History CommonKnowledge / VideoGames

* The [[PlantPeople Floran]] in ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}} are often described as carnivores.They're actually omnivores. Eyebowls and the Hot Bone -- both of which contain no meat, despite their names -- are Floran dishes.

** Many are convinced that Portals only open on surfaces made of moon rocks. Not true. They can open on any white surface, regardless of material, as demonstrated by the unsanctioned testing areas and offices in the original game that the player ''can'' open Portals on. This misconception stems from a line said by Cave Johnson late into chapter 7 of ''Portal 2''. What he actually said was that moon gel just happens to be a good Portal conductor, they just have a lot of it because Cave carelessly invested a lot of money into moon rocks, but got deathly ill because they're poisonous when grounded up.

* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'':
** The fandom often portrays the main character as [[HeroicMime completely mute]]. In fact, this is impossible since they have phone conversations with the other characters (like Toriel) over the course of the game, occasionally speak in the form of player-chosen responses, [[spoiler: and gives Asriel their true name, Frisk, of their own volition in the GoldenEnding]].
** Everyone knows Sans's TrademarkFavoriteFood is ketchup, right? While he does chug it in an optional scene, there's nothing that indicates it's his favorite food, and it's [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment never brought up again]]. The reason this idea was perpetuated is probably the fact that you can find ketchup, mustard, and relish hidden in one of his sentry stations, but considering the fact that he later sells hot dogs to you, they're just as likely simply condiments for them.
** Spaghetti isn't Papyrus's TrademarkFavoriteFood, either. The [[https://undertaleqa.tumblr.com/ anniversary Q & A]] confirmed both that he makes it all the time because he thinks ''everyone else'' likes it, and that his actual favorite food is dinosaur-egg oatmeal.
** Ask a fan what Papyrus's BerserkButton is and they'll likely tell you that he can't stand puns. In truth, though, he's one of the most pun-happy characters in the game; his phone calls show [[PungeonMaster he has a pun ready for every occasion]] and when Undyne calls his toolshed a "coolshed" in an optional conversation, he claims her "shed-based puns" are one of the reasons they're such good friends. He does get annoyed when Sans makes puns, but that annoyance is directed more towards his brother for shirking his duties to crack jokes than it is to the puns themselves, and even then Sans is quick to note that for all his complaining, Papyrus is still smiling.
** The phrase "you dirty brother killer" is ''very'' often associated with [[spoiler:the final battle of the Genocide route in which you fight Sans]]. While Sans does say this to you at one, and in the same location no less, he does not say it any time during said [[spoiler:boss fight]] - it's actually an optional line of dialogue he can tell you if you in the final hallway [[spoiler:in a neutral run in which you kill his brother Papyrus]], if you answer his ComesGreatResponsibility question with "no". The confusion here is likely because ''every'' monster needs to be killed in order to get to [[spoiler:Sans' boss fight]], including Papyrus, and his death still plays a major thematic role regardless.
** Certain fan productions, including ''WebVideo/UndertaleTheMusical'', depict Flowey as bribing Muffet into attacking you midway through Hotland. It's never made specific who paid her in-game, but it's heavily implied to be Mettaton; she mentions that the person who warned her about the player character was able to offer a lot of money, has a sweet smile, and is capable of shapeshifting -- while the last traits do apply to Flowey (and is likely the source of this belief), the only known character that hits all three is Mettaton.
** On the subject of Muffet: it's obvious she attacks you because she holds a grudge against humans for disliking spiders, right? Not really- it's because she was paid to and was told ''the player character'' specifically hates spiders and actively antagonizes them. Once she realizes she was wrong about you, she calls off the battle and lets you pass without so much as a spiteful remark. This is why using an item from the Spider Bake Sale immediately ends the fight - she realizes you ''can't'' hate spiders if you were willing to spend money to improve their lives.
** It's often believed that Sans has the ability to [[spoiler:[[RippleEffectProofMemory fully remember previous timelines]], particularly ones where either his loved ones are killed or the happy ending is stolen away from him]], leading to many a great TearJerker. Because of this, it comes as a surprise to some to find that he in fact ''does not'' have this ability in the same way your character or Flowey does; if anything, [[spoiler:he only has the same vague, subconscious memories about them that every main character does and that's it. What sets Sans apart is the fact that he knows the previous timelines ''exist'', and uses this information to make [[HyperAwareness very specific (and uncannily accurate) guesses]] based on your body language and behavior as to what you've been doing in previous game sessions. Likely due to how specific (and frequently accurate) these guesses are, many people mistakenly got the impression that he actually has RippleEffectProofMemory like Flowey or the player, and it's difficult to discern the fans who genuinely believe it and those who just see it as a compelling "What if?" scenario. It's implied that he ''might'' have the ability to save physical objects from timelines that have been lost, judging by the contents of his secret room, but that's less definitive.]]
