| 1 | -->'''raocow:''' I have placed myself in a sticky situation where from now on every series needs its own naming gimmick. |
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| 3 | While it's a given that many [=LPs=] [[IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming follow a pattern in episode naming]], LetsPlay/{{raocow}} takes it to an art form. |
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| 6 | |
| 7 | [[folder:ROM Hacks]] |
| 8 | ''[[AC:VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld]]'' |
| 9 | * In ''Hyper V'', every one uses Roman numerals, either appended to the end or somewhere in the middle. (At least, [[PlatformHell up to a point]]. After that, he starts using negative numbers.) |
| 10 | * In his [=YouTube=] playthrough of ''[[VideoGame/TheSecondRealityProject The Second Reality Project 2]]'', every episode name was "(something in level) Action". |
| 11 | ** In the playthrough of the ''[[UpdatedRerelease Reloaded]]'' version, it's quotes from the original playthrough, made during whatever equivalent level(s) are being played through that video. |
| 12 | * In ''H*CK'', the title and description of the first video are VIDEO and DESCRIPTION, respectively. The second video has COMMENTARY and ALREADY BEATING A DEAD HORSE. |
| 13 | ** ''Hack 2'': "I am the *gimmick from one of the levels* man" |
| 14 | ** For ''HACK 3'', he uses a one-word description of the gimmick in each level he plays. |
| 15 | * In ''VideoGame/AnSMWCProduction'', every episode went by "that/those [subject]". Except for "Tempestuous XXIX", which references ''Hyper V'''s naming scheme. |
| 16 | * In ''Scarlet Devil Mario 2'', every episode is color-animal-relevant noun. |
| 17 | * ''[=FreedoMN=]'' titles are in the format of "phrase, similar phrase" |
| 18 | * In ''VideoGame/MarioGivesUp 2'', all of the video titles are quotes from the video at or around the 4 minute mark. |
| 19 | ** ''Mario Gives Up 3'' has feelings for titles, usually connected to the level(s) played. |
| 20 | * In ''S Mario'', titles follow the "Adjective-Noun" scheme. |
| 21 | * ''Romancing Mario'''s episodes are all the titles of albums released in 1992, the same year ''VideoGame/RomancingSaGa'' was released. |
| 22 | * For his rerevisit of ''VIP 1'', raocow uses Latin titles. |
| 23 | ** For his ''[=VIP2=]'' redo LP, he uses the first sentence (or phrase) found in the first text box (or if there are no text boxes, other object) he finds. |
| 24 | ** For the ''VIP 3'' redo, he uses ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' moves, and seems to be limiting himself to ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' specifically. |
| 25 | ** Episodes of his 2018 ''VIP 4'' LP are named after different anime series--specifically those from around 2008-2009 when he first LP'd VIP 4. |
| 26 | ** For his 2019 replay of ''VIP 5'', the videos are titled after whatever he said at the five-minute mark of the corresponding video from his original run. |
| 27 | ** For Zombie ''[=VIP6=]'', episodes are named after a work referenced in one of the levels, since the series as a whole is ReferenceOverdosed. |
| 28 | * "3000 Leagues In Search Of Bowser"'s titles are the names of various novels. |
| 29 | * ''Super Marina World'' videos are named for whatever he says four minutes before the end of the video. |
| 30 | * ''The Variety of Chance'' videos are named for a [[Franchise/TouhouProject spellcard]] of one of the characters that shows up in the episode or that references something that shows up in the episode or, barring that, the name of an attack or weapon of one of the characters that shows up or references something that shows up in the episode. |
| 31 | * The Second Reality Project Reloaded gets a different nickname each episode of its LP, [[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo usually one that makes it look like a movie sequel]]. |
| 32 | * The episodes in ''Super Pika Land Ultra'' are all named for moves in ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}.'' Not to mention, the descriptions are all Pokédex entries (including romhacks and the anime), bar part 15, which is taken from the Touhou wiki. |
| 33 | * Zombie ''[[VideoGame/ASuperMarioThing A2MT]]'''s episodes have a two-part naming gimmick: |
| 34 | ** The main episodes all have the word "oh" in them. |
| 35 | ** The episodes where he replays the levels for various reasons (such as the levels being broken in the base rom or stuff he missed) are titled "a [adjective relevant to the level(s)] supplement". |
| 36 | * ''Superb Demo Sisters'' has {{Edible|Theme Naming}} and LocationThemeNaming for each of its worlds. The description for each video/world is a recipe using the former as an ingredient. |
| 37 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{Something}} Something Else]]'' has AlphabeticalThemeNaming. The first episode's title starts with the letter "A", and each episode after starts with the letter after the previous. |
| 38 | ** After the twenty-sixth video, the video names [[NumericalThemeNaming start with numbers]] followed by the number spelled out in parentheses. |
| 39 | * ''SMW Remix'' has FightingGame {{meme|tic mutation}}s. |
| 40 | * For JUMP, he uses mini-games from the ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' corresponding to the world he's in's number (World 2 names are from Mario Party 2, etc). Makes sense, given that JUMP stands for "Janked Up Mario Party." For the postgame, he uses ''VideoGame/WarioWare'' microgames. |
| 41 | ** For ''JUMP 1/2'', he uses the titles of manga that have run in ''Magazine/ShonenJump'' |
| 42 | * For ''The Hooray'', the title of each episode is "<main focus of a level played> season" to reflect on the romhack's subtitle "Fishing Season." |
| 43 | ** ''Fishing Season 2'''s videos are titled after ''Literature/NancyDrew'' books, since the protagonist is a girl named Nancy. |
