History VideoGame / LuckyTower

* AnAxeToGrind: One of the strongest weapons in the second game is a huge, bat-shaped axe.

* BalefulPolymorph:
** One of the wrong choices in the first game has Von Wanst getting turned into a broom by a wizard.
** Halfway through the first game, Von Wanst is turned into a snail or a frog by another wizard. However, this is actually necessary to make it through a narrow hallway, and the spell is broken later on.
** In ''Ultimate'', several potions can temporarily transform Von Wanst into various creatures. If proceeding far enough, Von Wanst can also take the blue robed imp's offer to become a monster himself.

Another game in the series called ''Lucky Tower Ultimate'' is scheduled for a 2024 release on Steam. An early demo of the game can already be found on ''UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}''. It will be a more detailed remake of/sequel to the first game.

** In ''Ultimate'', Von Wanst can encounter barrels of dynamite with lit fuses. Failing to extinguishe the fuse will result in a fail where the tower is blown to pieces.

* MagicPotion: ''Ultimate'' features several magic potions which Von Wanst can either find scattered around the tower, or brew himself with the right ingredients if he finds a room with a cauldron. The potions are ColorCodedForYourConvenience and have a variety of effects, ranging from useful (like potions that temporarily increase his strength or speed), to just for fun (like a potion that gives Von Wanst a red skin), to harmful (like poisons or a potion that reverses the controls).

Another game in the series called ''Lucky Tower Ultimate'' is scheduled for a 2024 release on Steam. An early demo of the game can already be found on Steam. It will be a more detailed remake of/sequel to the first game.

* MagicPotion: ''Ultimate'' features several magic potions which Von Wanst can either find scattered around the tower, or brew himself with the right ingredients if he finds a room with a cauldron. The potions are ColorCodedForYourConvenience and have a variety of effects, ranging from usefull (like potions that temporarily increase his strength or speed), just for fun (like a potion that gives Von Wanst a red skin), or harmfull (like poisons or a potion that reverses the controls).

Another game in the series called ''Lucky Tower Ultimate'' is scheduled for a 2024 release on Steam. An early demo of the game can already be found on Steam. It will be a more detailed remake of the first game.

* BananaPeel: In ''Ultimate'' banana peels can be found all over the tower. Steppping on one sends Von Wanst sliding forward uncontrolably.

** Exaggerated in ''Ultimate'', where everything Von Wanst gets his hands on can be used as a weapon; swords, brooms, banana peels, and even the corpses of slayed enemies.

* StuffBlowingUp: In the first game, one room in the tower is filled with barrels of gunpowder, which blow up the moment Von Wanst enters. The explosion destroys half the tower.

** Taken UpToEleven in ''Ultimate'', where everything Von Wanst gets his hands on can be used as a weapon; swords, brooms, banana peels, and even the corpses of slayed enemies.

Another game in the series called ''Lucky Tower Ultimate'' is scheduled for a 2024 release on Steam. An early demo of the game can already be found on Steam.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: Some of the weapons in the second game are quite strange or extraordinary, like a giant lollipop, or maces, swords and staffs made from vegetables.

* {{Narcissist}}: Von Wanst is quite full of himself, to say the least, constantly boasting about his manliness, his beauty and his bravery. In the [[spoiler:ending where Von Wanst becomes king, a statue of him is erected that depicts him standing on top of the old king and raising a sword, while simultaniously looking in a mirror.]]

* BalefulPolymorph: Halfway through the first game, Von Wanst is turned into a snail or a frog by a wizard. However, this is actually necessary to make it through a narrow hallway, and the spell is broken later on. Earlier in the same game, one of the wrong choices has Von Wanst getting turned into a broom by another wizard.

* HereWeGoAgain: No matter which door you choose at the end of the first game, Von Wanst will end up back inside the tower. [[spoiler:Except this time, he's naked.]]

* {{Narcissist}}: Von Wanst is quite full of himself, to say the least, constantly boasting about his manliness, his beauty and his bravery.

%% * TheWallsAreClosingIn: One of the many hazards in the first game.

''Lucky Tower II'' [[https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/607185 followed]] in 2012 and is more in-depth, carrying more unique [=NPCs=], areas, and humor than the first. It covers the knight's quest first to help out the king, and then to find treasure buried in a tomb. [[spoiler:It's also a {{Prequel}} to the first ''Lucky Tower'', as in the ending, the knight can get teleported to the top of said tower.]]

%% * AmbiguouslyGay: The hero.

%% * ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: How the monsters that eat Von Wanst in one of the wrong rooms are introduced.

%% * DescendingCeiling: Shows up as one of the hazards in the first game.

%% * LargeHam: Von Wanst, in every sense of the word.

%% * {{Narcissist}}: Von Wanst again.

%% * TakenForGranite: The Medusa's glare can do this to you. Of course.

* AmbiguouslyGay: the hero.

* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: How the monsters that eat Von Wanst in one of the wrong rooms are introduced.
* CheatersNeverProsper: Averted; in the second game Von Wanst helps a man cheat in a card game, and gets away with it.

* DescendingCeiling: Shows up as one of the hazards in the first game.

* {{Jerkass}}: Von Wanst can be quite a jerk, escpecially in part II. Examples are taking money from a beggar, killing an alchemist for his clothes, and blackmailing a stable's owner.

* LargeHam: Von Wanst, in every sense of the word.

* MeaningfulName: Sir Damokles from the second game, who [[spoiler:dies when the [[SwordOfDamocles swords that are hanging above his head]] fall down]].
* MotivationOnAStick: Von Wanst does this with a haunch to make his horse run (is that horse carnivorous?). Later, 3 bandits do the same to their mules with a carot.

* {{Narcissist}}: Von Wanst again.

* TakenForGranite: The Medusa's glare can do this to you. Of course.

* TheWallsAreClosingIn: One of the many hazards in the first game.

[[caption-width-right:280:Von Wanst fights a goblin]]

* ShoutOut: The hero seems to like his references as much as he likes his cake.

''Lucky Tower'' is a series of Flash games. You play as Von Wanst, a golden-haired knight of bravery and manliness who is on a quest for treasure. He is also incredibly [[IdiotHero stupid and dense, not realizing just how badly he's messing things up or missing obvious clues]].

The first game has the hero going through a tower simply trying to find treasure or escape, learning about the dangers of the tower along the way.

''Lucky Tower II'' is more in-depth, carrying more unique [=NPCs=], areas, and humor than the first. It covers the knight's quest first to help out the king, and then to find treasure buried in a tomb. [[spoiler:It's also a {{Prequel}} to the first ''Lucky Tower'', as in the ending, the knight can get teleported to the top of said tower.]]
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!!Tropes in the games are:

* {{Jerkass}}: Von Wanst can be quite a jerk, escpecially in part II. Examples are taking money from a beggar, killing an alchemist for his clothes, and blackmailing a stable's owner.

* RuleOfThree: * RuleOfThree: In the first game, you are commonly shown three doors and only one is correct or has the answer to a puzzle. Even which of the MultipleEndings you get is determined by which door you pick out of three. [[spoiler:At the end of Lucky Tower II, you get your choice of three doors. Picking the third one reveals that it was a prequel sends him back to the tower from ''Lucky Tower I''.]]