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Dating back 5,000 years, this game of skill and chance has featured in many video games.
Going barefoot is to go without the assistance of any type of footwear including shoes, boots, socks, wraps, etc.
Necessary to sustain life in organic creatures, the crimson fluid known as blood tends to make appearances when the body's structure is compromised in some way, a very, very common occurrence in videogames.
A concept in games with multiple characters, a screen with pictures of all playable characters with the possibility of stat listings.
You may think you know who you are playing as, but do you?
This concept is for games where at least one of the main characters is female.
The feudal period of Japanese history, which was dominated by powerful regional families holding large areas of land (daimyo) and military warlords (shogun), between 1185 and 1603 AD.
In games, fire can be an obstacle, a tool, a weapon, or a solution. Just don't play with it...unless you really want to.
The fixed camera was made famous by games such as the Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid franchises. Depending on the camera set, up could be down and left could be right. Even in the later generation of consoles, games like the God of War franchise still use this technique.
Fog plays an important role in many games. In games like Silent Hill, it's an atmospheric element. In other games, it's artificially added to reduce draw distances to save memory and increase framerate.
When the gender of an established fictional character or historical personality is swapped with the opposite sex in a particular game.
These spooky entities are the spirits of the dead, returned from beyond their graves for generally sinister purposes. There's generally about even odds whether a particular ghost will be helpful or malevolent towards the living, but some ghosts just want to be left alone entirely.
Goblins are irritable, evil and mischievous creatures in folklore. They can range in size from halfling to average human size.
A form of execution, or suicide, in which a person is hanged by the neck until dead - from a broken neck if they're lucky, strangulation if they're not.
A period of peace in Japan that stretched from 794-1192 during which many distinctive aspects of Japanese culture were formed.
Commonly found in Survival Horror games, this concept only lets you save your game using an item which the game then gave you in limited supply.
Horror games influenced predominantly by the look, feel, and themes of Japanese horror cinema, or non-horror games that allude to the cultural horror aesthetic. J-Horror, or psychological horror, is sometimes classified as a sub-genre of survival horror.
Somebody wrote or drew a message on the wall, maybe it was in blood, maybe they had a marker handy; but now here you are, reading it.
Sometimes one playable character just isn't enough.
Games in which, instead of playing on "Easy" or "Hard", players play on "Marine" or "Way of the Samurai".
Mystics of Japan's Heian era that practiced divination, exorcism, and similar arts. They held sway at the imperial court, with a select few such as Abe no Seimei becoming particularly celebrated in history.
Special locations in game that allow the player to manually save their progress.
A lead character who never says a word, despite being spoken to.
Games whose titles consist of a single word.
An eight legged arachnid. Some make webs to catch prey and some are poisonous. None have made a web grand enough to be called a parlor, though.
Popularized by franchises such as Resident Evil and Silent Hill, these games typically involve a strong implication of danger, vulnerable protagonists, and disturbing monsters.
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