History VideoGame / SongsForAHero

** GreenHillZone: The first world is this as it’s first and second levels are called "Greenish Hill" and Not-So-Greenish Hill".

* TheGreatSerpent: The first boss is a gigantic green snake monster who can spit fireballs and repeatedly tunnels in and out of the arena trying to chomp on the hero.

* AdaptationalExpansion: The entire game can be considered this to the four original Castro Brothers' web videos, dividing each of the levels into three acts and providing a full story, characterization, additional levels, world building, lyrics etc..

* AffectionateParody: The game frequently parodies and pokes fun at several classic elements of [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] and [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]]-like platform videogames through the narration, like enemies dropping coins and NPCs repeating lines, at the same time that it also is a passionate homage to the genre as well.

* {{Yeti}}: One shows up as the boss of the winter stage, expectedly, and it's large enough to take up most of the screen while trying to pummel the player hero. Smaller Yetis also show up as enemies in the third act of the same level [[spoiler:and in the final level at the spaceship]], harming the Hero with ice cristals.

I 2022, a sequel called ''A Lenda do Herói: A Marcha de Malaquias'' (no official translation as of the moment of the text) was announced, featuring the Internet humourist and musician Lucas Inutilismo. The story is set to happen [[DistantSequel many years after the events of the first game]] and will have different protagonists, although the musical narration and mechanics will continue.

''Songs For A Hero'' (translated from its Portuguese title, "A Lenda Do Herói") is a Brazilian sidescrolling platformer by Dumativa Game Studio, based on the WebAnimation shorts of the same name made by the [=YouTube=] channel Castro Brothers. It's a classic fantasy story with a twist: the knight who's questing to save a princess narrates everything he does in song.

* {{Yeti}}: One shows up in the winter stage, expectedly, and it's large enough to take up most of the screen while trying to pummel the player hero.

* AffectionateParody: The game frequently parodies and pokes fun at several classic elements of platform videogames through the narration, with the Hero pointing out how absurd some VideoGameTropes seem to be, at the same time that it also affectionally homages those kinds of games.

''Songs For A Hero'' (translated from its Portuguese title, "A Lenda Do Herói") is a sidescrolling platformer by Dumativa Game Studio. It's a classic fantasy story with a twist: the knight who's questing to save a princess narrates everything he does in song.

The game's English localization was released in May 2020; the original Portuguese version was released in April 2017.

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The game's English localization is scheduled for May 2020; the original Portuguese version was released in April 2017.

* UndergroundMonkey: The green snakes from the first level have many variations, abilities and colors across the game (fire-breathing red ones, more resilient armor-wearing yellow ones, flying serpents with a darker tone of green, ice-breathing blue ones and Aztec-esque purple ones in the epilogue, not to mention the larger barrel-spitting ones [[spoiler: and their leaders, the Queen and King Cobra). The variations are implied in the fifth level to be the green snakes modified by mysterious red lightings [[spoiler: later revealed to be caused by the aliens]].

* AdvancingBossOfDoom: The Giant Scorpian boss battle involves the boss chasing the Hero through a linear path full of traps and enemies the Hero must avoid.

* AnthropomorphicShift: The Giant Scorpian boss from the fourth level was simply a normal, if giant scorpion in the original web videos, but he got a more anthropomorphic look in the game proper, where he gets a visible human-like face and looks more like ScorpionPeople.

* CuteSlimeMook: Smiling green slimes are one of the enemies in the game from the third level and beyond, hurting by contact. They can be frozen in ice cubes to be used as platforms in the sixth level and , while immune to the balls of fire, put on fire to lighten dark places.

* BigBad: The Terrible Villain is a an evil sorcerer responsible for kidnapping the princess and creating some of the adversities the Hero faces. [[spoiler: SubvertedTrope when he turns out to also be manipulated as a part of an alien experiment orchestrated by the true main antagonist, Papa Bidi]].

* BigBad: SubvertedTrope. [[spoiler: At first it seems the Terrible Villain is responsible for kidnapping the princess and creating all the adversities the Hero faces, but he turns out to also be manipulated as a part of an alien experiment orchestrated by the true main antagonist, Papa Bidi]].

* SpeakingSimlish: Minor characters 'speak' in indecipherable bubble-sounds that are subtitled. The hero lampshades that he can't hear the words, but understands their meaning anyway. [[spoiler:He himself is obligated to speak in this way after being stricken by a red lightining in the eighth level]]
* UndergroundMonkey: The green snakes from the first level have many variations, abilities and colors across the game (fire-breathing red ones, armor-wearing yellow ones, flying serpents with a darker tone of green, ice-breathing blue ones and Aztec-esque purple ones in the epilogue). The variations are implied in the fifth level to be the green snakes modified by mysterious red lightings [[spoiler: later revealed to be caused by the aliens]].

* BigCreepyScrawlies: The Lava Spider and the Giant Scorpian are both giant arachnids that are the main threat of their respective levels.

* AnthropomorphicShift: The Giant Scorpion boss from the fourth level was simply a normal, if giant scorpion in the original web videos, but he got a more anthropomorphic look in the game proper, where he gets a visible human-like face and looks more like ScorpionPeople.

* SpeakingSimlish: Minor characters 'speak' in indecipherable bubble-sounds that are subtitled. The hero lampshades that he can't hear the words, but understands their meaning anyway.
* UndergroundMonkey: The green snakes from the first level have many variations, abilities and colors across the game (fire-breathing red ones, armor-wearing yellow ones, flying serpents with a darker tone of green, ice-breathing blue ones and aztec purple ones in the epilogue). The variations are implied in the fifth level to be the green snakes modified by mysterious red lightings [[spoiler: later revealed to be caused by the aliens]].

* DeconstructiveParody: Many video game cliches are portrayed, but eventually, a ridiculous reason is given for them near the end: [[spoiler:aliens using powerful alien technology were using Earth as a laboratory and creating these battle snakes, floating platforms, causing people to speak in bubble-sounds, and doing other things.]]

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