Mimic1990
Since: Oct, 2016
Aug 13th 2020 at 3:53:48 PM
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With regard to the Lovecraft Country entry, it has been confirmed that that trope is specifically for fantasy/horror depictions of New England, and deserts don't count.
Removing and/or editing some bad examples.
What exactly is so impractical here? Spells are amazing and super easy. There's a charge-up time but you don't NEED to charge spells all the way to wreck everything. Also, there's no MP or cost for spells.
Also, "Instant Death" Radius is specifically about enemy attacks that stop you from getting close. This example does not relate to that trope.
So you list a trope, then halfway through your example you go into "oh, but actually, it's not this trope." What? I moved it to Disc-One Final Boss, with a rewrite.
This is actually Leaning on the Fourth Wall. Breaking is when the characters straight up say "this is a video game." This line is certainly implying a fourth wall joke, but it's only implying, and it could be interpreted in other ways. I moved it to the proper trope.
The Five-Man Band is about teams. These characters are not a team. They don't hang out. In fact, there is never any point in the game where all of these characters fight together side by side as a team. Not even in the battle for Bowerstone, or the final confrontation against the Crawler. Everyone is off fighting on their own for both of those.
Also, aside from The Hero and Sabine, these are all seriously shoehorned in. Ben isn't nearly close enough of a relationship to be The Lancer. Page puts together a few plans, but so do all the other characters, and it's not as if she's some sort of Gadgeteer Genius or even a Guile Hero. And Kalin is definitely NOT the moral center, useless in combat, or any of the other things associated with The Chick.
JustifyingEdit.
But Thou Must! is when the player is given a choice, but only one of the options actually allows the game to proceed. This is just an example of Karma Houdini.
First off, the "...is the Only Option" tropes are for when __ is actually the only option, not just the easiest one. Second, Natter.
That's not a subversion, it's just Not An Example.
Okay, I worked the natter about the real estate into some of the other examples, but here it literally has nothing to do with the trope and just comes across as a Justifying Edit.
Again, this isn't a subversion, it's just Not An Example.
Why is this a spoiler? Everyone knows you become king/queen. Everyone knows the game has a Karma Meter. This is like spoiler tagging the fact that you can use a sword in the game.
Hobbes aren't human, so eating humans isn't cannibalism for them. As for Lesley... just saying a name is a Zero-Context Example, and I don't know the details of his dialogue, so I'm commenting the example out as a ZCE.
That second part is not this trope.
Commenting out as ZCE.
Natter. Whether or not it can happen in real life is irrelevant.
I took this to the Is This An Example? thread on the forums. I'll either leave it off or put it back depending on how that goes.
Again, not a spoiler. Becoming king/queen is the entire point of the game.
I have been informed that it is against site policy to spoiler tag tropes from a previous game in that game's sequel's page.
Not An Example. Also don't change the trope names.
Soooo, this is an objective trope, but I don't think there's necessarily any proof that this is the author making a political statement. I'll move it to the YMMV page as What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?, because that's an audience reaction, which is what this is.
Also Justifying Edit.
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