Arkanoid: Difference between revisions

Line 18:

* [[Excuse Plot]]: You're a spaceship trying to escape from DIMENSION-CONTROLLING FORT DOH, by destroying blocks with a bouncing ball. Right.

{{quote| "THE TIME AND ERA OF THIS STORY IS UNKNOWN. AFTER THE MOTHERSHIP "ARKANOID" WAS DESTROYED, A SPACECRAFT "VAUS" SCRAMBLED AWAY FROM IT. BUT ONLY TO BE TRAPPED IN SPACE WARPED BY SOMEONE........"}}

* [[Fun ~~With~~ Acronyms]]: The iPod Touch version ''finally'' gives DOH a meaning. It's an acronym for the Arkanoid's crew's term for the thing on account of its control of the fabric of time-space, "Dominator of Hours".

* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: The iPod Touch version ''finally'' gives DOH a meaning. It's an acronym for the Arkanoid's crew's term for the thing on account of its control of the fabric of time-space, "Dominator of Hours".

* [[The Goomba]]: In the games that have enemies, everything except the teleporting panels that randomly move your ball to somewhere else in the level. They go down in one hit, and touching the Vaus kills ''them'' not you: Their purpose is not to inflict direct harm, only to throw your ball off trajectory. On the other hand, bosses do kill you with their attacks.

* [[Hyper-Destructive Bouncing Ball]]

Line 26:

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Missions involving mostly gold bricks tend to be this. An entire mass of them with only a few, or even a single, destructable brick is a common sight in later levels.

* [[One Hundred Percent Completion]]: The DS version has this.

* [[Poison Mushroom]]: The Reduce [[Power-Up]], which would shrink the Vaus. For expert players, this could be [[Cursed ~~With~~ Awesome]], since you'd get [[Scoring Points|doubled points]] as long as it's active, and [[Every Ten Thousand Points|extra lives are available at certain point plateaus]]. However, for less expert players, and any player who sees one rolling down right where the ball is about to fall, it clearly is detrimental.

* [[Poison Mushroom]]: The Reduce [[Power-Up]], which would shrink the Vaus. For expert players, this could be [[Cursed with Awesome]], since you'd get [[Scoring Points|doubled points]] as long as it's active, and [[Every Ten Thousand Points|extra lives are available at certain point plateaus]]. However, for less expert players, and any player who sees one rolling down right where the ball is about to fall, it clearly is detrimental.

* [[Power-Up Letdown]]: The Twin powerup, as of ''Arkanoid II: The Revenge of DoH''. The Vaus would split into two smaller copies that would move together. It only barely increased the surface area of the Vaus, was distinctly smaller than both the Extend powerup or the Image powerup (the latter was longest, but only active while in motion), and there was a gap between the two Vaus units that the ball could fall through, costing a life.

* [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]: Uranoid in the DS version.