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* CallBack: Various decorations reference media from Zane's youth as seen in ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'', such as "Professor Pizza" boxes based on Professor Helper and a poster of "Taurus X: 2089" in his room.
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** Various decorations reference media from Zane's youth as seen in ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'', such as "Professor Pizza" boxes based on Professor Helper and a poster of "Taurus X: 2089" in hisroom.room.
** The embarrassing photo of Zane at the end of the hidden hallway in the Boise Potato Festival has "BWL" repeatedly superimposed on it, referencing ''Hypospace Outlaw''[='s=] equivalent of "LOL," "Bursting With Laughter."
** Various decorations reference media from Zane's youth as seen in ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'', such as "Professor Pizza" boxes based on Professor Helper and a poster of "Taurus X: 2089" in his
** The embarrassing photo of Zane at the end of the hidden hallway in the Boise Potato Festival has "BWL" repeatedly superimposed on it, referencing ''Hypospace Outlaw''[='s=] equivalent of "LOL," "Bursting With Laughter."
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* CuttingOffTheBranches: Depending on the player's actions in Hypnospace Outlaw, Zane could have died in the Y2K Mindcrash. This game confirms he survives into the 2020s.
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* CuttingOffTheBranches: Depending on the player's actions in Hypnospace Outlaw, ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'', Zane could have died in the Y2K Mindcrash. This game confirms he survives into the 2020s.2020s.
* CreatorsApathy: An in-universe variant with Adam Chase, Zane's unseen classmate who helped him finish developing this game. According to Adam, the reason why the final boss sucks so much is because he just gave up, since he only helped Zane because of a high school promise that he hoped he would forget.
* CreatorsApathy: An in-universe variant with Adam Chase, Zane's unseen classmate who helped him finish developing this game. According to Adam, the reason why the final boss sucks so much is because he just gave up, since he only helped Zane because of a high school promise that he hoped he would forget.
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* GameMod: According to a hidden message from Adam Chase, ''Slayers X'' was developed as a mod for ''Kataklysm'', the ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'' equivalent of ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''.
* GangstaStyle: Zane turns his pistols sideways when holding down thefire.fire, tying in with the real Zane Lofton's inability to move on from his teenage years in the late '90s.
* GangstaStyle: Zane turns his pistols sideways when holding down the
* KiAttack: Zane can shoot energy blasts and beams using Hackblood, the game's {{Mana}} system.
* {{Mana}}: In addition to standard ammunition, Zane can also gather Hackblood, which allows him to perform {{Ki Attack}}s and, at full capacity, fire {{Sword Beam}}s from the S-Blade.
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* RuderAndCruder: Hypnospace Outlaw had its share of creepy imagery and language, but Slayers X dials up the 'tude and gore.
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* RuderAndCruder: Hypnospace Outlaw ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'' had its share of creepy imagery and language, but Slayers X dials up the 'tude and gore.gore. {{Justified|Trope}} in this case, as the game is established to be an in-universe project by Zane Lofton, ''Hypnospace''[='s=] resident edgelord who grew up to be an utter {{Manchild}}.
* SwordBeam: At 100% Hackblood, Zane can shoot energy bullets by swinging the S Blade.
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* WriterRevolt: InUniverse - There's a secret room left by the programmer friend Zane got to make the game for him. It contains text saying that he regrets ever agreeing to help decades ago and that he's only following through because he pities Zane.
* YourMom: Zane likes to make fun of victim's mothers (and other relatives) after killing them.
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* WriterRevolt: InUniverse - There's -- there's a secret room left by Adam Chase, the programmer friend Zane got to make the game for him. It contains text saying that he regrets ever agreeing to help decades ago and that he's only following through because he pities Zane.
* YourMom: Zane likes to make fun of victim's mothers (and other relatives) after killingthem.them.
