History VideoGame / ThePedestrian2020

* DevelopmentGag: In one late-game puzzle, you can make out a computer monitor in the background showing a time-lapse of the game's development, including creating the protagonist and coding the sign connection mechanic.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: For most of the game, the camera is more or less fixed on the current puzzle and only moves to keep up with the player character. Come the final section, [[spoiler:the game shows you how to move the camera manually with the right stick/mouse, something that up until now did nothing useful other than tilt the camera slightly. This neatly sets up the UnexpectedGameplayChange mentioned below.]]

* NotCompletelyUseless: Applies not to any items but to a gameplay mechanic. Throughout the game, the right stick on your controller (or the mouse on a keyboard-mouse setup) does nothing other than tilt the camera to look at the surroundings. Given that you’re playing a 2D puzzle platformer, that is merely set dressing. Then you get to the final area and the game points that mechanic out to you. [[spoiler:Except this time, the camera is no longer fixed to the plane of the puzzles you were solving before. Suddenly, first-person ''3D'' mechanics have entered the gameplay, so for the finale the right stick/mouse suddenly becomes much more useful.]]

The game was funded on Website/{{Kickstarter}} on February 13th, 2017. It was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} for the {{PC}} on January 29th, 2020. A ''UsefulNotes/PlayStation4'' version is set for January 2021.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: For most of the game, the camera is more or less fixed on the current puzzle and only moves to keep up with the player character. Come the final section, [[spoiler:the game shows you how to move the camera manually with the right stick/mouse, something that up until now was never an option. This neatly sets up the UnexpectedGameplayChange mentioned below.]]

* WhamShot: For most of the game, the camera is more or less fixed on the current puzzle and only moves to keep up with the player character. Come the final section, [[spoiler:the game shows you how to move the camera manually with the right stick/mouse, something that up until now was never an option. This neatly sets up the UnexpectedGameplayChange mentioned above.]]

* NoPlotNoProblem: There doesn't really seem to be anything to The Pedestrian besides navigating drawings.

* DeadlyDisc: Some levels feature buzzsaws that can kill the human image in one shot.

* SpikeBallsOfDoom: Some levels feature buzzsaws that can kill the human image in one shot.

--> “I can see the signs in my sleep now, always guiding me closer. Will this really work? Have we almost achieved the impossible?”\\

* FeaturelessProtagonist: The PlayerCharacter is a black image of a human being. [[spoiler:The trope also applies to the protagonist of the first-person segments—their only notable feature is the hand with which they hold the device the human picture resides in.]]

* FeaturelessProtagonist: The PlayerCharacter is a black image of a human being

* [[spoiler: SaveScumming: Later in the game, you are introduced to a device that applies yellow paint to signs connected to it, saving the state of the layout within. Puzzles with them require you to keep switches flipped or buttons pressed while the PlayerCharacter and everything else in the level is reset.]]

* SpringsSpringsEverywhere: Not springs per say, but the game has black boxes with a thick line on top. They propel the PlayerCharacter upward when they're landed on.

The game was funded on Website/{{Kickstarter}} on February 13th, 2017. It was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} for the {{PC}} on January 29th, 2020.

* SpringsSpringsEverywhere: Not springs per say, but there are boxes that have a line hovering slightly above them. These propel you upward if your character jumps on them.

''The Pedestrian'' is a PuzzlePlatform VideoGame by Skookum Arts.