| 44 | * Videos for the romhack ASPE are titled after various species of snakes, as the hack is pronounced like "asp", a type of snake. |
| 45 | * Videos for his The Old and New Super Mario world series are "test.smc.#.XXX" (# for a number, XXX for a filename extension), due to the subtitle "Test.smc." |
| 46 | * For the ''Rise to the Challenge'' revisit, in raocow's own words, "[[https://youtu.be/W73-B2nEvBE each video name and description are a mirror of the video of the same number from [the] original rttc run]]". |
| 47 | * ''Luigi's Adventure: Overseas Edition'' has each video titled after whatever raocow says as he dies for the last time in the video; if he gets through a video without dying, the video is "[untitled]". |
| 48 | * Every episode of ''Mario and Waluigi: In Pursuit of Luigi'' is named "still life". |
| 49 | * The names of ''Mario's Keytastrophe - Rebirth Edition'' episodes are puns off archangel names. |
| 50 | * Episodes of ''YUMP'' are named after Platform/{{Twitch}} emotes. |
| 51 | * Episodes of ''YUMP 2'' are named after entries on the supposed [[https://twitter.com/megax2_/status/1264217259796582401 "Super Mario 64 conspiracy iceberg"]]. |
| 52 | * Episodes of ''Super Mario Doomsday'' are named after ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' Instant Kill moves. |
| 53 | * For ''8 Powers'', the episodes are named after enemies from the ''VideoGame/{{Mother}}'' series. |
| 54 | * Episodes of ''stick mice in my head and beat my head in with a hammer and let them back out'' are named a combination of "eating", "twirling", and "bouncing" depending on the most prominent of those actions each level covered in the episode contains. The final video, covering the [[AllTheWorldsAreAStage final exam stage]], has the portmanteau "eatwirlcing". Additionally, starting with the second video, the title is replaced by a mouse emoji ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ. |
| 55 | * Episodes of ''Super "Mario" World "2"'' are historic Greek expressions written in English. |
| 56 | * In the LP of ''Super SIG World 38'', every video has a title that is as many words long as levels raocow played through therein (not counting replayed levels). |
| 57 | * The ''Nachos and Fried Oreos'' LP gradually subverts this trope. The first couple of episodes began with the phrase "life profit:" and expressed raocow's actual life profit/loss relative to the lives he started the video with. After it was pointed out that this could be a SpoilerTitle, the amounts in the following episodes became vague and non-numeric. Then the gimmick was scrapped altogether in the final episode. |
| 58 | * Each video for his LP of ''VideoGame/SuperDemoWorldTheLegendContinues'' is given a title that was used for the first/pilot episodes of various TV series, by virtue of the fact that this was the first full-length ''Super Mario World'' ROM hack to have been created. |
| 59 | * The video titles of his replay of ''VideoGame/ASuperMarioThing'' are brief descriptions of the levels featured. |
| 60 | ** Videos focused on the OneHundredPercentCompletion of "King Charles' Castle" have a three-word title that fits the format "___ and ___". |
| 61 | ** Videos focused on the eight mini-stages of "Trial of Iron" have a description for each one in the title, each description containing a word that starts with "fe", and "FE" is capitalized. |
| 62 | * ''Rakugaki Mario'' episodes are named after levels from the ''VIP'' series. |
| 63 | |
| 64 | ''[[AC:VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland]]'' |
| 65 | * New! Super Mario World 2 episodes all have an ExcitedTitleTwoPartEpisodeName. |
| 66 | |
| 67 | ''[[AC:VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3]]'' |
| 68 | * Videos for ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3Mix'' were named after live-action segments in ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosSuperShow'', except for videos covering [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy the Prankster Comets]], which were named after episodes of ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989''. |
| 69 | * For the ascetic run of vanilla [=SMB3=], each video is titled with its Website/YouTube video ID. |
| 70 | |
| 71 | ''[[AC:VideoGame/SuperMario64]]'' |
| 72 | * ''[[VideoGame/SuperMario64LastImpact Last Impact]]'''s videos are named after fish, with the first video being named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahoo "wahoo"]]. |
| 73 | * Episodes of the ''Peach's Memory'' LP use shades of red, as the main collectibles in the romhack are red stars. |
| 74 | [[/folder]] |
| 75 | |
| 76 | [[folder:SMBX Episodes]] |
| 77 | * In the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosX'' game ''The Invasion 2'', every episode is titled with a trope name from Website/ThisVeryWiki. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] with the title of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8zxhPGOoV0 episode 9]]: IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming. |
| 78 | * In ''The Great Empire'', another ''SMBX'' game, the episodes are titled with a culinary item that somehow relates to the levels covered. |
| 79 | * Super Talking Time Bros. episodes are each titled after songs from a different SelfTitledAlbum, in reverse chronological order. |
| 80 | * ''[[VideoGame/ASuperMarioThing ASMBXT: Prelude to the Stupid]]'''s titles are all bits of text found in the video, usually from a text box. |
| 81 | * The episodes for the LP of ''[[VideoGame/ASuperMarioThing A Second Mario Bros. X Thing Episode 1: Analog Funk]]'' have titles referencing text found within the game, much like in ASMBXT's LP. |
