1 | [[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/snailiad_7708.gif]] |
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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