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OFF (Video Game)

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OFF is an RPG created in 2008 by Mortis Ghost with RPG Maker, with music created by Alias Conrad Coldwood. Originally released in French, it has since received an English translation. Mortis Ghost himself has stated that he wanted to make a game that was like a cross between Killer7, Myst, and Final Fantasy VI.The player enters their name and are informed that they are now in control of "The Batter", a serious and determined man in a baseball uniform and the game's main character.Fairly simple, huh? Well, it gets weirder.The game takes place in a world nothing like what you know. Only a few moments after you gain control, The Batter encounters a white, wise, and snarky cat with a Cheshire Cat Grin who calls himself "The Judge". The people in this world, called Elsens, are all Inexplicably Identical Individuals. The item merchant Zacharie wears a variety of masks and has perfected Breaking the Fourth Wall, including saying that he knows he and everyone else are in a video game, and at one point telling you that the solution to a puzzle is located in one of the game's files in your computer (not that the other characters are any better; the player is repeatedly addressed directly by the name you input at the beginning). Strange creatures called Spectres are terrorizing everything in sight and mighty Guardians rule over the lands of the world, called Zones.The Batter's mission is to "purify the world" from these Spectres, and you have to help him with it.The latest translation can be found here, and the original French version here. There is also a soundtrack, that can be found here. Note: page is in French. The game's become reputable on Tumblr, being the sixth most reblogged game of 2013 (in comparison, every other game on the list is a big name title).NOTE: Since this game is highly subjective, be sure to put things that are implied, unconfirmed, or fantheory into the WMG section.It is also highly recommended to play the game in its entirety before viewing the tropes below.
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Main Character Final Boss: This is played straight if you choose to betray The Batter in favour of taking The Judge's side. For the entire game, you played as The Batter and have been helping him to purify the world, even as the dark implications of your holy task are brought to light. During the final boss fight, The Batter's final boss state is portrayed as a monstrous creature with an elongated mouth filled with teeth. However, if you choose to follow through with your holy quest to purify the world and side with your puppet until the end, this trope is averted.
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Madness Mantra
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Madness Mantra: One of the sugar depraved Elsens in Zone 3 has this.
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Unexpected Gameplay Change
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Unexpected Gameplay Change: The "Game of the Mortal Fall" minigame that plays in Zone 3, when you jump down the chimney.
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
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Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: All three Guardians, especially Dedan and Japhet, turning Jerkass and Ax-Crazy respectively. In Chapter 4 of the Room, they're all shown to be kind and have legitimate ideas and hopes for how to rebuild the world into a Utopia. Dedan and Japhet turn completely against their citizens and plans when things do not work out, while Enoch sticks to his methods, albeit as a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
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Inexplicably Identical Individuals
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Inexplicably Identical Individuals: The Elsens, save the ones wearing helmets or lab coats. The Burnts fit too, depending on the Zone — though Zone 3 has two unique ones, the Pastel and Critic Burnts.
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Enter Solution Here
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Enter Solution Here: The game has a lot of these, with codes written on walls or in books that the player must put together and either enter at a keypad-like group of blocks, or tell to a certain person.
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Descent into Darkness Song
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Descent into Darkness Song: The themes of the various Zones you go through. With Zone 0, it's just weird, but you'll soon after spend a lot of time in Zone 1, which is nice, quiet, rainy, and overall pretty in its musical choices. The same goes for Zone 2, more simple and somber it may be. Zone 3's music is outright ominous, which tells you you're going to be facing some hard puzzles and harder enemies throughout.
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Unreliable Narrator
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Unreliable Narrator: Here and there, particularly before the battle between The Batter and The Queen.
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Title Drop
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Title Drop: "The switch is now on OFF." You finally find out what "OFF" means at the very end of the game.
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The Sociopath
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The Sociopath: The Batter. He has little to no displayed emotions, and willingly destroys the entire world at the end of the game, if you allow it?
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Multiple Endings
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Multiple Endings: Depending on whether or not you pick the Batter or the Judge to side with in the ending choice,note Though if you lose the final battle, the game acts as if you picked the other's ending, (e.g. if you choose the special ending yet lose the fight, you end up with the official ending regardless) and then whether or not you have the Aries Card in your inventory after the credits roll.
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Violation of Common Sense
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Violation of Common Sense: There's a part in Zone 3 where the only way to progress is to jump inside a smokestack. Though hitting the floor doesn't kill you, the minigame on the way down could very well do so.
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Paradiegetic Gameplay
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Paradiegetic Gameplay: In Zone 3, the solution to the controller puzzle cannot be found anywhere within the game. You can give Zacharie the Music Box in exchange for a hint regarding the answer's whereabouts, to which he'll tell you to open the game's folder and look at the Read Me file carefully. The code is listed as a bunch of controller inputs with no context whatsoever.
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Human Resources
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Human Resources: The sugar is made of Elsen corpses.
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Stealth Pun
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Stealth Pun: Makes sense that The Batter's basic battle theme, "Pepper Steak", would be an electro-swing song. Elsens turn Burnt when faced with sufficient stress. Most Burnt are depicted with a gushing fountain where their heads should be, so they're literally losing their head over things. The word for "to fight or beat" in French? "Battre".
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Snicket Warning Label
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Snicket Warning Label: At the beginning of the game, no less.
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I'm a Humanitarian
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I'm a Humanitarian: invoked The Elsens of Zone 3 unwittingly eat processed dead people as a dessert — though the Elsens producing it are fully aware of it.
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Everybody's Dead, Dave
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Everybody's Dead, Dave: If you choose the official ending, everyone dies. If you choose the special ending, only the Judge, the lone Elsen in the safe room, the Secretaries, and Zacharie are left alive (assuming that you kill Sugar).
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Subverted Catch-Phrase
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Subverted Catchphrase: "I'm the Batter, and I jumped down the chimney."
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Status Effects
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Status Effects: All the usual ones are present such as Poison, Sleep, Silence, and Paralysis, though the latter two are called Muted and Palsy.
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Bilingual Bonus
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Zacharie's final line may be an allusion to the final battle, where you could potentially fight the Batter. Too bad it's in Latin.
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Easter Egg
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Easter Egg: In the library in zone 2, the book that tells the legend of the Queen is very faded in places, and the second page is almost entirely illegible… except if you edit the image of the book to make it easier to read, there's a note from the translator complaining about a barking dog making it hard to translate, and speaking highly of Kentucky Route Zero.
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Awesome, but Impractical
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Awesome, but Impractical: The Ashley Bat. It allows you to attack twice in one turn, but is only available after collecting all five of the hidden Grand Elements, which can only be found by purifying all the zonesnote though one can only be obtained by buying it from Zacharie in the Room, and one as a drop from the Superboss, defeating Sugar, and talking to Zacharie in Zone 0 right before the final boss battle. Also, you have to choose between the Ashley Bat and access to the Golden Ending. Ultimate Homerun, the last move learned in the game (being unlocked by the Batter at Level 45). It can instantly kill the Secretaries and even the final boss in one hit, only costs 118 CP, and with a Tuesday (which you find in the purified Zone 3), that cost goes down even further to 59 CP… but besides the Superboss Sugar and The Room (if you decide to hold off from going in it until you get Ultimate Homerun), there's nothing to use it on besides the Secretaries at that point, and most of the enemies can be easily defeated by Level 20 anyways.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: The Elsens from Zone 3 when deprived of their sugar.
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Deadly Euphemism
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Deadly Euphemism: What "purifying" obviously is, at least in the context of the Spectres. After seeing what happens to the rest of the zones, it works in this context as well.
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Tomato in the Mirror
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Tomato in the Mirror: invoked At the end of the game, the player and the Batter are confronted by the Judge, and the player learns that what the Batter has been calling "purifying the zones" is actually a means of genocide. All of the zones the Batter purifies become incapable of sustaining life, and if the player chooses the official ending and sides with the Batter in the final confrontation, not only does he kill off the Judge and Zone 0, but then even ends himself by shutting off the switch in the Room, which we can assume erases their world from existence altogether. Downplayed in that the twist is revealed if you choose to return to a previous zone you purified and, more blatantly, Enoch spells out exactly what you’re doing in his final words.
