Trope Finder

Grad and Leon / Gradleon to Masa and Mune / Masamune in Chrono Trigger Videogame

What subtrope of Dub Name Change would this fall under? I ask because I think it odd the translators changed Grad and Leon / Gradleon to Masa and Mune / Masamune in Chrono Trigger since the latter more sounds like a name for one of Crono's katanas as opposed to a traditional sword like Frog's, and am not sure if it would be English to Foreign or whatever.

Flavor text compendium Videogame

A menu option consisting of Flavor Text you've collected throughout the game. If a game has this, one section will invariably be a Monster Compendium.

Dragon Age and Mass Effect have the codex, Kingdom Hearts has Jiminy's Journal...

Is there a Trope for this? Videogame

I asked this in Ask the Tropers and they told me to come here. Here is my query.

Ok so, let's say a game has two parts. Part 1 has a plot that seems pretty straightforward, characters are established. Then Part 2 comes along and suddenly there are new plot points that seem to contradict Part 1, as well as new traits for characters that weren't there before.

A specific example I found is in the game Sally.exe Continued Nightmare: Eye of Three, of which I made a page. Part 1 has the main villain pretty much be an evil power hungry demon who is murdering the heroes to use as servants. Then Part 2 suddenly introduces new characters that the villain is actually fighting against, and the reason he is murdering so many is to protect them.

The inconsistency is largely because Part 1 is not changed much from the demo and these story elements were planned later in development.

So I don't know if something like this would be a trope.

No Title Videogame

Tough, dumb

One-Time Dungeon Videogame

A dungeon or location that can only be visited once per playthrough, leading to Permanently Missable Content for the unwary (not things like bosses staying dead and chests staying empty, as in you can't even go back inside). There's usually no warning that this is the case, especially if other dungeons can be revisited over and over).

For example, Geno Dome in Chrono Trigger, Bevelle in Final Fantasy X, the western half of the world in Golden Sun Dark Dawn...

Absurdly high ammo cap Videogame

Is there a trope for when a game (usually and FPS) allows you to care absurd amounts of ammo. Example: most old school shooters (Doom and Quake both let you carry 100 rocket launcher rockets.)

Guns behind someone Videogame

Is there an anime trope for when someone has a bunch of guns behind them to show how powerful they are, as like Seishirou from Nisekoi here or this artwork◊ of Mukuro Ikusaba from Danganronpa Zero? The closest I could find is Walking Armory, but this seems less literal than that.

EDIT: Video game isn't the right medium, but oh well.

Edited by rjd1922

Character Gameplay Difference Videogame

In a game with multiple characters the game experience change base on which one you're playing as.

Alice is described to be a knight, and an upholder of law, so her gameplay is mostly based on following order, capturing criminal and fight in tournament, but she can't do anything illegal.

Bob is a rouge, a highwayman and an assassin, so his gameplay is mostly pickpocket, hold up, and assassinating, but he cannot be seen by the guards.

Ambushed By Event Videogame

So, you walk near a suspicious place, you are afraid you might get ambushed, so you checked everywhere, in the near by bush, on the tree, back of the house, and around the fence, after you've checked every places you are finally ready to enter through the suspiciously narrow entrance, and before you enter you even looked behind you twice just to be sure.

But all that was for nothing, because as soon as you walk through that door, you got bashed on the back of your head, and as you struggle to get back on your feet, you see people starting to jump out of all the places you've checked mere moments ago.

Default Video Game Clothes Videogame

If your character has no clothes/armor equipped in a game, your character is almost always wearing one of three things- bra/panty/boxers set, zero gold value 'rags', or a brownbag peasant outfit.

All-Powerful Brat Videogame

Is there already a trope that covers the all-powerful brat? This is a character like Porky, Skull Kid, or Caliborn, who is otherwise a pretty harmless playground menace who, when given godlike power, continues to be a bratty, snotty, obnoxious whiner whose childish desires rule their thoughts and actions. I searched for something relevant on the mentioned characters' pages, but didn't find anything. Any chance I missed it, or that someone knows what I'm talking about? Tagging this as videogames because I feel like that's where I see it most often, but idk really

Edited by totallynottoby

"Not quite dead yet" phase Videogame

Mostly appears in first and third person shooters, when you lose that all-important last hit point, instead of dying right away you suffer a massive loss of ability. A teammate can pick you back up, and there may be some other way to recover, but if you don't get up soon you'll die for real. Borderlands calls it "Fight For Your Life", Fortnite calls it "Down But Not Out".

