Video Game / LISA: The Pointless - Scholar of the Wilbur Sin

"Hell is real. And Hell... is here."

— Wilbur Sin

LISA: The Pointless - Scholar of the Wilbur Sin is a massive fan-made expansion to LISA: The Pointless made by JCJimmy and released in 2021. It adds new enemies, areas, items, and other content to the original game, doubling or even tripling its size, along with three new party members and an alternate ending.

You can download the game here.

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In addition to the tropes in the original LISA: The Pointless, this game contains examples of:

• A Father to His Men: Francis Gizmo Jr. to his partners, Wallaby and Kroger. If you damage one of them enough, he'll immediately shield them with his own body, and if you kill both, he'll berate himself over not being a good enough leader.
• And Then John Was a Zombie: Kill 48 enemies in Downtown Olathe and Alex will be fully indoctrinated into the Infinity Franchise.
• Anti-Frustration Features: Subverted. Many of the streamlined features added in later versions of the vanilla release of LISA: The Pointless were changed in this mod to bring back the huge difficulty factor:
  • When Augustus tries to revive your party after falling during the Roland boss fight, Roland interrupts and kills Augustus before he can revive the rest, leaving you with only two living allies instead of the entire party.
  • The box that holds an infinite amount of rotten fruit by the dumpster area now only gives you a few fruit before being turned into just a rotten pool of liquid. You can still heal the party with it, however the process is much, much slower, and because it no longer gives you items to take with you, you are forced to walk back to this space every time you want to heal without expending the little healing items you were able to find.
  • The meat seller in downtown Olathe is no longer initiated as a battle, which prevents you from using the free turns to recover your SP.
  • However, this is played straight in some parts:
    • Garbage Island now has an underground tunnel system that allows you to quickly travel to points of interest, making exploring the new areas a lot easier
    • A few hub areas have groups of crows instead of a single one, allowing you to save more than once in order to prevent you from losing too much progress if you die.
    • Wiliam Double J. Palmer is still as ineffectual as he was in the original game, so you can use his fight as a chance to recover SP as long as you kill his partner.
• Ascended Extra: All three of the new party members go from minor NPCs to recruitable party members. Darry Sweets even gets a backstory!
  • Sean Shawn's grandfather also shows up on Garbage Island. Bringing him his grandson's corpse has him reward you with a Storeroom Key, which allows you to fight an optional boss (and another optional boss in the mountains if you defeat said boss).
  • The titular Wilbur Sin was a pushover enemy in the original Pointless. In this game, he's a huge threat with possible magic powers to help advance the aims of the Franchise.
• Ass Kicks You: One of Geen's moves, Iron Glutes, involves leaping into the air and landing ass-first on an enemy.
• Bad Boss: Wily Knight insults his companions when they die.
  June the Goon: Dismemberment is my fetish! There, I said it!
  Wily Knight: Oh, I knew it! Nasty bitch!
• Bait-and-Switch: The guy from the base game who lost his skateboard has been moved to where Chris Belucci used to be. While he asks you to get his skateboard back, it turns out that this time it’s the old guy putting up posters of Buddy that has it now, and he gives the board to you in exchange for a mag. On returning to the guy to return his skateboard, he ends up killed by the franchiser Belucci normally kills, who claims it was some freak who cut him up.
• BFS: Floyd Burnside wields a helicopter propellor as a sword.
• Body Horror: The Guttinator, one of the new jerseyheads, has an ugly-looking scar on his stomach. Partway through the fight, his stomach starts bulging... and Weez Finkerton, another jerseyhead, carves his way out of The Guttinator's stomach and attacks you.
  • Shammi, a new joy mutant, has an eye gouged out, most of the skin on the middle of its torso torn away, and the bones of all of his fingers except its thumb exposed.
• Boss-Altering Consequence:
  • On Garbage Island, beating three Optional Boss fights, visiting Wasteville, and completing the Trash Enlightenment sidequest will upgrade Roland’s fight^note If Georgy left you he starts the fight K Od by Roland, either getting up by himself on the second phase or being revived beforehand, Roland opens the fight with his AOE attack, and kills Augustus before he finishes reviving your party, leaving Alex and Joel to fight a now shocked and saddened Roland, and drops the Scummy Valve, and skip the Richie Cheasedust fight after since he was mauled by a Rag Maggot protecting Roland.
  • The fight versus The Kent can be switched to an alternate version where he fights alone, barehanded, and pissed off if you shave his mustache with a trimmer, scaring off Wesley Derb Jr. and killing his other flunky when they suggest not flipping out over the mustache. Similarly, his other companion depends on if you sided with Bepe Stormer or Tibby Dobbs in their argument over the Central Powers.
  • Arnold Shpitz’s fight changes if you went through downtown with less than 8 kills. Since Arnold’s much less tired than normal, he becomes much stronger and faster, K Oing your party much easier than normal. His second phase is also replaced by a Hyperfold with many copies of Arnold’s torso all over it granting multiple extra attacks, and the Core also occasionally shoots fireballs at you. But hey, you get an intact Brass Knuckle for managing to kill this souped up Arnold!