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You Wake Up on a Beach
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You Wake Up on a Beach: invoked The Batter first appears on the coast of Zone 0. According to Word of God, he was created there.
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Move in the Frozen Time
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Move in the Frozen Time: When you clear a zone, all color, life, and activity ceases to exist within that Zone. Whether or not time actually stops isn't clear, but it's functionally the same either way. Other than the protagonist, the only things left moving in these places are absolutely terrifying humanoid spirits called "secretaries" and a single, lone Elsen.
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After the End
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It also contains a notebook with only one page written in messy handwriting: "I have run out of oxygen-". This, added to the knowledge about smoke being what the Elsens breathe, makes for a pretty good hint that the world you are playing is After the End, which is confirmed by the Queen later on.
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Kick the Dog
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Kick the Dog: The Critic Burnt that you have to kill in order to get to Area 4 in Zone 3. Unlike the other Elsens and Critic Burnts, this one doesn't really attack. All it really does while you're attacking it is call for help. The worst part about this is that you have to kill it in order to progress.
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Gratuitous French
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Gratuitous French: The calendars in Zone 1; the game was originally in French and there was likely no way to change them.
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Boss Corridor
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Boss Corridor: The battle with Dedan is preceded by a long hallway with staircases. Enoch has a maze-like corridor which you'll have to run through from the other direction when he starts chasing you. The Room has 3 in particular: a long stretch of hallway (which eventually turns into a staircase) before fighting Queen Vader Eloha, and two sets of empty rooms preceding the fights with Hugo and either of the final bosses.
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Barrier Maiden
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Barrier Maiden: Killing a Guardian purifies their respective zone.
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Crapsaccharine World
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Crapsaccharine World: Quite literally Zone 3, where the "sugar" is made by burning corpses and is also some kind of horribly addictive drug that mutates the Elsen who consume it.
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Climax Boss
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Climax Boss: Enoch's fight is preceded by the revelation that each Guardian is the "living engine" of his own zone, and that killing them turns the zone into a lifeless void. Though the player might've already figured that out by the time they meet Enoch, should they have decided to revisit Zone 1 or 2 after the deaths of the respective guardians.
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Bleak Level
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Bleak Level: The Purified Zones and The Room.
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Ungrateful Bastard
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Elsens are easily fooled by using a necktie. They only catch on when you finish whacking spectres in the residential zone, at which point they'll promptly evict you. And take the necktie.
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Blatant Lies
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Blatant Lies: OFF describes itself as a "nice game for cute children". In reality, it's a deeply melancholy and incredibly disturbing surrealistic nightmare.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: The special ending which borders on Pyrrhic Victory. Sure, The Batter failed, but only Zone 0 is left by the end, and assuming you kill Sugar, only the Judge, Zacharie, and the lone Elsen in the safe room remain. Besides the Secretaries, and who knows what the hell those things are.
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 OFF (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e
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1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e
 OFF (Video Game) / int_42846e90
type
Elemental Powers
 OFF (Video Game) / int_42846e90
comment
Elemental Powers: The four elements of the game are: Smoke, Metal, Plastic, and Meat, which are also the building-block elements of all the Zones in the game.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_42846e90
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_42846e90
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_42846e90
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4713429e
type
Pamphlet Shelf
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4713429e
comment
Pamphlet Shelf: In the library in zone 2, each of the books only displays two pages, and most of the text is difficult to read anyway. Justified in that there's an Elsen in the library who asks you not to turn the pages, as it makes too much noise.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4713429e
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4713429e
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_4713429e
 OFF (Video Game) / int_479d4e5a
type
Would Hurt a Child
 OFF (Video Game) / int_479d4e5a
comment
Would Hurt a Child: The penultimate battle has you beating Hugo, which Wide Angle only describes as "a little boy," to death, while he can't do anything to stop you or fight back. The Flee button is nonfunctioning.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_479d4e5a
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_479d4e5a
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_479d4e5a
 OFF (Video Game) / int_48b9731f
type
Paper-Thin Disguise
 OFF (Video Game) / int_48b9731f
comment
Paper-Thin Disguise: Elsens are easily fooled by using a necktie. They only catch on when you finish whacking spectres in the residential zone, at which point they'll promptly evict you. And take the necktie. Zacharie attempts this, in Zone 3, while filling in for the absent Judge. It doesn't work, but that doesn't stop him.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_48b9731f
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_48b9731f
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_48b9731f
 OFF (Video Game) / int_496569e8
type
Race Against the Clock
 OFF (Video Game) / int_496569e8
comment
Race Against the Clock: The residential area in Zone 2, when it is being attacked by spectres.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_496569e8
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_496569e8
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_496569e8
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4ab9720d
type
I'm Cold... So Cold...
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4ab9720d
comment
I'm Cold... So Cold...: Sugar's dialogue after being defeated.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4ab9720d
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4ab9720d
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_4ab9720d
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4c3f14e0
type
You Are Too Late
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4c3f14e0
comment
You Are Too Late: The Batter says a variation of this to The Judge if you pick the special ending.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4c3f14e0
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4c3f14e0
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_4c3f14e0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4cefd8a6
type
Long Song, Short Scene
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4cefd8a6
comment
Long Song, Short Scene: Each variation of "Burned Bodies" is over a minute long, but unless you put the game idle, the only variation you're likely to hear get more than halfway through is the version that plays in Zone 3's overworld. "O Rosto De Um Assassino Cansado" and "Woman of Your Dreams" are a downplayed version since they play during the cutscenes before the fights against Enoch and Vader Eloha respectively, and "Dramatic Crescendo" just barely evades this since the song plays on the roof of the second Zone, not just during the cutscene before fighting Japhet.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4cefd8a6
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4cefd8a6
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_4cefd8a6
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4dac11b8
type
Overly Generous Time Limit
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4dac11b8
comment
Overly Generous Time Limit: Played with in Zone 2's residential area, which gives you a time limit of four minutes to purify all the spectres in the area. If you're playing through the area normally and only purify the spectres, even an inexperienced player will be able to purify them all with two minutes remaining since the timer stops during battles. However, if you want to purify all the burnt as well (which is required to get a special piece of defensive equipment) and get all the items, this trope is inverted, and the incredibly urgent and dramatic music that plays during the sequence suddenly starts to fit a lot better.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4dac11b8
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4dac11b8
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_4dac11b8
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4e3d253b
type
Downer Ending
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4e3d253b
comment
Downer Ending: Both the official and special endings, though the special ending can also function as a Bittersweet Ending.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4e3d253b
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4e3d253b
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_4e3d253b
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536
type
Wham Line
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536
comment
Wham Line: Enoch, if you haven't visited a Zone after purifying it before defeating him: The Room is one hell of a Mind Screw with many revelations packed inside, but one line when fighting the Queen manages to stick out in particular. After defeating the Queen and going to save Hugo...
