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* BettingMinigame: Laika can choose to play good old-fashioned Blackjack either with Chip Where We Forget at nighttime or with the gamblers Where Other People Forget, where she can make larger bets of Viscera. Having a decent grasp of basic Blackjack strategy is one heck of an easier way to turn 200 Viscera into 2000 compared to slaughtering Birds.
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* ExpospeakGag: Shaza encourages Laika to carefully memorize her cover story before approaching the Lighthouse, but she winds up dropping it for Roy when it goes over his head and puts it in simpler terms for him, especially since it essentially means the same thing.
--> '''Laika:''' [[red: I'm the Lighthouse's new Advanced Electromagnetic Radiocommunications Maintenance Technician.]]\\
'''Roy:''' A...what?\\
'''Laika:''' [[red:...I'm the radio guy. Here to check the radios.]]
--> '''Laika:''' [[red: I'm the Lighthouse's new Advanced Electromagnetic Radiocommunications Maintenance Technician.]]\\
'''Roy:''' A...what?\\
'''Laika:''' [[red:...I'm the radio guy. Here to check the radios.]]
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* SpottingTheThread: Laika's disguise at the Lighthouse falls apart when the Bird Sergeant manning the second checkpoint notices that Laika's cover story doesn't match up with the information he was given, in a marked contrast to the Corporal at the first checkpoint easily buzzing her and Roy through:
--> '''Laika:''' [[red:I'm the new Advanced Electromagnetic Radiocommunications Maintenance Technician.]]\\
'''Sergeant:''' Wait...serious?...It's just...Hm. The new Advanced Electromagnetic Radiocommunications Maintenance Technician sent a message just a couple of minutes ago. He said he won't be here till Tuesday, so I went and checked the calendar. And it turns out today is a non-Tuesday day, you know, non-Bird scum? Which means...''[[SuddenlyShouting KILL THE NON-BIRD SCUM!]]''
--> '''Laika:''' [[red:I'm the new Advanced Electromagnetic Radiocommunications Maintenance Technician.]]\\
'''Sergeant:''' Wait...serious?...It's just...Hm. The new Advanced Electromagnetic Radiocommunications Maintenance Technician sent a message just a couple of minutes ago. He said he won't be here till Tuesday, so I went and checked the calendar. And it turns out today is a non-Tuesday day, you know, non-Bird scum? Which means...''[[SuddenlyShouting KILL THE NON-BIRD SCUM!]]''
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* UrbanHellscape: The Undernest is a gigantic Bird slum covered in trash and seedy advertisements which is also host to all manner of lowlifes and criminals like Trook, who [[WouldHurtAChild would kill a kid if it paid well]].
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* DamagedSoul: Laika ponders to her mother if their ResurrectiveImmortality really comes with no strings attached, or whether they lose a small part of themselves each time they come back.
--> '''Laika:''' [[red:Mother? Remember when I was a kid and I fell head-first into that pile of manure? And you laughed your ass off while you wiped my face, and I got mad?]]\\
'''Maya:''' What kind of question is that?\\
'''Laika:''' [[red:I can't remember you ever laughing again after that day.]]\\
'''Maya:''' Now that is a pile of horseshit.\\
'''Laika:''' [[red:I don't know. It's like every time I come back, there's a piece of me that doesn't make it. The more I die...The more I kill...]]
--> '''Laika:''' [[red:Mother? Remember when I was a kid and I fell head-first into that pile of manure? And you laughed your ass off while you wiped my face, and I got mad?]]\\
'''Maya:''' What kind of question is that?\\
'''Laika:''' [[red:I can't remember you ever laughing again after that day.]]\\
'''Maya:''' Now that is a pile of horseshit.\\
'''Laika:''' [[red:I don't know. It's like every time I come back, there's a piece of me that doesn't make it. The more I die...The more I kill...]]
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* ImmortalLifeIsCheap: Justified and incorporated into gameplay as part of Laika's ResurrectiveImmortality. Since she's a OneHitPointWonder who dies from a dust molecule landing on her shoulder, the game outright encourages you to brute-force your way through sections of the game with TrialAndErrorGameplay until you acquire a level of finesse with the controls.
