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Piranhas are omnivorous freshwater fish. They are labeled voracious human killers.
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A "cute'em up" is a branch of the shoot'em up genre of video games that involve weird or cute enemies and protagonists. Game titles that would fall into this genre include Parodius, Twinbee, and Gunbird.
While many fighting games feature character-specific chains, a Universal Chain Combo is a combo that allows essentially every character in a given game to cancel their weaker basic attacks into their stronger ones.
The absence of belief in the existence of gods.
Characters in RPGs who take skills from more than one skill-tree, often sacraficing raw power for versatility.
Typically, losing experience is a penalty of dying or being hurt. Other games will allow players to use experience as currency.
Quests that are only able to be completed within a week.
Conjuration is the magic school of manifesting objects such as weapons out of thin air. In some settings, conjurers are also responsible for summoning creatures.
Demogorgons are the mysterious creatures of the Upside Down that Eleven named after the monster from Dungeons & Dragons.
A promotional program for downloadable games on PlayStation Network that began in 2011.
Episodic games that were left incomplete due to the project being halted or cancelled before the final episode could be released.
The common use of "Zero" or "0" at the end of a game's title to emphasize it as a precursor to the rest of the series. Similarly, some series will title a prequel "Origins" instead to denote it as the earliest point in the story.
A half human, half reptile mutant introduced in Resident Evil, Hunters recur throughout the series in numerous forms.
The Bangsian Fantasy is a fantasy trope where famous historical or literary individuals interact within the after-life. It was named after John Kendrick Bangs who often wrote in said manner.
A Human Shield is a form of cover in which a player uses a body to absorb damage like that of a shield. It's usually found in first and third-person shooters.
A character working for an agency or organization who is, in reality, working in secret against the organization for a rival agency.
A trail of fire, electricity, or some other damaging substance that a character or enemy leaves in their wake.
This is an in-game time dilation effect brought about when the player is about to collide with a deadly obstacle. The slowdown allows the player time to recover from the situation.
An event in a video game in which the screen is split up into multiple frames to give the player better overview of everything that's going on.
If there's more than two rounds, there's always a final round.
Games which use an acronym or initialism for a title. The acronym is sometimes related to the games theme (ie. F.E.A.R. is a horror game, H.A.W.X. is a flight combat game).
Friendly Territory is a place where the player can buy and sell items, acquire quests from NPCs, and have no fear of being attacked by the opposite faction.
When you have a weapon that has a single shot, full auto modes, or even shotguns with semi and pump modes
When an animated character graphically looks realistic, but shows poor, unrealistic animations, the result can be very awkward. These instances of almost-human-but-not-quite can appear stilted, off-kilter, or even eery. This is the Uncanny Valley effect.
Sometimes the writers will deliberately slip the title of the game into dialogue to show off how witty they are.
Comic Sans (also known as Comic Sans MS) is a sans-serif script typeface. Despite being one of the most maligned typefaces of modern times, Comic Sans has still managed to appear in video games on occasion.
Need to sneak around unseen? Darken the room by shooting out some lights.
Koalas (Phascolarctos cinerus) are herbivorous, arboreal marsupials endemic to the coastal regions of eastern and southern Australia. Their diet consists almost exclusively of eucalyptus leaves.
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