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c
type
Wham Shot
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c
comment
Wham Shot: invoked The first time you return to a purified zone, now barren of all color and life, except for the Secretaries. You know what you've done. It's too late to go back. All there is to do is go forward, to whatever the end may bring.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_4e7f703c
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4f37c96a
type
Duel Boss
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4f37c96a
comment
Duel Boss: The Final Boss fight if you side with the Judge.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4f37c96a
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4f37c96a
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_4f37c96a
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4fc0aaa7
type
Makes Just as Much Sense in Context
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4fc0aaa7
comment
Makes Just as Much Sense in Context: Mining for smoke? Getting metal ores from cows? Meat fountains? Don't expect an explanation for those; a lot of the weirdness is just plain weirdness.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4fc0aaa7
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_4fc0aaa7
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_4fc0aaa7
 OFF (Video Game) / int_504a1991
type
Body Horror
 OFF (Video Game) / int_504a1991
comment
Body Horror: The Elsens after they become Burnt.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_504a1991
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_504a1991
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_504a1991
 OFF (Video Game) / int_515eeccc
type
Sampling
 OFF (Video Game) / int_515eeccc
comment
Sampling: Pepper Steak has samples from the jazz song of the same name by the Washboard Rhythm Kings, and from "Just Gone" by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. "Flesh Maze Tango" uses samples from "St. Louis Blues" by Esquivel and "NGO" by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_515eeccc
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_515eeccc
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_515eeccc
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5313c266
type
Bookends
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5313c266
comment
Bookends: The Judge gives combat instructions to the player and the Batter at the beginning. At the very end, they battle as enemies.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5313c266
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5313c266
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_5313c266
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5372ed53
type
Macro Zone
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5372ed53
comment
Macro Zone: The second battle against Enoch is this, because of how monstrously large he becomes. Your battle sprites don't even have their regular jittering.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5372ed53
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5372ed53
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_5372ed53
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5558641
type
Gratuitous Japanese
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5558641
comment
Gratuitous Japanese: Some of the equipment names for the Batter, Zone 1's Shachihata, and Dedan's laugh bubbles in-battle.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5558641
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5558641
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_5558641
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5561eef8
type
Suspicious Video-Game Generosity
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5561eef8
comment
Suspicious Video-Game Generosity: The game always has a save point before the boss, as well as a dialogue asking if you want to continue.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5561eef8
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5561eef8
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_5561eef8
 OFF (Video Game) / int_560fd3cb
type
Fan Sequel
 OFF (Video Game) / int_560fd3cb
comment
Fan Sequel: There are numerous fanmade spinOFFs, both completed and in progress, that can be found on the OFF fangames tag on Tumblr. There is a non-canonical fangame titled HOME which tells the Judge's side of the story, made by Felix of Tumblr.note In truth, the world was recreated after being erased, and you're trying to make sure that its destruction doesn't stick. The latest version can be downloaded here, though it is advised you play through and complete OFF before challenging Home, as it is rife with OFF spoilers. There is another fangame known as UNKNOWN, made by Claude Huggins. Unlike the above, the Player mainly plays as Zacharie in order to undo the events of OFF. Then there's Continue/Stop/Rise, made by M256. Unlike the other two games, it takes place in a completely new location, and is mainly about Batter trying to find his place in the world now that his mission is over.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_560fd3cb
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_560fd3cb
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_560fd3cb
 OFF (Video Game) / int_58977071
type
Creepy Jazz Music
 OFF (Video Game) / int_58977071
comment
Creepy Jazz Music: The default battle theme is "Pepper Steak", a jazzy piece with unsettling repetitions. Even the most lighthearted battles in this game are against mini-Eldritch Abominations, and the Batter himself is no less disturbing.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_58977071
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_58977071
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_58977071
 OFF (Video Game) / int_598c85e0
type
Enemy Scan
 OFF (Video Game) / int_598c85e0
comment
Enemy Scan: The Batter's Wide Angle competence, though it's not very helpful in boss fights.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_598c85e0
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_598c85e0
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_598c85e0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5ac34441
type
Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5ac34441
comment
Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": The spectres at least that resemble bedsheet ghosts are not called ghosts; instead, they are called spectres, phantoms, or ectoplasms.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5ac34441
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5ac34441
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_5ac34441
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5bb56482
type
Contractual Boss Immunity
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5bb56482
comment
Contractual Boss Immunity: Downplayed. All the bosses are still susceptible to status effects, but Wide Angle doesn't give anything helpful beyond the boss' name and a brief description — and sometimes, not even that! Apparently, if you choose the special ending, the Final Boss form of The Batter is not immune to Palsy, which The Judge can inflict. This leaves The Batter unable to attack.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5bb56482
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5bb56482
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_5bb56482
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5c8fa553
type
Level Ate
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5c8fa553
comment
Level Ate: The meat fountains in Zone 1.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5c8fa553
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5c8fa553
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_5c8fa553
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5d5cc3fd
type
Through the Eyes of Madness
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5d5cc3fd
comment
Through the Eyes of Madness: If you take control of The Judge at the very end of the game, the Batter appears as a deformed monster, supposedly because the Judge has serious hallucinations (as mentioned in Zone 0).
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5d5cc3fd
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5d5cc3fd
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_5d5cc3fd
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5f4219a2
type
Free-Sample Plot Coupon
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5f4219a2
comment
Free-Sample Plot Coupon: The cards required to get to advance the plot count, since most of them are gotten after boss fights. The Grand Brachial and Grand Chocolatier also count, since the former is purchased from Zacherie and the latter is gotten by beating Superboss Sugar, while the others are gotten by revisiting the now-purified Zones, which have some extreme layout changes and are now infested with Secretaries.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5f4219a2
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_5f4219a2
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_5f4219a2
 OFF (Video Game) / int_62525a70
type
He Knows About Timed Hits
 OFF (Video Game) / int_62525a70
comment
He Knows About Timed Hits: Both the Batter and the Judge break the fourth wall to explain navigation and combat mechanics, respectively. This doesn't stick out as much as normal since there's plenty of fourth wall breakage elsewhere.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_62525a70
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_62525a70
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_62525a70
 OFF (Video Game) / int_62c1f9a9
type
Evil Versus Oblivion
 OFF (Video Game) / int_62c1f9a9
comment
Evil Versus Oblivion: On the Evil side, we have the Queen (according to worse-case interpretations) and the guardians, who maintain a horrific Crapsack World running on its last legs. On the other, we have The Batter, who decided to end it all. Who is more sympathetic depends on the player's personal interpretation.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_62c1f9a9
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_62c1f9a9
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_62c1f9a9
 OFF (Video Game) / int_64fa0ea8
type
Random Encounters
 OFF (Video Game) / int_64fa0ea8
comment
Random Encounters: Fortunately, the auto-battle function is helpful in dealing with them. Some areas use Pre-existing Encounters instead, however, most notably Area 4 of Zone 3.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_64fa0ea8
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_64fa0ea8
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_64fa0ea8
 OFF (Video Game) / int_65ad37c9
type
Pure Is Not Good
 OFF (Video Game) / int_65ad37c9
comment
Pure Is Not Good: Purifying those Zones might not be such a good idea after all…
 OFF (Video Game) / int_65ad37c9
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_65ad37c9
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_65ad37c9
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6602cad
type
Permanently Missable Content
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6602cad
comment
Permanently Missable Content: Many items and events if you don't manage to get them all before purifying the respective zones.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6602cad
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6602cad
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_6602cad
 OFF (Video Game) / int_66f763c0
type
Interface Screw
 OFF (Video Game) / int_66f763c0
comment
Interface Screw: The Room has selecting areas of the level through a fake title screen at one point, and walking upside down in one of those areas. In Zone 3, the answer to a puzzle is in the game's Readme file.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_66f763c0
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_66f763c0
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_66f763c0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6941e30b
type
Room Full of Crazy
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6941e30b
comment
Room Full of Crazy: A hallway in Zone 3 Area 4, before meeting Enoch, is full of posters only saying: "Executive suite's note: You must not be here."
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6941e30b
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6941e30b
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_6941e30b
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59
type
The Reveal
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59
comment
The Reveal: Three major ones: The true nature of purifying a zone, the truth behind sugar, and the true role of the Batter and the Queen.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8
type
Guide Dang It!