| 82 | ** This appears to be the general format for all of Talkhaus' SMBX productions, as it happens again during the MAGL Xontest 2 playthrough. In that particular series, however, a new naming scheme was used from episode 50 onwards, since it was the point of transition between 'parts' of the contest (as so many participants had entered, two separate game files were required to split them). Each episode from there uses the name of a relevant ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' card to the events of the video, in reference to how the concurrent MAFAB[[note]]Make A Fun Awesome Boss[[/note]] contest within it required its participants to craft their bosses. The naming scheme from Worlds 19 and 20 are a random statement from one of the judge's comments regarding the levels. |
| 83 | * Episodes of ''A Second X Thing Episode 2: Digital Groove'' are named for a piece of background music featured in the video. |
| 84 | * ''Super Mario Japan ~Truth Story~'' has titles composed of parts of the names of levels encountered in the video. |
| 85 | * The titles for ''Hypnosis Redo'' describe the thumbnails for their associated videos. |
| 86 | * ''Betterified II'' episodes are titled with a single emoji that highlights a focus of the first level played. |
| 87 | * ''Betterified VI'' expands on this and has episodes titled with one emoji for every level played. |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Contests]] |
| 91 | * Several of the Tower Of Biased 2 Titles are callbacks to earlier titles in the LP. |
| 92 | * The top ten levels from MAGLX are called "the one with(out) *something that is(n't) in the level*", barring "goldst" which is called "the won that one" |
| 93 | ** The top three are named after metals commonly used in medals. In keeping with second and first place, the postgame levels all have the title "(name of element)th place." |
| 94 | * For the Kaizo Contest X videos, he gives names to the level creators that sound like ''Franchise/MegaMan'' bosses. |
| 95 | * Videos for the third Make a Good Level contest use parts of the entrants' usernames for the titles, arranged to form a phrase or a new username, or if it is a one-level video, a reference to the entrant's username. |
| 96 | * The videos for his SMW Vanilla Level Design Contest 9 LP all reference songs from albums that have "Nine" or "9" in the title. |
| 97 | ** Videos for the 11th Vanilla Level Design Contest from SMW Central are titled with anagrams of the usernames of contest entrants whose entries were played. (In one case, however, he also extended the anagram into an acronym.) |
| 98 | ** Videos for VLDCX are taken from the name of a level other than the main entry, or something visible on the map. |
| 99 | * ''Level Contest Japan'' episodes are named for the first enemy he defeats within the video. |
| 100 | * Videos from ''[=CLDC=]''[[labelnote:*]]''Chocolate Level Design Contest'', a level design contest with an emphasis on custom graphics and creativity [[/labelnote]] are named after a gimmick or custom sprite found in the level(s). |
| 101 | * ''24 Hour Contest 11'' used a gimmick so idiosyncratic that he had to explain it in the last episode: they were named after American PanelGames, most of which were from the 40s and 50s. |
| 102 | * ''VideoGame/MakeAGoodMegaManLevelContest'' episodes are named after enemies from the ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'' series that, even if they don't appear in the video itself, have some thematic relevance to its content. For instance, the first episode, covering the poorly constructed lowest ranked levels, is named "[[https://megaman.fandom.com/wiki/Junk_Golem junk golem]]". |
| 103 | * ''MAFAB 3''[[labelnote:*]]''Make a Fun Awesome Boss Contest''[[/labelnote]] episodes are named after the medals the bosses in the video received. |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:Non-ROM Hack Fangames]] |
| 107 | ''[[AC:Franchise/SuperMario]]'' |
| 108 | * BOWSER'S LAST STAND (or similar sounding word) - EPISODE NUMBER - [onomatopoeia for roaring] |
| 109 | * ''VideoGame/ToadetteStrikes'' has each video named after a mushroom relevant to the video [[labelnote:*]]For example, the ''agaricus arvensis'', the horse mushroom, is the name of the video in which Yoshi appears.[[/labelnote]] |
| 110 | * For ''VideoGame/AbductedToad'', each episode shares its title with a science fiction movie. |
| 111 | * For the ''VideoGame/SuperMario63'' LP, the episode titles are the names of Power Star quests from ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. |
| 112 | |
| 113 | ''[[AC:Franchise/MegaMan]]'' |
| 114 | * In ''VideoGame/MegaManRocks'', every episode is titled using a different language. |
| 115 | * In ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXMegaMan'', the titles are [[CallingYourAttacks attacks]] the bosses being tackled are known for. |
| 116 | * ''VideoGame/MegaManUnlimited'''s episode names are anagrams: |
| 117 | ** The first ten were of the weapons gained after beating that episode's boss, save for part eight, an anagram of "all Yoku Letters". |
| 118 | ** Starting from part 11, they are of recipes that involve the creature the boss is based on. The description is said recipe. |
| 119 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Rosenkreuzstilette}}'' LP uses anagrams of bosses from other games (mostly [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Robot Masters]]) each boss's attack pattern and/or stage design is based on. The lone exception is the first video, which is titled after raocow's corruption of "Seelegewehr". |
| 120 | * Episodes of ''VideoGame/MegaManRockNRoll'' use anagram titles. The first video's title, covering the intro stage, is an anagram of "Mega Man Roll", the titles for the Robot Master stage videos are based on the boss's weapon, and the videos for the fortress stages are based on descriptions of the stage bosses. |
| 121 | |
| 122 | ''[[AC:Franchise/TouhouProject]]'' |
