History VideoGame / TheTownWithNoName

** Wildcard [=McVee=] has a very blatant British accent; he even says that his "waistcoat"[[note]]a British English term for "vest"[[/note]] is ruined once No Name kills him.

** If you click on the pebbles below the signpost in the title screen, an image of the pebbles with googly eyes and the subtitle "The Pebble People" is shown, with the pebbles singing a brief tune, before one person tells them to shut up.

* EnnioMorriconePastiche: The main theme sort of resembles the main theme from ''Dollars' trilogy with the spaghetti western riff.

* TheExpyWithNoName: Three of them: the cigarette man is a direct expy appearance-wise, while No Name himself shares his name with the more famous character, and the old man with a watch resembles Col. Douglas Mortimer (Creator/LeeVanCleef) from ''Film/ForAFewDollarsMore''.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Wildcard [=McVee=] accuses No Name of cheating during their game of Chase the Ace and demands a showdown out in the streets. Yet he shoots you from under the table before he even finishes his sentence.

* KaizoTrap: Wildcard [=McVee=] gets angry from you winning at cards and challenges you for a duel. However, [=McVee=] is lying and kills you in the saloon unless [[ShutUpHannibal you shoot at him during his tirade]].

* MindScrew: Quite a few elements go into this territory, such as the floating priest.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: While Wildcard [=McVee=] already doesn't have a good American accent, it completely falls apart when he says his "waistcoat" is ruined; "waistcoat" is the British English term for a vest.

** The "Meanwhile" screen uses a font that resembles the logo to ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''.

** The "Pause For One Moment" screen found in the "Mystery Option" is a shout-out to ''Film/TheGodfather''. Coincidentally, the rabbit gun scene found in that option could be a shout-out to ''Film/TheTerminator''.

* AnachronismStew: While the game is set in the Wild West, Bad Bart has long hair and earrings, which are blatantly late 1980s or early 1990s.

* BossGame: Thanks to the lack of any meaningful side content in-between the fights with Evil Eb and his gang, the game effectively ends up as one of these. The gameplay boils down to fighting a gang member, entering a building, leaving it, then fighting another gang member, rinse and repeat.

* DerangedAnimation: The cutscenes to say the least, which use a blend of CGI backgrounds and traditional animation.

* TheExpyWithNoName: Two of them: the cigarette man is a direct expy appearance-wise, while No Name himself shares his name with the more famous character.

** Nasty Ned is Caucasian but has a Mexican accent.
** The bartender has a ''very'' exaggerated Irish accent for no discernible reason.

* HaveANiceDeath: Some of the ways No Name can die include being gunned down in a duel [[SkewedPriorities before he can finish his book]], having his head shot literally clean off by the man with the cigarette, or shattering like glass after Wildcard [=McVee=] shoots him under the table. The only death that isn't explicitly played for laughs is when you enter a room on the second floor of the saloon and No Name has a knife thrown at him by an unknown assailant and the screen turns blood-red if he is hit. Getting killed also leads to the camera careening towards your grave, followed by a shot of the Ghost with No Name, who (in a hick voice) tells the player to press the A button to start over.

* KaizoTrap: Wildcard [=McVee=] gets angry from you winning at cards and challenges you for a duel. [=McVee=] lies and kills you in the saloon unless [[ShutUpHannibal you shoot at him during his tirade]].

* PressStartToGameOver: The very first option screen of the game allows No Name to just get straight back on the train he arrived in. [[spoiler:Considering the main ending reveals [[ShaggyDogStory No Name got off at the wrong stop]], this is actually the correct choice.]]

** The infamous ending of [[spoiler:No Name shooting the kid]] is a parody of the ending from ''Film/{{Shane}}''.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Real spiders have light blue blood, not deep red.

* LiterallyShatteredLives: If you don't shoot Wildcard [=McVee=] before he finishes his dialogue after beating him at cards, he shoots you from under the table, and the bullet causes you to break into pieces and fall to the ground.

* OptionalBoss: The assailant on the saloon's second floor is optional. He's not affiliated with Evil Eb's gang whatsoever.

* LiterallyShatteredLives: One of the game's possible deaths is to get shot to shards like glass.

* OffWithHisHead: If the Man with No Name tries to attack the man with the cigarette, he'll retaliate by shooting the former's head clean off.

** The infamous "You have the right time?" cutscene. The man with the cigarette asks another man if he has the time. The second man looks at his watch as a tinkly music box tune plays. The tune quickly switches to a dramatic, cacophonous, and ''very'' loud reprise on organ before returning to the music box for a split second at the end. The second man simply says "[[MoodWhiplash No]]."

** The "Meanwhile" screen is a shout-out to ''Franchise/BackToTheFuture''.

** Zippy Zeke's introductory scene is a shout-out to ''[[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner]]''.

* GainaxEnding: One alternate ending ends with No Name [[spoiler: getting back on a train, shooting a kid for calling him Shane, and [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext then the train flies off into space]]]].[[note]]May be a ShoutOut to ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartIII''. The game already has a font shout-out, and the protagonist looks a lot like Marty in his Old West getup.[[/note]]

-->'''Man With No Name''': "Darn! Just one more page, and I would have finished this book..."
-->'''Evil Eb's Littlest Brother''': "Dang, that's torn it!" or "Ya missed me! (Gets hit by a vulture)"
-->'''Nasty Ned''': "[[GratuitousSpanish Caramba!]] That really hurt! Oh, I've got to fall over now so byeeeee!"
-->'''Wildcard [=McVee=]''': "Oh no, this waistcoat is ruined... and it's gone right through the shirt, as well!"
-->'''Massive Jake''': "Oh dear, that wasn't supposed to happen!"
-->'''Bad Bart''': "I'm not pleased about this at all..."

-->'''Man With No Name''': "Darn. Just one more page and I would have finished this book..."
* MeaningfulName:

--> '''[[WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} slowbeef]]:''' This is TheWestern equivalent of getting a piece of the [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Triforce]]!

--> '''Priest''': You're alive? Coolie, this is a miracle.

'''The Man With No Name''': It seems my deodorant has just failed.\\

'''The Man With No Name''': Oh no. What a time to discover I have a hygiene problem.

--> '''The man with the cigarette''': [[LampshadeHanging Man's got]] [[DoubleEntendre ammunition]]...

* PressStartToGameOver: The very first option screen of the game allows No Name to just get straight back on the train he arrived in. [[spoiler: Considering the main ending reveals [[ShaggyDogStory No Name got off at the wrong stop]], this is actually the correct choice.]]

--> '''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd''' (about the Saloon's music): Another ear-splitting hit from The Jester.

** Whenever No Name dies, the cutscene showing the camera rushing over to his grave references ''Film/TheEvilDead'' by using the deadite POV, accompanied by sounds of the deadites taken from that film.

* BonusBoss: The assailant on the saloon's second floor is optional. He's not affiliated with Evil Eb's gang whatsoever.

* OedipusComplex: Someone has carved next to Massive Jake's wanted poster that he loved his mom, which is why he shot his dad.

* EpicFail: Redneck Calhoun, the former leader of the Hole-in-the-Head gang, accidentally hacked himself to death ''while shaving''.

* OffModel: Despite all the obvious {{rotoscoping}}, the characters still manage to look pretty awful at times. Bad Bart (in his introduction) gets the worst of this, as not only does he not have any lip-syncing, but his outlines are ''very'' wobbly.