History VideoGame / CthulhuSavesTheWorld

* HypocriticalHumor: The description for the Vampire enemy is "[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Doesn't sparkle in the sunlight]]". There is a chance that this same enemy uses an ability called "Sparkle" against you.

** The description of one enemy is something to the effect of "It's not just a PaletteSwap, honest!". Which it is.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: In ''Cthulhu's Angels'', [[spoiler:Normal Umi gets her usual blue-haired portrait, but Dark Umi has silver hair.]]
* DefeatMeansFriendship: If you can beat [[spoiler:Dem]] in the main game, he'll join your party. Played straight ''and'' subverted in ''Cthulhu's Angels'': [[spoiler:Dark Umi]] is a mandatory recruit and [[spoiler:Sara takes Dem's place as the BonusBoss]]. Subverted with [[spoiler:Dacre and Ember]]: since this is a different story than that of the main campaign, events unfold somewhat differently...

** [[spoiler:In [[BrutalBonusLevel Soulcaster Cave]], there are [[VideoGame/{{Soulcaster}} Soulcaster and his Soul bosses]].]]

** [[spoiler:In [[BrutalBonusLevel Soulcaster Cave]], there are [[VideoGame/Soulcaster Soulcaster and his Soul bosses]].]]

* FacePalm: Cthulhu does this a lot.
-->'''Cthulhu:''' I just like insane things. Is that a problem?

A 16-Bit console style role-playing game, with tongue in cheek [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Lovecraftian]] humor, rampant [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] of JRPG tropes, and NoFourthWall to speak of, it is both a loving tribute and parody of the 16-bit JRPG.

* TooManyBelts: There's an enemy named Beltman who wears an outfit made entirely of belts, which is stated in the director commentary as a reference to Tetsuya Nomura.

* PrematurelyMarkedGrave: October keeps her own tombstone in a BonusDungeon Graveyard of Memories despite being far from dead. When confronted about that, she replies that possesing your own tombstone is supposed to bring good luck.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Aside from the premise of the game being about a mage defeating Cthulhu, causing him to lose his powers until he proves himself a hero, the final boss is [[spoiler:Azathoth, another powerful being from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. Indeed, the ''most powerful'' being of the Cthulhu Mythos, so even a full-powered Cthulhu defeating Azathoth would be an example of this trope.]] Since Cthulu is the player character, he ''will'' get punched out when you screw up.

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A 16-Bit console style role-playing game, with tongue in cheek [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Lovecraftian]] humor, rampant [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] of JRPG tropes, plenty of GenreSavvy, and NoFourthWall to speak of, it is both a loving tribute and parody of the 16-bit JRPG.

See also ''Videogame/BreathOfDeathVII'', the spiritual predecessor of ''Cthulhu Saves The World'', which features similar gameplay and writing. Both games are available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} in a two-for-one pack, or can be bought separately on [[XboxLive Xbox Live Indie Games]] on the Xbox 360.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: You play as [[CthulhuMythos Cthulhu]]. You [[SavingTheWorld save the world]].

A 16-Bit console style role-playing game, with tongue in cheek [[CthulhuMythos Lovecraftian]] humor, rampant [[LampshadeHanging Lampshading]] of JRPG tropes, plenty of GenreSavvy, and NoFourthWall to speak of, it is both a loving tribute and parody of the 16-bit JRPG.

* AliensStealCattle: And turn them into genetically engineered super-soldiers, [[TheTerminator The Bovin]][[TheAhnold ators]].

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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Aside from the premise of the game being about a mage defeating Cthulhu, causing him to lose his powers until he proves himself a hero, the final boss is [[spoiler:Azathoth, another powerful being from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.]] Since Cthulu is the player character, he ''will'' get punched out when you screw up.

* DemBones: The name of a commonly encountered enemy. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Guess what it is.]] Also a ShoutOut to the name of the main character in ''BreathOfDeathVII'', by the same developers. [[spoiler:Dem himself is actually a recruitable NPC.]]

** If you wander an area long enough random encounters turn off. Getting lost in an area eventually means you won't have random encounters anymore, but at the same time they give enough so you keep leveling.
** the only item you have are potions and equipment, meaning you don't have to rummage through the menus to find something, while still making potions effective enough to to be useful.
** you can save anywhere you want, but save points restore your MP for you, acting as a full heal basically and letting you save.

** If you want to level-up quickly, you can simply go to the menu and press "Fight".

** There's a bookshelf in Dunwich containing a book called "Cat Dictionary". Umi suggests it could be useful, were a cat ever to join the party. Cthulhu blows this off, saying it would never happen. It does.

* [[spoiler:AndTheAdventureContinues: In the PC version's extended ending, Cthulhu and Umi are shown traveling through space in the now-repaired Ultharian mothership.]]

* [[spoiler: FinalBossNewDimension: The final battle vs. Azatoth takes place "beyond Angled Space."]]

* [[spoiler: HostileShowTakeover]]: [[spoiler: At the end of Cthulhu's Angel's, the party usurps The Narrator to take back control of their own fate.]]

See also ''Videogame/BreathOfDeathVII'', the spiritual predecessor of ''Cthulhu Saves The World'', which features similar gameplay and writing. Both games are available on {{Steam}} in a two-for-one pack, or can be bought separately on [[XboxLive Xbox Live Indie Games]] on the Xbox 360.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Aside from the premise of the game being about a mage defeating Cthulhu, causing him to lose his powers until he proves himself a hero, the final boss is [[spoiler:Azathoth, another powerful being from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.]]

* GlassCannon: Most of the enemies in the game and especially bosses have way more hitpoints than your party members, but you make up for it by being able to hit much harder than they do. It balances out, but if you look at the numbers then your characters are definitely glass cannons.

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Most of the bosses in ''Cthulhu's Angels'' are this: [[spoiler: the Cthulhu cosplayer, Mother Hydra and the Kraken have no real connection to the plot, they just turn up instead of the Lovecraftian enemies Cthulhu faces in the main game.]]