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8
comment
Guide Dang It!: Getting the secret ending.note You must get all five Grand items, defeat Sugar — you have to defeat her anyway to get one of the Grand items — and talk to Zacharie in Zone 0, then you must choose the Aries Card over the Infinity +1 Sword. One of the puzzles in Zone 3 is unsolvable without looking at the game's Readme file. You only get told this by Zacharie, who is hidden in one of many rooms in one of the many hallways of Zone 3 Area 4. And the only way to get him to tell you is for you to get a Music Box. And the only way to get the Music Box is to find and defeat the Boss in Mook Clothing — who puts up a very long and tedious fight mainly due to its Damage-Sponge Boss nature — who is also hidden in one of the many rooms in one of the many hallways of Zone 3 Area 4. And even then, you still need to find an extra sheet of paper that decodes part of the puzzle for you (although the game is kind enough to tell you that it's important). Yeah, that's pretty bad. On top of which, at least one download for the English translation doesn't include the Read Me file. There is a hidden chest in Zone 2 with a Min-Woo tunic by taking the pedalo not to the park, but out into the ocean. There is no hint to where it is or that there even is anything to begin with. Finding the Grand Spectral. It resides in a room that looks identical to the only other building in the area. And that area is just a big vast white. If you don't scour the area diagonally and enter the identical-seeming building, you're out of luck.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8
 OFF (Video Game) / int_704d7e91
type
No Ontological Inertia
 OFF (Video Game) / int_704d7e91
comment
No Ontological Inertia: Played straight with the Zones. Somehow, though, a sole Elsen survived by hiding in a safe room.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_704d7e91
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_704d7e91
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_704d7e91
 OFF (Video Game) / int_72d31973
type
Surreal Horror
 OFF (Video Game) / int_72d31973
comment
Surreal Horror: From the get-go for many, and really starts cranking it up by Zone 3. It's telling that Paranoia Agent, Silent Hill 2, and Killer7 were named as inspirations.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_72d31973
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_72d31973
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_72d31973
 OFF (Video Game) / int_7464705c
type
Arc Words
 OFF (Video Game) / int_7464705c
comment
Arc Words: The switch is now on OFF. "Somewhere over the rainbow" appears fairly often in the game's concept art, especially drawings involving the Batter.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_7464705c
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_7464705c
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_7464705c
 OFF (Video Game) / int_79a0e313
type
Bolivian Army Ending
 OFF (Video Game) / int_79a0e313
comment
Bolivian Army Ending: Panic in Ballville fades to black while the hero is seemingly overpowered by an army of baseball players.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_79a0e313
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_79a0e313
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_79a0e313
 OFF (Video Game) / int_7a6eac7f
type
Biblical Motifs
 OFF (Video Game) / int_7a6eac7f
comment
Biblical Motifs: The party members' classes are called "Savior", "Father", "Son", and "Holy Spirit", and the guardians are all named after people from the Bible. The Queen's name, Vader Eloha, means "God the Father", though in mixed languages.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_7a6eac7f
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_7a6eac7f
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_7a6eac7f
 OFF (Video Game) / int_7b7965dd
type
Boss in Mook Clothing
 OFF (Video Game) / int_7b7965dd
comment
One of the puzzles in Zone 3 is unsolvable without looking at the game's Readme file. You only get told this by Zacharie, who is hidden in one of many rooms in one of the many hallways of Zone 3 Area 4. And the only way to get him to tell you is for you to get a Music Box. And the only way to get the Music Box is to find and defeat the Boss in Mook Clothing — who puts up a very long and tedious fight mainly due to its Damage-Sponge Boss nature — who is also hidden in one of the many rooms in one of the many hallways of Zone 3 Area 4. And even then, you still need to find an extra sheet of paper that decodes part of the puzzle for you (although the game is kind enough to tell you that it's important). Yeah, that's pretty bad. On top of which, at least one download for the English translation doesn't include the Read Me file.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_7b7965dd
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_7b7965dd
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_7b7965dd
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero/Unwitting Pawn: The Judge's view of himself towards the Batter and the Player near the end of the game. Whether the Player feels likewise or not is subjective.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_7fbb2a3
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Voice Grunting
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Voice Grunting: Every character except the Batter has some sort of signature sound when talking, as detailed on the characters page.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_811dfb3f
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Attack Its Weak Point
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comment
The Pastel Burnt has more health than any other enemy in the game, at 99,999 HP. And if you want the best defensive equipment for the Add-Ons, you're going to have to fight it. Although that's mainly because you're not supposed to attack the monstrous body itself; instead, you have to kill the heads that periodically pop up from its mouth.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_82108e3d
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type
Gainax Ending
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Gainax Ending: Parodied. The secret ending "reveals" that the whole game was planned by space apes so that they could build factories in the purified zones to fight flying brains. This is a reference/homage to the Silent Hill franchise, games from which often contain joke secret endings with a similar tone.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_82accf22
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Superboss
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Superboss: Sugar, in Zone 0.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_8454f523
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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comment
What Happened to the Mouse?: The birds that rescued Enoch in The Room Chapter 4 (besides Japhet, obviously) do not appear at any other point in the game, nor are they ever mentioned. But considering the "I have run out of oxygen" note in one of the books in Zone 2...
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_863fa679
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Truth in Television
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Truth in Television: The game's presentation of sugar. In real life, refined white sugar has addictive qualities that can affect the brain in much the same way as drugs. It's also refined using bone char, which is ash produced from the bones of cattle.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_875615dd
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type
Black-and-Gray Morality
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Black-and-Gray Morality: The Batter is revealed to be the true villain, but it's not like things were perfectly fine before. Two of the zones are ruled by despots, one zone's inhabitants have become too afraid of everything to enjoy life, another's are hopelessly addicted to a drug made from the ashes of the dead (and if it's true that they export it to the other zones, it's probably only a matter of time before the rest succumb)... and of course the whole place is infested with murderous ghosts. And you never do learn whether or not the Queen was behind any of it, or had the power to fix it.
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_8767b1f3
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Atop a Mountain of Corpses
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Atop a Mountain of Corpses: The cover of the soundtrack depicts the Batter sitting atop a mountain of purified spectres.◊
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_88b1a0cb
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Villain Protagonist
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The villain from "Panic in Ballville" is a baseball player, and when you fight the enemies in this section, they appear on the right side of the battle screen, right where the Batter's party should be.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_898ff050
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Mini-Game
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Mini-Game: The balloon game and pedalo ride in Zone 2's amusement park, and the "Game Of The Mortal Fall" in Zone 3 Area 3.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_8a8afdce
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Deconstruction
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Deconstruction: Of the typical "Heroic Mime on a vague quest to Save the World" story. The Batter is a near-silent stoic, his small snippets of dialogue making him seem almost completely indifferent to anything outside his goal. He also plans to save the world by essentially destroying it.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_8ae880f7
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Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence
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comment
Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence: Usually in the form of little blocks. The game's creator, Mortis, even mocks this in one of his sketches.
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1.0
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1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
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OFF (Video Game) / int_8d6c8737
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Bears Are Bad News
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Bears Are Bad News: There's a whole hallway full of them in the Room.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_8d718b9e
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Non-Standard Game Over
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comment
Non-Standard Game Over: During the tutorial fight, if you keep using Auto mode, the Judge will die a most annoyed death from Batter's attacks, bringing the game to an end.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab
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Wham Episode
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Wham Episode: Entering a purified Zone for the first time, or if you didn't already, the last part of Zone 3 clues you in on the fact that the purified places have fallen into nothingness without life and the Batter's method of accomplishing the mission (or, heck, the mission itself) isn't as righteous as it seems. Entering the sugar refinery in Zone 3 and finding out how it's made. Everything just gets worse after that.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_8e20979
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 OFF (Video Game) / int_8e9cf84e
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"Blind Idiot" Translation: Suffers a little bit from this. Several of the most iconic parts of the game (Competences, Hugo being thought to be the Batter and the Queen's son, etc.) came about from a mistranslation of the original French game, the most egregious being Competences (as mentioned before, the reason being put under Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp"). While a majority of the errors were fixed in later versions of the English translation, it was bad with the original 1.0 version (and even then, a few of the problems still hadn't been fixed by the 2.0 version's release).
