History VideoGame / TheFeebleFiles

* AnAxeToGrind: [[spoiler:The holy relic of Feeble's species. It's used to destroy [=OmniBrain=].]]

* OverlyLongGag: The pilot and the clerk who handles all ships that land on Metro Prime's docking station talk for ''quite'' a while about how the former cannot dock without the correct permission.

'''''The Feeble Files''''' is a 1997 cartoony adventure game from Adventure Soft, creators of ''VideoGame/SimonTheSorcerer''. Its half-serious, half-comical plot serves as a rich source of references and shout-outs to ''Series/BlakesSeven'', ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' and many more.

* LaserGuidedKarma: The minister of the Corporation sends Feeble to Cygnus Alpha because of the former accidentally causing a human satellite to damage the building of the Ministry of Galactic Uncertainty. [[spoiler:Later on, Feeble gets his revenge by tricking the minister into drinking [[IAteWhat Miracle Mud]] and then sending HIM to Cygnus Alpha.]]

* ComplexityAddiction: You know that you're going to be in for some heavy cases of {{Moon Logic Puzzle}}s when the intro shows Feeble trying to get past a huge asteroid by attempting to blast a tunnel through it, instead of maybe ''flying around it''.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: After returning to Metro Prime from Cygnus Alpha, Feeble is able to go to the automated Confession Booth and then "confess" that he is a rebel and that he will do what he can to overthrow [=OmniBrain=]. Later on he hears an announcement saying that he's become this cycle's top confessor, and that he should go to the nearest Confession Booth to receive his "reward". Feeble remarks that what he just did was probably a really bad idea.
* DiegeticInterface: Feeble's Oracle watch serves as both the pause menu with access to all sorts of options as well as the inventory.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: The Corporation's directives are an absolute ''minefield'' of those. For instance, if Feeble attempts to talk to a police officer in a simple attempt to start a friendly conversation, the officer is quick to twist his innocent intents into a big enough of an affront towards the Corporation and [=OmniBrain=] to consider it justified to send him for personality restructuring; the only reason he doesn't is because he chose to be "merciful" that time. Also, if one of the Happiness Robots catches you being unhappy for any reason, then he has no qualms about [[DisproportionateRetribution erasing you from existence on the spot]].

* HowManyFingers: Before Feeble gets sent to Cygnus Alpha, the Investigators try to break him into mindless devotion to [=OmniBrain=] by asking him how many fingers they're holding (three) and repeatedly zapping him until he says "as many as [=OmniBrain=] wishes".
* ImmortalitySeeker: [[spoiler:The Founder of the Omni Corporation did not want to accept his incoming death and the inability to continue controlling the Corporation, so he tasked his subordinates with devising a room in which he could live forever, never aging nor needing to drink, eat or use the toilet. Unfortunately for everyone, not long after he got bored of trying to control everything by hand and decided to devise a program that would control everything for him, while he took a nap that ended up lasting thousands of years.]]

* InsecurityCamera: Feeble is perfectly able to render a prison camera useless by lobbing some goop onto the lens. [[FailedASpotCheck While standing right in front of the camera.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Feeble himself can be this at times, one of the examples being the fact that he has absolutely no issues tricking some random pilot at a bar into getting erased by a police officer, just so Feeble can steal his permission to dock. He also causes a random woman to break up with her boyfriend and get erased as a result, just so he could use the phone booth she was occupying to change his clothes.
* JustTestingYou: Feeble jokingly tells the local bar's bartender a made up rumor that [=OmniBrain=] is merely a falsehood devised by the rebels. The bartender responds that he will have to report Feeble saying that to the authorities. Feeble then responds that he was merely testing him and that he would have to report HIM if he said anything else.
* LaResistance: Feeble ends up joining one after getting sent to Cygnus Alpha. They want to overthrow [=OmniBrain=].
* LaserGuidedKarma: The minister of the Corporation sends Feeble to Cygnus Alpha because of the former accidentally causing a human satellite to damage the building of the Ministry of Galactic Uncertainty. [[spoiler:Later on Feeble gets his revenge by tricking the minister into drinking [[IAteWhat Miracle Mud]] and then sending HIM to Cygnus Alpha.]]
* LawfulStupid: The guy who works at Metro Prime's docking station insists that the pilot of the big ship that currently resides there cannot dock unless he has the correct permission to do so. Even though the pilot repeatedly explains to him that it would be in his best interest to just let him dock anyway.

* ListOfTransgressions: As the game goes on, Feeble's Oracle watch gets filled with more and more entries of all the directives he violated.

* ShootTheBuilder: The guy who devised the security systems on Cygnus Alpha gets sent there as a prisoner shortly after. When Feeble asks him why, he says it's because the information on those systems became classified and he still had them in his brain.

* SlippingAMickey: Feeble slips some expired Charisma X pills into the drink that he gives to the guy occupying the phone booth, just so the guy becomes uncharismatic enough that he breaks up with the girl he was talking to.
* SolveTheSoupCans: There is a puzzle where Feeble has to take a chair from a bar... but he's not able to take one until he uses DJ machinery to shine light onto it. Even though the chair that Feeble is supposed to take is still visible without it and nothing holds it in place, nor is it out of his reach.

* TeleporterAccident: Dolores attempts to use a teleporter that Feeble's evil brother described as malfunctioning, thinking that he only said that to dissuade them from using it, and she ends up being turned into a squid.

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: There is a brief RailShooter segment where you have to shoot at guards who pop out from behind cover.
* UnexplainedRecovery: When Feeble finds Dolores in Cygnus Alpha, she's had her leg broken for several days and had to stay in the garbage dump, unable to move. But when Feeble manages to steal a ship and get Dolores onto it, her injury is not mentioned again and she's perfectly able to walk and run with no issues.

* CrackIsCheaper: InUniverse, a small bottle of fresh Charisma X pills costs 300 credits. When Feeble gets his hands on 400, he notes that this is more money that he's ever seen in his life.

* AirventEscape: Feeble has to crawl through a bunch of vents in the last sequence of the game in order to solve a number of puzzles.

* ActionGirl: Dolores, though she doesn't really do much, except of one shooting sequence, where she is assisted by the player.

* AdaptationInspiration: While the game is obviously, though loosely, based on Orwell's ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'', ''Feeble Files'' does seem to divert from the anticommunist (albeit not antitotalitarian) message of the novel quite a bit. The Freedom Fighters address one another as "comrade", the EvilEmpire is referred to as "the Company" (the founding of which is elaborated on in a Bible-like book), the Metro Prime spaceport is a flashing center of commerce and paid entertainment, citizens are required to confess their crimes against the [=OmniBrain=] via confessional-like boxes, etc.
** One of the key differences between the novel and the game is that the Freedom Fighters' only problem with the [=OmniBrain=] is the political tyranny and brainwashing of citizens whereas no mention is ever made of any sort of poverty within society that actually does not seem to be the least bit prevalent anyway.

* CainAndAbel: Feeble's brother has no issues getting his brother erased by the authorities if it means finally getting a promotion.

The player's character is Feeble, an alien whose job is to make CropCircles on Earth. He is fanatically loyal to the ObviouslyEvil totalitarian system of Omni Corporation, led by the central entity [=OmniBrain=]. However, one day, Feeble commits a terrible mistake, which puts him on the way to learn the truth about his society. Alongside fellow rebel Delores and robot SAM, he marches forward, liberating the galaxy.

* ActionGirl: Delores, though she doesn't really do much, except of one shooting sequence, where she is assisted by the player.