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1	'''Basic Trope''': The nature and function of a VideoGame changes unexpectedly.
2	* '''Straight''': ''Shadowy Tropes'' is a BeatEmUp game featuring Dread, a VengefulGhost who must kill all 7 Darklords and get revenge for the death of his daughter and son. The game features an innovative [[{{Combos}} combo]] system, dynamic music, and awesome [[PressXToNotDie quick-time events]] in fights. In one level, Dread must make a pizza delivery to one of the Darklord's secretaries before actually fighting.
3	* '''Exaggerated''':
4	** Every level has a drastic gameplay change, each system so deep it could make its own game, to the point where the game is 50% tutorial.
5	** The game shifts straight from a BeatEmUp to a NintendoHard [[PlatformGame Platformer]] for a while.
6	* '''Downplayed''':
7	** The mission starts out normal, but Dread was transformed into a fox and must fight as one.
8	** The game features a stealth section with the same movement and a crudely pasted "Take-down" mechanic for only one mission as the plot demands.
9	** There's a [=QTE=] section where Dread makes a sandwich.
10	* '''Justified''': [[DeliveryGuyInfiltration Going in as a pizza man is the best way for Dread to actually access the Darklord in question]].
11	* '''Inverted''': ???
12	* '''Subverted''': The mission opens up with a cutscene of Dread delivering pizza to the secretary and stutters as if gameplay starts, but it actually doesn't.
13	* '''Double Subverted''': ... as the cutscene goes on, Dread decides to purchase from a vending machine and gameplay starts there.
14	* '''Parodied''': ???
15	* '''Zig Zagged''': The game features normal combat along with a stealth system, and switches between the two as the plot demands. Some missions can be don both stealthily and by fighting your way through.
16	* '''Averted''': The gameplay does not alternate from the normal formula at all.
17	* '''Enforced''': The publishers did not want too much budget going toward cut scenes that didn't explain plot or work for a trailer, so told the developers to compromise. They turned it into a playable section.
18	* '''Lampshaded''': "Why am I serving pizza to my enemy's attendant?"
19	* '''Invoked''': The developers wanted to change the pace of the game and give players a laugh, so decided to change the pizza delivery joke cutscene into an actual playable part.
20	* '''Exploited''': One of the Darklords is aware of the FourthWall, so decides to attack Dread during this part of the game since he cannot fight back.
21	* '''Defied''': Dread asks his brother's girlfriend Penne to deliver pizza while he sneaks in to assassinate the Darklord
22	* '''Discussed''': ???
23	* '''Conversed''': ???
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27	%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
28	%% * '''Implied''': ???
29	%% * '''Deconstructed''': ???
30	%% * '''Reconstructed''': ???
31	%% * '''Played For Laughs''': ???
32	%% * '''Played For Drama''': ???

Context PlayingWith / UnexpectedGameplayChange