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* [[Author Avatar]]:
** Naramura's avatar character can be found in the Graveyard of the Giants. In the [[Wii Ware]] remake, his avatar character appears as a shopkeeper.
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** Elder Xelpud is considered to be Duplex's avatar before NIGORO was [[GR 3]] Project.
** Ditto with Samieru, his was Lemeza.
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* [[Final Exam Boss]]: All of the primary weapons must be used to defeat the final boss.
** Also in the [[Wii Ware]] remake {{spoiler|Mother's final form borrows attacks from all the bosses you've fought before}}.
* [[Flip Screen Scrolling]]: Which often leads players [[Player Tic|jumping before the screen transitions]].▼
* [[Flare Gun]]: A secondary weapon to be found in the ruins. Useful for solving puzzles and hitting monsters above the player, but probably not a weapon to be relied upon ([[Not Completely Useless|except for bosses]]).
▲* [[Flip Screen Scrolling]]: Which often leads players [[Player Tic|jumping before the screen transitions]].
* [[Flunky Boss]]: A few of them.
* [[Four Is Death]]: The fourth Seal is the Death Seal.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: In the ending, Lemeza is shown backtracking through the ruins on foot. As he does this he passes by a few enemies without getting hit at all.▼
* [[Game Mod]]: The creators of La-Mulana released an editor tool, including that tool has a [[Boss Rush]] and a Time Attack mode of Hell Temple. However actual mods are very rare, if not impossible to find due to either La-Mulana not being very popular when the tool was released or no one has even bother to translate the tool to proper English.
▲* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: In the ending, Lemeza is shown backtracking through the ruins on foot. As he does this he passes by a few enemies without getting hit at all.
* [[Genius Loci]]: {{spoiler|The entirety of the ruins.}}
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: This is a game full of ancient ruins and relatively normal giant monsters for the bosses. Then you get Palenque, who is an alien riding some kind of flying jet.
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** Once he starts [[Bonus Level of Hell|Hell Temple]], it would be easier to count the moments that ''don't'' make him do this.
* [[He Was Right There All Along]]: Sakit. {{spoiler|It's one of statues you see in the Mausoleum of the Giants.}}
* [[High Speed Battle]]: Bahamut, [[Minecart Madness|Ellmac]] and [[Unexpected Shmup Level|Palenque]]. Ellmac's theme is even called "High Speed Beast".▼
* [[Homage]]: To MSX games in general, and a secret area contains a tribute to ''[[Maze of Galious]]'', the inspiration of the game.
** There are also segments based on ''[[Parodius]]'' and ''[[Snatcher]].''
* [[A House Divided]]: The Giants split into two factions: those who wanted to return Mother to the sky, and those who wanted her to remain on Earth. Three factions if you want to included Zeb stuck holding up the Earth.▼
▲* [[High Speed Battle]]: Bahamut, [[Minecart Madness|Ellmac]] and [[Unexpected Shmup Level|Palenque]]. Ellmac's theme is even called "High Speed Beast".
* [[Honest John's Dealership]]: One of the ghost shopkeepers in the Graveyard of Giants. He [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|suspiciously emphasizes]] that his wares are real...
▲* [[A House Divided]]: The Giants split into two factions: those who wanted to return Mother to the sky, and those who wanted her to remain on Earth. Three factions if you want to included Zeb stuck holding up the Earth.
* [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]]: Why is everything still in their chests if Shorn already went into the ruins?
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: If you have the Gauntlet and the right ROM combo, the Mace becomes the fastest, strongest, and most versatile weapon in the game.
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* [[Malevolent Architecture]]: Far too often to recount.
* [[Mama Bear]]: Tiamat, who you can only fight after slaying her eleven children in the Dimensional Corridor.
* [[Mercy Invincibility]]: Can be mercilessly exploited by dealing negligible damage to yourself with caltrops to survive major attacks.▼
* [[The Maze]]: At least half of the areas, especially Chamber of Birth, Confusion Gate, Twin Labyrinths and the True Shrine.