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* EasterEgg: Falling down the crevasse at the Boise Potato Festival and landing on the small outcropping just below the kill plane [[https://youtu.be/h9o1QT-CpDY?t=7800 reveals]] a hidden hallway littered with disparaging messages from Adam Chase, an old high school classmate of Zane who only helped him finish this game because of a promise that he made when they were teenagers. Continuing to go through the hallway reveals that Zane is now a father and thinks the game will elevate him from "a deadbeat dollar store manager," and that the reason why the final boss sucks so much is because of Adam's CreatorsApathy.[[invoked]] The very end of the hallway also features an unflattering photo of Zane in his underwear with "BWL" repeatedly superimposed atop.
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* NinetiesAntiHero: Zane is a foulmouthed AntiHero with guns and crude design who lives and breathes the nineties.
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* AffectionateParody: Of crude '90s FPS games such as ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997''. It has the same edgy, crude humor as those games, but rather than using it to make Duke Nukem and Lo Wang seem like the carefree R-rated action movie heroes they are, it's played to make Zane seem all the more immature and puerile. But the parodic elements aside, given the number of actual classic FPS tropes {{played straight}}, (such as the StandardFPSGuns, the perennial SewerLevel, and the [[StylisticSuck bad 3D model intro cutscene]] that parodies ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'''s cutscenes,) it's hard to view this as anything but made by someone who understands the genre.
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* AffectionateParody: Of crude '90s FPS games such as ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'', ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997''.''VideoGame/RedneckRampage''. It has the same edgy, crude humor as those games, but rather than using it to make Duke Nukem and Lo Wang seem like the carefree R-rated action movie heroes they are, it's played to make Zane seem all the more immature and puerile. But the parodic elements aside, given the number of actual classic FPS tropes {{played straight}}, (such as the StandardFPSGuns, the perennial SewerLevel, and the [[StylisticSuck bad 3D model intro cutscene]] that parodies ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'''s cutscenes,) it's hard to view this as anything but made by someone who understands the genre.
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* PlungerDetonator: Near the end of one of the levels, there is a plunger detonator that opens up the level exit.
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* AscendedFan: In-universe. The real Mikey Sikey found out about Zane through the published Hypnospace Archival Project, and reached out to not only give him the license to use Seepage tracks in ''Slayers X'', but composed an exclusive song for it.
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* ClownSpecies: Jeztas are aliens with a lifecycle that's represented by several enemies and obstacles in-game. One secret even has you visiting their homeworld.
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* FrameUp: Whether the Jeztas are AlwaysChaoticEvil is unknown, but their animosity towards the X Slayers seems to be due to the Psyko Sindikate stealing their Hackblood and blaming it on the Slayers rather than being simple minions for them.
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* AffectionateParody: Of crude '90s FPS games such as ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997''. It has the same edgy, crude humor as those games, but rather than using it to make Duke Nukem and Lo Wang seem like the carefree R-rated action movie heroes they are, it's played to make Zane seem all the more immature puerile. But the parodic elements aside, given the number of actual classic FPS tropes {{played straight}}, (such as the StandardFPSGuns, the perennial SewerLevel, and the [[StylisticSuck bad 3D model intro cutscene]] that parodies ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'''s cutscenes,) it's hard to view this as anything but made by someone who understands the genre.
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* AffectionateParody: Of crude '90s FPS games such as ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997''. It has the same edgy, crude humor as those games, but rather than using it to make Duke Nukem and Lo Wang seem like the carefree R-rated action movie heroes they are, it's played to make Zane seem all the more immature and puerile. But the parodic elements aside, given the number of actual classic FPS tropes {{played straight}}, (such as the StandardFPSGuns, the perennial SewerLevel, and the [[StylisticSuck bad 3D model intro cutscene]] that parodies ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'''s cutscenes,) it's hard to view this as anything but made by someone who understands the genre.
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* AffectionateParody: Of crude '90s FPS games like ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D''.
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* AffectionateParody: Of crude '90s FPS games such as ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowWarrior1997''. It has the same edgy, crude humor as those games, but rather than using it to make Duke Nukem and Lo Wang seem like ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D''.the carefree R-rated action movie heroes they are, it's played to make Zane seem all the more immature puerile. But the parodic elements aside, given the number of actual classic FPS tropes {{played straight}}, (such as the StandardFPSGuns, the perennial SewerLevel, and the [[StylisticSuck bad 3D model intro cutscene]] that parodies ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'''s cutscenes,) it's hard to view this as anything but made by someone who understands the genre.
