History VideoGame / Terminal7

The game itself is a [[PsychologicalHorror psychological thriller]], where you play as [[Franchise/{{SuperMarioBros}} Luigi]] with [[SameCharacterButDifferent severe mental problems]] (stemming from [[JustifiedTitle his terminal brain cancer]]) through varying [[GameplayRoulette gameplay changing levels]] and sometimes psychedelic or downright [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} bizarre]] environments.

* ActionBasedMission: The carnival level.

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: The final level, Meltdown.]]

* MissingTime: Implied and shown.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Happens ''four'' times:
** The game is normally a first person shooter, with Manhunt-esque first person stealth segments based on moving between shadows.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWfzVN_LHbw Terminal 7]]'', a.k.a. ''Terminal 7: a [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/terminal-7 Source Mod]]'', is an entire [[GameMod source mod]] fangame based around a WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} [[InJoke inside joke]], with [[UpToEleven complete abandon]] [[ToneShift of the relatively lighthearted tone]] from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGWs8WYUp8c source material.]]

* UnwinnableByMistake: It's possible to take too much damage during the sewer level so that the spikes towards the end would kill you, making you unable to complete the level. Though you can always turn on god mode or noclip. Fortunately, the spikes have been removed in the latest version of the mod.

* ThemeTuneCameo: The fangame itself uses music from both the highly controversial games ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt 2}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Postal}}''. Specially the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qee3TjASCs Central Park]]" theme used in the room where guts come out of Luigi's corpse during one of the hallucination sequences. The penultimate level makes use of BattleThemeMusic from ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon''[='s=] final boss. [[MindScrew Fitting]], really.

** The [[spoiler:suicide note]] on Mario's computer contains a line where he says [[spoiler: "Wherever you are Peach, I love you," suggesting that Peach has been missing for some time...]]

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler: The final level, Turning Off The Game.]]

* DyingDream: [[spoiler:The final level, Turning Off The Game, is basically Luigi's brain breaking down from his brain cancer and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation the realization]] that the Mushroom Kingdom doesn't exist, and that he killed Peach.]]

* EldritchLocation: [[spoiler:The final level, Turning Off The Game. Disregarding that it's a DyingDream, it's a BlackBugRoom that manifests as several enemy-filled corridors floating in the middle of a tube of fire, and as you progress it gets increasingly broken up.]]

The game itself is a [[PsychologicalHorror psychological thriller]], where you play as [[Franchise/{{SuperMarioBros}} Luigi]] ''[[spoiler:[[MindScrew (or do you?)]]]]'' with [[SameCharacterButDifferent severe mental problems]] (stemming from [[JustifiedTitle his terminal brain cancer]]) through varying [[GameplayRoulette gameplay changing levels]] and sometimes psychedelic or downright [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} bizarre]] environments.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: The credits song, "When The Lights Went Out". Seemingly selected for the fact that it's the [[ArcNumber seventh and final song of an album named "Seven"]] due to being otherwise totally obscure, it has a haunting tone that fits perfectly at the end of the game, especially after the intense BattleThemeMusic of the penultimate level and [[spoiler:the [[NothingIsScarier total silence]] of the corrupted Level 1-1]]. The [[RefrainFromAssuming refrain]] also matches well with the ending, where [[spoiler:Luigi's brain finally shuts down from his terminal cancer.]]

* ArcNumber: Seven. Obvious from the title, but it goes several levels deep (especially concerning Vinny's stream of the game). The game was released very close to Vinesauce's 7th anniversary, and by the end of the original livestream Vinny had accumulated over 7000 viewers. The song that plays during the credits, [[SuspiciouslyAproposMusic "When the Lights Went Out"]], is the seventh (and [[StealthPun final]]) song of an indie album titled "Seven". 26 also appears several times near the end of the game in corrupted textures and in the coin-count if the player picks up the singular coin on [[spoiler: Level 1-1]].

!!''Terminal 7'' provides examples of:

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWfzVN_LHbw Terminal 7]]'' aka ''Terminal 7: a [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/terminal-7 Source Mod]]'' is an entire [[GameMod source mod]] fangame based around a WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} [[InJoke inside joke]], with [[UpToEleven complete abandon]] [[ToneShift of the relatively lighthearted tone]] from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGWs8WYUp8c source material.]]

The story and premise revolves around Luigi escaping [[Franchise/{{SuperMarioBros}} Bowser's]] [[SupervillainLair fortress]] to reunite with his brother at home, combating Bowser's minions on the way [[spoiler:[[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness or so it may seem]]. A more truthful telling of these events unfold during the third act]].

!!Tropes:

* ThemeTuneCameo: The fangame itself uses music from both the highly controversial games ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt 2}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Postal}}''. Specially the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qee3TjASCs Central Park]]" theme used in the room where guts come out of Luigi's corpse during one of the hallucination sequences. The penultimate level makes use of BattleThemeMusic from DarkestDungeon's final boss. [[MindScrew Fitting]], really.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Mario.]] Mainly due to [[spoiler:financial problems]] and stress regarding his brother's well being.

