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The second Literature/{{Discworld}} AdventureGame and a loose sequel to [[VideoGame/{{Discworld}} the first]], with a plot that could vaguely be described as an extremely loose mashup of ''Literature/ReaperMan'' and ''Literature/MovingPictures''. The game opens as a drunken Rincewind and the Librarian are heading home and passing by the Fools' Guild, where they discover an Assassin has set up some kind of alchemical bomb and try to mess with it. Of course, they fail -- if anything, they make things ''worse'' as they cause the bomb to detonate in such a way that Death, who was coming to gather up the souls of all the dead Fools, is blown up as well. A day or so later, the Wizards notice that Death has been taken out of commission when one of their comrades, Windle Poons, dies but fails to ''truly'' die, instead wandering off as a magic-wielding zombie with a really ticked off attitude.

Rincewind, on grounds of being unimportant, is sent all around Ankh-Morpork to gather up the materials needed for the Rite of [=AshkEnte=]. When he succeeds, though, they discover Death landed in XXXX and has decided to go on vacation, refusing to get back to the task of reaping souls. So, Rincewind is forced to figure out a solution, which ends up involving him as the temporary replacement for Death and getting Death a role as a "clicky" star because he's sick of people not appreciating him.
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!!Tropes include:
* AbhorrentAdmirer: The dwarf lady in charge of costumes in Holy Wood hits on Rincewind, much to his horror.
* AdaptationalDumbass: Granny Weatherwax can be out-headologied by Rincewind, which is not something that would be likely to happen in the books.
* ArtShift: This game was done in traditional hand-drawn animation, while the first game was done entirely different compared to this.
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Rincewind commenting in the opening that the art budget is clearly much larger this time, and maybe there won't be quite so many absurd puzzles as a result.
* AssShove: The mortician uses a rather large thermometer to determine if [[spoiler: Rincewind is really dead.]]
** [[spoiler: Also, Rincewind needs to do this to himself with some ice to fool the temperature check.]]
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Parodied with a poster advertising ''Attack of the 50-Foot Dwarf''. [[spoiler: And then the end game has Attack of the 50-Foot Elf Queen.]]
* BewitchedAmphibians: Discussed. When Rincewind asks whether he has to go on the quest to bring Death back, the Archchancellor responds: "Only if you don't want to spend the rest of your life staring out across the pond at all the other toads."
** Holy Wood's wardrobe department has a frog suit, but Rincewind refuses to wear it.
-->'''Rincewind:''' No thanks, all I have to do is wake up the Archchancellor and I won't need the suit.
* BigEater: Although they are NPC's, some of the wizards (not including Rincewind) follow this. Its even shown that there is food in the beginning part of the game.
* BrickJoke: While exploring Death's mansion Rincewind finds a set of golf clubs and comments that he didn't think Death would play golf. Later on [[spoiler: Death uses his scythe as a golf club to hit a bomb back towards a would be assassin.]]
* BrownNote: A rare example where this is caused by beauty rather than horror: examining the Elf Queen leaves Rincewind paralysed for hours.
* CallBack: Both Chucky and the Milkmaid/Actress wannabe were from the previous game. When meeting the former Rincewing actually points this out and laments that the [[MsFanservice Amazon Warrior]] wasn't in this game in lieu of Chucky.
* CirclingVultures: After Rincewind steals a corpse arm from vultures, they start following it on a world map. [[spoiler:One puzzle involves planting the arm to track a secretive trader.]]
* CreditsGag: Creator/TerryPratchett is credited as "Throwing rocks from afar".
* TheDeadCanDance: The intro is a song and dance routine performed by skeletons.
* DeadpanSnarker: Rincewind is, instead of a coward, quite bluntly sarcastic about the whole mess he's involved in.
** Then you meet Albert, Death's servant, who's even more sarcastic than Rincewind himself.
* DeathTakesAHoliday: The main plot. It's an actual holiday, too.
* DeathSeeker: Windle Poons, after having died a first time. [[spoiler: He's eventually granted his wish when a 50 feet tall Elf Queen falls on him.]]
