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| 4 | [[quoteright:338:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barkleyjam_6149.jpg]] |
| 5 | [[caption-width-right:338:A hero will dunk.]] |
| 6 | ->[[RunningGag Warning: The article you are about to read is canon.]] |
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| 8 | -->''The Great B-Ball Purge of 2041, a day so painful to some that it is referred to only as the "B-Ballnacht". Thousands upon thousands of the world's greatest ballers were massacred in a swath of violence and sports bigotry as the game was outlawed worldwide. The reason: the Chaos Dunk, a jam so powerful its mere existence threatens the balance of chaos and order. Among the few ballers and fans that survived the basketball genocide was Charles Barkley, the man capable of performing the "Verboten Jam"...'' |
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| 10 | A freeware {{RPG}} by Tales of Game's (sic), and a purported sequel to the 1990s Genesis/SNES game ''Barkley Shut Up And Jam!'' |
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| 12 | It's TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture {{in a world}} where basketball is SeriousBusiness. The sport has been outlawed and the world's ballers have been hunted down and killed after a forbidden technique known as a Chaos Dunk killed millions. |
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| 14 | The game's plot follows UsefulNotes/CharlesBarkley (as in, [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer the actual real Charles Barkley]]) on a quest to save the world from the nefarious actions of B.L.O.O.D.M.O.S.E.S., a terrorist organization with sinister plans in mind. But in a world as dystopic and dark as this, is anything really worth saving? |
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| 16 | If it isn't obvious by the absurdity of the plot description and the insane blending of genres, this game is a massive parody of everything from JRPGS to cyberpunk media to internet culture. Really, the whole game is one big moment of hilarity from start to finish, from the underground colony of furries to the ruins of [[NewNeoCity Proto-Neo-New York]] and beyond. It has to be seen to be believed. Oh, and did we mention that the events of ''Film/SpaceJam'' are canonical to the game's timeline? |
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| 18 | The full title is ''Tales of Game's Presents Chef Boyardee's Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley VideoGame/{{SaGa|RPG}}''. And remember: If you can't slam with the best, [[http://talesofgames.com/barkley then jam with the rest.]] |
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| 20 | A sequel, titled ''The Magical Realms of TÃr na nÓg: Escape from Necron 7 - Revenge of Cuchulainn: The Official Game of the Movie - Chapter 2 of the Hoopz Barkley [=SaGa=]'' (colloquially called ''[[VideoGame/Barkley2CurseOfCuchulainn Barkley 2: Curse of Cuchulainn]]'') has been confirmed, with a [[http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/talesofgames/barkley-2-an-rpg-sequel-to-barkley-shut-up-and-jam Kickstarter]] that has successfully met its goal. Taking place in 666X, the game tells the story of the amnesiac cyborg [=X114JAM9=] as he searches for the Cyberdwarf in his quest to learn who he is. In 2021,after a TroubledProduction, the lone remaining developer Paperjack, [[https://talesofgames.itch.io/barkley-2/devlog/262720/the-future-of-barkley-2 released what was already made for the game to open source and effectively cancelled the project.]] |
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| 22 | However, this wasn't the last people have heard of the series, as in 2023, out of nowhere, an alternate sequel for the game was released, titled "Barkley Gaiden: The Son Of Dark Draker: Barkley Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Gaiden Episode 1". |
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| 24 | !![[RunningGag Warning: The tropes you are about to read are canon.]] |
| 25 | |
| 26 | * AbnormalAmmo: Basketballs, defective cogs, and sugar...just to name a few. |
| 27 | * AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: Cesspool X is an example of this where "gatdam animal people" live. There is an inn as well as a plastic surgeon clinic. |
| 28 | * ActionCommands: The attacks in the game are made stronger by well-timed button presses of various sorts, similar to ''VideoGame/PaperMario''. |
| 29 | * ActuallyFourMooks: Nearly every non-boss encounter is a group of at least three enemies, but they're always represented by single sprites in the overworld. |
| 30 | * AfterTheEnd: Specifically, it is set in the post-Cyberpocalypse. |
| 31 | * AffectionateParody: This game is a parody of 16-bit [=JRPGs=] and the NBA subculture of the 1990's, in particular, the trend of casting big-name athletes AsHimself in otherwise unrelated sci-fi or fantasy settings (aside from the aforementioned ''Film/SpaceJam,'' this also included ''Film/{{Kazaam}}'' and ''VideoGame/ShaqFu''). There's also a ''much'' less affectionate parody of the RPG Maker community and certain Internet subcultures in general. One of the truckpump rants (exactly one) comes from Website/SomethingAwful. |
