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* BreakingTheFourthWall: In Chapter 5, Torin accidentally crashes into the Help menu at the top of the screen while crawling through a maintenance shaft and asks you to click out of it so he can proceed.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: In Chapter 5, Five, Torin accidentally crashes into the Help menu at the top of the screen while crawling through a maintenance shaft and asks you the player to click out of it so he can proceed.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: While the trailer did include animations and scenes from the game, there were depictions of some characters, particularly Pecand, and Leenah, that were notably different from their in-game counterparts.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: While the trailer did does include animations and scenes from the finished game, there were depictions of some characters, particularly Pecand, and Leenah, that were are notably different from their in-game counterparts.counterpart.
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* OfficerOHara: The police officer who arrests Torin [[spoiler: twice]] in Tenebrous has an Irish accent and behaves like this trope.
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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: While most of the game is fairly lighthearted and colorful, [[spoiler: Pecand]] is a truly menacing figure and almost never played for laughs.
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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: While most of the game is fairly lighthearted and colorful, [[spoiler: Pecand]] is a truly menacing figure and almost never played for laughs.
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** It also shows a different version of the scene with Torin in front of the guardhouse. In the trailer, the door is already open (?) and Torin asks Boogle to turn into an axe, which he then uses to hit the crystal (after Boogle first [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FunWithHomophones turns into an "X"]]). In the game itself [[spoiler: you use an actual axe to do this instead]]. Weirdly, Torin **does** ask Boogle to turn into [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AirGuitar a different kind of "axe"]] in the game proper, but it's for a throwaway gag and Boogle never adds this shape to his inventory.
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** It also shows a different version of the scene with Torin in front of the guardhouse. In the trailer, the door is already open (?) and Torin asks Boogle to turn into an axe, which he then uses to hit the crystal (after Boogle first [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FunWithHomophones turns into an "X"]]). In the game itself [[spoiler: you use an actual axe to do this instead]]. Weirdly, Torin **does** *does* ask Boogle to turn into [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AirGuitar a different kind of "axe"]] in the game proper, but it's for a throwaway gag and Boogle never adds this shape to his inventory.
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** It also shows a different version of the scene with Torin in front of the guardhouse. In the trailer, the door is already open (?) and Torin asks Boogle to turn into an axe, which he then uses to hit the crystal (after first [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FunWithHomophones turning into an "X"]]). In the game itself [[spoiler: you use an actual axe to do this instead]]. Weirdly, Torin **does** ask Boogle to turn into [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AirGuitar a different kind of "axe"]] in the game proper, but it's for a throwaway gag and Boogle never adds this shape to his inventory.
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** It also shows a different version of the scene with Torin in front of the guardhouse. In the trailer, the door is already open (?) and Torin asks Boogle to turn into an axe, which he then uses to hit the crystal (after Boogle first [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FunWithHomophones turning turns into an "X"]]). In the game itself [[spoiler: you use an actual axe to do this instead]]. Weirdly, Torin **does** ask Boogle to turn into [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AirGuitar a different kind of "axe"]] in the game proper, but it's for a throwaway gag and Boogle never adds this shape to his inventory.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: While the trailer did include animations and scenes from the game, there were depictions of some characters, particularly Lycentia, Pecand, and Leenah, that were completely different from their in-game counterparts.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: While the trailer did include animations and scenes from the game, there were depictions of some characters, particularly Lycentia, Pecand, and Leenah, that were completely notably different from their in-game counterparts.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: While the trailer did include animations and scenes from the game, there were depictions of some characters, particularly Lycentia, Pecand, and Leenah, that were completely different from their in-game counterparts.
**It also shows a different version of the scene with Torin in front of the guardhouse. In the trailer, the door is already open (?) and Torin asks Boogle to turn into an axe, which he then uses to hit the crystal (after first [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FunWithHomophones turning into an "X"]]). In the game itself [[spoiler: you use an actual axe to do this instead]]. Weirdly, Torin **does** ask Boogle to turn into [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AirGuitar a different kind of "axe"]] in the game proper, but it's for a throwaway gag and Boogle never adds this shape to his inventory.
**It also shows a different version of the scene with Torin in front of the guardhouse. In the trailer, the door is already open (?) and Torin asks Boogle to turn into an axe, which he then uses to hit the crystal (after first [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FunWithHomophones turning into an "X"]]). In the game itself [[spoiler: you use an actual axe to do this instead]]. Weirdly, Torin **does** ask Boogle to turn into [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AirGuitar a different kind of "axe"]] in the game proper, but it's for a throwaway gag and Boogle never adds this shape to his inventory.
