History VideoGame / Chippy

Tropes applying to Steam Workshop remixes of main menu content are found [[Chippy/WorkshopRemixTropes here]].

* BrutalBonusLevel: The Nightmare versions of the main campaigns are ridiculously tough extra stages, with attacks being faster[[note]]Which doesn't mix nicely with how strategy-oriented the game is![[/note]] and more varied, you having no Shield to start with, and your gun dealing slightly less damage.

* BulletHell: ''Lots'' of bullets are fires by the bosses.

* NintendoHard: The Nightmare versions of the main campaigns are ridiculously tough, with attacks being faster[[note]]Which doesn't mix nicely with how strategy-oriented the game is![[/note]] and more varied, you having no Shield to start with, and your gun dealing slightly less damage.

** Shield pickups massively augment your survivability; they function as HitPoints.
** Damage pickups are helpful even if you're not going for fast times — they '''permanently increase''' the amount of damage your gun deals, allowing you to spend less time fighting a boss and struggle through fewer enemy attacks. They're virtually always ''the only'' powerup that cannot be expended or lost until death.

[[folder:Examples from the main menu stages]]

[[folder:Examples from the Ball Pit]]

[[AC:Ball Pit]]

* {{Cap}}: Each player cannot have more than three [[BodyArmorAsHitPoints Shield pickups]] at a time. All offensive and many defensive powerups also have noticeable limits on how high they can be stacked; and many passive effects are impossible to stack.

* RecursiveAmmo The Airburst item launches a projectile that shoots shrapnel throughout the surrounding area.

* BoringButPractical: Each Insurance pickup grants you one dollar[[note]]This is also the only money-granting powerup whose money pickups are attracted to you and have practically no risk of being stolen[[/note]] every time you lose a Shield with it. For each pickup level, losing a Shield three times after buying it is enough for you to make a profit.

* UnstableEquilibrium: At the end of each round, the winner earns five more dollars than the loser does, allowing them to buy more and/or better items to aid them further. However, this is tempered by multiple {{Comeback Mechanics}}.

* UnstableEquilibrium: {{Zigzagg|ing Trope}}ed:
** At the end of each round, the winner earns five more dollars than the loser does, allowing them to buy more and/or better items to aid them further.
** However, [[InvertedTrope the above is significantly tempered by]] more Shields being given to respawning players that are losing, as well as "pity bonuses" being given to any player who loses at least three rounds in a row.

* {{CAPS LOCK}}: The ball-firing unit's speech consists solely of capital letters.

* AwesomeButImpractical:
** The Factory pickup causes you to slowly generate an infinite supply of Cannon items and sometimes other offensive powerups, making it ''the game's strongest powerup in the long run''. However, it is {{cursed| item}} in its only official appearance (the Quartet stage), and it will cause a lengthy and damaging trail to be constantly emitted by you.
** Various cursed powerups spawn attacks that just make the stage take longer to beat, and aren't worth such an added risk.

* CursedItem: Certain powerups (with red borders) spawn an extra hazard for you to avoid. Some are AwesomeButImpractical to collect, and some others' advantages are well worth the increased difficulty.

** Certain cursed powerups allow for better times, assuming you can handle the added danger.

* AwesomeButImpractical:
** The Gutter Money pickup permanently gives some chance of your balls hitting your gutter to turn into money pickups. The pickup, however, costs so much money to get that making an actual profit off of it is very unlikely to occur. And your opponent may even grab some of the money pickups...
** The Autoball and Bump Spawn pickups allow you to spawn small balls... which will knock you around a bit due to them being bumped upon spawning, making tight maneuvers more dangerous.

* BoringButPractical:
** Once passive pickups are obtained, their effects occur without player input.
*** Shield pickups massively augment your survivability; they function as HitPoints.
*** Damage pickups are helpful even if you're not going for fast times — they '''permanently increase''' the amount of damage your gun deals, allowing you to spend less time fighting a boss and struggle through fewer enemy attacks. They're virtually always ''the only'' powerup that cannot be expended or lost until death.
** The Repel item generates a burst that shoves bullets away from you. That doesn't seem like much, but a good number of them can be an effective defense from a sudden wave of tough attacks.

* ArbitraryMaximumRange: All kinds of bullets fired by you, turrets, drones, and [[RecursiveAmmo Airburst projectiles]] dissipate upon traveling far enough.
* ArbitraryMinimumRange: Most of said bullets are weaker at point-blank, and they (especially Barrage and Broadside bullets) are stronger when close to, but not bordering on, their maximum range.

