Line #9 VideoGame/VoodooIsland


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3	''Voodoo Island'' is an adventure interactive fiction game released in 1985. It was designed by M. J. Sayer, developed by Angelsoft, Inc., and published by Mindscape. The player is shipwrecked on an island and has to explore it. Eventually, you have to save it from the grasp of the evil Dr. Beauvais and escape it. You type in commands with a parser and have no time limit.
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5	!!This game contains examples of:
6	* AsTheGoodBookSays: You find a Bible in the Booth Suite. It's covered in mildew and the pages are stuck together, but you can only read a part of a particularly ominous verse.[[note]]Leviticus 26:17, though the use of "take flight" in not seen in any official modern translations[[/note]]
7	-->...you shall be defeated by your enemies. Your foes shall have the mastery over you, and you shall take flight when there is no one pursuing you.
8	* BeautyIsBad: Dr. Beauvais is described as dashingly handsome with facial features that make his French ancestry clear, but he also turned people into zombies and caused them much suffering.
9	* BigBad: Dr. Beauvais is responsible for the island being the way it is and turning people into zombies, so you naturally have to stop him.
10	* HypnoticEyes: Zombies can use their eyes to put you in a trance, making you not notice the zombification.
11	* InventoryManagementPuzzle: You only have three item slots and one for dead bodies, so you need to use them well. You can put some items in the tote found west of the cove, but it can only hold small items like the photo and the card.
12	* KillerTeddyBear: Picking up the teddy bear will kill you with fiery pinpricks, as it is a '''wanga''', a voodoo object designed to harm one person.
13	* TheManyDeathsOfYou: Quite a few ways to die, like getting eaten by sharks, crabs, caught in a spiderweb, getting zombified, or killed by Dr. Beauvais.
14	* MercyKill: You kill all three zombies and bury them properly to free them from the grip of Dr. Beauvais.
15	* MultipleEndings: Not counting the death scenes, there's a good ending and a bad ending, depending on whether you kept [[spoiler:the voodoo doll]] while leaving the island.
16	* PressStartToGameOver: Going south in the first screen will result in your death as you get torn to shreds by sharks.
17	* SanitySlippage: The game says things like "Your grip on reality is beginning to weaken" and "Your wits have escaped you" when you type in words it doesn't recognise, but no actual gameplay effects happen.
18	* UndeathlyPallor: Zombies have their skin described as pale or pasty white.
19	* VideoGameCrueltyPunishment: Trying to attack Moma makes her glare at you menacingly and mutter words that you don't understand, then you fall off the cliff and die on jagged rocks.
20	* VoodooDoll: You have to destroy a rag doll to defeat [[spoiler:Dr. Beauvais, otherwise he'll cause your attempt to leave the island to fail]].
21	* YouCantGetYeFlask: Saying "GIVE NECKLACE" when referring to Moma doesn't work. You have to use "TRADE NECKLACE" (you get a linen shirt in exchange, so it kinda works).

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