History VideoGame / Zigfrak

''Zigfrak'' is a space-based ActionRPG, released on December 13, 2013 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]]. It features missions, exploration, and crafting, with an emphasis on loot and over-the-top items. Enemy ships explode like loot piñatas, spewing forth useful pickups.

In the far distant future, humankind made contact with an advanced alien civilization known as the Xenoids. Their intentions were far from friendly however and soon the people of the Nautilus galaxy were trust into an era of martial law where security became the top priority; often at the cost of individual liberty. Facing this growing oppression, many left their home world of Gaia and the now totalitarian empire of the Enforcers.

* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: The Xenoids make use of technology derived from the physics of black holes, exotic matter, and strange particles.

(Note that as it stands this page is still under construction and as such it NeedsWikiMagicLove).

!! This Game Provides Examples Of:
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* AlienInvasion: The Xenoid invasion is this in the backstory.

* AsteroidMiners: Shows up both in game and in gameplay. The player character is given a mining laser and can often use nearby asteroids to mine for low level loot and materials

* BlackSpeech: The names of many Xenoid items bare an uncanny resemblance to a certain cosmic horror mythos...
%%* ContemplateOurNavels: Lampshaded in the loading screen.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: There is a creature called L.G.O.D. It is a living wormhole worshipped by space cultists. Of course you get to fight it.
** [[spoiler: The fight against the Lost Guardian is essentially a stand against an entity that has successfully destroyed human civilization on at least three occasions. Granted it isn't possible to actually begin taking out its shields effectively without crafting a Lost Superweapon in the form of the Echelon Engine.]]
* EldritchAbomination: L.G.O.D. (The Lord God of Death). A violent sentient wormhole that is worshipped by the fanatics faction.

* {{Expy}}: In plentiful quantity:
** Bear Grylls
** Clemente as one of Vito Corleone
** Long John Silvers...
* FrickinLaserBeams: One of the weapons you can choose to equip aboard your ship.

* TheMafia: Clemente and his family respectively, seeing as he is an {{expy}} of Vito Corleone
* ReverseThePolarity: Lampshaded in the Loading Screen
** Also shows up in the names of many end game armors and shield loot amusingly enough.
* StandardSciFiSetting:
** An intergalactic war with an advanced genocidal alien race: Check.
** SpacePirates: Check.
** The sudden involvement by a race of abusive precursors: Check.
** Shamelessly reveling in it all in an all out battle for loot and plunder: Without a doubt!
* StarfishAliens: Xenoids reproduce within the singularities of black holes an hold a culture that is poorly understood if not utterly incomprehensible to humankind.
* SufficientlyAdvancedAliens: The Xenoids make use of technology derived from the physics of black holes, exotic matter and strange particles.
** The Guardians fit the bill as well.
* SwallowedWhole: One mission involves being swallowed whole within a living nebula.
* SpaceIsAnOcean: Averted. Combat does involve maneuvering in 3D space in a similar manner to aerial combat games like ''VideoGame/AceCombat''.
* SpaceOpera: Albeit a more parodic one in the same vein as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the the Galaxy
%%* TimeAbyss: The Guardians

''Zigfrak'' is a space-based action RPG, released on December 13, 2013. It features missions, exploration, and crafting, with an emphasis on loot and over-the-top items. Enemy ships explode like loot piñatas, spewing forth useful pickups.

(Note that as it stands this page is still under construction and as such it {{Needs Wiki Magic Love}}).

* {{Action RPG}}: A unique one at that. This game shares the loot grabbing elements of a Dungeon Crawler as well as the customization and exploration of a Sandbox RPG.
* {{Alien Invasion}}: The Xenoid invasion is this in the backstory.
* {{Alien Sky}}: Many areas utilize colorful nebulae or bright stars in the background. Justified as this serves to provide contrast to the dark void of space in which the game takes place.
* {{Asteroid Miners}}: Shows up both in game and in gameplay. The player character is given a mining laser and can often use nearby asteroids to mine for low level loot and materials
* {{Better Than A Bare Bulb}}: The loading screens alone are a gold mine of lampshade hangings to various sci-fi tropes and cliches.
* {{Black Speech}}: The names of many Xenoid items bare an uncanny resemblance to a certain cosmic horror mythos...
* {{Contemplate Our Navels}}: Lampshaded in the loading screen.
* {{Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu}}: There is a creature called L.G.O.D. It is a living wormhole worshipped by space cultists. Of course you get to fight it.

* {{Eldritch Abomination}}: L.G.O.D. (The Lord God of Death). A violent sentient wormhole that is worshipped by the fanatics faction.
* {{Elemental Armor}}: Based on the five main damage types respectively: Kinetic, Thermal, Electro, Nuclear, and Strange.
* {{Elemental Weapon}} There are five main types of elemental damage:
** Kinetic damage is for standard ballistic projectiles
** Thermal damage is heat based, burning away ablative shielding and delivering damage over time
** Electro is based on electromagnetic weapons that drains target's shields
** Nuclear delivers additional radiation damage that fades out with a half life
** Strange is based on the physics of exotic particles and siphons enemy life directly to the dealer

* {{Frickin Laser Beams}}: One of the weapons you can choose to equip aboard your ship.
* {{Knight of Cerebus}}: The appearance of any of the Guardians is usually a sign that the story has become more serious in tone.
* {{The Mafia}}: Clemente and his family respectively, seeing as he is an {{expy}} of Vito Corleone
* {{Reverse The Polarity}}: Lampshaded in the Loading Screen

* {{Standard Sci Fi Setting}}:

* {{Starfish Aliens}}: Xenoids reproduce within the singularities of black holes an hold a culture that is poorly understood if not utterly incomprehensible to humankind.
* {{Sufficiently Advanced Aliens}}: The Xenoids make use of technology derived from the physics of black holes, exotic matter and strange particles.

* {{Swallowed Whole}}: One mission involves being swallowed whole within a living nebula
* {{Space Is An Ocean}}: Averted. Combat does involve maneuvering in 3-d space in a similar manner to aerial combat games like {{VideoGame/Ace Combat}}.
* {{Space Opera}}: Albeit a more parodic one in the same vein as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the the Galaxy
* {{Time Abyss}}: The Guardians

''Zigfrak'' is a space-based action RPG, featuring missions, exploration, and crafting. With an emphasis on loot and over-the-top items. Enemy ships explode like loot piñatas, spewing forth useful pickups.

Zigfrak is a space-based action RPG, featuring missions, exploration, and crafting. With an emphasis on loot and over-the-top items. Enemy ships explode like loot piñatas, spewing forth useful pickups.

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* {{It Gets Better}}: The first twenty or so minutes of gameplay consist of an extended tutorial involving flying through rings and other inane basics in a manner that might remind some of [[VideoGame/Superman64 a certain other game]]. However shortly after you gain access to the main galaxy hub and before you know it you're running around from dogfight to dogfight against countless enemies in the depths of space.

** Space pirates: Check.

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