Basic Trope: If the player goes to the opposite direction of their starting point, they may find a hidden reward.
- Straight: One of the levels of Troper Tales contains a bonus item that can be found if you turn back instead of moving forward.
- Downplayed: You can turn around from your starting point in one level, but it doesn't get you anything but an Easter Egg.
- Exaggerated:
- Every level in Troper Tales has a secret path with goodies of varying value. Completing them all unlocks a Brutal Bonus Level which in turn unlocks the Golden Ending if you take its secret path.
- The very first level has a hidden item, if you obtained it, that will turn into a Disc-One Nuke or even a Game-Breaker.
- Justified: There is a secret bonus put in the opposite direction of your starting to point to encourage the player to explore each level and try everything in order to find all the bonuses.
- Averted: There is no Offscreen Start Bonus in Troper Tales.
- Subverted: Troper Tales has an area that has an instant kill death trap with a bonus item within it if you take the "normal" path, and that the correct level path is right behind your starting point which has no bonuses.
- Double Subverted: Well, actually there is one bonus but it requires you to fulfil a very specific standards in order to find it.
- Inverted:
- If the player goes the opposite direction at the start of Troper Tale's first level, they unlock the game's bad ending or a Non-Standard Game Over.
- There is a secret level bonus but it only appears after the end of the level if the player ignores the level goal.
- Bonus Level
- Press Start to Game Over
- Lampshaded: "Congratulations! You walked the wrong way! Here’s a secret prize!"
- Defied: If you try to go the other way, the game won't let you or you end up leaving the level.