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_8e9cf84e
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type
Art Shift
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comment
Art Shift: Whenever the Elsens give exposition on the elements, detailed drawings appear showing diagrams relevant to the topic at hand. Such as figures of a cow's anatomy when explaining metal (which is made in cows in this universe) and people swimming when explaining plastic (which functions as the world's main liquid). Sections of the Room change the art up. A possible flashback chapter involving the Guardians shows a more "natural" and realistic brown and black ruined world, while the Panic at Ballville section is given a retro style with a greater color palette than most of the main game.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_912b24c4
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type
Absurdly High Level Cap
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comment
Absurdly High Level Cap: The actual level cap is 50, but it's possible to beat the game around Level 15-16, easily complete it without much trouble at around level 20, completely massacre everything around 25, and yet the last attack is unlocked at level 45, with steady unlocks along the way, both for the Add-Ons and the Batter. An entire element (meat) is likely to go unused by most players, especially as there is no New Game Plus.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_91526ff7
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type
Arc Number
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Arc Number: Four, with a hidden or atypical fifth member, possibly tying in with the Batter and baseball. There are four numbered Zones, and the Room makes five total. There are four elements, and sugar is the artificial fifth one. Zone 1 has five sub-areas: Elsen, Pentel, Damien, Shachihata, and Alma. Zone 2 has four areas surrounding the library: the entrance, the park, the residential area, and the mall. Zone 3 has four areas you traverse by monorail. The Batter has five healing skills. Save First Base, Save Second Base, Save Third Base, Save Fourth Base, and Save Secret Base. The Batter and the Add-Ons make four party members, with The Judge counting as the atypical fifth during the final boss fight against the Batter.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_9203bf6
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type
Damage-Sponge Boss
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comment
Damage-Sponge Boss: All the game's bosses, which is mostly RPG Maker's fault. Superboss Sugar especially, with a whopping 12000 HP. Although it does serve to make Alpha's Poison-inducing attack Not Completely Useless. The Pastel Burnt has more health than any other enemy in the game, at 99,999 HP. And if you want the best defensive equipment for the Add-Ons, you're going to have to fight it. Although that's mainly because you're not supposed to attack the monstrous body itself; instead, you have to kill the heads that periodically pop up from its mouth.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_92a1fa1b
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type
Back to Front
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Back to Front: The Room tells a story in reverse order, starting with Chapter 5 and ending with Chapter 0.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_92bec282
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Artificial Stupidity
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comment
Artificial Stupidity: To an extent. The OFF combat system is rather frustrating, because during the time you spend selecting moves, the opponent's cooldown will not be frozen, giving the AI a significant speed superiority over you. Because of that, it is recommended to set the combat to Auto just about always. However, the Auto system has one flaw — the AI virtually never uses healing moves or items on damaged party members. It may happen sometimes, but only once in a blue moon. If you want a dying party member healed or a status effect removed, you'll have to deactivate Auto and do it yourself. You can rectify this by setting the "Active" option in the main status menu to "Waiting", which makes it so enemies will wait for you to choose moves, items, and which enemy to attack.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_940a5958
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type
Big Bad
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comment
Big Bad: Queen Vader Eloha is apparently the one who created the specters, who are destroying the world. It is never quite confirmed if this is true, and Vader is implied to be Good All Along, but either way, The Batter himself turns out to be a much greater threat, as his aim is to 'purify' the dying world of all sin by destroying it.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_970c790a
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type
Ironic Nursery Tune
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Ironic Nursery Tune: "Grey Pencil," which plays during the scribbled section of the Room, and another one called "The Race of a Thousand Ants" plays multiple times — during the scenes with Hugo after defeating Dedan and Japhet, when you use the Music Box, and during the final, red-colored section of the Room.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_99c36bb5
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I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!
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I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!: Sugar. Complete with very unpleasant withdrawal symptoms.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_9b610976
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Interface Spoiler
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Interface Spoiler: As shown with Dedan, boss fights use a red background rather than the color of the setting you are in. The first fights with Japhet and Enoch both use the color of the respective rooms they are in, an early indication that you're not quite at the end of the zone yet. Likewise, the battle with the Queen uses a black background, cluing you in that she's not the final boss. Hugo's battle background is as red as the piece of ham he's clutching.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: In several places. Dedan, right before you fight him, says: "I'm the guardian of Zone 1! It ain't nothing without me!" — his words turn out to be literal. The library in Zone 2 tells a lot about the rest of the game: It mentions Enoch before you properly meet him and reveals Japhet's true identity as a phoenix in the puzzle with the books. It also contains a faded old book about orchids with no apparent name, which was given to Japhet, creator of the Library, by Hugo in Chapter 4 of the Room. It also contains a notebook with only one page written in messy handwriting: "I have run out of oxygen-". This, added to the knowledge about smoke being what the Elsens breathe, makes for a pretty good hint that the world you are playing is After the End, which is confirmed by the Queen later on. It also has a hidden book which contains the story: "The Toad King", which tells you about a hideous king which is challenged by a masked man, much like Batter challenges the guardians. It ends with nothing but the man killing the king, which reflects how Batter's victory literally ends with nothing. One Elsen in Zone 2 is afraid to go in the next room because it might suddenly cease to exist. Once Japhet is defeated, the entire park disappears. While running away from Enoch, one hallway suddenly becomes completely white. After Enoch is defeated, the entire Zone looks like this. The villain from "Panic in Ballville" is a baseball player, and when you fight the enemies in this section, they appear on the right side of the battle screen, right where the Batter's party should be. Also with Sugar, when you speak to her before fighting her, she mentions something about imagining a "huge, frightening ducky". After the fight, she says that the ducky has won this round. It doesn't make much sense at the time, but if you choose to side with the Judge when you get to the end of the game, the form of the Batter that would be perceived in battle strongly resembles that description. Throughout the story, the Batter is shown to be indifferent and outright dismissive of how miserable the lives of the Elsens are, which hints at his true nature. There are four/five elements, but only three guardians. Hugo is the fourth, most likely of the Room, or at least that's what is suggested in both the game and some concept art. The Judge is the fifth, the guardian of Zone 0, also hinted at in the game, and confirmed by Mortis Ghost. Zacharie's final line may be an allusion to the final battle, where you could potentially fight the Batter. Too bad it's in Latin. The intro screen itself looks similar to the strings you'd move a puppet with. Later on, you're called a "puppeteer", so you've been basically puppeteering The Batter. When you first meet the Judge, he mentions he had difficulty telling the Batter apart from his own demented hallucinations. In the Special Ending, when you take control of the Judge, you get to see just what the Batter looks like through his eyes. The game's title foreshadows the significance of the word "OFF", and how it plays a role in The Batter's ending.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1
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Western Zodiac
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Western Zodiac: The cards required to enter Zones and the stat-boosting Orbs are named after them.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_9dad9e49
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Gratuitous Greek
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Gratuitous Greek: The Add-Ons are named Alpha, Omega, and Epsilon. The Queen has three Add-Ons of her own named Delta, Sigma, and Ipsilon (Upsilon).
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_a059270
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BGMOverride
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BGM Override: During the Timed Mission sequence in Zone 2, "Unreasonable Behavior" continues uninterrupted during battles. Disturbingly, the music for the purified zones continue playing throughout battles as well, which makes fighting the Secretaries that much more disturbing. In the section where you run away from Enoch, the ridiculously happy ragtime music continues to play, indicating that it isn't the real boss fight yet. The music of Zone 3's subways — Yesterday was Better — continues to play over the battle with the Critic Burnt. The same happens in the battle with Hugo with "the Race of a Thousand Ants".
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_a0b62daf
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type
Furry Reminder
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Furry Reminder: Several with The Judge. At the beginning of the game, he talks about how cats like to rub against people's legs and purr, and eats cat food. Later, you see him looking at a cat food ad.
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1.0
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1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
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OFF (Video Game) / int_a1d3ebd7
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Joke Ending
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Joke Ending: The secret ending reveals that the whole thing was a plan by a trio of space apes who wanted the world destroyed so they could build a robot factory in their war against a race of flying brains. This was openly inspired by Silent Hill's similar joke ends.
