Line #38 VideoGame/DoItForMe


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:And so I did...]]
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4	''[[https://lixiangames.itch.io/doitforme Do It For Me]]'' is a short side-scroller by [=LixianTV=], a famous [=YouTube=] animator, made in under 24 hours for a contest.
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6	You play as a young boy trying to earn his girlfriend's love, so you fight your way through a flashy SugarBowl, collecting hearts while defeating black monsters known as Wooffles[[note]]known as "Wuffles in the original version[[/note]]. However, as you venture through, the game begins to glitch, and it becomes apparent that something is wrong...
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8	It's another one of those "[[DisguisedHorrorStory horrific psychological horror game disguised as a plucky school game]]" games, like ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' and ''VideoGame/BaldisBasicsInEducationAndLearning''.
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10	Since the game's true nature is an OpenSecret (and since it's so short anyways), spoilers will be unmarked.
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12	!!The game contains examples of following tropes:
13	* ArcNumber: All the lockers you come across have the number 17. In the "Blind Love" ending it's revealed that locker 17 is hers and she keeps a gun in there.
14	* AssholeVictim:
15	** The girlfriend in the "Psychopath" ending. You kill her after she has outlived her usefulness, but by that point she had already tried to manipulate you into killing innocent students so one can safely say she had it coming.
16	** Downplayed with the protagonist in the "Puppet" ending. Yes, the girlfriend frames him, but he ''did'' commit murder simply to please someone who obviously didn't love him back.
17	* AxesAtSchool: The story of the game turns out to be this. The protagonist has been using his knife to kill innocent school-goers at the behest of his AxCrazy girlfriend.
18	* BigBad: Seemingly the Wuffles/Wooffles, black monsters that are terrorizing the protagonist's girlfriend and who he must kill to prove his love for her. However, they're actually [[HumanAllAlong innocent classmates]] — the real villain is [[LoveInterestTraitor the girlfriend]], who tries to manipulate the protagonist into killing the students for her own amusement.
19	* BoldInflation: The girlfriend talks like this, to make her voice sound more demanding.
20	* CrapsaccharineWorld: The game is presented as a SugarBowl, but it's all just the player's demented delusion. It's really a school massacre.
21	* DomesticAbuse: Your girlfriend who tries to manipulate you into killing the students and either kills ''you'' if you don't, despite you being in love with her, or lets the police arrest you if you don't do it to her complete satisfaction.
22	* DownerEnding: Four out of five endings have the students be killed by either of the two main characters.
23	* DoubleMeaningTitle: At first, "Do it for me" sounds like a romantic thing a lover would say to another. But when the game's context is refitted, "Do it for me" sounds like an order a killer (the girlfriend) would give to their accomplice (the protagonist).
24	* EarnYourBadEnding: The "Blind Love" ending, where the protagonist is fully in love with the girlfriend and happily joins her in killing their classmates, requires you to collect all hearts and kill all Wooffles. Because getting certain hearts or Wooffles will cause certain platforms to disappear, this route is the most puzzle-oriented and takes the most effort to complete. By contrast, the GoldenEnding "Awake" just requires you to avoid all hearts and Wooffles, which is significantly easier.
25	* EverybodyLives: The "Awake" ending has the protagonist refuse to kill anyone and turn the girlfriend in to the police, and no one dies, including the girlfriend. However, she still loses.
26	* EvilerThanThou: You prove to be this in the "Psychopath" ending, in which you kill your classmates ''and'' your manipulative girlfriend. Not out of love, but simply because you felt like it.
27	* FrameUp: In the "Puppet" ending, the girlfriend who manipulated you into killing the students pretends to be a victim when the police arrive, blaming the whole thing on you and getting you arrested.
28	* GoldenEnding: The "Awake" end, in which the protagonist avoids all hearts and Wooffles, has him turn the girlfriend in to the police, stopping the massacre before it happens.
29	* HeartSymbol: The collectibles are giant hearts, representing the love between the protagonist and his girlfriend. Or so it seems, but [[WickedHeartSymbol it actually represents]] the protagonist's [[{{Yandere}} unhealthy "love"]] for his [[AxCrazy psychotic]] and {{manipulative\|Bitch}} abuser.
30	* HumanAllAlong: The Wuffles/Wooffles are actually the main protagonist's classmates he sees as monsters he must slaughter for his girlfriend.
31	* KilledMidSentence: The protagonist's fate in the "Innocent Love" ending.
32	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's implied in the "Awake" ending that the girlfriend's manipulations might be supernatural. In the end, though, it's kept ambiguous. Maybe she's a succubus-like demon, or maybe she's just a really good manipulator.
33	* MooksButNoBosses: The Wooffles serve as enemies for the player to fight, but there is no boss in any of the endings. The girlfriend, the BigBad, is confronted but never fought — even in the "Psychopath" ending, where you kill her, she is too scared to fight back.
34	* MultipleEndings: Five endings, depending on how many hearts and Wooffles you get:
35	** "Puppet": Collect at least one heart and kill at least one Wooffle, but do not get all of them. This is the one the player is most likely to get first. You're arrested for killing the students while your girlfriend who manipulated you into doing it [[FrameUp has you take the blame]] and [[KarmaHoudini gets off scot-free]].
36	** "Blind Love": Collect all hearts and kill all Wooffles. You and your girlfriend finish the massacre together, with you fully in love with her.
37	** "Innocent Love": Collect all hearts without killing a single Wooffle. You refuse to commit the massacre, but can't bring yourself to break up with her. So she does the massacre herself... [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness starting with you]].
38	** "Psychopath": Kill all Wooffles without collecting a single heart. You commit the massacre...not for her, but for your own desire to kill the students. You finish it by [[TheStarscream killing her]].
39	** "Awake": Get to the end without collecting a single heart or killing a single Wooffle. You come to your senses, reject your girlfriend, and get her arrested.
40	* NamelessNarrative: No characters are named. The protagonist and his girlfriend are both nameless, and while the monsters are called Wooffles, the students that they [[HumanAllAlong really are]] go unnamed as well.
41	* NintendoHard: The game is strikingly similar in gameplay to trial-and-error rage side-scrollers like ''VideoGame/IWannaBeTheGuy'' and ''VideoGame/SyobonAction''.
42	* OminousVisualGlitch: Your standard malignant static every now and again.
43	* PacifistRun: The "Innocent Love" and "Awake" endings require you to go through the game without killing a single Wooffle.
44	* TheReveal: The "monsters" you're killing are your classmates.

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