History VideoGame / Icey

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: If you follow the narrator and thus the "story", you'll come across an injured female android named Trinity, standing in a room on the final map, holding her injured left arm with her right and her head lowered before you. The narrator will claim that she helped "big bad" Judas cause the apocalypse and will instruct you to kill her for her sins. [[spoiler: If you spare her however, when you enter the next room, tutorial boss Dahal will kneel before you in gratitude. Killing Trinity on the other hand will cause Dahal to power up, becoming much harder to beat than he was before.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Dahal LOVES his spins when using his bayonets on you. Icey herself has some attacks that basically turn her into a buzz saw blade.

* TheDragon: Tutorial boss Dahal if you [[spoiler: kill his love interest Trinity]]. If you don't, then he keels before you in appreciation instead.

* WaveMotionGun: Tutorial mecha boss Dahal turns into one at the end of said tutorial, before proceeding to annihilate the bridge your're on in an OhCrap moment for the player.

Described as VideoGame/MegamanZero, meets VideoGame/PonyIsland, meets VideoGame/TheStanleyParable, the game follows titular character Icey as she fights to take down "Judas", bringer of the apocalypse, through a variety of devastated [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] landscapes, all the while "guided" by the voice of an unseen narrator and some mysterious arrows floating in the air. But is there more to this story than the narrator wants to let on?

** Oh, where to begin. Icey wakes up in a capsule not too dissimilar from the one [[MegamanZero Zero]] wakes up in, in the woodland area where you first start you come across a sign welcoming you to [[SilentHill Silent Hell]] and the list only gets sillier from there.

* ShoutOut: Oh, where to begin. Icey wakes up in a capsule not too dissimilar from the one [[MegamanZero Zero]] wakes up in, in the woodland area where you first start you come across a sign welcoming you to [[SilentHill Silent Hell]] and the list only gets sillier from there.

_iCEY._ is a 2D side-scrolling, HackAndSlash, ActionGame, with light RPGElements, made by Chinese indie developer Shanghai [=FantaBlade=], and published, in 2016, by X.D. Network Inc. for the PC.

Described as VideoGame/MegamanZero, meets VideoGame/PonyIsland, meets VideoGame/TheStanleyParable, the game follows titular character Icey as she fights to take down "Judas", bringer of the apocalypse, through a variety of devastated [[AfterTheEnd post apocalyptic]] landscapes, all the while "guided" by the voice of an unseen narrator and some mysterious arrows floating in the air. But is there more to this story than the narrator wants to let on?

Warning: heavy spoilers ahead.

* AnimeHair: A (somewhat) more subdued example. Icey has white hair with two glowing accessories on her head and a light blue, ankle length, ponytail, that periodically glows a brighter shade of blue.

* BoyishShortHair: Barring her ponytail (which may or may not be real), Icey's hair is this.

* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Some of the official artwork images have Icey's sporting the letters "D" and "H" written the sleeves of her jacket.

* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Hard to see, but if you pay special attention to Icey's sprite during certain moments, you can see that her jacket has the letters "D" and "H" written on its sleeves. You can also see this in the official artwork, where it's VERY easy to make out.

* Everything'sBetterWithSpinning: Dahal LOVES his spins when using his bayonets on you. Icey herself has some attacks that basically turn her into a buzz saw blade.

Described as MegamanZero, meets PonyIsland, meets TheStanleyParable, the game follows titular character Icey as she fights to take down "Judas", bringer of the apocalypse, through a variety of devastated [[AfterTheEnd post apocalyptic]] landscapes, all the while "guided" by the voice of an unseen narrator and some mysterious arrows floating in the air. But is there more to this story than the narrator wants to let on?

* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: If you follow the narrator and thus the "story", you'll come across an injured female android named Trinity, standing in a room on the final map, holding her injured left arm with her right and her head lowered before you. The narrator will claim that she helped "big bad" Judas cause the apocalypse and will instruct you to kill her for her sins. If you spare her however, when you enter the next room, tutorial boss Dahal will kneel before you in gratitude. Killing Trinity on the other hand will cause Dahal to power up, becoming much harder to beat than he was before.

* ArtificialIntelligence: In the final ending, the narrator realizes that he's just a character in a video game and decides that he, once and for all, HAS to kill Icey. After [[InterfaceScrew disconnecting your controller]], when he's on the verge of winning, Icey becomes self aware and manages to fight back, thanking you, [[NoFourthWall the player]], for guiding and keeping her safe throughout the game.

* BackgroundBoss: Ideon, Judas and the narrator are this. While Ideon fights using his fists and [[ShoulderCannon shoulder mounted]] [[FrickinLaserBeams laser cannons]] and Judas fights by using [[EyeBeams eye beams]] and buzz-saw arms, the narrator fights by continuously spawning in foes and [[InterfaceScrew messing with your screen]].

* BigBad: Judas if you follow the narrator's advice. The narrator himself if you don't.

