Line #68 VideoGame/Accounting


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/accounting_vive.png ''It's the newest craze in accounting! Virtual reality accounting!'']]
2	-> '''''HEY! HEY FUCK YOU!'''''
3	-->--'''Tree Ghost'''
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5	Accounting is a [[SurrealHumor surrealist comedy]] VR game developed by Crows Crows Crows (a studio headed by William Pugh) and Squanch Games (a studio headed by Creator/JustinRoiland, and Tanya Watson.
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7	In it, you play... [[NoNameGiven yourself]], a new employee of the Smith & Smitherson accounting firm. After being yelled at by [[ThoseTwoGuys two gentlemen over the phone]], you [[RecursiveReality put on a VR headset]] and attempt to do some VR accounting. Things [[FromBadToWorse go rapidly downhill from there.]] You end up in a scenic forest rather than the accounting world you were supposed to be in. The tranquility is shattered by a [[ClusterFBomb very vulgar]] and [[HairTriggerTemper very angry]] tree ghost... thing. He keeps swearing at you [[IrrationalHatred for no apparent reason]] other than "THIS IS MY PLACE". Then the guys call you on a random phone and... Well, if you've ever tried to listen to someone in real life and someone on the phone at the same time, you know how this goes.
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9	From there, it gets weirder and even more insane.
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11	It later received an UpdatedRerelease for Platform/PlayStation4, named Accounting+.
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13	In severe need of Wiki Magic love. [[BrainBleach And some bleach for our eyeballs.]]
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16	!!''Accounting'' includes examples of:
17	* AcquittedTooLate: After you kill [[spoiler: the morbidly obese guy in the dungeon, the phone guys show up, having "triangulated your position inside Virtual Reality", and inform you that the guy you just killed was the King of VR. A.K.A. ''the only guy that could've helped you out of the mess you're currently in.'']]
18	* AntiFrustrationFeatures: Appears in the [=PS4=] version.
19	** At the very beginning, failing to do the basket shot enough times will eventually make the voice have pity for you and give you the basket-related trophy anyway.
20	** To enter the first secret level from the stomach level, you must either find and use a coin... or talk with the door guard enough times that he becomes your friends, allowing you access.
21	* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: This can happen to Ging during the car chase in ''Plus''.]]
22	** [[spoiler:The player exits the game entirely by shooting themselves in the head.]]
23	* BreadEggsMilkSquick: The ritual to summon Satan has a few very simple steps: Do nothing. Pick up the Necronomicon. Pick up the french fry. Pick up the medkit. [[spoiler: Eat a literal plate of shit.]]
24	%% * BunnyEarsLawyer: An actual, desktop-sized lawyer.
25	* BureaucracySimulator: How it's initially presented, but soon things go way, way off the rails.
26	* TheCameo: [[WebVideo/GameGrumps Arin Hanson]] as [[spoiler: the Bomb]].
27	* ChewbaccaDefense: The first of the public defenders attempts to do this with the judge. It works.
28	* ClingyMacguffin: Once you [[spoiler: pick up Tree Ghost's bomb in the forest fire stage]], you can't put it down.
29	* ClusterFBomb: It's pretty rare to hear the F-bomb only get dropped once in a scene.
30	* DamnYouMuscleMemory: The PC version was clearly built for the HTC Vive wands. It can be played with other controllers, but in-game prompts will only display controls for the Vive. This wouldn't be so bad except that the Vive and the Windows Mixed Reality controllers are the only VR controllers that uses track pads instead of control sticks (the Index also has trackpads, albeit smaller ones), meaning that most options in-game are accomplished by holding a stick in a particular direction and clicking down on it.
31	* DevelopersForesight: The game is developed by the same people who did VideoGame/TheStanleyParable, so this is pretty much a given.
32	** If you choose to take your time with finding the VHS tape in the office, the phone guys will grow increasingly aggravated with you, cussing you out at pretty much every opportunity they can.
33	** If you choose to throw the VR headset out of reach in the office, the phone guys quickly supply you with another one after giving you a quick warning about how these headsets are expensive, and that they only have two, so [[TemptingFate for the love of God, don't throw the next one]]. If you ''do'' throw that one, expect to be treated to a brief WhatTheHellHero rant ending with a ClusterFBomb telling you to restart the game.
34	*** This is averted entirely in the [=PS4=] version, as important items simply respawn in a puff of smoke.
35	** In the courtroom, you can throw your Little Public Defender at either the Judge or the Jury, prompting two separate monologues from the Judge for each occurance.
36	* DisproportionateRetribution: In the [=PS4=] version, you throw a brick at a window. [[spoiler:This results in the police chasing the gang and opening fire, attempting to kill all five of you]].
37	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The little lawyers' responses to being picked up sound an awful lot like someone backing away from sexual advances.
38	** The two-headed bone xylophone makes some... ''interesting'' noises if you play on it.
39	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:You, in order to exit whatever level of VR you're in.]]
40	* EasterEgg: [[spoiler: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0E5kyUjLLg&t=42s If you]] spin the whiteboard at the end enough times rapidly (againist the advice of the writing on it) a face will appear and ramble about how VR Porn would be better if it was made with [[PerverseSexualLust posable 3D models]] as opposed to just being a first person movie.]]
41	** [[spoiler: Holding a stapler near your ear will cause it to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oapvo4RxYA sing a song]]]].
