History VideoGame / TwentyXX

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* SequelHook: [[spoiler:After completing Dr. Flat's entry in the [[FlavorText datalore]] by beating him for the third time, said datalore entry reveals that the Board is aware of Nina and Ace's escape, and are planning on taking them back by force.]]

* LootCommand: Augments (and Cores and weapons) must be manually picked up. [[TropesAreNotBad Thank goodness for that]] - some augs will decrease stats, and automatic pickup would result in many runs where you only have two health.

** Death Lotus's bossfight, which revolves around him disappearing into the wall after making a few attacks and emerging from a randomised point, was tweaked so that, at least on lower difficulties, a red marker would appear around the point he would emerge from. This allows Ace, who has no non-power ranged attacks, to close in on his location and start whuppin' rather than having to rush there in the hope of getting in a couple of swings before he bails.

* DiscOneNuke: Finding the Dracopent's Claw (which allows an even more powerful charge) and Dracopent's Fang (next attack also becomes charged) early in the game is rare, but if you happen to bump in any of these (or both) early bosses can be slaughtered in ''seconds'' even without Attack augments.

* ShortRangeShotgun: The Scatterblast for Nina. The multiple projectiles make it strong up close, but weaker at longer ranges, and they dissipate faster - although charged shots have longer range, and a double-charged one will fire more projectiles as well. Nina with the arm core enhancer and a full Dracopent set is basically instant death to anything within about twenty feet of her.

* SpreadShot: Nina's Forkalator and Scatterblast weapons. The projectile from Splinterfrost, once it hits, fires a SpreadShot backwards from point of impact.

*** Its description says [[{{Anime/SonicX}} "Gotta go fast"]].

* AfterBossRecovery: Downplayed, you might get a few health pickups, but rarely a full health recovery (from the Blue Lander). If you have certain skull modifiers enabled then you have the possibility of having no recovery at all. [[spoiler: PlayedStraight with Kingseeker, a Prototype Aug that fully heals you after defeating a boss, at the expense of no health dropping from enemies.]]

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** '''The DPS:''' ''Dracopent, the Foul''. Focuses primarily on normal attacks which allows all Contractors to be ''Ranged [=DPS=]'' or ''Melee [=DPS=]'' respectively.
** '''The DPS 2:''' ''Owlhawk, the Wise''. The set focuses on special weapons and having all of them allows any character to cause a lot of damage while having tools for every situation. However this style is limited by the amount of energy the character has.
** '''The Jack-of-All-Trades:''' ''Oxjack, the Flash''. The set focuses on mobility and synergies somewhat well with any playstyle not excelling on normal attacks or special weapons.

** Playing on Reverent or Normal on co-op allows one player to teleport to another by holding the "pick up augment" button. This might be helpful to lead one player to a chest or to help someone cross a troublesome section of a level safely. This, however, is disabled on Defiant difficulty.

* JokeCharacter: [[spoiler:Vika and Jest. Prototypes, but functional, versions of Nina and Ace]] unlocked by finishing the game on Defiant with at least 3 skulls. They have half of the normal starting health, only 2 weapon energy and their weapons deal halved damage. Oh, and they cannot find new basic weapons nor Cores. The only, erm, positive trait about them is that prototype augments will have their positive benefits doubled, they can potentially become [[LethalJokeCharacter Lethal Joke Characters]] because of that.

* ShortRangeShotgun: The Scatterblast for Nina. The multiple projectiles make it strong up close, but weaker at longer ranges.

* PowerAtAPrice: Prototype Augments, found in [[BlatantLies Very Safe Laboratories]]. They give a very strong upside, at the cost of a sharp, mostly permanent downside. Examples include the Earthmetal Plating, which massively improves your life and energy at the cost of setting your attack power back to the default level, or the Zookeeper's Burden, which [[TheBeastmaster instantly gives you one copy of every Repro]], but completely removes your ability to fire your weapon or use powers at all.

* UtilityWeapon:

* BagOfHolding: There's no real limit to how many augments you can hold. You can carry all 8 powers as well, but have only 3 of them active at a time.

