Line #16 VideoGame/GhostPiratesOfVoojuIsland


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2	Pirate Captain Greenbeard has a plan: he is going to rebel against Captain "King" Flint and takes over the Azurbbean Sea. His scheme is overheard by Flint's spy and swashbuckler, the impossibly shapely Jane Starling. Starling hijacks the row-boat of Blue Belly, Greenbeard's rotund, happy-go-lucky ship cook, and the two head for Vooju Island to inform Flint's ally Papa Doc Mystère, a renowned voodoo master. They find Flint himself at Papa Doc's temple, ostensibly summoned by the voodoo doctor himself. It is then revealed that the whole thing is a trap set by Papa Doc's "loving" wife Queen Zimbi. Zimbi imprisons Flint and his crew, and magically rips the souls out of the bodies of Papa Doc, Blue Belly, and Jane Starling.
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4	Obviously our heroes have to find a way to right the wrongs -- but first, they have to get their bodies back.
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6	''Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island'' is a [[PointAndClickGame point-and-click]] AdventureGame for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]], designed by Bill Tiller (visual artist of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'' and ''VideoGame/AVampyreStory''). An interesting mechanism in this game is that each of the three protagonists can communicate and see through the eyes of the other two, and often you have to turn to your comrades for advice. It was released in November 2009 in Tiller's native Germany, and in 2010 everywhere else.
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9	!! ''Ghost Pirates of Vooju Island'' provides examples of:
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11	* AccidentalMisnaming: Papa Doc ''always'' gets Blue Belly's moniker wrong.
12	* BigFun: Blue Belly. A jolly friendly pirate who is also a good cook.
13	* {{Bridezilla}}: Muriel, bride of Governor Derrick of Merry Cay. She also turns out to be a mermaid.
14	%%* CaptainColorbeard: Greenbeard is obviously an example.
15	* DemBones: Grimjaw and his first mate, Captain Red Rum, are skeletal pirates.
16	* DidYouJustScamCthulhu: Jane Starling's ploy with [[spoiler: Old Roger and Xilbaba]]. Interesting as this involves setting one Cthulhu scamming against another.
17	* FantasticRacism: The governor of Merry Cay Seems to have one for mermaids, as he cancels the wedding upon learning Muriel is one.
18	%%* FatBastard: The treacherous Itzakoka, high priest of Emperor Pacal.
19	* {{Ghost Pirate}}s: As the title suggests, this is important to the story as well as the gameplay. For much of the game, the protagonists are ghosts separated from their bodies and puzzles revolve around utilizing their spectral abilities whilst working around their new limitations to return to their bodies.
20	* GodInHumanForm: I'Xel, who is powerless over the struggle of the protagonists, [[spoiler: but does appear as a [[DeusExMachina Dea Ex Machina]] at the end]].
21	* GuideDangIt: Most of the game's puzzles are easy, and can be solved with little or no guidance -- except the infamous "charades" puzzle, involving Blue Belly and a frightened prisoner. The player is advised to go straight to a walkthrough instead of wasting your time on the incomprehensible instructions. Even once you notice that the other character will nod if you the right gesture, and shake his head in response to the wrong one, the rest is still trial and error.
22	* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: While he's not a powerful voodoo witch doctor like Papa Doc or experienced and shapely spy like Jane, Blue Belly's cooking skills and down-to-earth knowledge come in quite handy in the process of saving the world.
23	* HookHand: Pirate cook Blue Belly has a ''spatula'' hand.
24	* HollywoodVoodoo: How the heroes end up as ghosts in the place, though Papa Doc can still use some to his own advantage once he gets his body back.
25	* {{Mayincatec}}: The island had some Mayan inhabitants and you will be seeing their ruins as you go along.
26	* MsFanservice: Jane, full-stop. She has an ImpossibleHourglassFigure with an especially large bosom she proudly shows off with her low-cut blouse. Jane even uses her sex appeal to her advantage quite a few times throughout the game.
27	* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Most notably, the ghosts are still subjected to gravity: hence no levitation tricks. If they walk into quicksand they would sink.
28	%%* PirateGirl: Jane Starling.
29	* PsychoExGirlfriend: Xilbaba, former paramour of [[{{Satan}} Old Roger]]. She even [[Film/FatalAttraction boiled his pet rabbit]].
30	* RoyalBrat: Young Emperor Pacal, though at least he can be made to see reason.
31	* SceneryPorn: Tiller has outdone himself over ''VideoGame/AVampyreStory''; there are far more scenes, most of them absolutely gorgeous. While completely 3D-rendered adventure games are getting better and better graphically, there is still something about 2D, hand-painted graphics that is hard to replace.
32	* SpiritualSuccessor to ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'': a farcical, anachronistic pirate story; the heavy helping of voodoo; the swirly clouds; the breath-mints...
33	* TheStarscream: Greenbeard sides with Zimbe to murder Flint and become Pirate King.
34	** Itzakoka plans to kill Pacal and sellout the Azteclans to the Esperontaz, in return for the Esporontaz's elixir of immortality... [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves the plague.]]
35	* StrawMisogynist: Papa Doc's mild misogyny is used for comic effects.
36	%%* TalkLikeAPirate: Yarr!
37	* TheUnintelligible: Yamo the ShrunkenHead. Only Papa Doc understands him just fine.
38	* UnresolvedSexualTension: Jane to King Flint, and for a comical version, Blue Belly to Jane.

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