History VideoGame / MOAstray

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: It eventually turns out that what the voice really meant by freedom was to activate the Final Termination Weapon, and use it for revenge against someone who may have been responsible for her transformation, but who now may not even be alive, or anywhere close to here.]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The King of the Inhabitants is also their top fighter.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Dylan]] recovers after its first defeat and eventually helps MO to [[spoiler:disable Final Termination Weapon, now commanded by the voice]].

* BladeOnAStick: Basic Inhabitants fight with throwing spears. Their King also uses a more elaborate one, and can throw it so hard during the Fatal Trap battle, that it destroys one of the four laser ports of the spiked cage you are in, which is something none of the actual turret shots ever manage to do in that battle. He does it again after you destroy two more, leaving you with only two safe spots inside the cage as you face the final pair of turrets.
** During his actual boss battle, however, he never throws it and instead goes for [[VideoGame/HollowKnight Hornet]]-like horizontal and diagonal charges at high speed.

* AnAxeToGrind: The King of Inhabitants shows up for a rematch with a huge two-handed axe as opposed to the spear he had earlier. However, he gets eaten by the real boss, Doula, before he can use it.

* BadassAdorable: The eponymous MO is a cute, adorable blue slime. He's also capable of bounding every which way, smash through walls and other obstacles, latch onto enemies' heads to control them (and even rip them off!), and he goes up against creatures significantly bigger than him.

* TheDogBitesBack: The entire game essentially comes down to this as [[spoiler:it turns out that the voice guiding MO is that of Elara, a scientist who was turned into a slime creature by the lead researcher Jeremiah Greenbell. This merged her with Extremenergy, and thus she became a power source for the Final Termination Weapon. However, she was beset with the desire for revenge, and so the two other scientists soon realized how dangerous she became and sealed her away. However, this didn't save them from getting killed by Elara's only ally, Sirius, though he also ended up dying himself as the complex was flooded with poison. Much later, Elara learned how to split herself into little pieces, but lost a bit of her memories every time. MO is the latest such piece and her last chance; by the time he emerged, the only thing she remembers is the desire to reach Final Termination Weapon to exact her revenge.]]

* HeroicMime: Being a slime, MO is obviously incapable of speech, so the story is entirely narrated by the voice, and sometimes other characters like the AI Dylan. [[spoiler:Until the end, when he, in his ascended state, is able to say "You are wrong, this isn't what you wanted".]]
* InstantFlightJustAddSpinning: The Double Jump is actually MO hovering in the air with rapid spinning. When suspended midair, MO can change the trajectories of his jumps.

* SuperMode: MO gains one for the final boss. [[spoiler:After the voice powers herself up and starts breaking into the stratosphere, he absorbs the leftover fragments to transform into an enhanced version of himself. He's able to fly and one-shot the robots the voice sends after him, and break capsules popping up on her coils to absorb her energy and supercharge his dash to deal some major damage on her weakpoint. Naturally he'll need it, considering [[BulletHell all the crap she throws at him to try and destroy him]].]]

''MO: Astray'' is a PuzzlePlatformer, developed by a Taiwanese developer Archplay and published by Rayark. It was released for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on October 25th, 2019, and a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version in September 10th, 2020.

''MO: Astray'' is a PuzzlePlatformer, developed by a Taiwanese developer Archplay and published by Rayark. It was released for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on October 25th, 2019, and a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version released in September 20th, 2020.

''MO: Astray'' is a PuzzlePlatformer, developed by a Taiwanese developer Archplay and published by Rayark. It was released for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on October 25th, 2019, with a UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version planned in the near future.

* AnAxeToGrind: King of Inhabitants shows up for a rematch with a huge two-handed axe as opposed to the spear he had earlier. However, he gets eaten by the real boss, Doula, before he can use it.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: King of Inhabitants is also their top fighter.

* BaitAndSwitchBoss: After being defeated for the first time, King of Inhabitants shows up again, wielding an axe and with a whole group of loyal Inhabitants cheering on him in the background. Then, a giant worm named Doula shows up and immediately consumes it, along with everyone in the background, before the battle proper begins.

* CombatTentacles: The first boss, The Errors, hangs upside down from the centre of the ceiling and attacks with two tentacles hanging from the left and right. You first need to trick it into using these tentacles to destroy several slime-encased corpses around the area, and then a node on its neck, which finally kills it.

* TheDogBitesBack: The entire game essentially comes down to this as [[spoiler: it turns out that the voice guiding MO is that of Elara, a scientist who was turned into a slime creature by the lead researcher Jeremiah. This merged her with Extremenergy, and thus she became a power source for the Final Termination Weapon. However, she was beset with the desire for revenge, and so the two other scientists soon realized how dangerous she became and sealed her away. However, this didn't save them from getting killed by Elara's only ally, Sirius, though he also ended up dying himself as the complex was flooded with poison. Much later, Elara learned how to split herself into little pieces, but lost a bit of her memories every time. MO is the latest such piece and her last chance; by the time he emerged, the only thing she remembers is the desire to reach Final Termination Weapon to exact her revenge.]]

* InstantFlightJustAddSpinning: The Double Jump is actually MO hovering in the air with rapid spinning. When suspended midair, MO can change trajectories of his jumps.

* MultipleEndings: Good and a bad ending, determined by whether or not you collect all of the memory shards. [[spoiler: Doing so allows the voice to fully remember her past as Elara and to be at peace, while she is still determined to get revenge one way or another otherwise, even after MO destroyed the weapon and the lifeform.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The FinalBoss has a fittingly ominous name of [[spoiler:Final Termination Weapon]]. Played with in that [[spoiler:its next phase, Extremenergy Life Form, sounds much less threatening, but is '''far''' more powerful in comparison.]]

** The flying monsters also have a reddish brown spit attack.

* OffWithHisHead: After learning how to do [[spoiler:the dash jump]], MO can rip off the head of the host taken control by him.

* ShoutOut: King of Inhabitants' battle has very similar mechanics to that of ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'''s Hornet.

* SpikesOfDoom: Purplish spikes are a frequent obstacle in this game, although they do not affect anyone else. The first boss, The Errors can also generate thick, sharp thorns everywhere but directly beneath him on the floor.

* TacticalSuicideBoss: The Errors would have been invulnerable if it never tried to attack with its tentacles, and instead only tried to spam the thorns on the floor and the acid spit. Instead, you can trick those tentacle attacks into destroying parts of itself.