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* GameOfNim: Found in the Zone 2 amusement park, with balloon popping.[[note]]The trick is not to get stuck with five balloons.[[/note]]

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[invoked]] [[spoiler:At the end of the game, the player and the Batter are confronted by the Judge, and the player learns that what the Batter has been calling "purifying the zones" is actually a means of genocide. All of the zones the Batter purifies become incapable of sustaining life, and if the player chooses the official ending and sides with the Batter in the final confrontation, not only does he kill off the Judge and Zone 0, but then even ends himself by shutting off the switch in the Room, which we can assume erases their world from existence altogether.]]

* ArtShift: Whenever the Elsens give exposition on the elements, and sections of the Room.

The game takes place in a world ''nothing'' like what you know. The Batter encounters, only a few moments after you gained control, a white, wise, and snarky cat with a CheshireCatGrin that calls himself "The Judge". The people in this world, called Elsens, are all InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals. The item merchant Zacharie wears a variety of masks and has perfected BreakingTheFourthWall, including saying that he knows he and everyone else are in a video game, and at one point telling you that the solution to a puzzle is located in one of the game's files in your computer (not that the other characters are any better; the player is repeatedly addressed directly by the name you input at the beginning). Strange creatures called Spectres are terrorizing everything in sight and mighty Guardians rule over the lands of the world, called Zones.

* TomatoSurprise: [[spoiler:If you pick the Judge ending, then you are forced to fight Batter. However, he looks like a malformed, twisted monstrosity with an enormous mouth and hands, and blank, dead eyes. WordOfGod states that this is how Batter looks to you now, because of his actions. Whether or not he's always looked like that is up to interpretation.]]

** The [[InfinityPlusOneSword Ashley Bat]]. It allows you to attack twice in one turn, but is only available after collecting all five of the hidden Grand Elements, which can only be found by purifying all the zones[[note]]though one can only be obtained by buying it from Zacharie in the Room, and one as a drop from the BonusBoss[[/note]], defeating Sugar, and talking to Zacharie in Zone 0 right before the final boss battle. Also, you have to choose between the Ashley Bat and access to the GoldenEnding.
** Ultimate Homerun, the last move learned in the game (being unlocked by the Batter at Level 45). It can instantly kill [[spoiler:the Secretaries]] and even the final boss in one hit, only costs 118 CP, and with a Tuesday (which you find in [[spoiler:the purified Zone 3]]), that cost goes down even further to 59 CP… but besides the BonusBoss [[spoiler:Sugar]] and The Room (if you decide to hold off from going in it until you get Ultimate Homerun), there's nothing to use it on besides [[spoiler:the Secretaries]] at that point, and [[AbsurdlyHighLevelCap most of the enemies can be easily defeated by Level 20 anyways]].

** All the game's bosses, which is mostly [=RPG=] Maker's fault. BonusBoss Sugar especially, with a whopping 12000 HP. Although it does serve to make Alpha's Poison-inducing attack NotCompletelyUseless.

* FreeSamplePlotCoupon: The cards required to get to advance the plot count, since most of them are gotten after boss fights. [[spoiler:The Grand Brachial and Grand Chocolatier]] also count, since the former is purchased from Zacherie [[spoiler:and the latter is gotten by beating BonusBoss Sugar]], while the others are gotten by [[spoiler:revisiting the now-purified Zones, which have some extreme layout changes and are now infested with Secretaries]].

* ImAHumanitarian: The Elsens of Zone 3 unwittingly eat [[spoiler:processed dead people as a dessert]] — though the Elsens producing it [[{{Squick}} are fully aware of it]].

* SequenceBreaking: If you go to Zone 0 and manage to discover [[BonusBoss Sugar]] before going to Zone 3, you'll discover [[spoiler:sugar]] as an element before it's properly introduced. Of course, if you read the library book used as a puzzle in Zone 2, you probably already know about it anyway.

* TagLine: ' In some of the game's artwork, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow..." is used to this effect. "A nice game, for cute children.", mentioned above, is also used as well.

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler:At the end of the game, the player and the Batter are confronted by the Judge, and the player learns that what the Batter has been calling "purifying the zones" is actually a means of genocide. All of the zones the Batter purifies become incapable of sustaining life, and if the player chooses the official ending and sides with the Batter in the final confrontation, not only does he kill off the Judge and Zone 0, but then even ends himself by shutting off the switch in the Room, which we can assume erases their world from existence altogether.]]

