Line #27 VideoGame/CreatureCrunch

Context VideoGame / CreatureCrunch

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1	[[quoteright:277:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/creaturecrunch_cover.jpg]]
2	''Creature Crunch'' was a 1996 point-and-click computer game for Windows 95 developed by [=TechToons=] and [=Class6=] Interactive, starring Creator/MartinShort and Creator/EugeneLevy.
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4	The main character of the game is Wesley, who enters a strange mansion and finds himself transformed into a half-boy/half-creature by a mad scientist named Dr. Drod. Wesley then befriends a disembodied brain named Brian and goes on a journey to find a way out of the mansion and return to normal.
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6	!!Tropes:
7	* AlliterativeTitle: Both words in the title begin with "Cr".
8	* BaldOfEvil: Dr. Drod is completely bald and is apparently scheming to take over the world with an army of creatures.
9	* BrainInAJar: Wesley's ally Brian is a disembodied brain being kept alive in a jar.
10	* CatsAreMean: The last obstacle preventing Wesley from leaving the mansion is a giant and vicious cat.
11	* CatsHaveNineLives: In order to get past the giant cat at the end of the game, Wesley must eat eight items to eliminate most of the cat's nine lives.
12	* CurseCutShort: After entering the bathroom by being defecated out by the horse's backside mounted above the toilet.
13	-->'''Wesley:''' I feel like--
14	-->'''Brian:''' Hey, watch it! Kids play this game!
15	* ExtremeOmnivore: Wesley has to eat different items in order to shapeshift into something to neutralize his obstacles, and most of them are normally inedible objects such as a candle or a toy mouse.
16	* FacelessEye: Many of the monsters Wesley has to get past have eyeballs for heads.
17	* LamePunReaction: Wesley complains whenever Brian makes a pun.
18	-->'''Brian''': Hey, don't leaf me here!
19	-->'''Wesley''': I will if you don't stop making real bad puns.
20	* MadScientist: Dr. Drod is an evil scientist who has transformed Wesley into a half-boy/half-creature and claims to have created a whole army of creatures to take over the world.
21	* PowerUpFood: Wesley is able to eat stuff to transform and deal with the monsters that obstruct him, though most of the items he collects and eats aren't normally considered edible.
22	* SelfDeprecation: At one point, Brian suggests that Wesley could star in his own video game. Wesley, who happens to be voiced by Creator/MartinShort, doesn't agree.
23	-->'''Brian:''' That's cute. You gotta have your own video game!
24	-->'''Wesley:''' With some over-the-hill, sawed-off Canadian movie star doing ''my'' voice?! Uh-uh! No thanks!
25	* ShaggyDogStory: When Wesley realizes at the end of the game that he forgot to reverse his creature transformation, [[spoiler:Brian reveals that Wesley was only in a costume and he could've just removed it.]]
26	* TrouserSpace: Wesley stores items in his pants.
27	* WingedSoulFliesOffAtDeath: The giant cat at the end of the game has an angel with wings and a halo fly off every time Wesley has made it lose one of its nine lives.

Context VideoGame / CreatureCrunch