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Game » consists of 5 releases. Released Jul 10, 2008
Series of names given to an unknown character(or a character not wanting to be revealed yet due to plot reasons) when he/she/it is talking through text boxes. Can be represented by "???", "Mysterious Boy/Girl/Man/Woman, "Unknown", "Person X", or many others.
Unrequited love is when one person loves another, but that love is unreturned. It could be unreturned because that person hates the other person, just doesn't love the other person, or doesn't even know he or she is loved by that person.
A credit screen that cannot be skipped or interrupted. No matter how hard you try, you'll have to sit through them.
Cutscenes that cannot be interrupted or bypassed through player interaction.
When a character wears a shirt/coat/etc. without putting their arms in the sleeves.
Games that feature characters that are known for a highly distinctive and unusual manner of speech.
When you gotta go, you gotta go. Urination is found in games for a number of reasons, including comic relief and a quick pathway to sobriety.
Valkyries are maidens who serve Odin. They take slain warriors to Valhalla.
Vestigial items may have had a use at one point in time, but now occupy a permanent inventory space and cannot be removed due to their special status.
A malevolent character whose goals are evil in nature. While villains are commonly featured as antagonists, not all antagonists are necessarily villains.
Fifth in the angelic hierarchy, Virtues are employed to create miracles such as healing disease. They can also strengthen humans' patience and will bear the burdens of the weak or overworked.
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.
The disgusting process in which a character regurgitates the contents of their stomach back into the world, usually performed as a means of purging the body of poisons or intoxicants, but often (in videogames, anyway) used as a means of projectile attack by non-human enemies.
The cool way to walk, with one or more hands in the pockets.
Describes magicians using the element of ice. It's also valid for beings distinguished by elements, like dragons.
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.
Variable and dynamic simulation of weather conditions can be used to add variety, atmosphere (a rainy day in an RPG) and/or challenge (rain on the racetrack in a driving game) to a game.
For games that have either wholly or partly Japanese title names.
A woman whose husband has died.
A man whose wife has died.
A personality archetype with a name that arose from Japanese Otaku fandom. It describes women with friendly, kind exteriors that deep down inside are actually rather cruel or possessive.
Player characters that are infants, children, or adolescents.
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