I suspect we don't have this one launched yet, but do we have a TLP at least?

Edited by wingedcatgirl

Increasingly deadly arena Videogame

I'm trying to find tropes to describe the Storm in Fortnite and it's annoyingly difficult.

It's like, right next to a bunch of tropes without being quite right. It's not Boss Arena Urgency because it's not a boss fight, it's not Increasingly Lethal Enemy because it's not an enemy (basically a weather condition), it's maybe Advancing Wall of Doom but I'm kinda iffy on that because it's actually a shrinking circle. Plus, its game-mechanical purpose is to force players closer together and make them fight each other instead of holing up forever, which has to be a trope but I don't know if we even have that one.

Ambiance animals in games Videogame

Is there a trope for random birds, fish, insects, and other animals inserted into a game primarily for atmosphere, ambiance, and to make the setting feel more complete or the world more lived in and less empty? They may or may not be killable, but they usually serve no direct gameplay purpose for being there.

Actually Impossible Achievement Videogame

Similar to That One Achievement, except the achievement is actually impossible to get. The game is broken or glitched.

Short-Hopping Mooks Videogame

There's a lot of enemies in video games that don't do much other than taking a short leap at the player. Is there a page for that?

Reflect Character Videogame

A character whose most unique quality is that they react to everything about you, even in a game where most NPC react to the things that happened, they have broader subjects that they reflect on and with more frequency, such as your stats, favorite weapon type, class, faction, loadout, moral alignment, status effect, what quests you completed recently, recently most killed enemies types... etc.

Edited by Andermann

Attraction Points Videogame

Do we have a page for the gameplay trope where you can raise attraction points between characters?

Bullet Grazing Videogame

We have this one, right? Bullet Hell games give a bonus for getting really close to the bullets without letting them hit you. Touhou has it, Deltarune has it, I'm sure many games have it but I'm not that into the genre so I'm out of examples.

Sneaky speaking (or All Mooks Are Blind and Deaf) Videogame

I was wondering if there's a trope for how people can speak pretty much normally in video game stealth sections and still not be heard, or how the mook can stare right at the player without noticing them? Or would that count as part of The Guards Must Be Crazy?

Stronghold Sidequest Videogame

DO we have a trope for when a video game (usually an rpg) has A Home Owner Is You elements but with a more political/military bent? example i can think of include

• Vigil's Peak from ''Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening
• Skyhold from Dragon Age: Inquisition
• Caed Nua from Pillars of Eternity
• I haven't played Pathfinder: Kingmaker yet but it seems to be all this
• Fighter's Stronghold from Baldur's Gate

Basically, it has to have elements of ruling (making judgements, usually organizing patrols, dealing w subjects problems)and reconstruction/rebuilding. I can;t find it but i'd be weird if we didn't have this

Edited by Libraryseraph

Treetanium Alloy Videogame

The indestructible force of nature that is immune to all forms of punishment, that halts all momentum when driving, the infamous trees, stopping us dead in our tracks and providing hazards where buildings are impractical

Stop the decay of the world Videogame

In the Dark Souls Series we have the idea of a cyclic world.

Age of Ancients -> Age of Fire -> Age of Dark

The beings in the Age of Fire are afraid of the Age of Dark and therefore they try to avoid the coming of the Age of Dark by prolonging the Age of Fire artificially.

In the Age of Fire we have something that is called "the first flame". It works like the "life-force of the world" of the Age of Fire. But it fades and that means decay and the coming of the Age of Dark. The beings in the Age of Fire begin to use souls as fuel for the first flame. They believe that could keep it burning and keep also the coming of the Age of Dark away.

Are there other fantasy worlds that work like this?

I mean especially ideas like:

-prolonging this age artificially because the next age sucks or stop the cycle from ongoing by prolonging this age

-use souls (or whatever) as fuel (power source) to keep the world young and avoid its decay

Edited by Globi

Not so NPC Videogame

Npcs that can be unlocked as playable-characters upon finishing the game or completing some challenge(or using cheatcode).

Edited by Andermann