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* BloodlessCarnage: Despite the open wound on Taku's stomach, and the game saying you need to 'stop the bleeding', there's not a drop of blood to be found.
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* SprintMeter: The boat's boost meter. The amount of time you can boost can be increased by collecting boat upgrades.
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* ScavengerWorld: The main part of the gameplay is to collect emergency supplies from the top of buildings that were probably dropped there when the city went underwater.
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* DoesNotLikeShoes: Miku is always barefoot. It doesn't tend to be a bother, despite the post-apocalyptic ruins.
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* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: Over the course of the game Miku gets increasingly infested with the algae while the city inhabitants watch. The impression is that she's either dying or turning into one of them. At the end [[spoiler: the inhabitants gather around her and somehow draw the algae out of her, and she and her much-recovered brother leave in their boat.]]
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''[[http://www.uppercut-games.com/submerged/ Submerged: Miku and the Sunken City]]'' is a post-apocalyptic AdventureGame by Uppercut Games, which takes many cues from ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus.''

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''[[http://www.uppercut-games.com/submerged/ Submerged: Miku and the Sunken City]]'' is a post-apocalyptic AdventureGame EnvironmentalNarrativeGame by Uppercut Games, which takes many cues from ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus.''

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* FutureImperfect: Miku has no idea what many of the city's decrepit landmarks originally were, so the brief animations as she sights each one give them names appropriate to what she ''does'' know (e.g. a crumbling Ferris wheel is called "the Basket Wheel" for its interlinked girders).

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* FutureImperfect: Miku has no idea what many of the city's decrepit landmarks originally were, so the brief animations as she sights each one give them names appropriate to what she ''does'' know (e.g. the protruding upper portions of a crumbling Ferris wheel is suspension bridge are called "the Basket Wheel" for its interlinked girders).Silver Pass").


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* RagnarokProofing: While some buildings have collapsed into rubble or denuded support-structures, others are in remarkably good shape.
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* BarbieDollAnatomy / EyelessFace: The sunken city's current inhabitants... aren't very human-looking anymore.
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* FesteringFungus: More like Festering ''Algae'', but its effects upon Miku and the city's wildlife are comparable.

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* FesteringFungus: More like Festering ''Algae'', ''Alga'', but its effects upon Miku and the city's wildlife are comparable.
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* NoisyNature: Even the ''manta rays'' emit croaking cries when they breach.
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* FesteringFungus: More like Festering ''Algae'', but its effects upon Miku and the city's wildlife are comparable.
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* ThreateningShark: Subverted; while a huge shark's fin and tail do cruise by Miku's boat at times, it's a harmless ''whale'' shark cruising for plankton.
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* TheCorruption: As Miku progresses, she developes a worrying cough, and her skin begins turning green-and-grey like the city's inhabitants. In fact, it almost seems as though she is being overgrown with algae (and if you look closely, the same can be seen happening to her boat).

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* TheCorruption: As Miku progresses, she developes a worrying cough, and her skin begins turning green-and-grey like the city's inhabitants. In fact, it almost seems as though she is being overgrown with algae (and if you look closely, the same can be seen happening to her boat). This same condition also afflicts much of the marine wildlife.
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* FutureImperfect: Miku has no idea what many of the city's decrepit landmarks originally were, so the brief animations as she sights each one give them names appropriate to what she ''does'' know (e.g. a crumbling Ferris wheel is called "the Basket Wheel" for its interlinked girders).
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* SunkenCity: A moderately substantial one traversed by boat, with once-modern buildings in various states of collapse.
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* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: Pods of dolphins occasionally pass Miku's boat, splashing about and whistling cheerily to one another.
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* ImprovisedZipline: A few of the major buildings Miku climbs have cables running between sections of rooftop, which she can zip down.
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* SchizoTech: Justified by the AfterTheEnd setting. Mike's family has a motor boat, but survives by spear-fishing. It's not clear where the ''fuel'' for the engine is coming from, though.

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* SchizoTech: Justified by the AfterTheEnd setting. Mike's Miku's family has a motor boat, but survives by spear-fishing. It's not clear where the ''fuel'' for the engine is coming from, though.
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Miku and her badly-injured younger brother Taku drift into a half-drowned city in their small motorboat. Leaving Taku resting at the base of a decaying clock tower, she sets off to find supplies to care for him. All under the scrutiny of the strange, fish-like inhabitants that seem to have designs on them.