* DIYDentistry: You're required to pull a troll's tooth after it is damaged by a stone candy. You need to find a rope to remove it with the help of a nearby doorknob, but can keep the solid diamond tooth afterwards.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Windle Poons and Chucky are killed off in the game's opening sequence - but due to [[DeathTakesAHoliday the plot]], they still hang around for quite a while.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: The beard will probably be enough of a clue for most players, but many characters assume Rincewind is female on account of his dress.
** Dwarves invert this. Bearded dwarven women indistinguishable from men are a running gag in the books.
* DumbBlonde: The glamorous blonde actress really isn't too bright.
* EarlyBirdCameo: The skeleton singers from the intro show up as characters in the game.
* ExpressiveSkull: Death and other animated skeletons do occasionally exhibit the ability to contort their eyebrow area and eye sockets to show some degree of emotion, as well as being able to blink with eyelids that are apparently part of the skull. It is kept toned down though, as they generally keep a neutral expression.
* FakingTheDead: More like faking your ''un''death, which is a task you have to complete in Act 2, since the voyage ship that can take you to where Death is vacationing only takes corpses aboard.
* FetchQuest: Frequently used straight, as is standard for the genre, but [[DefiedTrope defied]] at one point. Rincewind goes into a lengthy tirade about how he'll be expected to go on such a quest, and eventually demands that the character just hands him over the key. After the character obliges, we discover that the LockedDoor was on a false wall and that he could simply have walked around it.
* FountainOfYouth: The literal fountain of youth, but it's used with a bit of a twist. [[spoiler: You're not after the water, but the sand at the bottom.]]
* GiantSpaceFleaOutOfNowhere: [[spoiler: The Elf Queen using the magic of Holy Wood to manifest as a giant and goes on a rampage makes little sense, unless you read ''Literature/MovingPictures''. Still it comes off as this after the whole plot focused on Death.]] Windle Poons (finally dead) lampshades this himself in the ending.
* IncrediblyLamePun: It sometimes heads to this direction for its humor.
* InformedAttribute: A line from Weatherwax implies that the Elf Queen is [[MyEyesAreUpHere buxom enough to distract people]]. When you see her in person she's rather slim, and her dress doesn't even have a glaring cleavage of sorts.
* KillItWithWater: [[spoiler: You have to throw water-filled balloons at the Queen to make her fall to her DisneyVillainDeath.]]
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler: The same assassin who blew up Death twice tries to kill Rincewind as well, but Death sends the bomb back at him by using his scythe as golf club.]]
* LeanAndMean: The Elf Queen.
* LooksLikeOrlok: The Vampire you meet in the pub.
* LooseCanon: Since the game stories are basically mash-ups of a couple of different books each, they're pretty obviously non-canon with the book series itself (there's no way some of the events of this game e.g Windle Poons' death and the whole Moving Picture industry, could occur separate from the books as they've already happened there at least once). However in ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld II: The Globe'' (which ''is'' canon to the main books), Rincewind mentions having had a run-in with (and run-away from) elves before, which had never happened in any of his prior book appearances. Unless it was some undescribed NoodleIncident that Pratchett never actually wrote about (admittedly possible given the breadth of Rincewind's adventures), this game is the only time Rincewind has ever encountered elves.
* LyricalDissonance: "That's Death", the game's theme tune, is a catchy, upbeat song about being dead.
* MockHollywoodSign: On Holy Wood Hill, of course.
* MoonLogicPuzzle: Some of the puzzles have very obscure solutions, although the game gives a lot more help than the original.
** Perhaps the example most complained about is getting the bottle from Mrs. Cake so you can finally trap Foul Old Ron's Vile Smell as one of the ingredients for the Rite. [[spoiler: You need to listen to how she talks and recognize that she has her precognition switched on, then use a specific order of speech options to always give the right questions to her answers.]]
** Stealing the croquet mallets. You need to swap them with a [[spoiler:hammerhead shark]], a [[spoiler:flamingo]] and a [[spoiler:pelican]]. The first makes sense within the game's way too literal logic, the second requires knowledge of [[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland a certain English classic]], but the latter makes no sense even in context and the only hint is easy to miss. [[spoiler: If you look at the stunned wading bird before you pick it up, Rincewind declares something to the line of "I've heard of stunned mullets, but never a stunned mallet!".]]
