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2 [[caption-width-right:175:The Data Wing.]]
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4''Data Wing'' is a freeware game for iOS and Android, created by [[https://twitter.com/dan_vogt Dan Vogt]]. Released on August 16, 2017, the game is something of a mashup of ''Asteroids'' (controls and physics) and 2D racing games. If that sounds basic, [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds worry not]].
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6As the player progresses, it becomes clear that they play as a data carrier inside a young girl's smartphone. Through their tasks for an AI known as Mother, they can access normally-blocked documents that detail her life. Through them, perhaps the "DATA WING" can uncover a higher purpose ...
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8The game is available [[https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/data-wing/id1206723870 here (iOS)]] or [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.DanVogt.DATAWING here (Android)]].
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11!!Triangle-san! Would you set your payload to these tropes for me?
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14* AIIsACrapshoot: [[spoiler:Inverted with Rogue, who is a friendly program once created with the intent of stealing data.]]
15* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler: Mother believes that she can become human, through doing good deeds for the system and it's User.]] [[spoiler: Turns out: no, she can't.]]
16* BookEnds: The first and last missions you complete in the story involve [[spoiler: following a signal.]]
17* ChekhovsGun: Setting your payload to 0b00000000 breaks things. [[spoiler: Handy for foiling an AI's attempt to escape through a comms module.]]
18* DiscOneFinalDungeon: One may think that all they have to do is [[spoiler: clear the Security Nexus]], but it turns out that Mother wants you to go much, much farther.
19* {{Emoticon}}: Mother and [[spoiler:Rogue]] are made up of emoticons and their expressions change accordingly with ASCII art.
20* FlowersOfFemininity: [[spoiler:Rogue]] sports a hot pink flower on the side of her face.
21* HeroicMime: Your Data Wing. [[spoiler: Justified; Mother has removed its ability to speak.]]
22* LaserGuidedAmnesia: [[spoiler: The Data Wing's memory has been wiped countless times prior to the game's events.]]
23* MinimalistCast: The only characters you see are your Data Wing, Mother, and [[spoiler: Rogue]]. [[spoiler: The only other named character is Olivia, the owner of the smartphone you work in.]]
24* MundaneMadeAwesome: All you have to do in the final level is [[spoiler: fly in a straight line toward the right side of the screen. Yet it might be the most tension-filled level of all, for some players.]]
25* {{Retraux}}: The game includes a visual filter that mimics some distortion effects of a CRT television.
26* TimedMission: Some of the levels
27* UnexpectedGameplayChange: While the controls don't change, a few levels have the player attempt some platforming. One level makes the player pilot the Data Wing as if jumping in and out of a pool, dolphin-style.
28** The [[spoiler: binary quizzes]], which become used to unlock a few levels in the second half of the game.
29* Main/{{Vaporwave}}: The soundtrack is comprised of this. The soundtrack only really kicks in during gameplay, however.

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