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* OneHitPointWonder: In "Pursuit," you're this since you're actually still in the world map.


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* UnexpectedGameplayChange: You fight the Boss again in the Lost Chapter, but instead of a traditional level, you're jumping in between three "world map points" and are a OneHitPointWonder.
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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Anything that is pink is dangerous. Anything that ''isn't'' pink is generally on your side.

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* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Anything that is pink is dangerous. Anything that ''isn't'' pink is generally on your side. There are a few exceptions, like the dark blue falling rocks during the "Pursuit" boss.
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* BigDamnHeroes: In the Lost Chapter, a spider cuts the webs holding up some pink crystals, crushing the Boss, setting up the events of the fake ending.
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* TheCameo: During "Spider Dance" in the Lost Chapter, the SOUL from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' appears in a spider's sign.
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* FightingYourFriend: "Close to Me" pits the player against [[spoiler:the corrupted blue cube friend, [[FightingFromTheInside trying to resist their corruption]].]]


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* SentientVehicle: Two of the player's friends are the sentient boat and helicopter. Both of them can help the player navigate through the world.
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* AnachronicOrder: The Lost Chapter was released in July 2021, over three years after the base game and the rest of story mode, though the intro cutscene explicitly lays out that it takes place directly between the end of the Tutorial chapter and the beginning of the Paradise chapter.
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''Just Shapes & Beats'' is a indie video game developed by Berzerk Studio for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. The game is best described as a combination of intensely difficult bullet hell games along with rhythm action. The game offers four-player co-op multiplayer, a story mode, and a electronic-chiptune soundtrack by 20 different musicians.

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''Just Shapes & Beats'' is a an indie video game developed by Berzerk Studio for UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch and UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}. The game is best described as a combination of intensely difficult bullet hell games along with rhythm action. The game offers four-player co-op multiplayer, a story mode, and a an electronic-chiptune soundtrack by 20 different musicians.
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* CosmicKeystone: The three Triangles that form the tree at the start of the game. Through them, people can exert any amount of influence on the world around them.


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* TheTrickster: The Spiders in ''Lost Chapter''; While they spend time harassing the player, the Square and the Birds, they ultimately step up to seal away The Boss and only remain antagonistic because one of them became corrupted by the Triangles.
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** The Lost Chapter update also provides "Spider Dance", which can only be played after beating the main story thanks to being part of the [[BonusLevel Lost Chapter.]]


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* {{Bowdlerize}}: One of the game's many [[BonusLevel Bonus Levels]] in "Creatures Ov Deception" by [=RainbowDragonEyes=], a song with lyrics involving swearing and sex references, including [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]]. Needless to say, the version in the game is an instrumental.

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* RiseToTheChallenge: [[spoiler: The leadup to the final boss is this]].

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* RiseToTheChallenge: [[spoiler: The Happens twice during Story Mode, in the leadup to the final Volcano boss is this]].and [[spoiler:the FinalBoss]].
** Midway through the ''Lost Chapter'', [[spoiler:a reawakened and enraged BigBad proceeds to chase the player up the caverns, only for them to [[SealedEvilInACan end up in the state they were in]] at the beginning of the main story mode]].
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** In ''The Lost Chapter'', the beginning has a spider jumping off with one of the [[MacGuffin giant triangles]], laughing with the same sound as Muffet from VideoGame/{{Undertale}}. [[spoiler:The last song of the chapter is against a giant spider with a remix of Muffet's battle theme, complete with her signature laugh dotted throughout the song.]]
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** The ''Lost Chapter'' update adds another crossover with the titular chapter's boss fight track, that being [[spoiler:a remix of [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Muffet's battle theme, Spider Dance]]]].


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** The beginning of ''The Lost Chapter'' has a spider laugh with the same sound as Muffet from VideoGame/{{Undertale}}. [[spoiler:Once you get to the final song of the chapter, its boss fight is against a giant spider with a remix of Muffet's battle theme.]]

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* MadEye: the BigBad in it's second form.

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* MadEye: the BigBad in it's its second form.


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* MercyInvincibility: Upon taking damage, your shape will briefly flash, giving you the chance to get out of the pink zones, avoiding further damage.


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* NoDamageRun: Basically how you achieve Rank S on songs in the playlist which can be downright brutal to achieve on many songs. Try it on Hardcore too; [[SarcasmMode it's fun.]]
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* {{Crossover}}: "VideoGame/MortalKombat" by The Immortals is one of the unlockable tracks, and features silhouettes of Liu Kang coming at you.

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* {{Crossover}}: "VideoGame/MortalKombat" "Franchise/MortalKombat" by The Immortals is one of the unlockable tracks, and features silhouettes of Liu Kang coming at you.



* NoFairCheating: Some songs on Hardcore (especially the BrutalBonusLevel "VideoGame/MortalKombat") place a pink border on the edges of the screen, putting the kibosh on the "dash mindlessly against the edge of the screen and abuse the invincibility" strategy.