| 32 | * AGodAmI: Allard grew to think of himself this way due to his plastic surgery practice. His speech has to be seen to be believed: |
| 33 | -->Here's a story for you: I wasn't always a doctor. I worked for a software company. We did computers, vidcons and things. I was grotesque. A pasty, balding wreck. My physical form was flabby and weak... so I decided to change it. Clispaeth put me [in] a disgusting sack of flesh, and so I went to work on it. I studied genetic engineering, plastic surgery, even fashion. I was bald, so I gave myself hair. I cut away my fat and grew muscle in its stead. God gave me a body... I refused it, and made another of my liking. I destroyed God's plan for me, and made another of my own! And to these people in the sewers, I took his place. They come to me, sad souls imprisoned in pathetic husks. I am the one who sets them free! This time, I am their creator! I give them life, and so I claim these sewers as my dominion. And here you make demands of me. In these sewers, I am a god, and I am loved for it! |
| 34 | * AllInARow: Your party behaves this way, as is standard for RPG Maker. |
| 35 | * AlmostDeadGuy: [[spoiler:Jenkins]] suddenly turns out to be this. |
| 36 | * AlternateHistory: UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution wasn't fought for America, but [[InherentlyFunnyWords Jickleberg]]. The aftermath of the war is the Cyberpocalypse. And all of it took place between 2000 and 1337 years ago. And remember, the entire movie ''Space Jam'' is still canon, somehow. It does kind of explain why there would be ''two'' Neo New Yorks, though. |
| 37 | * AlwaysCheckBehindTheChair: Lampshaded with [[GrailInTheGarbage the trash cans in the Spalding building.]] |
| 38 | * AntidoteEffect: Averted; healing items work by percents instead of fixed numbers. You'll still want to buy the all-purpose status effects cure instead of the individual status medicine, though. |
| 39 | * AnticlimaxBoss: [[invoked]]As part of the game's constant jabs at video games in general, several bosses are quite a bit weaker than they appear: |
| 40 | ** Most of the opponents in the B-Ball Dimension Arena Tournament, except for the final battle with Kevin Garnett. Special mention goes to the Flame Delmon, who blows ''himself'' up early into the fight. Barkley [[{{Irony}} comments afterwards that it was tough]]. |
| 41 | ** The [[spoiler:Ball Spider that guards Shimmerglobe]], which is just a normal enemy from an early dungeon, yet is treated as a boss with the boss music playing. |
| 42 | * AntiGrinding: [[ActuallyFourMooks Wandering enemies]] don't respawn, [[GoodBadBugs except in one area]] that gets visited twice. (Oh, and some enemies DO respawn if you exit the game and reload it; in the Spalding Building, for example.) To make up for this, your party members earn XP from victories even if they were downed in battle; the game just doesn't mention it. |
| 43 | * AntiHero: Barkley constantly switches between [[Analysis/AntiHero Disney Anti-Hero and Pragmatic Anti-Hero.]] throughout the game. "I have said it before. I am not a role model." |
| 44 | %% ArbitraryGunPower |
| 45 | * AsTheGoodBookSays: Barkley quotes Revelation 22:13 before [[spoiler: performing the chaos dunk on Shadow Barkley.]] Even though the situation is incredibly goofy, the use of scripture nicely compliments the emotion of the scene. |
| 46 | -->"I am the beginning and the end. The alpha and the omega. The first and the last." |
| 47 | * AwesomeButImpractical: The Holy Dunk and the Trickgun Assault spells are so expensive you'll almost never have a worthy chance to use them, but damn, they are so awesome! |
| 48 | * BattleThemeMusic |
| 49 | * BettingMiniGame: never bet against the Hundley... |
| 50 | * BigBad: [[spoiler:Shadow Barkley]] is the leader of B.L.O.O.D.M.O.S.E.S. who aims to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy the world]]. |
| 51 | * BiggerOnTheInside: Dikembe Mutombo's entire tomb is inside Cyberdwarf's house in Cesspool X. |
| 52 | * BlackMage: Balthios |
| 53 | * BlindIdiotTranslation: There are a lot of fake "bad translation" elements; "Gun" is always pluralized as "gun's", and people who use "gun's" are "gun'sbrasters", because they can "brast" things out of their "gun's". |
| 54 | * BoringButPractical: Charles' Double Team is one of the first moves you have access to, isn't too flashy, but is easily one of the most damaging moves he has in his arsenal as well as one of the least expensive to use, especially after acquiring the [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity Plus One B-Ball]]. The same applies to Hoopz as well, as his Gun's Slay inflicts way more damage than Trickgun Assault, and costs a third as much. |
| 55 | * BuffySpeak: "Quit Vidcon? Yeah/Nah" |
