History VideoGame / WordRealms

* BonusBoss: There are four of them scattered throughout the areas that appear only after the player makes many more kills in an area after it is no longer storyline important. They are Rafael, Wretchel, Screamy, and Weald. [[spoiler:Only Wretchel is optional if the player wants the good ending.]]

* PuzzleBoss: In a fair fight, Lord Nightmare is a HopelessBossFight. To beat him, [[spoiler:the player must complete the dreams collected from three of the "{{bonus boss}}es" then weaken him in the Technician's nightmare using the new skills unlocked]]. If this is done well enough, the player will have a small chance of being able to do enough damage to kill Lord Nightmare.

* HopelessBossFight: Lord Nightmare in the Technician's nightmare. If the player somehow does manage to win, he [[DevelopersForesight receives a message from the developers stating their amazement, then asking the player to report how he did it.]]

* KarmaMeter: depending on the player's interactions with the [=NPCs=] the player can be considered good, neutral, or a jackass. It effects the way other talk to you and changes the endings slightly.

** [[GoldenEnding The Good Ending:]] If the player manages to defeat Lord Nightmare while [[spoiler: in his castle, the elder thanks them gives them a great big key and the entire town celebrates.]]

** [[ItsAWonderfulFailure The Nightmare Ending:]] [[spoiler:The same as the bad, except the player kills the nightmare townsfolk, the player not only blew up the clock tower, but also brutally murdered most of the actual townsfolk (which gets shown). Characters with high karma are so horrified at this that they commit suicide. It ends with THE END being displayed, with the player's corpse hanging from the tree from the opening.]] Also, this is the most likely ending for people to get the first time through.

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:In the Bad and Nightmare endings, the player fails and either is emotionally broken or commits suicide.]]

** The Good Ending: If the player manages to defeat Lord Nightmare while [[spoiler: in his castle, the elder thanks them gives them a great big key and the entire town celebrates.]]
** The Bad Ending: [[spoiler:If the player gets defeated by Lord Nightmare, then runs away from the nightmare versions of the townsfolk and just defeats Lord Nightmare in the clock tower, the player discovers he actually only blew up the clock tower.]]
** The Nightmare Ending: [[spoiler:The same as the bad, except the player kills the nightmare townsfolk, the player not only blew up the clock tower, but also brutally murdered most of the actual townsfolk (which gets shown). Characters with high karma are so horrified at this that they commit suicide. It ends with THE END being displayed, with the player's corpse hanging from the tree from the opening.]] Also, this is the most likely ending for people to get the first time through.

* HopelessBossFight: Lord Nightmare in the Technician's nightmare. If the player somehow does manage to win, he [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything receives a message from the developers stating their amazement, then asking the player to report how he did it.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: While it didn't sell well enough for a true sequel (or any of the planned expansions) to be produced or released, the game is being retooled with new graphics, slightly different gameplay mechanics, and presumably a new story into an educational game for iOS called [[http://www.torynova.com/masterswords/ MasterSwords]]. Both games even have "Words are your weapons" as their tagline.

Fairly basic story, right? However, combat is not based on just stringing together attacks but also how good the player is at creating words from his tile set. Basically, it's TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}} the RPG. The word's score, combined with a multiplier based on the difference between the player's attack and opponent's defense, is the amount of damage he deals to his opponent.

* [[spoiler:TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler:In the Bad and Nightmare endings, the player fails and either is emotionally broken or commits suicide.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: The game is being retooled (with new graphics, slightly different gameplay mechanics, and presumably a new story) into an educational game for iOS called [[http://www.torynova.com/masterswords/ MasterSwords]]. Both games even have "Words are your weapons" as their tagline.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The game is being retooled (with new graphics, slightly different gameplay mechanics, and presumably a new story) into an educational game for iOS called [[http://www.torynova.com/masterswords/ MasterSwords]].

* DifficultButAwesome: Wizards can easily do more damage than warriors due to their larger tile set, more gear and skills that boost tile scores, and they gain a powerful defensive ability. But, due to their much shorter timer, it's more difficult to come up with words that take advantage of this larger tile set.
* DeathIsCheap: If an opponent defeat the player they can immediately try again with the only loss being any consumables used during the fight.

** The Nightmare Ending: [[spoiler:The same as the bad, except the player kills the nightmare townsfolk, the player not only blew up the clock tower, but also brutally murdered most of the actual townsfolk (which gets shown). The good karma players are so horrified that in their attempts to save the town, they instead personally destroyed it such that the player commits suicide. It ends with THE END being displayed with the player's corpse hanging from the tree from the opening.]] Also, this is the most likely ending for people to get the first time through.

VideoGame/WordRealms is a RPG from the crazed minds that brought us KingdomOfLoathing. The player can either be a powerful warrior or a sweet wizard working to stop [[BigBad Lord Nightmare]] from coming back into power and taking over the world. Really high expectations considering the player wakes up in a bush.

Fairly basic story right? However combat is not based on just stringing together attacks but also how good the player is at creating words from their tile set. Basically, it's Scrabble the RPG. The word's score combined a multiplier based of the difference between their attack and opponents defense is the amount of damage they deal to their opponent.

