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[[File:snailiad_7708.gif|frame|~~[[Video Game]], [[Metroidvania]]~~]] |
[[File:snailiad_7708.gif|frame|~~[[Video Game]], [[Metroidvania]]~~]] |
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''Snailiad'' is a [[Metroidvania]] [[Retraux]] [[Web Games|Flash game]] created by auriplane. |
''[[Snailiad]]'' is a [[Metroidvania]] [[Retraux]] [[Web Games|Flash game]] created by auriplane. |
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The [[Excuse Plot|plot]]: You're a snail named [[Department of Redundancy Department|Snaily Snail]] who [[Save the Princess|has to set out to rescue the missing snails]]. |
The [[Excuse Plot|plot]]: You're a snail named [[Department of Redundancy Department|Snaily Snail]] who [[Save the Princess|has to set out to rescue the missing snails]]. |
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Play it [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/573352 here]. |
Play it [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/573352 here]. |
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=== Tropes used in this game: === |
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* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: A pea shooter and a boomerang ''sort of'' make sense ([[Fridge Logic|though it begs the question of how Snaily holds the gun/boomerang]]), but ''rainbow waves?'' |
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: A pea shooter and a boomerang ''sort of'' make sense ([[Fridge Logic|though it begs the question of how Snaily holds the gun/boomerang]]), but ''rainbow waves?'' |
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* [[Alliteration]]: The stage names. |
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* [[Airborne Mooks]]: A ''lot'' of the enemies in this game fly. <ref> Among others, the Sky Viper, Chirpy, Batty Bat, and Ghost Dandelion.</ref> |
* [[Airborne Mooks]]: A ''lot'' of the enemies in this game fly. <ref> Among others, the Sky Viper, Chirpy, Batty Bat, and Ghost Dandelion.</ref> |
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* [[Always Check Behind the Chair]]: It's a [[Metroidvania]] game. It comes with the genre. |
* [[Always Check Behind the Chair]]: It's a [[Metroidvania]] game. It comes with the genre. |
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* [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]: The battle with {{spoiler|Giga-Snail}}. |
* [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]: The battle with {{spoiler|Giga-Snail}}. |
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* [[An Ice Person]]: The Iceballs. |
* [[An Ice Person]]: The Iceballs. |
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** Snaily himself after getting the Ice Snail powerup. |
** Snaily himself after getting the Ice Snail powerup. |
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* [[Apathetic Citizens]]: The snails of Snail Town leave everything [[It's Up to You|up to you]]. |
* [[Apathetic Citizens]]: The snails of Snail Town leave everything [[It's Up to You|up to you]]. |
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* [[Author Appeal]]: The creator ''loves'' snails. And boy, does it show. |
* [[Author Appeal]]: The creator ''loves'' snails. And boy, does it show. |
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* [[Babies Ever After]]: {{spoiler|The psychic snail in Snail Town predicts this of Snaily after getting the [[Golden Ending]]. "I can see the future, Snaily! I see you having 18,000,000 baby snails!! Congratulations!!"}} |
* [[Babies Ever After]]: {{spoiler|The psychic snail in Snail Town predicts this of Snaily after getting the [[Golden Ending]]. "I can see the future, Snaily! I see you having 18,000,000 baby snails!! Congratulations!!"}} |
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* [[Big Bad]]: Moon Snail. |
* [[Big Bad]]: Moon Snail. |
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* [[Big Good]]: {{spoiler|Isis.}} |
* [[Big Good]]: {{spoiler|Isis.}} |
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* [[Bubbly Clouds]]: Lux Lirata has shades of this. |
* [[Bubbly Clouds]]: Lux Lirata has shades of this. |
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* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]: The Devil (red) Blob. It moves '''very''' fast, shoots tons of [[Buffy-Speak|energy ball... things]], and takes ''way'' too many hits to die! Thankfully, [[Unique Enemy|there's only one in the entire game]]. |
* [[Boss in Mook Clothing]]: The Devil (red) Blob. It moves '''very''' fast, shoots tons of [[Buffy-Speak|energy ball... things]], and takes ''way'' too many hits to die! Thankfully, [[Unique Enemy|there's only one in the entire game]]. |
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* [[Boss Rush]]: [[Nintendo Hard|And dear God is it hard.]] |
* [[Boss Rush]]: [[Nintendo Hard|And dear God is it hard.]] |
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* [[Boss Subtitles]]: Although there's no descriptive sentence; it's only used to display the boss' name. |
* [[Boss Subtitles]]: Although there's no descriptive sentence; it's only used to display the boss' name. |