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-->-- '''Intro Cutscene'''
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-> '''Jakob:''' In the end, death puts everyone in the same place.\\
'''Laika:''' [[red:Not me.]]
'''Laika:''' [[red:Not me.]]
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-> '''Jakob:''' In ''In the end, death puts everyone in the same place.\\
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'''Laika:'''[[red:Not ''[[red:Not me.]]
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-> '''Jakob:''' In the end, death puts everyone in the same place.\\
'''Laika:''' [[red:Not me.]]
'''Laika:''' [[red:Not me.]]
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* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: The last thing Laika says to Puppy before [[spoiler:embracing her certain and final death stopping the Egg]]:
--> '''Puppy:''' You gotta come home! Now!\\
'''Laika:''' [[red:...Love you, Puppy.]]
--> '''Puppy:''' You gotta come home! Now!\\
'''Laika:''' [[red:...Love you, Puppy.]]
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** The Hundred Hungry Beaks is a mechanical monstrosity of a vehicle built by the birds and "piloted" using several of their own skulls stuck to it. It's apparently also alive, as it bleeds when the skulls are shot at, and you defeat it by shooting down all its skulls.
** [[spoiler: The Caterpillar Made of Sadness is a gigantic mole rat fused to a train with several weapons haphazardly attached to it. [[BodyHorror It starts losing layer upon layer of skin and tissue everytime you fight it, until it's nothing but a mess of bone, muscle and machine on the last fight]]]].
** [[spoiler: The Caterpillar Made of Sadness is a gigantic mole rat fused to a train with several weapons haphazardly attached to it. [[BodyHorror It starts losing layer upon layer of skin and tissue everytime you fight it, until it's nothing but a mess of bone, muscle and machine on the last fight]]]].
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** The A Hundred Hungry Beaks is a mechanical monstrosity of a vehicle built by the birds and "piloted" using several of their own skulls stuck to it. It's apparently also alive, as it bleeds when the skulls are shot at, and you defeat it by shooting down all its skulls.
** [[spoiler:The A Caterpillar Made of Sadness is a gigantic mole rat fused to a train with several weapons haphazardly attached to it. [[BodyHorror It starts losing layer upon layer of skin and tissue everytime you fight it, until it's nothing but a mess of bone, muscle and machine on the last fight]]]].
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'''Laika:''' Then you'll survive. I'll mutilate you, bit by bit, each day. Slowly. Patiently. I'll feed you your own flesh. Your own blood. Your own shit.\\
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'''Laika:''' Then [[red:Then you'll survive. I'll mutilate you, bit by bit, each day. Slowly. Patiently. I'll feed you your own flesh. Your own blood. Your own shit.\\]]\\
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'''Laika:''' You're still in your 30s. And you're fleshy. I bet I can torture you for the next 40 years.\\
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'''Laika:''' You're [[red:You're still in your 30s. And you're fleshy. I bet I can torture you for the next 40 years.\\]]\\
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'''Laika:''' Now imagine [[EyeScream your left eye crushed between your back teeth]]. The sound. The texture. The aftertaste.
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'''Laika:''' Now [[red:Now imagine [[EyeScream your left eye crushed between your back teeth]]. The sound. The texture. The aftertaste.]]
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* DisappearedDad: We never get a mention of who Puppy or Laika's fathers are nor what happened to them.
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* DisappearedDad: We never get a mention of who Puppy or Laika's fathers are nor what happened to them.them, nor who fathered ''any'' of Laika's progeny.
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* BabyFactory: Since Laika's family curse is only inherited if the current curse holder's daughter is able to survive a debilitating fever which kills them if they fail, the women of Laika's bloodline are essentially forced by Where We Live's leadership to have as many children as possible until one of them survives the fever and inherits the curse, ensuring the village will always have a protector. The amount of psychological trauma that forcing them to watch large numbers of their own children die over many years inflicts upon them is readily apparent.
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The person who wrote this clearly didn't realize that you can use the Rocket Launcher to kill machine gunner birds through their shields, giving it a highly specific but extremely useful purpose.
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** One of the weapons you can get your hands on is the Rocket Launcher, which fires a rocket that deals damage in a small area. Cool, right? Unfortunately, birds are rarely grouped together in a way to make the most of the rocket's area of effect, which defeats it's main purpose. The projectile is considerably slower than bullets, and the launcher itself needs to be reloaded several times like the crossobow. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking You also can't use it to rocket jump.]]
