History VideoGame / BlossomTalesTheSleepingKing

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* AwesomeYetImpractical: The late-game Thunder spell will instantly destroy any minor enemy within a wide radius of the heroine, but using the spell takes up most of her Special gauge, limiting its usefulness.

* StockPuzzle: ''The Sleeping King'' is absolutely swarming with them, with the most common being variations on the BlockPuzzle, the SimonSaysMiniGame, and the Hamiltonian Path Puzzle.

* StockPuzzles: ''The Sleeping King'' is absolutely swarming with them, with the most common being variations on the BlockPuzzle, the SimonSaysMiniGame, and the Hamiltonian Path Puzzle.

* ShootEmUp: Some of the bosses’ projectile patterns are about as close to those of a classic shooter as you can get in a Zelda-style game while still remaining somewhat playable.

* StockVideoGamePuzzle: ''The Sleeping King'' is absolutely swarming with them, with the most common being variations on the BlockPuzzle, the SimonSaysMiniGame, and the Hamiltonian Path Puzzle.
* SwordBeam: This classic attack from Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda makes its appearance. However, you only get it very late in the game, and as usual, it only works at full health.

* VideoGameCaringPotential: Being a kind, helpful person is actually a game mechanic, as a large number of your powerups come from completing sidequests for [=NPCs=]. You don’t HAVE to do the vast majority of them, but it makes the game much easier.

* ChooseYourOwnAdventure: Occasionally, the children will interject and you'll be given a choice regarding what happens next: what your character will be named, or what your next miniboss will look like. It's a fairly rare occurrence, however.

* QuantityVsQuality: Your enemies definitely fall on the “quantity” side of this equation — many areas of this game are absolutely swarming with low-level enemies, but despite their numbers, they’re hardly threatening.
** A few regular enemies are more dangerous, possessing projectiles, more health, or requiring some kind of trick to beat, but still only truly dangerous if you get overwhelmed.

* AreaOfEffect: Several. The most basic AoE attack in your arsenal is your SpinAttack, but the Quake Spell, Fire Spell, and Thunder spell also hit all enemies within a certain distance of the heroine.

* AntidoteEffect: ''The Sleeping King'' has an abundance of spells, attacks and items you can obtain, but most of them are essentially minor variations of the same projectile attack or area-of-effect attack. While some of these do have specific situations where they're useful (like melting an ice wall with a fire spell), in normal combat they're more or less interchangeable. So you're likely to end up with a lot of stuff in your inventory that you will seldom or never use.

* AwesomeYetImpractical: The late-game Lightning spell will instantly destroy any minor enemy within a wide radius of the heroine, but using the spell takes up most of her Special gauge, limiting its usefulness.

* AntidoteEffect: Inverted. ''The Sleeping King'' has several spells and attacks that, in most situations, have only marginally different effects from each other. This can lead to some ''later'' attacks being ignored simply because they’re not significantly more useful than their earlier counterparts.

** The game's intro directly references Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda by implying that Grandpa has told stories about Link before.

* AwesomeYetImpractical: The late-game Lightning spell will instantly destroy any minor enemy within a wide radius of Lily, but using the spell takes up most of her Special gauge, limiting its usefulness.

''Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King'' is an action-adventure game released in 2017 by Castle Pixel. Its story follows Lily, a knight trainee who sets out on a quest to wake King Orchid, who was cursed by his wizard brother, Crocus. Adding flavor to the story is its FramingDevice: a grandfather is telling a bedtime story to his grandchildren…and the kids can’t help but influence the storytelling (and, occasionally, the gameplay) from time to time.

''The Sleeping King'' is nothing if not a loving pastiche of (and tribute to) the early Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda games, particularly ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]''.

* {{Autosave}}: The game autosaves every time you move to a new section of the overworld map, or in a dungeon, every time you enter a new room.

* AntidoteEffect: Inverted. Blossom Tales has several spells and attacks that, in most situations, have only marginally different effects from each other. This can lead to some ''later'' attacks being ignored simply because they’re not significantly more useful than their earlier counterparts in most situations.

* SwordBeam: This classic weapon from Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda makes its appearance. However, you only get it very late in the game, and as usual, it only works at full health.

* Kleptomaniac Hero: Most houses have a treasure chest ripe for the taking, and no one cares if you make off with all of it. Grandpa actually lampshades this by saying that the hero "loves taking things that don't belong to her!"

* StockVideoGamePuzzle: Blossom Tales is absolutely swarming with them, with the most common being variations on the BlockPuzzle, the SimonSaysMiniGame, and the Hamiltonian Path Puzzle.

''The Sleeping King'' is nothing if not a loving pastiche of (and tribute to) the early Franchise/TheLegendofZelda games, particularly ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast A Link to the Past]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]''.

* DemonicSpiders: The purple spiders in the final dungeon aren’t necessarily any more difficult to kill than any other enemy, but they’re the only enemy that you can’t walk through during your MercyInvincibility, which makes them surprisingly dangerous if they can pin you down while other enemies swarm.

* GoddamnedBats: Several enemies, particularly zombies and living fireballs, fulfill this role perfectly. Despite their utterly ridiculous numbers, they die in one hit from any weapon, and they only pose a real threat if they can continuously knock you into a pit, lava, or other environmental hazard.