History VideoGame / DistortedTravesty

* BonusBoss: Two of them, one in the Maverick Factory and one in the Spire.

* BonusBoss: Two of them, and they're very well hidden.
** [[spoiler:The Executive, accessed by taking advantage of the Abomination's hidden weak spots before you're supposed to.]]
** [[spoiler:CHAOS Warmaster EX, accessed by beating the above.]]

** [[spoiler: [[BonusBoss Darkmoor]] subverts this rule by his physical body AND his shadow doing damage, giving him extended attack range, as your attacks only hurt the main body.]]

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: On a train... somehow.

* AutobotsRockOut: One of the boss themes.

* BottomlessPits: Plenty of them.

* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The Flame Instigator.]]
* CliffHanger: Subverted and parodied.

* CriticalAnnoyance: It's not too annoying though.

* DeadpanSnarker: Both Jerry and Jeremy, though especially the latter.

** The game also mocks you. Mercilessly... (*sniff*)

* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere
* GlobalCurrency: Internetz.
* GoneHorriblyRight: [[spoiler:The Darkness.]]
* GroundPound: Jump attacks and the Grand Slam technique.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Both Jerry and Jeremy, to varying degrees.

* KiManipulation: Physical techniques like Mental Insurrection, Wave of Awesome, Kudeku, or Grand Slam.
* LampshadeHanging: Constantly, by both Jerry and Jeremy.

* LocomotiveLevel: The Fright Train.

* MalevolentArchitecture: Found especially in the Black Rock Fortress.

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Clone Syrus.]]

* PlatformHell: Plenty of the later levels.

* ReverseShrapnel: Wildfire.

* SequelHook: [[spoiler:Subverted and lampshaded.]]
* {{Sequelitis}}: The trope itself is lampshaded InUniverse.

** The [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda Triforce]] Bead is even more blatant.

* SpikesOfDoom: Multiple kinds, one of which kills you instantly.

* StationaryBoss: The Dragonroot and the Crystals.

* SuperMode: Rave mode.

* TakeThat: Plenty of them, due to the satirical nature of the game.
* TakeThatMe: The game itself isn't immune to this.

* TeleporterAccident: Cause of the aforementioned NoodleIncident.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Jerry and Jeremy.

* DualBoss: The Twin Bloom.

* PlatformHell: Everything from world 3 onwards.

* BleakLevel: [[spoiler:The Vault]]

** [[spoiler: [[{{BonusBoss}} Darkmoor]] subverts this rule by his physical body AND his shadow doing damage, giving him extended attack range, as your attacks only hurt the main body.]]
** A few of the other Nightmare bosses could also qualify, such as [[spoiler:[[{{TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening}} Final Nightmare]] and Jerry's Shadow, an expy of the Shadow Link from Zelda 2.]]

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* FiveManBand
** BigBad: [[spoiler:The Warmaster]]
** TheDragon: [[spoiler:Hexor]]
** TheEvilGenius: [[spoiler:The Virus]]
** TheBrute: [[spoiler:The Abomination]]
** TheDarkChick: Despite not having as big a role as the other villains, [[spoiler:Sigma]] probably fits this role the best as was one of the most knowledgeable about what happened in The Vault.

You can download the trilogy [[http://distortedtravesty.blogspot.com/ here]]. But be warned, they [[BulletHell ain't]] [[NintendoHard easy]].

* SurpriseCreepy: The game has some moments throughout, but special mention goes to [[spoiler:the final Nightmare Gate.]]

* ClassicVideoGameScrewYous: The game basically celebrates them, revelling in throwing increasingly elaborate and longer sequences of pits, advancing walls and tricky jumps for minutes at a time between checkpoints.

* PowerFist: Jerry's WeaponOfChoice, which is powered by gemstones.

* SequelDifficultySpike: Far fewer mistakes are allowed than in the previous games. Couple this with the fact that Jerry and Claire have smaller arsenals than their previous appearances, and Distorted Travesty 3 might just be the toughest game in the trilogy. The game also doesn't hand out healing stations at the start of every room.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: The Black Rock Fortress is a pretty obvious attempt at one. Jerry and Jeremy think otherwise.

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: The different Gates are based off of different games, so each Gate has a different playstyle and theme. Different gimmicks will also pop up in the Mainland as well, including some stealth segments and even Tower Defense.