** Shooting an enemy will cause their weapon to fly out of their hands. You can then shoot the weapon while it's airborne, making it discharge and potentially kill another enemy. If you play your cards right, this little trick allows you to land shots from some impressive angles, not to mention looking exceptionally cool while doing so. However, getting the timing and positioning right is really difficult, to the point where you'd be better off just shooting your enemies directly.
** One of the weapons you can get your hands on is the Rocket Launcher, which fires a rocket that deals damage in a small area. Cool, right? Unfortunately, birds are rarely grouped together in a way to make the most of the rocket's area of effect, which defeats it's main purpose. The projectile is considerably slower than bullets, and the launcher itself needs to be reloaded several times like the crossobow. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking You also can't use it to rocket jump.]]
** Shooting an enemy will cause their weapon to fly out of their hands. You can then shoot the weapon while it's airborne, making it discharge and potentially kill another enemy. If you play your cards right, this little trick allows you to land shots from some impressive angles, not to mention looking exceptionally cool while doing so. However, getting the timing and positioning right is really difficult, to the point where you'd be better off just shooting your enemies directly.
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** One of the weapons you can get your hands on is theArmorPiercingAttack: The Rocket Launcher, which fires a rocket that deals damage in a small area. Cool, right? Unfortunately, birds are rarely grouped together in a way Launcher can be used to make the most of the rocket's area of effect, which defeats it's main purpose. The projectile is considerably slower than bullets, and the launcher itself needs to be reloaded several times like the crossobow. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking You also can't use it to rocket jump.]]
**kill heavy machine gunner Birds through [[ShieldBearingMook their otherwise impenetrable turret shields]].
* AwesomeButImpractical: Shooting an enemy will cause their weapon to fly out of their hands. You can then shoot the weapon while it's airborne, making it discharge and potentially kill another enemy. If you play your cards right, this little trick allows you to land shots from some impressive angles, not to mention looking exceptionally cool while doing so. However, getting the timing and positioning right is really difficult, to the point where you'd be better off just shooting your enemies directly.
** One of the weapons you can get your hands on is the
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Shooting an enemy will cause their weapon to fly out of their hands. You can then shoot the weapon while it's airborne, making it discharge and potentially kill another enemy. If you play your cards right, this little trick allows you to land shots from some impressive angles, not to mention looking exceptionally cool while doing so. However, getting the timing and positioning right is really difficult, to the point where you'd be better off just shooting your enemies directly.
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* ToThePain: Laika graphically describes to Herman what she'll do to him if [[spoiler:he doesn't tell her where Puppy is]]:
--> '''Herman:''' I'm not afraid to die if this village survives!\\
'''Laika:''' Then you'll survive. I'll mutilate you, bit by bit, each day. Slowly. Patiently. I'll feed you your own flesh. Your own blood. Your own shit.\\
'''Herman:''' You're bluffing.\\
'''Laika:''' You're still in your 30s. And you're fleshy. I bet I can torture you for the next 40 years.\\
'''Herman:''' ...\\
'''Laika:''' Now imagine [[EyeScream your left eye crushed between your back teeth]]. The sound. The texture. The aftertaste.
--> '''Herman:''' I'm not afraid to die if this village survives!\\
'''Laika:''' Then you'll survive. I'll mutilate you, bit by bit, each day. Slowly. Patiently. I'll feed you your own flesh. Your own blood. Your own shit.\\
'''Herman:''' You're bluffing.\\
'''Laika:''' You're still in your 30s. And you're fleshy. I bet I can torture you for the next 40 years.\\
'''Herman:''' ...\\
'''Laika:''' Now imagine [[EyeScream your left eye crushed between your back teeth]]. The sound. The texture. The aftertaste.
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* AwesomeButImpractical: One of the weapons you can get your hands on is the Rocket Launcher, which fires a rocket that deals damage in a small area. Cool, right? Unfortunately, birds are rarely grouped together in a way to make the most of the rocket's area of effect, which defeats it's main purpose. The projectile is considerably slower than bullets, and the launcher itself needs to be reloaded several times like the crossobow. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking You also can't use it to rocket jump.]]
