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Game » consists of 7 releases. Released Nov 08, 2007
Platforms conveniently moving you towards your destination to allow the crossing of large expanses which would otherwise be impossible to cross.
When a game has several playable characters of different species, real or fictional.
Two or more characters are featured on the game's box art.
An overworld is a simplified view of the game world that allows players to freely move to different locations or levels.
Game bundled with gaming hardware (usually a console) in order to boost sales. Most often these games are first party titles, meaning that the hardware and software are products of the same company.
Games that are arguably the most fun in a "party" scenario with multiple players in one room.
Whether it's taking pictures of things for points or as part of a journal, photography is playing an ever increasing role in many of today's video games.
Non-pinball games featuring a level or stage that greatly resembles the interior of a pinball machine.
A species of carnivorous plants that reside in pipes. Some specimens can spit fireballs.
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!
The daughter of a monarch or monarchs.
Quick Time Events show up in all sorts of games as an attempt to make cutscenes interactive. Press the buttons displayed on-screen before time runs out, or else.
A sound effect that plays once the player has gained a level, solved a puzzle or reached a milestone within the game.
Platforms that spin around their own axis. May cause disorientation.
The Rule of Three dictates that a certain action must be repeated three times, usually when fighting a boss battle, in order to complete an objective.
A creature which is made up of mostly identical segments and has an elongated shape.
Sometimes the creator's logo or name can be found in the product's game world.
No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
Shy Guys are masked hoodlums of the Mushroom Universe.
The skeleton is the framework of the human body.
A low friction surface, causing a person or vehicle to either glide or tumble.
A cloud of fine particles.
A mode in the game, often an unlockable, allowing players to listen to individual music tracks, voice clips and/or sound effects.
Any practitioner of magic (wizard, sorcerer, mage, necromancer, etc.) who casts spells. Even unlearned scholars can throw a mean magic missile every now and then.
Damaging enemies by simply jumping on top of them.
Like a critical hit, this is a special action invoked from certain attacks in games or caused randomly on attacks by a character's statistic. It causes opponents to lose the ability to attack back for a certain period of time, and usually invokes the hit character to go into a special animation.
Sudden Death occurs when two or more players/teams have the same score at the end of the game. It can also be a penalty that activates when a player of match is taking too long. The players will then have to get rid of each other in a hurry.
A series of Japanese board games in which players use dice to move their pieces forward, usually with special events that happen on certain spaces in the track.
Summoning involves bringing a distant ally into battle to either perform a single, devastating attack or to fight on the behalf of the summoner.
Games that conclude with a screen displaying "The End" or a variation thereof, such as "Fin."
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