  • Similar to Roland, there’s also a Super Arnold if you reach either the second or third fold of infinity. Arnold’s much more beat up than usual, but the horde that usually chases you off joins in the fight, attacking either you or Arnold, with him responding likewise. He also gains a new One-Hit Kill attack where he crushes your skull and gives Brain Damage in his Clipped-Wing Angel phase. You do get the Bloody Valve from persevering, however.
• Call-Back: During the fight with Will Killjoy, he gains a special one-hit-KO move he claims he learned from "the big R himself." It's none other than the Rando Stab, which is one of the attacks Rando uses in the final battle at the end of Painful.
• Chain of Deals: There's a completely convoluted and hidden one on Garbage Island. If done successfully, the two Rando fans that hung out near Garbage Island's bridge will show up as merchants in Downtown Olathe to sell completely exclusive gear.
• Chain Pain: Will Killjoy's weapon of choice is a chain flail.
• Crapsack World: A given, though in the case of Garbage Island, it's heavily implied that the island was like that before the Flash even happened.
• Death Seeker: When you defeat Wilbur Sin, he sounds... Relieved.
  Wilbur Sin: Finally... Free... From this cursed sin.
• Developer's Foresight:
  • It is possible to gain one Joy pill at garbage island, before you meet Slim Hartmann at House Dust. You may try to gain another one by talking to him to sell for more mags, but he will notice you already have one and won't hand you another joy pill.
  • You get access to moves that inflict characters with Wet, and they can be used to douse Anaconda Virtue's flames. Doing it to him causes him to upgrade his phase on the spot, and doing it enough switches him to a completely original phase where he breathes fire, completely negating the dousing strategy.
• Dirty Communists: Borislav Ragnarok, the game's new superboss, is a Soviet super soldier hibernating in American territory as a failsafe in case the Americans start winning the Cold War.
• Downer Ending: If you reach the 3rd fold, Alex will fully convert to the franchise, killing Joel and continuing his killing spree in the zones beyond downtown Olathe. He then eventually meets Hugo Leopardi and, after a short fight, gets stabbed by him, suffering the same fate as the original game. Alex then limps towards the bus stop, and sits on the bench, waiting for a bus that might never come.
  Franchiser Alex: It doesn't matter. None of it does.
• Due to the Dead: In the 3rd fold ending, Hugo Leopardi will approach Jason Pike's corpse, kneeling down and seemingly saying a prayer before leaving
• Early-Bird Cameo: During the high school dance part of Darry's flashback, you can see a young Chriss Bellucci on the right.
• Earn Your Bad Ending: As reaching the 3rd fold requires killing 48 people, you have to go through a LOT of work to reach this ending.
• Establishing Character Moment: Thanks to the redesign of the Olathe School Basement in Downtown Olathe, Arnold Shpitz gets a new showcase where he’s seen sitting on an ledge above you before getting attacked by a large and intimidating franchiser. As he charges Arnold, he doesn’t change expression, readies his fists, and punches the other franchiser’s head off in one blow before leaving.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Presenting the Forbidden Magazine to Ben and Percy will have them refuse it, stating that they're depraved, but not THAT depraved. Dorimere, however, will eagerly trade for it.
  • Establishing the difference between the Central Powers and the Infinity Franchise, many of the gang members balk at lethal violence; the ones that don't tend to end up converting over.
• Expy: Francis Gizmo Jr. and his boys resemble Beltboy and his friends. Both Beltboy and Wallaby have spiky hair, attack with a ranged weapon with a trigger (guns for Beltboy and a spray can for Wallaby), and are devastated when their friends die; both Lanks and Francis have dark hair and glasses, and have similar hairstyles and faces; and both Cyclops and Kroger are African-American brawlers with sports backgrounds.
• Flamethrower Backfire: If you distract Scrawny Davy with Joel's new Misdirection move, he'll turn around and expose the fuel tank on his back. Attacking it enough will cause it to explode, killing Davy and granting more experience than killing him normally.
• Gory Discretion Shot: In the alternate ending, the screen smashes to black as a jerseyhead Alex approaches the underground campsite. Around 10 seconds later, it reveals that Alex has killed them all.
• He Who Fights Monsters: Killing 48 jerseyheads will put Alex at the third fold of Infinity, causing him to murder Joel after the Arnold Shpitz fight and become a jerseyhead himself.
• Heroic Sacrifice: The third party member you have in Downtown Olathe leaves Alex and Joel to hold off the horde of Infinity Franchise members after the battle with Arnold.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: After defeating Floyd Burnside, he'll fall to his knees and his sword will go flying. He'll then taunt you about how he's not going down that easily... and then his sword comes crashing back down and decapitates him.
• It's All Junk: Interacting with Joel's gun if Alex joins the Infinity Franchise has the latter inspect the gun, then toss it away into the abyss. In the ending, he likewise does the same with Joel's hat.
• Minor Living Alone: Tony, Shammi, Danny and Manny are just kids hiding in a playground amidst the Infinity Franchise-infested Olathe, without a single adult taking care of them. They seem to be doing rather well on their own by the time Alex and his party finds them, though. It's all downhill from that point.
• My God, What Have I Done?: If Augustus comes to your aid during Roland's boss fight, Roland will lash out and strike him, seemingly killing him. He then immediately regrets it.
