History VideoGame / TerrorOfHemasaurus

** Inverted in the case of the Assistant to the High Priest. [[spoiler:The acolyte begins questioning the Church's methods and realizes they're making the world worse. Being told that the Church of the Holy Lizard was a sham engineered by Richie Hoarderson causes them to decide that the rest of the cult has to be destroyed to prevent them from causing any more chaos]].

* GroundPound: Players can perform this move. if you do it from high enough, it will generate powerful shockwaves and obliterate things in proximity.

* PlayingBothSides: It's revealed late into the game that [[spoiler:Richie Hoarderson created the Church of the Holy Lizard in order to trick left-wing environmentalists into becoming a cult of cannibalistic sociopaths rather than working towards any meaningful change, while also profiting off the degradation of the earth through [=PollutaCorp=]. When revealing his identity, he mockingly tells the cult's second-in-command that he'd disappointed it took him so long to figure out that the Church of the Holy Lizard was a scam]].

''Terror of Hemasaurus'' is a {{Retraux}} 2D sidescrolling {{kaiju}} indie video-game developed by Loren Lemcke using the [=MonoGame=] engine and published by Digerati. Gameplay is in the style of ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}'', with players controlling a giant monster, climbing and smashing buildings while trampling and devouring civilians to earn points. It was released on October 17th, 2022 for the PC on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}; on UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS in December of 2022; and the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch in January 2023.

* EcocidalAntagonist: Richie Hoarderson, the CEO of [[ToxicInc PollutaCorp]], wants to make as much money off exploiting the environment as possible without having to kowtow to regulations... [[spoiler:to the point of starting an ecoterrorist ApocalypseCult worshipping a bioengineered kaiju in order to sow chaos and discredit environmentalists]].

* HumansAreFlawed: The aliens Zogglers and Blurp are ''very'' condescending towards humankind, mockingly referring to humans as [[SonOfAnApe "monkeymen"]] and being disgusted by humanity's apathy towards the degradation of the environment and continued use of fossil fuels. Despite this, they do attempt to offer them an environment-friendly technology in the hopes of enabling their planet to recover. [[spoiler:This crosses over to HumansAreBastards when they realize that humanity ''does have'' the tech to do so, but are so lazy and apathetic to even implement it. Zogglers and Blurp are understandably enraged at this revelation, snaps, and goes on to KillAllHumans in a fit of anger over their negligence.]]

* HumansAreFlawed: The aliens Zogglers and Blurp are ''very'' condescending towards humankind, mockingly referring to humans as [[SonOfAnApe "monkeymen"]] and being disgusted by humanity's apathy towards the degradation of the environment and continued use of fossil fuels. Despite this, they do attempt to offer them environmentally friendly technology in the hopes of enabling their planet to recover. [[spoiler:This crosses over to HumansAreBastards when they realize that humanity ''does have'' the tech to do so, but are so lazy and apathetic to even implement it. Zogglers and Blurp understandably snaps at this revelation and goes on to KillAllHumans in a fit of anger over their negligence.]]

* PunyEarthlings: The aliens Zogglers and Blurp are ''very'' condescending towards humankind, mockingly referring to humans as "monkeymen" and being disgusted by humanity's apathy towards the degradation of the environment and continued use of fossil fuels.

* ComedicSociopathy: The high priest of the Church of the Holy Lizard wants to save the planet from being ruined by climate change... by siccing giant monsters on the unsuspecting populace because he enjoys the death and destruction a little too much.

** When the High Priest [[spoiler:reveals himself to be Richie Hoarderson, he mocks the Assistant to the High Priest for taking so long to figure out the Church of the Holy Lizard's increasingly zany schemes aren't doing anything to fix the environment, and that the cult is a scam to discredit left-wing environmentalists and prevent them from making meaningful change]].

* Hemasaurus: A giant [[NotZilla spiky green dinosaur]] with [[MakeMeWannaShout a powerful roar]].

