History Videogame / TheCavernsOfHammerfest

In it, you're a snowman named Igor brought to life when a sorcerer steals your carrot nose, who also happened to kidnap and enslave all the sentient fruits of the orchards of Hammerfest [[ForTheEvulz for no apparent reason]]. Now, Igor must venture to his subterranean hideout and go [[HarderThanHard through 100+ levels without dying]] ([[DifficultySpike did we mention there are]] [[CheckPointStarvation no save points?]]) in order to recover his honor and free his fruity friends from the clutches of Tuber the evil sorcerer.

* DifficultySpike: Once you get to level 90 and beyond. Alternatively, the parallel dimensions, since they're often way harder than the levels they are found at.

%%* NiceHat: Disguises.

...[[UnrelatedEffects Ka-Bonk!]]

** ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Parallel Dimension 62, where you can collect Golden Rings that look like the ones from the Sonic games and features levels all styled after Green Hill Zone.

* DifficultySpike: Once you get to the 90s. Alternatively, the parallel dimensions, compared to the levels they are found at.
* DirectionallySolidPlatforms: On it, you dont fall; under it, jump and you're upon!
* DistressedDamsel: Wanda. Though not explicitly stated nor identified in the game, according to WordOfGod, she's the one who made Igor and can be found in [[spoiler:the final level, weeping among the other fruits rescued by Igor]].

* EarnYourHappyEnding: After enduring the whole of the game's length difficulty, it's only well deserved that Igor reunites with his fruit friends!

* DeathThrows: This is how you die if you don't fall from a plateforme.

* BrutalBonusLevel: Hell, also known as the infamous PD54.

** ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'': The TropeCodifier gets a Parallel Dimension (PD43) with levels whose designs are [[NostalgiaLevel straight from it]]. Not only that, the Bubble Bobble series of games often had levels with the tiles arranging in the style of drawings or words, and Hammerfest has a few levels with tile-art too.

* AmbiguousGender: Not gender per se, actually, but there have been a lot of discussion whether the red fruits are apples or tomatoes. Even the dev team acknowledges it. Though if one thinks closely, he might remember that enemies are all fruits, while all vegetables (in the usual sense, not the botanical one) are items. Also, there is actually a tomato item.

Note that [[NonindicativeName there aren't even many hammers in the game]], as it is rather named after [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammerfest Hammerfest]], one of the coldest and nothernmost cities of the world.

Originally the game only had the 103 levels between the game's start and the final boss, but then the developers introduced the concept of Parallel Dimensions: extra levels that you can access in specific points of the game's main course. They're usually referred as PD + the level in which you can enter the parallel dimension. The Parallel Dimension with the game's hardest levels, for example, is officially named Hell, but is also often called PD54 as one can enter it in the 54th level of the main course.

The game can be found [[http://www.hfest.net here]]. There is a downside, though: you can only play once per day (you can buy more games if you're impatient). This marketing strategy may seem like a problem at the start, when your runs don't go past level 10 and they managed to get you addicted already, but once you're skilled enough and your plays start to, literally, take more than 1 hour, it won't bother you much anymore.

* BigEater: And Igor [[BlackHoleBelly somehow doesn't gain a pound from all those candies]]. Played straight with the Ghost Candy item.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: As pointed out in this [[http://www.hfest.net/forum.html/thread/4727 thread]].
* BreathWeapon: The ring items, which allow you each to breath fire, freezing balls and... arrows.
* BrutalBonusLevel: P.D. 54; Also an example of PlanetHeck.

* DeadlyDodging: When there are strawberries in the levels, or swarms of watermelons, or [[DifficultySpike both]].

* DefeatMeansFriendship: That's how bombing the posessed fruits works, right? ''[[FridgeHorror Right?]]''
* DegradedBoss: All of the 'bosses', the exception being the final one, are more like introductions to new fruits.

* DistressedDamsel: Wanda [[spoiler:(the apple weeping at level 103.)]] Not explicitly stated in the game, but, according to WordOfGod, she's indeed that apple. She's also the one who made Igor.

* DropTheHammer: An item.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: After going through all that madness, you finally get that carrot back at the end!
* ElaborateUndergroundBase: It is Tuber's hideout.
* EveryTenThousandPoints: You get extra lives past 100,000 and 500,000 points. After these marks, they only appear again [[DifficultySpike every one million points]].

* EvilLaugh: In level 2, coming all the way from Tuber's lungs in 101.

* FetchQuest: All of the quests.
* FightingAShadow: The bat at level 100? [[spoiler:He's Tuber.]]
* FlipScreenScrolling: The levels are simply segments of the huge pit that is the game, and Igor will be killed if he tries to move downward without having cleared the fruits of the area to prevent him from simply falling down until he reaches the bottom.