| 56 | * ButThouMust: Lampshaded at least once, when an NPC tells you he could tell you were a friend and if you'd answered "foe" he wouldn't have believed you. |
| 57 | ** Another exchange: "Will you promise to kill Raffleson?" "Nah" "Saying no is simply not an option!" (Despite that you hardly know who Raffleson or the guy telling you to kill him are). |
| 58 | * {{Camp}}: How else can you describe a game featuring Charles Barkley, his gunslinger son, a cyborg dwarf with basketball leather for skin, and a sword-wielding descendant of [=LeBron=] James with {{Elemental Powers}} fighting a monster consisting of Bill Cosby's head on a ghost body?[[note]]Other than extremely awesome?[[/note]] |
| 59 | * {{Chiptune}}: The game's theme is the Space Jam theme backed by one of these. |
| 60 | * CharacterLevel: In the game's universe your "aspiring" to reach higher levels. |
| 61 | * CleanCut[=/=]EverythingFades[=/=]StuffBlowingUp: Among the animations that randomly play when an enemy dies. |
| 62 | * CrystalDragonJesus: The people of the world worship an entity known as Clispaeth, who is actually based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crispus_Attucks Crispus Attucks]], the first man killed in the Boston Massacre. In this world however, Clispaeth Ryuji Atucks was a freedom fighter who led the rebellion against the British Empire. |
| 63 | * DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Chaos Dunk. |
| 64 | * DatingSim: Cyberdwarf's quest for "Applebottoms" in the B-Ball Dimension. |
| 65 | * DependingOnTheArtist: Within ''the same game'', many characters are depicted as looking radically different in their different sprites. Between Balthios's portrait, overworld, and battle sprites, his hair goes from long and white to short and black to short and white, respectively. Also, Hoopz's overworld sprites look nothing like how he does in-battle and in his portrait. Put simply, Cyberdwarf is the ''only'' character who has any degree of correlation between sprites and picture. Invoked from the start, where Hoopz turns into the "generic basketball player" sprite and back when showing Barkley his skills. All of this is due to the game stealing most of its art assets from other games. |
| 66 | * DevelopersRoom: [[spoiler: It's located in scenic Hell.]] |
| 67 | * DiscOneNuke: The Snail Zauber can be gained very early on from a sidequest in Cesspool X. It's a bit weaker than the Blood Zauber (The strongest you find in the last dungeon) but considering it has a +20 guard bonus and the projectile travels slower (so you can mash the button for more damage), it's overall the best Zauber to use during the whole game. |
| 68 | * DualWielding: Eventually Charles learns to dual-wield basketballs by double-dribbling, allowing his attacks to hit twice and therefore doubling his power. |
| 69 | * DuelBoss: The final battle with Michael Jordan has him and Barkley fight one-on-one. |
| 70 | * EasingIntoTheAdventure : the game starts with a visit to a Chinese pharmacy, you have to go through the neighborhood to get there. |
| 71 | * ElvesVsDwarves: Sludge Elves and Dwarves don't get along. |
| 72 | * EnemySummoner: Dread Refs can summon other Dread Refs to their side and can be quite a pain early on in the game. |
| 73 | * EnemyWithout: [[spoiler:Shadow Barkley]]. |
| 74 | * ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Athletic supporters provide overall support...[[spoiler:for your athletics.]] |
| 75 | * FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Vinceborg, once he regains his memory and remembers his objective to kill Hoopz]]. |
| 76 | * FallenHero: Michael Jordan plays this role, especially given that ''Film/{{Space Jam}}'' is considered canon. |
| 77 | * FantasticRacism: Genies are like blue Nazis when it comes to hating duergars. |
| 78 | -->"I was rubbed from a lamp many years ago and my mission is to steal civil rights from Duergars. Perhaps you could call this racism, but that is one of the main goals of all genies." |
| 79 | -->"This is merely my own personal philosophy, but I believe we should display our intolerance for Duergars on every level." |
| 80 | * FantasyKitchenSink: Features dwarves, the undead, elemental {{Magic Knight}}s, aliens, genies, and superpowered basketball players, among other things. In near-future America without explanation, no less. |
| 81 | * FanSequel: To ''Film/SpaceJam'', and (naturally) to the obscure SNES/Genesis game ''Barkley, Shut Up and Jam!''. It is unknown whether or not the Genesis-exclusive ''Barkley, Shut Up and Jam! 2'' is also considered canon. |
| 82 | * FightWoosh: About 20+ different wooshes, chosen at random when transitioning to the battle screen. |
| 83 | * FlatWhat: Barkley delivers one upon seeing the "reward" for [[spoiler: turning in the F.I.N.A.L.G.U.N. to Mark.]] You get [[spoiler:a completely worthless sticker.]] |
| 84 | * FunWithAcronyms: B.L.O.O.D.M.O.S.E.S., the Statue of L.I.B.E.R.T.Y., ~F.A.T.E~, and the legendary F.I.N.A.L.G.U.N. Mind, if any of these actually stand for anything, it's never elaborated upon. |
