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After killing the rabbits, the Scythian ponders whether or not she killed the rabbits or if someone controlled her to do so. Come the end of Session III...
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* Foreshadowing: The Monster Hunter achievement.
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* {{Defictionalization:}} {{Defictionalization}}: The soundtrack comes on [[http://jimguthrie.bandcamp.com/album/sword-sworcery-lp-the-ballad-of-the-space-babies LP,]] it looks exactly the same as the one in the game.
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** The Scythian explicitly calls them "rabbits" when you [[spoiler: kill them.]]
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''Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP'' [sic] is an iOS (and as of April 16, 2012, PC) game about the exploits of a female warrior known only as the "@Scythian" on her quest to accomplish great deeds. She also like uses #twitter and talks with #dudes and stuff. Some of the people are like totally cool or whatever. Is now available on #Steam.
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'''TVTropes''' @tvtropes\\
''Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP'' [sic] is an iOS (and as of April 16, 2012, PC) game about the exploits of a femalewarrior warrior.
'''TVTropes''' @tvtropes\\
She is known only as the"@Scythian" on her quest @Scythian and she quests to accomplish great deeds. She also like uses #twitter and talks with #dudes and stuff. stuff.
'''TVTropes''' @tvtropes\\
Some of the people are like totally cool or whatever. Is now available on #Steam.
''Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP'' [sic] is an iOS (and as of April 16, 2012, PC) game about the exploits of a female
'''TVTropes''' @tvtropes\\
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''Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP'' [sic] is an iOS (and as of April 16, 2012, PC) game about the exploits of a female warrior known only as the "Scythian" "@Scythian" on her quest to accomplish great deeds. She also like uses twitter #twitter and talks with dudes #dudes and stuff. Some of the people are like totally cool or whatever. Is now available on Steam.
#Steam.
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* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler:The Scythian aquires acquires one in the last session.]]
* InteractiveNarrator: One possible way to describe theArchetype, @Archetype, the man who is supposedly putting the player through the "S&S Therapy."
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* CallARabbitASmeerp: Subverted: [[spoiler: there's an achievement for killing seven "lagomorphs", but turns out lagomorpha is the actual scientific name for the taxonomic order to which rabbits belong.]]
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moon, unless you mess with your computer's calendar, which the game will let you get away with [[NoFairCheating but will detect and on Steam you get an achievement calling you out for all your friends to make fun of you and you will be docked a percentage point for completion, making your maximum possible score 99%]]]].
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** Something between TotallyRadical and ValleyGirl, to be exact.
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[[hottip: To be honest, that twitter-sized description doesn't tell you much.: S&S is a GenreBusting, uniquely styled game that uses the mouse exclusively to explore a world full of music, magic, and twitter-sized narration. On your surreal 8-bit adventure you'll solve a variety of musical/environmental puzzles, fight super-rhythmic monsters, and shift back and forth between the real world and the world of dreams. An award-winning soundtrack by Jim Guthrie is fully embedded in the game; you're not just listening, you're interacting.]]
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* MoonLogicPuzzle: quite Quite literally.
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* InterfaceSpoiler: Clicking on the locked door in the stone wall reveals the fate of the key early.
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''Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP'' [sic] is an iOS (and as of April 16, 2012, PC) game about the exploits of a female warrior known only as the "Scythian" on her quest to accomplish great deeds. She also like uses twitter and talks with dudes and stuff. Some of the people are like totally cool or whatever. Is now available on Steam.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: The Scythian.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: At times, in the same style as old epics poems.
* [[TheAllConcealingI The All Concealing We]]: The narrator always uses first-person plurals, which makes it somewhat difficult to tell who the narrator is, and even harder to find who s/he is addressing. The ending implies that the narrator is the Scythian, speaking about herself and the player.
* CarlJung: Heavily referenced, especially by the Archetype.
** In the credits, his ''Red Book'' is mentioned as being obliquely referenced within the game.
* DreamLand: The Scythian travels to dream land to recover the last two Trigons, which effectively means half the game takes place in it.
* GainaxEnding:[[spoiler: The Scythian clearly dies at the end (funeral pyre and everything), but the way she speaks makes it sound as though she's still alive somehow. Possibly having transcended her reality into ours.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The game is split into four "sessions".
* [[spoiler: Incurable Cough of Death: The Scythian aquires one in the last session.]]
* InteractiveNarrator: One possible way to describe the Archetype, the man who is supposedly putting the player through the "S&S Therapy."
* MagicMusic: A significant part of the game. The vinyl record, presumably the titular "Sword & Sworcery EP" itself, seems to represent reality.
** The record also reflects the game's use of a dream land reality. The real world is Side A, the dream world is Side B.
* MushroomSamba: Functions as the hint system. The mushrooms also heal you.
