History VideoGame / Meteos

''Meteos'' is a Nintendo DS FallingBlocks PuzzleGame, released in 2005, created by MasahiroSakurai, of ''{{Kirby}}'' and ''SuperSmashBros'' fame. His first work as an independent developer apart from HAL Laboratories, Meteos was instead developed by Creator/QEntertainment. As of this writing, it is Sakurai's only work apart from Nintendo (who still published the game in the West). Despite the pedigree and similar feel and features to his past work (Music vs. SFX slider, Item Switch, multiplayer emphasis), it comes off as a wholly original project.

There is a MissionPackSequel based on [[DisneyAnimatedCanon Disney]] properties instead of planets, which allowed enabled blocks to be moved horizontally on all but the highest difficulty.

* EndlessGame: Deluge mode, in which you play as one planet until you get Annihilated. Alternatively, you can start a Stock game of Simple mode for the same effect (but with optional additional lives).

-> ''[[GameOver You Lose!]] '''[[EarthShatteringKaboom ANNIHILATION!]]'''''

* EarthShatteringKaboom

* [[EnergyBeings Half-Energy Beings]]: Thirnovans/Trinovans
** Layazeroes/ Holozeroes may count as well, being living holograms.

** And that's just the ''shape''; the [[AllThereInTheManual official website]] for the first game showed that their size ranged from the one-millimeter Layazeroes to the ''forty-meter'' Freazers. How they all communicated with each other on the Metamo Ark is not explained.

* SugarBowl: Limotube is a world that is always sunny and is populated by cat-like aliens who live in peace.

* AliensAreBastards - ...to themselves, regarding the Suburbionites. Their original planet was [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroyed]] due to constant warfare.
* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike - Except for Geolyte, averted.
* ApocalypseHow - Class X style on a Class X-4 scale.
* ApocalypseWow - The opening cutscene of the original showed unnamed (and hopefully uninhabited) planets falling prey to the Meteos horde (and thus ''exploding'').
* ArtificialStupidity - Some of the lower-level opponents are so stupid that they will lose the match ''without the player touching the DS''
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence - The seven sages of Hevendor did-- and despite this, they're still targeted by the Meteos.
* AsteroidMiners - The tiny planet Mekks was originally a mine until its robotic inhabitants converted it into a networked metropolis.
* BubblyClouds - Yooj/Gigantis
* ButtonMashing - In the original, it was all too easy to scribble frantically and get some free ignitions that way. No such luck on the analog-controlled ''Wars'', though.
* CityPlanet - Grannest/Smogor
* CrapsaccharineWorld - As many people will tell you, this is a supposedly lighthearted game about ''preventing planetary annihilation.'' Not to mention you ''lose'' in some of the endings.

* DifficultButAwesome - Planet Meteo, in the DS game, has 6 randomly chosen Meteos types. In ''Meteos Wars'', the types are fixed, but they are the 7 rarest in the game. Either way, Planet Meteo takes heavy advantage of the game mechanic where burnt Meteos sent to other planets turn into types of their planet of origin, meaning opponents attacked by Meteo will have to deal with Meteo's types as well as their own. However, Planet Meteo has the widest playfield (though tied with some others), and its high number of types makes it difficult to find matches in the first place.

* DuelingGames: with ''{{Lumines}}''

* FloatingContinent - The inhabitants of Megadom live on one.
* FromNobodyToNightmare - [[spoiler: Meteo used to be a planet capable of supporting life, but was transformed into its current state after being struck by a meteor.]]
* GainaxEnding - The [[StylisticSuck crayon-drawn]] "Galactic Fork" ending. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAXyrpeEyK4 Skip to 15:34 and see for yourself]].

* GravityScrew - The aptly-named Gravitas. According to official materials, gravity is '''10 billion times stronger''' there than on Earth. Try and ignite Meteos and they stay frozen in place...then get a second ignition going and they shoot off into the atmosphere at breakneck speeds. Hevendor also has weird gravity; blocks fall at a normal speed, are really floaty when shot into the air individually, and are whisked away with a single ignition (which makes for game-breaking fun when coupled with a Super Rocket).
* GreenHillZone - Geolyte/Geolitia, although it's not necessarily the easiest level.
* [[EnergyBeings Half-Energy Beings]] - Thirnovans/Trinovans

* [[HauntedHouse Haunted Planet]] - Jeljel/Magmor is a LethalLavaLand, but the sounds (in the first Meteos game) suggest a Haunted House-type environment, including a OminousMusicBoxTune for the main background, [[StockSoundEffect horror-type sound effects]], and even some thunderclaps accompanied by a woman screaming when you lose.

* HeartbeatSoundtrack - Globin, since it's [[WombLevel based off of a blood cell]].
* HeavyWorlder - Gravitans live on a planet where the gravity is intense enough to make a particle speck weigh like an ultradense dot.
* HumanoidAliens - Some of them, at least.
* IntelligentGerbil - The bee-like Hanihulans
* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja - Gelyer, from ''Meteos Wars''. No pirate equivalent, though.
* JackOfAllStats - The initial four planets, Geolyte/Geolitia, Anasaze, Oleana, and Firim/Ignius, are all fairly average, toned-down planets for new players.

