History Main / FrictionlessIce

A StockVideoGamePuzzle. Ice is not merely slippery; it's a physics-defying miracle lubricant that renders characters unable to make the slightest change in direction until the inevitable collision with an obstacle or wall, or in more malevolent circumstances, until the character is sent hurtling down a [[BottomlessPits bottomless pit]] or into [[SpikesOfDoom spikes]]. So much as a single step of forward momentum is enough to send the character, [[BlockPuzzle puzzle block]], or otherwise significant object sliding three screens in that direction. Of course, [[InvisibleGrid there is no diagonal]].

* The first ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'' game.

* ''{{VideoGame/Undertale}}'' has a few puzzles using this. Unusually, they allow diagonal movement (though it is much easier to solve said puzzles by sticking to the orthogonal directions).

** ''{VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver HeartGold}'' and ''{VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver SoulSilver}'' avert this when a Kimono girl gets her sandals stuck on the ice, causing the player to have to push her off towards the exit.

** ''[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver HeartGold]'' and ''[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver SoulSilver=]'' avert this when a Kimono girl gets her sandals stuck on the ice, causing the player to have to push her off towards the exit.

** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver [=HeartGold=]]'' and ''[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver [=SoulSilver=]'']] avert this when a Kimono girl gets her sandals stuck on the ice, causing the player to have to push her off towards the exit.

** [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver ''[=HeartGold=]'' and ''[=SoulSilver=]'']] avert this when a Kimono girl gets her sandals stuck on the ice, causing the player to have to push her off towards the exit.

* Three of the puzzles in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox'', as well as two in ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheAzranLegacy'', are based around this concept, where you have to get from point A to point B while dealing with ice that will keep you sliding until you hit a wall (note that this also puts you at the risk of falling into cold water, which will make you fail the puzzle if that happens). In ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheMiracleMask'', there are three puzzles where you have to make the Emperor Penguin stop at the central tile of the iceberg, and for that you have to make it clash against the smaller penguins (which, unfortunately for them, will get bounced to the cold water upon clash). Lastly, in ''VideoGame/LaytonsMysteryJourneyKatrielleAndTheMillionairesConspiracy'', there's a series of [[DownloadableContent Daily Puzzles]] where you have to form squared or rectangular groups of penguins by making them slide towards each other in the icy disco stage.

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEngage'', icy terrain will increase the movement speed of any ground unit standing on it at the beginning of their turn.