| 123 | * In ''[[Franchise/TouhouProject Fantasy Explorer Nitroid]]'', all episodes are common aphorisms with one word replaced by "kappa". |
| 124 | * In [=MariAri2=], the titles are the rules of (or barring that, observations on) the game itself, including some [[CaptainObvious fairly obvious]] ones. |
| 125 | * ''Takkoman -Kouzatsu World-'' videos describe the boss of the day by using one of the titles of the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' character it is based off of, and all non-preposition words have a P.eriod A.fter T.heir F.irst L.etter. Additionally, the video numbers are spelled out instead of being given in Arab numerals. |
| 126 | * ''VideoGame/MegaMari'''s setup is "The ____ One", with the blank filled with an adjective describing the boss of the stage. |
| 127 | * ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarisaLand'' videos follow the format "the witch and the [other thing featured in the video]". |
| 128 | [[/folder]] |
| 129 | |
| 130 | [[folder:Commercial (Non-indie) Games]] |
| 131 | * ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'''s episode names start with the last word (or the last part thereof) of the previous episode's name. |
| 132 | * The episode titles for the SNES ''VideoGame/{{Parodius}}'' games (''Parodius Da!'', ''Gokujou Parodius'', and ''Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius'') are all titles of one of the songs that appears in the level, whether from the [[PublicDomainSoundtrack Public Domain Soundtrack]] or from prior Konami titles. |
| 133 | * The ''VideoGame/StarTropics'' videos don't follow any particular theme until the 13th one, where they adopt the theme of "[day of the week]s of [emotion[=/=]concept]". |
| 134 | ** ''Zoda's Revenge'' videos are titled ''X + Y'', with two things that appear in the video. Occasionally only one thing, if the game uses it JustForFun/{{egregious}}ly. |
| 135 | * His ''VideoGame/WarioLand4'' videos are named after something in said video that gives him a particularly strong reaction. |
| 136 | ** ''VideoGame/WarioLandSuperMarioLand3'' episodes are named after real-life coins, specifically ones that are no longer in circulation. |
| 137 | ** ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'' episodes are named after the stage tasks. After having to defeat [[RecurringBoss one Giant Spear Man too many]], almost every noun and verb in subsequent episode titles is replaced with "spear" (culminating with ''Spear the Spear Spear Spear'') until ''Don't Shock the Owl'' snaps him out of it. |
| 138 | ** ''VideoGame/WarioLand3'''s videos are titled after the treasures he finds during his playthrough. |
| 139 | ** His LP of ''VideoGame/VirtualBoyWarioLand'' has videos titled after Mountain Dew flavors. |
| 140 | * For ''VideoGame/KirbysAdventure'', each episode is named after a copy ability or a status in the game, in all-caps. |
| 141 | ** Episodes of ''VideoGame/Kirby64TheCrystalShards'' are named after Creator/SalvadorDali paintings. |
| 142 | ** ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'' used Creator/ReneMagritte paintings. |
| 143 | * ''VideoGame/MischiefMakers'' videos are named after crimes and felonies; acts of mischief, if you will. The lone exception to this pattern is the first episode, titled "THE SHAKE SHAKE GAME". |
| 144 | * For his ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong94'' playthrough, each video is named after various shades of gray, as the original Game Boy only came in monochrome. |
| 145 | * In the ''VideoGame/DynamiteHeaddy'' LP, each video is titled after a [[ShowWithinAShow play within another show/video game/etc.]] |
| 146 | * Videos for ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' are titled after celestial objects (planets, moons, stars, nebulae, galaxies, etc.) with names relevant to the contents of the video. |
| 147 | * For his proper run of ''VideoGame/MegaManX1'', ''VideoGame/MegaManX2'' and ''VideoGame/MegaManX3'': |
| 148 | ** The first video is titled "this time for real"[[labelnote:*]]to differentiate the run from a previous Mavericks-only run he did for a (cancelled) TV show[[/labelnote]], which becomes a running joke in the descriptions of a few following videos. |
| 149 | ** Videos from the second onward are titled after pseudo-taxonomic terms for each boss. The boss's species is in Latin and their weapon/element/gimmick in Greek (E.g. Storm Eagle -> ''haliaeetus''[[labelnote:*]]eagle genus[[/labelnote]] ''kataigída''[[labelnote:*]]Greek for "storm"[[/labelnote]].) There are exceptions to this naming scheme though. After the three [=LPs=] were retroactively added to All The [=MegaMen=], they became the OddNameOut. |
| 150 | * Episodes of ''All the [[Franchise/MegaMan MegaMen]]'' are named after relevant songs released in the same years as the specific Mega Man game, with songs from different years marked with asterisks. The descriptions will usually contain a lyric from said song, though not always. |
| 151 | * Episodes of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'' don't have episode titles; instead, each episode (aside from the first) is titled "Super Mario Land 2: 6 [adjective] [currency]". |
| 152 | * For the e-Reader levels of ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3]]'', the title of every episode is an adjective ending in "-ic". |
| 153 | * The videos for the ''VideoGame/RaymanOrigins'' LP use Shift-JIS emojis, a reference to how he calls Electoons "emojis" in the first video. |
| 154 | * ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'' episodes are named after lyrics from the [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong64 DK Rap]], specifically those about Donkey Kong himself. |