| 85 | * FutureFoodIsArtificial: In the post-cyberpocalypse, mankind will live off of Protein Paste and [[NostalgiaFilter Hi-C Ecto Coolers]]. |
| 86 | * GameplayAndStoryIntegration: [[spoiler:Shadow Barkley's]] ultimate attack is the Verboten Jam Barkley is so worried about using. It's a completely unblockable, perfectly accurate OneHitKill on whoever it targets. No wonder Barkley is afraid to use it himself. |
| 87 | * GameplayAndStorySegregation: After getting the SwordOfPlotAdvancement, Barkley claims he can "sink a three-pointer from 30 yards away", but his accuracy doesn't seem to improve at all from it. |
| 88 | * GlobalCurrency: "Neo-Shekels" are the currency of choice in the post-cyberpocalypse. |
| 89 | * GrammarNazi: The pump makes a long rant about people who write "Vidcon" as "Vid con". |
| 90 | * GratuitousGerman: Zaubers ("charm"s), Das Fructose Ungeheuer (also known as the Diabestie), and Verboten Jam. |
| 91 | * GratuitousJapanese: |
| 92 | ** After [[spoiler:Jordan uses a [[UniversalPoison Type-2 Diabetes]] trap on Hoopz]], Charles Barkley repeatedly calls Jordan a "UsefulNotes/{{baka}}". |
| 93 | ** Clispaeth's full name was [[JapaneseRanguage Clispaeth]] Ryuji [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution Atucks]]. |
| 94 | ** The terms "bishie" and "gaijin", among others, are used. |
| 95 | ** And UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan's last words when you beat him are "S...So desu ne..."[[note]]Can be translated as "Is that so?" or "I'm afraid so." depending on situation.[[/note]] |
| 96 | ** [[invoked]]In front of the CHINESE drugstore there is a sign in Japanese. [[TrollingCreator It doesn't actually means anything, just random letters]] |
| 97 | * GreaterScopeVillain: Cuchulainn. SealedEvilInACan [[spoiler:[[NiceJobBreakingItHero until Charles Barkley lets him free to]] [[SequelHook return in the next game.]]]] |
| 98 | * HackingMinigame: Subverted. Hinted to in the vending machine, but you never get any "science points" to attempt it. |
| 99 | * HealingHands: [[spoiler:Wilford Brimley can absorb the diabetes of others, at the price of aggravating his own. By the time you meet him, he has to stay attached to a giant insulin machine to survive, and it can no longer keep up the sheer rate of insulin he needs.]] |
| 100 | * HeroicSacrifice: It's heavily implied that [[spoiler:Charles doesn't survive the Chaos Dunk he performs at the end of the game]]. |
| 101 | * IdiotBall: In Cuchulainn's Tomb, the four party members are tested for their resolve, one after the other. The three deuteragonists all have obvious character flaws and weaknesses, whereas Barkley does not have any obvious vices that can be exploited. [[spoiler:When it's his turn to be tested, he immediately forgets about his mission and gives in to temptation:]] |
| 102 | --> "Gold... Incan Gold..." |
| 103 | * IHaveManyNames: The Yelmirb cult traitor, who is given a new name every time a new NPC brings him up in conversation. |
| 104 | * ImpossiblyCoolWeapon: [[GratuitousGerman Zaubers are not a typo for sabers]]! It's never explained what a zauber really is, but if we go by the game and the sprites, it's a CoolSword that gives you ElementalPowers, [[RuleOfFunny even snail powers!]] |
| 105 | * InformingTheFourthWall: When the game turns into an adventure game, Barkley starts doing this. Balthios eventually speaks up: "Who are you talking to?" |
| 106 | * InsistentTerminology: This game is always trying to tell it's an official sequel of the first game, JustForFun. |
| 107 | -->[-[[SelfDemonstratingArticle WARNING: This description is canon.]]-] |
| 108 | * InvoluntarySuicideMechanism: This seems to kick in on [[spoiler:Vinceborg]] near the end...[[spoiler: or he killed himself on purpose]]. |
| 109 | * InfinityPlusOneSword: |
| 110 | ** Shimmerglobe, the ultimate b-ball. After obtaining [[spoiler:both the Hell B-Ball and Shimmerglobe, Barkley will DualWield them.]] |
| 111 | ** There's also the Franchise/{{Shrek}}mono, which can only be gained by siding with the Duergar in the Chup Mines. |
| 112 | ** For Hoopz, the F.I.N.A.L.G.U.N. is the best weapon for him. Considering that [[spoiler:you can beat up the Square-Enix Goya representative for his money and giving it to Mark gives you an absolutely worthless prize]], there's not much of a reason to not give it to Hoopz. |
| 113 | * InformedAbility: Barkley can supposedly perform the Verboten Jam and the Chaos Dunk, but never actually does it during gameplay. Justified, given what the Chaos Dunk [[WeaponOfMassDestruction does]]; he simply refuses to use it unless absolutely necessary, [[spoiler:which he does to finish off Shadow Barkley at the end of the game. On that note, Shadow Barkley]] does use the Verboten Jam against you when you fight him, not having Barkley's qualms about its use. It is a OneHitKill on anyone it hits regardless of equipment or stats, making it [[GameplayandStoryIntegration actually as powerful as you are told]]. |