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1.0
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1.0
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Gratuitous Latin
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Gratuitous Latin: Said by Zacharie before facing the Queen.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_a448674
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: Zone 3 has this in spades. Before finding out the awful truth behind sugar, you're treated to a cheerful minigame, and right before the proper boss fight with Enoch, he chases you down with happy ragtime music and a ridiculous walking animation.
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1.0
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Chest Monster
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Chest Monster: For some chests, you'll have to purify the spectres in them before you can get the items in them.
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1.0
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1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
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OFF (Video Game) / int_a51467fe
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Infinity +1 Sword
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The Secretaries, since you have to have the urge to even return to the Zone in the first place just to see them, and they have an incredibly low encounter rate. Not that that's hard if you're trying to go for the Ashley Bat/Aries Card.
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1.0
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1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
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OFF (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e
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Soft-Spoken Sadist
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Throughout the story, the Batter is shown to be indifferent and outright dismissive of how miserable the lives of the Elsens are, which hints at his true nature.
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1.0
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1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
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OFF (Video Game) / int_a8660c25
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Soundtrack Dissonance
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Soundtrack Dissonance: Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" plays during the credits after the bleak Batter or Judge endings.
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1.0
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1.0
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OFF (Video Game) / int_abad35b4
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be
type
Final Boss
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comment
Final Boss: In terms of gameplay, the Queen is this. Hugo and either the Judge or the Batter serve to wrap up the story.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ad9fbc1e
type
Pyrrhic Victory
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ad9fbc1e
comment
Pyrrhic Victory: Should you choose the special ending, both the Judge and the Batter make it clear that the choice and the fight is ultimately useless, since the world has already been destroyed with no way to bring it back.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ad9fbc1e
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ad9fbc1e
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_ad9fbc1e
 OFF (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3
type
Face–Heel Turn
 OFF (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3
comment
Face–Heel Turn/Heel–Face Turn: Depending on your opinion from the game's revelations, every player does one or the other at the end of the game when confronted by The Judge. You can either betray The Batter or help him finish his quest, but which side is less bad really is up to interpretation.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_af3ea0e3
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b0e18b32
type
Unique Enemy
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b0e18b32
comment
Unique Enemy: Due to how the area is designed, it's very rare that you'll find players who have fought the Arpagon enemies in the "Flesh Maze" in Zone 1. The Bears in The Room are a more straight example. The Secretaries, since you have to have the urge to even return to the Zone in the first place just to see them, and they have an incredibly low encounter rate. Not that that's hard if you're trying to go for the Ashley Bat/Aries Card.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b0e18b32
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b0e18b32
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_b0e18b32
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b0fb2427
type
Bread and Circuses
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b0fb2427
comment
Bread and Circuses: Japhet attempted to provide the Elsens in Zone 2 with this, but they end up going crazy from paranoia regardless.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b0fb2427
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b0fb2427
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_b0fb2427
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b1619b3c
type
Omnicidal Maniac
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b1619b3c
comment
Omnicidal Maniac: The Batter.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b1619b3c
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b1619b3c
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_b1619b3c
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b5b4c0cf
type
The End
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b5b4c0cf
comment
The End: Shows up not in either of the normal endings, but for comical effect in the secret ending.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b5b4c0cf
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_b5b4c0cf
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_b5b4c0cf
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be
type
Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp"
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comment
Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp": Characters have "Competence Points", or CP, instead of MP. In addition, there are a lot of bizarre names for items (a basic healing item is called a "Luck Ticket") and special moves ("Classical Taking"). Though "Competence Points" may be a failure of translation, rather than deliberate weirdness, as the French word for "skill" is "compétence." Consequently, the typical "Skill Points" in French became the unusual "Competence Points" in English.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_ba7c20be
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bafac7bc
type
Sad Battle Music
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bafac7bc
comment
Sad Battle Music: The Queen's battle music, "The Meaning of His Tears". Japhet's battle music, "Minuit A Fond La Caisse".
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bafac7bc
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bafac7bc
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_bafac7bc
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bb48f8ba
type
Timed Mission
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bb48f8ba
comment
During the Timed Mission sequence in Zone 2, "Unreasonable Behavior" continues uninterrupted during battles.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bb48f8ba
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bb48f8ba
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_bb48f8ba
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bc74ef27
type
Berserk Button
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bc74ef27
comment
Berserk Button: One of the only ways to get an Elsen angry is to touch their sugar. In Zone 3, a few of them are seen killing specters over it, when they otherwise would not fight back unless Burnt.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bc74ef27
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bc74ef27
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_bc74ef27
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bda474d2
type
Last Note Nightmare
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bda474d2
comment
Last Note Nightmare: Japhet's battle theme, "Minuit A Fond la Caisse", does this in the official OST, though you won't hear it in-game as it loops before that point.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bda474d2
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bda474d2
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_bda474d2
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bed47e72
type
Element No. 5
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bed47e72
comment
Element No. 5: Sugar, which is not actually an element in gameplay.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bed47e72
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bed47e72
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_bed47e72
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bef696dd
type
Mind Screw
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bef696dd
comment
The Room is one hell of a Mind Screw with many revelations packed inside, but one line when fighting the Queen manages to stick out in particular.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bef696dd
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_bef696dd
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_bef696dd
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c04b1231
type
Jump Scare
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c04b1231
comment
Jump Scare: Dedan's talk sound is very loud compared to the other ones in the game, so hearing it for the first time combined with seeing his Nightmare Face could be one to first-time players expecting a quieter sound. Due to the loud and sudden pre-battle noise, nearly every single random encounter could count as this. The Secretary encounters in the purified Zones in particular feel like this, due to the Zones' barren nature and how low the encounter rate is. Which does pose some questions: how does a giant flying sky whale manage to sneak up on you? Triggering a random encounter in the bowels of Zone 3 counts as this at least the first time, due to the battle music changing to Endless Hallway, a Silent Hill-esque industrial remix of the regular battle theme. Enoch also gives you a big one after getting back to the Zone 3 Area 4 subway. The fact that he's even bigger when he does doesn't help in the least.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c04b1231
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c04b1231
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_c04b1231
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c13c9e38
type
Tomato Surprise
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c13c9e38
comment
Tomato Surprise: invokedIf you pick the Judge ending, then you are forced to fight Batter. However, he looks like a malformed, twisted monstrosity with an enormous mouth and hands, and blank, dead eyes. Word of God states that this is how Batter looks to you now, because of his actions. Whether or not he's always looked like that is up to interpretation.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c13c9e38
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c13c9e38
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_c13c9e38
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c2393191
type
Show Within a Show
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c2393191
comment
Show Within a Show: "Panic in Ballville", in Chapter 2 of the Room.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c2393191
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c2393191
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_c2393191
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c6dccfb7
type
Musical Spoiler
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c6dccfb7
comment
Musical Spoiler: In the hallways of Zone 3 Area 4, you know shit is about to hit the fan by the suddenly disturbing music that plays, especially during battle. The first two times when you fight Japhet, the normal battle theme is still playing. Likewise, the theme when you're talking to Enoch is still playing when you're fighting him, and when running away from him, the battle music is the same as the running away theme. Obviously, these aren't the real fights. When an Elsen is about to become burnt, the music will suddenly rise or fall in pitch.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c6dccfb7
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c6dccfb7
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_c6dccfb7
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c75c63a3
