OHNO! LYLE'S KITTY HAS BEEN STOLENED
AND NOW HE MUST JOURNEY THROUGH THE
WONKED OUT LANDS OF THE CUBESECTOR TO
RETRIEVE HIS MEOWMEOW COMPANION!
AND NOW HE MUST JOURNEY THROUGH THE
WONKED OUT LANDS OF THE CUBESECTOR TO
RETRIEVE HIS MEOWMEOW COMPANION!
Lyle In Cube Sector is a freeware PC metroidvania made in 2006 that plays like a cross between Super Metroid and Super Mario Bros. 2.
You work with cubes. With the right upgrades, you can throw them at enemies, use them to propel yourself higher, and make them materialize in your hands. You must use these abilities skillfully in the cube sector to find your cat.
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This work contains the following tropes:
- Attack Reflector: If attacked from the front, the purple walkers will punch your thrown cubes back at you.
- Big Bad: Psychovyle is the main antagonist and Final Boss.
- Boss-Arena Idiocy:
- Klobbur's arena's ceiling is made of blue cubes, one of which doesn't get destroyed when it lands, just so you can hit him with it.
- Psychovyle's arena's floor crumbles every time he uses his super ground pound. He even runs directly into the electric beams that stun him.
- Breaking Out: The second boss has a ceiling of blocks protecting him. You have to deflect his green ball to break them and hit him.
- Checkpoint Starvation: there aren't any. While there is a teleportation room next to the starting location, various areas and in particular the second and third boss are far, far away from any of these.
- Collision Damage: Wait for cubes to stop bouncing before you touch them. One version makes bouncing cubes harmless.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The cubes come in various colors:
- Blue ones are regular.
- Blue ones that flash pink regenerate after being picked up.
- Red ones are explosive.
- Green ones do not break.
- Gold ones release health and cube energy refills and extensions when thrown.
- Big and orange ones are both heavy and explosive.
- Defeat Equals Explosion: Enemies all go out in explosive ways. Psychovyle's death explosion actually propels Lyle out of the pit the two fell in after the final boss fight.
- Drought Level of Doom: The gauntlet before the last boss, although it has gold cubes containing CP-restoring powerups scattered about and two gold cubes with HP and CP powerups at the very end. If you enter the next room and immediately turn back, these will respawn.
- Excuse Plot: Psychovyle kidnaps Lyle's cat. Lyle wants to rescue his cat.
- The Goomba: The most basic enemy, a gray caterpillar, only moves left and right and has one hit point.
- Grimy Water: Green toxic waste will kill you instantly, as opposed to the red lava, which just does one point of damage.
- Ground Pound: Psychovyle uses these and does a particularly powerful one when you hit him.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice:CAUTION: LARGE POINTY THING
- Item Get!: You get a brief description of what you can do with an item.
- Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence: Why can't Lyle climb over the blocks he would otherwise have to kick?
- Made of Explodium: Red and orange boxes explode when thrown, damaging enemies more than other blocks do.
- Make My Monster Grow: When you enter Buggzy's boss room, he is small and stands on a bone. When it's time to fight him, he grows.
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Nintendo Hard: This game is as hard as a typical actual 8-bit game. - Post-Defeat Explosion Chain: Defeated bosses explode repeatedly with a different effect from when normal enemies explode.
- Retraux: Uses 8-bit sprites and music.
- Rule of Three:
- Once you get past his ceiling of bricks protecting him, Buggzy only takes three hits from your cubes.
- After you feed the blue dog three eggs, he gives you a cube energy extension.
- Spikes of Doom: Clearly, spikes are harmful.
- Super-Strength: The Big Cube Lift upgrade gives Lyle the strength to lift giant blocks.
- Tactical Suicide Boss: Most of the bosses tend to have an attack that winds up biting them.
- Klobbur would be invincible if he didn't ram the walls and drop a cube from the ceiling for you to kick/throw into him.
- Buggzy is the Breakout boss mentioned above and would also be unhittable if he didn't shoot a bounceable green shot.
- Psychovyle smashes the floor with enough force to damage it with the super ground pound he does when you hit him with a cube after stunning him. Even more ridiculous, he runs directly into the electric beams that stun him.
- Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Don't attack the cow or the baby bird any more than is necessary to get their respective powerups. They fight back.
- Warm-Up Boss: Klobbur is the first and easiest boss.
