Line #53 VideoGame/Viscerafest


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vscfestpgimage.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[BloodKnight She's]] doing [[MookHorrorShow all of this]] ''for love''.]]
3	->''"Let's start from the top. Name's Caroline, 27 Years old, Arms Enthusiast, Full time Mercenary, and Girlfriend to a wonderful man named Athens Fedder. Been hopin' to propose for awhile now, but unfortunately work's been a bit slow, meaning rings aren't exactly in my price range. Thankfully, some Warlock Twat named Crommune has acquired a rather hefty bounty on his head, and killing him was in the job description. Apparently he's good chums with a bunch of gits who run some kind of illegal science gig called the USC, and he was last seen heading to a base they cobbled together above the earth! So the plan's simple; break in, kill the target, collect my pay, and get home in three days, just in time for date night! So...'' '''Let's get this Bloodbath Started!"'''
4	-->--'''The game's opening cutscene'''
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6	''Viscerafest'' is a {{Retraux}} FirstPersonShooter developed by Acid Man Games and Fire Plant Games, published by 1C Entertainment, and released in early access in May of 2021, with its second chapter releasing in 2022. The plot is as simple as the intro quote suggests: In an undetermined point in the future, a very normal woman named Caroline needs some extra cash to buy a ring so she can propose to her boyfriend. An illegal science ring has set itself up over Earth, and it's been pulled together by an alien named Crommune and his warhawk buddies. Between him and you is a gigantic space station packed to the brim with monsters and hostile aliens. Seems simple, right?
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8	Well, it seems like Caroline has jumped into something a little more complicated than what she bargained for... Of course, that would force her to have to ''care'', which Crommune and his cronies may find is harder to get out of her than you might think.
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10	''Viscerafest'' is a lightning-fast game based in small part on games like ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' or ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}'' (and also [[VideoGame/DoomEternal one modern influence]]), where lots of things can be interacted with, the weapons are explosive and powerful, but ammo is limited and your opponent is just as deadly as you are. Caroline will have to run, shoot, bunnyhop, and punch her way through army after army of aliens. And maybe... just maybe... save the world... maybe?
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12	!!''Viscerafest'' contains examples of the following tropes:
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14	* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: In the vein similar to ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheTriad'', the weapon pickup messages are written like this.
15	--> ''YOU BAGGED A [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter BUNKER BUSTER]]''.
16	* AdorableAbomination: Some of Caroline's art gives off this impression. ''Some.'' The rest... not so much.
17	* AlienBlood: As Caroline mainly rips aliens to shreds, the entire color gamut is possible.
18	* ArmorPiercingAttack: The BBQ Burner and the Warhound are capable of penetrating shields, making them useful for disposing of Hell Birds as well as dealing direct damage to Dr. Mortice.
19	* BloodKnight: Caroline ''loves'' her job to the point that when Dr. Mortice offers to pay her off (which would let her buy that ring that's the motivation for her taking on the job in the first place) she turns him down because "she doesn't take handouts".
20	* BondOneLiner: Caroline is another proud member of the talkative FirstPersonShooter protagonist club.
21	* BorrowedBiometricBypass: The ''Fragmented Folly'' level of Chapter 1 has Caroline find an officer's decapitated head to use on a retinal scanner.
22	* BossArenaIdiocy: The fight against Dr. Mortice features EMP barrels that will stun him and disable his shields if you detonate them near his mech.
23	* BottomlessMagazines: You have finite ammunition that isn't exactly in high supply but you never need to reload.
24	* BountyHunter: Caroline's official job description, taking on a bounty on a warlord in hopes to earn enough for the ring.
25	* EasterEgg: There are some hidden [[ShoutOut references]] to other games that usually get a quip from Caroline.
26	** [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/Doom2016 Samuel Hayden's]] corpse]] can be found in ''Disposable Danger''. The same level also has a hidden [[spoiler:decapitated VideoGame/DukeNukem head]].
27	---> '''Caroline:''' ''[[VideoGame/DukeNukemForever Bet you'd wish you had that]] PowerArmor [[Franchise/{{Halo}} right about now, huh?]]''
28	** In one of the levels in Chapter 2 it's possible to find a fortune cookie with the message [[Videogame/ShadowWarrior "You want a little Wang?"]]
29	---> '''Caroline:''': No thanks, I got one at home.
30	* ExpressiveHealthBar: The HUD has a ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''-inspired portrait of Caroline on the lower left, with bloodiness level reflecting her condition.
31	* ExplosiveBarrels: Wouldn't be a Nineties-inspired shooter without them.
32	* FeatheredFiend: A common enemy is an anthropomorphic, muscle-bound avian alien that serves as one of the game's melee mooks.
33	* FirstPersonGhost: Despite the 2.5D aesthetics, (optionally) averted. You can get to see Caroline's pixelated legs when looking straight down.
34	* FragileSpeedster: Caroline is incredibly agile even by Boomer Shooter protagonist standards thanks to her dash as well as bunnyhopping letting her accelerate to ludicrous speeds but is also incredibly fragile.
35	* FunnyBackgroundEvent: The title screen has a [[{{Cult}} Nomad]] on the left, looking at the audience while sporting the "[[MookHorrorShow ....you're seeing this shit?]]" kind of expression, which is itself a reference to [[https://doomwiki.org/w/images/8/85/Doom.jpg the cover art for the original Doom]].