* MinimalistCast
* NoNameGiven: The heroine is simply the "Scythian," the woodcutter is "Logfella," the dog is "Dogfella," and the shepherdess is "Girl."
* ThePowerOfRock: [[spoiler: Required to re-assemble the Trigon Trifecta]]
* {{Retraux}}: The graphics are intentionally pixel-looking.
* SceneryPorn: The gorgeous pixelated landscapes are often touted as one of the strongest points of the game.
* ShoutOut: One of the lands frequently referenced is [[ConanTheBarbarian Cimmeria]].
** Trigon Trifecta = [[TheLegendOfZelda Triforce]] upside down
* SinisterGeometry: The Trigon Trifecta, a triplet of upside-down triangles which must be fought and tamed. Almost everything else in the game is done in a retro pixellated style, but the trigons are perfect triangles, which adds to the sense of their otherworldliness.
** This also applies to the giant vinyl record and the fog that makes up the Gogolithic Mass. The latter for the same reason as the Trigons, the former to emphasize its position as being in a slightly higher reality than the game, since it actuall contains the game.
* TennisBoss: The first phase of taming a Trigon. In an interesting subversion, the balls don't become progressively faster when they're hit. Instead, after being hit a certain number of times they speed up once, and then dissapear completely after taking the same number of hits again.
* TotallyRadical: The game makes extensive use of slang such as "AMIRITE?"
* {{Twitter}}: Many events in the game can be twittered, there are nestboxes that can be used to tweet, and the hint system is also clearly based on it.
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''Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP'' [sic] is an iOS (and as of April 16, 2012, PC) game about the exploits of a female warrior known only as the "Scythian" on her quest to accomplish great deeds. She also like uses twitter and talks with dudes and stuff. Some of the people are like totally cool or whatever. Is now available on Steam.
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!!This game provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: The Scythian.
* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: At times, in the same style as old epics poems.
* [[TheAllConcealingI The All Concealing We]]: The narrator always uses first-person plurals, which makes it somewhat difficult to tell who the narrator is, and even harder to find who s/he is addressing. The ending implies that the narrator is the Scythian, speaking about herself and the player.
* CarlJung: Heavily referenced, especially by the Archetype.
** In the credits, his ''Red Book'' is mentioned as being obliquely referenced within the game.
* DreamLand: The Scythian travels to dream land to recover the last two Trigons, which effectively means half the game takes place in it.
* GainaxEnding:[[spoiler: The Scythian clearly dies at the end (funeral pyre and everything), but the way she speaks makes it sound as though she's still alive somehow. Possibly having transcended her reality into ours.]]
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The game is split into four "sessions".
* [[spoiler: Incurable Cough of Death: The Scythian aquires one in the last session.]]
* InteractiveNarrator: One possible way to describe the Archetype, the man who is supposedly putting the player through the "S&S Therapy."
* MagicMusic: A significant part of the game. The vinyl record, presumably the titular "Sword & Sworcery EP" itself, seems to represent reality.
** The record also reflects the game's use of a dream land reality. The real world is Side A, the dream world is Side B.
* MushroomSamba: Functions as the hint system. The mushrooms also heal you.
* MinimalistCast
* NoNameGiven: The heroine is simply the "Scythian," the woodcutter is "Logfella," the dog is "Dogfella," and the shepherdess is "Girl."
* ThePowerOfRock: [[spoiler: Required to re-assemble the Trigon Trifecta]]
* {{Retraux}}: The graphics are intentionally pixel-looking.
* SceneryPorn: The gorgeous pixelated landscapes are often touted as one of the strongest points of the game.
* ShoutOut: One of the lands frequently referenced is [[ConanTheBarbarian Cimmeria]].
** Trigon Trifecta = [[TheLegendOfZelda Triforce]] upside down
* SinisterGeometry: The Trigon Trifecta, a triplet of upside-down triangles which must be fought and tamed. Almost everything else in the game is done in a retro pixellated style, but the trigons are perfect triangles, which adds to the sense of their otherworldliness.
** This also applies to the giant vinyl record and the fog that makes up the Gogolithic Mass. The latter for the same reason as the Trigons, the former to emphasize its position as being in a slightly higher reality than the game, since it actuall contains the game.
* TennisBoss: The first phase of taming a Trigon. In an interesting subversion, the balls don't become progressively faster when they're hit. Instead, after being hit a certain number of times they speed up once, and then dissapear completely after taking the same number of hits again.
* TotallyRadical: The game makes extensive use of slang such as "AMIRITE?"
* {{Twitter}}: Many events in the game can be twittered, there are nestboxes that can be used to tweet, and the hint system is also clearly based on it.
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