| 155 | ** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry2DiddysKongQuest'' video titles incorporate [[FictionalCurrency coins and currencies from fiction]], in reference the the several different types of coin that the player needs to collect throughout its levels. |
| 156 | ** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'' episode titles are references to [[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Kuma]]'s ''Tekken Tag Tournament 2'' moveset, a reference to the many bears encountered throughout the game. %% This gimmick was so idiosyncratic that raocow had to explain it in the relevant Talkhaus thread. |
| 157 | ** ''Donkey Kong Land'' video titles are words that start with C and end in Y. |
| 158 | ** Episodes of ''Donkey Kong Land III'' are named after British food. |
| 159 | ** Arcade[=/NES=]-era games are given vaguely descriptive titles along the lines of "Ape Game". This extends to the [=DK64=] playthrough in the episode where [[EmbeddedPrecursor raocow plays the original]]. |
| 160 | ** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' video titles list the PlotCoupons, upgrades, etc. that raocow obtains in each video. |
| 161 | * ''VideoGame/StarFox1'' videos are named after geometric structures, each episode adding another side (point, angle, triangle, square, etc.). |
| 162 | * ''All the [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Sonics]]'' follows the same naming scheme that ''All the Mega Men'' did, this time with the descriptions being much more consistent about containing lyrics from the featured song. One-shot videos of games that don't merit longer playthroughs for one reason or another also have their title modified to ''All the [[MemeticMutation Sanics]]''. |
| 163 | ** From video 500 onward, every [[MilestoneCelebration hundredth video]] has emojis surrounding the video number, the emojis themselves relating somehow to whatever happens in the video. |
| 164 | ** The Expert run of ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'', done while the series was ostensibly on hiatus, was named after several of the game's possible paths. |
| 165 | * ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' episodes are titled after dances. |
| 166 | * Episodes of ''VideoGame/HenryHatsworthInThePuzzlingAdventure'' are titled after logic puzzles, the names of which sharing some thematic connection with the contents of the level played. |
| 167 | * ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot1996'' video titles ask various questions about the main character's species, usually in relation to what happens in the video. |
| 168 | ** ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'' video titles are (usually negative) opinions or observations about something that raocow struggles with in said video. |
| 169 | ** ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot3Warped'' episodes are named after various species of Australian wildlife. |
| 170 | * ''VideoGame/ARoseInTheTwilight'' LP episodes have titles commenting on the vast quantities of [[BloodMagic red]] found in the game. |
| 171 | * For ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', episode names comment on the events of the episode, but each one starts with one of the symbols for the elements, ordered as they would be on the periodic table. |
| 172 | * Episodes of ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy Reroll'' are named after the category rolled up the most and the Xth item rolled up (where X is the episode number) in the first run of the day's level. When the video features a constellation level, the category is replaced by an epithet the King of All Cosmos gives the katamari. |
| 173 | * ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' episodes are, fittingly, titled after movies about war, or set against the backdrop of a war. |
| 174 | * ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' videos are named after moves of Capcom characters in the ''VideoGame/MarvelVSCapcom'' series. |
| 175 | * ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'' videos are all titled "today I was a[=/=]an (object possessed in the video) and (action performed while possessing said object)" |
| 176 | * ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998'' videos are named after songs and albums by Music/DeepPurple. |
| 177 | * ''VideoGame/BangaiO'' videos are named after anime/manga featuring HumongousMecha. |
| 178 | * From the second video on, ''VideoGame/TheLostVikings'' uses [[FunWithAcronyms backronyms]] of the game's passwords. |
| 179 | * Each ''VideoGame/DuckTales'' video is named after something that costs near to or exactly the total amount of money Scrooge has by the end of the video in USD. |
| 180 | * Titles of ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' videos describe the [[SpeakingSimlish voice grunts]] of one of the characters featured in said video, e.g. "it's like when you rub a damp cloth deep inside a glass" to describe Bottles' voice. |
| 181 | ** ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'' videos borrow ''Donkey Kong 64''[='=]s pattern, listing everything raocow acquired or unlocked in that episode. |
| 182 | * Starting from after video [[ArcNumber seven,]] every ''VideoGame/Killer7'' video is numbered as "7+X", with X being the number of videos since the last multiple of 7 (video 8 is numbered "7+1", video 9 is numbered "7+2", etc.), with an additional "7+" added after every seventh video (video 15 is numbered "7+7+1", video 22 is numbered "7+7+7+1", etc.). |
| 183 | ** For the first two chapters, the title of each video in which raocow fights the "boss" of a chapter is a relevant Japanese word or phrase, written primarily in Kanji. For instance, the video in which [[BoomHeadshot Kurahashi and Akiba]] are defeated is titled "脳傷害", meaning "brain injury". This theme is abandoned by the third chapter. |
| 184 | * ''VideoGame/LittleNemoTheDreamMaster'' names each video after a Creator/WinsorMcCay work. |
