Unprofessional Fridays of Tsushima
Unprofessional Fridays
Game Mess Mornings 05/17/24
GrubbSnax
8-4 Play 5/17/2024: ONE ANIMAL’S WELL
8-4 Play
The Community Spotlight 2024.05.11
The Community Spotlight 2024.05.04
The Community Spotlight 2024.04.27
Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Mar 09, 1996
The shell game is a short-con "gambling game" used by confidence tricksters. It requires three shells (or similar) and a small ball. The shell game can also be played fair, without cheating.
No point in gathering coins, gold, gil, money, or whatever if you can't buy anything with it.
Shy Guys are masked hoodlums of the Mushroom Universe.
Sidekicks, different from partners, are less powerful, less important characters who support the main protagonist and generally stick by their side.
A lead character who never says a word, despite being spoken to.
Whether it's to restore your health, save your game, just for the hell of it, or all of the above, sleeping in games has numerous uses.
Sleeping is a common trope for many games, but this page is dedicated to those who take the time to put a character under the covers where they belong.
A Snifit is a Shy Guy who spits bullets from behind the mask on their face.
Clouds that, for some reason, can be stood on without falling through.
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.
Tiny red-shelled creatures from Super Mario Bros. Always a pain to defeat as they are covered with spikes.
A two-dimensional image or animation overlaid into a scene. The foundation of early 2D games, making up everything from props to the player-controlled character.
Marine animals characterized by five arms extending from a central disk. They are a lot more agile in video games than they are in real life.
Damaging enemies by simply jumping on top of them.
Summoning involves bringing a distant ally into battle to either perform a single, devastating attack or to fight on the behalf of the summoner.
The strategy of demonstrating how awesome something is by putting the word "super" in its title. Incredibly popular among developers making games for the Super Nintendo, which itself counts as an example.
The larval stage in the life cycle of an amphibian.
Whether by item or otherwise, temporary invincibility provides the user a brief moment where they are impervious to attack.
The Thwomp is a villain from the mario franchise. He is most commonly found in castle stages.
Games whose main character is so egotistical that the whole game just HAS to be named after them.
Toads are a species of intelligent mushrooms and the dominant species of the Mushroom Kingdom.
Yet another type of stage included in lots of games. Nefarious tin soldiers, deadly domino rows and letter blocks of death are some of the perils one might encounter in a Toy-Box Stage.
Some bosses transition through two or more forms during the course of a fight. Each form has its own abilities and health separate from those of other forms.
Turn-based games divide game actions into distinct parts, called turns. This gives the player time to strategically choose actions as the battle or events unfold.
Reptiles known for their hard shells.
A powerful weapon often found near the end of the game that is significantly more powerful than other weapons. It can also be the last weapon in an RPG game that does drastically increased damage compared to previous weapons.
Bosses that are designed to not be beaten; however, sometimes these bosses can finally be beaten at a later point in the game.
The Undead is an umbrella term describing creatures that do not exhibit the key fundamental attributes that are associated with life, such as respiration, and blood circulation. They are divided into two main categories: Ethereal and Corporeal, depending on whether or not they have a body.
Unrequited love is when one person loves another, but that love is unreturned. It could be unreturned because that person hates the other person, just doesn't love the other person, or doesn't even know he or she is loved by that person.
An Unwinnable State occurs either due to a glitch or by designer choice, when the player's actions make it so that the game can no longer be completed. However, the game continues as though it is still possible to finish and win.
This edit will also create new pages on Giant Bomb for:
Until you earn 1000 points all your submissions need to be vetted by other Giant Bomb users. This process takes no more than a few hours and we'll send you an email once approved.
Use your keyboard!
Log in to comment
Log in to comment