History VideoGame / FridayNightFunkin

* TheTetrisEffect: Playing the game enough times will make you habitually move your head to the beat just like Girlfriend does all the time.

* MysteriousPurple: The opponent of the game mod ''[[https://gamebanana.com/mods/301107 Mind Games]]'' is Psychic, a, well, psychic with purple skin and a fiery head. He waits for Boyfriend knowing [[spoiler:he's been possessed]] and has an unknown association with [[BigBad the Dearests]], along with a connection to [[SealedEvilInACan Spirit]], to the point Spirit holds just as much of a grudge on him as he does Daddy Dearest.

** Girlfriend's parents are canonically named '''D'''addy '''D'''earest and '''M'''ommy '''M'''earest, with the latter specifically given that ridiculous name for this reason.

** During "Roses", Senpai's BlushSticker is replaced with blue over the top of his face, showing his slipping façade and general frustration over The Boyfriend's ability to keep up.

The free version will be updated with some of the paid content after its release, but after the Kickstarter was announced, ''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' underwent an extended hiatus in terms of updates so that they could focus on developing the full game. It was later confirmed that new content would arrive for the free version of the game, with the first post-Kickstarter update, adding [[HarderThanHard Erect difficulty]], additional playable characters, and animated cutscenes [[https://twitter.com/PhantomArcade3K/status/1504260799803666437?t=UYIQ9ssTkdRU3_Da6SnwAw&s=19 being planned for June 11th, 2022]].

* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Your girlfriend's mother goes by the name of Mommy Mearest to go on par with her husband.

The free version will be updated with some of the paid content after its release, but after the Kickstarter was announced, ''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' underwent an extended hiatus in terms of updates so that they could focus on developing the full game. It was later confirmed that new content would arrive for the free version of the game, with the first post-Kickstarter update, adding [[HarderThanHard Erect difficulty]], additional playable characters, and animated cutscenes [[https://twitter.com/PhantomArcade3K/status/1504260799803666437?t=UYIQ9ssTkdRU3_Da6SnwAw&s=19 being planned for June 11th 2022]].

!!If you want her, you're gonna have to go through these tropes. ''Think you can manage?''

The free version will be updated with some of the paid content after its release, but after the Kickstarter was announced, ''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' underwent an extended hiatus in terms of updates so that they could focus on developing the full game. It was later confirmed that new content would arrive for the free version of the game, with the first post-Kickstarter update, adding [[HarderThanHard Erect difficulty]], additional playable characters, and animated cutscenes [[https://twitter.com/PhantomArcade3K/status/1504260799803666437?t=UYIQ9ssTkdRU3_Da6SnwAw&s=19 being planned for June 11th 2022]], VideoGame/{{Pico}} Day.

The free version will be updated with some of the paid content after its release, but after the Kickstarter was announced, ''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' underwent an extended hiatus in terms of updates so that they could focus on developing the full game. It was later confirmed that new content would arrive for the free version of the game, with the first post-Kickstarter update, adding [[HarderThanHard Erect difficulty]], additional playable characters, and animated cutscenes [[https://twitter.com/PhantomArcade3K/status/1504260799803666437?t=UYIQ9ssTkdRU3_Da6SnwAw&s=19 being planned for April 30th 2022]], VideoGame/{{Pico}} Day.

* NoFairCheating: As of the Week 7 update, the player can toggle "Practice Mode" for any song. While playing in Practice Mode, they cannot get blue balled, will be penalized less for missing notes, and if they toggled it while playing in Story Mode, then they can proceed to the next song afterwards. ''However'', as a trade-off, the player's score will remain at 0 at all times.

--> '''Tankman:''' "Well, well, well, what do we got here?"
--> '''Boyfriend:''' Beep!
--> '''Tankman:''' We should just ''KILL'' you, but what the hell -- it's been a boring day. Let's see what you've got!"

---> ''[[spoiler:"I'll make her father pay for what he's done to me and all the others....."'']]

** "Dad Battle", the final song of Week 1. Up until now, you had songs with relatively easy-to-hit note charts, with "Fresh" having a couple of tricky beat-boxing sections. This song is where Daddy Dearest, and by extension ''the game'', takes off the gloves and puts on the anvils. It's fast-paced, has a tougher chart, and introduces concepts of both rapid-firing up to 3 different notes in succession and harmonizing with your opponent while they hit notes. Better get used to these quirks, because starting with Week 2, each song will have at least two of them in play, if not all four.

* WakeUpCallBoss: "Dad Battle", the final song of Week 1. Up until now, you had songs with relatively easy-to-hit note charts, with Fresh having a couple tricky beat-boxing sections. This song is where Daddy Dearest, and by extension ''the game'', takes off the gloves and puts on the anvils. It's fast paced, has a very tough chart, and introduces concepts of both rapid firing up to 3 different notes in succession and harmonizing with your opponent while they hit notes. Better get used to these quirks because starting with Week 2, each song will have at least two of them in play, if not all four.
** If the former song wasn't hard enough for you, "Spookeez" certainly will be. If it was still too easy, "South" surely will pose you problem.

The free version will be updated with some of the paid content after its release, but after the Kickstarter was announced, ''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' underwent an extended hiatus in terms of updates so that they could focus on developing the full game. It was later confirmed that new content would arrive for the free version of the game starting in early 2022.

