History VideoGame / Maize

''[[http://store.steampowered.com/app/284240/ Maize]]'' is a comedic FirstPersonPerspective AdventureGame released on [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on December 1st, 2016, before getting ported to UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and UsefulNotes/XboxOne on September 12th, 2017.

The player character awakens on an abandoned farm, with no prior knowledge about how they got there, what they're doing, or why they even came there in the first place. They quickly find that this seemingly abandoned farm is overrun by talking, sentient corn because a pair of scientists misinterpreted a government memo.
To quote the creators: "That's the least ridiculous thing about this game", and they're really not kidding. What follows is a very odd little adventure as the player dives into the history of the farm, the experiments that lead to the origin of the sentient corn, all while accompanied by an angry Russian teddy-bear that berates you and this situation every step of the way.

Given that a good number of the game's surprises are based in Bait and Switch comedy, it's highly advised you play Maize before reading this article.

!! Describe the STUPID tropes here.
* AbandonedLaboratory: A large portion of the game's environs.

* AmnesiacHero: You, the player character.
* ApocalypticLog: {{Downplayed}} Rather than being about everyone dying or the world ending, the story of the rise and fall of Bob and Ted's research creating the corn people, is told through post-it notes and research logs.

* IdiotHero: You, if the item descriptions and Vladdy are any indication.

* SilentProtagonist: The player character. This is lampshaded frequently by everyone you encounter.
* SingleGenderSpecies: The Corn people. [[spoiler: The Ruby Queen is an exception for a reason]]
* TheDitz: Notable in that the entire species of corn people seem to be this; from not knowing a bear from a helicopter, to forgetting messages they're supposed to deliver, and attempting to order pizza on a military radio. [[FridgeLogic Not even accounting for if sentient corn COULD eat pizza.]]
** Bob was also this in spades. In one example, he spent a lot of money on developing visitor tours and coming up with brochures for a classified research and development facility.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Ted, Vladdy, [[spoiler: the Ruby Queen]]...The research facility isn't exactly a brain trust.
* [[ThoseTwoGuys Those Three Guys]]: The recurring trio of corn people the player character encounters throughout the game. According to the credits, their names are Jim, Bill, and Fred.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Near the end of the game, the Corn People accidentally call an air strike on the farm, thinking they were [[TooDumbToLive ordering a pizza.]] What manages to prevent the air strike? [[spoiler:A [[VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution DDR-style]] dance number, of course!]]

[-What are you still doing on this STUPID page?! What? You want Vladdy to enter another vent? *sigh* Why does Vladdy put up with you?-]

''[[http://store.steampowered.com/app/284240/ Maize]]'' is a comedic FirstPersonPerspective AdventureGame released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on December 1st, 2016.

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[-What are you still doing on this STUPID page?! What? You want Vladdy to enter another vent? *sigh* Why does Vladdy put up with you?-]

''[[http://store.steampowered.com/app/284240/ Maize]]'' is a comedic FirstPersonPerspective AdventureGame released on {{Steam}} on December 1st, 2016.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Near the end of the game, the Corn People accidentally call an air strike on the farm, thinking they were [[TooDumbToLive ordering a pizza.]] What manages to prevent the air strike? [[spoiler:A [[DanceDanceRevolution DDR-style]] dance number, of course!]]

* ChekovsGun: The very first item you get in the game is a seemingly useless English Muffin, which stays in your inventory for most of the game, never being used for anything [[spoiler: until you use it at the very end of the game to defeat the Cornacabra.]]

* ChekovsGun: The very first item you get in the game is a seemingly useless English Muffin, which stays in your inventory for most of the game, never being used for anything [[spoiler: until you use it at the very end of the game to defeat the Rogue Corn.]]

''[[http://store.steampowered.com/app/284240/ Maize]]'' is a comedic FirstPersonPerspective AdventureGame released on {{Steam}} game on December 1st, 2016.

* OutOfGenreExperience: Near the end of the game, the Corn People accidentally call an air strike on the farm, thinking they were [[TooDumbToLive ordering a pizza.]] What manages to prevent the air strike? [[spoiler:A [[DanceDanceRevolution DDR-style]] dance number, of course!]]

* [[spoiler: ShaggyDogStory:]] [[spoiler: After everything you've gone through to help the corn, including [[HeroicSacrifice losing Vladdy]], the corn blow themselves up out of sheer idiocy. Basically, nothing you did mattered, unless you count learning you're a scarecrow.]]

* ChekovsGun: The very first item you get in the game is a seemingly useless English Muffin, which stays in your inventory for most of the game, never being used for anything [[spoiler: until you use it at the very end of the game to defeat the Rogue Corn.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Bob and Ted don't actually talk to each other face to face, prefering to talk to one another through passive aggressive post-it notes. This is further evidenced by time logs found in the lab, showing they're almost never around one another physically.

* SingleGenderSpecies: The Corn people. [[spoiler The Ruby Queen is an exception for a reason]]

Given that a good number of the game's surprises are based in Bait and Switch comedy, it's highly you play Maize before reading this article.

* GrumpyBear: Taken quite literally with Vladdy.
* HuskyRusskie: Vladdy, your faithful, if somewhat beleaguered, teddy-bear companion.
* EmpathyPet: Of a sort, Vladdy's grabby thingy seems to have a mind of it's own.
* PercussiveMaintenance: Vladdy's way of "fixing" things. It works frequently.

* RoyalWe: The Ruby Queen, naturally.

* SingleGenderSpecies: The Corn people, with the exception of the Ruby Queen. As noted in Helen's notes, this could be on account that different species of corn were used to create each "group".
* StealthPun: Why are all the corn talking in English accents? They're 'Cornish'.
* TheDitz: Notable in that the entire species of corn people seem to be this; from not knowing a bear from a helicopter, to forgetting messages they're supposed to deliver, and attempting to order pizza on a military radio. [[FridgeLogic Not even account for if sentient corn COULD eat pizza.]]

* VerbalTic: Vladdy thinks everything is STUPID! From

''[[http://store.steampowered.com/app/284240/ Maize]]'' is a comedic [[First Person FirstPersonPerspective]] AdventureGame released on {{Steam}} game on December 1st, 2016.

''[[http://store.steampowered.com/app/284240/ Maize]]'' is a video game where an abandoned farm has been overrun by talking, sentient corn.