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2 | [[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Tagline}} Puzzled? You will be.]]]] |
3 | ''Spin Jam'' is an {{Animesque}} BizarrePuzzleGame for the Platform/PlayStation, released in 2000 by Empire Interactive in both the US and Europe. |
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5 | You play as one of a RagtagBandOfMisfits on a [[ExcusePlot quest]] to kick the ass of [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne the others]] and earn the right to SaveTheWorld from the [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter evil overlord from space]], [[FluffyTheTerrible Moolamb!]] [[SeriousBusiness By throwing bubbles at giant flowers.]] |
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7 | !!''Spin Jam'' Provides Examples Of: |
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9 | * AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Gillybones the purple ankylosaur. |
10 | * {{Animesque}}: A European game that looks a lot like an {{Anime}}. It even had a promotional {{Manga}}! |
11 | * AnnouncerChatter: The most basic sort, but oddly endearing with the GreekChorus of children yelling it. "GET READY!" "YOU LOSE!" "YOU WIN!" You get a few more varied soundclips for EnemyChatter. |
12 | * AttractMode: A pretty neat [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_cAhHp4DK8 animated opening.]] |
13 | * BizarrePuzzleGame: A very loose variation of a MatchThreeGame. While Spin Jam has a match-three element, that ain't how you win levels. The three matched balls provide a force (of sorts) in a straight line that runs through the center spindle, which will cause affected balls to be shot away from the center and (hopefully) into matching-colored flower petals. Filling those petals is the ultimate goal. |
14 | ** In a variant, 2 player mode makes all petals infinite and the goal is to [[ThatCameOutWrong ram as many balls into them as possible]], because after a few seconds they'll come back on the opponent's side, possibly [[OhCrap transformed into negative status effects.]] You can also unleash a LimitBreak when your gauge is full and have you character blast theirs for a temporary stun. The match is won when one side's field is so filled up it spills out of the flower-shaped playing field. |
15 | * BonusFeatureFailure: What do you get after toughing your way through the expert story mode? A Powerpoint-style slideshow of {{concept art|Gallery}} set to the title theme music repeated 3 times, as seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYFmeYN1FwY here]]. |
16 | ** Double failure - those exact same pictures can ALSO be unlocked by beating the infinitely more brain-breakingly hard 100-round arcade mode with each character. [[SarcasmMode Yay, that was worthwhile.]] |
17 | * CallARabbitASmeerp / NonIndicativeName: Moolamb. Not a cow or a sheep, but a [[CartoonCreature red marshmallow]] that [[RuleOfCool rides around on a meteor.]] |
18 | * CharacterPortrait: Animated ones in the character select screen, taunting you compared to the [[OffModel sprites themselves...]] |
19 | * CriticalExistenceFailure: You can keep playing with a full field for hours as long as you keep blasting off bubbles before that very last grey one touches the center spindle, then BOOM! A character's defeat portrait can vary from merely [[InstantBandages being bandaged head to toe]] to [[DisproportionateRetribution having their robotic arms ripped off...]] |
20 | ** Possibly justified, as the opening as well as the VersusCharacterSplash implies that the characters are actually fighting each other rather than popping petals. This can show that [[CuteBruiser they may be tougher than their innocent appearances let on.]] |
21 | * {{Cyborg}}: Wigsey. Even his hair is artificial! |
22 | ** SwissArmyAppendage / PowerFist / RocketPunch |
23 | ** BubbleGun: More useful version than usual- Wigsey's robot hands can create giant rubber bubbles that he rides around like space hoppers and tosses to crush foes. |
24 | * DefeatMeansPlayable: For [[FinalBoss Moolamb]]. And also, oddly enough, Baby, who's the starter character Babybot sans {{Mecha}} after you trashed it. [[OffModel And for some reason his face and skin color change slightly when he's a separate character.]] |
25 | * EternalEngine: Babybot's world. |
26 | * ExcusePlot: A red marshmallow is threatening the universe somehow. Throw colored balls at giant flowers to defeat him and beat up everyone that gets in your way! |
27 | * FloatingInABubble: Every character has a pic of them doing this and a random one appears on the title screen each time. |
