History VideoGame / Jazzpunk

* VisualPun: During a moment where [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the player is wandering around a zombie-infested pizza landscape]], there are clouds in the sky that look like mushrooms. ''Mushroom clouds...''

[[DescribeTopicHere Now, we want you to take on the task of describing this electronic first-person game]] by the name of ''Jazzpunk''. Intel describes it as a first-person comedy adventure game that came to Windows and OS X-enabled computer entertainment devices via UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and [[{{Website/GOGDotCom}} GoG]] on February 7th 2014 by way of a two-man Canadian developer by the name of Necrophone Games.

* [[CyberPunk SpyberPunk]]

** One of the incomprehensible mumbles made by HunterSThompson is subtitled, "I can speak 27 languages, I can't understand anything you're mumbling."

* ApologeticAttacker: A street bartender gives you some truly horrid drinks, then apologizes in shame after each one.

* CheekCopy: This is actually one of two possible solutions to a main-quest puzzle.

* CuttingTheKnot: In a tricky game of virtuaboy tennis with [[spoiler: The Editor]], you can either play fairly, or [[spoiler:[[TakeAThirdOption run off of the side of the court, pick up a wireframe chair, and beat him into submission.]]]]

* DrugsAreGood: You take a lot of pills throughout the game. Just don't combine them with a certain other drug, or [[InterfaceScrew the mission text might break]].
* EatenAlive: [[spoiler:You by your boss when he's turned into an alligator (or a Crocodile). Don't worry though, he's a got a plan for this.]]

* FallingDamage: Subverted For Laughs -- every time the player falls a significant height, they land with a comedic "boing" sound.

* FlyingCar: The player travels to the different parts of the BigBad's challenges in a flying ''golf cart''.

* IAteWhat: It's not the food from the sidewalk bar that causes you to SpitTake; it's being told what they were.

* {{Minimalism}}: The characters in the game are depicted as stick figures resembling those on public restroom signage.

* RecordScratch: The pizza scene mentioned in the ShoutOut section abruptly ends with one of these. There's also a DJ minigame.

** "[[RedScare Comrade]] Crunch"

That's all we know. What we want you to do is venture into this game, and gather all examples of various tropes from within its electronic landscape. Here's your standard perscription of [[FantasticDrug Missionoyl]]. If you need me, I'll be in the wine cellar.

''*picks up perscription*''

* RatedMForMoney:The Director's Cut edition has 11 descriptors describing why it needed a T rating. One that sticks out is [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Mature Sexual Themes]].

* RatedMForMoney:The Director's Cut edition has 11 descriptors describing why it needed a T rating. One that sticks out is [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Mature Sexual Content]].

** The second trailer is an homage to ''JohnnyMnemonic''.
** A film that can be ordered by Soviet telephone is ''[[{{Gremlins}} Kremlins 2: The New Batch]]''.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: If you try to activate the dev console with ` (the tilde key), [[spoiler:a joke dev console appears. Standard functions like godmode and noclip are available, both of which are pointless considering nothing in the game can actually kill you outside of Wedding Qake. There are other joke commands like "toggle french moustache".]]

->''"Creator/AdultSwim Games picked it up. [[{{Widget}} That kind of explains it.]]"''

->''"Creator/AdultSwim Games picked it up. That kind of explains it."''

->''"AdultSwim Games picked it up. That kind of explains it."''

[[DescribeTopicHere Now, we want you to take on the task of describing this electronic first-person game]] by the name of ''Jazzpunk''. Intel describes it as a first-person comedy adventure game that came to Windows and OS X-enabled computer entertainment devices via {{Steam}} and [[{{Website/GOGDotCom}} GoG]] on February 7th 2014 by way of a two-man Canadian developer by the name of Necrophone Games.

** Another console command given in the help prompt is "impulse 101", a {{VideoGame/HalfLife2}} ClassicCheatCode that grants the player all weapons in the game. Here, it just drops a random assortment of weapons in front of the player, none of which can be picked up.

->''"AdultSwim Games picked it up. [[WidgetSeries That kind of explains it.]]"''

* MeLoveYouLongTime: One of the geishas on the streets of Japan implies this.

* ContinueYourMissionDammit: ''Inverted''. If you go straight through each mission, you'll be stopped by NPCs telling you about one of the level's many sidequests, as going in a straight line is not the point of the game.

** Examine a wedding cake and you're suddenly playing a martial themed ''[[VideoGame/QuakeIIIArena Quake III]]'' deathmatch.

* Americasia: The "United Prefectures of Japanada", to be exact.

* AmbiguousGender: One the one hand, your arms and legs are usually shown as very hairy. On the other hand, you can easily pass as a bombshell blonde, and can also participate in some activities with women. The live-action trailer portrays Agent Polyblank as a young white male, however, and the hairy arms as extendable props.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The Editor's business card claims that he deals in Kidnapping, Murder and Potpourri.

* FallingDamage: Subverted For Laughs - every time the player falls a significant height, they land with a comedic "boing" sound.

* NothingIsScarier: The below ScaryFlashlightFace example - the clerk doing it doesn't even say a word.
* ObviouslyEvil: The Editor - it even says so on a business card that ''he hands you''.

** In the Kai Tak Resort, you can find a turtle. Interact with it and [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Raphael's things-a sai, a red bandana and some pizza]] will spawn.

* SpinningPaper:
** Several of these appear throughout the Soviet Consulate area. Parodied when one of the headlines is about how the nation is gripped by an uneventful day.
** Another news story on the page offhandedly mentions that the moon just blew up.

* ValleyGirl: The female patrons of the Kai Tek Resort all talk like this.

* MadeOfIron: Polyblank. He arrives at the Director's office in a ''human shaped suitcase''. He can jump off of the top floor of a four story hotel ''multiple times'' and survive. He can let a small Carmen Miranda lookalike throw all ten of her fruit at his face, as well as guzzle down drinks not meant to be served to humans. He [[spoiler:is then drugged by a drink from the Editor, and has a listening device presumably painfully implanted into a tooth while unconscious. He then has said tooth forcibly yanked out, with a blood splatter on the floor]]. Finally, he presumably survives [[spoiler:being swallowed whole by the Director after the latter is transformed into an alligator/crocodile]].

* {{Retraux}}: Well, in terms of vintage cinema, at least.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs

-->'''Jazz Musician:''' "Got a couple of gigs coming up. Almost a terabyte. Just like dat. I record on .dat."

** Examine a wedding cake and you're suddenly playing a martial themed '''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'''-esque deathmatch.

* {{Dada}}: The humor here, outside of the references, is extremely surreal. Having to take pills to enter mission areas is a good indication.