Line #13 VideoGame/Snailiad


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2	''Snailiad'' is a 2011 {{Metroidvania}} {{Retraux}} [[WebGames Flash game]] created by auriplane.
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4	The [[ExcusePlot plot]]: You're a snail named [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Snaily Snail]] who [[SaveThePrincess has to set out to rescue the missing snails]].
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6	Play it [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/573352 here]].
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9	!!Tropes used in this game:
10	* AbnormalAmmo: A pea shooter and a boomerang ''sort of'' make sense ([[FridgeLogic though it begs the question of how Snaily holds the gun/boomerang]]), but ''rainbow waves?''
11	* ADogNamedDog: Snaily [[spoiler:and Sluggy]].
12	* AirborneMooks: A ''lot'' of the enemies in this game fly. Among others, the Sky Viper, Chirpy, Batty Bat, and Ghost Dandelion.
13	* AlliterativeName: The stage names.
14	* AlwaysCheckBehindTheChair: It's a {{Metroidvania}} game. It comes with the genre.
15	* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: The battle with [[spoiler: Giga-Snail]].
16	* AnIcePerson:
17	** The Iceballs.
18	** Snaily himself after getting the Ice Snail powerup.
19	* ApatheticCitizens: The snails of Snail Town leave everything [[ItsUpToYou up to you]].
20	* AuthorAppeal: The creator ''loves'' snails. And boy, does it show.
21	* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: The psychic snail in Snail Town predicts this of Snaily after getting the GoldenEnding. "I can see the future, Snaily! I see you having 18,000,000 baby snails!! Congratulations!!"]]
22	%%* BigBad: Moon Snail.
23	%%* BigGood: [[spoiler: Iris.]]
24	* BossInMookClothing: The Devil (red) Blob. It moves '''very''' fast, shoots tons of [[BuffySpeak energy ball... things]], and takes ''way'' too many hits to die! Thankfully, [[UniqueEnemy there's only one in the entire game]].
25	* BossRush: [[NintendoHard And dear God is it hard.]]
26	* BossSubtitles: Although there's no descriptive sentence; it's only used to display the boss' name.
27	* {{Bowdlerise}}: To avoid negative associations, an update changed a character's name [[spoiler:from Isis (after the Egyptian goddess of the sun) to Iris (after the Greek goddess of rainbows).]]
28	* CatchingSomeZs: Snaily's idle animation. The final boss has it too, but he uses it as an attack.
29	* CeilingCling: Snaily can crawl on ceilings as well as walls.
30	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Most of the snails could qualify.
31	--> "[[YouNoTakeCandle Cave Snail]] scares me! I'm staying over here!" ''[{{Beat}}]'' "Do you think Cave Snail is single?"
32	* CreditsGag: Downplayed. The credits amusingly lampshade the trend of putting "And You" at the end of their credits.
33	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Snaily Snail.
34	* DramatisPersonae: At the end.
35	* ElectricJellyfish: They're an InvincibleMinorMinion, at least until you get the Devastator.
36	* EnergyWeapon: The eyes on the walls in one section of Lux Lirata fire these.
37	* EverythingsBetterWithRainbows: The Rainbow Wave.
38	* ExcusePlot: Snails are disappearing. [[SaveThePrincess Go find them]]. Subverted towards the end, though; the plot doesn't get very deep, but a semblance of one does form. Your mission of finding the disappearing snails is also referenced quite frequently.
39	* FlashOfPain
40	%%* FragileSpeedster: [[spoiler: Sluggy Slug, your PlayerCharacter after choosing Slug Mode.]]
41	%%* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: ''Every'' boss except the final one, and they're pretty weird.
42	* GoldenEnding: Achieved by getting all 30 helix fragments. [[spoiler: [[BigBad Moon Snail]] becomes Sun Snail again and all is well.]]
43	* TheGoomba: The Blob (purple slime).
44	* GoombaStomp: Stompy seems hellbent on doing this to you.
45	* GravityScrew:
46	** The Gravity Shell powerup allows you to do this.
47	** The Gravity Turtles can also do this.
48	* GreenRocks: The helix fragments.
49	* GuideDangIt: Occasionally rears its head, a prime example being [[spoiler: the Shrine of Iris' location, which is ''inside'' another hidden area in Snail Town]]!
50	* HailfirePeaks:
51	** Mare Carelia could be either GreenHillZone, or UnderTheSea.
52	** Amastrida Abyssus combines LethalLavaLand and UnderTheSea (again).
53	* HammerSpace: Just how ''is'' Snaily holding all those boomerangs?
54	* HeartsAreHealth
55	* HeartContainer
56	* HeroicMime: Snaily, in keeping with the 8-bit theme.
57	* HyperactiveMetabolism: Health is replenished by green and pink grass ([[ColorCodedForYourConvenience guess which one replenishes more health]]).
58	* IdleAnimation:
59	** Snaily falls asleep in his shell.