** Due to the fact that it's commonly referred to as the "No Mercy" route, many players believe that sparing a single monster will end the Genocide route immediately. Sparing a RandomEncounter (with a few exceptions) will not end the route, though it also won't help you progress. One strategy to make progress faster actually involves sparing the hard-to-kill StoneWall-type monsters so you can move on to fighting easier enemies.
** SOUL "traits" have a certain color tied to them. It is often assumed that the trait associated with red [=SOULs=] such as that of the player character is Determination. This has not been confirmed nor denied; the Ball Game that says which trait belongs to which color does not describe red with any one particular trait, and the word "Determination" is never written in red (always either white or gold).
** Since what little information the game has on [[spoiler: Dr. W.D. Gaster]] is hidden behind rare {{Random Event}}s, most fans only learned of him through other fans. Because of this, popular {{fanon}} about him is often mistakenly assumed to be canon, despite not being confirmed in any official capacity:
*** There's no definitive in-game proof that he was [[RetGone retroactively erased from history]], despite it being treated as a cornerstone of the mythos surrounding him. What we are told is that he [[spoiler: "shattered across time and space" after one of his experiments went awry]], but no mention is ever made of him being forgotten as a result; on the contrary, [[spoiler: two of his followers claim that Asgore took a long time to find a new Royal Scientist who could live up to Gaster's legacy]], implying that he was still remembered after he disappeared. This idea seems to have originated from [[spoiler: Goner Kid's]] comments about a world where everything's the same but you don't exist; they don't mention [[spoiler: Gaster]] at any point, but as they [[spoiler: resembled one of his followers and could be encountered in [[RandomEvent the same way]] as them]], fans assumed they must have been talking about him.
*** Another popular idea related to [[spoiler: Gaster's]] erasure is that Sans is the only one who remembers him, and has a drawing of him hidden away labelled "don't forget". This is partially true, in that as of the v1.001 update you can find a drawing labelled "don't forget" in [[spoiler: Sans's workshop]]. However, this drawing [[TakeOurWordForIt is never shown to the player]] and is only ever described as "a poorly drawn picture of three smiling people", with no indication that one of them is supposed to be [[spoiler: Gaster]]. If anything, considering all of the details surrounding it that serve as ProductionForeshadowing for ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''[[note]]"Don't Forget" is the name of ''Deltarune''[='s=] main {{leitmotif}}, and the drawing can only be found if the player had previously spoken with an NPC who tells you about a girl named Suzy, which, while spelled differently, is the name of one of ''Deltarune''[='s=] [[Characters/DeltaruneSusie main characters]]. Most tellingly, the Platform/NintendoSwitch port of ''Undertale'', released about a month before ''Deltarune''[='s=] first chapter, gave the aforementioned NPC new dialogue where they claimed you would be meeting Suzy soon[[/note]], it seems more likely that the drawing is meant to depict [[Characters/DeltaruneTheThreeHeroes the three heroes]] from that game.
*** It's widely believed that [[spoiler: Gaster's fate was the result of him falling into the CORE]]. While there is strong evidence supporting this, with [[spoiler: one of his followers describing how "his life was cut short" when he "fell into his creation" right after stating he built the CORE, implying that was the "creation" in question]], [[AmbiguousSyntax the wording is just vague enough]] that it isn't certain. It could have been [[spoiler: the CORE he fell into, but it just as easily could have been whatever he was documenting in Entry 17, the broken machine in Sans's workshop, or one of many other "creations" he likely made during his tenure as Royal Scientist]].
*** Since the [[spoiler: True Lab]] is so heavily associated with [[spoiler: Gaster]], many fans assume that he played an active role in the [[spoiler: Determination experiments that took place within its walls and the subsequent creation of the Amalgamates]]. However, reading through Alphys's [[spoiler: [[ApocalypticLog lab entries]] reveals that she was the one who first discovered Determination after she was appointed as Royal Scientist, by which point Gaster was already long gone]].
*** The idea that [[spoiler: Gaster]] is stranded in a VoidBetweenTheWorlds is such a ubiquitous part of so many fan works that it's often believed to have some basis in canon. In reality, the existence of such a "Void" is never once mentioned or even alluded to in-game.

* ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'': The shutdown of Creator/TelltaleGames and the mixed reception of ''Minecraft: Story Mode'' resulted in it becoming a scapegoat regarding the shutdown. The shutdown of Telltale Games was actually caused by management issues and failure to make a profit back on their games after the success of the first season of ''The Walking Dead''. Ironically, ''Minecraft: Story Mode'' was the only game after ''The Walking Dead'' to make a profit.

*** Most assume his nickname for Fenris is "broody"; however, Varric only calls Fenris "broody" once (as a modifier for "elf") and brooding only comes up in conversations between the two of them twice. Varric's actual nickname for Fenris is simply "elf" and the mistaken belief comes from fans {{flanderiz|ation}}ing Fenris' character.
*** The fandom at large also mistakes Varric's nickname for Aveline as "Red". While Varric does try to address her as this, she tells him no, making her the only companion to not have a nickname.

*** Mega Man, Roll, Bass, and all the robot characters in the series are called Robot Masters, right? Wrong. Only the stage select bosses are ever called Robot Masters, and they were only ever called that from ''Mega Man 3'' to ''7''. The term gets used a lot in third-party media, but as for the official lore and video games, it's just the faces you see on the stage select screens.

* One of the things most often brought up when discussing ''VisualNovel/WonderfulEverydayDownTheRabbitHole'' and its content is a scene where [[BestialityIsDepraved a girl is violently raped by a dog]]. Which is technically true, but it's not actually a full H-Scene. It's actually part of a brief flashback showing the past of [[spoiler:one of the girls Zakuro forms a suicide pact with]], and [[RapeDiscretionShot the game cuts way right before the rape happens]].

* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
** It's common belief that Phoenix became a lawyer because Mia inspired him when she defended him for murder committed by Dahlia Hawthorne. In reality, while Mia did defend him and that was when they first met, and indeed he became her student afterwards, he was already studying to become a lawyer at this point, and his motivation for doing so had nothing to do with Mia. Instead, Phoenix explicitly states he switched to law studies from his art major due to his desire to help Edgeworth, after learning of his (then estranged) friend's decision to train as a prosecutor rather than a defence lawyer as he'd always dreamed. From this, Phoenix apparently deduced that Edgeworth was in a bad situation, and determined to become a defence lawyer in the hopes that they could eventually meet again and he could provide Edgeworth with some kind of aid. In fact, the very ''first game'' establishes that Phoenix's motivation was being defended by Miles (who was at the time being raised by his loving defence lawyer father, rather than his EvilMentor) when his class accused him of stealing Edgeworth's lunch money, and makes it a major plot point in the final case. Sometimes it's assumed that was later retconned in favour of the explanation given in the third game, although the two needn't be mutually exclusive.
** Contrary to popular belief, Phoenix has never accused an animal of murder; for that matter, no protagonist lawyer has ever done so either. He once ''defended'' an accused animal (an orca accused of killing its owner), but he's never pointed the finger at an animal. This confusion may stem from the fact that he once [[MakeTheDogTestify called a parrot to the witness stand]], even though that was just to [[NotInFrontOfTheParrot collect evidence of its owner's true identity]]; Phoenix never claimed that the bird was directly involved with the murder.
** Despite how infamous "updated autopsy reports" are among the fans, they appear in surprisingly few cases; even when they do appear, they are mainly used to clarify smaller details or add information that was uncovered over the course of the trial. The only example of one being submitted by the prosecution with the facts altered specifically to benefit their case, as is often joked about, is in the second case of [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney the first game]]. The fact this happened in [[FirstInstallmentWins the first non-tutorial case in the series]] and served as [[TheRival Edgeworth]]'s EstablishingCharacterMoment just meant this one time tended to stick in people's minds.
** A very common belief in the fandom is that the series was written as a {{satire}} of Japan's legal system, but in fact series creator Shu Takumi has repeatedly stressed as far back as the first game's original release in 2001 that the games were never written from that perspective and that he in fact knew virtually nothing about Japan's legal system while working on them, only interested in writing the series as a thrilling detective story and borrowing basic concepts he recalled from fictional depictions of both Japan and America's court systems. Indeed, within the original trilogy, the idea of the law is almost never actually talked about as some kind of CentralTheme. That would only start in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' (which was the result of ExecutiveMeddling) and then be continued in subsequent games not written by Takumi, furthering the misconception.
** Despite what some fans might tell people, Dahlia and Iris were ''not'' active criminal accomplices. The only times they collaborated were when Iris initially agreed to partake in an earlier version of the diamond theft plot that she later backed out of, and [[spoiler:when Dahlia had Iris act as her BodyDouble to retrieve the poisoned bottle from Phoenix while Dahlia herself was under police surveillance, which Iris only partook in to stop her sister from committing even more murders than she already had]].
** It's often claimed by fans that ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'' was originally meant to be a trilogy, but was CutShort due to the poor reception to the first game's {{Cliffhanger}} ending and forced the story to be resolved entirely in one game. There is no evidence to support this, and in fact Shu Takumi has stated the opposite -- that the game was originally meant to be a one-off, but the story draft became too big and thus had to be split, hence why the first game was never marketed as being the first part of a larger story.
** While the series has always had silly and unrealistic elements, ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney''[='s=] Percieve mechanic was considered too unrealistic for some players to [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief suspend their disbelief]] for. After all, the idea that Apollo could prove a witness wrong in a court of law not by presenting counter-evidence, but by staring at them really hard until he noticed them fidgeting, was just too ridiculous to take seriously.[[note]]The developers for the later games seemed to agree with this criticism, as both ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'' and ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Spirit of Justice]]'' limited their Percieve segments to outside the courtroom, with Simon Blackquill in the former further dismissing the whole thing as "trickery and fraud" and siccing his hawk on Apollo for trying to use it during a cross-examination.[[/note]] However, ''Apollo Justice'' never treated a witness's body language as proof of anything on its own -- after spotting a tell, Apollo still needed to present actual evidence to show why their reaction was relevant to the case before the court would take his claims seriously.
** Why did Manfred von Karma take Miles Edgeworth under his wing? It's most commonly assumed that he did it as [[spoiler: an act of post-mortem RevengeThroughCorruption against Gregory Edgeworth; not content with just killing his bitter rival, he then groomed his son to be the kind of [[PersecutingProsecutor amoral, victory-obsessed prosecutor]] his father would have hated as a final insult to his memory]]. However, none of this has ever been confirmed. The only one who knows von Karma's true motives is von Karma himself, and the most he's ever said on the matter is simply that his reasons for taking Edgeworth in are none of Phoenix's business.
** Another common claim from fans is that Edgeworth was adopted by the von Karma family after his father died. There certainly is a familial aspect to their interactions -- Edgeworth does regard Manfred as a twisted father figure of sorts, and Franziska has described Edgeworth as being [[LikeBrotherAndSister like a brother to her]] -- but it's never once stated that he was actually adopted by them, and the games only ever refer to him as Manfred's student, not his son. The [[Anime/AceAttorney anime adaptation]] does depict this as being the case, but while that doesn't contradict the games it's still a different continuity from them.
** Many fans are convinced that one of the core plot threads of ''Justice for All'' is that Edgeworth, emotionally weighed down by the events of the prior game, choose to fake his suicide and run away overseas, making everyone believe he was dead. Except this isn't true. ''The player'' is made to believe Edgeworth killed himself for the better part of the game, but in-universe the MetaphoricallyTrue meaning of "Miles Edgeworth Chooses Death" is known to all the characters, something explicitly stated by Phoenix in the epilogue. This is the reason why Phoenix reacts more with anger to Edgeworth's return as a prosecutor than being shocked that he's still alive - from the start, he knew he was never dead to begin with.
** Missile, the police dog seen in a few cases, is often claimed to have been based on creator Shu Takumi's pet dog. The truth is actually the other way around; Takumi named his dog after the one from ''Ace Attorney'', who was just supposed to be a joke about a police dog being a decidedly unintimidating Shiba Inu. There is a dog in one of Takumi's games based directly on the real life Missile, but that's in ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'', not ''Ace Attorney''.
** Many people are under the impression that Yanni Yogi, after being arrested in the DL-6 Incident, was found guilty of murdering Gregory Edgeworth but released on an insanity plea due to having suffered brain damage. In actuality, it's stated multiple times that DL-6 was never solved at all, and Yogi's insanity [[spoiler:which [[ObfuscatingInsanity wasn't even real]]]] was done so that he would be judged illegible for serving trial. This is why the case served as Edgeworth's CynicismCatalyst; from his perspective, the court let his father's killer get away on a technicality. Furthermore, Misty Fey falling under scrutiny after Yogi's verdict would be illogical if he was indeed found guilty since her channeling claimed he was the culprit, not that he was of sound mind.
** The existence of ''Rise from the Ashes'' is commonly assumed by Western fans to have been a {{Retcon}}, since the original script for ''Justice for All'' says Edgeworth vanished after the events of the first game. In actuality, this is just a translation error; the original Japanese script always stated Edgeworth participated in other trials, and the existence of the {{Interquel}} was just to fill in the gaps on what ultimately led to his decision to resign.
** Critics of Godot are often quick to claim that [[spoiler:he [[EngineeredHeroics willfully endangered Maya's life so to "redeem" himself]] for his failure to save Mia, leading to the death of her mother in the process]]. Godot never claims he did this, all he says is that [[spoiler:his IrrationalHatred for Phoenix led him to not seek him to help stop Maya's assassination, which [[ItsAllMyFault puts the blame for Maya being nearly killed and Misty's death]] on his own selfishness.]] Godot ''does'' claim in retrospect that [[spoiler:[[SecretlySelfish he was motivated more from guilt for Mia than saving Maya]]]], but both Phoenix and Maya openly object to this perspective, and even Godot himself admits to having no idea what he was really thinking in the moment.

