Let the game decide.
SuperMash is a video game released for Windows computers in 2019 and Nintendo Switch in 2020. In it, you use a machine to combine two game genres and play them. The story is advanced once you accomplish an objective, which typically involves beating several games of a certain kind.
This game provides examples of:
- Boss Warning Siren: Shoot Em' Up may announce a boss fight with a series of red flashes.
- Fight Woosh: JRPG tends to make the combat start with a spin animation.
- Game Within a Game: You mash between genres, characters, graphics, and sprites.
- Hard Mode Perks: Beating harder or longer games typically rewards you with more cards.
- Hearts Are Health: In the Action-Adventure genre, you usually get a meter made of several hearts.
- Humanity Is Superior: One of the opening narrations of a Shoot Em' Up game may metnion how it's strange that humanity won against a technologically superior alien race, but explain that it's because humanity has a strength of will and creativity that, on occasion, can be surprising even to ourselves and how such strength lets us win against insurmountable odds.
- Instant-Win Condition: Some games have a condition where, if you collect the money needed, you win the game instantly. Shoot Em' Up, for instance, instantly ends if you get a certain amount of money.
- Loads and Loads of Loading: It can take 20+ seconds to generate a game and another 10 seconds to load it.
- Random Encounters: JRPGs can (but doesn't have to) make its battles start at completely random. Even if you're taking part in the second genre's portion.
- Reference Overdosed: Simply put, there are tons of references, ranging from text (a mention of Ultimate Fantasy VII) to entire plots based on games like Metal Gear being the effective template for Stealth games.
- Regenerating Health: The Health Regain glitch lets you restore health regularly.
- Retraux: This is a PC and Nintendo Switch game released in the tail end of the 2010s but uses 16-bit games that look like 1980s or 1990s classics (even marked by year).
- Spelling Bonus: This is a common aspect of the Platformer genre- collecting S-U-P-E-R or M-A-S-H will give an extra life. Given the premise, you'll occasionally find the letters in areas of different genres.
- Spikes of Doom: Spikes are a common hazard in mashes. They typically kill your character in one hit.
- Victory Pose: Each character has a pose they make when you beat their game.