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Richie Hoarderson is a stereotypical right-wing oil-baron who ''knows'' that climate change is real and will spell the end of human civilization, but is making far too much money off fossil fuels to care [[spoiler:and plans to abandon the Earth to go live on the Moon anyways]].

* MakeMeWannaShout: Hemasaurus' special ability is a MightyRoar that shatters buildings and can deflect missiles.

* PlayingBothSides: It's revealed late into the game that [[spoiler:Richie Hoarderson created the Church of the Holy Lizard in order to trick left-wing environmentalists into becoming cannibalistic sociopaths rather than working towards any meaningful change, while also profiting off the degradation of the earth through [=PollutaCorp=].]]

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Richie Hoarderson is a stereotypical right-wing oil-baron who ''knows'' that climate change is real, but is making far too much money off fossil fuels to care [[spoiler:and plans to abandon the Earth to go live on the Moon anyways]].

** The two aliens, Zogglers and Blurp, snap when they realize that humanity had access to environmentally-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels but chose not to use them despite knowing of the damage they were doing to the planet, deciding to KillAllHumans.

-->'''Shepherd of the Holy Lizard:''' Do you really think this 'Terror of Hemasaurus' game is going to accomplish anything? [...] Besides, this game of yours doesn't even make sense! How can a video game universe contain the video game itself?!

** The Cash Grabber Studios subplot gives a middle finger to micro-transaction-riddled mobile games, overly sensitive MoralGuardians, and PETA.

* ButThouMust: The player is unable to select the "No" choice [[spoiler:when Jimmy Miller asks the giant to eat him]].

** Realizing that [[spoiler:the Church of the Holy Lizard was a sham engineered by Richie Hoarderson]] drives the acolyte to the High Priest to sicc the monsters on the rest of the world in a nihilistic rampage.

* HeelFaceTurn: In the final stage, [[spoiler:consumed by guilt over the destruction it's caused and haunted by the ghosts of those it's killed, Hemasaurus lays waste to [=PollutaCorp=]'s private army and confronts Richie Hoarderson just before he takes off into space. Presented with one final choice, Hemasaurus can either let him escape or take the rocket down at the cost of its own life.]]

** Zogglers and Blurp spend the entirety of their screen-time lambasting "[[PunyEarthlings monkeymen]]" for their collective shortcomings, mocking them for wasting time with petty conflicts instead of banding together to face genuine threats to civilization, and enjoying killing each other so much they spend inordinate amounts of time playing video-games involving simulated mass-murder. When they discover that humanity has continued to exploit and pollute the planet through the use of fossil fuels despite environmentally-friendly alternatives having been available for decades, [[spoiler:they decide that the apathetic masses are better off dead and decide to wipe out what's left of humanity themselves]].

* TakeThat: Aside from being a middle-finger to right-wingers in general, the game ends with [[spoiler:Richie Hoarderson attempting to escape the Earth to live on a yet-to-be-built moon-colony, a pastiche of Elon Musk's suggestion that the wealthy elite abandon Earth to establish colonies on the Moon and Mars]].

* ThinkOfTheChildren: When conservative-minded Mrs. Miller sees her impressionable young son Jimmy playing ''Terror of Hemasaurus'', she is horrified and [[MoralGuardians goes on a rant about how violence in video-games is poisoning the mind of the youth]]. [[spoiler:Hemasaurus promptly rips through her living room wall, eats her, and then vomits her half-digested dying body right in front of her son.]]

* ApocalypseCult: The Church of the Holy Lizard is a cannibalistic ecoterrorist cult that created Hemasaurus and the other monsters and sent them back in time, frozen in the polar ice-caps until climate change unleashed them. The Church then commands the monsters to cause as much devastation as possible in an attempt to show humanity the folly of its ways. [[spoiler:The cult is revealed to be a scam created by Richie Hoarderson, whereupon the remaining members succumb to nihilism and tell Hemasaurus to just destroy everything as long as Richie Hoarderson dies]].