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* ShoutOut: The demo version of the game steals the poop texture from ''VideoGame/{{Gloomwood}}'', but properly credits that game's authors anyway.
-->"This poo texture stolen by Zane from [[MaliciousMisnaming David Slymanski & Dylon Rogers]]..."\\
"Copy right Zane Lofton 2022 now its mine suckers..."
-->"This poo texture stolen by Zane from [[MaliciousMisnaming David Slymanski & Dylon Rogers]]..."\\
"Copy right Zane Lofton 2022 now its mine suckers..."
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* HyperactiveMetabolism: The main instant healing items in this game are burgers and soft drinks.
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* AlternateUniverse: The game is still grounded in the universe of Hypnospace Outlaw, so divergences like a trennis court and the acronym "BWL" are included.
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* AirVentPassageway: Many air vents are large enough for Zane to enter.
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* ExpressiveHealthBar: Zane's face acts as a health indicator. The more damage the player takes, the more injured the face looks.
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* FlippingTheBird: Subverted. While there is a button dedicated to flipping off enemies, Zane flips them off with a ring finger instead.
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* StockAnimalDiet: The rats like cheese, in addition to Psyko meat.
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* MonsterCloset: A few of them appear in the game. For an example, in Psyko's base, a hallway opens up to reveal enclosed room full of monsters.
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* GangstaStyle: Zane turns his pistols sideways when holding down the fire.
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* AffectionateParody: Of crude '90s FPS games like ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D''.
* AlternateUniverse: The game is still grounded in the universe of Hypnospace Outlaw, so divergences like a trennis court and the acronym "BWL" are included.
* CharacterShilling: The whole project is one big ego trip for Zane. Of course, that's all part of the joke.
* CuttingOffTheBranches: Depending on the player's actions in Hypnospace Outlaw, Zane could have died in the Y2K Mindcrash. This game confirms he survives into the 2020s.
* DistressedDamsel: Zane's not-quite-girlfriend and fellow Slayer Steffanie is abducted at the start of the game. She's injected with wolf DNA, becoming a violent Warewolf.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Warewolf enemies will wail "I love youuuu" as they die.
* DistressedDamsel: Zane's not-quite-girlfriend and fellow Slayer Steffanie is abducted at the start of the game. She's injected with wolf DNA, becoming a violent Warewolf.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: Warewolf enemies will wail "I love youuuu" as they die.
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* GenreShift: From a retro internet adventure game in ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'' to a retro "boomer shooter" FPS.
* IntentionalEngrishForFunny:The Absolutely everywhere. That extends to the game's subtitles, achievements, marketing copy, and even its title!
**The glass shards ammo type is typoed as "glass [[ToiletHumorsharts]]".sharts]]".
* LukeIAmYourFather: Mikey says this to Zane twice. He still can't put the pieces together.
-->''Son? What did he mean by son? I will never know...''
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* LukeIAmYourFather: Mikey says this to Zane twice. He still can't put the pieces together.
-->''Son? What did he mean by son? I will never know...''
* PostMortemOneLiner: Zane has lots of these during ganeplay. Whether they're actually cool is another matter...
-->''Your grandma's a toilet! ...Dummy!''
-->''Your grandma's a toilet! ...Dummy!''
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* CallBack: Various decorations reference media from Zane's youth as seen in ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'', such as "Professor Pizza" boxes based on Professor Helper and a poster of "Taurus X: 2089" in his room.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: While Zane is a foul-mouthed AntiHero prone to making YourMom jokes, the tutorial level set in his house does have him pay respects to his now-departed mom when her photo or personal belongings are interacted with, saying she was the best that a kid could ever have.
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* WhatTheHellPlayer: In the tutorial and the start of the sewer level, if the player makes Zane break the stuff in his own house (other than glass for Glass Blaster ammo), he'll ask why he's doing that and moan about how he spent his paychecks on that stuff.
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* AuthorAvatar: The protagonist is quite obviously a stand-in for Zane Lofton.