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* NoFairCheating: Some songs on Hardcore (especially the BrutalBonusLevel "VideoGame/MortalKombat") "Franchise/MortalKombat") place a pink border on the edges of the screen, putting the kibosh on the "dash mindlessly against the edge of the screen and abuse the invincibility" strategy.
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* SymbolSwearing: The player character does this near the end, when the helicopter uses them to hit a switch (and it's heavily implied to overlap with WhatTheHellHero).

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* SymbolSwearing: The helicopter does this when [[spoiler:the corruption machine grabs the sad blue square]], and again when [[spoiler:your rescue of said square sets off the alarms]]. The player character does this it near the end, when the helicopter uses them to hit a switch (and it's heavily implied to overlap with WhatTheHellHero).
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* NamelessNarrative: This game fits the bill. The closest things we get to names for any characters are the titles of certain boss levels, which many fans have indeed adapted into their respective characters' names.
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** “New Game” by Nitro Fun features references to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' and ''VideoGame/PacMan''.

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** “New Game” by Nitro Fun features references to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' and ''VideoGame/PacMan''. A couple other songs also use the Mario jump and warp sounds.
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* “New Game” by Nitro Fun features references to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' and ''VideoGame/PacMan''.

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* ** “New Game” by Nitro Fun features references to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' and ''VideoGame/PacMan''.
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* “New Game” by Nitro Fun features references to ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' and ''VideoGame/PacMan''.
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** A reverse example in the level [[spoiler:"Till It's Over"]]. [[With your EleventhHourSuperpower, you can thrash the boss to your heart's desire, and the level WILL always end with the boss dying, releasing the third {{Macguffin}}.]]

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** A reverse example in the level [[spoiler:"Till It's Over"]]. [[With your With [[spoiler:your EleventhHourSuperpower, you can thrash the boss to your heart's desire, and the level WILL always end with the boss dying, releasing the third {{Macguffin}}.]]
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** A reverse example in the level [[spoiler:"Till It's Over"]]. [[With your EleventhHourSuperpower, you can thrash the boss to your heart's desire, and the level WILL always end with the boss dying, releasing the third {{Macguffin}}.]]
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* JustifiedExtraLives: Downplayed. It's heavily implied the protagonist uses HeroicSpirit to self-resurrect when you run out of lives, explaining why you can continue after a Game Over, but it ''isn't'' explained why you get three chances before then, or why the level goes back in time.
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* CreditsGag: Towards the end of the prologue cutscene where the BigBad goes on a rampage after reawakening, they come across a credit saying "''design by Lachhh''" and promptly shoot it to bits with their EyeBeams. The ''credit itself'' isn't too happy about it.
-->''I didn't design THIS! :(''
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* NoFairCheating: "VideoGame/MortalKombat" on Hardcore places a pink border on the edges of the screen, putting the kibosh on the "dash mindlessly against the edge of the screen and abuse the invincibility" strategy.

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* NoFairCheating: "VideoGame/MortalKombat" Some songs on Hardcore places (especially the BrutalBonusLevel "VideoGame/MortalKombat") place a pink border on the edges of the screen, putting the kibosh on the "dash mindlessly against the edge of the screen and abuse the invincibility" strategy.
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* HeroicSpirit: Implied by the Game Over screen, particularly the way "NO" overlays the screen while reviving, to be the reason for the protagonist's ability to revive.
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* ClimaxBoss: "Close To Me", which pits you against [[spoiler: the BrainwashedAndCrazy Blue Cube Friend, who you've been chasing and trying to rescue for almost the entire game]]. Appropriately, it's the last boss fought before the final world and therefore the last boss fought before the FinalBoss.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: During "Lycanthropy", one of the goopy-eyed evil flowers you've been dealing with transforms into a new form that has a spiky evil face. [[spoiler:The final boss undergoes a similar, yet far more sinister transformation.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: During "Lycanthropy", ''Lycanthropy'', one of the goopy-eyed evil flowers corrupted plants you've been dealing with transforms into a new form that has a spiky evil face. [[spoiler:The final boss undergoes a similar, yet far more sinister transformation.]]
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* FreakyElectronicMusic: ''Annihilate'' is one of the notable examples for the game. Composed by Destroid, Excision and Far Too Loud, this song actually fits [[spoiler: for the final showdown between Square and the [[EldritchAbomination now-monsterous]] [[BigBad Boss]] in a terrifying {{Dubstep}}-like matter]].
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*InterfaceSpoiler: After beating the first boss, you get an achievement/trophy named "It's Over". The land forms and credits roll, as if the player has finished the game. The problem is that the information for said achievement/trophy says "Beat the tutorial boss", which means that there's much more to come.
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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: What [[spoiler:Close to Me]] is, essentially.

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* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: What [[spoiler:Close [[spoiler:"Close to Me]] Me"]] is, essentially.

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