Costume Quest: Difference between revisions

* [[Action Commands]]: The combat is ripped straight out of [[Super Mario RPG]], [[Shadow Hearts]] and [[Penny Arcade Adventures]].

* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Hilariously lampshaded every possible chance there is. At least one grown-up has seen the evil beasts himself - and thinks they're [[Teens Are Monsters|just teenagers]].

* [[Beef Gate]]: {{spoiler|1=The return of BoJonn in the Arcade.}}

''NPC in Dragon costume'':"Fire Breath! Fire Breath! Why aren't you burning from my Fire Breath?" }}

* [[Cliff Hanger]]: {{spoiler|Grubbins on Ice ends with the kids going through the portal to return home, only to end up in a [[Phantom Zone|void-like dimension]] containing even more portals.}}

* [[Deal with the Devil]]: {{spoiler|Dorsilla with Big Bones.}}

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: {{spoiler|First the Grubbins, then the Trollbogs, then the Crestwailers.}}

* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Dorsilla}}

* [[Dual Boss]]: The final fight of Grubbins on Ice pits you against {{spoiler|Big Bones and Araxia}}.

* [[Enemy Civil War]]: You join one in ''Grubbins on Ice''

* [[Evil Twin]]: {{spoiler|Dorsilla}}

** The Unicorn looks [[Robot Unicorn Attack|pretty badass]], with emphasis on both "pretty" and "badass."

** At the start of ''Grubbins on Ice'', Reynold misses a huge glowing portal because he's distracted by a quarter that's just a few feet away from it.

* [[Giant Enemy Crab]]: The French Fries turns you into this. Yes, really. A giant crab with french fry legs, french fry pincers, and a french fry container shell. And it's [[Lethal Joke Character|actually pretty effective]].

* [[Halloweentown]]: Repugia

* [[Healing Hands]]: The Statue of Liberty's power is to do this through sheer [[Patriotic Fervor|Patriotism.]]

* [[A Hell of a Time]]: One monster says Dorsilla is so bad that {{spoiler|they don't want her to return to Repugia.}}

* [[Homage]]: Tasha Harris says the game is inspired from many things. The isometric diagonal view of the town is from [[EarthBound]], the monsters are inspired from [[Labyrinth]], the art is inspired from [[Hayao Miyazaki]] and [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Wind Waker,]] and the whole game is a love letter to Halloween and costumes (in particular, handmade ones.)

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: "Grubbins on Ice" starts you off fighting against three Level 14 Repugiarchs; at this point, it's impossible to be higher than Level 10. You actually can win the fight if you hit '''all''' the prompts and catch some luck with the enemy's choice of targets, but [[Failure Is the Only Option]] and it dumps you into the next scene as if you lost. (You still receive a hefty experience bonus if you win, though.)

* [[Hot Witch]]: Dorsilla, in universe, and she boasts it. {{spoiler|After her defeat, she wonders if her failure to conquer the world is because she's too pretty.}}

* [[Ironic Echo]]: {{spoiler|Dorsilla uses a recording of the main character to tear the sibling away from him/her. Dorian uses a recording of his sister to expose her plot to usurp Big Bones.}}

* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: The gang of mummy children. But it turns out {{spoiler|the gang leader is the only one keeping their violent tendencies in check.}} This is played for laughs.

* [[La Résistance]]: You help out the monsters against their oppressive new government in Grubbins On Ice. They even dress like Che Guevara. Citizens wonder why, despite being members of the resistance movement, you lack beards and berets.

* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]: Everett does this the most. Or maybe he just really likes [[Dungeons & Dragons]].

''Everett'': He just took a natural 20 to the face and didn't take ANY damage! }}

* [[Magnificent Bitch]]: Dorsilla

* [[Manipulative Editing]]: {{spoiler|Dorsilla uses this to drive the siblings apart.}}

* [[The Medic]]: The Statue of Liberty and Unicorn costumes. The Vampire can heal the party as well, despite being an attack-based class.

* [[Parental Bonus]]: [[Invoked Trope]]. Tasha Harris wanted the game to have the appeal that [[Pixar]] (her former and now current employer) applies to all their work, in which the game would be simple and charming enough for children, but also appealing to adults. There are plenty of jokes for adults, covering such edgy material as globalization, prescription drugs, American history, and more.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: {{spoiler|The DLC leaves the main characters lost in a hub of portals to different worlds.}}

* [[Shout-Out]]: The [[Robot Unicorn Attack|Unicorn Costume.]]

** The music in the mall camping shop is the camp music from [[Psychonauts]]

** The Pumpkin Costume's battle form is ripped straight out of [[The Nightmare Before Christmas]].

** The cowboy warning the public about the dangers of candy? [[Clerks|He works for an apple company.]]

** A mission in a corn field maze is called [[Children of the Corn|Children of the High Fructose Corn Syrup.]]

** Orzo the human cannonball makes references to the [[Monkey Island|Fettucini Brothers.]]

** The incantation used to open the Gate in the third area is [[Psychonauts|Vodello Zanatto Lobotto.]]

** Finding a girl hiding in a witch costume causes her to shout "[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|Oh, what a world! What a world!]]"

** [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|It may be a stretch, but there might be a reason why the DLC for this Halloween game is Christmas-esque.]]

** An incredibly obscure one: One of the girls dressed as a witch in the mall is named April, and refuses to do love potions "for charity cases". There's a [[Ray Bradbury]] short story called "The April Witch" which is about a young witch trying to spread love around out of charity.

** And {{spoiler|Dorsilla vs Dorian. Dorian obviously losing.}}

* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Big Bones' weapon. {{spoiler|It's also where he hides his emergency candy stash.}}

* [[Standard Status Effects]]: Poison, Burn, and Stun. Different kinds of attacks inflict various degrees of each.

* [[The Starscream]]: {{spoiler|Dorsilla, to Big Bones.}}

* [[Stealth Mentor]]: {{spoiler|Dorian}}

* [[Sweet Tooth]]: Candy is currency for upgrades

** At the end of the game he {{spoiler|finally gets off his chair and puts away his newspaper, to take a piece of candy from his kids, saying it's a "Dad Tax."}}

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The player makes a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|grudging but heroic speech]] to Dorsilla's voicemail. {{spoiler|She clips out the heroic parts for her own purposes.}}

* [[Woman Scorned]]: {{spoiler|When Big Bones discovers Dorsilla's plot to usurp him, he breaks the deal with her and tell her to get lost. Not happy at all, she obeys, but not before boosting the heroes' power so they'll kick his ass.}}