Line #35 VideoGame/NeonAbyss


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3	''Neon Abyss'' is a [[{{Roguelike}} roguelite]] [[ActionGame action]]-[[PlatformGame platformer]] developed by Chinese studio Veewo Games and published by Creator/Team17 that was released on July 14, 2020 for the Play Station 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam.
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5	You play as a new initiate of the "Grim Squad", a task force created by Hades to slay the New Gods, a pantheon of deities that are pastiches of pop culture fads, such as mobile videos, fast food and cryptocurrency. Its art style is very ostensibly inspired by a mixture of 1980s synthwave and neo-futuristic landscapes, and much like ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'', ''VideoGame/RogueLegacy'' and ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', allows you to collect currency to modify future runs by unlocking playable characters, items, vendors and secret rooms.
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7	!!Tropes found in ''Neon Abyss'' include:
8	* TheAlmightyDollar: Block and Chain, the Gods of [[BlandNameProduct Bittercoin.]]
9	* AntiFrustrationFeatures:
10	** In a similar vein to ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'', certain rooms have teleport stones that can be used to quickly traverse around the current level without having to backtrack through several rooms.
11	** As in ''VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac'', the treasure room on the first floor will always be unlocked, to accommodate for characters who don't start out with extra keys.
12	** You automatically melee enemies with your knife if you're in close enough proximity to them without having to press a different button, preventing frustrations with aiming in close-quarters.
13	** While some guns still have a cooldown reloading period before they can be used in short succession, all guns have BottomlessMagazines, giving players more leeway for missing shots.
14	* AwesomeButImpractical: The Popcorn item turns all of your gun's bullets into explosive rounds. This can be devastating against most mooks and bosses and negates the need to use bombs on rock walls and containers, but unless you've picked up the Big Daddy item which gives you explosion immunity, you'll likely be caught in the blast radius of your shots fairly often, especially if you have familiars your bullets can hit on accident such as the Vibrant Ball. Worse, there are a few guns that spawn their bullets at a distance and move them ''towards'' you - you do ''not'' want to use these guns with Popcorn!
15	* BottomlessMagazines: No guns require ammunition, meaning they can be spammed to your heart's content, although some guns have to reload, signified by a short cooldown bar.
16	* CastFromHitPoints: Filling a Violence meter up all the way unlocks a hidden room you can teleport to where you can exchange a HeartContainer for a weapon or item. On the other hand, filling the Wisdom meter is much harder (especially since damaging a crystal device ''immediately'' turns all your Wisdom into Violence), but the hidden room unlocked that way averts the trope and gives you an item for free.
17	* ChargedAttack: Several guns charge their shot before firing. Some continue to fire while charged, but perform an extra effect when the charge is released (such as one that spawns Angry Sprites when fully charged and then fired).
18	* EverybodyHatesHades: Averted, Hades is your completely trustworthy patron. [[spoiler:If anything, it's ''inverted'', since most of the Managers turn out to be likely {{Modernized God}}s who betrayed their brother for the sake of ruling the modern world.]]
19	* FantasyPantheon: The New Gods themselves who are based on modern-day obsessions.
20	* FoodGod: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] with [=McTucky=] and [=McFamily=], the Gods of Fast Food.
21	* GuideDangIt: So you're told to hunt the Managers. How do you get to them? [[spoiler:You need to spawn Wisdom and Violence rooms. Each time you visit one, a mural in the back will fill. Once it's full, it spawns a Token of Ares or Athena (in Violence and Wisdom respectively). With one of these tokens in your possession, kill Zeus and you'll enter Stage 8. Finish this stage to fight the appropriate Manager.]] All the game tells you is to "enter the temple of Ares/Athena", without even telling you [[spoiler:these are the Violence and Wisdom rooms, respectively]]. Averted when you unlock [[spoiler:the Cursed bosses]], where the game lays out exactly what you have to do to reach them.
22	* KillTheGod: The main premise. Kill the New Gods and most importantly the Managers.
23	* TheModernGods: The New Gods are based off modern obsessions, such as Tik and Tok being based off mobile video sharing apps.
24	** Charlie and George are the Gods of Pills.
25	** Tik and Tok are the Gods of Mobile Videos.
26	** Sam and Sung are the Gods of Screens.
27	** Johnny and Kimmy are the Gods of Idols.
28	** [[TheAlmightyDollar Block and Chain]] are the Gods of [[BlandNameProduct Bittercoin.]]
29	** Freddy and Tommy are the Gods of Plushies.
30	** Hunt and Nick are the Gods of Racing.
31	** Colt and Remington are the Gods of Guns.
32	** [[FoodGod [=McTucky=] and [=McFamily=]]] are the Gods of Fast Food.
33	** Daniel and Phil are the Gods of Gambling.
34	** [[LetsPlay/{{Pewdiepie}} Pewdie and Piedie]] are the Gods of Trolls.
35	** There are also the Managers who very powerful New Gods and the end bosses of each zone. They are:
36	*** Argus, the God of Darknet
37	*** Hal, the God of Machines
38	*** Ares, the God of Violence
39	*** Zeus, the God of Electricity
40	*** Athena, the Goddess of Illusion
41	* ModernizedGod: [[spoiler:While it's unclear if they truly are manifestations of TheOldGods, there are Managers named Zeus, Ares and Athena, all sporting a more modern look and utilizing [[{{Magitek}} a mixture of spells and technology in their boss fights.]]]]
42	* MovingTheGoalposts: How the game's progression works. Beat Argus, and on the next run you have to fight Hal. Beat Hal, and on the next run you have to fight Zeus. Beat Zeus, and you're asked to hunt down Ares and Athena. Beat those two, and [[spoiler:you have to fight Cursed Zeus, Cursed Ares, and Cursed Athena]]. Oh, and except in the last case, each new tier requires you ''refight'' all the tiers before it to get to it!
43	* NotCompletelyUseless: One of the unlockables is "Crystal Devices", little devices that appear in the dungeon and cost one crystal to activate; like most Crystal items, they turn into [[CastFromHP Spike]] Devices if hit. They do absolutely nothing. However, spending crystals is the fastest way to build your Wisdom; alternatively, if you want a Violence room, damaging them works just as well as hitting a Crystal Door or Chest.
44	* OddJobGods: The New Gods are these, based off of pop cultural influences such as mobile video sharing apps and pop star idols.
45	* TrueFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Defeat a Cursed Manager in a run and you enter one final battle against Prometheus.]]

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