History VideoGame / Icey

[[http://store.steampowered.com/app/553640/ Available on]] UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, and mobile platforms.

** Modern Day Pandora's Box: [[spoiler:If Icey waits to go in the elevator in the Clock Tower Entrance, she finds a room that makes her overpowered, and the Narrator will become furious at her for cheating, then takes all her money and resets the game as punihsment.]]

* TheStinger: Every ending has a short scene afterwards with text appearing on the screen, usually describing the activities of Judas or [[spoiler:Hastur]]. After the true ending and the true credits screen finish, there will be an additional cutscene of a chat-room conversation between two unnamed people [[spoiler: discussing Icey's new found sentience, the move to step two of a grander plan and finally, further instructions for [[RobotBuddy The Observer]] to continue it's supervision of our heroine.]]

** The Abyss Watches Back: [[spoiler:If Icey defeats Jack, she is transported to a room with Hastur in it

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Dahal just LOVES combining this trope with a giant pair of bayonets. Icey herself has some attacks that basically turn her into a buzz saw blade.

** Finding all the endings, gives you the true ending where [[spoiler: the narrator gains sentience, hacks the game and attempts to kill Icey by [[NoFourthWall disconnecting your controller]], only for Icey herself to break free and delete him.]]

* MultipleEndings: Following the narrator and killing Judas is but one ending. The game has around ten different endings, depending on how much you've disobeyed the narrator and how far you've strayed from the path. Finding all the endings, gives you the true ending where [[spoiler: the narrator gains sentience, hacks the game and attempts to kill Icey by [[NoFourthWall disconnecting your controller]], only for Icey herself to break free and delete him.]]

* BackgroundBoss: Ideon, Judas and [[spoiler: the narrator]] are this. While Ideon fights using his fists and [[ShoulderCannon shoulder mounted]] [[EnergyWeapon laser cannons]] and Judas fights by using [[EyeBeams eye beams]] and buzz-saw arms, [[spoiler: the narrator]] fights by continuously spawning in foes and [[InterfaceScrew messing with your screen]].

* BoyishShortHair: Barring her ponytail (which might be holographic), Icey's hair is this.

* DegradedBoss: After being fought as a boss, Thor ends up becoming a GiantMook in the Clock Tower, complete with a black variant.

* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: One of the endings has Icey meeting and slashing [[Literature/TheKingInYellow Hastur]] himself.

* [[spoiler: EldritchAbomination]]: Somehow, [[spoiler: [[Literature/TheKingInYellow The Yellow King]] ]] is involved in all of this.

* ExpendableClone: One of the endings and some [[NightmareFuel eastereggs]] show that [[spoiler: Icey is this and that as old Iceys die in various brutal ways, new ones are made and sent out to die, just like their predecessors before them. Also, those [[NightmareFuel eastereggs]] mentioned just now? You can run across either another Icey missing her left leg and stabbed through her chest with her own sword, or a small mountain of dead Iceys, piled up on top of each other like trash, missing various limbs and with various limbs strewn about.]]

* GiantSpider: Puck, one of the early bosses, is this. The "final" boss, Judas, is this as well and you kill him by chopping off his spider legs, one by one.

* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: In the TrueEnding [[spoiler: the Narrator realizes that he is not the creator of the game but instead part of the game itself with preprogrammed dialogue and reactions. Before the game can reset itself again, he fights back and attempts to completely wipe out the game and ICEY.]]
** [[spoiler: In the TrueEnding, ICEY begins operating on her own without the player's input in order to save her world from the Narrator, becoming her own separate entity from the player.]]

* HeavySleeper: The narrator accuses Icey of being this in the intro, if she chooses not to wake up.

* LittleMissBadass: Given the combat moves she can pull off, Icey definitely qualifies.
* MasterSwordsman: With her trusty sword and dizzying array of combat moves, Icey more than qualifies.
* MechaMooks: The game takes place in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic future]] where only these remain.

* NotAMorningPerson: Icey can be this if you refuse [[CallToAdventure to press the wake up key]], at which point the narrator will accuse her of being lazy and such a [[HeavySleeper heavy sleeper]] that not even an earthquake could get her awake.