| 114 | * InnSecurity: [[spoiler:If you rest in the nearby inn after defeating Ghost Dad, he will come to you and thank you for helping him rest in peace.]] |
| 115 | * InSpiteOfANail: At first it seems like the only point of deviation from our own timeline was Barkley's Chaos Dunk and the aftermath of it. Then it turns out that the events of ''Film/SpaceJam'' were real. And ''Film/JuwannaMann''. And then the nature of "Clispaeth" is explained (see AlternateHistory above) and suddenly not only does all that other stuff look like peanuts, the parts of it that ''were'' grounded in our reality seem as far-fetched as the rest. |
| 116 | * IrrelevantSidequest: Several, such as rewriting a poem and negotiating a labor contract, much to Barkley's annoyance. |
| 117 | * JokeItem: The weapons' sticker and [[ShoutOut library card]] are funny but still useless rewards. |
| 118 | * JumpScare: Parodied. At one point in the Sugar Caves, an image of a sugar shaker will flash on the screen, horror-movie style. |
| 119 | * LampshadeHanging: |
| 120 | ** After completing a dungeon where touching the walls is dangerous: |
| 121 | --> "Both of these keys broke when I put them in the door! And the sugar counter's gone!" |
| 122 | --> "Thankfully we won't need those items anymore." |
| 123 | ** At one point you need to insert crystals into pedestals to open a door in a tomb. Barkley says there's no way that's right, there must be a key somewhere. Balthios comments that weird things like this are designed to drive intruders insane. |
| 124 | ** There are many lampshades, in one instance, there is a boulder blocking a cave Balthios says you could use a pipe and rock to push it out out of the way. Barkley mentions it's extremely convenient that those are the exact same items he got earlier for no reason. |
| 125 | * LamePunReaction: You get trapped into a house and then the room start to flood with sugar gas, but thankfully the mechanism stalls and the gas stops. |
| 126 | --> '''Barkley:''' Looks like his plan ran out of "gas". |
| 127 | -->'''Balthios:''' ... |
| 128 | -->'''Cyber Dwarf:''' ...Let's just find a way out. |
| 129 | * {{Leitmotif}}: |
| 130 | ** [[spoiler:Vinceborg]] has [[VideoGame/BlueDragon "Eternity"]] during both fights. |
| 131 | ** Jordan has his own in the form of [[spoiler:Sweet Georgia Brown]], which is lampshaded repeatedly before the battle. Creates a massive SoundtrackDissonance in [[spoiler:the DuelBoss between Barkley and Jordan in the final dungeon]]. |
| 132 | * LethalJokeItem: [[spoiler: The joke potato summons (completely out of nowhere) a golden potato with arms and legs that shoots the enemy with a machinegun for massive damage, but can only be used once.]] |
| 133 | * LocomotiveLevel: The Underground Railroad, if you choose to take it. |
| 134 | * MagicPlasticSurgery: Dr. Allard is able to transform human furries into the species of their desire. He was also, somehow, able to perform plastic surgery on ''himself'', seemingly without any formal training. |
| 135 | * {{Magitek}}: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Manufacted]] Slamicite. It has a less harmful counterpart, Jamicite, but for your purposes you need the strong stuff. |
| 136 | * MegaCorp: [[Creator/SquareEnix Square-Enix]]-Goya. |
| 137 | * {{Mons}}: The B-Ball Ranch, where you can raise B-Balls. ([[spoiler:Subverted - they don't actually do anything.)]] |
| 138 | * MonsterCompendium: The Animayor's bestiary, although most of the entries are never actually encountered. |
| 139 | * MoodWhiplash: Despite being a thoroughly ridiculous game, there are some touching moments that come out of nowhere, such as [[spoiler:Barkley remembering what life was like before the cyberpocalypse, briefly showing the player the same area as it was in a better time through Barkley's memories. It's the only time the player ever sees this.]] |
| 140 | * TheMorlocks: The furries of Cesspool X are a parody of the concept. They all live under the sewers due to being hated by "norms", though by all intents and purposes they're largely harmless individuals who wish to live out their lives in peace. |
| 141 | * NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The Ultimate Hellbane, [[spoiler:Ghastly Darklord]]. |
| 142 | * NewGamePlus: [[spoiler:Victorian Steampunk mode is unlocked after you finish the game.]] |
| 143 | * NewNeoCity: Neo New York, the city where the game takes place. |
| 144 | * NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:The fates of Barkley and Balthios are unknown after Barkley performs another Chaos Dunk at the end of the game.]] |
| 145 | * NoFairCheating: If you quit and restart the game after losing money gambling, the gambler will come up to you, take all your money, and auto-save the game. |
| 146 | * NonindicativeName: The soundtrack's metadata is full of vaguely obscene, badly typed nonsense, most of which has nothing to do with the music at all (with a few exceptions like '[[BlatantLies Hilarious]] [[DarkReprise Georgia Brown]]', [[VideoGame/BlueDragon 'jesus christ the guy from deep purple sang this']], and the simply titled [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin 'sad']]). |