* WhamShot: The first time you [[spoiler:return to a purified zone, now barren of all color and life, except for [[DemonicSpiders the Secretaries]]]]. You know what you've done. It's too late to go back. All there is to do is go forward, to whatever the end may bring.

* YouWakeUpOnABeach: The Batter first appears on the coast of Zone 0. According to WordOfGod, he was [[spoiler:created there]].

* BonusBoss: Sugar, in Zone 0.

* TheEnd: [[spoiler:Shows up not in either of the normal endings, but for comical effect in the [[GainaxEnding secret ending]].]]

** One to ''{{ComicBook/Watchmen}}'' in the "Panic in Ballville" segment.

* TooSpicyForYogSothoth: [[spoiler: during the boss battle with Valerie, a cat, he's revealed to be a PeoplePuppet for the guardian Japhet, a bird-like monster. Apparently, this came about due to Valerie trying to ''eat'' Japhet, and being controlled from the inside. Mid-fight, Japhet [[OneWingedAngel bursts out of Valerie]], wearing the cat's body around his neck.]]

** [[spoiler:The Zones after defeating the bosses.]] The colors are gone, anything readable turns gibberish, all [=NPC=]s disappear — with the exception of [[spoiler:a lone Elsen in a safe room and a mourning Judge]] in Zone 2 — the encounter rate is lower than usual, and the only enemies are the Secretaries, which are creepy doll-looking things. The music — [[http://www.rpg-maker.fr/ost/OST/OFF/05%20-%20Not%20Safe.mp3 Not Safe]] — makes this even worse, with it turning creepy and full of demonic whispering, random slamming noises, and muffled cries.

* WhamShot: The first time you [[spoiler:return to a purified zone, now barren of all color and life, except for [[DemonicSpiders the Secretaries]]]]. You know what you've done. It's too late to go back. All there is to do is go forward, to whatever the end may bring.

The game takes place in a world ''nothing'' like what you know. The Batter encounters, only a few moments after you gained control, a white, wise, and snarky cat with a CheshireCatGrin that calls himself "The Judge". The people in this world called Elsens are practically all InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals. The items merchant Zacharie wears a variety of masks who has perfected BreakingTheFourthWall, including saying that he knows he and everyone else are in a video game, and at one point telling you that the solution to a puzzle is located in one of the game's files in your computer (not that the other characters are any better; the player is repeatedly addressed directly by the name you input at the beginning). Strange creatures called Spectres are terrorizing everything in sight and mighty Guardians rule over the lands of the world, called Zones.

The latest translation can be found [[https://ridiculous-dilettante.tumblr.com/post/171903659089 here]], and the original French version [[http://www.rpg-maker.fr/index.php?page=jeux&id=425 here.]] There is also a soundtrack, that can be found [[http://www.rpg-maker.fr/index.php?page=ost&id=18 here]]. Note: page is in French. The game's become reputable on Tumblr, being the sixth most reblogged game of 2013 (in comparison, every other game on the list are big name titles).

Fairly simple, huh? [[MindScrew Well]], [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs it gets]] [[SurrealHorror weirder]].

* LongSongShortScene: Each variation of "Burned Bodies" is over a minute long, but unless you put the game idle, the only variation you're likely to hear get more than halfway through is the version that plays in Zone 3's overworld.

*** The fact that the Secretaries are never alluded to by other characters and that [[spoiler:the Batter]] seems to think their presence is still an improvement.

** The Troquantary enemy has the competence "[[VideoGame/{{Killer7}} Paradise Smile]]".
*** The Burnts resemble [[spoiler:Ulmeyda's transformation into a Heaven Smile]].

* TheWalrusWasPaul: Certain things in the game are explained, but just barely. A lot of the backstory is left open to interpretation, as encouraged by the creator, Mortis Ghost.

* WhiteVoidRoom: [[spoiler:The purified zones]] bear a striking resemblance to this. {{Inverted}} with sections of the Room, since it's coloured black instead of white.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Metal really does [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_disease accumulate inside cows]], although not in such large quantities as found in the game, and certainly not without making the cows sick. [[FridgeBrilliance Then again, if all the 'dirt' in the world is actually made of metal…]]