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** 182-199, 201, 202, 205-215: More detailed sprites. Background becomes pixel art at the same resolution as characters and items. Character close-ups use the same pixel art sprites at 3x or 4x zoom instead of 2x. All in all, the strips resemble an [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer MS-DOS VGA]], UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} or UsefulNotes/AtariST game.

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** 182-199, 201, 202, 205-215: More detailed sprites. Background becomes pixel art at the same resolution as characters and items. Character close-ups use the same pixel art sprites at 3x or 4x zoom instead of 2x. All in all, the strips resemble an [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer MS-DOS VGA]], UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} Platform/{{Amiga}} or UsefulNotes/AtariST Platform/AtariST game.
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* KnowsTheRopes: Lacey's WeaponOfChoice (along with a normal sword). Not quite RazorFloss — he hasn't cut anything with it.

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* KnowsTheRopes: Lacey's WeaponOfChoice weapon (along with a normal sword). Not quite RazorFloss — he hasn't cut anything with it.
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* BandageMummy: Tobi comes close, after the arena fight.
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* BandageBabe: Tobi
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** 221-250: Same as above, but speech bubbles get a wider variety of colors and decorated framse, but revert to all-caps comic font.

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** 221-250: Same as above, but speech bubbles get a wider variety of colors and decorated framse, frames, but revert to all-caps comic font.
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** 221-250: Same as above, but speech bubbles get a wider variety of colors and revert to all-caps comic font.

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** 221-250: Same as above, but speech bubbles get a wider variety of colors and decorated framse, but revert to all-caps comic font.



** [[Webcomic/HeroOhHero Reboot]]: A mix of the last two and 182-250 styles. Burk and Tobi are more or less like in the filler, Veda and filler Noah got recolored, Three and Pablo reverted to older styles. Texts are all-caps black on white with few exceptions.
* ArtShift: Mainly, the character close-ups described above: Noah recalling [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_101 possible teleportists]], foreshadowing [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_200 all the people to disrupt Pablo's plans]], Adell dealing with [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_203 guards]] and [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_203 prisoners]]

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** [[Webcomic/HeroOhHero Reboot]]: A mix of the last two and 182-250 styles. Burk and Tobi are more or less like in the filler, Veda and filler Noah got recolored, Three and Pablo reverted to older styles.style, Pablo is somewhere in-between. Texts are all-caps black on white with few exceptions.
* ArtShift: Mainly, the character close-ups described above: Noah recalling [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_101 possible teleportists]], foreshadowing [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_200 all the people to disrupt Pablo's plans]], Adell dealing with [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_203 guards]] and [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_203 com/aptgg_204 prisoners]]

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* ArtEvolution: The early strips use RPG-style dialog boxes before switching to speech balloons. The character sprites have changed at least once, and the backgrounds switched from vector art to pixel art.
* ArtShift: The sprites themselves go through multiple iterations. From the first style, to a larger more detailed style to the current, more retro style (with detailed character profiles in speech bubbles.)