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** Which is derived from your [[Idle Animation]]. |
** Which is derived from your [[Idle Animation]]. |
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* [[Chain-Reaction Destruction]]: Bosses do this in a rather spectacular manner. |
* [[Chain-Reaction Destruction]]: Bosses do this in a rather spectacular manner. |
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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Most of the snails could qualify. |
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Most of the snails could qualify. |
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{{quote|"[[You No Take Candle|Cave Snail]] scares me! I'm staying over here!" [[Beat]] "Do you think Cave Snail is single?"}} |
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* [[Credits Gag]]: Downplayed: the credits [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|amusingly]] lampshade the trend of putting "And You" at the end of their credits. |
* [[Credits Gag]]: Downplayed: the credits [[Funny Moments (Sugar Wiki)|amusingly]] lampshade the trend of putting "And You" at the end of their credits. |
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* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Snaily Snail. |
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Snaily Snail. |
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* [[Gravity Screw]]: The Gravity Shell powerup allows you to do this. |
* [[Gravity Screw]]: The Gravity Shell powerup allows you to do this. |
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** The Gravity Turtles can also do this. |
** The Gravity Turtles can also do this. |
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* [[Green Rocks]]: The helix fragments. |
* [[Green Rocks]]: The helix fragments. |
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* [[Hailfire Peaks]]: Mare Carelia could be either [[Green Hill Zone]], or [[Under the Sea]]. |
* [[Hailfire Peaks]]: Mare Carelia could be either [[Green Hill Zone]], or [[Under the Sea]]. |
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** Amastrida Abyssus combines [[Lethal Lava Land]] and [[Under the Sea]] (again). |
** Amastrida Abyssus combines [[Lethal Lava Land]] and [[Under the Sea]] (again). |
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* [[Level Map Display]]: Type 1. |
* [[Level Map Display]]: Type 1. |
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* [[Medium Awareness]]: Don't be surprised to see snails reference the fact that they are in a game. Particularly notable in this quote: |
* [[Medium Awareness]]: Don't be surprised to see snails reference the fact that they are in a game. Particularly notable in this quote: |
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{{quote|"Don't moon snails live in the ocean? Hey, this game isn't realistic!! What gives??"}} |
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** "I hope the next game has more weapons. This game could have used a [[Castlevania 1986|flame whip!"]] |
** "I hope the next game has more weapons. This game could have used a [[Castlevania (1986 video game)||flame whip!"]] |
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* [[Minus World]]: {{spoiler|???, with its weird glitchy walls and strange music. It's actually the passageway to the Shrine of Isis.}} |
* [[Minus World]]: {{spoiler|???, with its weird glitchy walls and strange music. It's actually the passageway to the Shrine of Isis.}} |
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* [[Mirror Boss]]: Moon Snail. Aside from changing his own gravity, he uses Devastator-style boomerangs and dark-colored waves {{spoiler|in his first form. As Giga-Snail, he uses ''bigger'' Rainbow Waves, as well as using the Devastator-peashooter bullets. He even uses ''the idle animation'' as an attack; the Z's fly off in your general direction.}} |
* [[Mirror Boss]]: Moon Snail. Aside from changing his own gravity, he uses Devastator-style boomerangs and dark-colored waves {{spoiler|in his first form. As Giga-Snail, he uses ''bigger'' Rainbow Waves, as well as using the Devastator-peashooter bullets. He even uses ''the idle animation'' as an attack; the Z's fly off in your general direction.}} |
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* [[My Name Is |
* [[My Name Is ???]]: {{spoiler|???, a hidden area which contains the Shrine of Isis.}} |
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* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Oh yes. |
* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Oh yes. |
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* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: One snail in Snail Town manages to ''eat a pizza'' offscreen, after telling Snaily he would for nearly the entire game. |
* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: One snail in Snail Town manages to ''eat a pizza'' offscreen, after telling Snaily he would for nearly the entire game. |
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* [[One-Man Army|One-Snail Army]] |
* [[One-Man Army|One-Snail Army]] |
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* [[One-Winged Angel]]: The [[Final Boss]], {{spoiler|Giga-Snail}}. |
