History VideoGame / JumpKing

* SchmuckBait: Subverted- while for a game of its kind one might expect that the tease of a "Smoking Hot Babe" would simply be a trick to encourage people to play as long as they can, the game delivers on this claim, even giving some cute art at the end for the player's troubles.

* WomanInWhite: The babe in New Babe+ wears a white dress.

* SuperNotDrowningSkills: Neither the Jump King nor any of the NPCs seem to have a hard time breathing underwater.

* TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: The Tower of the main game and The Dark Tower of New Babe+. Subverted by Phantom Tower, which despite looking the part doesn't offer the promised Babe.

** The Bird chased across Ghost of the Babe tower is a bizarre example. It has human feet, but otherwise looks like a regular bird.
* HopeSpot: When first entering the climbing are of the Ghost of the Babe DLC there is a platform in the middle of the screen. It's just one block too high for a maximum height jump, meaning the player has to drop down to the Bog and climb back up.

* MsFanservice: The Smokin Hot Babes of course! Merchandise for the game makes this even more so, especially the three postcards for each Babe in celebrating its three year anniversary.

* NintendoHard: AND HOW! When one slipup can mean the difference between going forward and having to do ''entire segments'' over again, this is called a "rage game" with good reason.

* WeirdWeather: Winds blowing through Stormwall Pass and Underburg reverse their direction at regular intervals. The Hermit [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how impossible it is. Clouds in the backgrounds of Great Frontier and Underburg move in opposite directions to each other, reflecting this behavior.

CleavageWindow: All three babes' dresses show off their cleavage.

* TreeTrunkTour: Once you make through the first few screens of the Redcrown Woods, you'll need to ascend through the hollowed-out trunk of an enormous tree.

* ParachutePetticoat: Once the Jump King finally reaches the babe on top of the Tower and they hug and kiss, he looks down at the way he came from and realizes that he would now have to jump all the way down. Instead, he jumps off the tower with the babe in his arms, her skirt acting as a parachute, and they are carried off by the wind into the sunset. An ending still confirms that they landed safely.

* WomanInWhite: The babe in New Babe+ wears a white dress

* WallJump: A crucial ability of the Jump King.

* CheckpointStarvation: Conventional checkpoints do not exist - any fumble you make will cause you to barrel towards the bottom and force you to make your way back up again. That said, there ''does'' exist a "soft" checkpoint right before Castle Perilous, where the level is designed in such a way that you will not get kicked back into Stormwall Pass unless you jump back down there yourself.

** Jump King's design- specially his helmet- makes him look a lot like [[VideoGame/ShovelKnight Shovel Knight]].

''Jump King'' is a PlatformGame, developed by Nexile and released for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on May 3rd, 2019.

* ShoutOut: The game's title screen has a clear reference to ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' with its subtitle of "Tactical Leaping Adventure".

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* CreepyCrows: Inverted; the crows sit on some platforms and fly off once you disturb them by jumping there. However, they act as checkpoints.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The Colossal Drain level: which is somehow located ''above'' the Redcrown Woods.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: The Colossal Drain level: which is somehow located ''above'' the forest.

* ExcusePlot: The game has an intro text, but it simply says "Legend has it there's a smoking hot babe at the top." There's also an old man at the camp where you start off, and a couple of other [=NPCs=] later on, but they doesn't say anything deep either.
* TheLostWoods: The first set of levels has the King just through the branches of ancient trees in the Redcrown Woods.

* ParachutePetticoat: Once the Jump King finally reaches the babe on top of the Tower and they hug and kiss, he looks down at the way he came from and realizes that he would now have to jump all the way down. Instead, he jumps off the the tower with the babe in his arms, her skirt acting as a parachute, and they are carried off by the wind into the sunset.

* SlippySlideyIceWorld: First this trope is played with in the Windswept Cliff. It is the game's cold and snowy area, yet it doesn't have ice platforms. Instead, as its name suggests, it has a strong wind that nudges the King in a direction even when he's standing still, and so really messes with the jumping. The latter parts of the area even have that wind outright change direction within the same screen on a timer, often forcing the player not to make certain jumps until the wind begins blowing in a favorable direction.
** Later on, however, the Blue Ruin is a very straight example of an ice land.