Why does his mother even know that?
Linear RPG is an Adobe Flash game by Sophie Houlden that reduces linear "role-playing" games to their simplest components.
It can be played online
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Linear RPG provides examples of the following tropes:
- Absurdly High Level Cap: 99, as you'd expect. You can easily finish at level 40.
- All Just a Dream: A wet dream to be precise...
- Big Bad: The Alphabetti Spaghetti
- The Chosen One: Kliche
- Contemplate Our Navels: One example: "Kliche considers the fact that destiny and fate are really the same thing, but perhaps the old man was referring to a deeper truth in the causality of the universe and the phenomena that make up his life..."
- Cool Horse: The pegacorn, so cool that Chuck Norris has like eight of them.
- Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Dying sends you back to the previous inn and you only lose experience earned after reaching it.
- Doomed Hometown
- Emergency Transformation: The pegacorn transforms into Bruce Lee mode.
- Excuse Plot: You don't even have to read the plot to complete the game.
- Gameplay and Story Segregation: None of the events in the story have any bearing on the gameplay, or vice versa.
- Good Bad Bugs: The annoying stealth minigame has a glitch that lets Kliche skip it.
- Good Morning, Crono: As seen in the page image.
- Level Grinding: ... No, seriously.
- Meaningful Name: Lots.
- No Ending
- No Sidepaths, No Exploration, No Freedom: Parodied. The game world consists of one long line and you can only move forward to progress the story or backwards to grind so you can reach the later areas without dying.
- One-Winged Angel: The later forms of the Alphabetti Spaghetti.
- Running Gag: Kliche always wakes up feeling wet.
- Sdrawkcab Name: Tseret Nievol
- Treacherous Advisor: The Alphabetti Spaghetti
- Unexpected Gameplay Change: A stealth minigame. Of course, it's only mentioned in the Excuse Plot while you just keep on walking to the left and right.
- Winged Unicorn: The mysterious Tseret Nievol has a pet pegacorn, supposedly so awesome that Chuck Norris has eight of them.
