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When a game incorporates trivia questions into it, even if it's not a trivia game.
Turn-based games divide game actions into distinct parts, called turns. This gives the player time to strategically choose actions as the battle or events unfold.
Reptiles known for their hard shells.
You don't know how to play our game, so we'll teach you how.
The Tweester is a tornado like enemy found in several Mario games. It usually doesn't harm you, just blow you away to places or ways you probably don't want to go to.
Bosses that are designed to not be beaten; however, sometimes these bosses can finally be beaten at a later point in the game.
The Undead is an umbrella term describing creatures that do not exhibit the key fundamental attributes that are associated with life, such as respiration, and blood circulation. They are divided into two main categories: Ethereal and Corporeal, depending on whether or not they have a body.
A dragon that has been resurrected after death. Undead Dragons are often weaker but more terrifying than their living counterparts.
Video games contain a lot of activities for players to do underwater, from exploration to combat. Sometimes games treat water as simple low gravity movement, while other games treat underwater more realistically.
Unexpectedly changing from one character to another during the plot.
Cutscenes that cannot be interrupted or bypassed through player interaction.
Games that feature characters that are known for a highly distinctive and unusual manner of speech.
Weapons can often be upgraded with new attachments, augmentations, or magical enchantments. These upgrades result in the original item being more powerful than originally intended.
A trope commonly seen in RPGs, where a character in the player's party disbands without warning during a story event. This often means that the character takes their currently equipped items with them.
Vestigial items may have had a use at one point in time, but now occupy a permanent inventory space and cannot be removed due to their special status.
A malevolent character whose goals are evil in nature. While villains are commonly featured as antagonists, not all antagonists are necessarily villains.
A video game protagonist's enemies come from more than just the Animal and Mineral kingdoms. P-O'd plants have been battled by everyone from plumbers to the undead.
The Virtual Console is a platform service that first appeared on Nintendo's Wii and later on the 3DS and Wii U. Games from past consoles are emulated to run on the new hardware with the added benefits of system-level save states and other features.
"Vore" is an internet term for a sexual fetish for the act of a creature swallowing someone else whole while they are still alive. The act is also seen in many video games, in a decidedly less sexual manner.
Vultures are large scavenging birds. They are not highly regarded by humans.
Many of the games released for the Nintendo Wii take 'advantage' of the controls available by forcing the player to shake or 'waggle' the Wii remote and/or nunchuck. Waggling generally does not require skill on the part of the player; only shaking movements.
A biological entity with the innate ability to control the behavior and direction of water using little to no physical contact.
These giant stone creatures are constantly trying to squish Mario under their own weight.
Wigglers are enemies that look like caterpillars. They first appeared in Super Mario World, where if Mario, Luigi, or Yoshi jumped on it, the Wiggler would turn red and start running fast, as well as being able to move in the character's direction.
A viewable map that displays the entire game world. The map also usually shows the player's location in the world.
These aliens swear allegiance to Sir Grodus and Lord Crump. Their signature move is their X greeting.
A bipedal dinosaur species known for its great appetite and egg-laying abilities.
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