Line #31 VideoGame/TheFantasticGame


1	->''"FANTASTIC GAME OR THE FANTASTIC GAME OR FANTASTIC OR GAME WITH EGG IS MY GAME THE GAME FANTASTIC, BY ME, FANTASTICANEER. I MAKE THE GAME FANTASTIC FOR THE FRIENDLY CONSUMER, MISTER INDIE!! GAME PLAYS PEOPLE OF ALL KINDS, SO PLAY GAME. FANTASTIC GAME!!"''
2	-->-- '''The Fantasticaneer'''
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4	''The Fantastic Game'' is a [[MindScrew fantastic]] game in which you explore a strange, exotic land, filled with many traps and treasures, monoliths and monsters, eggs and edifices.
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6	You play in a first person perspective, wandering through the world in search of the elusive 'Dollaz', the world's currency, and the means to access new locations. They can be hidden in a variety of locations, though some are just sitting in plain sight.
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8	The Fantastic Game can be found [[http://fantastic-game.tumblr.com/ here]], at Fantasticaneer's Website/{{Tumblr}}.
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11	!!This game provides examples of:
12	* BizarrePuzzleGame: Find Dollaz in a strangely constructed landscape in the sky, with no ultimate goal. That's it.
13	* BottomlessPit: The area under most of the platforms is one, although it's non-lethal, and you'll just fall forever if you don't respawn manually. Certain areas will teleport you back to another platform if you fall, and to get a Dolla, you need to jump off the ledge behind the game's starting point, and fall down to a platform with pictures of [[StealthPun pictures of a rooster, spotted dick, Dick Biondi, and Richard Nixon]] all around a Dolla.
14	* BrokenRecord: The aptly named 'Music/SmashMouth Eggs' repeat the line "So much to do, so much to see!" from the song 'All Star'. Constantly.
15	* TheCameo: A picture of Creator/JeffGoldblum can be found in the purple maze, with a small sign next to it that says 'J. GOLDBLUM'.
16	* DoorToBefore: [[{{ItMakesSenseInContext}} After passing through the frog head door and the art museum]], a door will pop up that lets you move from there to the grassy area at the start of the game without having to walk all the way back.
17	* EndlessCorridor: Quite a few of them.
18	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: There are some objects with "CUBE" plastered all over them. Guess what they are!
19	* EyesDoNotBelongThere: You'll come across a couple chairs with eyes. Non-functioning eyes, but they're eerie nonetheless.
20	* FacelessEye: A huge, floating eye can be found in an abyss, 'guarding' a Dolla. It doesn't pose any threat directly, but it can be startling.
21	* GhostTown: There isn't any other living being in the entire game.
22	* IntentionalEngrishForFunny: Some of the messages found in the game are presented like this, as well as most of the things Fantasticaneer says.
23	* InterfaceScrew: Jumping down a certain pit (see NonStandardGameOver below) will crank the field of view so high you won't be able to tell where you're going.
24	* InTheStyleOf: The floating platform in version 1.0 has a portion of Pendulum's 'Propane Nightmares' playing there, while version 1.fun has a MIDI version of the song due to copyright reasons. Ostensibly, it's a cover done on an instrument called the "plungophone".
25	* LeapOfFaith: Two, one to get from the corner of the main platform to one far away, and another is a ShoutOut to the scene from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', complete with sound clips.
26	* TheMaze: Made all the more difficult by the fact that the texture on the walls can be disorienting.
27	* NonStandardGameOver: There's a pit near the starting area that [[ShmuckBait tells you not to jump down it]]. Jumping down it sends you to a black room with the "GAME OVER" screen from ''Marcos Lopez: Part II'' plastered on every wall, and turns the field of view up incredibly high while playing a loop from the Evolution Control Committee's "I Want A Cookie." [[InterfaceScrew Neither of these things stops, even if you respawn.]]
28	* NoPlotNoProblem: Who needs a story when everything is so fantastic?
29	%%* PuzzlePlatformer
30	* ScavengerHunt: The point of the game is to find Dollaz and open doors. To open doors, you need Dollaz, and behind doors are usually more Dollaz.
31	* ShapedLikeItself: In both parts of the world, you'll find a set of cubes, with the word 'CUBE' repeated against a colored background as the texture on all six sides.
32	* ShoutOut: The references are numerous, and surprisingly varied, such as:
33	** Jumping into the painting for [[VideoGame/SuperMario64 Bob-Omb Battlefield]] to reach another area, complete with the proper sounds.
34	** A ''Myth/{{Polybius}}'' arcade cabinet.
35	** The aformentioned 'leap of faith' from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''.
36	** One wall has the logo for The ''VideoGame/IncredibleCrisis'' on it, and falling from the ledge next to it will play Taneo's scream from that game.
37	** A wall in the purple maze has a picture from one of [[WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}} Vinny's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W545DP8CmWQ streams]].
38	** The 'No Yoshi' sign DummiedOut in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''[='=]s code.
39	** The sound used when collecting a Dolla comes from one of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv6RbEOlqRo motdef's Moonbase Alpha videos.]]
40	** Pictures in the art gallery, including:
41	*** The Happytown train from ''VideoGame/LSDDreamEmulator''.
42	*** The mysterious cave from ''VideoGame/LEGOIsland''.
43	*** The 'Who are you running from?' error picture from the VideoGame/GameBoyCamera.
44	** The art gallery itself borrows a music track from ''VideoGame/{{Osada}}''.
45	** A giant group of eggs can be found in one of the corners of the map, blaring an excerpt from "All Star" by Music/SmashMouth. In addition to the song snippet, the eggs themselves reference [[https://www.vice.com/en/article/6wnmbr/i-made-the-smash-mouth-guy-eat-a-shit-ton-of-eggs a charity event]] from 2011 where the lead singer of Smash Mouth ate 24 eggs in one sitting after persistent heckling to do so by users on Twitter and Something Awful.
46	%%* StylisticSuck
47	* ThemeTune: Music/JonathanCoulton's "I Feel Fantastic" is somewhat of an unofficial theme for the game, and can be heard playing in and around the Fantastic Orb's chamber
48	%%* WideOpenSandbox: Sort of.

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