History VideoGame / ManualSamuel

* UnwittingInsightorOfDoom: Samuel accidentally blowing up the orphanage while fighting the robots results in the events of ''The Holy Gosh Darn'' as the deaths create Phantoms that end up destroying Heaven, resulting in Death needing to get Cassiel to help stop them.

** ''The Holy Gosh Darn'' shows a big reason for this right out of the gate; the deaths create Phantoms, souls that ''should not exist,'' and those Phantoms end up destroying Heaven.

* NamedInTheSequel: Well, interquel, but in ''The Holy Gosh Darn,'' when Death talks to Cassiel in the void after the Phantom influx destroys Heaven, she refers to him as Azrael.

An interquel published by Yogscast Games, ''The Holy Gosh Darn,'' features a more protracted look at the other side of the afterlife in Samuel's universe; the current demo build takes place entirely in Heaven, and features a marginally-fallen angel attempting to deal with an influx of paradoxical souls that will destroy heaven.

* MacGuffin: The titular ''Holy Gosh Darn,'' a painting that can mesmerize anything that gazes upon it. [[spoiler: At the end of the demo, Cassiel finds that Lucifer stole the Gosh Darn, leaving a note in the frame.]]

After an argument with his girlfriend, Samuel is hit with a septic truck and sent to Hell. There he meets [[TheGrimReaper Death]], who offers to give Sam a second shot at life under one condition: Sam has to do every action from walking to breathing manually for twenty four hours, otherwise he'll die for real and stay in Hell. With his other option being staying dead and getting a job in Hell, he quickly agrees to the deal, unaware just how crazy his adventure is about to get.

After an argument with his girlfriend, RichIdiotWithNoDayJob Samuel is hit with a septic truck and sent to Hell. There he meets [[TheGrimReaper Death]], who offers to give Sam a second shot at life under one condition: Sam has to do every action from walking to breathing manually for twenty four hours, otherwise he'll die for real and stay in Hell. With his other option being staying dead and getting a job in Hell, he quickly agrees to the deal, unaware just how crazy his adventure is about to get.

* CharacterDevelopment: Samuel turned from RichIdiotWithNoDayJob into [[spoiler:a decent person]] after going through the tribulation in the game. [[spoiler:One of the examples of his growing kindness is him spending his one wish from Death to revive the children, whom he unintentionally killed after accidentally blowing up an orphanage during his fight against the robots.]]

* CharacterDevelopment: Samuel turned from RichIdiotWithNoDayJob into [[spoiler:a decent person]] after going through the tribulation in the game. [[spoiler: One of the examples of his growing kindness is him spending his one wish from Death to revive the children, whom he unintentionally killed after accidentally blowing up an orphanage during his fight against the robots.]]

--> "I only get to do these deals annually, but if you really wanna live and biz, you have to do it manually. [[LampshadeHanging Also, I will stop speaking in rhymes now]]. Psssh."

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Justified; You need a tutorial to learn how to ''walk'' and ''blink''. After getting a concussion and coffee thrown in your eyes, it makes sense that Sam would need to figure this out again.

* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: Justified; You need a tutorial to learn how to ''walk'' and ''blink'', after getting a concussion and coffee thrown in your eyes.

* EmpathyDollShot: All that's left when the Mushroom Orphhage is blown up is the head of a child's teddy bear.

* {{Hell}}: It's not that much different from the real world, except that you're dead. Everyone in Hell has to get a job and work for eternity, something that LazyBum Sam is horrified by.

'''[[http://store.steampowered.com/app/504130/Manual_Samuel/ Manual Samuel]]''' is a Side Scrolling BlackComedy Adventure Game by Perfectly Paranormal, released on October 14th, 2016.

!! '''''Manual Samuel''''' contains examples of:

* GoshDangitToHeck: "Feces" instead of "Shit". Can be either an endearing part to the game's charm, or an OverlyLongGag that becomes less than charming by the third act. Is subverted once after Sam unintentionally blows up an orphanage and 300 orphans. Then Death delivers an [[OhCrap Oh,]] [[PrecisionFStrike shit]].

* {{Jerkass}}: Sam at the beginning of the game callously blows off his girlfriend's frustration at him forgetting her birthday three times in a row. His near death experience causes him to become a better person.

* {{Satan}}: The FinalBoss of the game, whom Sam and Death have to fight to escape from Hell's prison.

* HeroicMime: While Sam does talk in the opening cutscene and (kinda) in some [=QTEs=] where you have to land on the right letters to form a sentence, that's about it.

* NonNudeBathing: One of the first activities in Sam's day is to take a shower, which he does with his boxers still on. The Narrator doesn't even remark on this in anyway.

* HeroicMime: While Sam does talk in the opening cutscene and (kinda) in some QTEs where you have to land on the right letters to form a sentence, that's about it.