| 185 | * ''VideoGame/OneHundredAndTwoDalmatiansPuppiesToTheRescue'' videos are named after episodes of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' (since Creator/FrankieMuniz voices the player character), with Malcolm's name removed to make the gimmick less obvious. |
| 186 | * ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' uses the names of actual galaxies, or similar celestial bodies such as nebulae or supercluster complexes. |
| 187 | * ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'' episodes all describe a star featured in the video and where or how it was obtained. For instance, the first episode is titled "the star that was inside a baby", referring to the star obtained from defeating Peewee Piranha. |
| 188 | * ''VideoGame/JumpingFlash'' uses lyrics from New Wave singles. |
| 189 | * [[OddNameOut Nearly]] every episode of ''VideoGame/FragileDreamsFarewellRuinsOfTheMoon'' has a title consisting of exactly 100 characters. |
| 190 | * Episodes of ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends 2'' are named after whatever's happening at three minutes and thirty-three seconds into the video. |
| 191 | * Episodes of ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'' are named after Copy Abilities from the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series, with the first one being titled "Star Rod" (a name that an important item in ''Paper Mario'' happens to share with an important item in ''Kirby's Adventure''). This occasionally extends to power combinations, copy ability variants, non-Copy Ability powerups, ''Smash Bros.'' moves, and parts of Kirby's general moveset. |
| 192 | * ''VideoGame/WarioWareIncMegaMicrogames'' takes the number of required microgames to complete for each chapter, the framing device of the microgames in that chapter, and the final boss microgame, and puts them together in the style of a clickbait article title. |
| 193 | ** Episode titles of raocow's playthrough of the game grid list the commands of each microgame played in the video. |
| 194 | * Episodes of ''VideoGame/BlastCorps'' are all titled "destroy the world and (insert specific thing that gets destroyed in that video)". |
| 195 | * Episodes of ''VideoGame/{{Pepsiman}}'' are named after a piece of text seen on a sign or object during the video. |
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| 198 | [[folder:Miscellaneous Games]] |
| 199 | * In ''VideoGame/{{VVVVVV}}'', every episode name was six of a certain character in a row. |
| 200 | * In ''VideoGame/BunnyMustDie'', every episode was called "Bunny Must (verb)". This did not get carried over to [[AnotherSideAnotherStory Chelsea and the Seven Devils]]. |
| 201 | ** A few videos are titled "Chelsea and the *something relevant to the video*", but this is quickly abandoned. Later, he [[LampshadeHanging lampshades this trope]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyGpVR4IKJs in one of the video descriptions]], per the quote at the top of this page. |
| 202 | * Crossing over with UnusualChapterNumbers: In his LP series of games from One More Level, the episodes are numbered in hexadecimal. |
| 203 | * ''VideoGame/{{Crazd}}'' videos are all named after mental disorders, referencing the questionable sanity of the game's player character. |
| 204 | * The ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'' videos are all "vs (something)." |
| 205 | * For ''VideoGame/DistortedTravesty'', all videos are titled in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPA IPA]]. |
| 206 | ** For ''Distorted Travesty 3'', he uses the first way he dies in the video as the title. On the [[NintendoHard rare occasions]] that he gets through a whole video without dying, the video is "Untitled". |
| 207 | * Every ''VideoGame/{{Karoshi}}'' video has a name that meticulously explains the respective game's title. This gets a CallBack in one of the ''VideoGame/DistortedTravesty'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQR3oh-SZdI video descriptions]]. |
| 208 | * The ''SUPER PIXEL MAN'' videos are all "a pretty neat ___". The number of the episode is also surrounded by periods (.1., .2., .3., etc.) |
| 209 | * ''VideoGame/CopyKitty'' - nonsensical {{Badass Boast}}s, containing the name of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_Arcana Trump]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarot_cards Tarot card]]. |
| 210 | ** For the ''Copy Kitty'' level pack made by Kirby Comment, raocow uses two word episode titles, made from the first word of the name of the first level he plays in the video and the last word in the name of the last level he plays in said video. |
| 211 | ** For ''Copy Kitty FINAL'' (i.e. Copy Kitty version 3.1.1+, Steam edition), the titles are references to attacks from Boki's/Savant's arsenal featured in each episode. |
| 212 | * VideoGame/SwimIkachan's episodes were all titled with the scientific names of various creatures, except the fourth, which is Greek for "Iron Head." |
| 213 | * The titles for ''VideoGame/ValdisStoryAbyssalCity'' are [[EitherOrTitle Either/Or Titles]] where the first parts are names of archangels and occasionally demons. The alternate titles have no specific pattern. |
| 214 | * Stellar Swing's gimmick is a noun and a verb related to something in the video, and a synonym of "robot". |
| 215 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{Two}} 2]]'''s gimmick is single Unicode characters. Starting with the tenth video, the episode numbers are replaced with letters, basically counting in base-14. |
| 216 | * ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' uses the titles of video games published by Creator/{{Capcom}}. For the Blue Burrower's Challenge Mode[[labelnote:*]]which began long after the original run due to Challenge Mode not existing at that time[[/labelnote]] he focuses specifically on ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man]]'' side-games. |
| 217 | ** The ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight: Plague of Shadows'' LP episodes are titled after ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' weapons related to the episode's contents. |
| 218 | ** Episodes for ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight: Specter of Torment'' follow the pattern "the <adjective>est <noun related to stage>". |
| 219 | ** Episodes of ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight: King of Cards'' are named after card games. |
| 220 | * His ''Soldexus'' videos follow the [[TheXOfY X of Y]] theme (with X being a type of music) that ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' frequently uses. |
| 221 | * As his LP of ''Big Fish Legend'' is set up so that he releases an episode only after finishing a B-Side LP, the videos therein reference the naming schemes of the LP previous to the episode starting with the third. For example, after his LP of ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' (for the naming convention of which see below), the fifth episode is titled "Hydrogen". In cases where he uploads multiple episodes between [=LPs=], only the one immediately after the previous LP will strictly adhere to that scheme. |
| 222 | * In ''VideoGame/WingsOfVi'' the video titles are all (somewhat) relevant professions. |
| 223 | * The ''VideoGame/EscapeGoat'' episodes are titled "Goats/mice/sheep can X" where X is something that raocow does in the video. |
| 224 | ** ''VideoGame/EscapeGoat 2'' episode titles are various synonyms for "dead", referencing the GameOver screen. |
| 225 | * His ''VideoGame/{{Iji}}'' videos are titled after elements that, wherever possible, relate to something in the video. For instance, the video where he fights the FinalBoss is titled [[spoiler:"Thorium"]]. |
| 226 | * ''VideoGame/{{Guacamelee}} Super Turbo Championship Edition'' has names of ProfessionalWrestling techniques, reflecting the main character's career as a luchador. For the sequel ''VideoGame/Guacamelee2'', the titles are events in the video or game titles with a ShoutOut in the video in Spanish. |
| 227 | * ''VideoGame/RexRocket'' uses "TheXOfY" for each episode, each relating to something raocow does in that video. |
| 228 | * Each video in the ''VideoGame/HyperLightDrifter'' series appears to be named after a branch of mathematics. |
| 229 | * Episodes of ''FLY'N'' are named after water sports, with gerunds ending in "in'" instead of "ing". |
| 230 | * Episodes of VideoGame/ABoyAndHisBlob are all of the form [adjective] blob, [adjective] [noun]. |
| 231 | * Each part of ''[=FULL BORE=]'' is named after a block or item from VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}. |
| 232 | * Episodes of ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'' are named after bosses from ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', a reference to how the two games are often jokingly likened to each other for their difficulty. The titles chosen are relevant to the boss featured in some way; for example the episode featuring BashBrothers Ribby and Croaks is titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abr7rXuqHCo "ornstein and smough."]] Episodes of the DLC are named after ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' bosses. |
| 233 | * Each episode of ''VideoGame/RabiRibi'' is named after a type of candy, usually one with a name related to something in the episode. |
| 234 | * Episodes of ''VideoGame/{{Celeste}}'' are named after ''Franchise/StarTrek'' episodes. This is seemingly a reference to William Shatner's [[MemeticMutation infamous]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2ftCitvyQ "Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain, why is he climbing a mountain?"]] quote from the DVD extras of ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'', a question that could also apply to the protagonist of ''Celeste''. |
| 235 | ** The main game uses titles from [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries the original series]]. |
| 236 | ** The B-sides uses titles from [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]. |
| 237 | ** The C-sides uses titles from [[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]. |
| 238 | ** The "Farewell" DLC changes which Star Trek series it references based on what raocow perceives as the allegorical A-Side, B-Side and C-Side. It starts with [[Series/StarTrekDiscovery Discovery]] before shifting back to [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Enterprise]] after the heart, and moving onto [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Voyager]] after the rhythm blocks segment. |
| 239 | * ''VideoGame/JigglyZone'''s videos are titled "JIGGLY ZONE [EPISODE NUMBER] [UNIT OF MEASUREMENT]". |
| 240 | * raocow's videos for his ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'' LP are titled with places where and things on which you can sit, usually related to something within each video. [[spoiler:Meanwhile, his failure clips/videos from trying to beat the Pantheon of Hallownest all contain "hallownest".]] |
| 241 | * ''VideoGame/LaMulana'' videos are named after games that were LP'd by LetsPlay/DeceasedCrab. |
| 242 | ** ''VideoGame/LaMulana2'' episode titles complete the phrase "[[PlayerCharacter Lumisa]] is (a) X", according to her actions and accomplishments in that video. |
| 243 | * For ''1000 Amps'', each episode is named after his percentage of completion by the video's end. |
| 244 | * Episode titles for ''VideoGame/{{Iconoclasts}}'' reference various types of wrenches, as the game's protagonist is a WrenchWench. |
| 245 | * ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'': |
| 246 | ** Main game episodes use [[TemporalThemeNaming units of time]], alluding to the game's title. |