** The Science Vessel pilot's voice actor is often assumed to be Creator/HarryShearer, due to how much he sounds like [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Mr. Burns]], to the point where a few of his quotes are Mr. Burns references. He was actually voiced by Tracy W. Bush, a Blizzard employee-it should be noted that ''all'' generic units in ''[=StarCraft 1=]'' are voiced by Blizzard employees rather than professional voice actors, and Harry Shearer isn't mentioned in the game's credits at all.

** It's common belief that Phoenix became a lawyer because Mia inspired him, when she defended him for murder committed by Dahlia Hawthorne. In reality, while Mia did defend him and that was when they first met, and indeed he became her student afterwards, he was already studying to become a lawyer at this point, and his motivation for doing so had nothing to do with Mia. Instead, Phoenix explicitly states he switched to law studies from his art major due to his desire to help Edgeworth, after learning of his (then estranged) friend's decision to train as a prosecutor rather than a defence lawyer as he'd always dreamed. From this, Phoenix apparently deduced that Edgeworth was in a bad situation, and determined to become a defence lawyer in the hopes that they could eventually meet again and he could provide Edgeworth with some kind of aid.
*** In fact, the very ''first game'' establishes that Phoenix's motivation was being defended by Miles (who was at the time being raised by his loving defence lawyer father, rather than his EvilMentor) when his class accused him of stealing Edgeworth's lunch money, and makes it a major plot point in the final case. Sometimes it's assumed that was later retconned in favour of the explanation given in the third game, although the two needn't be mutually exclusive.

** Many people are under the impression that Yanni Yogi, after being arrested in the DL-6 Incident, was found guilty of murdering Gregory Edgeworth but released on an insanity plea due to having suffered brain damage. In actuality, it's stated multiple times that DL-6 was never solved at all, and Yogi's insanity [[spoiler:which [[ObfuscatingInsanity wasn't even real]]]] was done so that he would be judged illegible for serving trial. This is why the case served as Edgeworth's CynicismCatalyst; from his perspective, the court let his father's killer get away on a technicality. Furthermore, it would be illogical for Misty Fey to have fallen under scrutiny after Yogi's verdict if he was indeed found guilty since her channeling claimed he was the culprit, not that he was of sound mind.

