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When a character's spoken voice consists entirely of grunts or simple expressions of emotion, even if the character is able to say a lot more through text-based dialogue.
HD Remaster is a term to a single game that has been updated to conform with the HD standards on that console.
A heads-up display is a graphical overlay of vital information used in most modern games.
A hub is the central location from which a player can venture out into different areas of a game. It is often used as a clever way of masking loading between levels or worlds.
A common type of stage featured in many games. Slippery ice, avalanches, and freezing water are some of the unpleasantries to be had when visiting these cold arctic regions.
When stuff that always used to work suddenly break down when you need it the most and you either have to fix it or find another way around.
Whole levels dedicated to the industrial theme. These levels resemble factories or other industrial areas, and are often filled with conveyor belts, tesla coils and other contraptions.
Bugs that are sapient beings and have humanoid and/or anthropomorphised features to varying degrees. This page includes Arachnids (Spiders, Scorpions) for brevity.
A rather unpleasant experience, where your journey takes you to the insides of a bigger creature, followed by a desperate attempt to make it 'through', alive and undigested.
Games in which the two main protagonists are of different species.
An imaginary boundary in the game world that limits player movement to a specific area. They are often criticized as a poor component of level design, when an actual wall or other visible boundary could have been used to delineate a game's playing field.
Race of placid creatures that routinely get kidnapped in the Banjo-Kazooie series. They have evil counterparts that are called MInjos.
Klang is an enemy disguised as a barrel who is found in Grunty Industries.
A very clumsy person who is typically used for comedic relief. They are often seen dropping things, falling down, and ruining experiments.
A common type of stage based around the fire and/or lava element. Often platforming heavy and inhabited by fire-based enemies.
Rather than utilitarian names like "Level 3" or "Warehouse", many games give each level a unique title that has some relevance to its content.
An umbrella term for any sexual orientation or gender identity that is not straight.
A bold font type used in logos and in-game text.
Livewires are enemies found in the Banjo-Kazooie series.
A stylistic choice of employing small polygon counts for meshes.
An opponent that typically appears around the halfway point in a level. Mini-Bosses are more formidable than the average opponent, though normally not as tough as the end-level Boss.
These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
Minjo's are the arch enemys of the Jinjo's
A being that possess the ability to break up into smaller, identical beings, often after taking a certain amount of damage.
A partner is someone in a duo that shares the same status and/or billing. In video games, you often switch from one to the other because they have different strengths and weaknesses.
Player versus Player, commonly abbreviated as PvP, is a gaming term that originated in MMOs to refer to gameplay in which players fight against other player controlled characters.
Who needs 2D when we've got 3D? 3D, or 3 dimensions, is what we're used to seeing in almost every game these days, letting us do all sorts of awesome stuff like run in circles!
Porting is a term used when a game designed to run on one platform is converted to run on a different platform. Quality varies, though some titles are packaged with extras.
Promo VHS were a marketing device used in the 1990s to market video games featuring actual footage. Those tapes were mailed either to video game stores, or to potential buyers.
Games that feature quiz questions, often in the form of multiple choice responses.
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