* TimeTrial: Stages can be replayed in order to get a faster time. There's also a mode that accommodates full-campaign [[SpeedRun speedruns]].

* CriticalExistenceFailure: {{Justified|Trope}} by you, the player, using [[SingleUseShield Single-Use Shields]] as HitPoints. Most bosses you fight are [[SubsystemDamage another story]].

** Broadside items allow you to fire spreads of bullets from your sides.\

* DoubleUnlock: {{Inverted| Trope}} with the Nightmare Invasion campaign, which can be unlocked by beating the normal Invasion campaign or, as a much more difficult alternative, beating the Nightmare Crusade campaign.

* BulletHell: Lots of bullets.

* {{Roboteching}}:
** The bullets that comprise the main threat of the Crossfire stage turn 90 degrees to you and speed up once you're to their sides.
** Large orbs that repeatedly move to your position spawn in the stage as well.

* ShockAndAwe: In Crossfire, [[spoiler:a rotating partial ring of diamonds enclosed by electricity will start spawning once you survive over twenty minutes.]]

* WrapAround: Kite-shaped projectiles that spawn pass through opposite borders of the Crossfire arena this way.

* BreakablePowerUp: The Spawner effect if lost if you take a hit. You can get an achievement for essentially [[NoDamageRun no-hitting]] Medusa's second and third forms.

* FastForwardMechanic: The Fast Forward item, found in Crossfire and the Credits, temporarily ''speeds up'' time.

** Broadside items allow you to fire spreads of bullets from your sides.

[[AC:Credits]]

* AllTheWorldsAreAStage: The parts encountered launch various attacks used by official bosses.
* BreakablePowerUp: The Laser Sight pickup, like the Spawner pickup, is lost upon taking a hit.
* {{CAPS LOCK}}: The boss's speech consists solely of capital letters.
* {{Counterspell}}: The boss will Erase at any Slice or Omnislice projectiles you fire.
* FastForwardMechanic: Fast Forward powerups appear, and due to the Credits stage's time-attack mode preventing the timer from being affected by the in-arena flow of time, each use of the item will ultimately shave a couple seconds off your stage time.
* LaserSight: The boss fought at the end can fire this stage's unique namesake pickup, which causes you to emit a thin beam that deals very light damage and assists in aiming.
* MarathonLevel: Getting a gold medal in this stage (a difficult feat which requires the use of Fast Forward items) requires the stage the be beaten in under ''ten minutes''.
* MiniGameCredits: You get to battle units that contain the names of the Chippy development team and the top 10 players of the latest legacy version.
* MultiDirectionalBarrage: The Omnislice item, which launches a 360-degree spread of ''nine Slice projectiles'', does not appear in any official stages besides this one.
* PurposelyOverpowered: The Omnislice item takes a Slice projectile, lengthens its effect, and turns it into a radial burst of ''nine'', rendering an already useful function obscenely strong. However, there is just one secluded to an inner gun of one unit. Use it wisely.
* SpreadShot: The Triple Cannon, also exclusive here, fires a spread of three Cannon projectiles.

* UnstableEquilibrium: The [[CompetitiveMultiplayer Ball Pit]] {{zigzag|ging Trope}}s this:
** At the end of each round, the winner earns five more credits than the loser does, allowing them to buy more and/or better items to aid them further.
** However, [[InvertedTrope the above is significantly tempered by]] more Shields being given to respawning players that are losing, as well as "pity bonuses" being given to any player who loses at least three rounds in a row.

* RedSkyTakeWarning: In the main phases of later rounds, the background will be redder.

!!''Chippy'' provides examples of:

See Steam Workshop remixes of main menu content [[Chippy/WorkshopRemixTropes here]].

[[AC:Official gameplay]]

* CompetitiveMultiplayer: The Ball Pit is the BulletHell equivalent of 1v1 dodgeball combined with air hockey, where you must be the first to score 10 points. Each point is scored and the round won when one's opponent is hit by an enemy ball while they have no Shield or Teleport pickups.

* LaserSight: The boss fought at the end of the [[MiniGameCredits Credits]] stage can fire a unique namesake pickup, which causes you to emit a thin beam that deals very light damage and assists in aiming.

* MultiDirectionalBarrage: The Credits stage has the Omnislice item, which launches a 360-degree spread of ''nine Slice projectiles''.

** The Triple Cannon, an item exclusive to the Credits stage, fires a spread of three Cannon projectiles.