Ginormo Sword: Difference between revisions

Line 14:

* [[Bonus Boss]]: Doppelganger and Abyss Worm in the Temples of the Moon and Sun, respectively.

* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: Once you beat {{spoiler|the Avatar}}, you obtain a relic that you can equip to put the game into a higher difficulty level.

* [[Bullet Hell]]: It looks like a [[Hack and Slash]] at first glance, but by the time you learn magic and your opponents start using projectiles, it is a full-fledged [[Shoot Em Up]].

* [[Bullet Hell]]: It looks like a [[Hack and Slash]] at first glance, but by the time you learn magic and your opponents start using projectiles, it is a full-fledged [[Shoot'Em Up]].

* [[Character Level]]: Averted. You don't gain experience by killing monsters, just gold that you can use to buy increases to your stats, and increases to your sword level.

* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: The motherfecking tree boss has no problem sending three screen-spanning attacks in addition to its regular [[Bullet Hell]] attack and land mines. Not to mention half the times it shows up ''right on top of you'', leading to death by [[Collision Damage]] in nanoseconds.

Line 23:

* [[Degraded Boss]]: Subverted, in a sense. Many bosses, such as the Maze Minotaur, Mutant Cyclops and Guardian Dragon, are [[Palette Swap|recolors]] of much stronger regular enemies that you may encounter later in the game.

* [[Doppelganger Spin]]: The Lizard Assassin's specialty. It is also one of the few enemies that [[Fridge Brilliance|deliberately causes]] [[Collision Damage]].

* [[Elemental Rock Paper Scissors]]: Some enemies drop gems. Those gems are used by the enchanter of the fifth zone to give elemental properties to your sword and armor, with the usual powers and weaknesses (Fire/Water, Earth/Wind, Dark/Light). This becomes important later on in the game, when you will face bosses that can be damaged only by a specific kind of power (for example the fire demon Efreet can only be hurt by a Water-powered weapon). However, opposing powers cancel out each other even on the equipment: if you, for example, use on your sword both Dark and Light gems, they would be wasted because one element automatically depowers the opposing one.

* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Some enemies drop gems. Those gems are used by the enchanter of the fifth zone to give elemental properties to your sword and armor, with the usual powers and weaknesses (Fire/Water, Earth/Wind, Dark/Light). This becomes important later on in the game, when you will face bosses that can be damaged only by a specific kind of power (for example the fire demon Efreet can only be hurt by a Water-powered weapon). However, opposing powers cancel out each other even on the equipment: if you, for example, use on your sword both Dark and Light gems, they would be wasted because one element automatically depowers the opposing one.

* [[Enemy Summoner]]: The Necromancer boss won't hurt you on its own, he only shoots black and blue magic balls that push you past the boundary of the screen, forcing you to restart the fight if you don't have a particular item. However, he will summon many undead enemies such as Skeletons, Zombies and Ghosts.

* [[Final Boss New Dimension]]: You have to go to outer space to fight {{spoiler|the Avatar}}.

Line 38:

* [[Monster Compendium]]: The Library in zone 11 shows you every kind of monster you have defeated.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Where to begin?

* [[One Hit Point Wonder]]: Subverted, in a sense: you start out as one, and you'll likely ''stay'' one the rest of the game, but it's possible to upgrade your endurance (hit points) to survive longer. Largely considered the least useful stat because by the end-game, you'll be hunting monsters that can kill you in one hit or so anyway and you'll be good enough at dodging/exploiting [[Elemental Rock Paper Scissors|elemental resistances]].

* [[One-Hit-Point Wonder]]: Subverted, in a sense: you start out as one, and you'll likely ''stay'' one the rest of the game, but it's possible to upgrade your endurance (hit points) to survive longer. Largely considered the least useful stat because by the end-game, you'll be hunting monsters that can kill you in one hit or so anyway and you'll be good enough at dodging/exploiting [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors|elemental resistances]].

* [[Palette Swap]]: Numerous monsters appear in progressively stronger variants. Some (but not all) of them are color-swapped.

* [[Random Encounters]]: Averted. There are set areas you can click on the map to enter battles, and most of them show a name when you're on top of them. Beating all the monsters in a single encounter "completes" the area you entered, and when all of the normal areas in one section of the map have been beaten once, the boss area appears.