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* ArtEvolution: The early strips use used RPG-style dialog boxes before switching to speech balloons. balloons, which went through 4 different fonts. The character sprites have changed were redesigned at least once, and the 5 times (but only 3 distinct sets were used in multiple strips). The backgrounds switched from vector art to pixel art.
* ArtShift: The
art to match the sprites, then again to vector and again to pixel. Early strips had some kind of filter applied, [[SlidingScaleOfShinyVersusGritty which covered background and sprites themselves go through multiple iterations. with brown squiggles]]. From the first style, to a larger more detailed style to the current, final, more retro style it went like this:
** 1-89: Human sprites about 30x60 pixels (for Burk, Eloy and Three) at double magnification
(with occasional zoom out). Backgrounds use higher resolution, but the filter makes them look like hand-drawn watercolors on brown cartridge paper. Dialogs take separate panels with light condensed font and portraits on the sides, like in some [=RPGs=]. Those panels are high-resolution and the portraits are ''incredibly'' detailed.
** 90-100: Same as above, but dialog panels are gone, replaced with round speech bubbles with the same condensed font. The author said the portraits took too much time to draw.
** 101-106, 110: Same as above, but switched to an "uncial" font[[note]]imitating early medieval scripts, with "d" like small Greek delta "δ", common in 16-bit fantasy games like ''VideoGame/{{Obitus}}''[[/note]] in speech bubbles. One page uses hand-drawn portraits for close-ups.
** 107-109, 111-114: Same as above, but without the brown paper effect. The backgrounds are nice clean vector art.
** 115-143, 145-181: Same as above, but switches to a more traditional all-caps "comic" font. Character sprites seem a bit streamlined.
** 144: Character sprites redesigned completely. They have the same resolution as background. "Super deformed" style — huge heads on short bodies. For example, Three's head is 84 pixels instead of 50. Some items, like doors, are still low resolution pixel art.
** 182-199, 201, 202, 205-215: More
detailed sprites. Background becomes pixel art at the same resolution as characters and items. Character close-ups use the same pixel art sprites at 3x or 4x zoom instead of 2x. All in all, the strips resemble an [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer MS-DOS VGA]], UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}} or UsefulNotes/AtariST game.
** 200: Character close-ups are pixel art at 2x, more detailed than their sprites.
** 203, 204: Character close-ups use different non-pixelated style, but with a limited palette.
** 216-220: Same as 205-215, but speech bubbles become rectangular, get colored backgrounds and frames, and switch to a pixelated font imitating fonts of some 16-bit games.
** 221-250: Same as above, but speech bubbles get a wider variety of colors and revert to all-caps comic font.
** 251-256: Sprites and backgrounds redesigned completely, they are no longer pixelated. Proportions remain more or less the same.
** 257-288: Another redesign, pixelation is back. Characters are much shorter and with bigger heads — Three is 20x40, Burk is 22x46, heads are 20 (all at 2x zoom). Portraits occasionally appear in speech bubbles. Graphics bears more semblance with 4th generation consoles.
** 289-294: Filler featuring complete redesign for Noah (green hair, school uniform) and somewhat bigger body for Tobi. Speech bubbles are again plain rectangles with black text on white background.
** [[Webcomic/HeroOhHero Reboot]]: A mix of the last two and 182-250 styles. Burk and Tobi are more or less like in the filler, Veda and filler Noah got recolored, Three and Pablo reverted to older styles. Texts are all-caps black on white with few exceptions.
* ArtShift: Mainly, the
character profiles in speech bubbles.)close-ups described above: Noah recalling [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_101 possible teleportists]], foreshadowing [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_200 all the people to disrupt Pablo's plans]], Adell dealing with [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_203 guards]] and [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_203 prisoners]]



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* AnotherDimensionAnotherDimension: Possible location of [[spoiler:Rauel]] and the place with dinosaurs [[spoiler:where Noah teleports]].



* {{Golem}}

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* {{Golem}}{{Golem}}: "Pod soldiers" and Three.



* KnowsTheRopes: Lacey's WeaponOfChoice (along with a normal sword). Not quite RazorFloss — he hasn't cut anything with it.



* MagicPants: Three's clothes always look intact. Per WordOfGod, he repairs them that quickly.



* RazorFloss: Lacey's WeaponOfChoice (along with a normal sword), although he hasn't cut anything with it yet...



* TeleportersAndTransporters: [[spoiler:Noah's true magical ability. Sort of.]]

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* TeleportersAndTransporters: [[spoiler:Noah's true magical ability. Sort of.]]]] Teleportation seems to move him either a very precise distance and direction, or to some parallel world. If he teleports, walks, say, a mile in a given direction, then teleports back, he returns a mile away from the starting point. Interestingly, Veda seems quite familiar with this limitation and the wildlife at the destination.


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* BadAss: Burk



* DualWielding: Burk sees this ability as essential to the "[[BadAss Cool Guy]]" of his ideal party.

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* DualWielding: Burk sees this ability as essential to the "[[BadAss "Badass Cool Guy]]" Guy" of his ideal party.
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-> ''Name's Burk. Remember that name well; soon it'll be legendary.''

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-> ''Name's ''"Name's Burk. Remember that name well; soon it'll be legendary.''"''



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* TheProfiler: Noah. A bit of a ClockKing too. Sadly, downplayed in the reboot.
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* CrazyPrepared: The diplomat.

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After the reboot the old comic is hard to access on its site.


As of the beginning of 2013 it has been rebooted as ''WebComic/HeroOhHero''.

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As of the beginning of 2013 it has been rebooted as ''WebComic/HeroOhHero''.
''WebComic/HeroOhHero''. The original comic can still be read starting [[http://www.neorice.com/aptgg_1 from here]] [[http://www.neorice.com/aptgg_294 to here]].
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* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Burk, whenever he loses his pants.


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* SleevesAreForWimps: Burk.


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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Burk wears an open vest.

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* BlackKnight: Mai Aceland, ironically known as "[[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy The White-Haired Knight]]".

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* BlackKnight: Mai Aceland, ironically known as "[[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy The "The White-Haired Knight]]".Knight".



* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: [[strike:[[WordOfGod Mai]]]] The mysterious "White Knight".



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Adding link to the relaunched webcomic\'s page (which I\'m about to create).

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->-- '''Burk'''

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->-- -->-- '''Burk'''









* EyelessFace: Apples... made of flesh. [[NightmareFuel Hey, they're growing!]]

