Snailiad

Snailiad is a Metroidvania Retraux Flash game created by auriplane.

The plot: You're a snail named Snaily Snail who has to set out to rescue the missing snails.

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""Cave Snail scares me! I'm staying over here!" Beat "Do you think Cave Snail is single?""
 * Abnormal Ammo: A pea shooter and a boomerang sort of make sense (though it begs the question of how Snaily holds the gun/boomerang), but rainbow waves?
 * Alliteration: The stage names.
 * Airborne Mooks: A lot of the enemies in this game fly.
 * Always Check Behind the Chair: It's a Metroidvania game. It comes with the genre.
 * Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: The battle with.
 * An Ice Person: The Iceballs.
 * Snaily himself after getting the Ice Snail powerup.
 * Apathetic Citizens: The snails of Snail Town leave everything up to you.
 * Author Appeal: The creator loves snails. And boy, does it show.
 * Babies Ever After:
 * Big Bad: Moon Snail.
 * Big Good:
 * Bubbly Clouds: Lux Lirata has shades of this.
 * Boss in Mook Clothing: The Devil (red) Blob. It moves very fast, shoots tons of energy ball... things, and takes way too many hits to die! Thankfully, there's only one in the entire game.
 * Boss Rush: And dear God is it hard.
 * Boss Subtitles: Although there's no descriptive sentence; it's only used to display the boss' name.
 * Catching Some Zs: One of attacks of the final boss.
 * Which is derived from your Idle Animation.
 * Chain-Reaction Destruction: Bosses do this in a rather spectacular manner.
 * Cloudcuckoolander: Most of the snails could qualify.

""Don't moon snails live in the ocean? Hey, this game isn't realistic!! What gives??""
 * Credits Gag: Downplayed: the credits amusingly lampshade the trend of putting "And You" at the end of their credits.
 * Department of Redundancy Department: Snaily Snail.
 * Dramatis Personae: At the end.
 * Electric Jellyfish: They're an Invincible Minor Minion, at least until you get the Devastator.
 * Everything's Better with Rainbows: The Rainbow Wave.
 * Excuse Plot: Snails are disappearing. Go find them.
 * Subverted towards the end, though; the plot doesn't get very deep, but a semblance of one does form. Your mission of finding the disappearing snails is also referenced quite frequently.
 * Flash of Pain
 * Fragile Speedster:
 * Frickin' Laser Beams: The eyes on the walls in one section of Lux Lirata fire these.
 * Giant Space Flea From Nowhere: Every boss except the final one, and they're pretty weird. Two giant feet with eyes? Really?
 * Golden Ending: Achieved by getting all 30 helix fragments.
 * The Goomba: The Blob (purple slime).
 * Goomba Stomp: Stompy seems hellbent on doing this to you.
 * Gravity Screw: The Gravity Shell powerup allows you to do this.
 * The Gravity Turtles can also do this.
 * Green Rocks: The helix fragments.
 * Hailfire Peaks: Mare Carelia could be either Green Hill Zone, or Under the Sea.
 * Amastrida Abyssus combines Lethal Lava Land and Under the Sea (again).
 * Hammerspace: Just how is Snaily holding all those boomerangs?
 * Hearts Are Health
 * Heart Container
 * Heroic Mime: Snaily, in keeping with the 8-bit theme.
 * Hyperactive Metabolism: Health is replenished by green and pink grass (guess which one replenishes more health).
 * Idle Animation: Snaily falls asleep in his shell.
 * Which gets used by as an attack.
 * Item Get
 * Invincible Minor Minion: The Jellyfish and the spikeballs. Subverted when you get the Devastator.
 * Jungle Japes: Snail Town is something like this.
 * Just for Pun: The two cannon enemies are called Canon (red) and Non-Canon (blue).
 * Killer Rabbit: The Kitty. It looks like, but it bounces around at a fast pace and shoots a bunch of bullets in between jumps.
 * Lampshade Hanging: One of the snails in Snail Town asks "Don't you think it's weird that we all live in treehouses?"
 * Another snail in Lux Lirata quips, "Amazing work, Snaily!! Say, how'd we get into space, anyway?"
 * Level Map Display: Type 1.
 * Medium Awareness: Don't be surprised to see snails reference the fact that they are in a game. Particularly notable in this quote:


 * "I hope the next game has more weapons. This game could have used a |flame whip!"
 * Minus World:
 * Mirror Boss: Moon Snail. Aside from changing his own gravity, he uses Devastator-style boomerangs and dark-colored waves
 * My Name Is ???:
 * Nintendo Hard: Oh yes.
 * Offscreen Moment of Awesome: One snail in Snail Town manages to eat a pizza offscreen, after telling Snaily he would for nearly the entire game.
 * One-Snail Army
 * One-Winged Angel: The Final Boss,.
 * Precision-Guided Boomerang
 * Reptiles Are Abhorrent: There are several snake enemies.
 * Retraux
 * Reverse Shrapnel: The Angel (white) Blob, amongst others.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter: The snails. In particular Snaily's idle animation.
 * may also qualify.
 * Save the Princess
 * Secret Character:
 * Seers: One snail in Snail Town can see the future. His words often describe what to do next.
 * Shout-Out: "Up, up, down, down, left, right... wait, never mind, that's for some other game."
 * The Boss Rush version of the Space Box is called "Time Cube". Both versions also turn blue when they go berserk.
 * "I hope the next game has more weapons. This game could have used a |flame whip!"
 * Upon starting a new game in, a fake password screen appears, which is filled out by an unseen person with "JUSTIN SNAILY".
 * "It's dangerous to go alone!"
 * Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Spiralis Silere.
 * Space Zone: Lux Lirata becomes this near the end.
 * Suspicious Videogame Generosity: Pre-boss rooms are usually full of pink grass. The snails will outright tell you when there's a boss coming up, though, so it doesn't come as much of a surprise.
 * Turns Red: Every boss does this, literally (though the Space Box actually turns blue when it goes berserk).
 * Unique Enemy: Two of them. One's a cat listed under Killer Rabbit above, and the other's the Devil Blob. It's called that for a good reason.
 * Under the Sea: Mare Carelia.
 * Upgrade Artifact: The Devastator, which upgrades all three of your weapons.
 * Wall Crawl: One of your abilities. Justified, as you're a snail.
 * Widget Series: You better believe it.
 * You No Take Candle: "I are Cave Snail! Thorgle borgle!!!!"