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: The [[Final Boss]], {{spoiler|Giga-Snail}}. |
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* [[Precision-Guided Boomerang]] |
* [[Precision-Guided Boomerang]] |
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* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: There are several snake enemies. |
* [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]]: There are several snake enemies. |
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* [[Retraux]] |
* [[Retraux]] |
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* [[Reverse Shrapnel]]: The Angel (white) Blob, amongst others. |
* [[Reverse Shrapnel]]: The Angel (white) Blob, amongst others. |
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* [[Shout-Out]]: "[[Konami Code|Up, up, down, down, left, right...]] wait, never mind, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|that's for some other game]]." |
* [[Shout-Out]]: "[[Konami Code|Up, up, down, down, left, right...]] wait, never mind, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|that's for some other game]]." |
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** The [[Boss Rush]] version of the Space Box is called "Time Cube". Both versions also [[Doctor Who|turn blue when they]] [[Turns Red|go berserk]]. |
** The [[Boss Rush]] version of the Space Box is called "Time Cube". Both versions also [[Doctor Who|turn blue when they]] [[Turns Red|go berserk]]. |
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** [[Medium Awareness|"I hope the next game has more weapons. This game could have used a]] [[Castlevania 1986|flame whip!"]] |
** [[Medium Awareness|"I hope the next game has more weapons. This game could have used a]] [[Castlevania (1986 video game)||flame whip!"]] |
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** Upon starting a new game in {{spoiler|Slug Mode}}, a fake password screen appears, which is filled out by an unseen person with [[Metroid|"JUSTIN SNAILY"]]. |
** Upon starting a new game in {{spoiler|Slug Mode}}, a fake password screen appears, which is filled out by an unseen person with [[Metroid|"JUSTIN SNAILY"]]. |
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** [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|"It's dangerous to go alone!"]] |
** [[The Legend of Zelda (video game)|"It's dangerous to go alone!"]] |
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Latest revision as of 17:56, 2 April 2020
Snailiad is a Metroidvania Retraux Flash game created by auriplane.
The plot: You're a snail named Snaily Snail who has to set out to rescue the missing snails.
Play it here.
Tropes used in Snailiad include:
- Abnormal Ammo: A pea shooter and a boomerang sort of make sense (though it begs the question of how Snaily holds the gun/boomerang), but rainbow waves?
- Alliteration: The stage names.
- Airborne Mooks: A lot of the enemies in this game fly. [1]
- Always Check Behind the Chair: It's a Metroidvania game. It comes with the genre.
- Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: The battle with Giga-Snail.
- An Ice Person: The Iceballs.
- Snaily himself after getting the Ice Snail powerup.
- Apathetic Citizens: The snails of Snail Town leave everything up to you.
- Author Appeal: The creator loves snails. And boy, does it show.
- Babies Ever After: The psychic snail in Snail Town predicts this of Snaily after getting the Golden Ending. "I can see the future, Snaily! I see you having 18,000,000 baby snails!! Congratulations!!"
- Big Bad: Moon Snail.
- Big Good: Isis.
- Bubbly Clouds: Lux Lirata has shades of this.
- Boss in Mook Clothing: The Devil (red) Blob. It moves very fast, shoots tons of energy ball... things, and takes way too many hits to die! Thankfully, there's only one in the entire game.
- Boss Rush: And dear God is it hard.
- Boss Subtitles: Although there's no descriptive sentence; it's only used to display the boss' name.
- Catching Some Zs: One of attacks of the final boss.
- Which is derived from your Idle Animation.
- Chain-Reaction Destruction: Bosses do this in a rather spectacular manner.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Most of the snails could qualify.
"Cave Snail scares me! I'm staying over here!" Beat "Do you think Cave Snail is single?" |
- Credits Gag: Downplayed: the credits amusingly lampshade the trend of putting "And You" at the end of their credits.
- Department of Redundancy Department: Snaily Snail.
- Dramatis Personae: At the end.
- Electric Jellyfish: They're an Invincible Minor Minion, at least until you get the Devastator.
- Everything's Better with Rainbows: The Rainbow Wave.
- Excuse Plot: Snails are disappearing. Go find them.
- Subverted towards the end, though; the plot doesn't get very deep, but a semblance of one does form. Your mission of finding the disappearing snails is also referenced quite frequently.
- Flash of Pain
- Fragile Speedster: Sluggy Slug, your Player Character after choosing Slug Mode.
- Frickin' Laser Beams: The eyes on the walls in one section of Lux Lirata fire these.
- Giant Space Flea From Nowhere: Every boss except the final one, and they're pretty weird. Two giant feet with eyes? Really?
