Scott Pilgrim (video game)



A 2010 downloadable game by Ubisoft for the PlayStation Network (PSN) and Xbox Live based off the series of the same name. Was made in conjuction with the film and the PSN version was released on the week the film was due out (360 version came a week later). The game is a Beat Em Up not unlike River City Ransom made in a deliberate retro style that harkens back to the 8-bit and 16 bit era of gaming days. The Plot is the same as the series: you play as either Scott, Ramona, Kim Pine, Stephen Stills, Knives Chau or as they battle their way through countless mooks to take on Ramona's Seven Evil Ex-Boyfriends so that Scott has a chance to date her. There are a few changes from the comic to help fit the game.

Both series creator Bryan Lee O'Malley and film director Edgar Wright were heavily involved in he creation of the game. The sprites were made by famed sprite artist and animator Paul Robertson with music provided by Anamanaguchi, a chiptune punk band.

This game provides examples of:

 * Absurdly Sharp Blade: Near the beginning of Level 4, Roxy's sword is able to actually cut parts of a Toronto Streetcar in the game; she does it TWICE.
 * Absurdly Long Limousine: For Clash At Demonhead; and it's modelled after K.I.T.T.
 * Advancing Boss of Doom: Todd Ingram has a "Type B" sequence.
 * All There in the Manual: Nothing to prevent enjoying the game, but there are some things that are only explained if you read the series.
 * Ass Kicks You: Kim's strong dash attack has her throwing out her tushy to hit people. It's pretty funny to watch when you could actually use that attack to destroy a car as well as cement blocks.
 * Awesome but Impractical: The higher your strength gets, the harder you throw items. It gets very easy to have a rebounding item hit you in the face.
 * Background Boss:
 * Battle in The Center of The Mind: In Gideon's mind.
 * Beat Em Up
 * Bilingual Bonus: The credits give special thanks to "Gong Bao Ji Ding"
 * At one point, Knives will appear and call you a grass mud horse.
 * Bishounen Line: Gideon's final form is simply his normal human body with the pixel katana.
 * Bloody Murder: In 'Subspace Highway?',  blood droplets will rain down upon your group as you make your way through. Also, this appears to be one of   attacks, in the form of blood-red skulls.
 * Bonus Boss: Mr. Chau. Becomes an assist character if you beat him.
 * Bootstrapped Theme: "Another Winter" is quickly approaching this, "Rock Club" being a close second due to the raw awesome tonnage invoked.
 * Boss Rush
 * Classic Cheat Code: Lots. Some unlock the Power of Love, Zombie Apocalypse mode, Blood, coins change to animals, unlocking the sound screen and there's probably more.
 * Conservation of Ninjutsu: Played straight on Level 4. Or pretty much the entire game when you're fighting Mooks of every flavor.
 * Credits Medley: And dear God is it awesome.
 * Dark Reprise: Appropriately, Nega-Scott's is a dark version of the main theme.
 * Also, we could say that "Leave The Past Behind" is a sad version of "Another Winter" since both use the same structure and have the same intro. Besides, they are the only songs in the game to have a chiptune version.
 * Degraded Boss:
 * Downloadable Content: Knives Chau as a playable character, two new game modes, drop-in co-op and it fixes the bugs. For U$ 2,00.
 * Dragons Up the Yin Yang: The Katayanagi Twins' combo moves are accompanied by random taijitu.
 * Dual Boss: The Katayanagi Twins.
 * Eleventh Hour Superpower:.
 * Everything Is Trying to Kill You: True to the old-school beat-em-ups it's based on, almost everything can hurt you. Trash cans can be thrown at you, dogs will bite you and most people you meet are trying to beat you up.
 * Evil Twin: Nega-Scott is a more Black and White Morality version in the game. He doesn't seem to represent anything but evil, has an Evil Laugh, apparently animates zombies and
 * Excited Level Title: Every level except the title-less level six has one, such as "Evil Ex Crossover! Take down Clash at Demonhead!"
 * Fan Nickname: Some of the moves you can pull off with the weapons and other special moves; e.g. beating someone down with a cardboard box is known as a "Hobo Special".
 * Fictional Counterpart: As the original Comic Book tended to use actual Toronto-based locations for concert venues and shops, they were changed in-game. For example:
 * "Second Cup" becomes "Delicious Cup"
 * "Sneaky Dee's" becomes "Dee's Tex-Mex"
 * "Lee's Palace" becomes "Leo's Place"
 * You can buy a Smashing Turnips CD at Shock Wave Record.
 * Speedy the Porcupine is a video game sold in Wallace's Mystery Shop. It also raises your speed stat a significant amount.
 * There's also a Never Ending Fantasy game.
 * Flunky Boss: If playing with multiple players, almost all of the bosses become this. But even in single player mode, Matthew Patel and Lucas Lee play this trope in two different ways. Matthew takes cover in the middle of the fight to Summon Backup Dancers, whereas Lucas and his mooks fight together.
 * Flying Dutchman:
 * Fridge Brilliance:
 * Conversely:
 * Gainaxing: All the female characters seem to have this.
 * Even the zombie girls.
 * Game Breaking Bug: The game was rushed out the door to match the movie, and the game is sometimes prone to crashing.
 * Get Crap Past the Radar: Todd Ingram sure hasn't Barbie Doll Anatomy during his flashing frames, as evidenced by some sprite rips.
 * Giant Hands of Doom: . It's easy to win though.
 * Golden Ending:
 * Grievous Harm With a Body: Oh yes.
 * Hellevator
 * Homage: The Katayanagi Twins are playing a piano when you reach the end of their dark lair. Remind you of anything?
 * Ho Yay: We see Wallace making out with Jimmy in the background of the first boss battle.
 * Kevlard: There are enemies that repel attacks using their prodigious girth.
