YEAH! YOU WANT "THOSE GAMES," RIGHT? SO HERE YOU GO! NOW, LET'S SEE YOU CLEAR THEM! (どこかで見た“あのゲー”ムたちを棒人間で作ってみたけれど、果たしてあなたはクリアできるのか？), also known as just "Those Games" (あのゲー AnoGe), is a Puzzle Game / Minigame Game based on the fake games made to advertise mobile phone games. The game was developed by Monkeycraft, a division of Bandai Namco Entertainment who are also responsible for Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series and Katamari Damacy REROLL and published by D3 Publisher. It was released on July 19, 2023.
Tropes:
- Beef Gate: "Number Tower" is about navigating a series of these gates. Every character's level is indicated above them, and the player instantly dies if they attempt to fight a higher-leveled opponent, but also instantly kills any lower-level enemy and then gains as many levels as that enemy had. The goal is to defeat enemies in a specific order in order to have a higher level than the boss, complicated by occasional power-ups and power-downs that add, subtract, multiply, and divide your current level.
- Loot Boxes: By completing the games and daily missions, you earn coins which can be spent at a "Gotcha!" machine to randomly obtain new titles and background plates for the player to customize how their name is displayed in online ranking boards.
- Luck-Based Mission: A few missions for "Cash Run" involves making profits off the gamble or robbery gates. There's no strategy to getting them other than playing the stage over and over until you get everything in your favor.
- Never Trust a Trailer: While Those Games itself averts this, it's explicitly based around the premise of taking less-than-truthful ads for mobile games and making them real.
- Officially Shortened Title: The game's actual title is sixteen words long, all in capital letters, but its description on storefronts immediately truncates it to just "Those Games".
- Poison Mushroom: Two of the items in "Number Tower" are a vial of poison that subtracts a set number from your level, and a rusty sword that divides your level by a set number. All enemies and items must be interacted with before proceeding to the next tower, and while it's usually logical to avoid lowering your level before you fight the enemies, you sometimes need to lower your level just enough to still win fights so you're not dividing a higher level later and become too weak to fight the boss.
- Stick Figure Animation: The game depicts all human characters as plain stick figures, though non-humans like enemy Orcs in "Pin Pull" and "Number Tower" are given a bit more detail so the player can identify the danger.
- Take That!: The game's built on one towards the Very False Advertising in mobile game ads.
- Timed Mission: All the games except Cash Run rate the player based on how fast they're able to clear the stage, with the maximum three-star rank given for the fastest possible time.
- Towers of Hanoi: "Color Lab" has the player shifting colored fluids between test tubes with the goal of having each tube containing only one color each, without accidentally causing any overflows. Mechanically, it plays like Hanoi, with the catch that once two fluids of matching color touch, they merge together.
