces all damage you take by 80% (!!), but it halves your damage output. Pretty much ''essential'' when facing the Devil or fighting the sharks in Hard mode.

* DifficultySpike: Try to go into the desert immediately after you face down the rats, without buying an Iron Axe. You'll get destroyed by the camels.

* FreezeFrameBonus: Enemy encounters go by rather quickly, but those with swift eyes will discover that some of the enemies have amusing descriptions. [[spoiler: [[CharlieTheUnicorn "This is a unicorn! It has no kidneys."]]]]

** InterfaceSpoiler: You know that something's up when [[spoiler: you don't see any spell, potion or action buttons]] when you fight it.

* LostForever: The three upgraded sword types (life-gain, fire, and summoning) are all mutually exclusive; you can only choose one per playthrough. [[spoiler:Until you reach the hacking stage, that is, where you can randomize your sword or acquire the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Sword of Liflamesummoning.]]]]

* MirrorMatch: [[spoiler: One of the questing locations is "yourself." Even if you glitch the fight to have HP remaining at the end, you can't win without asking the Sorceress for help.]]
** [[spoiler: Or you can just use a Fire Scroll when your opponent's health gets low (<35). It'll kill him, and you won't need to see the sorceress at all.]]

* OurDragonsAreDifferent
* PercentDamageAttack: The ghosts that the necromancer summons will hit you for half your current health.
** [[spoiler: The Developer attacks you for (1/4 your max HP + 5) damage each hit, ensuring that he kills you in four attacks unless you're invincible.]]

** [[spoiler: The Cow Level, accessible only by using the Get Me Out Of Here potion, is one to ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''.]]
** [[spoiler: "[[WebAnimation/CharlieTheUnicorn This is a unicorn! It has no kidneys]]."]]
** [[spoiler: The Developer is hinted to be a ''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little Pony]]'' fan, with a number of references to ponies in the game (Wood Pony, a Pony Bug, the fake tab bug spawning "Pony" and "mlp is great" tabs).]]

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Try to escape the wolves in the forest by jumping over them? Those forest spirits will fire painful green shots that hit you at jumping level.
** [[spoiler: Try using any of the more advanced spells against the Developer? He summons a black hole that instakills you. Of course, there's a way to use this to kill himself.]]

* MemeticBadass: InUniverse, [[spoiler: ChuckNorris. Yes, really.]]

* AntiMagic: The "Erase Magic" spell, which erases all enemy magic spells on the screen.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:The easiest way to kill the Developer is to cast one of the spells that makes him drop a black hole on you while you're standing next to him. If you're in turtle mode and have over 1500 health, you'll survive and his black hole will kill him.]]

* [[spoiler: MirrorMatch]]: [[spoiler: One of the questing locations is "yourself." Even if you glitch the fight to have HP remaining at the end, you can't win without asking the Sorceress for help.]]

* [[spoiler: OurDragonsAreDifferent]]

* FrogsAndToads: There is a friendly frog in the swamp who will give you goodies in exchange for befriending him.

--> ''You have 5 candies.''

* EarlyBirdBoss: Both the monkey magician and the octopus king. You face them in the second dungeon of the game, and if you fight them at your level, you'll get wasted. Thankfully, both of them are optional and are meant to be fought later on.

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* WeaponsGradeVocabulary: [[spoiler: The Developer's main form of attack.]]

* TurtlePower: You can brew a potion that turns you into a turtle. This makes you have [[MightyGlacier much more defence, but makes you slower]]. [[spoiler: Being slow will benefit you in getting across the Developer's moat.]]

* ExactWords: The frog's final question. [[spoiler: Now, just type '''the answer to that question''' and I'll give you a very special present : what is the only thing to go beyond the limits of our universe?]]

* AGodAmI: What you become temporarily by using an invulnerability potion. [[spoiler: Bonus points for fighting the devil.]]

* ShoutOut: [[spoiler: The Cow Level, accessible only by using the Get Me Out Of Here potion, is one to ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''.]]

* EverythingsWorseWithWolves: The forest is filled with them, and they keep coming at you in a near-endless stream.