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* AnAesop: The game tries to give Icarus one, namely 'Don't fall asleep playing video games.'
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It was created by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, perhaps more well known for his webcomic work which is located [[http://e-merl.com/ here.]]

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It was created by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, ''Creator/DanielMerlinGoodbrey'' who also created ''Videogame/ADuckHasAnAdventure'', and ''Videogame/TheEmptyKingdom'', and is perhaps more well known for his webcomic work which is located [[http://e-merl.com/ here.]]
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* DreamsOfFlying: Averted, the game asks Icarus this while he's in the hot air balloon, but he says no.

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* DreamsOfFlying: CallOfTheWildBlueYonder: Averted, the game asks Icarus this while he's in the hot air balloon, but he says no.
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* AnAesop: The game tries to give Icarus one, namely 'Don't fall asleep playing video games.' Which

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* AnAesop: The game tries to give Icarus one, namely 'Don't fall asleep playing video games.' Which'
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* ColorMotif: Seems to be invoked in this game,

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* ColorMotif: Seems to be invoked in this game,game, used to help instill the atmosphere.

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Icarus Needs is a flash adventure game about a guy named, you guessed it, Icarus. He wakes up in a bizarre world filled with aggressive squirrels, telephones with extreme discrepancies in sizes and people who are absolutely convinced that they are doors. It can be found here.

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Icarus Needs is a flash adventure game about a guy named, you guessed it, Icarus. He wakes up in a bizarre world filled with aggressive squirrels, telephones with extreme discrepancies in sizes and people who are absolutely convinced that they are doors. It can be found here.
[[http://www.kongregate.com/games/Stillmerlin/icarus-needs here.]]

It was created by Daniel Merlin Goodbrey, perhaps more well known for his webcomic work which is located [[http://e-merl.com/ here.]]
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Icarus Needs is a flash adventure game about a guy named, you guessed it, Icarus. He wakes up in a bizarre world filled with aggressive squirrels, telephones with extreme discrepancies in sizes and people who are absolutely convinced that they are doors. It can be found here.

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* AnAesop: The game tries to give Icarus one, namely 'Don't fall asleep playing video games.' Which
* BagOfHolding: Icarus can hold telephone receivers twice his size in his pocket.
* CatsAreMean: "Grrrowwwl! Fsst! FSST!"
* ColorMotif: Seems to be invoked in this game,
* DeadpanSnarker: Icarus himself.
* DownTheDrain: A sewer can be accessed in front of the "door" blocking Icarus's path.
* DreamLand: A particularly surreal one to boot.
* DreamPeople: Everyone in the game, discounting Icarus.
* DreamsOfFlying: Averted, the game asks Icarus this while he's in the hot air balloon, but he says no.
* FeaturelessProtagonist: Icarus.
* InCaseOfXBreakGlass: A key Icarus needs to progress is located in a glass container with the label, ''Break Glass In Need of Key''.
* InterfaceScrew: When waking up, Icarus falls in every direction but up.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: The rope vendor, trying to advertise his wares. "But everyone needs rope!"
* LampshadeHanging: When the game asks him if he is enjoying the view from his balloon, he says he wished he had dreamt of having eyes.
** Another one occurs where Icarus, upon climbing down the tree, remarks on the absence of the squirrels who had blocked him from climbing up the tree in the first place.
* LockAndKeyPuzzle: At the beginning of the game.
* LockedDoor: An amusing case where the door in question is actually a person seemingly masquerading as one.
* RecurringDreams: Icarus apparently has some of falling.
* RescueReversal: Icarus tells Kit he's rescuing her, and she rebounds with the fact that she was saving him. He accepts this.
* SpikesOfDoom: Located outside of the palace.
* SpoofAesop: Icarus's mother once told him to never eat carrots on a trampoline. Icarus said she was a great woman.
* TwentyBearAsses: Want a piece of rope? Better fly a balloon to the top of the tree and pick them then, you wuss.
* WeirdCurrency: In exchange for a piece of rope, the vendor requests five apples.

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