* DownerEnding: Some of the endings are this. One of them puts Icey in a lab, where a humanoid female, with the same hair style and color as Icey, is seen floating in a stasis pod that's very similar to the one Icey wakes up in, all the while the narrator tells you that you've probably already seen the truth, possibly in the shape of a corpse, the meaning of this being left up to the player's imagination (or you can check out the [[ExpendableClone expendable clone]] entry below), while another ending puts Icey in the shoes of one of the mechs (called UCEY) that ICEY killed earlier on in the tutorial.

* ExpendableClone: One of the endings and some [[NightmareFuel eastereggs]] show that Icey is this and that as old Iceys die in various brutal ways, new ones are made and sent out to die, just like their predecessors before them. Also, those [[NightmareFuel eastereggs]] mentioned just now? You can run across either another Icey missing her left leg and stabbed through her chest with her own sword, or a small mountain of dead Iceys, piled up on top of each other like trash, missing various limbs and with various limbs strewn about.

* InterfaceScrew: Several levels have filters over the screen, in order to hammer home the point, ranging from a black and white one, to a predatory animal one. In the final ending, when the narrator gains sentience and hacks the game, he'll first add all sorts of filters to impede your view, then he'll flip the screen upside down and, if you still manage to keep fighting, he'll finally disconnect your controller.

* MultipleEndings: Following the narrator and killing Judas, is but one ending. The game has around ten different endings, depending on how much you've disobeyed the narrator and how far you've strayed from the path. Finding all the endings, gives you the true ending where the narrator gains sentience, hacks the game and attempts to kill Icey by [[NoFourthWall disconnecting your controller]].

* TheDragon: Tutorial boss Dahal if you kill his love interest Trinity. If you don't, then he keels before you in appreciation instead.
* TheStinger: After the true ending and the true credits screen finish, there will be an additional cutscene of a chat-room conversation between two unnamed people discussing Icey's new found sentience, the move to step two of a grander plan and finally, further instructions for [[RobotBuddy The Observer]] to continue it's supervision of our heroine.

* TrueFinalBoss: The narrator in the [[TrueEnding true ending]] is a [[BackgroundBoss background boss]] that spawns in all sorts of mechs, while [[InterfaceScrew distorting your view]] and eventually [[NoFourthWall disconnecting your controller]].

* UnreliableNarrator: He's spot on in his narration if you follow his advice and fight Judas. If you don't however, then he starts tripping up, getting mad and then eventually gains sentience and, [[NoFourthWall while addressing the player directly]], asks for your help in killing Icey, by putting down the gamepad so he can kill the now motionless character.

* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Hard to see, but if you pay special attention to Icey's sprite during certain moments, you can see that her jacket has the letters "D" and "H" written on its sleeves.

* BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Hard to see, but if you pay special attention to Icey's sprite during certain moments, you can see that her jacket has the letters "H" and "D" written on its sleeves.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: InUniverse, one of the endings has the Narrator/"Producer" [[NoFourthWall show you]] footage from various prototypes of the game, including one where Icey alternates between melee and ranged combat with an assault rifle (which was apparently scrapped due to no one wanting such a weapon) and one where Icey fought demonic enemies and could use their powers as her own (which was scrapped to prevent the studio from running out of funds halfway though production). Whether these are actual prototypes that at one point existed is unknown.

* DummiedOut: Entering the crate on the left of the warehouse in Ultimopolis, will take you to a level that the narrator [[NoFourthWall says]] was never finished, consisting of nothing but a few trees sketched out on a blank background.

* ShoutOut: Oh, where to begin. Icey wakes up in a capsule not too dissimilar from the one [[MegamanZero Zero]] wakes up in, in the woodland area where you first start you come across a sign welcoming you to [[SilentHill Silent Hell]] and the list only gets sillier from there.'

* ShoutOut: Oh, where to begin. Icey wakes up in a capsule not too dissimilar from the one [[MegamanZero Zero]] wakes up in, in the woodland area where you first start you come across a sign welcoming you to [[SilentHill Silent Hell]] and the list only gets sillier from there.

* BlackComedy: Half the fun in the destruction of the Fourth Wall is watching the Narrator get exasperated with the Player and Icey being stubborn and ignoring his directions, and another part of it is watching the Narrator-as-Developer get put-upon and annoyed when the game seemingly acts up or bugs out or reveals incomplete content.

* DevelopmentHell: InUniverse, in one ending, the Narrator will recount to you how he spent almost a decade working on the game, while in another ending you can dig up e-mails of the 'development staff' resigning because the Narrator was too absurd with his demands of them.

* DevelopmentHell: InUniverse, you can dig up e-mails of the 'development staff' resigning because the Narrator was too demanding of them.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: One of the endings has the Narrator/"Producer" [[NoFourthWall show you]] footage from various prototypes of the game, including one where Icey alternates between melee and ranged combat with an assault rifle (which was apparently scrapped due to no one wanting such a weapon) and one where Icey fought demonic enemies and could use their powers as her own (which was scrapped to prevent the studio from running out of funds halfway though production). Whether these are actual prototypes that at one point existed is unknown.