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An uninterrupted speech mostly given by a narrator or the main character. May include useful hints, interesting backstory, or character-related viewpoints.
Some creatures have three or more eyes and tend to be monstrous and frightening.
A Multi-Phase Boss is a boss that undergoes a significant and instantaneous change in abilities, attack speed, and/or attack pattern during the fight. These bosses do not fully regain health between forms and appearance changes are usually minimal, if at all.
My Nintendo is a rewards program that Nintendo launched in March 2016. It is the successor to Club Nintendo, which ran from 2003 to 2015.
When Nintendo dropped the price of the 3DS a couple months after release, those early adopters who bought the system before the price drop and registered it by signing into the eShop became the Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors.
Characters controlled by the game for players to interact with, as opposed to player characters which are controlled by whomever is playing the game.
When light in a game is being emitted from nowhere.
A circumstance in video games where the player will defeat large numbers of enemies without any assistance from AI or other players. This may occur for part of a game or the entirety of it.
Games that have had an Original Soundtrack album released.
A Palette Swap is when two or more characters share the same style sprite or character model with only minor color or cosmetic changes. Although visually similar, palette swap characters may have very different moves and personalities.
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.
Enemies that are adamant in their will to hunt you down. Example: Pac-Man ghosts.
By definition, a pirate is a (mostly naval) robber without commission from a sovereign nation. While maritime robbery has been around since ancient times, Piracy had its highpoint during the 17th century. They are easily identified by the "Jolly Roger", which is the traditional name of the famous skull flag.
A place to fall, often bottomless, usually resulting in death.
Pixel art refers to digital images composed of visible pixels, drawn with individual pixel-level intent and precision.
In video games Plasma is often used as a core ingredient in weapons due to its high temperature. Due to the amount of damage it can inflict it is effective against any type of target, whether organic or metallic
Games in which the player can directly control a spherical object or creature that rolls along surfaces, such as in Marble Madness. Often the basis of puzzle platformers where the sphere must be guided through an obstacle course.
Any character you can control in a game is a Player Character (PC), as opposed to a non-player character (NPC), which is a character that can only be controlled by the game.
A narrative that takes an unexpected turn. Commonly, plot twists come in the form of revealing that the player character is not actually who they thought.
Used in fighting games, projectiles are objects that a fighter can launch at another fighter to attack from a distance. While they can be used to simply inflict damage, projectiles are often used to maneuver opponents into disadvantageous positions.
Puzzles may need to be solved before the player can progress to the next section of the game. Often it may not be clear to players exactly what the puzzle is, or whether the an in-game items needs to be attained before it is even possible to solve it.
Random Loot is a popular concept for dungeon crawler and MMO style games. In essence, monsters or objects drop something that is considered valuable to the player with random qualities.
A boss that players fight multiple times throughout the game. They usually follow the player as they progress.
Retroachievements is a community created and curated site that adds Achievements and Online Leaderboards for supported emulators and platforms like Raspberry Pi
A sound effect that plays once the player has gained a level, solved a puzzle or reached a milestone within the game.
If a person is made of metal and has circuitry instead of a circulatory system, then their game belongs on this list.
A maneuver involving both horizontal movement and rotation about a horizontal axis. Many characters roll in a unique fashion, and certain vehicles are even capable of rolling
Game mechanics traditionally found in role-playing games that are incorporated into a non-RPG title.
Games that allow save file data to be transferred from one save slot to another.
Special locations in game that allow the player to manually save their progress.
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