* AwesomeYetImpractical: [[SetBonus Set Bonuses]]. Collecting all the armor parts from one set will give the wearer immensely powerful abilities, see the entry for SetBonus down below. However, it's incredibly difficult to obtain all the Cores from a set in one run, [[LuckBasedMission mostly due to the RNG being finicky]].[[note]]''Some'' of the randomness can be relieved using the Undevelop - a feature unlocked after buying all items with Soul Chips - which allows you to delete augments you don't want to appear in the next run, Core Augments (armor pieces) included. It also becomes less of a problem with the Patchwork Connector, which reduces the number of matching Core Augs needed for a set bonus by 1; unfortunately, the Patchwork Connector is ''also'' a random drop.[[/note]]

* ArtEvolution: You can check the evolution of [=20XX's=] game banners [[https://imgur.com/a/fiVmudd right here]].

** Playing on Reverent or Normal on co-op gives the option to one player to teleport to another by holding the "pick up augment" button. This might be helpful to lead one player to a chest or to help someone cross a troublesome section of a level safely. This, however, is disabled on Defiant difficulty.

** Oxjack's Core Augments provide little in the way of protection beyond a shield that's only active while dashing with the torso upgrade. For contrast, both Owlhawk and Dracopent let you regenerate health by killing enemies with the appropriate methods, and Armatort boosts health pickups by making some of them also grant you armour. However, Oxjack's augs ''also'' massively accelerate your dash move and let you use it midair - multiple times, if you have the SetBonus - and allow you to quickly and efficiently charge your weapon.

* SprintShoes: The sash items (Ninja and Hyper). Oxjack's Ken is a Sprint ''Helmet'' that halves the duration of your [[VideogameDashing dash]], but doubles the speed output letting you go ridiculously fast.

* BoringButPractical: N-Buster for Nina and A-Saber for Ace are not the most exciting weapons of the game but are generally well suited for most situations.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Entire possible as every foot core augs have different commands - double jump, double jump to hover ''or'' fly or a multi-directional air dash.
** The Rippling Axe will significantly change your attack patterns by turning any midair push of the attack button into a brutal vertical strike, which can lead to the same sort of problem if you're used to weapons that don't immediately remove your horizontal momentum when used (which would be...all of them except the Rippling Axe).

* ArmCannon: Nina uses one. Cutscenes show that she can remove it when she needs to.

* ChargedAttack: Nina and Ace can both charge all of their basic weapons to a second level, with the exception of Ace's Rippling Axe and his Plasma Blender, both of which cannot be charged normally.

* CoolHelmet: Both Nina and Ace have one.

* CriticalExistenceFailure: Nina and Ace can survive just fine with 1 [=HP=]. Drop below that and they'll meet an explosive demise.

* DeathGlare: Nina and Ace will sport one while charging their attacks.

* DifficultButAwesome: Weapons like the Scatterblast and Plasma Blender tend to be very risky for Nina and Ace due to their short range, but they can absolutely tear apart anything short of the toughest bosses of the game in seconds if used right.

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* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Ace is a close-quarters combatant while Nina makes use of long ranged weapons.

* HyperactiveSprite: Even when standing still Ace and Nina are always rocking back and forth ready for combat.

* PassThroughTheRings: Light 'em Up challenges in Glory Zones requires Nina and Ace to go through some round panels to win.

* PowerGlows: Glowing enemies will always drop Soul Chips, but are accordingly far more powerful than regular enemies in the level. Nina and Ace also glows while charging their attacks.
* PowerUpFood: Brain Food Lunch increases HP, Energy while restoring the latter completely. Better not to think about why Ace and Nina need food, though.
* PrivateMilitaryContractors: Nina and Ace are heavily implied to be one: the opening cutscene has Dr. Sharp calling them for help with the robot uprising, the HQ has a contract from Dr. Flat on the corkboard, a run of the game is called a Job, and the in-universe lingo for the types of robots Nina and Ace are is a Contractor. [[spoiler:Subverted. Nina and Ace aren't actually hired guns; they're just programmed to think they are, so they have a motivation to go on the missions.]]

* VideogameDashing: Both Nina and Ace are capable of this. Oxjack's armor set in particular is focused around improving this ability, granting you a projectile-negating shield while you dash and also giving you up to three air-dashes.

** PlayerHeadquarters: The building where Nina and Ace starts.