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When text, usually dialogue, makes a sound as it comes onto the screen. This sometimes represents the sound of a character's voice, in the absence of voice acting.
When characters make conversation during normal gameplay, rather than a dialog-focused scene.
Hey, why are we fighting? Let's sit down and talk this thing out.
The comic relief is a character, other than the main character, who is meant to add humor and lighten the mood of the game. These characters are usually very dumb or very witty, and are usually very talkative.
A non-interactive sequence within a game most often used for plot advancement.
Some games portray cutscenes as portraits of characters talking to each other.
Joke characters are characters in video games that provide humor, and are often parodies of characters from other games, or parodies of famous celebrities.
An implementation of lore that is meant to flesh out the game world, without becoming a hindrance to the overall pacing of the game itself.
A function or button that allows players to skip a difficult section of a game entirely.
A relationship mechanic present in latter games in the Fire Emblem series. Characters may form bonds, granting them stat bonuses when in close proximity on the battlefield.
Whether it has voice over or not, text bubbles are a way of reading the dialog that a character on screen is saying and or thinking.
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.
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