| 247 | ** The Death Wish episodes changes this to units of length and space. |
| 248 | ** The two-part finale of Death Wish changes this to [[FiveStagesOfGrief stages of grief]]. |
| 249 | * ''VideoGame/{{Wandersong}}'' episodes are named after bard spells from TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons (5th Edition). Episode 13, which features [[spoiler:a segment playing as the Hero, Audrey Redheart]], is named after a paladin spell instead. |
| 250 | * Episodes of ''VideoGame/GatoRoboto'' are named by the following formula: They start with "solve for X;", and are followed by a phrase or idiom that contains the word "cat", except that "cat" is replaced with "X". Some episodes are titled in foreign languages, but the main title gimmick remains constant. |
| 251 | * Each episode of ''VideoGame/LifeGoesOn: Done to Death'' works in the name of a particular knight that dies in each video; specifically the one who dies on the episode's number. So, for example, episode 1 is named for the first (named) knight to die. |
| 252 | * ''VideoGame/EvilZone'' episodes are named after the theme music of whichever character raocow plays as in the video. |
| 253 | * ''VideoGame/ApeOut'' videos are named after songs from the discography of Music/TheloniousMonk. |
| 254 | * ''VideoGame/{{Furi}}'' episodes are named after taunts by the bosses. |
| 255 | ** Episodes on Furier difficulty are named after how the bosses are ultimately killed. |
| 256 | * The titles, descriptions, and even video tags for ''VideoGame/TouhouGouyokuIbunSunkenFossilWorld'' episodes are all completely in Japanese, with the titles being formatted as "[BossSubtitles for the player character] VS [BossSubtitles for the featured boss]" followed by one exclamation mark for each time raocow dies in the video. |
| 257 | * The numbers in the title of ''VideoGame/OuterWilds'' videos reflect the total number of times raocow has died and restarted the game's central GroundhogDayLoop, rather than the actual episode number. The two videos that take place before the loop starts are both numbered as 0, and episodes where he dies multiple times are titled to reflect each loop that occurs in that video, such as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZnhZFMTqjQ 6 to 9]]". |
| 258 | ** Starting with episode 36, episodes that focus on the ''Echoes of the Eye'' DLC are marked with with a star emoji (⭐) directly after the episode number. |
| 259 | * ''VideoGame/Toree3D'' episodes are named with a vague description of the game containing the word "Toree", followed by a emoticon. |
| 260 | * ''VideoGame/BlackMesa'' episode titles each incorporate the atomic weight of the element whose atomic number matches the video's, usually rounded to the nearest whole. |
| 261 | * ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'''s titles are all from the player character's perspective, and take the DeadlyEuphemism in each episode's phone call at face value (unless there isn't one). |
| 262 | * ''A Hole New World'' episodes are named after knights from ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight''. |
| 263 | * Episodes of ''VideoGame/TheMessenger2018'' are named after the English titles of episodes of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. |
| 264 | ** After the game switches to 16-bit, ''Naruto: Shippuden'' episode titles are used. Episodes of the ''Picnic Panic'' DLC use the titles of ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'' episodes. |
| 265 | * ''VideoGame/HereComesNiko'' names each episode after a Website/{{TED}} Talk. |
| 266 | * ''VideoGame/SuperSamiRoll'' episodes are named after dishes consisting of multiple kinds of food, in reference to the game's opening minutes featuring multiple art styles. |
| 267 | * ''VideoGame/GravityCircuit'' episodes are named after computer viruses. |
| 268 | * ''VideoGame/HeroCore's'' videos are all ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, after his first take of part one (which was lost save for the audio). |
| 269 | * ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' videos are named for an item raocow acquired in that episode. |
| 270 | * Mid-LP, he decided to make ''VideoGame/AtLeastThereIsCedaCedovic'''s the titles of Chinese-language martial-arts movies. |
| 271 | * Episode titles for ''VideoGame/RainWorld'' all begin with the word "the", and describe something encountered in that video from the perspective of the slugcat. |
| 272 | * ''VideoGame/{{Aquaria}}'' uses the names of fictional colors. |
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| 275 | [[folder:Real Life Events]] |
| 276 | [[AC:Advent Christmas Events]] |
| 277 | * Videos from ''[=GUrP=]''[[labelnote:*]]''Gifted Up raocow Party'', the 2017 Advent Christmas event[[/labelnote]] contain the word "some/something(s)" and a description related to the gift(s) of that day. |
| 278 | * Videos from ''[=GrAPE=]''[[labelnote:*]]''Get raocow A Present Event'', the 2018 Advent Christmas event[[/labelnote]] are all named after text found on the DVD case of ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier''. |
| 279 | * Videos from ''24ade!''[[labelnote:*]]''24th Annual December Event!'', the 2019 Advent Christmas event[[/labelnote]] are named after something written on one of that day's gifts. |
| 280 | * Episodes of ''Cyber Digital Advent''[[labelnote:*]]The 2020 Advent Christmas event, so named because all the gifts were digital for the year[[/labelnote]] are given titles [[CallBack matching the title gimmicks of earlier LPs]] based on the recipient(s) of Calleoca’s presents and/or the gifts themselves.[[labelnote:*]]For example, the first proper episode is titled “shuttlepod one†as the recipient is Madeline from ''VideoGame/{{Celeste}}''.[[/labelnote]] |
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