Great Dungeon in the Sky is a Platformer RPG game by Lord Tim, oryx and oddball. Although the story is sparse, the gameplay is simple. You pick from one of the many characters and make your way through a randomly selected dungeon, fighting over 300 different enemies.
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Great Dungeon in the Sky provides examples of:
- Awesome, but Impractical: Yes, boss monsters become playable after you defeat them. Unfortunately, if you are unable to fly, then their large size makes certain platforming segments really difficult.
- Defeat Means Playable: The point of the game. Anything you kill in the dungeon becomes a playable character, and there are hundreds of characters to discover.
- Dungeon Bypass: Most flying creatures can simply go over the enemy monsters and head straight for the exit.
- Floating Continent: It's a dungeon. In the sky. Specifically, it's an enormous floating rock with an elaborate cave system inside it.
- Joke Character: More than one character is utterly useless in battle. Such as the Koi, whose only attack is Splash.
- Lethal Joke Character: The Cuccoo can fly, making it much easier to explore the dungeon and while its attack does 1 damage it has very little cooldown. It's entirely possible to beat the dragons with it.
- Magikarp Power: Beating a dragon isn't enough to unlock them: it unlocks an egg (whose only move is Hatch), which becomes a wurmling, and after killing enough enemies, becomes a drake then a dragon (and after each transformation, you are unable to attack for a long while).
- Monster Adventurers: Goblins, skeletons, cubes, angels, you can unlock them all.
- New Game Plus: After beating the dragons and the boss, you start the game anew, keeping all unlocked creatures.
- Non-Lethal Bottomless Pits: Only one level (the one with aliens and spacemen) lets you fall through the bottom, but doing so will harmlessly teleport you to the start of the level. Enemies, on the other hand, are not so lucky...
- No Plot? No Problem!: Just go in the dungeon and unlock some characters. That's all the explanation you get.
- Schizo Tech: Most of the characters clearly belong in a Standard Fantasy Setting. And then there's the gun-wielding soldiers of the Blue Squad and Green Squad, aliens and spacemen who wander the dungeon, and GIANT ROBOT serving as one of the final bosses.
- Underground Level: The entire game takes place in a series of caves, though some of the levels are clearly constructed to resemble other things, such as a village or a Tree Top Town.
- Useless Useful Spell: Status spells such as Slow and Paralyze are generally pointless due to their long cooldown times and the fact that every attack has the same cooldown meter, meaning that you won't be able to finish off your target before it recovers from the spell. The enemies make much better use of them due to their ability to attack in groups.
