History VideoGame / FantasyQuest

* HyperspaceArsenal: Openly parodied by the second game, which spends several sentences describing just how huge a ladder is before casually noting that you put it in your pocket, and allowing you to carry up to 20 onions at a time.

->You're beginning to think there isn't anything useful to do here.

* {{Curse}}, CurseEscapeClause: In the first game, you meet a dog. It's not till the second, set 20 years later, that you learn he's a cursed man, and if you only fed him right off, you would have broken the curse.

* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks: The shark's presence and attack is as random as can be.

* GuideDangIt: So many people were unable to figure out how to get past the cyclops in the second game that Sam Stoddard had to add a clue to the hints page. He was very surprised by this, as he thought the puzzle was an incidental part of the game, and admitted he wasn't sure why so many people were getting stuck on it.

* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Husband]]: Says the vampire's wife, twenty years after you kill him.

The game's playable [[http://www.rinkworks.com/adventure/ online]] alongside a companion [[http://www.rinkworks.com/fnn/ parody newspaper]].

* AffectionateParody: The sequel exists largely to parody the original, and InteractiveFiction tropes in general.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Quite literally.

* ArtifactOfDoom - Parodied with the Golden Cufflink of Fire.
* BalefulPolymorph - Than dog you kept throwing a stick at? Turns out it's a guy under a curse, and he calls you an asshole for not helping him sooner.
* BrokenBridge - Most puzzles take this form, including one that's a literal broken bridge. (In the sequel, a modern suspension bridge has replaced it.)
* ButtMonkey - The poor Indian Runs-With-Scissors. It starts with a single injury that you heal. A later one needs a unicorn's help. It turns out that he suffers 34 injuries a year simply by sitting in the open and now faces false insurance fraud charges.
* CoolCrown - Despite the crown's magic properties, the game just says, "All right. You got the 'Crown of Destiny' or something. Happy?"
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass - Hes Ahkia.
* {{Curse}}, CurseEscapeClause - In the first game, you meet a dog. It's not till the second, set 20 years later, that you learn he's a cursed man, and if you only fed him right off, you would have broken the curse.
* EverythingsEvenWorseWithSharks - The shark's presence and attack is as random as can be.
* FortuneTeller - The Soothsayer, who demands gold for any assistance. She's back in the second game, this time demanding even more gold and gleefully lampshading her general uselessness.

* KillerRabbit - The gigantic bunny rabbit, who's even more powerful than the gigantic black cat. You later have to fight the carnivorous giraffe!
* KleptomaniacHero - The other people in the land interpret your actions as a wide-scale theft spree.
* ALoadOfBull - When you enter the volcano, you come face to horns with a monster and cant leave till you've taken him down.
* MagicalLand - It's the "magical land of Fantasy"! No word on just how you got there or exactly where you go afterward.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero - Apparently, the sweet girl you let out of prison is an insane killer who will return to evil.
* NoodleIncident - Millie the Silly's "Baconslicer Incident."
* RiddlingSphinx - A Sphinx asks you a riddle. Unless you're playing the original, console game, you get to choose your answer from a list, so this is one of the game's easiest portions.
* SadClown - The poor guy has no nose!
* SaveThePrincess - The synopsis itself promises a subversion.
* SchmuckBait - Some of the suicidal options.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness - "It has fallen upon you to find this evil overlord, absquatulate with the Golden Cufflink of Fire..."
* ShopKeeper - The sweet old owner of the general store. He can't possibly be hiding anything, can he?
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish - Probably shouldn't leave those passwords on notes nailed to trees.
* TooDumbToLive - You, if you choose. "Bang your head on the rocks"? Yeah, sure.
* {{Unicorn}} - It heals. And it loves carrots.
* [[YouKilledMyFather You Killed My Husband]] - Says the vampire's wife, twenty years after you kill him.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle - Quite literally.

* RiddleMeThis - A Sphinx asks you a riddle (though not the RiddleOfTheSphinx). Unless you're playing the original, console game, you get to choose your answer from a list, so this is one of the game's easiest portions.

* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle - Quite literally.

The games playable [[http://www.rinkworks.com/adventure/ online]] alongside a companion [[http://www.rinkworks.com/fnn/ parody newspaper]].

The game bills itself as a "twist on the old 'save the princess' plot" - you begin the game with "save the princess" as your sole, vage objective, but your actual goal turns out a little different.

* EverythingsWorseWithSharks - The shark's presence and attack is as random as can be.