42	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The Tree Ghost introduces himself by dropping several [[ClusterFBomb Cluster F-Bombs]] towards the player and telling you not to touch his stuff because "it's important" and "you don't know how to use [them]".
43	* EvilIsPetty: The gang in the [=PS4=] version claims to be the thoughest of them all, doing stuff like: illegally downloading ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', drinking beer, writing graffiti, and reading parodies of porno magazines. They're however [[EvenEvilHasStandards shocked]] if the player throws a brick at a window. [[spoiler:Given how the police [[DisproportionateRetribution reacts to it]], they had good reason to get shocked]].
44	* FantasticArousal: The skeletal xylophone ''really'' likes being played.
45	* ForWantOfANail: Taking the battery out of the machine in the first layer of VR is what causes the forest fire there.
46	* GratuitousLatin: If you complete the level where you summon Satan, you get the achievement "MANDVCARE STERCORE", vulgar latin for "Eat Shit".
47	* HollywoodAcid: To be fair, it is stomach acid.
48	** To elaborate: [[spoiler: [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext You have to pour stomach acid onto yourself in order to exit the King of VR's stomach.]]]]
49	* {{Jerkass}}: The Tree Ghost.
50	* KangarooCourt: Your trial has a fair chance of ending [[spoiler:in a spontaneous execution by guillotine.]]
51	* LeanAndMean: The character named "The Biggest Fan" is an example of this.
52	* UsefulNotes/McDonalds: "Warzorth's Fries" in the level "Warzorth's domain" is a parody of UsefulNotes/McDonalds. Motto: "Fry or Die".
53	* MissionControl: The [[ThoseTwoGuys two employees]] that talk with you over the phone at various parts of the game.
54	* MotorMouth: The two guys on the phone, trying to induct you. Also the foul mouthed tree ghost. Also the King of VR. [[OverlyLongGag Also the skeletal xylophone.]]
55	* NiceGuy: The King of VR. [[spoiler: [[CrueltyIsTheOnlyOption Too bad you have to stab him.]]]]
56	* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler: How to exit the second layer of VR.]]
57	* RecursiveReality: You put on a VR helmet to play this game, where you find a VR helmet that you're instructed to put on to enter a virtual world. In the virtual world, there's another VR helmet. You end up in a virtual world inside a virtual world inside a virtual world inside...
58	** {{Exaggerated\|Trope}} in the [=PS4=] version, thanks to a secret level. [[spoiler: In the forest level, you can plant the seed in the pot; when you return in that level from the police chase level, it'll have sprouted an apple that acts as VR goggles. They lead you into the "Biggest Fan" level, where the titular Fan is playing ''[[GameWithinAGame Accounting]]''; you can then take his goggles and put them on yourself, which essentially leads you to restarting the game from the accounting office... aside from the Fan calling you several times in place of your employers]].
59	* ShoutOut: In the [=PS4=] version, there's an achievement for landing a three-pointer with a basketball: "[[Film/SpaceJam COME ON AND SLAM]]".
60	** To exit the Water Park level, you need to open a cabinet and take one of the pills inside. There's two - [[Film/TheMatrix one blue, one red]].
61	** The space level's AI has the appearance of [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey HAL 9000]]. He also likes ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
62	* SurrealHumor: It's ''Creator/JustinRoiland''. The game is pretty much ''made'' of this.
63	** Being trapped in increasingly weird and absurdist levels of "VR"
64	** Having a ghost show up out of trees that just keeps telling you to fuck off.
65	* TakeYourTime: In the [=PS4=] version, you can stay in the alley for how long you want: the police won't ever come in. [[spoiler:Averted once you come back to the gang after the trial level: if you wait too long to shoot the police, they'll eventually kill the driver, causing the van to crash and shoving you into the next level. This screws you out of an achievement]].
66	* UrbanLegendOfZelda: Fans spent weeks trying to find a mysterious "Zoo Level" that the developers mentioned after the game's reveal at TGA. After the addition of the Water Park level, where a ConspiracyTheorist clown explains [[TakeThatAudience his wacky theory about how to access the Zoo Level]], most people dismissed the whole thing as a prank by a TrollingCreator who knew that a certain subset of gamers would go nuts trying to solve the "mystery".
67	* WhamLine:
68	** After you meet, and murder [[spoiler:the King of VR]]:
69	--->'''Phone Guy 1:''' Alright... Good news. We've triangulated your position inside Virtual Reality, and you're literally standing ''right next'' [[spoiler: to the King of VR]].\
70	''Shortly after...''\
71	'''Phone Guy 1:''' [[spoiler: His ''heart'' is a pair of VR goggles, literally!]]
72	** At the end of your trial:
73	---> '''The Judge:''' It's time to put it- put- put your whole- life to an end. Here we go. S- uhh... [[spoiler: Bring in the guillotine, Michael!]]
74	** In the forest fire level:
75	---> '''Tree Ghost:''' You can't throw the bomb, it's- [[LampshadeHanging it's the special kind that stays attached to your hand!]]
76	* WhamShot: [[spoiler: After dying in the courtroom, you go back to Tree Ghost's forest, where a fire has started to rage out of control.]]
77	** [[spoiler: In ''Plus'', after the courtroom scene, you're put directly in the middle of a heated car chase between the Gang and the police.]]
78	* WhatTheHellPlayer: The court scene in a nutshell, when it's not being a KangarooCourt.
79	** Tree Ghost is essentially made of this trope, criticizing the player for invading "[his] place" and [[spoiler: eventually destroying it.]]

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