* FriendlyFireproof: Averted, in that your bombs also stun your partner in [[CoopMultiplayer 2P Mode]].
* GoombaStomp: It is an ability that can be achieved for one stage if you get a Koopa shell item.
* GottaCatchThemAll: The items, which are considered by most what really makes the game addicting. However, nobody still unlocked all of them.

** There's [[http://www.cadomax.com/astuceshammerfest.php Cadomax]], which is in French, and [[http://www.zaxarinka.com/hammerfest.html Zaxarinka]]. The latter being made by the best player of the English version himself.
* HarderThanHard: Hell in Nightmare Mode. And it's required for a virtual HundredPercentCompletion.

* {{Hell}}: P.D. 54.
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: [[spoiler:Igor, as implied once you kill Tuber and get his cloak.]]
* HundredPercentCompletion: No one ever accomplished such feat as of yet. But, item unblocking aside, a few hardcore players have beaten Hell in Nightmare Mode and got the Red Bomb, the holy grail of Hammerfestians.

* InvincibleMinorMinion: The fireball that comes after the second [[StalkedByTheBell Hurry!]] to pursue Igor, [[ShoutOut in the style of Baron von Blubba from Bubble Bobble]].
* JokeItem: The chocolate mousse, which not only looks like poop (it ''is'' poop in the French version) and is only worth 1 point, it's also a coefficient 5 item. It means it's one of the rarest items in the game, which have only a 0.14% chance of appearing in every level.

* NewGamePlus: Okay, aside from the fact that every time you play it it's a new game and you're ever slightly more experienced, it's how quests work. Also, once you beat the final boss, you get the even harder Nightmare Mode.

* NintendoHard: It takes often more than one whole month to hone enough your skills only to be able to get to the final boss and beat it. We say 'only' because you don't know how merciless Hell can be. It took 5 months to some tropers to beat the game.

* PermanentlyMissableContent: If you don't pick up the items on a level before going to the next, they're lost. Same thing happens when you pick up certain items, like the pearls. These items can make things specially frustrating if it's a coefficient 4 and upwards item that you just lost.

* PowerUpLetdown: Out of many, the biker helmet and the dandelion.
* OneBulletAtATime: Before you complete certain quests, this is how the bombs work.
* RandomlyDrops: The items. Die-hard fans established [[SeriousBusiness detailed stats]] of the odds each item may or may not fall at each stage.
* RestartAtLevelOne: Game Over means that you'll automatically begin the next session at level one (Hammerfest village), regardless how far you've gone in the game.

** ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'': The TropeCodifier gets a Parallel Dimension, in level 43, with levels [[NostalgiaLevel being straight from it]]. Also, like the first game often had levels with the tiles making a drawing or words, Hammerfest has a few levels with tile-art too.
*** Special notice to the Baron von Blubba/Monsta at level 93. Worth mentioning that the level is full of watermelons, which behave exactly like the Monstas from the original Bubble Bobble.
*** The bubbles that wrap Igor, the umbrella items that make you skip levels and the big crystals that fall when you kill the fruits in a certain order.
** ''VideoGame/SnowBros'': The protagonist's a snowman. That's all, interestingly enough.

** ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Collect all of the four mushrooms and you get Mario's signature quest. Also, P.D. 16, the Secret Coins and the Koopa shell item.
** ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': P.D. 62.

** ''Manga/DoctorSlump'': In the French version, the poop item is called Arale's delicacy (literal translation). Arale, from the show, is known to have a fascination with feces.

* XMeetsY: ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' meets ''VideoGame/SnowBros'' meets ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}''.

''The Caverns of Hammerfest'' is a Flash game made by the French game developers of Motion-Twin in February 2006, and is the masterpiece homage to the good old platformers that made you yell Big No-s at the loss of your character's last life. Particularly inspired by gems like VideoGame/BubbleBobble and VideoGame/SnowBros, the [[NintendoHard insane difficulty]] it has to offer is notable (while also being very fair), but its real charm are the countless collectible items and the nice graphics you come across in your quest.

Okay, [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs this pretty much sums it]].

* AnIcePerson: Igor. Sandy also counts.

* BadassAdorable: Igor.
* BadassLongRobe: Tuber.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Poor lemon.]]

* McGuffin: Igor's carrot.
* MookMaker: [[spoiler: Tuber]]

* NiceHat: Disguises.

* LostForever: If you don't pick up the items on a level before going to the next, they're lost. Same thing happen when you pick up certain items, like the pearls. These items can make things specially frustrating if it's a coefficient 4 and upwards item that you just lost.
* OneHitPointWonder: Igor cannot take any damage or he'll die. Luckily, he has good ol' fashioned VideoGameLives.