28 | * FollowTheLeader: Interesting example in that it obviously jumped on the bandwagon of ''[[VideoGame/BubbleBobble Bust-A-Move]]'' by being a NintendoHard puzzle game with a cutesy cast and a 'bubble' theme but its gameplay is refreshingly unique. Nonetheless, this trope probably contributed to bad sales. |
29 | * GainaxEnding: Moolamb gets into a spaceship [[BiggerOnTheInside smaller than himself]]/[[TomatoSurprise was a hologram all along?]] Just roll with it, in any case you just unlocked him as a character. |
30 | * GoingThroughTheMotions: In the pre-fight mini scenes each character has one animation, combined with one of three IncrediblyLamePun BondOneLiner snippets of voice acting. In game they have a couple of idles, a panic animation and a super move- varied enough not to get grating even as you grind through the hundred level arcade mode. |
31 | * HurricaneOfPuns: Several examples, but [[PunnyName Lemondrop]] stands out: |
32 | -->''Here's a bitter taste of defeat for you!'' |
33 | * ImprobableAge: Babybot, who's a baby in a mecha. |
34 | ** TheEngineer |
35 | ** GadgeteerGenius |
36 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: Poppy and lollipops. She can also ride one around like a witch's broom! |
37 | ** SweetTooth: Poppy again. The manual says she wears boxing gloves to keep herself from eating her home planet. |
38 | ** Lemondrop tosses the lemon tutu around her waist as her personal LimitBreak. |
39 | ** Booger's own LimitBreak is to throw his carrots at his opponent. |
40 | * LethalLavaLand: Gilly's world. |
41 | * LevelAte: Lemondrop's world, which is filled with nothing but citrus fruit. |
42 | * MadLibsDialogue: As a result of the abovementioned EnemyChatter snippets- it's two random lines stuck together based on the character matchup and if you're lucky it'll half sound like a conversation. |
43 | * MegaNeko: [[FunnyAnimal Nips the cat.]] |
44 | * PinballScoring |
45 | * PiranhaProblem: Aqualad's adorable fish friends [[KillerRabbit turn out to be these]] when he summons them for his LimitBreak. |
46 | * PlantPerson: An unusual variation in Lemondrop, who's part human, part lemon. |
47 | * PowerUp: Quite a mixed bag! |
48 | ** Color Bubble- Turns the bubbles it touches into the same color. |
49 | ** [[StuffBlowingUp Grenade]] - Blows up a few bubbles. |
50 | ** Rocket - Blows up all bubbles in a straight line down to the spindle. |
51 | ** [[LimitBreak Grenade Spray]] - Your super move in single player mode: a huge storm of grenades all at once. |
52 | ** Multiplier - One bubble that counts as many. |
53 | * PoisonMushroom: [[NintendoHard You'll see these more often.]] |
54 | ** [[DiscardAndDraw Randomise]] - Changes color of every bubble on screen. |
55 | ** [[InterfaceScrew Reverse]]: Reverses directional controls. |
56 | ** Death Bubble: Turns nearby bubbles grey, thus setting off a virus-esque spread. You lose if they hit the center spindle. |
57 | ** Bubble Bomb - A timer ticks down and at the end if you haven't go rid of it it pops open into a huge amount of extra bubbles. |
58 | ** Freeze Bubble - [[StatusEffects Slows down]] the interface until dispelled. |
59 | ** X-Bubble: A bubble that can't be launched into flower petals, only destroyed via Grenade/Rocket/Etc. |
60 | * RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Aqualad's fish [[KillerRabbit when they're not biting]], and the small lemon creature on Lemondrop's planet. |
61 | * SecretCharacter: FinalBoss Moolamb, Baby without [[PoweredArmor the bot]] and Innet, a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Giant Butterfly Schoolgirl From Nowhere]]. |
62 | * SpeakingSimlish: Booger. |
63 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Lemondrop seems to be all over the place with this. The opening sequence calls her just that, while the manual turns the "drop" into a surname (Lemon Drop). Selecting her within the game itself simply calls her "Lemon". |
64 | * SugarBowl: Poppy's world is one with lollipops that are as tall as trees, to which she restrains herself from eating up by wearing boxing gloves. |
65 | * TakeThat: See the hard-to-reach ending video above. Can you spot Nips the cat eating [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu?]] |
66 | %%* UnderTheSea: Aqualad's world. |
67 | * VersusCharacterSplash: Which gives off the impression of a FightingGame as the characters look like they're about to beat the crap out of each other. This is more evident when the loser of match is shown in a portrait with bruises and bandages. |
68 | * VictoryPose: Done not only when a character wins, but also when they successfully pop a petal. |
69 | %%* VictoryQuote |
70 | %%* WingedHumanoid: Innet |
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