** Critics of Godot are often quick to claim that [[spoiler:he willfully endangered Maya's life so to "redeem" himself for his failure to save Mia, leading to the death of her mother in the process]]. Godot never claims he did this, all he says is that [[spoiler:his IrrationalHatred for Phoenix led him to not seek him to help stop Maya's assassination, which [[ItsAllMyFault puts the blame for Maya being nearly killed and Misty's death]] on his own selfishness.]] Godot ''does'' claim in retrospect that [[spoiler:[[SecretlySelfish he was motivated more from guilt for Mia than saving Maya]]]], but both Phoenix and Maya openly object to this perspective, and even Godot himself admits to having no idea what he was really thinking in the moment.

** It has been claimed that the designs of the [[{{mons}} Pals]] and other art assets are AI generated. This is mostly due to game's HateDumb misinterpreting (deliberately or otherwise) some statements from the [=PocketPair=] CEO where he hints that he is okay with AI generated art and because the company developed a game where players generate art using AI. That said, the game started development in 2021, at a time when powerful AI image generators ''didn't even exist''.

* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': Jade's infamous obsession with mushrooms reaches memetic status in the fandom, but that's not his TrademarkFavoriteFood. His real favorite dish is octopus carpaccio.

*** An additional source of confusion seems to be humanity's rapid rate of advance, having ships on par with everyone else's just a few years after discovering eezo. The codex explicitly states that it wasn't discovering eezo that let them advance so quickly, it was that the Protheans conveniently left an extensive archive of blueprints and guides on Mars. This was why the humans advanced to modern technology before first contact, and this was never stated to be the case for any other species.

** Due to the trailers and promotional materials hyping up the VideoGameCrueltyPotential and BlackComedy, a lot of people assume that the player character is a VillainProtagonist and the intended way to play is to abuse the eponymous [[{{mons}} Pals]]. In actuality, abusing the Pals [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment leads to them]] slacking off, getting injured and just ruining productivity in general. Furthermore, many of the cruelest acts are completely optional, and you have the option to play in a more heroic way.
** It has been claimed that the designs of the [[{{mons}} Pals]] and other art assets are AI generated. This is mostly due to game's HateDumb deliberately misinterpreting some statements from the [=PocketPair=] CEO where he hints that he is okay with AI generated art and because the company developed a game where players generate art using AI. That said, the game started development in 2021, at a time when powerful AI image generators ''didn't even exist''.

** Many people are under the impression that Yanni Yogi, after being arrested in the DL-6 Incident, was found guilty of murdering Gregory Edgeworth but released on an insanity plea due to having suffered brain damage. In actuality, it's stated multiple times that DL-6 was never solved at all, and Yogi's insanity [[spoiler:which [[ObfuscatingInsanity wasn't even real]]]] was done so that he would be judged illegible for serving trial. This is why the case served as Edgeworth's CynicismCatalyst; from his perspective, the court let his father's killer get away on a technicality.

* ''VideoGame/{{Cuphead}}'':Altough it's a common assumption that Cuphead and Mugman are children, this has [[VagueAge never been explicitly confirmed]]. While the writer did refer to them as adolescents, this still doesn't preclude the possibility they're 18 or 19. The novel "Cuphead in Carnival Chaos" ''does'' potray them as elementary schoolers, but it's not confirmed canon.

** There's a common misconception that the berserk powerup (a black medikit that heals you up to 100 health if you're anywhere below that amount, and ''[[QuadDamage massively]]'' increases the damage your [[EmergencyWeapon punch attack]] does) in the first 2 games only lasts for as long as the screen has a red tint (about 20 seconds), which is likely fueled by the fact that all the other powerups with some visible effect outside of the status bar (invisibility, invulnerability and infrared goggles) having a time limit. It actually lasts until the end of the level or until the player dies. It also increases the punch damage a lot more than most players think (you can usually kill a pinky demon with one punch).