Line #11 VideoGame/TheWhisperedWorld


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3	''The Whispered World'' is a traditional point-and-click adventure game designed by Marco Hullen and developed by Creator/DaedalicEntertainment, featuring beautiful hand-drawn 2D graphics.
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5	It tells the story of Sadwick, a young, sad clown beset by nightmares which seem to foretell the End of the World. One day, Sadwick meets a messenger of the king on an important mission to prevent the impending apocalypse. At the messenger's direction, Sadwick seeks out the oracle Shana, who tells him the meaning of his dreams: that he himself is prophesied to be the harbinger of the world's destruction.
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7	Sadwick, despite his tendency towards pessimism, refuses to accept his destiny as a destroyer, and takes it upon himself to save the world. To do that, he needs to carry a magical artifact called the [[MacGuffin Whispering Stone]] to Corona, to the King's Castle. It's a long journey, full of trials and tribulations, but Sadwick refuses to let either his own insecurities or the very real dangers in his path dissuade him from fighting against fate.
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9	The game a sequel titled ''[[VideoGame/SilenceTheWhisperedWorld2 Silence]]'', which tales place a few years after this game, and where we follow Noah and his sister Renie as they travel to this world, called Silence.
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11	!!The game provides examples of the following tropes:
12	* AerithAndBob: Sadwick and his brother Ben.
13	* AllForNothing: [[spoiler: In the end, none of Sadwick's attempts to save his world amount to anything. Silence is nothing but the comatose dream of a sick boy whose father is reading him a story and Sadwick's forced to wake him up, effectively destroying both Silence and himself.]]
14	* AllJustADream: [[spoiler: Turns out, Sadwick is the avatar of a dreaming, comatose boy whose father is trying to wake him up by telling him a carefully crafted story. Really makes you rethink the title and opening narration, huh?]]
15	* AnimalCompanion: A caterpillar named Spot who can take on various useful forms.
16	* AloofBigBrother: Sadwick's older brother Ben, who constantly reminds Sadwick of how much better he is at everything.
17	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Sadwick chooses to sacrifice himself and Silence to save the sick boy, leading to a heartwarming scene of the boy waking up in the hospital and his overjoyed father hugging him. The bitter part comes into play when the final scene shows the boy looking into a mirror to see Sadwick watch him with pure sorrow in his eyes.]]
18	* BreakingTheFourthWall: Sadwick does this occasionally. For instance, if you keep trying to make him grab things on a high shelf:
19	-->'''Sadwick''': I'm too short to reach the shelf. Thanks for reminding me, by the way.
20	* BrokenAce: It becomes apparent that Bobby the Chaski (elite messenger/spy/warrior) is a LovableCoward at best after a few minutes conversation with him. That's one reason why Sadwick volunteers to do his job.
21	* ButThouMust: The only way to end the game is to smash the mirror that leads to [[spoiler: the real world]]. Trying to go back to Silence won't work, unless you're stubborn enough to try ten times in a row, and even then all you get is a FakeOutFadeOut. Attacking the [[spoiler: sick boy]] between the mirrors is also not an option, even though Sadwick briefly considers doing it.
22	* ChekhovsBoomerang: Grandpa's pantaloons.
23	* CircusBrat: Sadwick, who lives at the circus with his grandfather and older brother.
24	* CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption: You'll need all of Spot's transformation abilities to progress through the game, but getting those abilities often involves doing things to Spot that would kill or seriously injure a non-shapeshifter.
25	-->'''Sadwick:''' No animals were harmed in the making of this game. Except Spot.
26	* DeadpanSnarker: Sadwick is often this.
27	* DelicateAndSickly: [[spoiler:The little boy in the hospital in the real world. We don't know what happened to him, only that he is in a very deep coma.]]
28	* DreamingOfThingsToCome
29	* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: What Sadwick is prophesied to bring about. [[spoiler: He does.]]
30	* TheEeyore: Sadwick often waxes on his own uselessness and the futility of his existence.
31	* EvilOverlord: Loucaux, Lord of the Asgil.
