Secret Agent Barbie: Royal Jewels Mission: Difference between revisions

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* [[Asian Store Owner]]: Mrs. Tanaka. Apart from dye, what she's selling isn't made clear.

* [[Culture Equals Costume]]: Averted in Brazil and France, but played straight just about everywhere else.

* [[Easing Into the Adventure]]: Unless you skip it, the start of the game is Barbie doing some Virtual Training before receiving the call from Theresa.

* [[Equipment Reset Button]]: Barbie's inventory is changed each level so that she always has what she needs.

* [[Gadget Watches]]: Barbie uses a watch to communicate with her friends back at base while she’s on a mission. When it’s not being used in this way, it functions as a minimap/GPS device. Also see [[Super Wrist Gadget]] below.

* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]: One of Barbie’s gadgets is her Pink Vision Goggles, which help her to see coded messages within her environment.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: To call them weapons is a stretch, but Barbie's arsenal of gadgets consists of: a lipstick, a swingshot that's a wristband, a bottle of perfume, a robot puppy, a camera, some glasses and a compact of foundation that causes a huge cloud of smoke. Yeah.

* [[Instant Costume Change]]: Barbie performs these when changing among Stealth, Action and Adventure modes, sometimes in broad daylight, in a public area, while surrounded by a crowd. This is never mentioned or explained.

* [[It's Up to You|It's Up to Barbie]]

* [[Jump Physics]]: Action Mode, full stop.

* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: The thief stole Theresa’s designs in order to create a ‘Translucent Suit’, which is said to provide the wearer with near invisibility when worn.

* [[Modern Egypt]]: One of Barbie's many destinations. Others include:

** [[Japan]]

** [[New York]]

* [[Name's the Same]]: Let's hope that Mrs. Tanaka isn't married [[Persona 3|to a dirty businessman who swindles teenagers out of absurdly large amounts of yen.]]

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Some of the guards have an uncanny resemblance to a pixelated [[Ben Stiller]].

* [[No Peripheral Vision]]: The guards seem to have this. In fact, you can see their exact field of vision on the minimap. You could be standing right next to one of the guards, but as long as you’re not in that vision field, you won’t get noticed.

* [[Now Where Was I Going Again?]]: A particularly cruel example. You can save mid-mission and quit, but upon reloading your save, you have to start from the beginning of the mission again.

* [[Robot Dog]]: One of Barbie’s gadgets is a robot dog that looks suspiciously like a Poochie [the robotic toy dog from the [[Turn of the Millennium]]]. It’s used to distract guards and reach small spaces where Barbie can’t fit.

* [[Run, Don't Walk]]: You can only run in Action Mode, you can only walk in Adventure Mode but you can only run once in Stealth Mode, otherwise [[Captain Obvious|you're reduced to sneaking]].

* [[Saving the World]]: Or at least the economy

* [[Scripted Event]]: It's perfectly possible (with the aid of a cheat) to catch up to {{spoiler|Camille}} when she's stolen the puzzle box, [[But Thou Must!|but you have to let her escape]].

* [[Stealth Based Game]]: At least a third of the time, Barbie is in ‘Stealth Mode’.

* [[Stealth Expert]]: It’s hard to believe that Barbie can go by unnoticed in the highly colourful ‘Stealth Mode’ outfit that she wears, especially when she’s ‘stealthing’ in sparsely populated areas. This is, therefore, the only explanation.

* [[Stock Video Game Puzzle]]:

* [[Stock Foreign Name]]: Tanaka is a relatively common Japanese surname.

* [[Stupidity Is the Only Option]]: In one mission, Barbie has to set up a trap for the main villain by using the [[MacGuffin]] she just got. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Cue facepalming when the villain arrives, steals the MacGuffin and forces a futile chase after them.]]

* [[Supervillain Lair]]: The lair of the villain, the last mission of the game.

** [[Exploring the Evil Lair]]

* [[Super Wrist Gadget]]: The UI shows a bracelet along the bottom of the screen; each ‘link’ in the chain contains the icon for one of Barbie’s many gadgets. Since she doesn’t carry a bag or have anywhere else to store these items, it’s [[Fridge Logic|implied that she actually]] ''[[Fridge Logic|keeps them inside her bracelet]]''.

* [[Tracking Device]]: Yet another of Barbie’s gadgets, this tracking device comes in the form of tracking ''perfume''. Yeah…

** [[The Maze]]: Subverted in that you have a map and can see over the hedges.

* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: Or two, three or four.

 

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