Line #28 VideoGame/TheGameOfTheAges


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3	The Game of the Ages is an AdventureGame based on "The Duel of the Ages," a parody novella that was based in turn on two poorly selling fantasy series by Sam Stoddard and Dave Parker.
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5	Your hometown, the Village of Boredom, is plagued by a race called the Shadows. To defeat them, you must explore other worlds, become a wizard and conquer an army or two along the way.
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7	The game includes a much-hyped "secret area" that offers no particular clues as to its location. It's [[http://www.rinkworks.com/adventure/ playable online]] at Website/AdventureGamesLive.
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10	!!The Game of the Ages provides examples of:
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12	%%* AlienGeometries: Yeah, there's a fourth spatial dimension.
13	%%* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: The entire Varyne army comes down on your base.
14	* BagOfHolding: Gasald's sack is big enough to carry the entire nearby cave. The character's counterpart in the source novel had an entire world in his sack.
15	%%* BeautyToBeast: The {{curse}} on one race that you save.
16	* BrokenBridge: A wide desert keeps you from progressing until the plot sees fit to offer you a horse and a map.
17	* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Many magical items turn out to contain no intrinsic power, but your initial belief in them imbue them with actual magic.
18	%%* {{Curse}}: Two of the biggest subplots.
19	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Besides the Village Idiot of Stupidity, enjoy your Magic Armor of Magic.
20	* TheDitz: The Village Idiot of Stupidity, who thinks a pick in the corner of the room keeps the roof from falling down.
21	%%* DoomedHometown: That sets off the adventure.
22	%%* DoYouWantToHaggle: Early on, to get your first armor. Later, with Marion, this time with you as the seller.
23	%%* DudeWheresMyRespect: Yeah, I just broke a curse and saved dozens of people from your town. Now I have to devise a plan to steal a hammer from a stable?
24	%%* EarlyGameHell: Figuring out how to be able to leave your hometown can be difficult; once you do so, more of the game opens up and you have more areas to experiment with.
25	* GoldSilverCopperStandard: Each town has just one coinage, but the first has copper, the second silver and the third gold.
26	%%* GreatEscape: One middle segment locks you in a prison. Your escape combines lock picking, stealth and hostage-taking.
27	%%* HomeSweetHome: Oh, don't think you're going to forget your hometown just because you're a hero everywhere else.
28	* LiteralSoapboxSpeech: A man in the Laorsis Square stands on a soapbox to protest littering. His soapbox turns out to be the object of this particular puzzle, and you use it several times in your later adventures.
29	%%* MagicFeather: Turns out those focus stones don't have any power.
30	%%* MrExposition: Thanks Sage, for explaining everything.
31	%%* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Meet Blood Drops.
32	%%* PortalPool: Three of them.
33	%%* TeleporterAccident: If you don't have your armor on.

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