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* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler:The Queen's sister]], frozen in their moment of death, pleads to be freed and allowed to die because they're fully conscious and in pain while in that stasis. There's also the victims of the sinister bag of holding, whose spirits are still trapped within it long after their bodies have been devoured by it.



* ArtifactOfDoom: A BagOfHolding shows up that's possessed by a malicious hunger to be filled with more and more things. It eventually developed a desire for flesh over random objects, forcing the two unfortunate boys who discovered it to essentially become serial killers to feed it, before dying themselves and being reanimated to continue tricking victims under the guise of being coyotes between settlements.



* BreakTheCutie: Even didn't have much on her life besides her family, which gets broken when Odd is taken away from her. In her quest to get her back, Even is put through the emotional wringer, particularly at being beaten and betrayed in her journey, being at her lowest just before Sixtopia.



* PoorCommunicationKills: As Even angrily shouts at the ruling siblings of Threedom, the entire war happened because their father was assassinated and, rather than talk to each other and find the real killer based on what they each knew, immediately suspected each other for it.



* SplitPersonality: Everyone in Two-Town has one in some form or another.

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* SplitPersonality: Everyone in Two-Town has one in some form or another. Under the Queen's rule, they're mandated to switch based on the roll of her die every day. The Mayor's actually manifested physically at some point in the past, [[LiteralSplitPersonality before becoming enraged enough to split entirely]] due to Even's actions.



* WretchedHive: Fourburg has devolved into this, having been destroyed by the Queen and rebuilt as a shady gambling town.

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* WretchedHive: Fourburg has devolved into this, having been destroyed by the Queen and rebuilt as a shady gambling town.town.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre Even gets a verbal dressing down from the Grim Reaper that she's a lot more equipped to succeed than she thinks, and implores her to quit whining about her setbacks and focus on how much she's achieved. Then he gives Dicey his final pip upgrades and urges her to hurry up and overthrow the Queen, as he's tired of ferrying children to the afterlife.
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* ShutUpHannibal: Odd says this [[spoiler:[[MomentOfAwesome right towards The Queen of Random after her sister freed her from her control]] and right before she and her sister Even escape.]]
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The game ends with Even, Odd, Dicey, and the other escaping sixer children fleeing the Queen’s crumbling tower on parasols, floating down to an unknown destination in Random.]]

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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The game ends with Even, Odd, Dicey, and the other escaping sixer Sixer children fleeing the Queen’s crumbling tower on parasols, floating down to an unknown destination in Random.]]



* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The Queen is apparently serving a trio of them, giving them children as tribute in exchange for her powers.]]

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* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler: The Queen is apparently serving a trio triumvirate of them, giving them children as tribute in exchange for her powers.]]



* EyeScream: When you first meet the three-eyed monster Seemore, two of his eyes have been taken by Royam, and he asks you to get them back in exchange for upgrading Dicey. [[spoiler:When you find him imprisioned in Sixtopia, all three eyes have been taken by Nanny Fortuna.]]
* FalseUtopia: [[spoiler:Sixtopia is supposed to be a gleaming paradise that everyone in random aspires to. When even finally arrives, she discovers that its grand cities are cardboard cutouts and that the real Sixtopia is stone and crystalline wasteland.]]

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* EyeScream: When you first meet the three-eyed monster Seemore, two of his eyes have been taken by Royam, and he asks you to get them back in exchange for upgrading Dicey. [[spoiler:When you find him imprisioned imprisoned in Sixtopia, all three eyes have been taken by Nanny Fortuna.]]
* FalseUtopia: [[spoiler:Sixtopia is supposed to be a gleaming paradise that everyone in random Random aspires to. When even Even finally arrives, she discovers that its grand cities are cardboard cutouts cut-outs and that the real Sixtopia is a stone and crystalline wasteland.]]



* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Shadowman coerces Even into putting an end to the civil war in Threedom, as the fear of war has become greater than fear of him. [[spoiler:The problem is that he was the one the Queen hired to perform the assassination that started the war. Meaning he is exposed and imprisoned before the end of the game.]]

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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Shadowman coerces Even into putting an end to the civil war in Threedom, as the fear of war has become greater than fear of him. [[spoiler:The problem is that he was the one the Queen hired to perform the assassination that started the war. Meaning war, meaning he is exposed and imprisoned before the end of the game.]]
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* WarIsHell: The nobles of Threedom have been battling each other with HumongousMecha for years in a violent civil war. A huge portion of the town has been destroyed, with people cut off from one another and dying.
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* HumongousMecha: The Queen has given one to each of the three noble siblings of Threedom to battle for control.
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* PoweredbyaForsakenChild: [[spoiler:The Queen’s robot army is field by the fears and nightmares of children chosen to be Sixers.]]

