History VideoGame / Xargon

* LedgeBats: Climbing Beetles push you off of whatever vine or rope you're also climbing. The knockback [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard ignores any active invincibility]], making [[ThatOneLevel that level with a row of vines each having a beetle climbing it]] very difficult.

* OneHitPointWonder: [[AvertedTrope Averted,]] Malvineous can take a [[MadeOfIron whopping five hits]] before he goes down.

* SchizoTech: Ancient artifacts, temples and caves with BambooTechnology... and EternalEngine-class factories with killer robots and drones (housed in ''castles'').

* {{XtremeKoolLetterz}}/XMakesAnythingCool: [[AttackDrone Xargbots]], Xibok, [[GoddamnedBats Xbats]] etc. and Xargon himself, of course. There are also X:es plastered all over the walls, signs, etc. bordering on SigilSpam. There are also the X:es marking non-cave/castle levels on the world map, but it's a map, so, yeah.

* CheckpointStarvation: You can only save on the world map, and dying has you restart from the beginning of a level. The final levels avert this, though, and let you restart in their respective [[BossRoom boss sections]], and the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon very definitely final level]], a MarathonLevel, is divided into a couple more sections where you restart at the beginning of each. You [[BladderOfSteel still have to complete them in one sitting]], however, since you're stuck on a level until you complete it (or exit the game).

* CheckpointStarvation: You can only save between levels, and dying has you restart from the beginning of the level. The final levels avert this and let you restart in their respective [[BossRoom boss sections]], though, and the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon very definitely final level]], a MarathonLevel, is divided into a couple more sections where you restart at the beginning of each.

* CheckpointStarvation: You can only save between levels, and dying has you restart from the beginning of the level. The final levels let you restart in their respective [[BossRoom boss sections]], though, and the [[VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon very definitely final level]], a MarathonLevel, is divided into a couple more sections where you restart at the beginning of each.

* AbnormalAmmo: Malvineous' default weapon is a laser that he shoots out of... well, [[ChestBlaster his chest.]] He doesn't seem to have an attack animation.

* SchizoTech: Ancient artifacts, Temples and caves with BambooTechnology... and EternalEngine-class factories with killer robots and drones (housed in ''castles'').

* SchizoTech: Temples, ancient artifacts... and EternalEngine-class factories with killer robots and drones (housed in ''castles'').

* OurMonstersAreWeird: The first enemy you face is a walking torso with one big sharp tooth. It gets weirder from there, aside from the occasional ill-tempered fish.

* PowerUp: Pickups include hearts and fruits that [[HealThyself heal you,]] upgrades to your default laser, as well as a throwable rock -- nay, ''boulder'', and a pickup that temporarily allows you to throw powerful [[FireBall Fire Balls.]] Other powerups include [[InvincibilityPowerUp invincibility]] and [[InASingleBound shoes that let you jump higher]]. The latter can be ''[[FridgeLogic stacked]]'' for [[UpToEleven insanely high jumps]].
* PowerUpLetDown: the aforementioned boulder.

* PowerUp: Pickups include hearts and fruits that [[HealThyself heal you,]] upgrades to your default laser, as well as a throwable rock -- nay, ''boulder'', and a pickup that temporarily allows you to throw powerful [[FireBall Fire Balls.]]

* AttractMode: That shows a preview of one level from each episode.

* SchizoTech: Temples, ancient artifacts... and EternalEngine-class factories with killer robots and drones housed in ''castles''.

* OurMonstersAreWeird: The first enemy you face is a walking torso with one big sharp tooth. It gets weirder from there, aside from the occasional ill-tempered fish.

* GoddamnedBats: Bees, [[AttackDrone Xargbots]] and ghouls (the latter two also shoot at you and may qualify as DemonicSpiders, especially the ghouls, [[MadeOfIron taking several shots to kill]].

* {{Diary}}: In between levels, on the world map, you come across little books that when touched present you with an entry from Malvineous' journal. He typically comments on the strangeness of the world he is in and its bizarre and hostile inhabitants.

* AnticlimaxBoss: The reactors that serve as the episode "bosses" don't really do much except sit there and let you kill them while Xargbots spawn nearby to attack you (and in the first episode it's really easy to stand in a position where your boulders pass through the spawn point on the way to the reactor). Xargon himself isn't much tougher.

* OneHitWonder: [[AvertedTrope Averted,]] Malvineous can take a [[MadeOfIron whopping five hits]] before he goes down.

* {{Diary}}: In between levels, on the world map, you come across little books that when touched present you with an entry from Malvineous' journal. He typically comments on the strangeness of the world he is in and it's bizarre and hostile inhabitants.

* OneHitWonder: [[AvertedTrope averted,]] Malvineous can take a [[MadeOfIron whopping five hits]] before he goes down.

* PowerUp: Pickups include hearts and fruits that [[HealThyself heal you,]] upgrades to your default laser, as well as a throwable rock- nay, ''boulder'', and a pickup that temporarily allows you to throw powerful [[FireBall Fire Balls.]]

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''JillOfTheJungle'', which this plays almost identically to. Epic even referred to this game as the sequel at one point!

* {{Diary}}: In between levels, on the WorldMap, you come across little books that when touched present you with an entry from Malvineous' journal. He typically comments on the strangeness of the world he is in and it's bizarre and hostile inhabitants.

* WorldMap: Typically shows a linear path, but occasional branches appear.