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* EyelessFace: Apples... made of flesh. [[NightmareFuel Hey, they're growing!]]growing!



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-> ''Name's Burk. Remember that name well; soon it'll be legendary.''
->-- '''Burk'''

''[[http://www.neorice.com/ A Path to Greater Good]]'' is an original PixelArtComic created by Guido "Neorice" Bos. The comic follows the stories of three people: Burk, a quixotic hero who has set out on a seemingly impossible quest, Noah, a young man who seems to be developing magical powers, and Tobi, an extremely unlucky young woman whose life falls apart in an instant. The three heroes have not crossed paths, but they all exist in the same world.
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!!Tropes used include:
* ActionGirl: Tobi
* ArtEvolution: The early strips use RPG-style dialog boxes before switching to speech balloons. The character sprites have changed at least once, and the backgrounds switched from vector art to pixel art.
* ArtShift: The sprites themselves go through multiple iterations. From the first style, to a larger more detailed style to the current, more retro style (with detailed character profiles in speech bubbles.)
* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Could Burk be [[ObfuscatingStupidity smarter than he looks]]?
** WordOfGod [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_burk_112 says so]]. Burk [[http://neorice.com/aptgg_burk_125 admits]] to [[InvokedTrope invoking]] the trope a few pages later, though it's unclear to what extent.
* AnimeHair: Multiple examples. Although The Emperor's stands out.
* AnotherDimension
* AxCrazy: Lacey.
* BadAss: Burk
* BandageBabe: Tobi
* BigDamnHeroes: Burk has a tendency to show up at the exact right time.
* BlackKnight: Mai Aceland, ironically known as "[[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy The White-Haired Knight]]".
* TheBlank: Three. [[YouAreNumberSix Yes, that's his name]]. [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname Well, close enough]].
* {{Brainwashed}}: The Joy group
* CallingYourAttacks: "[[GreenThumb DRAGON COIL!]]" (According to the author: "[[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat I Always Wanted To Write That]]")
** "BOVINE KICK!" *kicks cow*
* CompanionCube: Mr. Acorn. The Emperor's hair is treated this way by fans.
* CrazyEnoughToWork: Burk's plan to free Gang Rule Town.
* DishingOutDirt: Sunny's ability.
* DoomedHometown: [[spoiler:Tobi's village]] appears to be an example, though there is evidence that [[spoiler:she was transported elsewhere instead]].
* DualWielding: Burk sees this ability as essential to the "[[BadAss Cool Guy]]" of his ideal party.
* ExpositionDiagram: Uses type 3 while [[DishingOutDirt Sunny]] explains how he's [[http://www.neorice.com/aptgg_271 able to bypass an attacker's magic shield]].
* EyelessFace: Apples... made of flesh. [[NightmareFuel Hey, they're growing!]]
* FunctionalMagic: The rise of magic is one of the driving factors of the series.
* GadgeteerGenius: Tobi
* {{Golem}}
* GrapplingHookPistol: Tobi had one built into some armour on her arm, though she appears to have lost it.
* HeroicBastard: Noah, as seen in [[http://www.neorice.com/aptgg_181 this]] dialogue.
* HeroicBSOD: Happens to Tobi in the desert.
* InstantKnots: Lacey can do this with some sort of rope based weapon.
* LeeroyJenkins: Burk
* LovecraftianSuperpower: Three has these sorts of abilities, but [[MagicPants his clothes somehow aren't damaged.]] Flesh golems can do this too.
* MirrorMonologue: Noah
* OnlyAFleshWound: Subverted - [[spoiler:Tobi's wounds were actually near-fatal - she failed to realise this due to a "numbing venom"]].
* OurElvesAreDifferent: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. A group of humans discovered GreenThumb magic, and were called "elves" as a racial slur.
* OutlawTown: Gang Rule Town
* RazorFloss: Lacey's WeaponOfChoice (along with a normal sword), although he hasn't cut anything with it yet...
* RuleOfCool: Everything Burk does.
* RuleOfFunny: Everything ''else'' Burk does.
* SimultaneousArcs
* SpeechImpediment: Miss Veda's stutter.
* StepfordSmiler: The Joy group
* StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Lacey often pauses at odd moments.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: [[spoiler:Noah's true magical ability. Sort of.]]
* TwoScenesOneDialogue: [[http://www.neorice.com/aptgg_221 Here.]]
* UnsoundEffect: Burkick'd!
** ''Grosssfx!''
* ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption: The only way Burk can save Gang Rule Town.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: At the start of the series, Noah has the amazing magical ability... '''to not see his own reflection!''' (other people can still see it). It [[MagikarpPower later develops into something more useful]].
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: [[strike:[[WordOfGod Mai]]]] The mysterious "White Knight".
* YouAreNumberSix: Three.
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