| 147 | * NonStandardGameover: Hell, which you enter if you die after refusing to give money to beggars enough times. |
| 148 | * NoPointsForNeutrality: You get absolutely nothing but disappointment from both sides if you organize a deal that favors neither duergars or genies in the Chup Mines. |
| 149 | * OhCrap: When Barkley [[spoiler: can't resist the urge to steal Incan gold during his trial in Cuchulainn's Tomb, he frees Cuchulainn from his prison]] all he can say is "Oh shit." |
| 150 | * OhMyGods: The phrase "Clispaeth damn" pops up a couple times. |
| 151 | * OneWingedAngel: The final boss's second form. [[spoiler:It's Charles Barkley's head on a tyrannosaur, specifically Diablo from ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'', plus red horns drawn in MS Paint. [[DontExplainTheJoke It's very lame compared to the first form]].]] Also, the first form is [[spoiler:a literal example... which is a re-skin of the final form of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka]].]] |
| 152 | * OnlySaneMan: Barkley frequently comes off as this, and when he's doing something insane, Balthios takes the role. |
| 153 | * OptionalBoss: There's several optional bosses you can fight, some of them including the Ghastly Darklord and Kevin Garnett. |
| 154 | * OurDemonsAreDifferent: They differ from ''demons'' because they can use the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Junction System]], while demons get a "Level 2 Imp Summon". |
| 155 | * OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame: Except for the cyberdwarf variety, which comes from outer space. |
| 156 | * OverlyLongGag: The truckpump's ramblings, both as isolated incidents and in the greater scope of the game. It's an enforced one at that, since the pump is also your save point, and goes on a diatribe every time you use it. |
| 157 | * TheOverworld: The game parodies the OverworldNotToScale type, with an overworld that only becomes accessible right before the end of the game, and only contains two locations, the place where you need to go, and the city where you've spent the entire game so far. |
| 158 | * OverworldNotToScale: Parodied -- it appears just before the last dungeon, and there's only two locations on it. |
| 159 | %%* {{Parody}}: Of {{JRPG}}s. |
| 160 | * PermanentlyMissableContent: |
| 161 | ** Subverted -- most of the secret items that the game says you didn't find... [[spoiler:don't actually exist]]. |
| 162 | ** It is, however, possible to exit the catacombs prematurely by taking the most direct path to the end; once you enter the final room, you're locked into a cutscene, followed by a boss fight, followed by another cutscene that ends with you already in the sewers, with no way back. There's a decent amount of dialog, as well as a boss fight, that you can miss out on this way. |
| 163 | * PlanetHeck: If you refuse to give money to all of the beggars, then [[spoiler:you get sent to Hell after your next TotalPartyKill]]. |
| 164 | * PressXToNotDie: To be fair, you get one mistake. Not so fair: this is almost the ''first interactivity'' the game has. Expect to play through the chase sequence a few times. |
| 165 | * ProductPlacement: Parodied; the game's most potent healing item is a Burger King Chicken Fry. Not an entire carton, ''just one''. It cures death, maxes out health and magic, and cures all status effects, for the whole party. The second-strongest healing item is the greasy "dew" left behind by a Chicken Fry. |
| 166 | ** There are two things a Duergar can't resist. One is rubies. The other is a [[http://childrenofthenineties.blogspot.com/2009/03/dunkaroos.html Dunkaroo]]. |
| 167 | * PunctuatedForEmphasis: Courtesy of Dikembe Mutombo. [[VideoGame/NBAJam BOOM! SHAKA! LAKA!]] |
| 168 | * RealPersonFic: The game is about Charles Barkley in a "post-cyberpocalyptic" world where basketball has been outlawed. |
| 169 | * RagnarokProofing: The Spalding factory is mostly untouched years after being abandoned due to the Chaos Dunk. |
| 170 | * RedHerring: [[spoiler: Barkley touches the Incan gold in Cuchulainn's Tomb]]... and it is never mentioned again. |
| 171 | ** Depending on your choices, two [=NPCs=] will swear revenge on you in the latter half of the game, only to never be heard from again. In fact, generally the game makes up and doesn't follow through on plot threads and gameplay elements so often it's easier to count the number of sidequests or arcs that don't leave hanging threads. |
| 172 | * RunningGag: |
| 173 | ** Diabetes is used not only as a DamageOverTime condition, it's also mentioned off-hand several times [[spoiler:and becomes a major plot point later on.]] |
| 174 | ** Balthios's terrible taste in poetry. |
| 175 | ** Reginald using a different name in every conversation that talks about him. |