▲* [[Mercy Invincibility]]: Can be mercilessly exploited by dealing negligible damage to yourself with caltrops to survive major attacks.
* [[Metroidvania]]: And ''how''.
* [[Minecart Madness]]: Boss battle against Ellmac.
* [[Mini Game]]: A ''[[Parodius]]'' clone and a dating sim {{spoiler|which segues into a parody of ''Snatcher'', complete with shooting gallery battles}}.
* [[Mistaken for Granite]]: The second Guardian and the Spriggan statue. Also, wall reliefs will start shooting at you if you stand next to them for too long or strike them.
* [[Musical Pastiche]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXWNcvz9k-k Curse of IRON PIPE], the theme to the [[Down the Drain|Spring in the Sky]], borrows about 15 seconds of melody from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flspAofUIIQ the obscure MSX game Ashguine 2]. Because of this, that part of the song had to be [[The Jimmy Hart Version|changed slightly]] for the [[Wii Ware]] version, now called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXkS5sOUW0Y Curse of Ocean].▼
* [[Multiple Endings]]: Nicalis has confirmed that the [[Wii Ware]] version will have three different endings.▼
* [[Multi Melee Master]]: In the end, Lemeza carries a whip, a dagger, an axe, a katana and a ritual sword.
▲* [[Multiple Endings]]: Nicalis has confirmed that the [[Wii Ware]] version will have three different endings.
* [[Multi Stage Battle]]: While two- and even three-stage boss battles are par for the course in modern games, {{spoiler|the Mother battle should be acknowledged as it consists of five separate stages, some of which involve substages}}.
▲* [[Musical Pastiche]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXWNcvz9k-k Curse of IRON PIPE], the theme to the [[Down the Drain|Spring in the Sky]], borrows about 15 seconds of melody from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flspAofUIIQ the obscure MSX game Ashguine 2]. Because of this, that part of the song had to be [[The Jimmy Hart Version|changed slightly]] for the [[Wii Ware]] version, now called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXkS5sOUW0Y Curse of Ocean].
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: The hero is an [[Adventurer Archaeologist]]... descended from ninjas. The Japanese kind, not [[McNinja]]s. I am not making this up - it's [[All There in the Manual]].
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: The whole game is basically an homage to the era of [[Nintendo Hard]] MSX games, so it's only natural that it would be difficult. They promised they'd lower the difficulty on the wiiware release... but not for hell temple. However, the main difficulty removal comes from removing the [[Fake Difficulty]].
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* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Lemeza has a huge love for Curry, he pulls it out whenever you pause the game.
* [[Trap Door]]: [[Temple of Doom]] has plenty of them.
* [[Try Everything]]: The game is designed to discourage brute-force solutions. Doing this will likely lead to a lot of deaths and make [[100% Completion]] impossible.▼
* [[Trial and Error Gameplay]]: Often, but especially noteworthy in Hell Temple.
▲* [[Try Everything]]: The game is designed to discourage brute-force solutions. Doing this will likely lead to a lot of deaths and make [[100% Completion]] impossible.
* [[Turns Red]]: The Soul of Death in the final boss fight takes this to an extreme, by casually gaining more attacks and having different animations in the background the more you hurt it.
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: The dating sim minigame mentioned above does this for laughs.
* [[Unexpected Shmup Level]]: The boss battle against Palenque, especially if you have a lot of Shurikens to toss at him from afar. {{spoiler|1=''PR3'' is an Unexpected Shmup ''Minigame'', and you need to reach a high enough score to clear a puzzle in the Hell Temple.}}
* [[Video Game Cruelty Punishment]]: It's not really what you call ''cruelty'', but attacking statues will cause them to fire darts at you. {{spoiler|It becomes cruelty when you learn that the ruins are the body of the Mother; you're attacking her from the inside.}}
* [[Video Game Remake]]: The WiiWare and PC remake.
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