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''Thwaite'' is a 2013 video game for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player must defend a cute little village from incoming missiles using missiles.
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''Thwaite'' is a 2013 video game for the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player must defend a cute little village from incoming missiles using missiles.
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* NoPronunciationGuide: One of the [=NPCs=] is named Gnivad, and the manual doesn't give any hints on how to pronounce this.
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* DummiedOut: The cutscenes were originally supposed to have characters walking around. Graphics for this are still present in the tile sheet.
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* ShoutOut: The game's aesthetics and ending recall ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series.
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* DoWellButNotPerfect: The ending for a NoDamageRun is not [[CanonEnding canon]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:the game assumes you used tool assistance for the run.]]
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* DoWellButNotPerfect: The ending for a NoDamageRun is not [[CanonEnding canon]].
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The music for 2 AM is a parody of the music for 2 AM in ''Wild World'', showing that song's own similarity to the second movement of ''Pathetique'' by LudwigVanBeethoven.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The music for 2 AM is a parody of the music for 2 AM in ''Wild World'', showing that song's own similarity to the second movement of ''Pathetique'' by LudwigVanBeethoven.Music/LudwigVanBeethoven.
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-> [[spoiler:Thank you for [=TASing=] ''Thwaite''. Feel free to play again at full speed. :P]]
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* GeneralGamingGamepads: In addition to a standard NES controller, the game accepts a [[VideoGame/MarioPaint Super NES Mouse]] that is plugged through a Super NES to NES controller adapter or into a "famiclone" console with Super NES controller ports.
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''Thwaite'' is a 2013 video game for the NintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player must defend a cute little village from incoming missiles using missiles.
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* MrExposition: In the opening cut scene, Pino [[{{Infodump}} instructs]] Milo and Staisy on how to operate the fireworks as a missile defense system.
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** One of the cut scenes in the NoDamageRun track quotes lines from the {{Engrish}} intro to ''VideoGame/ZeroWing''.
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* HintSystem: a two-line hint is displayed twice for the first five seconds of early levels.
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* ScoringPoints: Played with. Blowing up incoming missiles scores no points; conserving ammo and keeping houses protected at the end of each round does. Because of this, there is only one score even in co-op.
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* NotAGame: In a NoDamageRun in progress, one of the villagers thinks the action is [[AllPartOfTheShow just an elaborate fireworks show]], and another has a hard time convincing him.
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* AerithAndBob: NPCs like Tilda, Meg, and Justin next to Gnivad, Isca, and Briar.
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* NoPronunciationGuide: One of the NPCs is named Gnivad, and the manual doesn't give any hints on how to pronounce this.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The music for 2 AM is a parody of the music for 2 AM in ''Wild World'', showing that song's own similarity to the second movement of ''Pathetique'' by LudwigVanBeethoven.
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* HintSystem: a two-line hint is displayed twice for the first five seconds of early levels.
* HoldTheLine: Each round has a specific number of enemy missiles, and the round ends once all those have spawned and either been destroyed or destroyed something.
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* StandardSnippet: After each round, a snippet of "[[WestminsterChimes Westminster Quarters]]" plays.
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* GimmickLevel: The levels with unusually fast missiles to test reaction time and the levels with all splitty things (balloons and MIRVs).
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''Thwaite'' is a video game for the NintendoEntertainmentSystem in which the player must defend a cute little village from incoming missiles using missiles.
The ROM is [[FreewareGames freeware]], available from [[https://pineight.com/nes/#thwaite the developer's web site]].
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!!''Thwaite'' uses these tropes:
* AlertnessBlink: The '''!''' over a house that's about to be destroyed, with accompanying ScareChord.
* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: If ten houses are already present when morning comes, another house is not built.
* CoOpMultiplayer: In single-player, the player can fire from either of two missile silos with the two buttons on a controller or mouse. In 2-player, each player has his own cursor and can fire from one of the silos.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: Even if all ten villagers have to crowd into a single house, the game goes on.
* CrowdPanic: Normally, the villagers inside a house that's threatened (see AlertnessBlink) head for another house. This happens in the faster levels where almost every house is threatened.
* DestructibleProjectiles: The goal is to protect the village by destroying incoming ballistic missiles.
* DoubleTap: The best option when dealing with a balloon or MIRV that just split into three missiles is to destroy two with one of your missiles and the third with another.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: The ending for a NoDamageRun is not [[CanonEnding canon]].
* DummiedOut: The cutscenes were originally supposed to have characters walking around. Graphics for this are still present in the tile sheet.
* EveryTenThousandPoints: One destroyed house is rebuilt after each day that the player survives.
* ExpositionBreak: Before a 1- or 2-player game begins, a short, skippable {{cutscene}} is shown explaining the game's object. During the game, each five waves represent one early morning, and after them, there's a short dialogue during the day.
* GameOver: If all ten houses are destroyed, or both missile silos are destroyed, the game ends.
* GeneralGamingGamepads: In addition to a standard NES controller, the game accepts a [[VideoGame/MarioPaint Super NES Mouse]] that is plugged through a Super NES to NES controller adapter or into a "famiclone" console with Super NES controller ports.
* GimmickLevel: The levels with unusually fast missiles to test reaction time and the levels with all splitty things (balloons and MIRVs).
* MacrossMissileMassacre: What the player must destroy.