* ArtStyleDissonance: The {[Retraux}} sidescroller starring an adorable NotZilla happens to also be a downright bleak and very profane comedic skewering of right-wing pundits and political figures.

''Terror of Hemasaurus'' is a {{Retraux}} 2D sidescrolling {{kaiju}} indie video-game developed by Loren Lemcke using the [=MonoGame=] engine and published by Digerati. Gameplay is in the style of ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}'', with players controlling a giant monster, climbing and smashing buildings while trampling and devouring civilians to earn points. It was released on October 17th, 2022 for the PC on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, and on the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS in December of 2022.

''Terror of Hemasaurus'' is a {{Retraux}} 2D sidescrolling {{kaiju}} indie video-game developed by Loren Lemcke using the [=MonoGame=] engine and published by Digerati. Gameplay is in the style of ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}'', with players controlling a giant monster, climbing and smashing buildings while trampling and devouring civilians to earn points. It was released on October 17th, 2022 for the PC on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, with planned releases for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS in December of 2022.

In the year 2030, the melting of the polar ice-caps unleashes a giant monster that rampages around the world, tasked by an ecoterrorist cult with punishing humanity for its reliance on fossil fuels.

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: For most of the game, you play as one of four giant monsters. [[spoiler:For the second-to-last level you control a tank in Hemasaurus' brain mind as scientists try to resurrect Hemasaurus' brain, and in the final level you control Zogglers and Blurp's UFO as they wreak havoc on humanity]].

* PlayingBothSides: It's revealed late into the game that [[spoiler:Richie Hoarderson created the Church of the Holy Lizard in order to trick left-wing pro-environmentalists into becoming cannibalistic sociopaths rather than working towards any meaningful change, while also profiting off the degradation of the earth through [=PollutaCorp=].]]

* SelfDeprecation: Several cutscenes show a fictional version of Loren Lemcke pitching the concept for ''Terror of Hemasaurus'' to Cash Grabber Studios, having to deal with [[invoked]] ExecutiveMeddling from the studio heads and MoralGuardians, and ultimately [[spoiler:being captured and eaten by the Church of the Holy Lizard for having profited off the world's devastation instead of actually doing something to change it]].

* StrawNihilist: In the final confrontation, [[spoiler: Richie Hoarderson espouses the nihilistic belief that humanity both cannot and is not willing to commit to saving the planet, and is only capable of destroying itself through war and pollution]].

* Hemasaurus: A giant [[NotZilla spiky dinosaur]] with [[MakeMeWannaShout a powerful roar]].

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: One of the late-game cutscenes shows [[spoiler:Hemasaurus suffering a nightmare where it's confronted by the ghosts of all the people it killed, flashing to a ruined cityscape where it sits atop a mountain of skulls, and then weeps over all the death and destruction it's caused]].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: When confronted in the final level, [[spoiler:Richie Hoarderson freely admits to being a greedy, hedonistic sociopath... but accuses Hemasaurus -- and by extension, the player -- of being just as bad as he is, if not worse; and notes that killing him out of petty vengeance isn't going to fix anything]].

* MakeMeWannaShout: Hemasaurus' special ability is a MightyRoar that shatters buildings and can reflect missiles.

* TakeThat: Aside from being a middle-finger to right-wingers in general, the game ends with [[spoiler:Richie Hoarderson attempting to escape the Earth to live on a yet-to-be-built moon-colony, a pastiche of Elon Musk's desire to abandon Earth]].

* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: For most of the game, you play as one of four giant monsters. [[spoiler:For the second-to-last level you control a tank, and in the final level you control Zogglers and Blurp's UFO as they wreak havoc on humanity]].

* Autonomous Hemasaurus: A {{Robeast}} doppelgänger of Hemasaurus capable of firing rockets

''Terror of Hemasaurus'' is a 2D sidescrolling {{kaiju}} indie video-game in the style of ''VideoGame/{{Rampage}}'', developed by Loren Lemcke and published by Digerati. It was released on October 17th, 2022 for the PC on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, with planned releases for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS in December of 2022.