History Videogame / ContinueStopRise

* CutsceneBoss: [[spoiler:[=KNO3=]. Although you can take her on proper as a BonusBoss late in the game.]]

* ShoutOut: This game features several to ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', the most obvious being Photographerelsen, who appears in each Workforce and will take pictures of the party. He even tells the party to "Say Fuzzy Pickles!" These pictures actually appear in your inventory and can be viewed.

* AfterTheEnd: Played with. This takes place after the world that OFF took place in was destroyed, but in this game's interpretation of events, that world was fake to begin with. The real world hasn't ended at all.

* DeathIsCheap: For the residents of heaven, at least. Since they're already dead, they can't die again and will respawn if "killed." This doesn't make it any less unpleasant and they really don't like it when this happens. This also doesn't stop Batter from being upset when [[spoiler:Celeste]] gets shot by [[spoiler:[=KNO3=]]].
* DeathSeeker: It becomes pretty clear by at least the Nightmare Sequence in Workforce 2 that [[spoiler:The Batter]] is one of these. This eventually culminates in the sequence of events described in DrivenToSuicide below and is driven home even harder by the entirety of ''[=InterExtraIntraAdd=]''. [[spoiler:He manages to overcome it after his near-death experience in the Science Factory, however.]]

* DownerEnding: The Fake ending, [[spoiler:Which you get if Batter doesn't spare Espilon after the final battle. [[NightmareFuel And what an ending it is, too.]]]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Happens several times throughout the game. [[spoiler:It's how Black Batter became Ghost Batter, for one thing.]] [[spoiler:There's also an unnamed Elsen the Batter meets when he gets separated from the rest of the party in the Science Factory. He somehow notices that the Batter is also depressed and tries to talk him into a SuicidePact. At the very least, Batter gives in to his request to put [[SuicideByCop him out of his misery]], but it's unclear whether he actually intended to fulfill his side of the bargain. Though considering he just stands there and lets [=KNO3=] shoot him when she betrays the party not too long after that...]]
* FluffyCloudHeaven: The entrance looks like this, anyway. Beyond there, the Workforces look like fairly normal towns, though the Elsens living there all seem pretty happy and content with their lives. Specters still attack here sometimes, but the Elsens claim that the infestations are so small that they can usually handle them without a purifier's help. [[spoiler:Of course, this is an OFF fan game, so you know all isn't as it seems. Though most of the bad stuff is the fault of the villains mucking around with things.]]

* FreudianExcuse: The reason why Bad Batter acts out like he does is because [[spoiler:since his brother always tried to keep him from causing trouble when he was alive, he thinks he can bring his brother back if he's bad enough. Nevermind his brother is, in fact, still around and trying to keep him out of trouble, because he refuses to acknowledge Ghost Batter as his brother]]. WordOfGod says he knows deep down that it doesn't work that way, but he doesn't want to admit it. [[spoiler:Of course, as a result, all he does is cause Ghost Batter more pain.]]
* FreudianTrio: Bad Batter as the Id, The Batter as the Ego, and Ghost Batter as the Super Ego.

* MergingTheBranches: This actually seems to have happened with all three of the original game's endings. While mostly following the Batter ending, the extra scene from this game's true ending that you only see if you have the Rabbit card implies that the UFO Ending also occurred and when Batter finally meets the Judge again [[spoiler:he discovers that he's in Limbo due to having trapped himself in a delusion where the Judge ending happened. He thinks that he's still in the zones trying to rebuild them and mistakes Batter for a ghost haunting him.]]

* ShoutOut: This game features several to ''Videogame/EarthBound'', the most obvious being Photographerelsen, who appears in each Workforce and will take pictures of the party. He even tells the party to "Say Fuzzy Pickles!" These pictures actually appear in your inventory and can be viewed.

** One of the books in the library has child-like drawings of four cats. They look very similar to the main characters of another ''Off'' fan game, ''VideoGame/HOME2013''.

* SurrealHorror: Well, it's an OFF fangame. There were elements of this from the start, but [[spoiler:it doesn't really kick off until the NightmareSequence in [[WhamEpisode Workforce 2.]]]]

