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Time Stopping is the ability to stop the flow of time, stopping all movement from everyone but the person who used the ability.
Games whose main character is so egotistical that the whole game just HAS to be named after them.
A tomboy is a girl who behaves in a boyish manner. It manifests itself through the practice of games and activities that are typically considered to be the domain of boys.
A transformation is a different stage or form for something. Usually an upgrade.
Some bosses transition through two or more forms during the course of a fight. Each form has its own abilities and health separate from those of other forms.
Three games that are individually complete but are closely related in theme or sequence
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.
Bosses that are designed to not be beaten; however, sometimes these bosses can finally be beaten at a later point in the game.
Video games contain a lot of activities for players to do underwater, from exploration to combat. Sometimes games treat water as simple low gravity movement, while other games treat underwater more realistically.
Unlockable gamerpics are a form of reward for completing certain tasks in Xbox 360 games.
Extra objects, characters, or content in a game that can only be accessed after completing a certain task such as completing the game, or by using cheat codes.
Games that feature characters that are known for a highly distinctive and unusual manner of speech.
Weapons can often be upgraded with new attachments, augmentations, or magical enchantments. These upgrades result in the original item being more powerful than originally intended.
Vehicular combat combines driving and combat to form a unique fast paced action game. Many games are purely vehicular combat based (e.g. Twisted Metal or Vigilante 8) or can contain have sections for such combat (e.g. Halo or Mass Effect).
Primarily found in fighting or sports games, the versus screen typically masks the load time of an upcoming matchup. Sometimes codes may be entered here that will affect the game.
Some video games feature characters that play video games themselves, with the player sometimes taking control of the character playing the game-within-a-game. This also includes game characters who explicitly mention that they play video games.
A malevolent character whose goals are evil in nature. While villains are commonly featured as antagonists, not all antagonists are necessarily villains.
Just as heroes sometimes fall from grace, occasionally someone who works for the forces of evil will turn their life around and become a good guy.
A video game protagonist's enemies come from more than just the Animal and Mineral kingdoms. P-O'd plants have been battled by everyone from plumbers to the undead.
The Virtual Console is a platform service that first appeared on Nintendo's Wii and later on the 3DS and Wii U. Games from past consoles are emulated to run on the new hardware with the added benefits of system-level save states and other features.
Games that have you going into a computer generated virtual universe.
A sub-genre of adventure games, visual novels are a form of interactive fiction that usually have very little in terms of gameplay but often focus more on extensive storytelling, character interactions, decision-making and branching narratives.
Voice Acting is the art of providing voices for characters in games, television shows, films, radio programs, and other forms of media.
"Vore" is an internet term for a sexual fetish for the act of a creature swallowing someone else whole while they are still alive. The act is also seen in many video games, in a decidedly less sexual manner.
Also known as a triangle jump, this is the ability to hit a wall and propel yourself off of it like you were some kind of crazy ninja or parkour fiend.
A level that takes place either in or near water.
This is a place of special vulnerability. Particularly used in boss fights or when simply fighting Giant Enemy Crabs that cannot be defeated by usual means.
Found in many First Person Shooters or Role Playing Games, the player has the ability to swap their current weapon for another found on the ground or in their inventory.
Wii and Wii U games that can be played using the Classic Controller (Pro).
The Worlds of Power series were a set of books based on NES games. The books were brought about by Seth Godin (F.X. Nine) who became popular in his own right.
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