After the first seven weeks were released, a paid version titled ''Friday Night Funkin[='=]: The Full-Ass Game'' was [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/funkin/friday-night-funkin-the-full-ass-game/ announced]] via Kickstarter on April 18th, 2021, which plans to include local multiplayer, fully animated cutscenes for each week, online integration, multiple player characters, proper modding support, collaborations with artists, and countless other refinements across the board. It is slated to contain 45 weeks of new material not planned for the base game, or ''135'' new songs [[note]]60 songs were initially promised as part of the initial financial goal, with 75 new songs '''on top of those''' confirmed thanks to the meeting of additional stretch goals -- 45 songs for the main game, and 30 songs in an epilogue[[/note]] on top of those featured in the base game, and is scheduled for an April 2022 release. Within three days of its announcement, it had already made $1,000,000, over fifteen times its $60,000 starting goal, and more than doubled its total by the time it neared the end of its run.

* BigRedDevil: Week 4 introduces five men working for Girlfriend's parents, one driving the limo Mommy Mearest and the Boyfriend are standing on and the other four dancing on top of another limo in the background -- they have pink skin, large toothy grins, and black horns coming out of their flat tops, evoking the standard demon appearance. Interestingly, unused sprites for the backup dancers, part of a scrapped FunnyBackgroundEvent in which they're knocked and visibly decapitated by an occasional lamp post, show that their horns are legitimate, and not [[HornedHairdo hair horns]] like Daddy Dearest has.

* HumanDemonHybrid: Selever and Rasazy are the son of [[spoiler:Sarvente]] (a demon [[spoiler:disguised as a nun]]) and Ruvyzat (a human hitman) from an AlternateUniverse.

* FakeDifficulty: Earlier versions of the demo had [[https://youtu.be/tXGYrxUnl_w several critical flaws in how the game plays]]; how the game checks for inputs is the most egregious, as the system only reads note inputs for ''one'' of the four arrows at a time, resulting in dropped inputs that should be able to land becoming forced misses. The problem was so rampant that fanmade game engine that fixed this problem such as Kade Engine became the standard for the ''FNF'' modding community, and the official game itself would later fix the inputs in the Week 7 update.

* FakeDifficulty: Earlier versions of the demo had [[https://youtu.be/tXGYrxUnl_w several critical flaws in how the game plays]]; how the game checks for inputs is the most egregious, as the system only reads note inputs for ''one'' of the four arrows at a time, resulting in dropped inputs that should be able to land becoming forced misses. The problem was so rampant the [=KadeEngine=], a fanmade game engine that fixed this problem, became the standard for the ''FNF'' modding community, and the official game itself would later fix the inputs in the Week 7 update.

* VisualInnuendo: Screw up a song and you're treated to an x-ray of Boyfriend's cracked skeleton, which also includes two pulsating little spheres... located on his crotch. Which are also colored blue. Or, [[spoiler:[[StealthPun blueballs]]]].

''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' (Oftenly shorted to FNF) is an [=HTML5=] RhythmGame created by Newgrounds users [[https://ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com/ ninjamuffin99]], [[https://phantomarcade.newgrounds.com/ PhantomArcade]], [[https://evilsk8r.newgrounds.com/ evilsk8r]], and [[https://kawaisprite.newgrounds.com/ KawaiSprite]]. The game was made by the group as part of a game jam, [[https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/friday-night-funkin Ludum Dare 47]], and has since gained a following for its unique Newgrounds-animation art style and funky music -- and arriving just as UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash was being discontinued (while plenty of people headed to Newgrounds before they created a Flash emulator) certainly didn't hurt.

''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' is an [=HTML5=] RhythmGame created by Newgrounds users [[https://ninjamuffin99.newgrounds.com/ ninjamuffin99]], [[https://phantomarcade.newgrounds.com/ PhantomArcade]], [[https://evilsk8r.newgrounds.com/ evilsk8r]], and [[https://kawaisprite.newgrounds.com/ KawaiSprite]]. The game was made by the group as part of a game jam, [[https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/47/friday-night-funkin Ludum Dare 47]], and has since gained a following for its unique Newgrounds-animation art style and funky music -- and arriving just as UsefulNotes/AdobeFlash was being discontinued (while plenty of people headed to Newgrounds before they created a Flash emulator) certainly didn't hurt.

The free version will be updated with some of the paid content after its release, but after the Kickstarter was completed, ''Friday Night Funkin[='=]'' underwent an extended hiatus in terms of updates so that they could focus on developing the full game. In September, the developers teased that one of the many weeks -- pitting the Boyfriend against [[WebAnimation/MadnessCombat Hank J. Wimbleton]] -- will arrive in the near future.

** During Week 3, a train occasionally passes by that blows The Girlfriend's hair sideways.

* PerpetualSmiler: With the exceptions of Tankman (who has varied expressions), [[BitchInSheepsClothing Senpai]] (who stops looking nice when he TurnsRed) [[spoiler:and [[KinghtOfCerebus Spirit]] (who never smiles)]], every other character is constantly smiling during their respective battles. Boyfriend will stop if he misses a note or [[FearOfThunder sees a lightning]], and Girlfriend for the latter reason or if she's insulted on her looks.

* SpeakingSimlish: Almost every character's "singing" is unintelligible noises with some actual words thrown in here and there (the exceptions being The Girlfriend and Monster, who both sing in full English):

* MickeyMousing: Everything that moves bounces to the beat, from the characters to the life bar; the bobbing pace is even adjusted for songs with a quicker tempo. In particular, "Bopeebo" has musical stings and sound effects after each of The Boyfriend's verses, which are all timed to him doing a VSign.

* ArrangeMode: "ERECT" difficulty (yes, that's what it's called) in ''The Full-Ass Game'' presents the player with remixes of the original funkin' beats found in the other difficulties prior, with the gimmick of the mode being that rather than copying your opponent, Boyfriend freestyles for a majority of the song.

* ArrangeMode: "ERECT" difficulty (yes, that's what it's called) in ''The Full-Ass Game'' presents the player with remixes of the original funkin' beats found in the other difficulties prior. [[https://youtu.be/85rufkoFmUk Dig this remix of "South" and hear for yourself.]]