History VideoGame / SuperTux

''[[https://www.supertux.org/ SuperTux]]'' is a free and open source Linux based ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' clone. It is inspired by the [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 first]] and [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3 third]] games in the ''Super Mario Bros.'' series, and even has a level editor and [[GameMod fan-made addons]] that can be played to extend the game.

* DamselinDistress: Penny.

''[[https://www.supertux.org/ SuperTux]]'' is a free and open source Linux based ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros1 Super Mario Bros]]'' clone. It is inspired by the first and third games in the Mario Bros series, and even has a level editor and [[GameMod fan-made addons]] that can be played to extend the game.

''[[https://www.supertux.org/ SuperTux]]'' is a free and open source Linux based ''[[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros Super Mario Bros]]'' clone. It is inspired by the first and third games in the Mario Bros series, and even has a level editor and [[GameMod fan-made addons]] that can be played to extend the game.

* FourElementEnsemble: The flower powerups - fire, ice, earth and air.

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: Tux and Penny.

** Incubator Island (actually a set of incompletely implemented levels thought for testing) has a few very hard levels that require many [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous nigh-impossible jumps]] and dodging of a bunch of GoddamnedBats and DemonicSpiders. These levels tend to cluster in the lower right of the island.

** Collecting powerups of the same type above a certain limit. Let's face it, [[UptoEleven eleven fire flowers]] aren't much more powerful than ten.

!!Both the main game and it's addons provide examples of:

** In later versions, when Tux reaches the end of Nolok's castle on Icy island, he finds [[spoiler: an empty room with a letter from Penny telling him that Nolok brought her to a far place. Then the Yeti sudden;y shows up and chases Tux out, until Tux gets cornered in a large pit]].

* [[Bowdlerise Bowdlerization]]: In older versions of the game, the Snowshot enemy was wearing a kamikaze headband. When Milestone 2 officially came out, the headband was removed, and the Snowshot instead has a silly face.

* DifficultbutAwesome: A single ice flower lets you throw ice balls that can freeze many enemies in place and extinguish fire, but only one at a time. And the iceballs tend to [[PinballProjectile ricochet]] for several seconds before disappearing. Meaning if you miss your target you have to wait until the iceball has disappeared (or hits by chance after bouncing off several obstacles) until you can throw the next. However, with some skill you can hit enemies indirectly using obstacles as "reflectors". This is not possible with a fire flower.

* Some enemies can be stunned and then kicked around like Mario's koopas. Like these, they can defeat other enemies when sliding around, but they can also hurt the player himself when they bounce back from an obstacle.

* MadeofIron: The Yeti boss is insensitive to fire or ice balls, unscathed by his own stalactites, and he can walk over spikes and through lava if necessary.

* [[spoiler: Also happens in Adventure To The New World 2.]]

* SchizophrenicDifficulty: Given the relatively large number of levels per world, [=SuperTux=] inevitably has shades of this. (In part also because both implemented worlds feature different environments throughout their courses, such as [[UndergroundLevel Underground Levels]], [[BubblyClouds sky levels]], water-rich levels and castles.) This architecture makes it very hard to constantly ramp up difficulty.

* AdaptationExpansion: Waffelwüste, unlike most other levels, is a desert world with custom assets and enemies.

* AdaptionalBadass: Good lord, the Yeti in Yeti's Revenge. What was once a normally easy fight is now almost impossible to beat.
* AdaptionalVillany: The Yeti tries to annoy Penny constantly in Yeti's Revenge, kicking off the plot. [[spoiler: It turns out this was his intention the entire time, so he could lure Tux and kill him.]]
* AdaptionExpansion: Waffelwüste, unlike most other levels, is a desert world with custom assets and enemies.

* AirborneMook: Many enemies, but the most notable ones are Flying Snowballs, Snowshots, and Owls.

* AdaptionalVillany: The Yeti tries to annoy Penny constantly in Yeti's Revenge, kicking off the plot. [[spoiler: It turns out this was his intention the entire time, so he could lure Tux and kill him.]]