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** Al Lowe himself makes a voice-only cameo reading you a secret death message in one of the game's EasterEggs.
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** Al Lowe himself can be seen trapped in one of the crystals in Lycentia's lair. He also makes a voice-only cameo reading you a secret death message in one of the game's EasterEggs.
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* CreatorCameo: That's the head of Mark Seibert, composer of the game's soundtrack, on the body of the piano player in Chapter Two.
**Al Lowe himself makes a voice-only cameo reading you a secret death message in one of the game's EasterEggs.
**Al Lowe himself makes a voice-only cameo reading you a secret death message in one of the game's EasterEggs.
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* BottleEpisode: Chapter Four, Asthenia, takes place in a gloomy lava-filled cave world and is the only one to feature no other NPCs.
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* BottleEpisode: Chapter Four, Asthenia, takes place in a gloomy an abandoned, gloomy, lava-filled cave world and is the only one world to feature no other NPCs.characters to talk to.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In Chapter 5, Torin accidentally crashes into the Help menu at the top of the screen while crawling through a maintenance shaft and asks you to click out of it so he can proceed.
* BreakingTheFourthWall: In Chapter 5, Torin accidentally crashes into the Help menu at the top of the screen while crawling through a maintenance shaft and asks you to click out of it so he can proceed.
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* MeaningfulName: Each of the worlds under the Lands Above has a name reflecting an archaic word.
**Escarpa, a kingdom built into a giant cliff, is similar to the word "escarpment", which describes that kind of geography perfectly.
**Similarly, a pergola is an open-air garden or patio. Fittingly enough, Pergola in this game is a lush forest.
**The fourth world is named Asthenia, which essentially means "weakness". It doesn't fit as well as the others but it could refer to how abandoned it is.
**Finally, "tenebrous" means dark or obscure. The world of Tenebrous is in the center of Strata, cut off from the atmosphere, and contains the gravity-free space known as the Null Void.
**Escarpa, a kingdom built into a giant cliff, is similar to the word "escarpment", which describes that kind of geography perfectly.
**Similarly, a pergola is an open-air garden or patio. Fittingly enough, Pergola in this game is a lush forest.
**The fourth world is named Asthenia, which essentially means "weakness". It doesn't fit as well as the others but it could refer to how abandoned it is.
**Finally, "tenebrous" means dark or obscure. The world of Tenebrous is in the center of Strata, cut off from the atmosphere, and contains the gravity-free space known as the Null Void.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: Leenah, the princess Torin falls in love with, has long, flowing red hair.
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* HeroesWantRedheads: [[spoiler: Leenah, the princess Torin falls in love with, with]], has long, flowing red hair.
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* BottleEpisode: Chapter Four, Asthenia, takes place in a gloomy lava-filled cave world and is the only one to feature no other NPCs.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Leenah, the princess Torin falls in love with, has long, flowing red hair.
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* StartOfDarkness: The flashbacks seen throughout the game show Lycentia's downward slide from [[spoiler: Torin's nanny]] to [[spoiler: a pawn of Pecand, the true BigBad.]]
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Since this was the first part of a canceled series, we don't see what happens after [[spoiler: Leenah returns home to Escarpa]] or [[spoiler: Lycentia's return to the Lands Above]].
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* StartOfDarkness: The flashbacks seen throughout the game show Lycentia's downward slide from [[spoiler: Torin's nanny]] to [[spoiler: a pawn of Pecand, the true BigBad.]]
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* LethalLavaLand: Asthenia in Chapter Four.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The hint system, which can be set to always be on, offers increasingly explicit clues on what to do. Also, death can be undone in a single click, encouraging players to try everything and not having to worry about {{Permadeath}}.
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The hint system, which can be set to always be on, offers increasingly explicit clues on what to do. Also, death can be undone in While this is a single click, encouraging players to try everything and step up from previous Sierra games, it's not having to worry about {{Permadeath}}.without it's problems (see GuideDangIt below).
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* VileVillainSaccharineShow: While most of the game is fairly lighthearted and colorful, [[spoiler: Pecand]] is a truly menacing figure and almost never played for laughs.
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** Bags Bunny references [[WesternAnimation/BugsBunny everyone's favourite lagomorph from Warner Brothers cartoons]].
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%%* FreudianExcuse: Lycentia
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%%* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Lycentia, in the flashbacks.]]
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%%* EvilPrince: [[spoiler: Pecand, Torin's uncle.]]
