Rise of the Triad: Difference between revisions

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* [[Attackable Pickup]]: The Priest Porridge, which can be turned into a more effective Priest Porridge Hot with a carefully aimed explosion.

* [[Batter Up]]: The magical Excalibat weapon.

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]:

* ~~[[Bilingual Bonus]]:~~ The stuff El Oscuro says when you fight him is actual Latin; phrases include "Deus tuus sum" ("I am your god") and "Mundus tuus morietur" ("Your world will die").

** The stuff El Oscuro says when you fight him is actual Latin; phrases include "Deus tuus sum" ("I am your god") and "Mundus tuus morietur" ("Your world will die").

** A sound clip that was cut from the game (you can find it on the game CD or the downloadable ''Rise of the Triad'' Goodies Pack), intended to have been played when Snake Oscuro sees you, apparently translates to [[Commander Keen|"Eat Your Veggies"]].

* [[Bloody Hilarious]]:

* ~~[[Bloody Hilarious]]:~~ Even the violence isn't taken very seriously: look closely when you blow up an enemy soldier, and you can see his severed hand fly by ''wagging its middle finger at you''.

** Even the violence isn't taken very seriously: look closely when you blow up an enemy soldier, and you can see his severed hand fly by ''wagging its middle finger at you''.

** Also, the smiley face on the charred skeletons of baddies toasted by the Flamewall weapon.

* [[Cool Chair]]: Sebastian Krist. His chair shoots ''rockets''.

* [[Cool Chair]]: Sebastian Krist. His chair shoots ''rockets''. In the remake, it also flies and has an energy shield.

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* [[Die, Chair, Die!]]: ''Rise of the Triad'' is quite possibly the first [[First-Person Shooter]] to have environmental objects that could be destroyed, featuring breakable glass, barrels that randomly contained weapons and other goodies, and stuff like torches and coins getting shot out. One of the end-of-level bonuses is for destroying all the plants on a level.

** Mines, as well, since you can't forget those annoyances.

* [[Dual Boss]]:

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* [[Die, Chair, Die!]]: ''Rise of the Triad'' is quite possibly the first [[First-Person Shooter]] to have environmental objects that could be destroyed. One of the end-of-level bonuses is for destroying all the plants on a level.

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** The level "Krist Cross" in ''Extreme [[Rise of the Triad]]'' makes you fight two Krists at once, although you only need to defeat one to finish the level, and this applies to any other custom level with multiple bosses.

** May be also applied to the [[Don't Explain the Joke|thing]] Krist is riding on.

* [[Dual Boss]]: The level "Krist Cross" in ''Extreme [[Rise of the Triad]]'' makes you fight two Krists at once.

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** ~~Although~~ you only need to defeat one to finish the level, and this applies to any other custom level with multiple bosses.

** ''NME Mine'' from the same add-on takes it [[Exaggerated Trope|Up]] [[Up to Eleven|To Eleven]], making you fight against '''four''' '''NMiEs'''. [[Bullet Hell|Just try to dodge all the stuff that flies at you]].

* [[Expansion Pack]]: ''Extreme [[Rise of the Triad]]'', with 42 new [[Nintendo Hard]] levels exploiting various engine tricks to add new features like teleporters and [[Macross Missile Massacre|"Ballistitowers"]].

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** The '''EKG''' (Engine Killing Gibs) mode, which cranks the gore [[Up to Eleven]].

** Also NME. Pronounce it out loud.

** ~~A sort of reverse of this trope, look~~ at Ian Paul Freely (one of the playable characters), and think about his name for a minute.

** Look at Ian Paul Freely (one of the playable characters), and think about his name for a minute.

** There are '''G'''ravitational '''A'''nomaly '''D'''isks, which are floating platforms. Some elevate up and down, turning them into '''E'''levator '''G'''ravitational '''A'''nomaly '''D'''isks.

** The remake affixes a backronym to the Drunk Missile: '''D'''estructive '''R'''andomly '''U'''nguided '''N'''ullification '''K'''it

* [[God Mode]]: Lampshaded. Accessible through an in-game powerup as well as the usual cheat code, [[God Mode]] doesn't just make you invincible, it also makes you ten feet tall and capable of firing blasts of energy from your bare hands that can disintegrate everything in the room with your character making [[Most Annoying Sound|godlike bellowing noises]] all the while. There's also a Dog Mode that makes you invincible, two feet tall, and capable of firing a deadly supersonic bark.

* [[Goomba Stomp]]: You can kill any non-boss character this way, including ''other players''.

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* [[Mushroom Samba]]: [[Interface Screw|SHROOMS MODE!!!]]

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: 84% of all levels in the original ''Rise of the Triad'' and 98% in ''Extreme Rise of the Triad''.

** See [[Self-Imposed Challenge]] entry below also.

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: [[Kamehame Hadoken|Fireball-shooting]] zombie death cultist monks that speak in [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] and a robot boss that engages in [[Macross Missile Massacre|Macross Missile Massacres]].

* [[Nonstandard Game Over]]:

* ~~[[Nonstandard Game Over]]:~~ If you fail to destroy all the larvae in the final level before killing the boss, you'll get an alternate ending where the world is destroyed, and you're required to start the level over again.

** If you fail to destroy all the larvae in the final level before killing the boss, you'll get an alternate ending where the world is destroyed, and you're required to start the level over again.

** In addition, when a boss dies, [[Made of Explodium|he blows up]] ([[Justified Trope|justified]] because bullet weapons and melee attacks don't do anything... you have to use missiles, magic or some combination of the two). If you happen to die in the explosion, you get a [[Game Over]]. [[Game Breaker|Even with maxed out lives]] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af2yentsL84#t=7m01s this guy] had 63).

* [[Overdrawn At the Blood Bank]]: [[Fun with Acronyms|Engine Killing Gibs]] mode causes enemies killed with missiles to spew gallons of blood in all directions.

* [[Punny Name]]:

* ~~[[Punny Name]]:~~ "Taradino Cassat", for Spanish speakers, if you consider that ''tarado'' is a slang word for ''idiot'' and even ''retard''.

** "Taradino Cassat", for Spanish speakers, if you consider that ''tarado'' is a slang word for ''idiot'' and even ''retard''.

** '''I'''an '''P'''aul '''Freeley''' [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs his own Lampshade]] in the ending wherein he complains about how he saved the damn world, but people only care about making fun of his name.

*** Making Freeley's situation even worse, according to the manual he wrote a novel called ''The Yellow River''.

** '''I'''an '''P'''aul '''Freeley''' [[Lampshade Hanging|hangs his own Lampshade]] in the ending wherein he complains about how he saved the damn world, but people only care about making fun of his name. Making Freeley's situation even worse, according to the manual he wrote a novel called ''The Yellow River''.

** Dog Mode, which is a pun on, well, [[God Mode]].

* [[Refuge in Audacity]]: The storyline and setting make no sense, but it's too cool for you to care, and the fact that the RSAC rating system considered it more violent than ''[[Doom]]'' was one of its selling points.

* [[Rocket Jump]]: The [[Trope Maker]]. The first game that allowed you both to look up and down ''and'' fire a rocket that won't instantly destroy you utterly.

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