* WhamEpisode: The NightmareSequence at the hotel in Workforce 2. [[spoiler:Not only do the SurrealHorror elements start to really kick in, but we find out the truth about Ghost Batter and Bad Batter's origins, as well as a bit more about our own Batter's own origins. Let's just say that Ghosty and Baddy being other versions of Batter is over-simplifying things.]] Though Workforce 2 as a whole counts, [[spoiler:since this is also where Omega tells the Batter Trio what's really going on with the Add-ons and why heaven has been sinking.]] Also, [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse demons start invading heaven along with the specters.]]]]

* SurrealHorror: Well, it's an OFF fangame. There were elements of this from the start, but [[spoiler:it doesn't [[UpToEleven really kick off]] until the NightmareSequence in [[WhamEpisode Workforce 2.]]]]

** ''Bx: Execute'' has [[spoiler:Death]] as the one manipulating the Harbringers, the tyrannical successors to the Guardians, [[spoiler:and disguising himself as the friendly professor who guides you at the beginning; however, the FinalBoss is Boxedman, the father of the Batters who Death extorts into fighting Ghost Batter]].

''VideoGame/ContinueStopRise'' is yet another FanSequel to Mortis Ghost's Indie VideoGame/RPGMaker game ''Videogame/{{OFF}}'' made by [[http://isasapiensworks.tumblr.com/ M-256]] on Tumblr. It can be downloaded [[http://rpgmaker.net/games/6764/ here.]]

* EverythingsSquishierWithCephalopods: Squirure, Squid psychiatrist who lives in Workforce 1 and can apparently read minds. In Batter's solo section, he challenges Batter to a mini dungeon inside his own house in exchange for a prize, then proceeds to psychoanalyze him when he reaches the end of the maze. He then appears again near the end of the game, shortly before Batter goes to fight the final boss. M-256 has admitted he's an AuthorAvatar.

* [[spoiler:MergedReality: This is what Espilon wants to do to the planes of Heaven and Earth, out of the belief that doing so would create an Ultimate Paradise everyone could share.]]

Within the general RPG Maker sphere, she has also made ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'' fangames called ''VideoGame/{{Me}}'' and ''Somnium'', and has also made an original game called ''White's Adventure''.

* AGodIAm: [[spoiler:Espilon declares himself a God just before the final battle.]]

It isn't too long after that that the trio discovers an odd set of rainbow stairs, which take them straight up to heaven. It's here where the adventure really begins, as the mysteries continue to pile up while they explore the place. The Three Workforces of Heaven have recently been taken over by new overseers, and while the Elsen living there are pretty happy with what they've been doing, it seems that their operations are causing heaven to sink, which is allowing more specters to invade it. [[FromBadToWorse And possibly worse.]]

* ShoutOut: This game features several to ''Videogame/{{Earthbound}}'', the most obvious being Photographerelsen, who appears in each Workforce and will take pictures of the party. He even tells the party to "Say Fuzzy Pickles!" These pictures actually appear in your inventory and can be viewed.

** One of the books in the library has child-like drawings of four cats. They look very similar to the main characters of another Off fan game, VideoGame/HOME2013.

* BerserkButton: [[RunningGag Bad Batter is a beautiful and graceful swan,]] not an ugly duck thing. Do not call him a duck. Especially do not ask him why he insists on being called a swan instead of a duck. Despite this, perhaps ironically, his VerbalTic is a monstrous-sounding quack and he quacks randomly when happy.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: A few times, only from Squirure. The first time is inside his house where a [[spoiler:black screen appears and addresses the player with a huge, bright red '''You''']], and the second time happens near the end of the game, where he simply says [[spoiler:"Howdy there, Watcher. How do you do?"]].

He searches all day, but no matter how long he walks, he can't find the Add-Ons anywhere, so he finally decides to just go to sleep for the night. The next morning he finds himself confronted by two other versions of himself: The hot-tempered, foul mouthed Ghost Batter, and the seemingly sweet and polite but AxeCrazy Bad Batter. This being [[TheStoic The Batter]] of course, he's not that bothered by this new mystery, and chooses to drag them along as he continues his search.

Will Batter and his two companions help the situation in heaven or make things worse? Will they find out what happened to the Add-ons? What about to the rest of the cast? Is there a place left for Batter now that his mission is complete?