| 176 | * RPGsEqualCombat: There's a "basketball game" that consists of Barkley throwing basketballs at an enemy that shoots back at him with a gun. |
| 177 | * SdrawkcabAlias: [[spoiler:Yelmirb is Creator/WilfredBrimley]]. |
| 178 | * SeriousBusiness: |
| 179 | ** Basketball is a forbidden art, as mastery of the game allows a person to perform the highly destructive "Verboten Jams" and the "Chaos Dunk" techniques. |
| 180 | ** There's an island that has a cult of those who abhor sugar and diabetes in all of its forms. |
| 181 | * ShoutOut: Most of them are ironic. See [[ShoutOut/BarkleyShutUpAndJamGaiden here]] for the full list. |
| 182 | * SillinessSwitch: In addition to the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX "Al Bhed"]] language option and the game's general silliness, upon beating the game you unlock [[spoiler:Victorian Steampunk]] mode (seemingly inspired by Barkley's old nickname of "Sir Charles"), which replaces all character names and portraits with ones appropriate to the wrong setting. |
| 183 | * {{Smurfing}}: This game takes the amount of words or phrases that can have "b-ball" appended to them up to eleven. |
| 184 | * SoLongAndThanksForAllTheGear: Averted--any departing character's equipment is given back to you. |
| 185 | * SoundtrackDissonance: The battle theme to the DuelBoss is Sweet Georgia Brown. |
| 186 | * SpaceStation: Necron 5, the final dungeon, is a space station. |
| 187 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Parodied with Clispaeth, whose name is a "Western name converted into katakana and then back"-esque corruption of "Crispus" (specifically, [[HistoricalDomainCharacter Crispus Attucks]]). |
| 188 | * SprintMeter: Marked by a giant sneaker in the corner of the screen. It only appears when you dash. |
| 189 | * StatusEffects: With very non-standard names, including Bamboozled, Fouled (Stun), Diabetes (Poison) and Glaucoma (Blind). |
| 190 | * StealthPun: Hoopz Barkley uses a gun. In Neo New York, Hoopz shoot YOU! |
| 191 | * StylisticSuck: This game is surprisingly well done, especially the gameplay and music. But there is so much intentional sillyness, it's [[SoBadItsGood so bad it's perfect.]] |
| 192 | * SuperMovePortraitAttack: When Charles uses [[spoiler:the Chaos Dunk]]. |
| 193 | * SurrealHumour: It's easier to find examples of humour that ''isn't'' in this game. |
| 194 | * SwordOfPlotAdvancement: The Hell B-Ball, which allows Barkley to [[spoiler:dual-wield, upping his attack power immensely.]] |
| 195 | * {{Tagline}}: [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX You don't need a reason to help people.]] Are you ready to slamjam? Also, "If you can't slam with the best, then jam with the rest" and "This game is canon". |
| 196 | * TakeThat: Among other things, it mocks FanDumb, StopHavingFunGuys, UsefulNotes/FurryFandom, and the {{Otaku}} subculture. |
| 197 | * TakeYourTime: There's no urgency to find the diabetes cure for Hoopz. |
| 198 | * ThemeMusicPowerUp: The first phase of the final boss fight is a TitleThemeDrop, which is a remix of the theme from ''Film/SpaceJam''. A riff can also be heard during Charles's flashback to the first Chaos Dunk. |
| 199 | * TooAwesomeToUse: The [[spoiler:Golden Potato, acquired from the optional Ghastly Darklord boss, which does enormous damage to enemies but can only be used once.]] |
| 200 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Duergars rely entirely on Dunkaroos and chemical potions for sustenance. |
| 201 | * TraumaInn: A couple. One isn't even a inn, just a room in a church near the Spalding Building. |
| 202 | * {{Troll}}: The game itself is trolling the player all the time, there are many situations that look good at first but are just there to trick you. |
| 203 | ** If you lose at the casino and save scum Hundley takes all your money, [[spoiler: but it's impossible to make profit winning since Hundley doesn't have money to begin with (and you can't play again).]] |
| 204 | ** Some sidequests have terrible or useless rewards compared to others. |
| 205 | ** You can knot a rope for over 100 times but you can't take it or do anything with it, just losing your time. |
| 206 | ** The b-ball ranch lets you feed and train a b-ball, so you probably get the b-ball as weapon right? [[spoiler: No you don't. It's useless. Think about it: the breeding mini-game is stuck behind a OneTimeDungeon. How are you supposed to check back?]] |
| 207 | ** The "asperger" status effect is a lie. The character just moves randomly but can fight with no problems. Experienced players would think that is the same as [[StatusEffects confusion]] and try to heal it fast as possible. They might also interpret the description in the guide as some kind of charisma debuff, but there is no charisma stat in the game, nor any conversations that aren't entirely scripted. |
| 208 | * UnderCity: Proto Neo New York, so far below Neo New York that the sewers are sandwiched between them. |
