Line #8 LetsPlay/TheBacklogs


1	-> Hey, it’s Lemon. Welcome to The Backlogs.
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3	The Backlogs is a [=YouTube=] channel run by user Submerged Lemon. He focuses on challenge runs of VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary and VideoGame/DarkSouls, specifically runs using one type of weapon/item.
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5	The channel can be found [[https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC6LBo0GXFaUtf-mWccqfw-w here]].
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7	! Tropes:
8	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Invoked for certain challenge runs, such as the VideoGame/DeadSpace2 Flamethrower run where Issac is represented as an office worker with the [[ArtifactOfDoom Marker]] interpreted as a [[FunWithHomophones writing utensil]] and Issac's growing madness recontextualized as caused by him [[TooDumbToLive sniffing it]].
9	* AudienceParticipation: Lemon's final ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'' challenge run has members of the community act as boss fights, with Lemon unable to use rest spots until he defeats the player guarding them.
10	* BadassBoast: "[[TagLine It always seems impossible until it is done]]."
11	* BringIt: The ending of the ''VideoGame/SaltAndSacrifice'' firebomb only run. Lemon chooses the Devour ending, only having three words for the gods for if they decide to punish the Firebomb Academy Scholar for his transgression: "Let them come."
12	* CrazyEnoughToWork: The whole crux of the channel. Beat the NintendoHard Dark Souls trilogy using only firebombs? Sounds insane, yet Lemon has done it.
13	* DemBones: Lemon commonly refers to these types of characters as "Tony".
14	* LimitedLoadout: The most common type of challenge run he tackles is going through the entire game with a specific weapon or weapon type.
15	* MirrorMatch: Tortoise, the final (player) opponent in Lemon's PVP ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'' challenge run, copies Lemon's build to force a match between two firebomb-chucking pugilists.
16	* NotWearingPantsDream: A variation in his ''[[VideoGame/XComEnemyUnknown Enemy Within: MEC Trooper Only]]'' run, where he mentions he had a faint memory of a MEC Trooper getting sent into the Base Defense mission without his suit. Lemon references the trope in a skit immediately afterwards.
17	--> '''Lemon!Soldier''': Did you forget your pants?
18	--> '''Lemon!MEC Trooper''': '''[[RoboSpeak NO. I FORGOT MY ENTIRE BODY.]]'''
19	--> '''Lemon!Soldier''': Oh, that's way worse!
20	* OneManArmy: Did two challenge runs of ''[[VideoGame/XComEnemyUnknown XCOM: Enemy Within]]'' that only allowed him to attack with one regular soldier and one MEC Trooper respectively. [[spoiler: Only the latter succeeded.]]
21	* PapaWolf: Shows this side of him when playing ''VideoGame/BioShock2'' plasmids while roleplaying as a Big Daddy.
22	--> '''Lemon''': [[spoiler: [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge YOU SOLD MY DAUGHTER, STANLEY]]]]!
23	* RottenRoboticReplacement: PlayedForLaughs with [=JojaBot=] in ''[[VideoGame/StardewValley Can You Beat Stardew Valley Without Using Energy]]'', a robot sent by Joja Corp. to take care of the farm. [=JojaBot=] is heavily prone to glitches, has a horrible battery life (the InUniverse reason for not using energy) with a personality that flips between {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and ComedicSociopathy with a few moments of unexpected brilliance to solve problems Lemon can't solve[[note]]Out of universe, Lemon got help from his wife[[/note]].
24	* RunningGag: In ''[[VideoGame/XComEnemyUnknown Enemy Within]]'' runs, yelling "Answer me!" with a [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse Skeletor]] impression during the Base Defense cutscene.
25	* SanitySlippage: Goes a bit loopy after months of trying to defeat [[spoiler: Gerhman]] in his [[VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}} Bloodborne molotov-only]] run, with his advice for defeating [[spoiler: The First Hunter]] interwoven between mad ramblings. He gets better, though.
26	* SirSwearsALot: Lemon curses a fair amount in his videos, using everything from “damn” to “fuck”.
27	* TechnicalPacifist: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11w5YdNPLuo Can You Beat]] VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11w5YdNPLuo As A Pacifist?]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22OI6hPhv0o Can You Beat]] VideoGame/{{Grime}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22OI6hPhv0o Without Weapons?]]'' tasks Lemon with beating games without attacking any enemies. [[LoopholeAbuse Enemies killing themselves with]] CounterAttack [[LoopholeAbuse damage, on the other hand]]...
28	* ThrowDownTheBomblet: The weapon type featured the most in his videos, with sixteen videos focusing on beating games while only using grenades and similar weapons[[note]]The ''VideoGame/DarkSouls trilogy'', ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' and ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'', ''VideoGame/SaltAndSanctuary'' and ''VideoGame/SaltAndSacrifice'', ''VideoGame/StarBound'', ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros64'', ''Jurassic Park'' for the Sega Genesis, ''Vigil: The Longest Night'', ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'', ''VideoGame/Diablo2'', ''Last Epoch'', and ''VideoGame/Starcraft2'' (as an AprilFoolsEpisode). To a lesser extent, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pSfXetYLbw Can You Defeat a Great Jagras Without Using A Weapon/Slinger?]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCc8OoR1Zx8&list=PLqhpQReBD5tsIEMwfgO2yEXPdYo3DOsBV&index=21&pp=iAQB Grime's consumable only run]] had heavy grenade focus, but did not entirely rely on them.[[/note]].
29	** "The Firebomb Goddess" is referenced in later videos as someone Lemon and his PlayerCharacter(s) follow. The tenet of the "Firebomb Academy Scholars" is, of course, to slay their foes with firebombs.

Context LetsPlay / TheBacklogs