• Nerf: A number of game aspects were given this treatment.
  • Alex's Minor Iris was changed, dealing damage to Alex and applying the "off balance" debuff to prevent you from using any stances afterwards.
  • Soda items now restore a percentage of one's SP, instead of a flat amount- generally resulting in less SP restored overall.
  • Alex's Major Iris is no longer obtained through leveling up- instead, it is obtained by reaching the second fold of infinity. Like Minor Iris, it also deals recoil damage, and it applies the "Exhausted" debuff after using it.
  • It is no longer possible to obtain the massive EXP boost you'd obtain by killing Dex Muldoon before he explodes himself. If you try to kill Pedro Rodriguez without using bottles, he will flee the fight before you get a chance, and you'll be given an alternate version of the Dex fight that gives much less EXP.
• One-Man Army: Already implied in the original game but made more explicit here with Shef, who does not have a gang but is apparently powerful enough on his own to get a decent chunk of land in the Game.
• Player Nudge: Upon first arriving at Downtown Olathe, a mandatory conversation is added with the marauders, with them mentioning the violent mob underneath and advising Alex and Joel to steer clear of fighting unless they have to, or else they’ll get sucked into a trance of violence as well. This hints to both being able to get folds much like the franchisers in the area as well as the bad ending, where Alex becomes a franchiser and kills Joel at the end of the area.
• Playing Possum: One new potential ability for Joel is pretending to have a heart attack, and dropping "dead". Enemies will ignore Joel while he's "dead", and he can get back up to spook all enemies.
• Psycho Knife Nut: Hugo Leopardi and his scalpel. He's more than a match against even an Infinitized Alex.
• Rhymes on a Dime: Dorimere the Purveyor speaks like this.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Wily Knight will flee the battle if you kill all his companions without taking him out first.
• Serious Business: Two rival gang members are seen playing rock-paper-scissors against each other, somehow managing to tie against each other for days straight. They're still playing each other when the Infinity Franchise takes over downtown, too focused on their game to be affected.
• Shock and Awe: At a certain point, Alex gains an electric-based attack, which is exceptionally effective against wet foes.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story:
  • One particular Easter Egg, shown in one of the April Fools' Day videos, plays this painfully straight regarding a potential fourth party member who you could only get by having both the Exclusive Gummy Worm (thereby sacrificing Darry as an additional teammate on Garbage Island) and the Medal of Honor (the Cosmetic Award you get by defeating Borislav Ragnarok, hinting that how useless the secret would be). The end result? You would "recruit" Shurik Caukaz... a character met in the underground campsite in Autumn, as in the absolute end of the game, and even though he has a range of skills if you look at his stats screen, it's rendered useless since he gets killed by Hugo regardless.
  • Even had the Marauders succeeded in getting the Pink Pill back, it would already be too late, because decades passed in their village during the few hours you're away in Downtown Olathe.
  • A member of the Bureau guards a tunnel from Infinity Franchise members to keep it from spreading beyond him. He actually succeeds in killing many Infinity Franchise members and in fact ends up being one of the few sane living people in Downtown by the end... but the people he was guarding wound up independently converting to the Infinity Franchise anyway.
• Sins of Our Fathers: This is the reason given for why everyone hates Roland. His father, Gerald von Buckingham, used to be the mayor of a town situated on what would become Garbage Island. Gerald's policies were the reason it became Garbage Island, and when the damage was done, he ditched the place.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Georgy wasn't a particularly likable character to begin with, but the added interactions with him even more rude and unpleasant (especially in any scene where Darry is present).
• Video Game Caring Potential: Alex can essentially adopt a baby Fishman and feed him jerky to make him stronger, allowing Alex to summon him for moves. Most importantly, you can also buy him a Vase of Water for him to live in; if you don't the baby Fishman ends up dying to the heat on the way to the city.
• What the Hell, Hero?: If you use any attacks on the kids in the fight with them at the playground, Joel will scold you. His friendship value will also drop by one for every kid you defeat, up to four in total.
  Joel: The hell are you doing? They're only kids!
  Alex: What did you expect me to do?
  Joel: I expected you to be a God damn adult. You coulda killed one of them.
• White Collar Worker: Otto Ottoman's gang all look like office workers and are based in a normal office building that he actually seemed to run legitimately before the Flash.
• Would Hurt a Child:
  • Wily Knight and his crew have no problem killing Danny, one of the playground kids.
  • In contrast to Geen, Salt Crab was actually willing to help Alex fight the kids, though he hilariously incapacitates himself before he could intervene.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child:
  • When ambushed by the playground kids, Alex can simply dodge instead of attacking. Eventually, Joel will break free from his trap and use his gun to make the kids stand down. He then thanks Alex for not harming the kids
  • Geen refuses to do anything against the playground kids.
    Alex: Geen, help us!
    Geen: The hell do you want me to do, Alex? I ain't stabbin' any kids!