32	* EvilVersusOblivion: [[EvilOverlord Great Loucaux]] wants to stop [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the End of the World]], even if that means keeping it in stagnation. [[spoiler: Ironically, [[PlayerCharacter Sadwick]] is on side of '''both''' good and oblivion]].
33	* FaintingSeer: Shana, the oracle of the Autumn Forest.
34	* FakeOutFadeOut: [[spoiler: If you try to get back into Silence ten times when between the mirrors, you get to see a fake ending with Sadwick sitting in nothingness as king, pouting before he complains how bored he is and the game putting you back between the mirrors.]]
35	* HarmlessVillain: The Rock Bros., who wish to enslave the world, but are hindered by the fact that they're merely a couple of talking rocks.
36	* HumanCannonball: Part of Sadwick's act, and also used for [[ChekhovsBoomerang multiple]] puzzles.
37	* ICantReachIt: Typical for an adventure game, but somewhat justified by Sadwick's self-defeating attitude; he often won't even try to do something because he assumes that he will fail.
38	* JerkAss: Ben isn't shy about giving Sadwick shit; he doesn't even take Sadwick seriously about how deeply the kid resents him for all the abuse.
39	* KingOnHisDeathbed: The King of Corona
40	* LethalChef: Sadwick's grandpa makes petroleum soup, among other abhorrent concoctions. Sadwick tells of a time when Grandpa accidentally read the map instead of a recipe and made Northeast for lunch. The Asgil chefs are this as well, though their food is delicious for other Asgil.
41	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: ''Repeatedly'' in chapter 4. Sadwick just can't catch a break. [[spoiler: He fixes the astrolab only to summon the big talking Sphere that plans to destroy the world, then stops the Sphere only to freeze time and enable the Asgil to take over, then stops Loucaux only to summon the Sphere again.]]
42	--> '''[[WordOfGod Creator commentary]]:''' I love this part. Everytime the player solves a puzzle and thinks "I did it, I made it better", they realize they made it much, ''much'' worse.
43	* NoIndoorVoice: BANDO!!!
44	* NoodleIncident: Sadwick tells us that grandpa's pantaloons supposedly saved his life twice, and once started a war. He also founded a cult based around how [[HilariousInHindsight they were supposed to save the world.]]
45	* QueensPuzzle: You have to solve this puzzle in the second chapter.
46	* SadClown: Sadwick, Sadwick, Sadwick. It's right there in the opening narration, too.
47	* SceneryPorn: Many of the backgrounds in the game are gorgeous.
48	* ShapedLikeItself: "Rusty nails. About as handy as rusty nails."
49	* ShoutOut:
50	** To ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'':
51	--->'''Sadwick:''' Hey, you have a mouse.\
52	'''Bando:''' Of course I have a mouth...'''AND I MUST SCREAM!'''
53	** When Sadwick comes across a wall that seems like it should open, he tries "[[Literature/AliBabaAndTheFortyThieves Open Sesame]]", "[[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Mellon]]" and "[[VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry Ken sent me]]". Neither work.
54	** When asked about how he reached the capital so quickly, which was what Sadwick was trying to accomplish through majority proportion of the game, Bobby said he just had his '''[[VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft Hearthstone]]''' still set to the castle courtyard.
55	* SssssnakeTalk: Some of the Asgil talk like this.
56	* SpeechImpediment: Sadwick has a bit of one. [[spoiler: Probably because Ben once tricked him into eating rocks.]]
57	* TurtleIsland: [[spoiler: Kalida's island. As it turns out, the island is on Kalida's back]].
58	* ViolationOfCommonSense: Some puzzle solutions, although they do still make sense according to [[MoonLogicPuzzle Adventure Game logic]]. Sadwick lampshades:
59	-->'''Sadwick:''' Do I really want to live in a world where behavior like this is rewarded?
60	* YouCantFightFate: Sadwick is understandably not happy about having been prophesied to end the world and does everything he can to prevent it from coming true. [[spoiler: He fails.]]
61	* YouHaveToBurnTheWeb: A solution to a puzzle.
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Context VideoGame / TheWhisperedWorld