type
Blackout Basement
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c75c63a3
comment
Blackout Basement: A section of Zone 1's smoke mines is pitch black. The Batter claims to be guided by "faith", or more accurately an aura that only allows you to see his very immediate surroundings.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c75c63a3
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c75c63a3
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_c75c63a3
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c75df49a
type
Shout-Out
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c75df49a
comment
Shout-Out Paranoia Agent, which has a recurring baseball bat-wielding character, was cited as an inspiration for the game, so the Batter's characterization isn't surprising. They even both turn into monsters. One to Watchmen in the "Panic in Ballville" segment, via graffiti reading 'Who watches the Watchmen?'. The Troquantary enemy has the competence "Paradise Smile", and the Burnts resemble Ulmeyda's transformation into a Heaven Smile. Dopefish has a quick cameo in Zone 1. Japhet's battle music, "Minuit à Fond La Caisse" (Midnight Pedal to the Metal), is a reference to the Show Within a Show of Lost in Translation, "Midnight Velocity". One promotional piece of art is an edit of the infamous Daikatana advertisement. Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", the credits music and the Tagline of sorts, mentioned below. The joke ending involving the space apes is a nod to the similarly nonsensical "UFO endings" of Silent Hill fame.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c75df49a
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_c75df49a
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_c75df49a
 OFF (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3
type
Nothing Is Scarier
 OFF (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3
comment
Nothing Is Scarier: The Zones after defeating the bosses. The colors are gone, anything readable turns gibberish, all NPCs disappear — with the exception of a lone Elsen in a safe room and a mourning Judge in Zone 2 — the encounter rate is lower than usual, and the only enemies are the Secretaries, which are creepy doll-looking things. The music — Not Safe — makes this even worse, with it turning creepy and full of demonic whispering, random slamming noises, and muffled cries. The Secretaries are never alluded to by other characters and that the Batter seems to think their presence is still an improvement. Some of Zone 3 Area 4's hallways turn black and white, after running away from Enoch and before the proper fight with him. The fact that no proper explanation is given for this may or may not make it worse. The Room can also count — while being all dark and deprived of color, many rooms inside are empty, or turn empty depending on what you do. One Chapter of the Room fills some sections with shadows, and in one Chapter is a section resembling a very sketchy doodle design, complete with similar enemies. The music in some sections doesn't help either — one in particular has music full of nothing but strange and demonic whispering. The Nothingness/World Map's music is aptly named, being a strange blank state with only a few flower-like objects, and its music also contains nothing but demonic whispering; however, usually you will enter and leave the area before the whispering even starts.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_cdfe12c3
 OFF (Video Game) / int_cf48c17
type
Nightmare Face
 OFF (Video Game) / int_cf48c17
comment
Dedan's talk sound is very loud compared to the other ones in the game, so hearing it for the first time combined with seeing his Nightmare Face could be one to first-time players expecting a quieter sound.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_cf48c17
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_cf48c17
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_cf48c17
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d028ca10
type
Deliberately Monochrome
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d028ca10
comment
Deliberately Monochrome: The characters and enemies are all monochrome, and the backgrounds and settings tend to have a limited palette (and once purified, that's gone, too). However, Mortis Ghost drew a picture showing most characters' actual colors, so it's probably a stylistic thing. The Batter seems to be the only truly monochrome character, however.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d028ca10
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d028ca10
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_d028ca10
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d2e9aba4
type
Game of Nim
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d2e9aba4
comment
Game of Nim: A mandatory puzzle in the amusement park of Zone 2 has you and your opponent take turns popping balloons, picking to pop one, two, or three each turn.note The trick is not to get stuck with five balloons.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d2e9aba4
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d2e9aba4
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_d2e9aba4
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d39e327f
type
What the Hell, Hero?
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d39e327f
comment
What the Hell, Hero?: At the very end of the game, the Judge calls out the Batter for "killing woman and child," and the player for helping him do it.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d39e327f
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d39e327f
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_d39e327f
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d42fb539
type
Our Monsters Are Weird
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d42fb539
comment
Our Monsters Are Weird: The monsters' appearances in this game are likely to produce reactions of "WTF is that thing?!".
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d42fb539
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d42fb539
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_d42fb539
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d46ddfa2
type
CloudCuckooLander
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d46ddfa2
comment
Cloud Cuckoolander: Mortis Ghost, the creator, paints himself as this. His FAQ on his Tumblr is mostly centered around his boat and the ridiculous circumstances around it, for starters.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d46ddfa2
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d46ddfa2
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_d46ddfa2
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71
type
Mirror Boss
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71
comment
Mirror Boss: A more subtle example, since the Final Boss battles don't last very long, but The Judge has substitutes for most of the skills the Batter and the Add-Ons have.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d50e7e13
type
White Void Room
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d50e7e13
comment
White Void Room: The purified zones bear a striking resemblance to this. Inverted with sections of the Room, since it's coloured black instead of white. The most egregious of these is a white room that leads to the Grand Element of Zone 3. You'll be walking around in completely empty space unless you move in a specific direction for a while.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d50e7e13
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d50e7e13
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_d50e7e13
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d7b34c31
type
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d7b34c31
comment
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Batter, the Judge, and the Queen. Even Enoch is at one point referred to as "the Director". Downplayed in that the Judge and the Queen's real names are revealed by Wide Angle (Pablo and Vader Eloha — and Zacharie mentions looking for a "Pablo" if you return to Zone 0 after meeting him).
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d7b34c31
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_d7b34c31
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_d7b34c31
 OFF (Video Game) / int_da32aec9
type
Fake Ultimate Mook
 OFF (Video Game) / int_da32aec9
comment
Fake Ultimate Mook: The Whales are enormous and intimidating, yet no more powerful than an average enemy.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_da32aec9
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_da32aec9
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_da32aec9
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e08fcc99
type
Battle Theme Music
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e08fcc99
comment
Pepper Steak has samples from the jazz song of the same name by the Washboard Rhythm Kings, and from "Just Gone" by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e08fcc99
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e08fcc99
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_e08fcc99
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e4cf1ef0
type
Load-Bearing Boss
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e4cf1ef0
comment
Load-Bearing Boss: All three Guardians. After you defeat them, their Zones turn bleak, empty, and lifeless.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e4cf1ef0
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e4cf1ef0
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_e4cf1ef0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e624f0e8
type
Suspiciously Specific Denial
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e624f0e8
comment
Suspiciously Specific Denial: Before being revealed in Zone 3 that, upon examination, the Elsen was hiding a Joker under his bed, the Elsen says:
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e624f0e8
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e624f0e8
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_e624f0e8
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e663d3ef
type
Only a Flesh Wound
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e663d3ef
comment
Only a Flesh Wound: One Elsen after encountering a group of spectres:
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e663d3ef
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e663d3ef
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_e663d3ef
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474
type
Hub Level
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474
comment
Hub Level: The Nothingness, which also serves as the World Map. It even has "World Map?" floating to the side of the screen.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_e7eb0474
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e9327f58
type
Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e9327f58
comment
Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: During the boss battle with Valerie, a cat, he's revealed to be a People Puppet for the guardian Japhet, a bird-like monster. Apparently, this came about due to Valerie trying to eat Japhet, and being controlled from the inside. Mid-fight, Japhet bursts out of Valerie, wearing the cat's body around his neck.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e9327f58
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_e9327f58
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_e9327f58
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f1d3f0c9
type
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f1d3f0c9
comment
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: The Judge loves indulging in this.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f1d3f0c9
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f1d3f0c9
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_f1d3f0c9
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f510b929
type
TagLine
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f510b929
comment
Tag Line: In some of the game's artwork, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow..." is used to this effect. "A nice game, for cute children.", mentioned above, is also used as well.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f510b929
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f510b929
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_f510b929
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f51f4509
type
Tagline
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f51f4509
comment
Judy Garland's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", the credits music and the Tagline of sorts, mentioned below.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f51f4509
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f51f4509
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_f51f4509
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f566c6dc
type
Why Isn't It Attacking?
