Ikiki is a Japanese indie game developer team known for their quirky and very hard Freeware Games. Ikiki was founded by Ūta (ウータ), and nowadays he is the only member of the team.
They released many (more than 50 and counting) games in their website, "Himojimura
", but they are only available in Japanese. You will need the help of google translate.
Several of the games Ikiki has produced have TV Tropes pages of their own:
Ikiki's games display following tropes:
- Author Appeal:
- Sound effects and voices from Team Fortress Classic are used in almost every game. Ūta was an enthusiastic player of TFC.
- Ūta doesn't seem to like offices and companies. From 2010s, his games often have office buildings to destroy, evil employees and bosses to kill.
- Black Comedy: Their Mini-games are often darkly humorous.
- Captain Ersatz: Their games often have the characters who are very similar to ones from Super Mario Bros., like the poop-obsessed brothers called Moreo and Burigi.
- Chromosome Casting: Most of their games don't have any women at all.
- Endless Game: Some of their mini games don't have the winning condition, like Aorin-Man or Nozumou.
- Epic Flail: The protagonist of Tekkyu-man (literally, Flail-man) uses a big flail to kill everything and destroy durians.
- Excuse Plot: All of their games don't have complex plots.
- Full-Frontal Assault: Many characters in their games don't wear clothes while fighting or killing each other. Genitals aren't depicted, though.
- Gatling Good: Bosses and giant enemies of their games often use a minigun as their weapon.
- Gorn: Characters tend to die messily, especially final bosses.
- Ninja: Ikiki has created lots of ninja-themed platformer games, like Nikujin or Kusemon. Their first game, Hosonaga No Yabou (the Ambition of Hosonaga) was also ninja-themed.
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Nintendo Hard: Most of their platformer games are fiendishly hard. - Ripped from the Headlines: Some games were inspired from news stories.
- Teppodon 's protagonist fights against the evil organization with nuclear missiles. The title of the game is very similar to North Korean missile, Taepodong (テポドン in Japanese katakana).
- In Yaozumou , you take part in match-fixing as a sumo wrestler. This game was inspired from match-fixing allegations in professional Sumo scene in 2011.
- Haijin was inspired from contamination incidents of yakisoba breads in 2015.
- The protagonist of Mongo-man has to play Pokémon GO-like phone game while driving.
- Aorin-man was created around when fatal road rage incidents (called Aori-unten in Japanese) got national attention in Japan.
- Rocket Jump: The protagonist of Binboman has an infinite supply of concussion grenades, and you can use it for jumping, or boosting your speed.
- Toilet Humor: Many games (especially early ones) involve human feces. For example, Tarenageshi is a game that you fill your brother (Moreo)'s mansion with your infinite supply of shit.
- Stealth-Based Game: In some games like Nikujin or Hakaiman , being stealthy is pretty important.
- Suicide as Comedy: In Tobioriya, you "save" suicidal people who throw themselves from the building... By shooting them with a bow and pinning them into the wall of the building.
- Sumo Wrestling: Some of their games have Sumo wrestlers as the protagonist or enemies, like Nozumou or Yaozumou.
- Worst Aid: In Heruniya, you cure hernia by shooting a bullet to the spinal column. If you fail, the patient's spine will be destroyed to pieces.