* AlwaysNight: Due to the planet being tide locked the part that the game takes place on is always at night.
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: The [[MultipleEndings Good Ending]] ends with the player heading off for Paramount City.]]
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler: In the Bad and Nightmare endings, the player fails and either is emotionally broken or commits suicide]]

* BonusBoss: There are four of them scattered throughout the areas that only appear after making many more kills in an area after it is no longer storyline important, Rafael, Wretchel, Screamy, and Weald. [[spoiler: Only Wretchel it optional if the player wants the good ending.]]
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: This happens to [[spoiler: the player if Lord Nightmare manages to defeat them in his castle]].
* CurbStompBattle: Lord Nightmare can kill the player with a single hit in both in both the Technician's Nightmare and the final battle. The only weakness of his is that he's so overly confident that he won't attack until the third or fourth round.
* DarkSecret: Beardsley has one. There's an achievement for [[TalkToEveryone figuring it out.]] [[spoiler: Turns out, he's a vampire, [[FurAgainstFang on the run from the werewolves]] that control his former home.]]

* DetonationMoon: In the back story, the moon was destroyed causing the planet to become tide locked with one side permanently facing the sun.
* DumbMuscle: 92% of the Subjunctors are like this. Most can't even count to eleven while wearing pants.

* HopelessBossFight: Lord Nightmare in the Technician's nightmare. If the player somehow does manage to win they [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything receive a message from the developers stating their amazement then asking the player to report how they did it.]]
** Lord Nightmare is also one of these at his castle. [[spoiler: [[PuzzleBoss Or at least, that's how it seems at first...]]]]

* MultipleEndings: There are three main endings each with three variations at the end based on the player's KarmaMeter and what happens during the end game:

** The Bad Ending: [[spoiler: If the player gets defeated by Lord Nightmare, then runs away from the nightmare versions of the townsfolk and just defeats Lord Nightmare in the clock tower, the player discovers they actually only blew up the clock tower.]]
** The Nightmare Ending: [[spoiler: The same as the bad except the player kills the nightmare townsfolk, the player not only blew up the clock tower, but they also brutally murdered most of the actual townsfolk (which gets shown). The good karma players are so horrified that in their attempts to save the town they instead personally destroyed it that the player commits suicide. It ends with THE END being displayed with the players corpse hanging from the tree from the opening.]] Also, this is the most likely ending for people to get the first time through.
* OneHitKill- Lord Nightmare will instantly win the battle with him if he attacks. Thankfully, he [[EvilGloating stops to taunt you a few times first.]]

* PuzzleBoss: In a fair fight Lord Nightmare is a HopelessBossFight. To beat him [[spoiler: the player must complete the dreams collected from three of the "[[BonusBoss bonus bosses]]" then weaken him in the Technician's nightmare using the new skills unlocked.]] If this is done well enough the player will have a small chance of being able to do enough damage to kill Lord Nightmare
* WhatDidIDoLastNight: The player wakes up in a bush with a extra beer and a pair of shoes they don't remember getting.

* PuzzleBoss: In a fair fight Lord Nightmare is a HopelessBossFight. To beat him [[spoiler: the player must complete the dreams collected from three of the "[[BonusBoss bonus bosses]]" then weakens him in the Technician's nightmare using the new skills unlocked.]] If this is done well enough the player will have a small chance of being able to do enough damage to kill Lord Nightmare

* GoodMorningCrono: The player begins the game by waking up in a bush trying to remember what happened the previous night.

* DumbMuscle: 92% of the Subjugators are like this. Most can't even count to eleven while wearing pants.
* HopelessBossFight: Lord Nightmare in the Technician's nightmare. If the player somehow does manage to win they [[TheDevTeamTinksOfEverything receive a message from the developers stating their amazement then asking the player to report

* PuzzleBoss: In a fair fight Lord Nightmare is a HopelessBossFight. To beat him [[spoiler: the player must complete the dreams collected from three of the "BonusBosses" then weakens him in the Technician's nightmare using the new skills unlocked.]] If this is done well enough the player will have a small chance of being able to do enough damage to kill Lord Nightmare

* KarmaMeter: depending on the player's interactions with the NPCs the player can be considered good, neutral, or a jackass. It effects the way other talk to you and changes the endings slightly.

* AlwaysNight: Due to the planet being tidelocked the part that the game takes part on is always at night.
* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler: In the Bad and NightmareFuel endings, the player fails and either is emotionally broken or commits suicide]]

* DifficultButAwesome: Wizards can easily do more damage than warriors due to their larger tile set, and they gain a powerful defensive ability. But, due to their much shorter timer, it's more difficult to come up with words that take advantage of this larger tile set.
* GoodMorningCrono: The player begins the game by waking up in a bush.

* MultipleEndings: There are three main endings:
** The Good Ending: If the player manages to defeat Lord Nightmare [[spoiler: in his castle, the elder thanks them gives them a great big key and the entire town celebrates.]]
** The Bad Ending: [[spoiler: If the player gets defeated by Lord Nightmare, then runs away from the nightmare versions of the townsfolk and just defeats Lord Nightmare in the clock tower, the player discovers they actually only blew up the clock tower and gives up on their quest.]]
** The NightmareFuel Ending: [[spoiler: The same as the bad except the player kills the nightmare townsfolk, the player not only blew up the clock tower, but they also brutally murdered most of the actual townsfolk (which gets shown). The player is so horrified that in their attempts to save the town they instead personally destroyed it that the player commits suicide. It ends with THE END being displayed with the players corpse hanging from the tree from the opening.]] Also, this is the most likely ending for people to get the first time through.

* [[spoiler: TheBadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler: In the Bad and NightmareFuel endings, the player fails and is either emotionally broken and committed suicide]]

** The Bad Ending: [[If the player gets defeated by Lord Nightmare, then runs away from the nightmare versions of the townsfolk and just defeats Lord Nightmare in the clock tower, the player discovers they actually only blew up the clock tower and gives up on their quest.]]