''VideoGame/ContinueStopRise'', is yet another FanSequel to Mortis Ghost's Indie VideoGame/RPGMaker game ''Videogame/{{OFF}}'' made by [[http://isasapiensworks.tumblr.com/ M-256]] on Tumblr. It can be downloaded [[http://rpgmaker.net/games/6764/ here.]]

Within the general RPG Maker sphere, she has also made ''VideoGame/YumeNikki'' fangames called ''VideoGame/{{Me}}'' amd ''Somnium'', and has also made an original game called ''White's Adventure''.

* AscendedExtra: The Add-Ons go from being extra party members with no dialogue in OFF [[spoiler:to being the bosses of each Workforce, with Espilon in particular being the BigBad.]]

* AWorldHalfFull: The world definitely has it's problems, but as [[TravelingSalesman Celeste]] says, if the world didn't have problems, then what would be the point? [[spoiler:Earth being one of these is one of the BigBad's motivations.]]

* BerserkButton: [[RunningGag Bad Batter is a beautiful and graceful swan,]] not an ugly duck thing. Do not call him a duck. Especially do not ask him why he insists on being called a swan instead of a duck. Despite this, perhaps ironically, his VerbalTic is a monstrous sounding quack and he quacks randomly when happy.
** Also don't [[spoiler:talk about flying or falling in relation to Ghost Batter.]]
* BittersweetEnding: In the True Ending, [[spoiler: after all is said and done, the Batter learns how to visit purgatory so he may see the Judge, only to find him clinically insane, obsessed with rebuilding the world he lived in (despite not having the power to do so), and not wanting anything to do with the Batter.]]

* BookEnds: In the True Ending [[spoiler:when Batter chooses to spare Espilon after defeating him, he walks around him to set the switch keeping heaven afloat to ON.]]

** He also does it during the Fake Ending, [[WhatTheHellPlayer where he calls the player out]] for [[spoiler:making The Batter choose not to spare Espilon, since it goes completely against Batter's CharacterDevelopment up to this point.]]

* CutSceneBoss: [[spoiler:[=KNO3=]. Although you can take her on proper as a BonusBoss late in the game.]]
* DeathIsCheap: For the residents of heaven at least. Since they're already dead, they can't die again and will respawn if "killed." This doesn't make it any less unpleasant and they really don't like it when this happens. This also doesn't stop Batter from being upset when [[spoiler:Celeste]] gets shot by [[spoiler:[=KNO3=]]]
* DeathSeeker: It becomes pretty clear by at least the Nightmare Sequence in Workforce 2 that [[spoiler:The Batter]] is one of these. This eventually culminates in the sequence of events described in DrivenToSuicide below and is driven home even harder by the entireity of ''[=InterExtraIntraAdd=]''. [[spoiler:He manages to overcome it after his near death experience in the Science Factory, however.]]
* DefectorFromDecadence: [[spoiler:Omega.]] Which doesn't mean you don't still have to fight him. [[spoiler:Alpha is initially on board with Espilon's plan, but when he sees how the situation in Workforce 3 has deteriorated he also defects.]]

* DownerEnding: The Fake ending, [[spoiler:Which you get if Batter doesn't spare Espilon after the final battle. [[NightmareFuel And what an ending it is too.]]]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Happens several times throughout the game. [[spoiler:It's how Black Batter became Ghost Batter for one thing.]] [[spoiler:There's also an unnamed elsen the Batter meets when he gets separated from the rest of the party in the Science Factory. He somehow notices that the Batter is also depressed and tries to talk him into a SuicidePact. At very least Batter gives in to his request to put [[SuicideByCop him out of his misery]], but it's unclear whether he actually intended to fulfill his side of the bargain. Though considering he just stands there and lets [=KNO3=] shoot him when she betrays the party not too long after that...]]

