Spoiler Alert is a platforming game developed by Danish studio Megafuzz and published by tinyBuild, where you have to uncomplete the game. You start out beating the last boss, get the princess, the credits begin... and then the game reverses, and you have to unbeat the bosses, unkill the enemies, and uncollect the coins to find out how it started. And if you, say, kill something new on the way? You create a time paradox, and get thrown back to the beginning of the level. The levels are short though.
Compare Retro/Grade, a Shoot 'Em Up with a similar concept.
Spoiler Alert contains examples of:
- All There in the Manual: If you purchase the Steam edition, you get a 16-page comic book that explains what made Chili Pepper Knight set out on his quest.
- Already Done for You: Played With. All the killing and collecting have already been done... by yourself. You just replace and/or revive what was once gone.
- Antepiece: The World 1 boss, Lucky Jack, has an attack in which he sucks up coins (which, since the game is in reverse, will actually shoot out towards you). The first time he fires, the coins will pass by safely with no danger of them hitting you, so you can see the pattern and learn how to avoid it next time.
- Anthropomorphic Food: Your character is a walking chili.
- Backtracking: Every world starts with the boss, and ends with the first level.
- Back to Front: The game starts with Chili Pepper Knight defeating the final boss and saving Princess Tomato, and then rewinds all the way back to the very first level.
- Bonus Level: Once you complete the game, you gain access to a bonus world with 10 new levels.
- Context-Sensitive Button: Kinda. The Z-button moves you to the next level when you complete a stage, or retrieves whatever special ability you have equipped at the time (there are three in total - one for each world).
- The Ending Changes Everything: Or rather, the beginning changes everything. You're not rescuing Princess Tomato from Mr. Death Bunny; you're kidnapping her for ransom. Mr Death Bunny was merely her pet.
- Foreshadowing: If you look closely during the opening cutscene, as Chili Pepper Knight carries Princess Tomato away, you can see that she's glaring and kicking her legs, strongly hinting that you're actually kidnapping her, not rescuing her.
- Game Over: Averted. If you get a Time Paradox, you just restart the level. And you have an unlimited amount of retries.
- Goomba Stomp: How you unkill enemies. You get other abilities on occasion though.
- Hero Antagonist: The only reason Chili Pepper Knight went through all the trouble of kidnapping the princess was so he could move out of his house.
- Level Editor: The game contains one that lets you construct levels in three different sizes.
- Microtransactions: As an April Fool's joke.
- Now Do It Again, Backwards: The premise of the game. You've beaten the game, now retrace your steps all the way back to the beginning again.
- Railroading: Combined with Ratchet Scrolling, since the game moves forward on its own. True to the reverse theme, you move to the left.
- Spikes of Doom: Both the traditional and the falling kind. note