36	* GunsAkimbo: Caroline wields the Shredders this way.
37	* HappilyMarried: Well, Caroline's ''trying'', but proposal rings are expensive these days.
38	* HarderThanHard: There are in fact ''three'' difficulties above the designated "Hard" mode. [[NintendoHard It's that kind of game.]]
39	* HeartsAreHealth: Gibbed organic lifeforms (hostile and [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential non-hostile]]) drop hearts that provide Caroline's primary method of healing. As in, the beating organ.
40	* HumanoidAbomination: Caroline is a little... ''off'', to put it frankly. While she ''can'' look like a normal human thanks to a hologram glamor, her eyes are a bit larger than normal and look more like cat's eyes than normal human's, her smile goes literally ear to ear, she can ''eat'' the dead to gain back health (and it's implied from the art that she's doing it with octopus tentacles that pop out of her mouth), and half her face has been stripped of skin, leaving only the muscle underneath. Thankfully, the artstyle keeps it more cartoony than horrifying. [[spoiler:The story implies that she's likely a parasitic creature whose humanoid appearance was taken from the woman that was her host]].
41	* IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: The game has several sets of difficulty titles, randomly picked every time a new game menu entered. One of such sets is themed after ''relationship statuses''.
42	* InterspeciesRomance: Sure, calling Caroline human [[AmbiguouslyHuman might be a stretch]], but have you seen her fiancé?
43	* LudicrousGibs: The game isn't called ''Viscerafest'' for nothing. It also plays into [[HeartsAreHealth the primary way you regain health]].
44	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:The USC is trying to keep a SealedEvilInACan from actually busting out of it's confines, and Caroline has been unwittingly aiding it by killing them to get to Crommune.]]
45	* NintendoHard: The game does not hold your hand. Aside from the fact that Caroline is very fragile (forcing her to be on the move constantly) ammo for even the basic pistol is restricted, meaning that a spray and pray approach is heavily discouraged.
46	* QuickMelee: With the scarcity of the ammo, Caroline would end up relying on this quite a bit. Useful for gibbing enemies without wasting ammo, it's quite powerful and it has deceptively long range for a punch, being able to hit from a handful of feet away. It can also be charged for to turn it into a lunging punch.
47	* PerilousMarriageProposal: Caroline's goal is to get enough money to buy a ring to propose to her boyfriend. Unfortunately the job takes a turn for the weird.
48	* PurpleIsPowerful: Caroline has purple (or pink-ish purple) hair fashioned into a pony tail and she's a very violent and powerful [[OneManArmy One Woman Army]].
49	* RedEyesTakeWarning: Whenever her usually blue left eye turns red, Caroline is absolutely not to be trifled with.
50	* RiseToTheChallenge: The penultimate section of ''Disposable Danger'' from Chapter 1 has Caroline climb up as the lava is rising.
51	* SaveToken: Saving requires collecting and using consumable Save Beacons. The player can either use them on the spot - understandable consider [[SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity how these tend to be placed]] or save them for later if they're feeling extra ballsy.
52	* ShoutOut: It wouldn't be a Boomer Shooter without it!
53	** It's most obvious in the form of Caroline's many one-liners, which are mostly directly lifted from ''VideoGame/{{Blood}}''. Another ''Blood'' influence is Caroline's primary source of healing, which are beating hearts taken from gibbed enemies just like Caleb.
54	** The Chapter 2 update adds death splash pages, which reference ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' and Capstone Entertainment.
55	* ShotgunsAreJustBetter: Comes in two varieties:
56	** The Bunker Buster is the standard shotgun useful for taking down mid-tier enemies.
57	** The Deus Mortis is a quad-barreled monstrosity that's ludicrously strong but ammo is a lot more rare. As such it's best saved for the tougher foes.
58	* SlasherSmile: Caroline's default expression, which is enhanced by her unnaturally large mouth and rows of jagged teeth.
59	* SpannerInTheWorks: It seems like everything the Warhawks are trying to accomplish get completely sabotaged by Caroline. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, as the story progresses it becomes vague as to whether or not that would be the right thing to do, right up until [=C1L5=], where it veers straight into NiceJobBreakingItHero]]
60	* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: The game not only gives you a massive stockpile of ammo before you confront the boss of the chapter but will also autosave and explicitly tell you that you'll be facing a boss.
61	* TakeThat: In ''Disposable Danger'', one can find the [[spoiler:decapitated head of VideoGame/DukeNukem. Caroline lets out a quip referencing a rather infamous line from ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'']].
62	* TechnicolorEyes: Caroline has heterochromatic eyes that are bright greenish-blue and red. [[spoiler:Chapter I ends with a being who has the exact same eyes showing up]].
63	* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Athens is an alien who can't be more than 5 feet tall, since Caroline towers over him.
64	* TwoFaced: Caroline is missing skin on the left side of her face. When not on the job she covers it up with a hologram.
65	* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: Caroline can come across some unarmed aliens that resemble [[Franchise/MassEffect Quarians]] who can't do much beyond pleading before Caroline might eviscerate them for extra health.
66	* VideoGameDashing: One of Caroline's movement abilities, limited on a short cooldown.

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