* FluffyCloudHeaven: The entrance looks like this anyway. Beyond there, the Workforces look like fairly normal towns, though the Elsens living there all seem pretty happy and content with their lives. Specters still attack here sometimes, but the Elsens claim that the infestations are so small that they can usually handle them without a purifier's help. [[spoiler:Of course, this is an OFF fan game, so you know all isn't as it seems. Though most of the bad stuff is the fault of the villains mucking around with things.]]
* FreudianExcuse: The reason why Bad Batter acts out like he does is because [[spoiler:Since his brother always tried to keep him from causing trouble when he was alive, he thinks he can bring his brother back if he's bad enough. Nevermind his brother is, in fact, still around and trying to keep him out of trouble, because he refuses to acknowledge Ghost Batter as his brother.]] WordOfGod says he knows deep down that it doesn't work that way, but he doesn't want to admit it. [[spoiler:Of course as a result, all he does is cause Ghost Batter more pain.]]
* FreudianTrio: Bad Batter as the ID, The Batter as the Ego, and Ghost Batter as the Super Ego.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ghost Batter may be self-loathing asshole who curses like a sailor, and he and Bad Batter don't get along very well at all, but he is perfectly willing to stick his neck out for his companions when need be. [[spoiler: He also shows some concern for the Batter when Bad Batter and Ghost find him crying in the corridor. When KNO3 shot The Batter, Ghost was extremely upset by his death, up to the point where Bad points out that he cried "enough to make a puddle"]]

* NothingIsScarier: During the Batter's nightmare sequence in Workforce 2 he encounters a knife in a room full of other Batters. Interacting with the knife simply give you a yes/no prompt with no question. Choosing no does nothing. Choosing [[{{Gorn}} yes]]...

* PleaseWakeUp: The Batter says this to [[spoiler: Celeste after [=KNO3=] shoots her]].

** After Black Batter [[spoiler:commits suicide his cries for help briefly devolve into [[VideoGame/ChzoMythos "ithurtsithurtsithurts"]]]].
* ShowWithInAShow: Panic In Ballville makes a return with another issue that Ghost Batter can find in the library in his section of Workforce 1. [[spoiler:It's protagonist, Boxxer later shows up to give Batter a pep talk during his NearDeathExperience at the Science Factory.]]

* SuicideAsComedy: At one point Ghost Batter jumps out a window as [[DisproportionateRetribution self inflicted punishment]] after being caught yelling in the library in his solo section of Workforce 1, only to remember belatedly that as a ghost he's already dead. [[spoiler:Of course this is a whole lot less funny when we find out the truth about Ghost Batter's origins.]]
* SurrealHorror: Well it's an OFF fangame. There were elements of this from the start, but [[spoiler:it doesn't [[UpToEleven really kick off]] until the NightmareSequence in [[WhamEpisode Workforce 2.]]]]
* [[ThatThingIsNotMyChild That Thing Is Not My Brother!]]: This is how [[spoiler:Bad Batter]] feels about [[spoiler:Ghost Batter. Though the feeling isn't mutual.]]
* TheReveal: [[spoiler:Ghost Batter and Bad Batter are actually the Batter's prototypes, created by mysterious unknown beings with Hugo's help, and were originally known as Black Batter and White Batter respectively. They were also raised as brothers. On top of that, part of the process needed to create the Batter apparently required that one of them die while the other was turned into a monster. Black Batter chose to commit suicide so his brother wouldn't have to be the one to be killed.]] Also we eventually find out the real objective of the Batter's mission in the original game. [[spoiler:Hugo ''wanted'' Batter to destroy the fake world he'd created with his powers and to [[ICannotSelfTerminate help him commit suicide.]]]]

* WhamEpisode: The NightmareSequence at the hotel in Workforce 2. [[spoiler:Not only do the SurrealHorror elements start to really kick in, but we find out the truth about Ghost Batter and Bad Batter's origins, as well as a bit more about our own Batter's own origins. Let's just say that Ghosty and Baddy being other versions of Batter is over-simplifying things.]] Though Workforce 2 as a whole counts [[spoiler:since this is also where Omega tells the Batter Trio what's really going on with the Add-ons and why heaven has been sinking.]] Also, [[spoiler:[[FromBadToWorse demons start invading heaven along with the specters.]]]]
* [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: [[spoiler:In Workforce 4, The Batter finally smiles when talking to Boxxer]]

* [[spoiler: [[WhenSheSmiles When He Smiles]]: In Workforce 4, The Batter finally smiles when talking to Boxxer]]

And there is also a spinoff in the works for RPG Maker [=VX=] Ace, called Bx: Execute, the third demo of which can also be found on M-256's blog.