!!The main game provides examples of:

* BrutalBonusLevel:
** Incubator Island (actually a set of incompletely implemented levels thought for testing) has a few very hard levels that require many [[ClassicVideoGameScrewYous nigh-impossible jumps]] and dodging of a bunch of GoddamnedBats and DemonicSpiders. These levels tend to cluster in the lower right of the island.
** Take the maze of [[ThatOneLevel Level C-4]] from ''Super Mario Bros.: The lost levels'', multiply its length and make it a freaking fast auto scroller level, and what you will get is roughly comparable to ''Bonus Island II: Think fast, or die''.

** Happens to some enemies, too (depending on the way they die). Since version 0.6.0, the Yeti boss does it as well.

* DifficultbutAwesome: A single ice flower lets you throw ice balls that can freeze many enemies in place and extinguish fire, but only one at a time. And the iceballs tend to [[Pinball Projectile ricochet]] for several seconds before disappearing. Meaning if you miss your target you have to wait until the iceball has disappeared (or hits by chance after bouncing off several obstacles) until you can throw the next. However, with some skill you can hit enemies indirectly using obstacles as "reflectors". This is not possible with a fire flower.

* HardLevelsEasyBosses: The developers avoid making bosses [[BreatherBoss too easy]], but [=SuperTux=] still counts as this. For example, look at the sheer number of levels on Icy Island that you have to go through in order to reach the Yeti boss, and then look at the boss fight itself. Which one will likely take more time?
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Some enemies can be stunned and then kicked around like Mario's koopas. Like these, they can defeat other enemies when sliding around, but they can also hurt the player himself when they bounce back from an obstacle.

* OneUp: The Tux puppets are kind-of this in old versions. It's Played Straight in Milestone One, but [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in versions before 0.6.1. Each one grants the player 100 extra coins if they catch it, and coins were originally needed to restart from the last checkpoint when Tux dies.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: Icy Island, the start point of the game. Usually Tux has [[TruthinTelevision no problems]] walking over snow and ice tiles, but there are surfaces which are so slippery that even the little penguin will slip (oddly enough, this doesn't affect enemies).

* TheLostWoods: Forest World, the second world after Icy Island.
* BigBoosHaunt: The Ghost Forest, plus the later levels of the old Forest World.

* WhenTreesAttack: Both the Walking tree (a generic mook) and the Ghost Tree boss count as this.

* HardLevelsEasyBosses: The developers avoid making bosses [[BreatherBoss too easy]], but SuperTux still counts as this. For example, look at the sheer number of levels on Icy Island that you have to go through in order to reach the Yeti boss, and then look at the boss fight itself. Which one will likely take more time?

* 1Up: The Tux puppets are kind-of this in old versions. It's Played Straight in Milestone One, but [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] in versions before 0.6.1. Each one grants the player 100 extra coins if they catch it, and coins were originally needed to restart from the last checkpoint when Tux dies.

* SchizophrenicDifficulty: Given the relatively large number of levels per world, SuperTux inevitably has shades of this. (In part also because both implemented worlds feature different environments throughout their courses, such as UndergroundLevels, [[BubblyClouds sky levels]], water-rich levels and castles.) This architecture makes it very hard to constantly ramp up difficulty.

* SoundtrackDissonance: Some of the hardest levels have rather happy or calm soundtracks. Especially the main theme (a frantic techno soundtrack) is used for many levels of various difficulty levels, while UndergroundLevels mostly have calm and melancholic soundtracks regardless of difficulty, including [[ThatOneLevel "Think fast, or die"]].

* Action Bomb: There are different types of enemies which explode when hit, such as Mr. Bomb, Haywire and Skydive. Short fuse is special as its explosion does not deal damage but instead knocks the player back, potentially [[LedgeBats into deadly pits or obstacles]].

* ColorCodedforYourConvenience: Some enemies exist in "smart" and "dumb" varieties (the former being auto-turning enemies while the latter fall off platforms). These are mostly distinguishable by their different colors.