Lyle in Cube Sector

"OHNO! LYLE'S KITTY HAS BEEN STOLENED AND NOW HE MUST JOURNEY THROUGH THE WONKED OUT LANDS OF THE CUBESECTOR TO RETRIEVE HIS MEOWMEOW COMPANION!"

Lyle In Cube Sector is a freeware Metroidvania made in 2006 that plays like a cross between Super Metroid and Super Mario Bros. 2. You work with cubes. With the right upgrades, you can throw them at enemies, use them to propel yourself higher, and make them materialize in your hands. You must use these abilities skillfully in the cube sector to find your cat.

Available for download here.

This work contains the following tropes:
"Caution: Large Pointy Thing"
 * Breaking Out: The second boss.
 * Collision Damage: Wait for cubes to stop bouncing before you touch them.
 * The latest version makes bouncing cubes harmless.
 * Drought Level of Doom: The gauntlet before the last boss, it has one HP and CP powerup each at the very end..
 * Excuse Plot
 * Grimy Water: Green toxic waste will kill you instantly, as opposed to the red lava.
 * Ground Pound: The final boss uses these.
 * Impaled with Extreme Prejudice:


 * Improbable Weapon User
 * Item Get: You get a brief description of what you can do with an item.
 * Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence: Why can't Lyle climb over the blocks he would otherwise have to kick?
 * Because his head is too big to fit through the gap.
 * Kick The Cat
 * Nintendo Hard
 * Retraux
 * Spikes of Doom
 * Weird American Thing
 * With This Herring
 * Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Don't attack the cow or the baby bird any more than is necessary to get their respective powerups. They fight back.