Bad Omen



Bad Omen (a.k.a. Devilish in the USA) is a very interesting take on the Breakout Clone genre, on the Sega Megadrive/Genesis. The player controls two different paddles (or each player controls one paddle), one of which can change height and orientation.

Bad Omen displays examples of:

 * Battle Couple: As stone paddles, the prince and princess work together to smash the blue ball into their enemies.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Just when it seems like all hope is lost for the prince & princess to have a happy life, the blue sphere comes to their rescue.
 * Breaking Out
 * Cue the Sun: The ending.
 * Darker and Edgier: Most Breakout clones don't have a dark evil/gothic/horror theme... or much of any concrete theme at all.
 * Deus Ex Machina: A mysterious blue sphere, which the prince & princess can use to fight back against evil, just happens to fall from the sky.
 * Evil Counterpart:
 * Evil Is Visceral:
 * Excuse Plot: The introduction text is absolutely hilarious.
 * Green Eyed Monster: The evil demon is jealous about the fact that a prince & princess can be happy.
 * Hoist By His Own Petard: The evil demon should have thought of something else to turn the prince & princess into.
 * Lethal Lava Land: The volcano stage, complete with volcanoes shooting out fireballs.
 * Lucky Charms Title: The name of the demon.
 * Mysterious Protector: Nothing is ever explained about the mysterious blue sphere.
 * No Ontological Inertia:
 * Taken for Granite: The prince & princess are cursed to be stone paddles. The cover art indicates that they are actually statues who are stuck onto the bottoms of gigantic stone paddles.
 * Turns Red: All of the bosses of the "defeat" type.
 * Womb Level: