A Boy and His Blob: Difference between revisions

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=== Both games provide examples of: ===

* [[Added Alliterative Appeal]]: Those jellybean names that ''aren't'' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|pun-tastic]] tend to be these. Both games have the Licorice Ladder and Tangerine Trampoline.

** The original contains the Root Beer Rocket.

** The Wii game replaces Root Beer with Cinnamon for the rocket, but gives us in return: The Berry Balloon, Bubble Gum Bouncer, Pear Parachute, Cream Cannon, Strawberry Shield (replacing Strawberry = Bridge in the original), and Cotton Candy Copy.

* [[Adipose Rex]]: The Emperor of Bloblonia.

* [[Batman Can Breathe in Space]]: The inevitible trip to Blobolonia. {{spoiler|And back again in the Wii version.}}

* [[Blob Monster]]: But the Blob isn't so much a monster in this game.

** Some of the sequel's enemies fit into a [[Blob Monster]] category as well.

* [[Collision Damage]]: It applies to some of the enemies too if they collide with different enemies.

* [[Edge Gravity]]

* [[Super Drowning Skills]]: The Boy and the enemies. Of course, as mentioned above, he can still breathe in space.

* [[Super Not-Drowning Skills]]: While the boy can't swim, the Blob is unable to sink if he's not a bubble or an anvil.

=== The 1989 game and [[Game Boy]] sequel provide examples of: ===

* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: When the NES game was released in Japan, the Boy and the title screen were changed to look "cuter".

** [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] when the Wii remake made the boy "cuter" as well.

* [[Anticlimax Boss]]

* [[Broken Aesop]]: The original game seems to be saying sweets are bad (marshmallows and chocolate kisses can kill you, and vitamins are used to destroy them) yet jellybeans are the Blob's source of power and peppermints are traded in for extra lives.

** Not only that, but cherries (or more accurately, cherry bombs) are among the things that kill you.

* [[Under the Sea]]: The caves in your world have water in them, and you won't be able to survive unless you feed Blobert a jellybean that turns him into a bubble.

* [[Unwinnable by Design]]: If you waste your beans. The key lime beans in particular; you get ''exactly'' as many of those as you need.

* [[You Have to Burn the Web]]

* [[All Animals Are Dogs]]: The developers said that the personality of the Blob is largely based on dogs.

* [[Anvil on Head]]: The Banana Anvil is very effective when it comes to enemies.

* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: At least the game is kind enough to note it -- When Blob cannot reach the player or seems to be getting stuck, he turns pink (as he turns gray near the enemies).

* {{spoiler|[[Award Bait Song]]}}: Yes, this deserves to be spoilered.

* [[But Now I Must Go]]: It's inevitable.

* [[Came From the Sky]]: How the Blob got to earth.

* [[Casual Video Game]]: The developers wanted it to be "accessible", so divided it into two parts: Ordinary story levels, and unlockable "Challenge" levels for the [[Challenge Gamer|Challenge Gamers]]. What they ''neglected'' to mention is that the later levels of the story mode are ''every bit as [[Nintendo Hard]].'' Ouch.

* [[Combat Tentacles]]: The second boss, the Beast, has an entire back full of writhing, deadly tentacles.

* [[Temporary Platform]]: Small floating platforms will shake and fall when you step on them, but they respawn, too.

** The final challenge level (1-12) has one room where a basic enemy Blob moves back and forth across a [[Pressure Plate]], toggling between two sets of platforms that are form your only way of crossing a bed of spikes (and a hill).

* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: Once the [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]] finally makes its appearance.

* [[There Was a Door]]: Your first appearance in the World 3 hub involves crashing through the roof. {{spoiler|Averted when going from World 4 back to World 1, since the boy and the blob just fly in through the open window instead.}}

* [[Triumphant Reprise]]: After the blob is {{spoiler|brought back to life and turned into a mech}}.

* {{spoiler|[[True Final Boss]]}}: It actually manages to be a surprise for once, due to a variant on [[Interface Spoiler]].

* [[Unexpected Genre Change]]: Level 14/2-4. It's the first level you can use the Cola Bubble jellybean in... and it plays more like something out of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' than the other levels.

** Not to mention the World 2's Challenge level #10, which involves flying the Root Beer Rocket through a massive labyrinth full of [[Deadly Walls]].

** The fourth world also has a number of caged blobs in the Emperor's citadel. Feeding them a Berry Balloon bean will free them, but you get nothing for doing so beyond warm fuzzy feelings.

** [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: It also has a "Scold" button. Not that it does much beyond making the Blob stay in place until you call him.

* [[Weird Moon]]: Always full and large.

* {{spoiler|[[Where It All Began]]: The game's final two levels are not in World 4. No, they're all the way back in ''World 1.''}}

* {{spoiler|[[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: When the [[Final Boss]] comes at the end of ''level 8'' of what's normally a 10-level world and all it takes to defeat him is a [[One-Hit Kill]] before he slinks away, you know something more has to happen...}}