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* AlmostDeadGuy: Zane finds Mikey in a state where he can give most of the necessary information to him before dying.
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* MentorOccupationalHazard: Mikey is Zane's mentor. He dies near the beginning of the first level.
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* SpringsSpringsEverywhere: Jumping on tyres makes the player bounce. Slightly.
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* BigNo: When Mikey dies, Zane let's out "Noooo!"
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* YourMom: Zane likes to make fun of victim's mothers after killing them.
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* NiceMice: By giving cheese to rats, they can help Zane tear apart the Psykos.
* RevengeViaStorytelling: At least some of the antagonists in the game are based on characters from Zane's life, if the description for the "Over the Road" achievement is any indication.
-->''this is for makig me work on sundays kevin! I mean... mevin...''
* RevengeViaStorytelling: At least some of the antagonists in the game are based on characters from Zane's life, if the description for the "Over the Road" achievement is any indication.
-->''this is for makig me work on sundays kevin! I mean... mevin...''
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''Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer'' is a FirstPersonShooter published by No More Robots, and released in 2023.
Set 20 years after ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'', this game was made by Zane Lofton, based on some ideas he had for a game as a teenager. In it, you play as [[AuthorAvatar Zane]], a member of the X Slayers, as he crusades against the evil Psyko Sindikate.
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* AuthorAvatar: The protagonist is quite obviously a stand-in for Zane Lofton.
* IntentionalEngrishForFunny: The glass shards ammo type is typoed as "glass [[ToiletHumor sharts]]".
* StandardFPSGuns:
** S-Blade: Zane's basic melee weapon, a sword with a blade shaped like an S.
** Double Pistols: Zane's basic hitscan weapon, two pistols that shoot modestly fast.
** Glass Blaster: A [[ShortRangeShotgun shotgun-type]] weapon that launches glass shard shrapnel.
** Explosive Sludge Launcher: A crossbow that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin launches cans of explosive sludge]], filling an explosive weapon niche.
** X100 Rapid Mutilator: The automatic weapon of the game, a sawblade-lined {{gatling|Good}}-gun with a fast fire rate.
** Triple Helix Missile Launcher: Zane's other explosive weapon, which shoots three rockets at once.
** Hackblood Power: The {{BFG}} of the game, a psychic WaveMotionGun shot from Zane's hands.
* StylisticSuck: The graphics have a very intentionally grimy and crude style to them, whenever they aren't intentionally replicating early [=3D=] CGI.
* ToiletHumor: Poop enemies can be spotted all over the sewer; one secret has Zane attacking living poop while it's on the toilet.
Set 20 years after ''VideoGame/HypnospaceOutlaw'', this game was made by Zane Lofton, based on some ideas he had for a game as a teenager. In it, you play as [[AuthorAvatar Zane]], a member of the X Slayers, as he crusades against the evil Psyko Sindikate.
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* AuthorAvatar: The protagonist is quite obviously a stand-in for Zane Lofton.
* IntentionalEngrishForFunny: The glass shards ammo type is typoed as "glass [[ToiletHumor sharts]]".
* StandardFPSGuns:
** S-Blade: Zane's basic melee weapon, a sword with a blade shaped like an S.
** Double Pistols: Zane's basic hitscan weapon, two pistols that shoot modestly fast.
** Glass Blaster: A [[ShortRangeShotgun shotgun-type]] weapon that launches glass shard shrapnel.
** Explosive Sludge Launcher: A crossbow that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin launches cans of explosive sludge]], filling an explosive weapon niche.
** X100 Rapid Mutilator: The automatic weapon of the game, a sawblade-lined {{gatling|Good}}-gun with a fast fire rate.
** Triple Helix Missile Launcher: Zane's other explosive weapon, which shoots three rockets at once.
** Hackblood Power: The {{BFG}} of the game, a psychic WaveMotionGun shot from Zane's hands.
* StylisticSuck: The graphics have a very intentionally grimy and crude style to them, whenever they aren't intentionally replicating early [=3D=] CGI.
* ToiletHumor: Poop enemies can be spotted all over the sewer; one secret has Zane attacking living poop while it's on the toilet.
