History VideoGame / LennasInception

* TakeThat: One of the collectible library books is called ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Harried Potter and the Deadly Shallows]]'' by [[Creator/JKRowling J.K. Rollinginit]], and ends with the line, "Actually, the pots magic the poop away." This is a jab at Rowling's infamous World Book Day tweet.

** Most of the Archangels' names are parodies of the names of angels and demons from various Judeo-Christian apocrypha.
*** Azraflail = Azrael
*** Crabaddon = Abaddon
*** Catsiel = Cassiel or Castiel
*** Headraniel = Hadraniel
*** Santaquiel = Sahaquiel
*** Tentaluchus = Temeluchus
*** Hatasiah = Hahasiah
*** Sandolphin = Sandalphon
*** Chairman G/Mammon = Mammon, an Aramaic word for money, which was personified by early Christians as a deity of greed and wealth.
*** [[spoiler:Delvin is pretty clearly a near-anagram of "Devil".]]
*** [[spoiler:Lenna, as the 'mother of monsters', is likely standing in for Lilith.]]

--> '''Shadow Lenna'''

* TakeThat: One of the collectible library books is called ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Harried Potter and the Deadly Shallows]]'' by [[Creator/JKRowling J.K. Rollinginit]], and ends with the line, "Actually, they magic the poop away." This is a jab at Rowling's infamous World Book Day tweet.

* DeathByCameo: Some expies of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' characters:
** The Village Elder is a parody of the old man from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' who says "It's dangerous to go alone! Take this". Here he's found, murdered with "It's dangerous to go alo" written in his blood.
** Lance is a parody of the protagonist, Link but gets brutally killed shortly after you meet him.

* SuperDrowningSkills: ''Every'' enemy that isn't either the dolphins or have the hove status effect can be defeated by pushing them into water with a sword swing. Some will even accidentally walk into water by themselves!

** Compassion: Held by Prince Daniel.

* PairTheSpares: In the best ending, [[spoiler:Lance and the prince share a kiss.]]

** In 32-bit mode, the "Elder's spirit" sprite is filled with static in the colors of ''Pokémon'' as played on [=Super GameBoy=], giving him a Missingno-esque look (the static does not use Missingno's texture, however). Then there's the name of the eighth dungeon's item...

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:Lenna was the leader of the Archangels, and the true Final Boss of the world, whose power was taken by Delvin's glitching. Her memories of teaching students were actually her instructing her minions.]]

'''Lenna's Inception''' is a 2D, top-down ActionAdventure indie game published and developed by Bytten Studio (consisting of two programmers and one composer). It was released for PC on 17 Jan, 2020.

Has a [[https://lennasinception.fandom.com/Lenna%27s_Inception_Wiki wiki]] that is in desperate need of wiki love.

Compare with ''Videogame/SkrillexQuest'' or ''VideoGame/BraveHeroYuusha''.

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[[caption-width-right:350:Lenna (human) and Henrietta (chicken)]]

* SequenceBreaking: Not only is it quite possible, [[spoiler:You have to if you want the good ending. Specifically, getting the treasure in each dungeon and not fighting the boss until you have the Power of Compassion and the item associated with them to make it work.]]

** The way [[spoiler:8Fridge]] gets created is identical to the [[spoiler:[[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Item_underflow item underflow]]]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd3Lg5qgTzw glitch]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'': [[spoiler:Get a stack of 255 of the same item, then throw away items listed above it until the game thinks you have zero or fewer items. Scrolling down after that reveals RAM interpreted as memory that can be manipulated [[labelnote:note]] that said, item underflow itself does ''not'' result in arbitrary code execution, as it only edits memory instead of execute code. 8Fridge, however, resembles the 8F glitch item from the first generation of Pokemon games, which ''can'' perform arbitrary code execution by rearranging Pokemon in the player's active PC boxes, with their nicknames being read as instructions (similar to how 8Fridge works by rearranging items inside itself).[[/labelnote]]]]

** The way [[spoiler:8Fridge]] gets created is identical to the [[spoiler:[[https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Item_underflow item underflow]]]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd3Lg5qgTzw glitch]] from ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'': [[spoiler:Get a stack of 255 of the same item, then throw away items listed above it until the game thinks you have zero or fewer items. Scrolling down after that reveals RAM interpreted as memory that can be manipulated [[labelnote:note]] that said, item underflow itself does ''not'' result in arbitrary code execution, as it only edits memory instead of execute code[[/labelnote]]]]

Lenna is a teacher who steps outside of her school one day, only for it to turn into a glitchy mess with her pupils trapped inside. After finding the elder dead, she delivers a sword to Lance, the chosen Hero of Fortitude, and tutors him... only for him to be killed in the first dungeon. Now, Lenna must take up his mantle, defeat the eight archangels, and save the kingdom from glitches.

Lenna is a teacher who steps outside of her school one day, only for it to turn into a glitchy mess with her pupils trapped inside. After finding the elder dead, she delivers a sword to Lance, the chosen Hero of Fortitude, and tutors him... only for him to be killed in the first dungeon. Now, Lenna must take up her mantle, defeat the eight archangels, and save the kingdom from glitches.

The Kingdom of [[PaintingTheFourthWall ▜̴͈̔▕̴͜͝▯̴̳̈́░̷̪͗▚̷̪̆▒̸̣̓]] is glitching. The evil Chairman of the Banker’s Guild has captured the Prince, opening the way for destruction at the hands of the Archangels. With the Hero eliminated, and the world horribly unraveling, reluctant tutor Lenna must step up to save the kingdom. But it won’t be easy–all she has to guide her is the voice of the deceased elder, and he seems to know more than he’s letting on…

* ProceduralGeneration: The overworld and dungeon maps, as well as the dungeon/item/boss order, are different in every run of the game.

'''Lenna's Inception''' is a 2D, Top Down ActionAdventure indie game published and developed by Bytten Studio (consisting of two programmers and one composer). It was released for PC on 17 Jan, 2020.

* CallForward: There are a few {{Shout Out}}s to ''VideoGame/CassetteBeasts'', the next game made by Bytten Studio, including several library books and the miniboss in the caves where two monsters FusionDance (It's even has the {{Leitmotif}} of the game).

* CuteBookworm: Paige.