* MysticalHollywood: The Holy Wood; the Queen of Elves uses its magic to manifest as a giant.
* MythologyGag: Quite a few, even if the character adaptation can be rather... loose. For example, when trying to become the new Death, Rincewind meets a young Susan, currently playing on a certain distinctive swing...
** While he's not named, the Archchancellor of Unseen University tells Rincewind that the dead not resting is... unhygienic.
** The corpse in the mortician's office wears a placard saying "I aen't dead". Readers will already know that this is Granny Weatherwax.
* MyFutureSelfAndMe: An easter egg shows Rincewind talking with himself from the first game. And he even lampshades that he's from the sequel.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: Turns out adding all those pictures of the Elf Queen to the film to make it a success was not a good idea on the long run.]]
* NoFourthWall: Rincewind is fully aware that he is in a video game, and frequently talks directly to the player. Other characters have this too, but to a lesser extent.
* PaperThinDisguise: [[spoiler: Rincewind and the Librarian in a bad horse costume with a clown's trumpet glued to the front are able to fool a whole castle of elves and pass as a real Unicorn.]]
* {{Prettyboy}}: The male elves are this.
* RaisingTheSteaks:
** Rincewind comes across an undead sheep skeleton [[spoiler: who gets to be Death's stunt double in the moving picture.]]
** Also, [[spoiler:draining the blood of a rat using the vampire's false teeth]] results in Rincewind carrying around a vampire rat which serves no purpose in the game other than RuleOfFunny.
* RunningGag: The characters often say Rincewind's name the wrong way.
* ShoutOut: Many. For example, the Rite of [=AshkEnte=] is portrayed as using the Day-Oh song, and the ending is a parody/reversal of ''Film/KingKong1933''.
** In line with the ActorAllusion to Eric Idle, one scene is a very close parody of the stoning scene from ''Film/MontyPythonsLifeOfBrian''. It gets to the point where [[LampshadedTrope the characters start arguing about whether they're parodying the scene or just plagiarising it]].
** Dibbler's original idea for the ''Death Becomes Himself'' moving picture (Death sweats away as a wharf worker by day, but dances in a topless club by night) is a rip-off of ''Film/{{Flashdance}}''. And of course, the title is a reference to ''Film/DeathBecomesHer''.
** The intro is a parody of Film/LethalWeapon3 with Rincewind and the Librarian discovering a bomb strapped to a cart in the fools guild, finishing up with Rincewind turning the wrong flask over, causing the timer to speed up and the bomb to explode, destroying the place.
* SinisterScythe: At one point you must get Death's Scythe and use it on a field to prove that you can handle the job as a substitute reaper. Subverted when Rincewind is too out-of-shape to go beyond a single swing and must find another way to use it.
* StrawFeminist: The Suffrajester, who ties herself to things in order to demonstrate for the right of women to join the Fools Guild. Played for laughs, of course.
* TalkLikeAPirate: The Ship Captain, though it's just an act and he's told to knock it off.
* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: Death: after all the trouble Rincewind went through to make him star in a clique he decides to retire from his old job and leave it to Rincewind. Subverted when he saves Rincewind's life after he reformed his hourglass.]]
* TheVamp: The Elf Queen. WordOfGod is that Pratchett insisted that she be dark-haired rather than blonde, because evil seductive women in old movies are always brunettes.
* [[spoiler: AWinnerIsYou: After beating the game all you get is a cutscene as Death walks off with the finally departed Windle Poons and nothing else is said about Rincewind or the involvement of the Queen.]]
* WireDilemma: The wires are replaced with flasks, but the principle is the same. [[Film/LethalWeapon3 Rincewind picks the wrong one and makes the timer speed up.]]
* YouDontLookLikeYou: Windle Poons strangely looks very different in this game than in the first: he is much smaller, has a brownish beard and black eyes, and is much less senile, capable of holding actual conversations. This may be a nod to ''Reaper Man'', where Windle as a magically animated corpse is stronger and clearer-minded than he was as a 103-year-old man. Or maybe it's just due to the ArtShift.

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