Line #30 VideoGame/Muri


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3	''Muri'' is a game on Platform/{{Steam}} in the style of a 1980s MS-DOS game, complete with PC Speaker sounds, EGA graphics, and the game screen moving in blocks rather than smoothly. It was created by Creator/DanielRemar and Creator/{{Ludosity}}.
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5	After humanity colonized Mars, a research station orbiting the planet conducted controversial research on the nature of life — and death. Dubbed '''MURI''', the project resulted in an armor suit of cataclysmic power. Kojo, son of the two head scientists, was equipped with the suit. The people of Earth and Mars, fearing Kojo to be a world-ending weapon, prepared their robot armies to destroy him and the research station. Yet as the Martian forces declared their attack, Mars suddenly vanished…
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7	Unlike most games with multiple weapons, you're automatically forced to use your strongest weapon to defy TooAwesomeToUse for weapons or to ensure you don't forget them.
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10	!!This game contains examples of:
11	* ArchnemesisDad: Or in this case, [[spoiler:Archnemesis Mom. Adwoa may kill her own daughter to fulfill her goals]].
12	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Adwoa and Kwaku combine and enter the Earth's core to make a new world that is unlike Earth.]]
13	* BilingualBonus: '''MURI''' roughly means "impossible" in Japanese. The connection is probably intentional, as '''MURI''' is also the final difficulty level name.
14	* BoldInflation: '''MURI''' is always colored in blue to set it apart from any other word.
15	* BottomlessMagazines: The initial gun shot has infinite ammo, and there are powerups for infinite ammo of each type of shot, scattered throughout certain levels, like for Rapid and MKV in Level 2.
16	* {{Cap}}: A cap of 99 of each ammo type, unless they've been made [[BottomlessMagazines infinite]].
17	* CollisionDamage: Touching an enemy hurts Adowa for one [[HitPoints Energy]] and hurts the enemy as well.
18	* EasterEgg: One can see Remar's initials DCR somewhere at the top in stage 2-5, above the entrance location.
19	* GaiasVengeance: [[spoiler:The Earth's Core isn't very happy about the prospect of Adwoa or Kwaku fusing with it and doing who-knows-what, hence it is the FinalBoss.]]
20	* GenreThrowback: To ''VideoGame/DukeNukemI'', ''VideoGame/BioMenace'', ''VideoGame/CommanderKeen'', and the like.
21	* AGodAmI: Both [[spoiler:Adwoa and Kojo]] definitely think they have the right to remake ''whole planets'' as they see fit.
22	* GoombaStomp: Yep, you can jump on enemies to kill them. According to the developer's blog, it was implemented to prevent losing health when falling on enemies, thus avoiding LeapOfFaith situations.
23	* GoneHorriblyWrong: [[spoiler:When Kojo absorbed ''all of Mars'', he was just trying to rebuild it into a more peaceful place. Instead, he ended up comatose, and the ghosts of all life on Mars infested his '''MURI'''.]]
24	* HitPoints: Called Energy, with a max of 8, and depicted in a LifeMeter on the right of the screen.
25	* InfinityPlusOneSword: The chaos weapon, which is ridiculously powerful compared to all the other weapons. [[spoiler:And if you find all the cells in the final episode, you get ''infinite chaos''.]]
26	* LifeMeter: Called Energy, and displayed in green on the right side of the screen.
27	* MadScientist: [[spoiler:Adwoa.]]
28	* PoweredArmor: The '''MURI'''-class suits, of course.
29	* {{Retraux}}: Very, very retro.
30	* RobotWar: Most of the enemies are robots. [[spoiler:Also, after the disappearance of Mars, the nations of Earth started using them against each other.]]
31	* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:Kojo has the ghosts of all life on Mars inside his '''MURI'''. Adwoa tries to restore them (after beating them up first), to no avail.]]
32	* ShaggyDogStory: Even if you manage to [[spoiler:spare Esi in the battle against her, she's already succumbed to wounds from battle robots and dies anyway, offering her life force to Adwoa's suit]].
33	* SheatheYourSword: Optional. One level boss is [[spoiler:Adwoa's daughter, Esi]]. Since neither of them really want to kill one another, refusing to fight back stops the battle entirely. [[spoiler:Not that it makes a difference in regards to Esi's fate.]]
34	* SpreadShot: The MKV bullets, are a fan of five bullets in front of Adwoa.
35	* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: When the game gives you infinite of any special weapon, you can expect difficulty ahead.
36	* VagueHitPoints: Hit an enemy enough times and they'll die eventually. It does this partially for the retro look.
37	* VillainProtagonist: If it wasn't for [[spoiler:Adwoa's actions]], all the horrible stuff wouldn't have gone down. And then Adwoa goes and tries to fix things her way, which can include [[spoiler:killing her own daughter]].

Context VideoGame / Muri