* ReferenceOverdosed: See ShoutOut below

* SelfDestructMechanism: Bombinos.
* SequentialBoss: [[spoiler: Tuber.]]
* ShapeShifterShowdown: [[spoiler:Again, Tuber.]]

** VideoGame/BubbleBobble: The TropeCodifier gets a Parallel Dimension, in level 43, with levels [[NostalgiaLevel being straight from it]]. Also, like the first game often had levels with the tiles making a drawing or words, Hammerfest has a few levels with tile-art too.

*** Don't forget the bubbles that wrap Igor, the umbrella items that make you skip levels and the big crystals that fall when you kill the fruits in a certain order.
** VideoGame/SnowBros: The protagonist's a snowman. That's all, interestingly enough.

** SuperMarioBros: Collect all of the four mushrooms and you get Mario's signature quest. Also, P.D. 16, the Secret Coins and the Koopa shell item.
** SonicTheHedgehog: P.D. 62.
** OnePiece: Chopper and Luffy's hats are items.
** VideoGame/HalfLife: The Gordon's Key item is a crowbar identical to that of the first game.

** Manga/DoctorSlump: In the French version, the poop item is called Arale's delicacy (literal translation). Arale, from the show, is known to have a fascination with feces.
** [[Film/ShortCircuit Johnny 5]], Anime/UFORoboGrendizer, Anime/Ulysses31, Franchise/StarWars, Franchise/{{Robocop}} and Franchise/{{Transformers}}: All get items on the robots-based family items.
** [[LongList Phew.]]

* TurnsRed: For all of the fruits after they unfreeze or the Hurry! warnings.
** In Nightmare Mode, they already start like this.

* XMeetsY: VideoGame/BubbleBobble meets VideoGame/SnowBros meets VideoGame/{{Bomberman}}.

* BlindIdiotTranslation: As pointed out in this [[http://www.hfest.net/forum.html/thread/4727 thread]]. The developers [[TheyJustDidntCare don't seem to care]].

* NostalgiaLevel: P.D. 16 (SuperMarioBros), P.D. 43 (VideoGame/BubbleBobble), P.D. 51 (RickDangerous) and P.D. 62 (SonicTheHedgehog).

** [[ShortCircuit Johnny 5]], UFORoboGrendizer, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Ulysses31?from=Main.Ulysses31 Ulysses 31]], Franchise/StarWars, Franchise/{{Robocop}} and Franchise/{{Transformers}}: All get items on the robots-based family items.

->''More than 200 levels!\\

A [[BlindIdiotTranslation lof]] incredible secrets!''\\
-- '''Disclaimer from the [[http://www.hfest.net website]]'''

'''The Caverns of Hammerfest''' is a Flash game made by the French game developers of Motion-Twin in February 2006, and is the masterpiece homage to the good old platformers that made you yell Big No-s at the loss of your character's last life. Particularly inspired by gems like VideoGame/BubbleBobble and VideoGame/SnowBros, the [[NintendoHard insane difficulty]] it has to offer is notable (while also being very fair), but its real charm are the countless collectible items and the nice graphics you come across in your quest.

** [[Anime/JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Hare Nochi Guu]]: Pokutes, Mandas, Chourou's chesthair and a doll of Guu are items. One quest is based on [[FetchQuest collecting them]].

** [[JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Hare Nochi Guu]]: Pokutes, Mandas, Chourou's chesthair and a doll of Guu are items. One quest is based on [[FetchQuest collecting them]].

** DrSlump: In the French version, the poop item is called Arale's delicacy (literal translation). Arale, from the show, is known to have a fascination with feces.

** HalfLife: The Gordon's Key item is a crowbar identical to that of the first game.

** [[ShortCircuit Johnny 5]], UFORoboGrendizer, [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Anime/Ulysses31?from=Main.Ulysses31 Ulysses 31]], StarWars, {{Robocop}} and {{Transformers}}: All get items on the robots-based family items.

* ReferenceOverdosed: See ShoutOur below

* NintendoHard: It takes often more than one whole month to hone enough your skills only to be able to get to the final boss and beat it? We say 'only' because you don't know how merciless Hell can be.
** It took 5 months for this troper to beat the game.

* OneHitPointWonder: Igor cannot take any damage or he'll die. Luckily, he as good ol' fashioned VideoGameLives.

* LockedDoor: Some doors will only open after you got the right key through a SideQuest. [[BrutalBonusLevel One opens only after you completed the game]].

* LockedDoor: Some doors will only open after you got the right through a SideQuest. [[BrutalBonusLevel One opens only after you completed the game]].

* EveryTenThousandPoints: You get extra lives past 100,000 and 500,000 points. After these marks, they only appear again every one million points.