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Miku and her badly-injured younger brother Taku drift into a half-drowned city in their small motorboat. Leaving Taku resting at the base of a decaying clock tower, she sets off to find supplies to care for him. All under the scrutiny of the strange, fish-like plant-like inhabitants that seem to have designs on them.
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* TheCorruption: As Miku progresses, she developes a worrying cough, and her skin begins turning green-and-grey like the city's inhabitants.

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* TheCorruption: As Miku progresses, she developes a worrying cough, and her skin begins turning green-and-grey like the city's inhabitants. In fact, it almost seems as though she is being overgrown with algae (and if you look closely, the same can be seen happening to her boat).
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* GreenAesop: Global warming's bad, kids.

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* GreenAesop: Global warming's GlobalWarming's bad, kids.
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''[[http://www.uppercut-games.com/submerged/ Submerged: Miku and the Sunken City]]'' is a post-apocalyptic adventure game by Uppercut Games, which takes many cues from ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus.''

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''[[http://www.uppercut-games.com/submerged/ Submerged: Miku and the Sunken City]]'' is a post-apocalyptic adventure game AdventureGame by Uppercut Games, which takes many cues from ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus.''
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* SpiritualSuccessor: The influences of ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' are rather blatant. You're climbing buildings instead of stone giants, but it's the same puzzle-y gameplay of trying to figure out the correct route, you're trying to save someone you care about, and becoming corrupted while doing so.
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* ActualPacifist: The game has no combat. The inhabitants seem menacing, but run away if Miku approaches.
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* TakingTheBullet: Well, the spear, in this case. In the backstory, Miku tried to break her father out of his funk by taking away his booze. He grabbed his fishing spear and tried to stab her, and Taku intervened and ended up with his belly sliced open, followed by MIku grabbing him and heading off in the family boat.

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* TakingTheBullet: Well, the spear, in this case. In the backstory, Miku tried to break her father out of his funk by taking away his booze. He grabbed his fishing spear and tried to stab her, and Taku intervened and ended up with his belly sliced open, followed by MIku Miku grabbing him and heading off in the family boat.
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* TakingTheBullet: Well, the spear, in this case. In the backstory, Miku tried to break her father out of his funk by taking away his booze. He grabbed his fishing spear and tried to stab her, and Taku intervened and ended up with his belly sliced open, followed by MIku grabbing him and heading off in the family boat.
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* ActualPacifist: The game has no combat. The inhabitants seem menacing, but run away if Miku approaches.
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* TheCorruption: As Miku progresses, she developed a worrying cough, and her skin begins turning green-and-grey like the city's inhabitants.

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* TheCorruption: As Miku progresses, she developed developes a worrying cough, and her skin begins turning green-and-grey like the city's inhabitants.
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* SchizoTech: Justified by the AfterTheEnd setting. Mike's family has a motor boat, but survives by spear-fishing. It's not clear where the ''fuel'' for the engine is coming from, though.
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''[[http://www.uppercut-games.com/submerged/ Submerged: Miku and the Sunken City]]'' is a post-apocalyptic adventure game by Uppercut Games, which takes many cues from ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus.''

Miku and her badly-injured younger brother Taku drift into a half-drowned city in their small motorboat. Leaving Taku resting at the base of a decaying clock tower, she sets off to find supplies to care for him. All under the scrutiny of the strange, fish-like inhabitants that seem to have designs on them.

Completely lacking any combat, gameplay consists of exploring the waterlogged city, searching for buildings to climb. Each building is something of a maze, with you having to figure out a path along {{the precarious ledge}}s, hanging vines and other climbable surfaces to reach supplies, as well as pictographs that tell the story of the ruined city.

Available for iOs, Steam, Xbox One and Playstation 4.

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!!I need to find tropes for Taku:
* AfterTheEnd: The game takes place after climate change has flooded the world.
* CatapultNightmare: After finding a supply crate, Miku will catch some shut-eye. At one point, the inhabitants surround her sleeping form and one reaches toward her menacingly, then she bolts awake revealing it to be a dream (maybe.)
* TheCorruption: As Miku progresses, she developed a worrying cough, and her skin begins turning green-and-grey like the city's inhabitants.
* DrowningMySorrows: After their mother was lost at sea, their dad turned to the bottle.
* GreenAesop: Global warming's bad, kids.
* HowWeGotHere: As you find supplies, the game reveals the sad story of how Miku and Taku came to be in the city.
* ThePrecariousLedge: Crumbling ledges are a major source of handholds for climbing buildings.

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