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Frequently seen in RPGs and Fighting games, The EHI helps players calculate the current health of opponents.
When you try to quit a game, the game will pop up with a message or picture to try and make you play some more.
Creatures that bleat. Some are also satanic.
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The deliberate animation of breasts, meant to titillate as a means to conform to more realistic physics.
In video games, breaking the fourth wall occurs when a game becomes aware of its nature as a game, or when a character directly acknowledges the player.
Slimes are a common "starter enemy" in RPGs, and serve as a mascot for the Dragon Quest series.
Orcs/Orks/Orques are a fictional race of tough humanlike creatures, often with green or black skin, originally coming from the Saxon word for the Normans during the invasion, meaning demon or foreigner.
The ability to change shape. Humans shifting into animals is the most common type of shape shifting.
Players or enemies whip their hair back and forth to do damage to their opponents.
Genies, which originated from Arabia, are supernatural creatures that are magical and many can grant wishes. Some have a lamp or bottle and the owner of said item has power over them, including forcing them back into it and making them stay there.
Aquatic creatures with eight tentacles covered with suction cups. They often appear as boss enemies.
The disposable villians of the Shantae universe, the steam-powered Tinkerbats are much like the Goombas of Mario. They are wretched little cretins that do the bidding of Risky Boots.
See? The exploiting, soulless people who run the video game industry DO care about their fans!
Steam Trading Cards is a built in feature in the Steam client. It lets users collect cards from certain games and trade them and receive rewards for complete sets.
Most games based on this mythology adapts the One Thousand and One Nights tale.
A fictional currency is one where the object being exchanged does not exist in the real world, such as Final Fantasy's Gil, or are not used for exchange in the real world, such as Fallout's bottlecaps.
A Cover System is a gameplay mechanic that specifically governs the player's ability to hide behind objects to avoid detection or enemy fire.
Parallax scrolling is a scrolling effect used in video game graphics, employing multiple scrolling layers to create the illusion of depth, for a pseudo-3D effect in an otherwise 2D scrolling game.
These are the characters who prefer to walk through life without anyone by their side, even though many times they will still wind up as part of a team. They tend to be rough around the edges in order to try and push others away.
A Japanese machine for girls that allows to edit the photo after it was taken on it.
A destructible environment means the player has the ability to destroy his/her surroundings. This allows players to use the environment to their advantage.
For some reason, some games are named after the opposing person. Sometimes it's because the bad guy is cooler than the good guy.
A sport in which the player throws a ball down a lane in order to knock over 10 pins that are set up in a triangular shape.
The strategy of demonstrating how awesome something is by putting the word "super" in its title. Incredibly popular among developers making games for the Super Nintendo, which itself counts as an example.
A personality archetype with a name that arose from Japanese fandom. It describes a person with cold, aggressive, or confrontational exteriors that are rather soft or kind deep down inside.
When two players share the same controller to either play the same game competitively or cooperatively.
Games released on handheld consoles where the multiplayer happens on the same console.
These are games based on toys or toy franchises.
The common use of "Zero" or "0" at the end of a game's title to emphasize it as a precursor to the rest of the series. Similarly, some series will title a prequel "Origins" instead to denote it as the earliest point in the story.
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