 * Les Yay: Kim Pine and Knives. Heck, with Kim's Assist, she summons Knives and gives her a kiss to gain health. Complete with Foot Popping and tongue!
 * Let's Play: Being done by Tipping Forties
 * Mirror Boss: Nega-Scott subverts this, in that he has many moves that Scott can't use. Particularly his fireballs.
 * Money Spider: Dogs, owls and wolverines all drop money for some reason. Subverted through robots, which (in keeping with the comic) don't explode into money.
 * Moral Dissonance: Scott's ending... is definitely questionable compared to what happens in the canon ending in the comic book, literally showing he has NOT learned anything at all, much less
 * Multiple Endings: Different endings depending on what character you are playing as.
 * Amusingly, of the original four playable characters, only Scott's is not compatible with the other endings. Kim ends with Steven Stills' ending is, and Ramona's ending is  Meanwhile, Scott's ending is
 * Ninja Log: Utilized by Roxanne.
 * Nintendo Hard: For first time players, the levels will take some time.
 * No Pixels Were Harmed during the making of this video game.
 * One Man Army: Obvious, given the genre of the game, but it's also the name of one of one of the trophies.
 * One Winged Angel: The fight with Gideon. . Also, in the first part of the battle,.
 * Palette Swap: The Katayanagi Twins, despite their full portraits retaining their different hairstyles and clothes from the comics.
 * Panty Shot: Kim, Envy and Lynette all do this. Ramona looks like she's only wearing panties.
 * Please Wake Up: If you're playing multi-player and one of the characters is KO'd, another player has to go and revive them before a timer runs out. If they fail to do so, said character loses a life. The Katayanagi Twins do this as well if you knock just one down.
 * The Power of Friendship: This is actually the name of one of the trophies you are awarded in the game when you fulfill a certain condition during multiplayer mode.
 * Pragmatic Adaptation: The game retains only the bare bones of the comic's plot. This is probably for the best, however, considering The Problem With Licensed Games.
 * Red Eyes Take Warning: Roxanne's eyes flash red on the third slash of her sword combo.
 * Retraux: Deliberately made in a 16-bit style to invoke this. As well as to play off the game theme of the comics.
 * RPG Elements: A crucial element of the gameplay; if you don't regularly increase your stats by buying food, you won't get very far.
 * Secret Shop: Wallace's Mystery Shop. It isn't very secret, what with the star painted on the door, but still...
 * Scary Shiny Glasses: To the point that, you never see Gideon's eyes (even when you are inside his mind, where there's no apparent light that could be reflected).
 * Scenery Porn: Nicely simple and detailed artwork. Then again it is Stéphane Boutin.
 * Secret Character:
 * Shout Out: Now with its own page.
 * Sickeningly Sweethearts: Cutscenes after the first four stages have Scott and Ramona making out while Kim and Stephen Stills stand around.
 * Sigil Spam: The 3G Heavy Industries logo (The inverted Triforce with the G's) is everywhere!
 * Sound Test: And you'll be thankful.
 * Sorry I Left the BGM On: The Dragon's Den music is very eerie in comparison with the other stages themes. But then, when you reach the Twins' Lair, you see them playing on an organ, and the bgm stops just as they stop playing it.
 * If one were to use the cheatcode to get to the sound test, it's revealed that it's Joseph's bedroom, and he's been broadcasting all the background music in the game except for places like the Katayanagi lair and Chaos Theater.
 * Spiritual Successor: To the GBA game based on the the 2007 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie.
 * Stealth Pun: The 6th level has almost no background characters, save for Stacey and every single non-playable gay guy. Combine this with the elf that gives you coins and you've got yourself a fairy forest!
 * Summon Backup Dancers: The Demon Hipster Chicks Patel can summon.
 * Tactical Suicide Boss: If, he would be undefeatable.
 * Traintop Battle: The second part of the 4th level.
 * Turns Red: All the evil exes do this when low on health.
 * Urban Legend of Zelda: People are already trying to figure out how to get to the Mario-style Green Pipes scattered throughout the overhead screen.
 * Victory Fakeout:
 * Wake Up Call Boss: Todd Ingram. While Matthew and Lucas weren't too hard to deal with, Todd will murder you if you try the same tricks you used on them. It also doesn't help that he's the first boss you meet that's nigh impossible to beat if you've been neglecting your stats: if you haven't been building your strength up, all you get is a nice bunch of 1's when you hit him.
 * Wife Husbandry: Gideon isn't kidnapping girls to make them his girlfriend in the video game,
 * Whip Sword: On Roxanne, the fourth evil ex.
 * Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him: During the boss battle with Todd,
 * Zombie Apocalypse: There are a couple of Zombies in the park, but they're relatively easy; especially if you throw them into the convenient open graves. However, there's also "Survival Horror" mode (unlockable by code), where you are in one non-scroll screen, and more and more zombies keep coming out of the wood work without any easy way to "kill" them.
 * And when they fill the entire screen, that's when Nega-Scott's Dark Reprise starts playing. And they just keep coming.
 * Zombie Apocalypse: There are a couple of Zombies in the park, but they're relatively easy; especially if you throw them into the convenient open graves. However, there's also "Survival Horror" mode (unlockable by code), where you are in one non-scroll screen, and more and more zombies keep coming out of the wood work without any easy way to "kill" them.
 * And when they fill the entire screen, that's when Nega-Scott's Dark Reprise starts playing. And they just keep coming.