History VideoGame / Gruntz

* EverythingTryingToKillYou: And then some.

* WeaponizedHeadgear: Gunhatz, natch. They also provide extra defense against ranged attacks.

* TornadoMove: The Wingz changes a Gruntz' attack into a tornado projectile that causes KnockBack in a random direction.

* WindFromBeneathMyWings: Wingz allows the Gruntz equipped with it to fire tornadoes from them, which cause damage and KnockBack in a random direction when they hit.

-->- '''Since you have cheated, you may not save your game.'''

* NoFairCheating: The game has an odd variation where cheat codes work perfectly, but if you use any of them (except a select few), you can no longer save your game.

* NoFairCheating: Using cheats prevents you from saving your game.
--> Since you have cheated, you may not save your game.

* EasyModeMockery: The "Easy Mode" disables the timed [[TrapDoor trap-doors]] in the ''High Rollerz'' world... which makes some of the levels {{unwinnable}}, since you are supposed to push overpowered enemies into them.

* KnockBack: Some of the weapons have this, such as the Boxing Glovez and the Sponge Gunz. You can actually fire the Sponge Gun at a BottomlessPit, then let your Gruntz walk there just as it hits them, which pushes them past the pit before they can fall in.

* MultiplayerOnlyItem: The Multiplayer levels are about conquering other players' fortresses. These Multiplayer levels feature Curses: special items whose purpose is to cause some temporary inconvenience (primarily InterfaceScrew) to other players, which includes shrinking the screen to a tiny rectangle, making the terrain pitch black, forcing the screen to shake, or causing the gruntz on the battlefield to randomly change their colours. While it's technically possible to put a Curse item on a Singleplayer level, they serve no purpose there, since there are no human players to be affected by it and AI-controlled opponents don't react to it either way. The only Curse that can be potentially useful is the one that changes gruntz' colours, allowing for a "remember who is who" kind of level.

* HeroMustSurvive: Besides the obvious Warpstone carrier Gruntz, there are also other situations. In the final level, there's a huge number of enemy Gruntz at the end. Right after that, there's the finish portal as well as the warp stone piece... however, in order to obtain the warp stone piece, you need to fill in a BottomlessPit with a Shovel Gruntz, and in order to get to the finishing area, you need a Gauntlet Gruntz to break the bricks surrounding it. If either died during the FinalBattle, it becomes UnwinnableByMistake.

* VideoGameSettings
** DeathMountain: ''"Rocky Roadz"'', a generic forest setting.
** SlippySlideyIceWorld: ''"Gruntziclez"'', a generic icey setting.
** [[JungleJapes Jungle Japez]]: ''"Trouble In The Tropicz"'', a generic tropical setting.
** [[LevelInTheClouds Level In The Cloudz]]: ''"High On Sweetz"'', a mixture of that and LevelAte, with lots of candy growing on top of the clouds.
** CasinoPark: ''"High Rollerz"'', a FloatingContinent of casinos and giant billard balls.
** MouseWorld: ''"Honey, I Shrunk the Gruntz!"'', a giant kitchen.
** GreenHillZone: ''"Miniature Masterz"'', a gigantic miniature golf course.
** SpaceZone: ''"Gruntz In Space"'', a moon-like environment set across space.

* DummiedOut: There is a number of unused files in the game:
** There is an attack animation and related voice files for gruntz carrying Warpstone pieces. The weirdest part is that in this animation, the grunt actually ''smashes the Warpstone against the ground''. Just a reminder, in the final game the Warpstone pieces are crucial to successfully completing the game, and if the Warpstone gets destroyed in any way, it's Game Over.
** For that matter, Magic Wand gruntz also have unused attack animations.
** Using the freeze spell was originally supposed to elicit a voice response from the victims.
** There is an unused icon for an Oven Mitt tool. Whatever it was supposed to be used for is a mystery.
** A curious example: there is an unused function in the game that allows for a secondary objective in Battlez: if a player manages to bring all four Warpstone pieces to the designated spots on the map, they win. The function in question, if placed somewhere on the map, would mark the tile it was placed on as one of those spots. The designer responsible for this function even mentioned that he added it hastily and unknowingly to the rest of the team during the game's development as a treat for the fans.
** The game has a fully developed and perfectly usable option of setting a time limit for a level, complete with related voice files for the King and the Stopwatch items that replenish 1 minute of your remaining time. However, none of those are used anywhere outside fan-made levels.

** Your gruntz will always walk in a straight line towards their destination, carelessly walking into any obstacle that is in their path. And both your gruntz and the enemy gruntz can be easily distracted by toys given to them, no matter what happens around them - if the toy is a mobile one, then it gets even better, since they will randomly drive into any instant-kill obstacle near them.

** Your gruntz will always walk in a straight line towards their destination, carelessly walking into any obstacle that is in their path. And both your gruntz and the enemy gruntz can be easily distracted by toys given to them, no matter what happens around them - if the toy is a mobile one, then it gets even better, since they will randomly drive into any instant-kill obstacle near them. On multiplayer levels, the enemy shows some remarkable amounts of stupidity, such as:
** Walking straight into pyramids that are about to raise (instant kill), under rolling boulders (instant kill), onto bridges that are about to sink (instant kill)...

* ArtificialStupidity: This applies to both your gruntz and the enemy gruntz. Your gruntz will always walk in a straight line towards their destination, carelessly walking into any obstacle that is in their path. And both your gruntz and the enemy gruntz can be easily distracted by toys given to them, no matter what happens around them - if the toy is a mobile one, then it gets even better, since they will randomly drive into any instant-kill obstacle near them. On multiplayer levels, the enemy shows some remarkable amounts of stupidity, such as:

* CombatPragmatist: Tool Thievez. They steal your gruntz' tools and use them against your gruntz, and your gruntz have to fight them bare handed!

** [[BubblyClouds Bubbly Cloudz]]: ''"High On Sweetz"'', a mixture of that and LevelAte, with lots of candy growing on top of the clouds.

* XtremeKoolLetterz: The Z for plurals, which is pretty much everywhere in the game.

* GuideDangIt: The game contains a secret level that can be accessed from within a normal level, but you'd be forgiven for never realizing this, considering that entering the secret level requires acquiring an item that you can't get your hands on in that level without cheats, and stepping on a specific tile while carrying said item.

->"I don't want to hear ONE WORD about [[PinkIsForSissies the pink gun]]!"
-->--''Average grunt equipped with a sponge gun.''

Definitely SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove.

* FloatingContinent: ''High Rollerz'' world is basically a casino flying high in the sky, with a dash of PinballZone. VivaLasVegas!

** The game has a fully developed and perfectly usable option for setting a time limit for a level, complete with related voice files for the King and Stopwatch items that replenish 1 minute of your remaining time. However, none of those are used anywhere outside fan-made levels.