History VideoGame / BaldisBasicsInEducationAndLearning

* ControllableHelplessness: There's a corner of the detention room where Baldi won't be able to reach you; he'll just stand there smacking his ruler. However, you have no way out--as soon as you budge from that corner, you've lost.

** Subverted with the secret ending. [[spoiler: If you get all of the math questions wrong then finish the game, you are greeted with a screen telling you to go to Baldi's office for some tips to help you improve, except you still have control of your character, and you can enter Baldi's office behind you. Entering his office will lead to [=filename2=] rather clumsily and passive-aggressively telling you to delete the game and never play it again before it crashes.]]

The premise of the game is rather simple: the player is a student at Baldi's Schoolhouse, and their goal is to collect and fill out seven notebooks scattered about the campus (with each notebook containing 3 math problems). They need to collect these notebooks for their friend who left them in the school and cannot retrieve them himself due to "eating practice". The only problem is that a few questions are unsolvable BlackSpeech ([[EverybodyHatesMathematics like in real life]] but genuinely impossible to solve), and Baldi gets so mad over failing students that [[DisproportionateRetribution he feels the need to hunt them down like the survival horror monster he really is with]] [[DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff a ruler in hand with your butt's name on it]]. Meanwhile, there are other entities in the school that try to hinder your progress, such as a jump-roping girl (Playtime), the school's principal (Principal of the Thing), a giant talking broom (Gotta Sweep), a bully (It's a Bully), a sock-puppet (Arts and Crafters), a hug-loving {{Cyborg}} on wheels (1st Prize), a cloud creature (Cloudy Copter), a chalk drawing (Chalkles), a boy who loves bubblegum (Beans), a head in a shoe (Mrs. Pomp), a creep in black (The Test), and a reflex-testing doctor (Doctor Reflex). The game can be downloaded [[https://mystman12.itch.io/baldis-basics from here]].

The premise of the game is rather simple: the player is a student at Baldi's Schoolhouse, and their goal is to collect and fill out seven notebooks scattered about the campus (with each notebook containing 3 math problems). They need to collect these notebooks for their friend that left them in the school and cannot retrieve them himself due to "eating practice". The only problem is that a few questions are unsolvable BlackSpeech ([[EverybodyHatesMathematics like in real life]] but genuinely impossible to solve), and Baldi gets so mad over failing students that [[DisproportionateRetribution he feels the need to hunt them down like the survival horror monster he really is with]] [[DontMakeMeTakeMyBeltOff a ruler in hand with your butt's name on it]]. Meanwhile, there are other entities in the school that try to hinder your progress, such as a jump-roping girl (Playtime), the school's principal (Principal of the Thing), a giant talking broom (Gotta Sweep), a bully (It's a Bully), a sock-puppet (Arts and Crafters), a hug-loving {{Cyborg}} on wheels (1st Prize), a cloud creature (Cloudy Copter), a chalk drawing (Chalkles), a boy who loves bubblegum (Beans), a head in a shoe (Mrs. Pomp), a creep in black (The Test), and a reflex-testing doctor (Doctor Reflex). The game can be downloaded [[https://mystman12.itch.io/baldis-basics from here]].

*** An update also locked the Debug Mode code behind [[BrutalBonusLevel NULL Style]]. If you try putting the code in at any point earlier, a message says "Find all the secrets first!"
** In the BrutalBonusLevel of ''Classic Remastered'', [[spoiler:[=FileName2=]/NULL will always beat the player to the fourth exit and shut it off, no matter how fast they get there. Even if they get there first using cheats, it's impossible to walk through it.]]
** Before finishing the BrutalBonusLevel, the credits for its BossBattle theme, [[spoiler:"Schoolhouse Trouble"]], are left scrambled aside from the name of its composer.

* AbnormalAmmo: During [[spoiler:the boss fight with Null]] in ''Classic Remastered'', [[spoiler:you have to throw objects at him ranging from chairs to potted plants to ''bananas.'']]

* AbnormalAmmo: During [[spoiler:the boss fight with Null]] in ''Classic Remastered'', you have to throw objects at him ranging from chairs to potted plants to ''bananas.''

** It's A Bully's echo-y voice is most likely a reference to [=PilotRedSun=]'s infamous [[https://youtu.be/hy32A2NoCVw "Preschool Bully"]] video. He even says "I'm gonna take your candy" in the exact same way.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: There is a poster listing the school rules meant to clue new players in on what the Principal will put you (or It's A Bully) into detention for:

-->[[BreakingTheFourthWall No fourth wall breaks]][[note]]The rule is only "broken" in the Field Trip Demo used to introduce the Kickstarter for ''Plus'', by phasing through [[VisualPun four black walls]] that insist on being where the demo ends, and [[EasterEgg finding an inactive Principal who shouts at them for breaking the fourth wall[[/note]]

-->No running
-->No entering faculty

-->No drinking
-->No escaping detention
-->[[BreakingTheFourthWall No fourth wall breaks]]