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Video games stories with a bad ending or endings, in which the primary conflict is unable to be resolved and/or a bad fate befalls the protagonist.
Neglectful and/or abusive parents and parental figures.
A concept in games with multiple characters, a screen with pictures of all playable characters with the possibility of stat listings.
Typically found in fighting games, combos are a series of strung-together moves.
Demons are generally creatures of evil, usually from Hell, who are often totally untrustworthy even when they're not murdering everyone and destroying everything in their path.
Electric Wind Godfist (最速風神拳 Saisoku Fūjinken or Fastest Wind Godfist) is an enhanced version of the Wind Godfist attack in the Tekken series, and a signature move of the Mishima clan.
The last boss you face in a game, usually representing the final climax of the game.
In games, fire can be an obstacle, a tool, a weapon, or a solution. Just don't play with it...unless you really want to.
Not all elder people are kind.
"Hand to hand. It is the basis of all combat." -Gray Fox
Karate is an umbrella term for a wide range of martial arts originating in pre-Japanese Okinawa.
A process by which one player/creature's health points are transferred to another, particularly via a spell, technique or item.
Games that feature an antagonist--someone who opposes the game's protagonist--that is a man.
Martial arts are a popular set of skills that many video game characters possess. Martial arts are the cornerstone of any fighting game, and have influenced many platforming and adventure games.
The act of mimicking a dead body in order to fool an adversary.
A boss that players fight multiple times throughout the game. They usually follow the player as they progress.
SNK fighting games are notorious for boss fights of ludicrous difficulty. Common symptoms of SNK Boss Syndrome include absurdly high attack priority, overpowered special attacks, and AIs that read button inputs. Though it's most common in SNK games, the syndrome has also appeared in games by other companies.
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