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f566c6dc
comment
Why Isn't It Attacking?: The Critic Burnt doesn't attack at all, instead screaming for help, which, if you hadn't noticed before encountering him, is a pretty big clue that what you're doing to the Zones and their inhabitants might not be for the best.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f566c6dc
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_f566c6dc
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_f566c6dc
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fb111d49
type
Sequence Breaking
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fb111d49
comment
Sequence Breaking: If you go to Zone 0 and manage to discover Sugar before going to Zone 3, you'll discover sugar as an element before it's properly introduced. Of course, if you read the library book used as a puzzle in Zone 2, you probably already know about it anyway.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fb111d49
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fb111d49
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_fb111d49
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fb2136ec
type
Big, Thin, Short Trio
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fb2136ec
comment
Big, Thin, Short Trio: When you encounter them in the Room, the Zone Guardians end up being this. Enoch is big, Dedan is thin, and Japhet is short.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fb2136ec
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fb2136ec
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_fb2136ec
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fb2ff597
type
Last-Second Ending Choice
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fb2ff597
comment
Last-Second Ending Choice: Before the Final Boss fights, you either side with the Batter in his quest to end the world and turn the switch to OFF or you side with the Judge and defeat the Batter so as to save what little is left of existence. After making your choice, if you want to back out, you can switch to the other option by losing the battle.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fb2ff597
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fb2ff597
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_fb2ff597
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fc25c2fb
type
Cruelty Is the Only Option
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fc25c2fb
comment
Cruelty Is the Only Option: Killing the Elsen who can't fight back on the subway track as he calls for help, and also killing Hugo at the end of the game.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fc25c2fb
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fc25c2fb
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_fc25c2fb
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac
type
Theme Naming
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac
comment
Theme Naming: Just about the only sense the attack names make for both enemies and allies. Examples include the Secretaries hitting you with mathematical operations, your add-on Omega using graphic edition terms (blurs and perspectives), and Dedan attacking with clock hands. More details on the characters page.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fe0330fb
type
Brick Joke
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fe0330fb
comment
Brick Joke: During the Spectre attack in the residential area of Zone 2, there's an Elsen panicking in front of a locked safe room. The Elsen that locked himself in the safe room ends up being the only living Elsen left in the zones by the end of the game.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fe0330fb
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_fe0330fb
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_fe0330fb
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ff055287
type
Star Scraper
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ff055287
comment
Star Scraper: The plastic administrations building of Shachihata, which has 100,000 floors.
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ff055287
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_ff055287
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_ff055287
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type
ItemName
 OFF (Video Game) / int_name
comment
 OFF (Video Game) / int_name
featureApplicability
1.0
 OFF (Video Game) / int_name
featureConfidence
1.0
 OFF (Video Game)
hasFeature
OFF (Video Game) / int_name
 OFF (Video Game) / int_name
itemName
OFF (Video Game)

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A Form You Are Comfortable With / int_a451607c
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A God I Am Not / int_a4515c7c
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A Winner Is You / int_a4515c7c
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Addressing the Player / int_a4515c7c
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Advancing Boss of Doom / int_a4515c7c
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As the Good Book Says... / int_a4515c7c
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Atop a Mountain of Corpses / int_a4515c7c
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Back to Front / int_a4515c7c
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Background Music Override / int_a4515c7c
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Battle Strip / int_a4515c7c
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Battle Theme Music / int_a4515c7c
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Bedsheet Ghost / int_a4515c7c
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Bizarro Elements / int_a4515c7c
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Call a Hit Point a "Smeerp" / int_a4515c7c
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Cheshire Cat Grin / int_a4515c7c
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Climax Boss / int_a4515c7c
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Colour-Coded for Your Convenience / int_a4515c7c
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Common Crossover / int_a451607c
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Console Cameo / int_a4515c7c
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Content Warnings / int_a4515c7c
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Creepy Cute / int_a4515c7c
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Creepy Good / int_a451607c
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Creepy Jazz Music / int_a4515c7c
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Cute Creature, Creepy Mouth / int_a4515c7c
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Damage-Sponge Boss / int_a4515c7c
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Deadly Euphemism / int_a4515c7c
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Descended Creator / int_a4515c7c
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Duel Boss / int_a4515c7c
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Element No. 5 / int_a4515c7c
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11th-Hour Ranger / int_a4515c7c
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Enemy Scan / int_a4515c7c
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Enjoy the Story, Skip the Game / int_a4515c7c
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Evil Makes You Monstrous / int_a4515c7c
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Evil Versus Oblivion / int_a4515c7c
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Exposition Already Covered / int_a4515c7c
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Eye-Obscuring Hat / int_a4515c7c
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Eyes Always Shut / int_a451607c
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Family Eye Resemblance / int_a451607c
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Finale Title Drop / int_a4515c7c
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Foul Waterfowl / int_a451607c
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Game of Nim / int_a4515c7c
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Giant Space Flea from Nowhere / int_a4515c7c
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Gut Punch / int_a4515c7c
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seeAlso
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I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin! / int_a4515c7c
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Idiosyncratic Menu Labels / int_a451607c
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Impersonation-Exclusive Character / int_a4515c7c
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Indie Game / int_a4515c7c
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Industrial World / int_a4515c7c
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Inexplicably Awesome / int_a4515c7c
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Inexplicably Identical Individuals / int_a4515c7c
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Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence / int_a4515c7c
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Ironic Nursery Tune / int_a4515c7c
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Joke Ending / int_a4515c7c
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Kevlard / int_a076f85c
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Killer Space Monkey / int_a4515c7c
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Large and in Charge / int_a4515c7c
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Last Note Nightmare / int_a4515c7c
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Last-Second Ending Choice / int_a4515c7c
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Load-Bearing Boss / int_a4515c7c
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Mad Mathematician / int_a4515c7c
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Madden Into Misanthropy / int_a4515c7c
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Main Character Final Boss / int_a4515c7c
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Meta Guy / int_a4515c7c
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Mirror Boss / int_a4515c7c
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Move in the Frozen Time / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Nerves of Steel / int_a076f85c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Newbie Boom / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Nightmare Fuel Coloring Book / int_a451607c
 OFF (Video Game)
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No Fourth Wall / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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No Shirt, Long Jacket / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Non-Entity General / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Non-Human Head / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Not Hyperbole / int_a451607c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Ominous Music Box Tune / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Ominous Save Prompt / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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One-Gender Race / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Pamphlet Shelf / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Paradiegetic Gameplay / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Peninsula of Power Leveling / int_a451607c
 OFF (Video Game)
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People Puppets / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Player and Protagonist Integration / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Post-Final Boss / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Pure Is Not Good / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Real Song Theme Tune / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Role-Reversal Boss / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Rule of Symbolism / int_a4515c7c
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Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness / int_a4515c7c
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Shrug of God / int_a4515c7c
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Sinister Scraping Sound / int_a4515c7c
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Sociopathic Hero / int_a4515c7c
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Solemn Ending Theme / int_a4515c7c
 OFF (Video Game)
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Space Whale / int_a451607c
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Star Scraper / int_a4515c7c
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Stout Strength / int_a4515c7c
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Suicidal Pacifism / int_a4515c7c
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Surreal Horror / int_a4515c7c
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Suspicious Video-Game Generosity / int_a4515c7c
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Talking Animal / int_a4515c7c
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Terse Talker / int_a4515c7c
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The Dog Was the Mastermind / int_a4515c7c
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The Ken Burns Effect / int_a4515c7c
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The Maze / int_a4515c7c
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The Secret of Long Pork Pies / int_a4515c7c
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The Walrus Was Paul / int_a4515c7c
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Theme Pairing / int_a4515c7c
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Tick Tock Tune / int_a4515c7c
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Truly Single Parent / int_a4515c7c
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Tulpa / int_a4515c7c
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Unlockable Content / int_a4515c7c
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Video Games of 2005–2009 / int_a4515c7c
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Violation of Common Sense / int_a4515c7c
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Virtuous Character Copy / int_a4515c7c
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Voice Grunting / int_a4515c7c
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Weapons-Grade Vocabulary / int_a4515c7c
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White Is Pure / int_a4515c7c
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White Void Room / int_a4515c7c
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Why Isn't It Attacking? / int_a076fc5c
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Wrap Around / int_a4515c7c
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You Cannot Grasp the True Form / int_a4515c7c
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Zero-Effort Boss / int_a4515c7c
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sameAs
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sameAs
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hasFeature
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