Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent: Difference between revisions

** {{spoiler|[[Brick Joke]] / [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Bigfoot gives you a hand in destroying the lunacy ray.}}

* [[Corrupt Hick]]: {{spoiler|Sheriff Bagh}}

* [[Deconstructive Parody]]: This game is basically ''[[Professor Layton]]'', but with the main character noticing the stupid amount of puzzles in-game and a much more serious reason why: {{spoiler|most of the town is in some sort of cult that worship gnomes. The gnomes' main method of communication is puzzles. This has caused the entire town to become pathologically addicted to puzzles.}}

* [[Defective Detective]]: Although Nelson is shown to be a good detective, you can see that he'd rather be back in his basement office. This may be because he hasn't had a field mission in -- as he states -- "quite some time" (which mean he probably hasn't been on the field for a couple of YEARS) -- and that his specialty is puzzle solving. Not to mention all the creepy stuff going on in Scoggins.

{{quote| "I like my office. It's warm in my office. It's quiet in my office. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|There are no]] {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Funny|maniacal gnomes]]}} [[Crowning Moment of Funny|or]] {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Funny|chainsaw-wielding waitresses]]}} [[Crowning Moment of Funny|in my office!]]"}}

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: There is a sign reading "Brorskap av skogen", apparently intended to be Norwegian for "Brotherhood of the forest". The correct phrase would be "Skogens brorskap".

** This is probably also a reference to ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]''.

** There's some [[Real Life]] evidence that chewing gum does help you concentrate, although none of the researchers have yet to comment on chewing ''used'' gum.

** {{spoiler|It's because they need help destroying the Lunar Ray that's repelling them from their home.}}

* [[Interface Screw]]: {{spoiler|A few times throughout the first game, the Hidden People will appear (along with a [[Scare Chord]] and a few close-up frames) and take a piece of your current puzzle. In the second game, a puzzle gets interrupted by [[The Men in Black]].}}

** {{spoiler|That actually becomes [[Chekhov's Gun|VERY VERY important in the second game.]] He sent all of his tapes to Jim in the Vegetable Division -- whom Nelson asked to file them while away -- and Jim notes that the tape kept playing around the time he saw a Hidden Person communicate with Bo.}}

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:

* [[Lunacy]]: Involved in the second game's plot.

** [[Moon Logic Puzzle]]: [[Obligatory Joke|Sorry, the joke just had to be made.]]

** It's actually subverted. {{spoiler|On the hydraulics puzzle, one of the button falls and a Hidden Person tosses it back to him. They did take the foreman but that was because they needed Nelson's help.}}

** In the sequel, Nelson's tapes that he keeps sending to FBI to be filed (even though he's on "vacation") result in {{spoiler|[[The Men in Black]] swarming the town}}. Apparently, holding on to the tapes and sending them all later doesn't occur to Nelson at all.

* [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder]]: The Hidden People. Especially since they're [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|creepy as hell]] and {{spoiler|some kind of lunar spirits.}}

* [[Point of No Return]]: In the first game, when you assemble the third gear. However, any optional puzzles you missed may be performed after the credits.

* [[Reassigned to Antarctica]]: {{spoiler|Jim Ingraham from the Vegetable Division at the end of the second game, for helping Nelson}}.

* [[Scare Chord]]: {{spoiler|[[High Octane Nightmare Fuel|When the hidden people first show up in one of your puzzles, it can be quite scary.]]}}

* [[Sequel Hook]]: {{spoiler|At the end of the second game, Nelson gets a postcard from Issac and Glori from the Bermudas. Nelson asks, "What could possibly go wrong in Bermuda?"}}

* [[Shout Out]]: One of the puzzles in the sequel is named [[Ghostbusters|Cross the Streams]].

* [[Seven Minute Lull]]: Played with: When Nelson is explaining his findings to Officer Jensen -- who is drinking the milkshakes and therefore cannot hear most of what Nelson is saying--Nelson eventually screams, "THE ASTRONAUTS IN THE FOREST ARE MURDERING PEOPLE!" everything had gone silent.

* [[Theme Twin Naming]]: Spoofed: There are twin brothers named Daryl and Darrel: Nelson's job is to find Darrel in the sequel.

* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: Somewhat. If you mess up in puzzles, you'll cost U.S. taxpayers more and more money for each subsequent failure. Mess up a lot and you can make a single puzzle cost more than a million dollars!

** Lampshaded at the end when a senior agent notes that the Prez probably wasn't even aware there was a problem.

** He does find the items belonging to a skier he sees several times in Scoggins.

* [[X Meets Y]]: The game is pretty much ''[[Professor Layton]]'' meets ''[[Fargo]]'' and ''[[Twin Peaks]]''.

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