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Action RPG (Action Role-Playing Game), also known as ARPG, refers to RPGs (role-playing games) that use direct, real-time, reflex-oriented, action combat systems, instead of the more abstract turn-based or menu-based battle systems.
An often used plot device where the main character wakes up and has lost all their memories. The game usually centers around getting your memory back or uncovering the events that lead to your confusion.
When someone is androgynous, they have a mix of masculine and feminine aspects, or they have the appearance of being in between male and female. A common aesthetic in Japanese media and games.
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.
Combining or raising animals, plants, or any variant of living items into a child or new item.
The act of preparing food by applying heat, often cooking in games produces items which yield some kind of benefit towards your character.
The 2010 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) took place at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on June 15-17.
A competition where contestants attempt to eat as much as possible with in a certain amount of time.
Farming is the act of growing plants and raising animals for food.
A gaming genre of its own, but also frequently featured as a mini-game in other titles, especially RPGs.
Games that have a (usually) unique title, but then identifies that it is a sequel, spin-off, or other affiliation to a pre-existing franchise via its subtitle.
Any enemy in a game that is a much larger version of something that is not normally very large (EG Giant Enemy Crab).
Constantly performing an in-game action to progress a certain attribute.
The single most important thing in the world, love is a powerful story telling element that can connect characters or drive a story. There are many video game characters who have fallen in love with someone or something.
Marriage is when characters, typically a pair of them, are joined in loving (or not so loving) matrimony!
These are often a departure from the conventional gameplay of a game. There have also been compilations; games including only minigames. The Mario Party series has a lot of minigames, too!
This feature typically found in RPGs lets you capture enemies and then use them in your own party. This mechanic is used heavily in games like Pokemon.
Nintendo's online service. It supported the Wii and Nintendo DS.
After mysteriously falling into the town of Sharance the mayor allows the player avatar to stay inside the magic Sharance tree. Inside the tree are a living area floor and a garden below the roots. The player can purchase a wide selection of cooking instruments for his kitchen, and after defeating the first boss the tree expands with room for workshops and a monster barn.
Small forage fish that grows up to 8 inches. Lives in regions with shores in the Arctic and Northern Pacific. Can survive in landlocked bodies of fresh water as well as rivers, brackish deltas, and the ocean.
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.
Various fish species that fall under the Salmonidae family, known for traveling to the ocean from riverbeds upon hatching and returning to the freshwater beds to spawn.
Games that have an open gameplay structure that allow players to interact with the world as they choose.
A small and oily ocean forage fish that travels in large schools for safety. Commonly sold in packed, rectangular tins.
No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
These games are designed to be played by one person, and one person only.
An API feature built in to Steam that allows developers to support and customize multiple controller types on any device using Steam.
Tanuki are a type of raccoon dog native to Japan. In folklore, they are capable of shape-shifting.
A transformation is a different stage or form for something. Usually an upgrade.
A designated place or container in the game used to hold trophies, typically those earned from completing specific tasks.
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