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An indie platforming game made in 2009 by askiisoft. Also known as 天国の塔 (''Tengoku no Tou'', same meaning).

 

Can be downloaded [http://askiisoft.com/ here]. A [[Adobe Flash|Flash]] port of the game with a few extra features, including a [[Level Editor]], can also be found on [[Newgrounds]] [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/544332 here].

 

* [[Animal Motifs]]: Butterflies. {{spoiler|The deity himself is one.}}

* [[Badass Normal]]: The main protagonist, using only his jumping ability and little else.

* [[Cutscene Boss]]: Once you finally reach the deity ({{spoiler|who appears to be nothing more than a simple butterfly}}), he surrenders, having nothing else to throw at you.

* [[Deadly Walls]]: The second rule, "Thou shalt not touch blocks or walls from the side."

* [[Death Course]]: Almost all of the game.

* [[Death Is Cheap]]: Unlimited lives are in effect. The game DOES tally up the amount of player deaths at the end, though.

* [[Homage]]: To the [[Game Boy]] platformer games of old, right down to the colour scheme consisting of only black and greenish-yellow. {{spoiler|Except for the full color ending.}}

** The music is also 8-bit classic. {{spoiler|Except for the ending's almost [[Tear Jerker]] piano solo of "Atop the World".}}

* [[Kaizo Trap]]: At the beginning. The deity says he has no patience for slow workers, and the first screen is ridiculously easy. Take too long climbing the steps and he WILL smite you.

* [[Level Editor]]: The Flash port comes with one, which unlocks upon clearing the game. In order to share the level you make, though, you have to beat it first.

* [[Nintendo Hard]]: Since it invokes old [[Game Boy]] games, this is in effect. You have to combine Platforming skills with adherence to the laws. Said laws also escalate in cruelty, from simply not being allowed to touch yellow blocks, to not being able to walk left, not touching blocks or walls from the sides, not touching living beings and eventually not being allowed to look at the Book of Laws again. {{spoiler|At least until the final level destroys the book and revokes all but one of the laws. In the Newgrounds version, all the laws are revoked, but the obstacle remains (albeit changed)}}.

* [[No Name Given]]: There has been no name given for the deity. The protagonist was also unnamed until the Newgrounds Flash port. {{spoiler|According to the level editor, his name is Eid.}}

* [[Platform Hell]]: Basically the whole game. There's two levels where, if you don't make a move within the first ''second'', you die. The first of those levels has an exit to the mere left of you. But this is the same level where you're forbidden from walking left. How do you beat the level? {{spoiler|[[Loophole Abuse|Abuse the loophole.]]}}

** And then the final level combines spike traps, skull blocks, saw blades, various other vicious traps, and a classic [[Bottomless Pit]], and is one of the longest levels to boot.

* [[Retcon]]: The Newgrounds version changed the golden blocks in the final level to skull blocks, in order to fill the [[Plot Hole]] of {{spoiler|golden blocks still killing you after the Book of Laws is broken.}}

** The composer [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkBnQ27-Qrs&feature=related explained this] (spoilers in the comments) on Youtube as well:

flashygoodness: That was a problem in the original game. The yellow blocks still killed you {{spoiler|after the rules were nullified}} in the original version, hence the decision to change them to a different type of block in the new version. }}

* [[Sdrawkcab Name]]/ [[Meaningful Name]]: The level editor for the Newgrounds version reveals the protagonists name as {{spoiler|Eid}}. Now, what does [[God Is Evil|the deity]] want you to do? [[Nintendo Hard|What are you probably going to be doing a lot of the time in this game?]] That's right...

* [[Spikes of Doom]]: Well, they're here.

* [[Suddenly Harmful Harmless Object]]: Butterflies and plants once the fourth rule, "Thou shalt not touch a living thing," comes into effect.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: The deity gradually gets more desperate to stop you the further you get into the tower, enforcing crueller laws in his anger.

** Particularly notable is this line: "How dare you... How dare you continue to live? Is it merely to spite me? You damn fool. Those covetous enough to seek my reward deserve only fiery torment. You will share that fate soon enough."

* [[Your Head Asplode]]: When you get smited.

 

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