%%* EvilSorcerer: [[spoiler: Pecand again, the one who's really behind everything.]]
%%* EvilUncle: [[spoiler: Yes, Pecand again.]]
%%* EvilSorcerer: [[spoiler: Pecand again, the one who's really behind everything.]]
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* HybridMonster: There's a croctopus (a hybrid between a crocodile and an octopus) swimming in the moat of the Crystal City.
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* AlienFairFolk: The game has both sci-fi and fantasy elements because it's set in a magical world located on a different planet called Strata. While the characters and landscapes of the Lands Above look like they came out of a Medieval fantasy novel, some of the creatures from the lower worlds have a definite sci-fi vibe. In particular, this concerns the inhabitants of the Tenebrous who are either humanoids very reminiscent of TheGreys or bizarre creatures like giant centipedes.
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* TalkingToHimself: Torin and Boogle are voiced by the same actor.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It was intended to be the first game in a series, similarly to ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' and other Sierra franchises. According to WordOfGod, the second game would have had Torin marry Princess Leenah and become the ruler of the Lands Above. The third game would have focused on a rebellion against king Torin, and the fourth game would have been a "coming of age" story about Torin's sons competing for their right to be the heir. The fifth and final game would have involved Torin's death and the passing of the torch to his heir.
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* BarefootLoon: Downplayed with Herman, the gatekeeper in the Lands Above, who [[DoesNotLikeShoes goes around in open-toed sandals]], presumably to illustrate his eccentricity. He obviously wears them by choice and not as a part of a guard's uniform, since the other guard (Zax, the gatekeeper of Crystal City) has regular shoes.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Half of Strata's population, really. But special honors go to the gatekeeper in the Lands Above, who thinks nothing of spending ten years in "heavy traffic" and demands a meal based entirely on puns.
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* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Half of Strata's population, really. But special honors go to Herman, the gatekeeper in the Lands Above, who thinks nothing of spending ten years in "heavy traffic" and demands a meal based entirely on puns.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It was intended to be the first game in a series, similarly to ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' and other Sierra franchises. According to WordOfGod, the second game would have Torin marry Princess Leenah and become the ruler of the Lands Above. The third game would have focused on a rebellion against king Torin, and the fourth game would have been a "coming of age" story about Torin's sons competing for their right to be the heir. The fifth and final game would have involved Torin's death and the passing of the torch to his heir.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It was intended to be the first game in a series, similarly to ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' and other Sierra franchises. According to WordOfGod, the second game would have had Torin marry Princess Leenah and become the ruler of the Lands Above. The third game would have focused on a rebellion against king Torin, and the fourth game would have been a "coming of age" story about Torin's sons competing for their right to be the heir. The fifth and final game would have involved Torin's death and the passing of the torch to his heir.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It was intended to be the first game in a series, similarly to ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' and other Sierra franchises.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: It was intended to be the first game in a series, similarly to ''VideoGame/KingsQuest'' and other Sierra franchises. According to WordOfGod, the second game would have Torin marry Princess Leenah and become the ruler of the Lands Above. The third game would have focused on a rebellion against king Torin, and the fourth game would have been a "coming of age" story about Torin's sons competing for their right to be the heir. The fifth and final game would have involved Torin's death and the passing of the torch to his heir.
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* VisibleOdor: Twice in Escarpa.
** Pulling the tile out of one of the caves in Escarpa reveals a hole through which a brown cloud emerges. Torin quickly comments on the stench.
** Torin has to use a carpet to protect himself against the skunks' spray in another of the caves in Escarpa, after which the carpet has a green stain and emits green vapors.
** Pulling the tile out of one of the caves in Escarpa reveals a hole through which a brown cloud emerges. Torin quickly comments on the stench.
** Torin has to use a carpet to protect himself against the skunks' spray in another of the caves in Escarpa, after which the carpet has a green stain and emits green vapors.
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* AntiVillain: [[spoiler: Lycentia, once you find out her story, which is gradually revealed through cutscenes.]]
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* BreakTheCutie: [[spoiler: Lycentia, in the flashbacks.]]
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* EvilPrince: [[spoiler: Pecand, Torin's uncle.]]
* EvilSorcerer: [[spoiler: Pecand again, the one who's really behind everything.]]
* EvilUncle: [[spoiler: Yes, Pecand again.]]
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* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: Due to the game's family-oriented nature, this game is much less punishing on death compared to other Sierra games -- while you are able to die in this game, once you click "Oops" on the resulting prompt window, the game will rewind you right back to before you messed up.