* DummiedOut: The Conjure spell, which originally let you summon allies to your side to help you out.

** It is not realized until Gate 4 that [[spoiler: The hero's of the respective worlds give their bodies and souls to the player characters to grant them their abilities. Whether they are actually dead or just taking up space in Jerry and Claire's somewhat sub-conscious minds is unknown at this point. Jerry doesn't take it too well.]]

%%* ZettaiRyouiki: Claire.

* FrickinLaserBeams: The Aero Scanners have auto-hitting ones.

* ElementalPowers: The game uses the classical four elements of [[PlayingWithFire fire]], [[MakingASplash, water]], [[BlowYouAway air]], and [[DishingOutDirt earth]].

* {{Hitscan}}: Aero Scanners track you with laser sights for a second or two before shooting a {{hitscan}} laser at you. Fortunately, you can hide behind walls and objects to avoid it.

* KillerGameMaster: The level comments paint the creator as this, hinting at his amusement at the horrors to come.

* NoPeripheralVision: At the end of Dark Depths, The Informant and another antagonist talk, and the other antagonist initially can't see Jerry standing behind The Informant, as if the world was two-dimensional - which, given they are in a videogame, might as well be the case.

* PowerNullifier: [[AC:[[OhCrap DASH DISABLED]]]]

* RankInflation: Averted.

* RewardingVandalism: Slightly; destroying random objects only gives you ''tiny'' amounts of experience, counts into kill chains, and sometimes drops items.

** The Ribbon Bead protects you from status ailments. "[[BlatantLies Definitely not]] [[ShoutOut a reference]] [[LampshadeHanging to any]] [[Franchise/FinalFantasy fantasy]]."

* ThirteenIsUnlucky: Subverted; the thirteenth set of {{Heart Container}}s gives you an extra 50 HP.

* ZettaiRyouiki: Claire.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Both Chao and Jeremy get brief sections of the game where they get to control the main action, instead of sitting on the sidelines providing support.

* BleakLevel: [[spoiler:The Vault]]

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Metropolis. [[BestLevelEver And it's awesome]].

* BulletHell: Many of the later bosses, as well as the Unexpected Shmup Levels.
** Especially the [[ThatOneBoss Shroud Lord]] once it gets down to its final life bar. [[http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t204/thehappyfungame/DistortedTravesty/980f8a6febccb5ddab11562cc8377433.png This screenshot]] speaks for itself.[[note]]The only videos on Website/YouTube of this boss being defeated are in easy mode. Let that sink in for a moment.[[/note]]
** FridgeBrilliance:[[invoked]] Jerry says he's terrible at bullet hell games, so naturally the Darkness would take notice and fill up the harder areas with it!

* DifficultySpike: Black Rock Fortress. Full stop. And it only gets worse from there...

* DoubleJump: Averted. Instead, you get an ability that creates a block for you to jump off of in order to increase your jumping height.

* ElementalPowers: The game uses four main elements:
** PlayingWithFire
** MakingASplash
** BlowYouAway
** DishingOutDirt

* FinalBoss: [[spoiler:Subverted with the Shroud Lord, who is set up to be the final battle and is [[ThatOneBoss the hardest boss in the game]]. However, the actual final boss (and BigBad) is The Artist.]]

* FrickinLaserBeams: The [[GoddamnedBats Aero Scanners]] have auto-hitting ones.

* GuideDangIt: A chest in Black Rock Fortress, which requires you to use an in-game glitch to get. [[spoiler:To get it, you have to use Earth Shift to create a stone block on the floating platform next to the moving platform. After that, jump on the moving platform, and run into the block you created underneath it. Since the platform moves according to time and not variable checking, it'll move down eventually and let you get the chest.]]

* HarderThanHard: Distorted mode. The game even warns you that it's completely unfair.
** It's so difficult that ''even Dark Yoshi himself'' had severe difficulty beating its final boss!

* HeartContainer: You have to collect four of them before they do you any good, probably as a ShoutOut to how they work in ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda''.

* {{Homage}}: Many of the levels are homages to various Nintendo and Sega games.

* [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall Sitting on the Fourth Wall]]: Jeremy's literal position.

* MacGuffin: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]], as they're the 7 Magical Flavored Muffins.
** In reality, they are [[spoiler:the seven Data Allocation Segments, specific pieces of code that grant almost total control over the program. Why they look (and apparently smell) like muffins is anyone's guess.]]

* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou[=/=]BloodKnight: [[spoiler:The Shroud Lord. Before you fight it, The Darkness says that it's absolutely obsessed with defeating Jerry, and must be defeated before The Darkness can come to a peaceful solution with Jeremy.]]

* [[RecurringBoss Recurring]] [[DualBoss Dual]] {{Mini Boss}}es / {{Demonic Spider}}s: The Shrouds, who will appear randomly in certain areas.

* [[FinalBossPreview Semifinal Boss Preview]]: [[spoiler:The Shroud Lord, who attacks you for short periods of time in Distortion WTF before flying off. You don't get to fight him for real until the end of the game]].

* ShoutOut: The Ribbon Bead protects you from status ailments. "[[BlatantLies Definitely not]] [[ShoutOut a reference]] [[LampshadeHanging to any]] [[Franchise/FinalFantasy fantasy]]."

* SkillPointReset: [[VideoGame/DemonsCrest Firebrand the demon]] does this for a small amount of money.

* SomeDexterityRequired: For crippling certain enemies or casting spells in rapid sequence to master certain segments or obtain powerups. No annoying {{combos}}, though.
** Dark Yoshi has since admitted that the control system was a mistake and unnecessarily complex, and focused on simplifying combat greatly in later installments.
** For further explanation, there's the three basic buttons for moving and ducking, an up button for examining and opening things, a button for jumping and dashing, a button for standard attacks, two buttons for physical and spiritual techs, two buttons for cycling between elements, a pause button, a button for cycling through the spell list for your current element and a button for activating Rave Mode. That's ''more buttons then you can map on a 360 controller.''

** TakeThatMe: The game itself isn't immune to this.

* DualBoss: The [[ThatOneBoss Twin Bloom]].

* SequelDifficultySpike: Especially due to the RPGElements being cut and the level design having a much heavier emphasis on [[PlatformHell platforming]].

* CheckPointStarvation: You thought some rooms in the first game were bad? This game features several large, sometimes maze-like rooms that require you to go on switch hunts. If you die at any time during one of these rooms, you'll have to restart, with all your progress in the room being lost. Notable examples include a fair amount of Nightmare Gate 2 and the Mountain Temple, to name a couple.

* DesignatedGirlFight: Between Claire and [[spoiler:the High Heels Girl]] in Gate 6. [[EnforcedTrope Enforced, even]]: Not only does Claire offer to fight her, ''Jerry can't damage her at all''.[[labelnote:*]]She's immune to every damage type except Normal. At this point in the gate, Jerry only has a Shot attack, and Claire only has a Normal attack.[[/labelnote]]

* IKnowWhatYouFear: Fittingly, [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Final Nightmare]] uses this tactic as it gets close to death: it declares that it knows what Jerry fears most, and transforms into [[spoiler:the Shroud Lord. The player will likely echo Jerry's OhCrap reaction, given how [[ThatOneBoss insanely difficult this guy was to defeat in the first game]], but fortunately the Nightmare version [[DegradedBoss isn't even a quarter as powerful as the original.]]]]

* [[ThePowerOfFriendship The Power of Cheesy Lines and Friendship]]: Heals Jerry during the fight against [[spoiler:Sigma]].

* KiAttacks: Physical techniques like Mental Insurrection, Wave of Awesome, Kudeku, or Grand Slam.

** TheDarkChick: Despite not having as big of a role as the other villains, [[spoiler:Sigma]] probably fits this role the best as was one of the most knowledgeable about what happened in The Vault.

* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 9: Heading through nice green pastures, with cute enemies, flowers cuddling in the landscape, some ''VideoGame/BubbleBobble'' NPC's, and some simple, non-threatening platforming challenges for extra collectibles. [[spoiler:Then you get near the Vault, which is heavily distorting the area around it, and get sucked into the Vault itself, one of the bleakest, darkest levels in the game.]]

** There are fair few shout outs to the Let's Player LetsPlay/{{raocow}}, probably due to his LP's of the first two games [[ColbertBump greatly increasing people's awareness of them]].