60	** It gets used by [[spoiler:Giga-Snail]] as an ''attack''.
61	* ItemGet: The game briefly pauses and plays a particular theme when collecting weapon and ability items.
62	* InvincibleMinorMinion: The Jellyfish and the spikeballs. Subverted when you get the Devastator.
63	* JungleJapes: Snail Town is something like this.
64	* KillerRabbit: The [[CatsAreMean Kitty]]. It looks like [[spoiler: the harmless Snelks that randomly roam the areas]], but it bounces around at a fast pace ''and'' shoots a bunch of bullets in between jumps.
65	* LampshadeHanging: One of the snails in Snail Town asks "Don't you think it's weird that we all live in treehouses?"
66	** Another snail in Lux Lirata quips, "Amazing work, Snaily!! Say, how'd we get into space, anyway?"
67	* LevelMapDisplay: Type 1.
68	%%* LevelInTheClouds: Lux Lirata has shades of this.
69	* MediumAwareness: Don't be surprised to see snails reference the fact that they are in a game. Particularly notable in this quote:
70	-->"Don't moon snails live in the ocean? Hey, this game isn't realistic!! What gives??"
71	-->"I hope the next game has more weapons. This game could have used a [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaI flame whip!"]]
72	* MinusWorld: [[spoiler:???, with its weird glitchy walls and strange music. It's actually the passageway to the Shrine of Iris.]]
73	* MirrorBoss: Moon Snail. Aside from changing his own gravity, he uses Devastator-style boomerangs and dark-colored waves [[spoiler: in his first form. As Giga-Snail, he uses ''bigger'' Rainbow Waves, as well as using the Devastator-peashooter bullets. He even uses ''the idle animation'' as an attack; the Z's fly off in your general direction.]]
74	* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: [[spoiler:???, a hidden area which contains the Shrine of Iris.]]
75	* NintendoHard: The normal difficulty is far from a walk in the park, but the unlockable [[spoiler:"slug mode"]] difficulty turns it up to eleven. And then there's the boss rush.
76	* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: One snail in Snail Town manages to ''eat a pizza'' offscreen, after telling Snaily he would for nearly the entire game.
77	* OneManArmy
78	* OneWingedAngel: The FinalBoss, [[spoiler:Giga-Snail]].
79	* PaletteSwap: Many of the enemies come in different colours, often with different abilities. Lampshaded with the red Gravity Turtle, which is called Gravity Turtle (Cherry Red Finish).
80	* PrecisionGuidedBoomerang
81	* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: There are several snake enemies.
82	* {{Retraux}}
83	* ReverseShrapnel: The Angel (white) Blob, amongst others.
84	* RidiculouslyCuteCritter:
85	** The snails. In particular Snaily's idle animation.
86	** [[spoiler: The snelks]] may also qualify.
87	* SaveThePrincess
88	* SecretCharacter: [[spoiler: Sluggy Slug (hero of Slug Mode).]]
89	* {{Seers}}: One snail in Snail Town can see the future. His words [[CrypticConversation often describe what to do next]].
90	* ShoutOut:
91	** "[[KonamiCode Up, up, down, down, left, right...]] wait, never mind, [[BreakingTheFourthWall that's for some other game]]."
92	** The BossRush version of the Space Box is called "Time Cube". Both versions also [[Series/DoctorWho turn blue when they]] [[TurnsRed go berserk]].
93	** [[MediumAwareness "I hope the next game has more weapons. This game could have used a]] [[VideoGame/CastlevaniaI flame whip!"]]
94	** Upon starting a new game in [[spoiler: Slug Mode]], a fake password screen appears, which is filled out by an unseen person with [[VideoGame/Metroid1 "JUSTIN SNAILY"]].
95	** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI "It's dangerous to go alone!"]]
96	** Snail Town has a turtle that informs you [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles "Once this game is over, I'm going to go get some pizza!!"]]
97	* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Spiralis Silere.
98	* SpaceZone: Lux Lirata becomes this near the end.
99	* SpeciesSurname: All the snails (Cave Snail, Moon Snail, Snaily Snail) [[spoiler:and Sluggy Slug]].
100	* SuspiciousVideoGameGenerosity: Pre-boss rooms are usually full of pink grass. The snails will outright tell you when there's a boss coming up, though, so it doesn't come as much of a surprise.
101	* TurnsRed: Every boss does this, literally (though the Space Box actually turns ''blue'' when it goes berserk).
102	* UniqueEnemy: ''Two'' of them. One's a [[CatsAreMean cat]] listed under KillerRabbit above, and the other's the Devil Blob. [[BossInMookClothing It's called that for a good reason]].
103	* UnderTheSea: Mare Carelia.
104	* UpgradeArtifact: The Devastator, which upgrades all three of your weapons.
105	* WallCrawl: One of your abilities, being a snail.
106	* YouNoTakeCandle: "I are Cave Snail! Thorgle borgle!!!!"
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