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* PoweredbyaForsakenChild: PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[spoiler:The Queen’s robot army is field by the fears and nightmares of children chosen to be Sixers.]]
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* WorkingClassHero: Even and her family reside in Onecroft, the lowliest town in the kingdom, where the main industry is salvage.
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* HypnoTrinket: [[spoiler:The mask the Queen gives odd seems to be this. When she wears it, it seems to induce feelings resentment towards her sister, to the point where Odd will willingly attack Even.]]
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler: When Even finally reunited with Odd, she is too corrupted to think straight and Even is forced to fight her sister to bring her back to her senses.]]
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* FalseUtopia: [[spoiler:Sixtopia is supposed to be a gleaming paradise that everyone in random aspires to. When even finally arrives, she discovers that its grand cities are cardboard cutouts and that the real Sixtopia is stone and crystalline wasteland.]]
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* {{Hammerspace}}: Dicey is able to hold a wide array of weapons, traps, and more inside his body.
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* CrapsackWorld: Random is this in spades. The land is split into six districts divided and tightly controlled by a wicked Queen who will happily have an entire town destroyed if it suits her needs. Worse still, upon reaching their twelve birthday, every child must roll the Queen’s dice and, depending on the number they roll, must leave their family forever to go live in a different town.
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* TheGrimReaper: A benevolent version appears in this game, transporting Even to Fivetropolis and giving Dicey his final upgrade.
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The game ends with Even, Odd, Dicey, and the other escaping sixer children fleeing the Queen’s crumbling tower on parasols, floating down to an unknown destination in Random.]]
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** The music seems to be heavily inspired by regular Burton collaborator Creator/DannyElfman, and the end credits even feature the cast performing an Elfman-esque musical number.
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* BedsheetGhost: One of these acts as a guide to Even on her quest.

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* BedsheetGhost: One of these acts as a guide to Even on her quest. [[spoiler:It is eventually revealed that the ghost is the Queen’s sister, whose body was frozen in time at the moment of her death.]]
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Shadowman coerces Even into putting an end to the civil war in Threedom, as the fear of war has become greater than fear of him. [[spoiler:The problem is that he was the one the Queen hired to perform the assassination that started the war. Meaning he is exposed and imprisoned before the end of the game.]]
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* BreakableWeapons: The swords and hammers Even summons can only deliver a certain amount of damage to her enemies before they shatter. They can be repaired and strengthened by playing a card of the same type of weapon before that happens, however.
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The trailers for the game can be seen [[https://youtu.be/FBM4wBbOgQk here]] and [[https://youtu.be/diilMn5gSAg here]].
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* EyeScream: When you first meet the three-eyed monster Seemore, two of his eyes have been taken by Royam, and he asks you to get them back in exchange for upgrading Dicey. [[spoiler:When you find him imprisioned in Sixtopia, all three eyes have been taken by Nanny Fortuna.]]
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* {{Homage}}: The developers took cues from stop motion cues from the films of Creator/Laika and Creator/TimBurton in creating the look of Random.

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* {{Homage}}: The developers took cues from stop motion cues from the films like those of Creator/Laika Creator/{{Laika}} and Creator/TimBurton in creating the look of Random.
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* {{Homage}}: The developers took cues from stop motion cues from the films of Creator/Laika and Creator/TimBurton in creating the look of Random.
** Royam in particular seems to be a skinnier version of Oogie Boogie from WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas.
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* BedsheetGhost: One of these acts as a {{spirit guide}} to Even on her quest.

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* BedsheetGhost: One of these acts as a {{spirit guide}} guide to Even on her quest.
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* BedsheetGhost: One of these acts as a {{SpiritGuide}} to Even on her quest.

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* BedsheetGhost: One of these acts as a {{SpiritGuide}} {{spirit guide}} to Even on her quest.
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* BedsheetGhost: One of these acts as a {{SpiritGuide}} to Even on her quest.
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* WretchedHive: Fourburg has devolved into this.

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* WretchedHive: Fourburg has devolved into this.this, having been destroyed by the Queen and rebuilt as a shady gambling town.
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* FightLikeACardPlayer: In order to fight off enemies, Even must gather “dice energy” to draw various cards from her deck, roll Dicey, and then pick cards to play based on the number she rolled. The cards will allow her to summon various weapons, heal herself, or unleash hazards to damage enemies.
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** There is also the Shadowman, a boogeyman like figure who preys on children who wander out into the dark streets of Threedom.
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* WorldOfFunnyAnimals: Apart from humans and sapient dice, the world has plenty of talking fish, foxes, and general monsters running about.
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* Steampunk: Most of this world’s technology seems to have ties aesthetic.

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