* PostFinalBoss: [[spoiler: The narrator]] in the [[TrueEnding true ending]] is a [[BackgroundBoss background boss]] that spawns in all sorts of mechs, while [[InterfaceScrew distorting your view]] and eventually [[NoFourthWall disconnecting your controller]]. However, you cannot lose this fight since your health meter does not show and it is more of a scripted event.

* RobotBuddy: The Observer, a little robot that follows Icey around, floating above and behind her shoulder. In game, it does nothing but trail Icey wherever she goes, though [[TheStinger the stinger ]] shows there's more to the little thing than meets the eye. Seen in the above image next to Icey's capsule.
* RobotGirl: Icey is a battle android, who's sole purpose is killing Judas. Or so the narrator claims.

** Icey wakes up in a capsule not too dissimilar from the one [[VideoGame/MegaManZero Zero]] wakes up in, in the woodland area where you first start you come across a sign welcoming you to [[Franchise/SilentHill Silent Hell]] and the list only gets sillier from there.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Regarding the GiantSpider boss, is it Puck or Parker? Ingame it's ''Puck'', but in the achievement listing it's written as ''Parker''.

* TheChosenOne: Various messages and bits of cut-scene dialogue hint that Icey is this for... something.
* TheDragon: Tutorial boss Dahal if you [[spoiler: kill love interest Trinity]]. If you don't, then Dahal keels before you in appreciation instead.

* UnreliableNarrator: He's spot on in his narration if you follow his advice and fight Judas. If you don't however, then he starts tripping up, getting mad and then eventually [[spoiler: gains sentience and, [[NoFourthWall while addressing the player directly]], asks for your help in killing Icey, by putting down the gamepad so he can kill the now motionless character.]]

* BigBad: Judas if you follow the narrator's advice. [[spoiler: The narrator himself if you don't]].

* MultipleEndings: Following the narrator and killing Judas, is but one ending. The game has around ten different endings, depending on how much you've disobeyed the narrator and how far you've strayed from the path. Finding all the endings, gives you the true ending where [[spoiler: the narrator gains sentience, hacks the game and attempts to kill Icey by [[NoFourthWall disconnecting your controller]].]]

* NoFourthWall: Oh so very very much. From the Narrator pointing out the floating arrows that guide you towards Judas, to the various messages if you do silly things like jumping off of a ravine instead of activating the HardLight bridge, to the Narrator getting shot by his wife in the recording studio for the game, after she finds out he's been cheating on her, this game has LONG since leveled the fourth wall and turned the space into a parking lot.

** Oh, where to begin. Icey wakes up in a capsule not too dissimilar from the one [[VideoGame/MegaManZero Zero]] wakes up in, in the woodland area where you first start you come across a sign welcoming you to [[Franchise/SilentHill Silent Hell]] and the list only gets sillier from there.
** Part of the route to the True Ending requires some knowledge of ''Literature/TheKingInYellow'', as [[spoiler:you have to unlock a prompt to enter a password to the TrueFinalBoss - HASTUR.]]

* TheStinger: After the true ending and the true credits screen finish, there will be an additional cutscene of a chat-room conversation between two unnamed people [[spoiler: discussing Icey's new found sentience, the move to step two of a grander plan and finally, further instructions for [[RobotBuddy The Observer]] to continue it's supervision of our heroine.]]
* TomeOfEldritchLore: Although never shown, the Necronomicon is name-dropped on several instances through out the game, and that those who have read it having gone mad.

* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler: The narrator]] in the [[TrueEnding true ending]] is a [[BackgroundBoss background boss]] that spawns in all sorts of mechs, while [[InterfaceScrew distorting your view]] and eventually [[NoFourthWall disconnecting your controller]].

Described as ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'', meets ''VideoGame/PonyIsland'', meets ''VideoGame/TheStanleyParable'', the game follows titular character Icey as she fights to take down "Judas", bringer of the apocalypse, through a variety of devastated [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] landscapes, all the while "guided" by the voice of an unseen narrator and some mysterious arrows floating in the air. But is there more to this story than the narrator wants to let on?