- Golden Ending: Achieved by getting all 30 helix fragments. Moon Snail becomes Sun Snail again and all is well.
- The Goomba: The Blob (purple slime).
- Goomba Stomp: Stompy seems hellbent on doing this to you.
- Gravity Screw: The Gravity Shell powerup allows you to do this.
- The Gravity Turtles can also do this.
- Green Rocks: The helix fragments.
- Hailfire Peaks: Mare Carelia could be either Green Hill Zone, or Under the Sea.
- Amastrida Abyssus combines Lethal Lava Land and Under the Sea (again).
- Hammerspace: Just how is Snaily holding all those boomerangs?
- Hearts Are Health
- Heart Container
- Heroic Mime: Snaily, in keeping with the 8-bit theme.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Health is replenished by green and pink grass (guess which one replenishes more health).
- Idle Animation: Snaily falls asleep in his shell.
- Which gets used by Giga-Snail as an attack.
- Item Get
- Invincible Minor Minion: The Jellyfish and the spikeballs. Subverted when you get the Devastator.
- Jungle Japes: Snail Town is something like this.
- Just for Pun: The two cannon enemies are called Canon (red) and Non-Canon (blue).
- Killer Rabbit: The Kitty. It looks like the harmless Snelks that randomly roam the areas, but it bounces around at a fast pace and shoots a bunch of bullets in between jumps.
- Lampshade Hanging: One of the snails in Snail Town asks "Don't you think it's weird that we all live in treehouses?"
- Another snail in Lux Lirata quips, "Amazing work, Snaily!! Say, how'd we get into space, anyway?"
- Level Map Display: Type 1.
- Medium Awareness: Don't be surprised to see snails reference the fact that they are in a game. Particularly notable in this quote:
"Don't moon snails live in the ocean? Hey, this game isn't realistic!! What gives??" |
- "I hope the next game has more weapons. This game could have used a |flame whip!"
- Minus World: ???, with its weird glitchy walls and strange music. It's actually the passageway to the Shrine of Isis.
- Mirror Boss: Moon Snail. Aside from changing his own gravity, he uses Devastator-style boomerangs and dark-colored waves in his first form. As Giga-Snail, he uses bigger Rainbow Waves, as well as using the Devastator-peashooter bullets. He even uses the idle animation as an attack; the Z's fly off in your general direction.
- My Name Is ???: ???, a hidden area which contains the Shrine of Isis.
- Nintendo Hard: Oh yes.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: One snail in Snail Town manages to eat a pizza offscreen, after telling Snaily he would for nearly the entire game.
- One-Snail Army
- One-Winged Angel: The Final Boss, Giga-Snail.
- Precision-Guided Boomerang
- Reptiles Are Abhorrent: There are several snake enemies.
- Retraux
- Reverse Shrapnel: The Angel (white) Blob, amongst others.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: The snails. In particular Snaily's idle animation.
- The snelks may also qualify.
- Save the Princess
- Secret Character: Sluggy Slug (hero of Slug Mode).
- Seers: One snail in Snail Town can see the future. His words often describe what to do next.
- Shout-Out: "Up, up, down, down, left, right... wait, never mind, that's for some other game."
- The Boss Rush version of the Space Box is called "Time Cube". Both versions also turn blue when they go berserk.
- "I hope the next game has more weapons. This game could have used a |flame whip!"
- Upon starting a new game in Slug Mode, a fake password screen appears, which is filled out by an unseen person with "JUSTIN SNAILY".
- "It's dangerous to go alone!"
- Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Spiralis Silere.
- Space Zone: Lux Lirata becomes this near the end.
- Suspicious Videogame Generosity: Pre-boss rooms are usually full of pink grass. The snails will outright tell you when there's a boss coming up, though, so it doesn't come as much of a surprise.
- Turns Red: Every boss does this, literally (though the Space Box actually turns blue when it goes berserk).
- Unique Enemy: Two of them. One's a cat listed under Killer Rabbit above, and the other's the Devil Blob. It's called that for a good reason.
- Under the Sea: Mare Carelia.
- Upgrade Artifact: The Devastator, which upgrades all three of your weapons.
- Wall Crawl: One of your abilities. Justified, as you're a snail.
- Widget Series: You better believe it.
- You No Take Candle: "I are Cave Snail! Thorgle borgle!!!!"
- ↑ Among others, the Sky Viper, Chirpy, Batty Bat, and Ghost Dandelion.