* MultipleEndings: The culprit is never discovered if [[NoDamageRun no buildings ever get blown up]].
* NoFairCheating: [[spoiler:The NoDamageRun ending [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] to thank the player for performing a [[{{Speedrun}} tool-assisted superplay]], assuming that no player can accomplish this NintendoHard feat legitimately.]]
* NotAGame: In a NoDamageRun in progress, one of the villagers thinks the action is [[AllPartOfTheShow just an elaborate fireworks show]], and another has a hard time convincing him.
* OneHitPolykill: Blowing up multiple missiles is essential especially in the fifth round of each morning, where the enemy has more ammo than you.
* RecursiveAmmo: MIRV missiles and balloons.
* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: It takes only one day to rebuild a destroyed house.
* ScoringPoints: Played with. Blowing up incoming missiles scores no points; conserving ammo and keeping houses protected at the end of each round does. Because of this, there is only one score even in co-op.
* ShoutOut: The game's aesthetics and ending recall ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series.
** Balloons carrying missiles resemble those that carried presents in ''Animal Crossing''.
** The AlertnessBlink references ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series.
** The CanonEnding references [[spoiler:an EasterEgg shared by ''Mario Paint'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', and]] ''Animal Crossing''.
* SoundtrackDissonance: The game's peaceful, subdued soundtrack sounds like tunes that might be played in a laid-back social sim. It doesn't fit with the frantic blowing-things-up action.
* StuffBlowingUp
* UnstableEquilibrium: After a missile silo is blown up, it's out of commission for the remainder of that round and until either sunrise or the player completes a round without a single building being destroyed. At this point, the player has fewer missiles to work with, and one strategy is to ignore half the buildings.
The ROM is [[FreewareGames freeware]], available from [[https://pineight.com/nes/#thwaite the developer's web site]].
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!!''Thwaite'' uses these tropes:
* AlertnessBlink: The '''!''' over a house that's about to be destroyed, with accompanying ScareChord.
* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: If ten houses are already present when morning comes, another house is not built.
* CoOpMultiplayer: In single-player, the player can fire from either of two missile silos with the two buttons on a controller or mouse. In 2-player, each player has his own cursor and can fire from one of the silos.
* CriticalExistenceFailure: Even if all ten villagers have to crowd into a single house, the game goes on.
* CrowdPanic: Normally, the villagers inside a house that's threatened (see AlertnessBlink) head for another house. This happens in the faster levels where almost every house is threatened.
* DestructibleProjectiles: The goal is to protect the village by destroying incoming ballistic missiles.
* DoubleTap: The best option when dealing with a balloon or MIRV that just split into three missiles is to destroy two with one of your missiles and the third with another.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: The ending for a NoDamageRun is not [[CanonEnding canon]].
* DummiedOut: The cutscenes were originally supposed to have characters walking around. Graphics for this are still present in the tile sheet.
* EveryTenThousandPoints: One destroyed house is rebuilt after each day that the player survives.
* ExpositionBreak: Before a 1- or 2-player game begins, a short, skippable {{cutscene}} is shown explaining the game's object. During the game, each five waves represent one early morning, and after them, there's a short dialogue during the day.
* GameOver: If all ten houses are destroyed, or both missile silos are destroyed, the game ends.
* GeneralGamingGamepads: In addition to a standard NES controller, the game accepts a [[VideoGame/MarioPaint Super NES Mouse]] that is plugged through a Super NES to NES controller adapter or into a "famiclone" console with Super NES controller ports.
* GimmickLevel: The levels with unusually fast missiles to test reaction time and the levels with all splitty things (balloons and MIRVs).
* MacrossMissileMassacre: What the player must destroy.
* MultipleEndings: The culprit is never discovered if [[NoDamageRun no buildings ever get blown up]].
* NoFairCheating: [[spoiler:The NoDamageRun ending [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] to thank the player for performing a [[{{Speedrun}} tool-assisted superplay]], assuming that no player can accomplish this NintendoHard feat legitimately.]]
* NotAGame: In a NoDamageRun in progress, one of the villagers thinks the action is [[AllPartOfTheShow just an elaborate fireworks show]], and another has a hard time convincing him.
* OneHitPolykill: Blowing up multiple missiles is essential especially in the fifth round of each morning, where the enemy has more ammo than you.
* RecursiveAmmo: MIRV missiles and balloons.
* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: It takes only one day to rebuild a destroyed house.
* ScoringPoints: Played with. Blowing up incoming missiles scores no points; conserving ammo and keeping houses protected at the end of each round does. Because of this, there is only one score even in co-op.
* ShoutOut: The game's aesthetics and ending recall ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' series.
** Balloons carrying missiles resemble those that carried presents in ''Animal Crossing''.
** The AlertnessBlink references ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' series.
** The CanonEnding references [[spoiler:an EasterEgg shared by ''Mario Paint'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', and]] ''Animal Crossing''.
* SoundtrackDissonance: The game's peaceful, subdued soundtrack sounds like tunes that might be played in a laid-back social sim. It doesn't fit with the frantic blowing-things-up action.
* StuffBlowingUp
* UnstableEquilibrium: After a missile silo is blown up, it's out of commission for the remainder of that round and until either sunrise or the player completes a round without a single building being destroyed. At this point, the player has fewer missiles to work with, and one strategy is to ignore half the buildings.
