History VideoGame / PaintTheTownRed

* MadeOfIron[=/=]MadeOfPlasticine:
** It's ''way'' too easy to maim and disfigure your enemies (you can shave off an enemy's face with a ''plastic comb'', for godssake), but they can still potentially take a ton of punishment before they actually die.
** There are a few level modifiers that can really swing it into the "Plasticine" direction. "Weak Enemies" makes enemies so brittle that a mere punch will kill them instantly, "Weak Player" makes you a OneHitPointWonder, "Soft Voxels" makes the enemies' voxels easier to destroy (thus making dismembering and disfiguring them far easier), and "Splatter" makes the enemies explode into gibs upon killing them.

* GuideDangIt: [[spoiler:The Necromancer]] and [[spoiler:The End]] are the only Elder Gods that are reachable by simply progressing through the Beneath, though the latter can only be reached [[FinalBoss after defeating the other three]]. The other two require you to do certain tasks that aren't always obvious:

* SuicideMission: It's not stated, but it's implied that nobody ever returns from a run through the Beneath. [[spoiler:[[GameplayAndStoryIntegration Demonstrated]] in-game, as it's actually ''impossible'' to complete a new game in less than three lives: you must kill yourself after beating the Necromancer and Aberration for the first time]]. [[spoiler:Even after defeating The End and destroying the Beneath, you'll still go out in a HeroicSacrifice]].

** It's possible to perform one in the Biker Bar by kicking someone off the balcony. Formerly, doing so didn't actually do damage despite the balcony's guardrails being coded to break, but eventually fall damage for enemies was added to the game.

* EscalatingBrawl: As soon as you throw the first blow, the ''entire'' area (or at least part of it if the map is huge enough) will immediately erupt into a massive, chaotic brawl, even if you started fighting in one of the backrooms or other hidden location.

* DivideAndConquer: The Prison Scenario was introduced to demonstrate enemy factions, represented as opposing prison gangs and the prison guards, who will not infight (or at least until the numbers wean out enough). The player can take advantage of this system by allying themselves with a gang, accomplished by saving one of their members from a shiv in one of the cells before the brawl starts.

* BreakableWeapons: Most objects can be picked up and used as weapons, though they'll break after a determined amount of uses.

* PrisonLevel: The Prison is the official scenario that's set in a prison. Given that its enemy skins and weapons are featured in the level editor, there's a bunch of user-made levels involving the same.

* ContractualBossImmunity: Bosses cannot be knocked over, making the kick and Shockwave useless against them.

* ShearMenace: One of the many weapons added in the 1.3.4 update are scissors.

* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[ImprovisedWeapon Anything you can pick up]], you can throw at or beat people with, and while there are more normal weapons like swords, knives and baseball bats, most of the time you're going to be wielding things like bar stools, glasses, ashtrays, pool balls, plates, mic stands and even T-bone steaks.

* TurnsRed: A mild case; enemies low on health will run after you and attack more frequently. The angry teeth-bared expression will tip you off.

* LimitBreak: The player has a meter that fills with each successful kill. Once full enough, the player can access three attacks that each burn a certain amount of the gauge: Shockwave (which knocks all enemies in the immediate vicinity off their feet), Berserk (which briefly increases your melee damage), and Smite (which allows you to attack individual targets from a distance with a KillSat).

* EscalatingBrawl: As soon as you throw the first blow, the ''entire'' area (or at least part of it is the map is huge enough) will immediately erupt into a massive, chaotic brawl, even if you started fighting in one of the backrooms or other hidden location.

This [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] game entered UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access on October 13th, 2015. The current build has a sandbox and five levels available in the Scenario mode: a [[BarBrawl Biker Bar]], a Disco, a [[PrisonRiot Prison]], a [[GangplankGalleon Pirate cove]] (which comes in Day and Night variants), and a Saloon. There is also a level editor and access to user-made levels via Steam Workshop.

There's also an arena mode that functions as sort of a survival mode where you have to fight your way through increasingly difficult levels within a gladiatorial arena; either through one of five preset challenges with a limited set of levels that you have to complete in a single life or an endless mode where enemies and weapons continuously spawn in and you have to last as long as you can.

* TheBrute: The boss of the prison level, although it's possible to make him friendly. [[GuideDangIt Good luck finding out how, though.]]

* UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: You can grab an enemy's weapon by either knocking them over with a fully-charged kick or cutting off their hand. Certain enemies like the Chefs, on the other hand, can't have their weapons taken while stunned, and bosses can only be [[{{Pun}} disarmed]] by...disarming.

* UseTheirOwnWeaponAgainstThem: You can kill most enemies with weapons that they just picked by stunning them and taking their weapon from them. Certain enemies like the Chefs, on the other hand, can't have their weapons taken while stunned.

* OneHitKill: There is a mod that makes [[ExactWords everyone]] die in one hit.

* KillSat: The Smite attack, which has the player painting individual targets with a FingerGun before calling down some kind of aerial laser. Just one is enough to instantly [[LudicrousGibs gib]] most enemies (and even the tougher ones will feel the pain).

This [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] game entered UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access on October 13th, 2015. The current build has a sandbox and five levels available in the Scenario mode: a [[BarBrawl Biker Bar]], a Disco, a [[PrisonRiot Prison]], a [[GangplankGalleon Pirate cove]], and a Saloon. There is also a level editor and access to user-made levels via Steam Workshop.

* RevolversAreJustBetter: There's a six-shooter in the Saloon scenario, hidden in the teller's room. It is the most powerful firearm in the game on a shot-per-shot basis, being able to instantly drop the level's two minibosses with a single well-placed headshot.

* PurposelyOverpowered: [[CurbStompBattle Fully automatic AK-47 and M16 assault rifles, against enemies that mostly use melee?]] Figures they are exclusive to the sandbox, the level editor, and the "Gun Show" and "Hard Shooter" modifiers.