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''A Juggler's Tale'' is an indie story-driven side-scrolling platform game developed by kaleidoscope and published by Mixtvision and released on September 29, 2021.

Abby is a marionette that entertains crowds in a circus but then spends night after night locked in a cage longing for freedom. One night when the chance for freedom calls, she breaks out of her cage and enters the open world, but very quickly finds that it is a very dangerous place. Soon in the middle of a war-torn medieval fairy tale world surrounded by starving citizens and constantly on the hunt by her former assistant Tonda, she soon finds that freedom is not as easy to get as she once thought.

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''A Juggler's Tale'' is an indie story-driven side-scrolling platform game PlatformGame developed by kaleidoscope and Kaleidoscube, published by Mixtvision Mixtvision, and released on September 29, 2021.

Abby is a marionette that entertains crowds in a circus but then spends night after night locked in a cage longing for freedom. One night night, when the chance for freedom calls, she breaks out of her cage and enters the open world, but very quickly finds that it is a very dangerous place. Soon in the middle of a war-torn medieval fairy tale world world, surrounded by starving citizens and constantly on the hunt by her former assistant Tonda, she soon finds that freedom is not as easy to get as she once thought.
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!This game has the following tropes:
* TwoPointFiveD: The game's graphics are 3D but Abby can only move left and right as well as jumping.

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!This game has !!''A Juggler's Tale'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* TwoPointFiveD: The game's graphics are 3D 3D, but Abby can only move left and right as well as jumping.



* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Abby is attacked by a giant spider in the middle of the woods during her escape through the woods.



* GiantSpider: Abby is attacked by a giant spider in the middle of the woods during her escape through the woods.



* StealthBasedMission: When Abby gets to the Village she must hide from Tonda and his men by staying in front of boxes in the foreground and out of the view of their flashlights.

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* StealthBasedMission: When Abby gets to the Village Village, she must hide from Tonda and his men by staying in front of boxes in the foreground and out of the view of their flashlights.
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[[caption-width-right:350:An epic tale of the quest for freedom ''with'' string attached!]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:An epic tale of the quest for freedom ''with'' string strings attached!]]
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* LostWoods: After Abby finds her way out of the circus, the first place she enters is a large forest. It is also [[NoobCave her first major challenge]].

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* LostWoods: TheLostWoods: After Abby finds her way out of the circus, the first place she enters is a large forest. It is also [[NoobCave her first major challenge]].



* StealthBasedMission: When Abby gets to the Village she must hide from Tonda and his men by staying in front of boxes in the foreground and out of the view of their flashlights.

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* StealthBasedMission: When Abby gets to the Village she must hide from Tonda and his men by staying in front of boxes in the foreground and out of the view of their flashlights.flashlights.
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* NoobCave: When Abby finds herself in the woods, she is given her first major tasks to try and free herself from the circus.

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* NoobCave: When Abby finds herself in the woods, she is given her first major tasks to try and free herself from the circus.circus.
* StealthBasedMission: When Abby gets to the Village she must hide from Tonda and his men by staying in front of boxes in the foreground and out of the view of their flashlights.

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* AnimateInanimateObject: The trees in the first chapter. Abby must light branches of theirs in the way with a torch to keep moving along the path and, because they don't like fire, they appear to come to life to shake off the fire and move their branch out of the way.



* AnimateInanimateObject: The trees in the first chapter. Abby must light branches of theirs in the way with a torch to keep moving along the path and, because they don't like fire, they appear to come to life to shake off the fire and move their branch out of the way.
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* AnimalCompanion: Urs, Abby's bear who is also part of the show. In the first chapter, he is the one who helps her escape the barn.


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* FriendToAllLivingThings: Abby's best friend is Urs the bear.

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* LostWoods: After Abby finds her way out of the circus, the first place she enters is a large forest.

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* LostWoods: After Abby finds her way out of the circus, the first place she enters is a large forest. It is also [[NoobCave her first major challenge]].
* NoobCave: When Abby finds herself in the woods, she is given her first major tasks to try and free herself from the circus.
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* InteractiveNarrator: Jack often freely narrates Abby's actions as she performs them, and is not afraid to put her down for failing a task. [[spoiler: Jack is implied to be the BigBad Tonda because he gets progressively angrier at Abby's successful escapes and is not heard anymore after Tonda's defeat.]]

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* InteractiveNarrator: Jack often freely narrates Abby's actions as she performs them, and is not afraid to put her down for failing a task. [[spoiler: Jack is implied to be the BigBad Tonda because he gets progressively angrier at Abby's successful escapes and is not heard anymore after Tonda's defeat.]]]]
* LostWoods: After Abby finds her way out of the circus, the first place she enters is a large forest.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: The trees in the first chapter. Abby must light branches of their in the way with a torch to keep moving along the path and, because they don't like fire, they appear to come to life to shake off the fire and move their branch out of the way.

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* AnimateInanimateObject: The trees in the first chapter. Abby must light branches of their theirs in the way with a torch to keep moving along the path and, because they don't like fire, they appear to come to life to shake off the fire and move their branch out of the way.
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* InteractiveNarrator: Jack often freely narrates Abby's actions as she performs them, and is not afraid to put her down for failing a task. [[spoiler: Jack is implied to be the BigBad Tonda because he gets progressively angrier at Abby's successful escapes and is not heard anymore after Tondss defeat.]]

