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Instrumental music, often electronic, that does not follow conventional music structures, instead using various sounds to create a mood. Ambient music can evoke many different feelings in the listener, from tranquility to creeping dread.
The lowest of all the angelic orders, angels are tasked with delivering God's messages to humans in addition to being personal guardians. Angel has also become a generic term for any such kind of heavenly being.
Video games stories with a bad ending or endings, in which the primary conflict is unable to be resolved and/or a bad fate befalls the protagonist.
Games that let you choose the path you take through the story-line.
Videogames with extreme or controversial content will often be altered for release in certain countries, usually to comply with local laws or prevent cultural misunderstandings.
One of the age-old narrative structures in literature, in which a young protagonist faces conflict that transforms him or her into a mature adult. This is an especially common device in RPGs.
One or more events from someone's past that negatively affected them. Plenty of video game characters have such pasts.
In a franchise, it entails the second game that takes on a gritty and dark tone to distinguish it from the first.
Environments cycle between day and night, often with effects on other aspects of the game.
A pervasive feeling of sadness, perpetual boredom, or both, which can dramatically affect a person's life.
Some games portray cutscenes as portraits of characters talking to each other.
When a song is played over the end-credits, often by a famous artist.
Often referred to as Hentai, Eroge is a video game genre which has (usually manga-style) pornographic content and artwork.
An unofficial translation of a video game, created by people not associated with the original development team.
It's not just for airplanes anymore: Game mascots and MMO players alike have taken to the skies. Players can use flight to quickly navigate large levels, find hidden items, or take opponents down.
A game based on an anime.
These games were popular enough to warrant an anime, whether it was a full television series, an OVA (original video animation), or a feature-length movie.
Games that have been used as the basis for motion pictures.
Harem is a term used to describe Japanese works wherein a single average male character is surrounded by numerous attractive females, most of whom are romantically interested in the main character.
An in-engine cinematic is a type of cutscene that is rendered in real time using the game's graphics engine.
A plot device where innocent characters are killed. Sometimes players forced to watch it happen and can do nothing to prevent it.
Japanese pop music, also known as J-Pop, refers to the most popular and mainstream music produced in Japan. It is commonly featured in many rhythm games as well as other genres.
A love triangle is when three (or more) people are in some kind of romantic relationship with each other. They can become messy and complicated. It may or may not be competitive.
These games have an agenda - social, political, or otherwise. The message is hard to miss.
Moral dilemmas presented to the player that often have a significant effect on the story or other characters.
Multiple endings is a term used to describe different outcomes or conclusions to a game based on the previous actions of the player.
Nudity is qualified as either exposed buttocks, breasts, or genitalia or general lack of clothing. Video game nudity is largely a rarity outside of the PC market.
While all games on PlayStation 3 (2009 onwards) and later consoles have trophies, only games deemed large enough get to have the coveted Platinum Trophy for earning every Trophy in the base game.
Point and click is an interface featured in a specific kind of adventure game, where players click on objects and characters to interact with them.
These are the characters who may or may not wind up in a relationship with the protagonist of the game. Sometimes the player gets to choose if this relationship will develop, while in other instances it is just left up to your imagination at the end of the game.
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