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** One of the weapons you can get your hands on is the Rocket Launcher, which fires a rocket that deals damage in a small area. Cool, right? Unfortunately, birds are rarely grouped together in a way to make the most of the rocket's area of effect, which defeats it's main purpose. The projectile is considerably slower than bullets, and the launcher itself needs to be reloaded several times like the crossobow. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking You also can't use it to rocket jump.]]]]
** Shooting an enemy will cause their weapon to fly out of their hands. You can then shoot the weapon while it's airborne, making it discharge and potentially kill another enemy. If you play your cards right, this little trick allows you to land shots from some impressive angles, not to mention looking exceptionally cool while doing so. However, getting the timing and positioning right is really difficult, to the point where you'd be better off just shooting your enemies directly.
** One of the weapons you can get your hands on is the Rocket Launcher, which fires a rocket that deals damage in a small area. Cool, right? Unfortunately, birds are rarely grouped together in a way to make the most of the rocket's area of effect, which defeats it's main purpose. The projectile is considerably slower than bullets, and the launcher itself needs to be reloaded several times like the crossobow. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking You also can't use it to rocket jump.
** Shooting an enemy will cause their weapon to fly out of their hands. You can then shoot the weapon while it's airborne, making it discharge and potentially kill another enemy. If you play your cards right, this little trick allows you to land shots from some impressive angles, not to mention looking exceptionally cool while doing so. However, getting the timing and positioning right is really difficult, to the point where you'd be better off just shooting your enemies directly.
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* GaiasLament: The world has mostly been reduced to an arid wasteland due to some unknown cataclysm that happened decades prior and the one place that still has lush forests is being cut down by the Birds.
* GiantEnemyCrab: The Gargantuan Swimcrab is a massive crab-turned-mecha being piloted by a bird.
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* GaiasLament: The world has mostly been reduced to an arid wasteland due to some unknown cataclysm a bomb the Birds dropped Where Doom Fell that happened decades prior and the one place that still has lush forests is being cut down by the Birds.
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* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: An extensive game-spanning SideQuest is built around reuniting the Wastelanders, a band that used to live and play Where We Live before their lead singer Beícoli split the group up for an unknown reason. Each time Laika manages to recruit a Wastelander, they'll show up at Where We Live playing live music, and gradually their instruments will combine to form a whole song. When Laika has reunited all of them [[spoiler:they give her a ukulele to give to Puppy as thanks, and it's one of the few moments in the game where Laika is genuinely touched]].
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* CruelCoyotes: While [[CrapsackWorld living in the Wasteland would make anybody surly and antisocial]], Laika and her coyote family take this to another level due to the callousness towards life they incur from being cursed with ResurrectiveImmortality. Laika herself has very few moments across the game where she's not grumpy or confrontational, and Maya is even worse, being a parent whose ToughLove bordered on [[AbusiveParents physical and emotional abuse]]. The only one of them to avert this is Puppy due to her just being a kid, but even then [[TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior she displays a disturbing eagerness for Laika or even herself to go out and slaughter the Birds to take revenge for them killing Poochie]].
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* SuicidalPacifism: [[spoiler: [[DefectorfromDecadence Not all birds agree with the war.]] Due to the forced mobilization and harsh punishments for deserting, the only way they can protest is by refusing to fire on their enemies, even if this means their deaths. They can be identified by the white armbands they wear and can be found throughout various locations in the game.]]
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* StealthPun: In Where Other People Forget, there are a pair of blackjack players who resemble humanoid humpback whales, and are the only ones that Laika can play high-stakes (e.g. bets of 100 Viscera and up) blackjack with. They're [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_roller whale gamblers]].
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''Laika: Aged Through Blood'' is a 2D "[[{{Metroidvania}} Motorvania]]" developed by Brainwash Gang, and published by Thunderful Publishing. The game was officially released on October 19, 2023, and it's Steam page is located [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1796220/Laika_Aged_Through_Blood/ here]].
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''Laika: Aged Through Blood'' is a 2D self-proclaimed "[[{{Metroidvania}} Motorvania]]" developed by Brainwash Gang, and published by Thunderful Publishing. The game was officially released on October 19, 2023, and it's Steam page is located [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/1796220/Laika_Aged_Through_Blood/ here]].