* JungleJapes - Boggob/Perila
* LethalLavaLand - Firim/Ignius (fire), Jeljel/Magmor (lava/magma), and Hotted/Pyros (molten iron) all count.
* LimitBreak - ''Meteos Wars'' introduces super moves called "Planet Impacts", which vary from planet to planet:

* LongSongShortScene - Gravitas' "descent beat" never plays during normal gameplay.[[note]]This is because of the way Gravitas' gravity works: Either blocks don't launch (instantly creating ignited Meteos) or they disappear immediately.[[/note]] However, it does have one programmed, and can be heard if you purchase its sound set. [[spoiler: [[ShoutOut "HELL NO!"]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "HELL NO!"]] [[PrecisionFStrike "HELL NO!"]]]]

* {{Mordor}} - Meteo. It's practically the Eye of Sauron.

* MusicalGameplay - Much of the music is generated by ignitions, the blocks floating, or stacks landing.
* OminousMusicBoxTune - Jeljel/Magmor
* OmnicidalManiac - Planet Meteo

* PlantAliens - Floriasians and Wuudites/Arboreans. Possibly Anasazeans as well.
* PlayableEpilogue - The credits sequence in the original DS version features a massive arena based off of the aforementioned space ship. The blocks are small enough that you should probably switch to button control over the stylus.
* RegionalBonus - See the notes on Woolseyism in the YMMV page.
* {{Retraux}} - The theme of Gigagush, with repetitive beeping music and [[TheGoldenAgeOfVideoGames 4-bit meteo block sprites]].

* ShiftingSandLand - Anasaze or Dawndus
* SlippySlideyIceWorld - Freaze/Polaria
* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay - Thirnova/Trinova
* StarfishAliens - Roughly two-thirds of the planets lack anything remotely resembling a human.

* StarfishLanguage - The aliens on Lastar/Candelor communicate with each other by reflecting sunlight off their bodies.
* StockScream: The Howie scream can be heard on Gravitas in the DS version if you launch a huge stack of meteos off the planet
* TheTetrisEffect - You will think about aligning three objects together long after playing.
* UnderTheSea - Oleana
* WombLevel - Globin
* WorldShapes - Some unusual ones as viewed by the select screen. Oleana resembles a bone despite being UnderTheSea, Grannest/Smogor is cylindrical, Hotted/Pyros is cube-shaped, Firim/Ignus is shaped like a lightning bolt, and Globin is shaped like a blood cell.

** In the DS game, Brabbit is also rather beginner-unfriendly due to its fixed ignition height and extremely floaty physics. However, any columns with burnt Meteos will not give you a warning and thus not count towards Annihilation. This means you can ignite at least one block on every column, and it will make you effectively invulnerable until you make a mistake. Brabbit is the one planet most capable of doing this due to the long time Meteos spend in the air. (They stay burnt until a moment after they land.) Brabbit got a heavy {{nerf}} in ''Meteos Wars'' with the Planet Impacts though, particularly Tempest, which slices the otherwise solid defense into ribbons.

* ArtificialStupidity - Some of the lower-level opponents are so stupid that they will lose the match ''without the player touching the DS''
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence - The seven sages of Hevendor did-- and despite this, they're still targeted by the Meteos.

* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt

* StarfishLanguage - The aliens on Lastar/Candelor communicate with each other by reflecting sunlight off their bodies.

* MechanicalLifeforms

* EvilEye - Planet Meteo

* GenesisEffect: Wiral and Suburbion are both completely artificial.

''Meteos'' is a Nintendo DS FallingBlocks PuzzleGame, released in 2005, created by MasahiroSakurai, of ''{{Kirby}}'' and ''SuperSmashBros'' fame. His first work as an independent developer apart from HAL Laboratories, Meteos was instead developed by Q Entertainment (''{{Lumines}}''). As of this writing, it is Sakurai's only work apart from Nintendo (who still published the game in the West). Despite the pedigree and similar feel and features to his past work (Music vs. SFX slider, Item Switch, multiplayer emphasis), it comes off as a wholly original project.

* GravityScrew: The aptly-named Gravitas. According to official materials, gravity is '''10 billion times stronger''' there than on Earth. Try and ignite Meteos and they stay frozen in place...then get a second ignition going and they shoot off into the atmosphere at breakneck speeds. Hevendor also has weird gravity; blocks fall at a normal speed, are really floaty when shot into the air individually, and are whisked away with a single ignition (which makes for game-breaking fun when coupled with a Super Rocket).

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong - The music for planet Meteo.
** One of the planets also bears a striking aura resemblance to ''SpaceInvaders'', right down to the main background music being SuspiciouslySimilarSong of the "descent" riff...

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* WastedSong - Gravitas' "descent beat" never plays during normal gameplay.[[note]]This is because of the way Gravitas' gravity works: Either blocks don't launch (instantly creating ignited Meteos) or they disappear immediately.[[/note]] However, it does have one programmed, and can be heard if you purchase its sound set. [[spoiler: [[ShoutOut "HELL NO!"]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar "HELL NO!"]] [[PrecisionFStrike "HELL NO!"]]]]

'''Tropes used in Meteos:'''

* AllPlanetsAreEarthLike - Except for Geolyte, heavily averted.

''Meteos'' is a Nintendo DS FallingBlocks PuzzleGame, released in 2005, created by Masahiro Sakurai, of ''{{Kirby}}'' and ''SuperSmashBros'' fame. His first work as an independent developer apart from HAL Laboratories, Meteos was instead developed by Q Entertainment (''{{Lumines}}''). As of this writing, it is Sakurai's only work apart from Nintendo (who still published the game in the West). Despite the pedigree and similar feel and features to his past work (Music vs. SFX slider, Item Switch, multiplayer emphasis), it comes off as a wholly original project.

* BubblyClouds - Yooj

* SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay - Thirnova