* UnwinnableByMistake: It's possible to take too much damage during the sewer level so that the spikes towards the end would kill you, making you unable to complete the level. Though you can always turn on god mode or noclip.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWfzVN_LHbw Terminal 7]]'' aka ''Terminal 7: a [[http://www.moddb.com/mods/terminal-7 Source Mod]]'' is an entire [[GameMod source mod]] fangame based around a WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} [[InJoke inside joke]], with [[UpToEleven complete abandon]] [[ToneShift of the relative lighthearted tone]] from the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGWs8WYUp8c source material.]]

* FryingPanOfDoom: Luigi's first weapon, he repeatedly grabs more throughout the game after [[BadOfSpilling losing]] his old ones. Technically it's a small pot; the HUD calls it a [[StealthPun sauce]]-pan.

The story and premise revolves around Luigi escaping [[Franchise/{{SuperMarioBros}} Bowser's]] [[SupervillainLair fortress]] to reunite with his brother at home, combating Bowser's minions on the way [[spoiler:[[BlatantLies or so it may seem]]. A more truthful telling of these events unfold during the third act]].

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The sewer level is big enough to jump in.

* ArcNumber: 26.

* BigBad: Bowser, apparently, as he's sending his troops after Luigi. [[spoiler:Ultimately [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as the troops were just police officers trying to capture the criminally insane Luigi, meaning "Bowser" would just be the head police officer, if he even exists.]]

* CrappyCarnival: Level Four, Toadstool Carnival. It doesn't help that it's being occupied by Bowser's troops, who are searching for the escaped Luigi.
* DarkerAndEdgier: This fangame, even if the original story wasn't so lighthearted to begin with. In fact, when Luigi reaches his brother's apartment, things become even ''worse''. Lampshaded by Vinny.

* DyingDream: [[spoiler:The final level, Turning Off The Game, is basically Luigi's brain breaking down from his brain cancer and [[GoMadFromTheRevelation the realization]] that he killed Peach.]]
* EasterEgg: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ_FJwoiv0I Plenty of them,]] such as the secret Pizza room and "Do You Have A Bad PC?" advertisement, which indicates that several levels are poorly optimized, causing a large framerate drop.

* FryingPanOfDoom: Luigi's first weapon and his go-to melee weapon.

* HowWeGotHere: The fangame ends in an 8-bit realm where Mario [[spoiler: (seeming alive and well)]] and Dr. Mario talk about Luigi's diagnosis. The diagnosis? [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Terminal 7]] [[HereWeGoAgain brain cancer]].
* MentalWorld: Much of the game takes place in one to varying degrees.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Luigi's reaction when [[spoiler:he discovers Peach's skeleton and realizes that he killed her in a state of delusion caused by his brain cancer. The words "What Have I Done" even appear as a FreezeFrameBonus on the final level's intro screen!]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Luigi is supposed to recover from his illness, but he escaped the asylum, the cops started a manhunt and [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide Mario commited suicide]]]] after noticing the news about Luigi's escape.
* NoAntagonist: [[spoiler:By the end of the game, Bowser's Troops can't really be called villainous, as they're HeroAntagonist police officers trying to capture Luigi, who's [[InsaneEqualsViolent criminally insane]]. At the same time, Luigi's hard to call a VillainProtagonist, as he's too far gone to realize the full ramifications of his actions, and he feels [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone genuine horror]] when he realizes that he killed Peach.]]
* NoodlePeople: All the characters are stretched ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' models to be ''VideoGame/HalfLife2''-sized, giving this effect.
* NothingIsScarier: When Luigi finally finds the key to Mario's locked room, he enters to find nothing but a black, ominous void. [[spoiler: You have to walk ''quite'' a bit until Mario's real bedroom with his hanging corpse slowly comes into view. It gets even worse when you have to walk back into the void to continue on... and you begin to hear sloshing noises, and seeing different walls from where you were entering the room from...]]

* ThemeTuneCameo: The fangame itself uses music from both the highly controversial games ''VideoGame/{{Manhunt 2}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Postal}}''. Specially the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qee3TjASCs Central Park]]" theme used in the room where guts come out of Luigi's corpse during one of the hallucination sequences.
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: It becomes evident quickly that Luigi isn't killing Koopas, Goombas, and Toads. This trope goes full force when Luigi begins hallucinating the environment around him, ''especially'' towards the end.
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Happens three times:
** First, during the majority of Underground Ride, the game morphs into a 3D Platformer rather than the First-Person Shooter it's been for the previous levels.
** During most of Peach's Castle, the game turns into a First-Person Adventure game, with you selection directions to go and where to use items you pick up.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Luigi. He was trying to go home and find Mario, despite hallucinating and believing that he's in the Mushroom Kingdom.

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: If you've seen the original Terminal 7 skit, you'll already know TheReveal that Luigi is dying of Terminal 7 brain cancer, causing him to hallucinate all of his adventures with Mario.

* BreatherLevel: The train sequence, in which Luigi enters the Mushroom Kingdom for a short time. No enemies, and instead you've simply got some platforming to do.

** YouWakeUpInARoom: Luigi waking up in Bowser's Fortress [[spoiler:[[BlatantLies (that's a lie)]]]] at the start of the game.
** WakingUpElsewhere: Luigi, finding himself by Peach's Castle [[spoiler: after driving all night without knowing about it.]]

* AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame: If you've seen the original Termial 7 skit, you'll already know TheReveal that Luigi is dying of Terminal 7 brain cancer, causing him to hallucinate all of his adventures with Mario.
* ArcNumber: 26. And 7, obviously.