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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.
Trophies are an incentive-based system for the completion of various objective in PS3, Vita, and PS4 titles.
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.
A cutscene that is viewed through the eyes of the protagonist or some other character. POV stands for "point of view".
In a number of games, characters often talk about friendship and the importance of friends, some sacrificing themselves for one another.
Pregnancy is the term for when a female of a species is carrying a new, developing member of the species within her body.
Romance in video games can either be interactive, in which the player attempts to woo another character, or an unchangeable part of the story of a given game.
An intimate physical activity between two or more individuals.
Female characters who are designed with highly idealized figures and proportions, outfits that are revealing and/or form-fitting, and prone to ending up in completely over-the-top poses designed to show off their bodies.
Crunchy frozen water fallen from the sky. Many games feature a snow world, a snow level, or otherwise-connected regions of wintery landscapes.
A game that takes gameplay mechanics, characters, or story elements from an existing series in a separate and different direction, sometimes changing genres along the way.
A terminal illness is a sickness or disease with no cure. Barring a miracle, the afflicted will die because of it.
The act of changing an event in the past that significantly alters further events leading up to the present. This is a major element of many stories involving time travel.
A time paradox is when a person who travels in time does something that influences their past self in a way that traveling in time in the first place would not be possible or not have occurred without the first intrusion.
The concept of a character leaping forwards or backwards in time.
A tragic hero is a protagonist who makes several mistakes to fall from glory, or is affected by tragedy and seeks revenge or redemption.
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.
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.
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