History VideoGame / AnotherCrabsTreasure

* CuttingTheKnot: [[spoiler: How Kril ultimately gets his shell back at the end of the game. After Prawnathan [[MovingTheGoalposts negs out on his deal with Kril]] (since the whole thing was an UriahGambit on Prawnathan's part to get rid of Kril), he attempts to tell Krill]] (a.k.a. [[BullyingADragon the guy who just shattered Trash Island all across New Carcina]]) to [[GetOut get lost]] unless he has something he really needs. [[JustShootHim Krill kills him and simply takes his shell back, ending the game]].]]

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: As LighterAndSofter as is by genre standards, it's still a Soulsborne. By the end of the story, the only three major characters still confirmed alive are [[PlayerCharacter Kril]], [[NonActionGuy Tortellini]], and [[StrugglingSingleMother Nemma]]. [[MenAreTheExpendableGender Every other major male character is dead]], and [[UncertainDoom it's unknown if Chitan survived her wounds from]] [[DemonicPossession Praya Dubia's control]] [[LetsYouAndHimFight and her duel with Kril]]. [[NoEndorHolocaust And who knows who died in]] [[ColonyDrop Trash Island's impact on New Carcinia]].]]
* ArcSymbol: A reoccurring motif in the story is the Spiral, described as an inevitable process where all living things begin on the edge of an enormous whirl that travels towards the center until it eventually ends before starting over--up to and including [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the world]]. This is represented visually [[spoiler: both in the BigBad, the Praya Dubia, [[AGodAmI which even identifies as the Spiral itself]], but also in the [[ArtifactOfPower Perfect Whorl]], [[ShapedLikeItself whose name literally refers to its spiralling shape]].]]
* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: [[SquashedFlat Even though he himself doesn't live long enough to attempt to benefit]], [[AssholeVictim Firth's]] goal of [[ColonyDrop dropping all of Trash Island at once on New Carcinia]] [[YouCantThwartStageOne goes off without a hitch]].]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: With a heavy emphasis on "Bitter," almost borderlining a straight DownerEnding. The bad guys are all dead by Kril's claws and he ultimately reclaims his shell [[CuttingTheKnot by brute force]], but [[MentorOccupationalHazard Kril loses both of his mentors]], [[ItsAllMyFault blames himself for]] [[NoMacGuffinNoWinner destroying the Perfect Whorl in his fight with Firth]] [[ColonyDrop and burying a hopelessly naive New Carcina in trash]] [[NoEndorHolocaust thus speeding up the city's inevitable demise with their trash-based economy]], [[TookALevelInCynic and his whole worldview has soured]] [[WasItReallyWorthIt to the point that he even questions if his shell was worth this much trouble]]. But at the same time, [[KnightInSourArmor Kril decides to try to do some good in the world]] [[AndTheAdventureContinues and continues exploring the ocean to see whom he can help]], [[GreaterNeedThanMine starting with donating his shell to a far more helpless hermit crab]].]]

* CapitalismIsBad: The game's setting uses this trope on two levels. [[HumansAreCthulhu Humans']] consumerist hubris has polluted the oceans with their garbage, forming the game's central economy, while sea creatures with capitalistic ideals like Firth and Roland are presented as villains whose plans and actions endanger and kill the other characters.

* CuttingTheKnot: [[spoiler: How Kril ultimately gets his shell back at the end of the game. After [[HateSink Prawnathan]] [[MovingTheGoalposts negs out on his deal with Kril]] (since the whole thing was an UriahGambit on Prawnathan's part to get rid of Kril), [[TooDumbToLive Prawnathan attempts to tell Krill]] a.k.a., [[BullyingADragon the guy who just shattered Trash Island all across New Carcina)]] to [[GetOut get lost]] unless he has something he really needs. [[JustShootHim Krill kills him and simply takes his shell back, ending the game]].]]

* TeachHimAnger: [[spoiler: This seems to be [[BigBad Praya Dubia's]] plans for Kril. It hoped that by making Kril see [[CrapsaccharineWorld how awful the ocean has become]], he'd [[TookALevelInCynic become so angry]] [[StrawNihilist he'd willingly join it in destroying the world]]. [[YouCantThwartStageOne While Kril did become angry as planned]], he still remained somewhat hopeful,[[VillainousBreakdown leading to Praya Dubia renouncing Kril and trying to kill him]]]].

* WorthlessYellowRocks: [[spoiler:The treasure that Kril and co. spend half the game seeking is a giant chest filled with cash -- which is completely worthless as far as the trash economy is concerned]].
* XanatosGambit: Prawnathan's deal with Kril to trade the latter's shell back for the Treasure of Captain Clawbeard practically screams this and UriahGambit. If Kril gets himself killed going after the treasure, Prawnathan's free to sell the latter's sell at his leisure. In the off-chance Kril succeeds, Prawnathan's rich. [[spoiler: Unfortunately for him, [[FatalFlaw his greed backfires on him]] when he tries to [[MovingTheGoalposts neg out on his end of the bargain]], [[CuttingTheKnot and Kril has had enough]].]]

** [[spoiler: Voltai the Accumulator is an electric eel, named after ''Electrophorus voltai''.]]

* AchievementMockery: One of the games achievements, "You fell off", is, of course, obtained by dying by falling into a bottomless pit.

** One of the shells you can purchase at Shellfish Desires, Lil' Bro, is based on the Shellder attached to Slowbro's tail from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''.

* CompanyCrossReferences: Nephro's boss fight takes place near a vending machine for a soft drink called Fizzle. Fizzle is the soda brand that takes center stage in Aggro Crab's previous game, ''VideoGame/GoingUnder''. Additionally, the opening cutscene takes the form of a documentary by the Neo Cascadia Documentary Association, implying the two games take place in the same world.

** One boss is named [[spoiler:Firth, [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV the Crab Who Stole the Whorl]].]]

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