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* InteractiveNarrator: Jack often freely narrates Abby's actions as she performs them, and is not afraid to put her down for failing a task. [[spoiler: Jack is implied to be the BigBad Tonda because he gets progressively angrier at Abby's successful escapes and is not heard anymore after Tondss Tonda's defeat.]]
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/capsule_616x353_42.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350:An epic tale of the quest for freedom ''with'' string attached!]]
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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Tonda is the main character that wants to capture Abby and bring her back to the circus. It's implied he is also the narrator because he gets progressively angrier at Abby's success at evading him late in the game and the narrator is no longer heard after his defeat.]]

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* BigBad: [[spoiler: Tonda is the main character that wants to capture Abby and bring her back to the circus. It's implied he is also Jack the narrator because he gets progressively angrier at Abby's success at evading him late in the game and the narrator is no longer heard after his defeat.]]



* InteractiveNarrator: The narrator of the game often freely narrates Abby's actions as she performs them, and is not afraid to put her down for failing a task.

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* InteractiveNarrator: The narrator of the game Jack often freely narrates Abby's actions as she performs them, and is not afraid to put her down for failing a task.task. [[spoiler: Jack is implied to be the BigBad Tonda because he gets progressively angrier at Abby's successful escapes and is not heard anymore after Tondss defeat.]]
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* AnimateInanimateObject: The trees in the first chapter. Abby must light branches of their in the way with a torch to keep moving along the path and, because they don't like fire, they appear to come to life to shake off the fire and move their branch out of the way.
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* BreakingTheBonds: [[spoiler: Abby breaks free from her strings at the start of the fourth chapter so she can escape from the burning room.]]

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* CueTheRain: As Abby breaks away from the village where the circus is located, a raging thunderstorm begins. Later in the fourth chapter, another storm begins to rage as Abby rows out to sea.

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* CueTheRain: As Abby breaks away from the village where the circus is located, located and sees the glamor of the outside world with a feeling of excitement, a raging thunderstorm begins. Later in the fourth chapter, another storm begins to rage as Abby rows out to sea.sea.
* IAmSong: When the Ringmaster, Tonda, and the circus crew capture Abby at the end of the third chapter, they sing a song about how they are excited to bring her back because they will get massive pay and can use it to indulge on a lot of food.

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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Abby is attacked by a giant spider in the middle of the woods during her escape through the woods.



* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Abby is attacked by a giant spider in the middle of the woods during her escape through the woods.

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* ArtShift: The game's prologue cutscene has a 2D animation style. When we get introduced to Abby, her stage set has the look of a school diorama with cardboard cutout set pieces. When we get to the actual game world, the grpahics have a full 3D look.

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* ArtShift: The game's prologue cutscene has a 2D animation style. When we get introduced to Abby, her stage set has the look of a school diorama with cardboard cutout set pieces. When we get to the actual game world, the grpahics graphics have a full 3D look.look.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Tonda is the main character that wants to capture Abby and bring her back to the circus. It's implied he is also the narrator because he gets progressively angrier at Abby's success at evading him late in the game and the narrator is no longer heard after his defeat.]]

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* ArtShift: The game's prologue cutscene has a 2D animation style. When we get introduced to Abby, her stage set has the look of a school diorama with cardboard cutout set pieces. When we get to the actual game world, the grpahics have a full 3D look.



* CueTheRain: As Abby breaks away from the village where the circus is located, a raging thunderstorm begins.

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* CueTheRain: As Abby breaks away from the village where the circus is located, a raging thunderstorm begins. Later in the fourth chapter, another storm begins to rage as Abby rows out to sea.
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* TwoAndAHalfDimensions: The game's graphics are 3D but Abby can only move left and right as well as jumping.

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* TwoAndAHalfDimensions: TwoPointFiveD: The game's graphics are 3D but Abby can only move left and right as well as jumping.
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Abby is a marionette that entertains crowds in a circus but then spends night after night locked in a cage longing for freedom. One night when the chance for freedom calls, she breaks out of her cage and enters the open world, but very quickly finds that it is a very dangerous place. Soon in the middle of a war-torn medieval fairy tale world surrounded by starving citizens and constantly on the hunt by her former assistant Tonda, she soon finds that freedom is not as easy to get as she once thought.

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Abby is a marionette that entertains crowds in a circus but then spends night after night locked in a cage longing for freedom. One night when the chance for freedom calls, she breaks out of her cage and enters the open world, but very quickly finds that it is a very dangerous place. Soon in the middle of a war-torn medieval fairy tale world surrounded by starving citizens and constantly on the hunt by her former assistant Tonda, she soon finds that freedom is not as easy to get as she once thought.thought.

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!This game has the following tropes:
* TwoAndAHalfDimensions: The game's graphics are 3D but Abby can only move left and right as well as jumping.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Abby is attacked by a giant spider in the middle of the woods during her escape through the woods.
* CueTheRain: As Abby breaks away from the village where the circus is located, a raging thunderstorm begins.
* InteractiveNarrator: The narrator of the game often freely narrates Abby's actions as she performs them, and is not afraid to put her down for failing a task.
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''A Juggler's Tale'' is an indie story-driven side-scrolling platform game developed by kaleidoscope and published by Mixtvision and released on September 29, 2021.

Abby is a marionette that entertains crowds in a circus but then spends night after night locked in a cage longing for freedom. One night when the chance for freedom calls, she breaks out of her cage and enters the open world, but very quickly finds that it is a very dangerous place. Soon in the middle of a war-torn medieval fairy tale world surrounded by starving citizens and constantly on the hunt by her former assistant Tonda, she soon finds that freedom is not as easy to get as she once thought.

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