| 209 | * UnexpectedGenreChange: Most of the game plays as an RPG with some action elements. Liberty Island is an AdventureGame, although it still uses the same engine. In true adventure game style, Barkley will describe all items you find, which the other characters remark upon. |
| 210 | * UselessItem: Alcohol. Sure it does [[BlatantLies cure Asperger's Syndrome]], but the only thing that the status does in the first place is make your character move awkwardly. |
| 211 | * UselessUsefulSpell: Played straight and averted. Used straight with Barkley's Holy Dunk costs 3.5 times more BP than Double Team and it's actually weaker, there is no viable reason to use it at all. Averted with status and debuffs, since most bosses aren't immune to diabetes and some can buff themselves, these kind of spells are extremely useful. |
| 212 | * VideogameGeography: The world locations doesn't make any sense, even by apocalypse standards. You start at Neo New York. Then you go down the catacombs. Then you go down the sewers, then you go down to Proto Neo New York. Then you take a ferry/boat to the liberty island. Then you cross a forest in the FantasyWorldMap and take a spaceship and fly to space. Wait a minute...[[FlatWhat WHAT?!]] |
| 213 | * VillainForgotToLevelGrind: The game has two major recurring bosses: [[spoiler:Vinceborg 2050]] and [[spoiler:Michael Jordan]]. While [[spoiler:Vinceborg]] returns with several new moves and buffs that make them, while not a close match, still a credible threat, [[spoiler:Jordan]] has nothing new to offer and, [[spoiler:even when facing Barkley one-on-one]], they're a complete chump. |
| 214 | * ViolationOfCommonSense: How do you get the best reward from the poetry-composing sidequest? [[spoiler:Choose the stilted, clinical and overall horrible suggestions that Vinceborg gives you.]] |
| 215 | * WakeUpCallBoss: While the first few bosses off the game are fairly easy, the [[Film/GhostDad Ghost Dad]] is a major kick in the nuts considering how early in the game you face him. He has a ridiculous amount of VP, he can power himself up with Ghost Muscle, he can reduce your attack power, and he can inflict multiple random status ailments on the entire party with Ghostly Curse. That last attack is particularly brutal because there isn't a whole lot you can do about the multiple status ailments that early in the game. And he is ''very'' liberal with it. If you allow the fight to go on too long, your characters will become weakened so much that they will do very little damage to him. |
| 216 | * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The song played in Hell is a highly distorted version of Lee Greenwood's "God Bless The USA," a patriotic song notorious for its lyrical {{Glurge}}. InUniverse, idiotkid, who is implied to be the ranter behind the truckpump rants, complains about the juxtaposition of this song being an attack on then-president George W. Bush and [[PokeThePoodle takes a whole point off the game's replayability score]] for the developers supposedly inserting politics into his vidcon. |
| 217 | * WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of Cuchulainn's Tomb, [[spoiler: Barkley unintentionally frees it. You are told before to not let it free or awful things would happen, but nothing happens. You would expect it to appear as a boss at the end of the dungeon but it doesn't, no one ever even mentions it again.]] |
| 218 | ** Cuchullain appears in the sequel's name, but considering that is only mentioned in the credit's and the title most people would see it as a joke. |
| 219 | * WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: [[spoiler:Michael Jordan's excuse for murdering Larry Bird.]] |
| 220 | --> I didn't do anything to him, Barkley. It was you. If you hadn't Chaos Dunked Manhattan, I wouldn't have had to blow him away. It's your fault. |
| 221 | * WeCanRuleTogether: Attempted by [[spoiler:[[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Shadow Barkley]]]] in the finale. Doing so causes a NonStandardGameOver. |
| 222 | * YouAllLookFamiliar: The duergars and genies, but otherwise averted: Most background characters have unique sprites, albeit ripped from other videogames. |
| 223 | * YoungGun: Hoopz Barkley, whose character class is the "Gun'sbraster"; predictably, he uses "gun's". |
| 224 | * YourHeartsDesire: Used with the Cuchulainn, when it tries to trick the players for freedom. |
| 225 | ** [[spoiler: Balthios sees many stands with zauber books, but he quickly realizes it's a trick and leaves them.]] |
| 226 | ** [[spoiler: Cyber Dwarf sees his old normal-skinned self, but after some internal struggle he stands proud with his basketball skin and goes on.]] |
| 227 | ** [[spoiler: Hoopz doesn't have any desire at all. He even mentions that is pretty boring.]] |
| 228 | ** [[spoiler: Barkley sees... a pile of gold. Not only is that desire extremely out of character, but he also falls for the trap!]] |
| 229 | * {{Zonk}}: Giving the F.I.N.A.L.G.U.N. to the guy in Proto Neo New York gets you... [[spoiler:a sticker.]] |
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