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The End of Days. A concept often used in video games. In most games: the protagonists are working to prevent it, although sometimes the goal is to actually bring about Armageddon yourself.
A style of gameplay where players must navigate a vast stream of projectiles.
Clefairy is a normal type Pokémon that evolves from Cleffa and can evolve into Clefable with a Moon Stone.
Environments cycle between day and night, often with effects on other aspects of the game.
"Evil" robots from the planet Cybertron. They wage their battle to destroy the Autobots and gain power.
The DomZ are an alien race from Beyond Good & Evil that constantly assault the planet Hillys and abduct it's inhabitants to either drain their life force or to make them DomZ slaves.
The Fallen, also known as the Eliksni, are an insectoid alien race in the Destiny universe. They fled their homeworld after the Traveler abandoned them, and have taken up a war against humanity after rediscovering the Traveler in the Solar System.
The Hive are an ancient alien race in the Destiny universe. They are guided by a religious principle known as the Sword Logic, a doctrine which instructs the Hive to destroy all other civilizations in order to feed the Worms that dwell within them.
Bugs that are sapient beings and have humanoid and/or anthropomorphised features to varying degrees. This page includes Arachnids (Spiders, Scorpions) for brevity.
Some games have features or elements that can be affected by the phase of the game world's lunar cycle. Enemies may be stronger or encounters may become more frequent. The following are some of those games.
When monsters in a game can turn on each other after an accidental injury and fight to the death instead of focusing on the player, or when some of the player's enemies also hate each other, and will attack each other on sight.
The Moon Children are the children Link can see run around the surface of the moon in his vision. Four of the children running around wear the masks of the bosses that Link has defeated in Termina, while the last one sitting down wears the Majora's Mask.
Nightmares are apparitions of Darkness created by the Lunar Pyramid for psychological warfare; manifested as past figures and enemies to exploit the trauma and worst fears of Guardians and other beings.
A central concept in the Zero Escape series, the Nonary Game is a deadly competition that revolves around the use of the number 9.
A form of level transition, mainly used in the early 90's. The act of travelling from one planet to another.
The foot soldiers of Power Rangers villain Rita Repulsa, and later, Lord Zedd.
A lead character who never says a word, despite being spoken to.
The political and military face of humanity in the Mass Effect universe.
Games set in, or focused primarily around, the years between 1960 and 1969.
The Black Fleet is an armada of massive Darkness-aligned tetrahedral vessels, known as Pyramids.
In the Star Trek universe, a group of spacefaring species joined together as one in the United Federation of Planets (UFP) to explore the universe in peace. Their member species include: Andorians, Humans, Tellerites, and Vulcans.
Vehicular combat combines driving and combat to form a unique fast paced action game. Many games are purely vehicular combat based (e.g. Twisted Metal or Vigilante 8) or can contain have sections for such combat (e.g. Halo or Mass Effect).
The Vex are a cyber-organic species in the Destiny universe, consisting of microscopic organisms suspended in liquid radiolaria that dwell inside robotic frames. The Vex are capable of advanced data processing, time travel, portal creation, and remarkable feats of engineering, but possess no sentience whatsoever.
Golbez redeems his villainous ways in his fight against Zemus in the core of the moon.
Whether it's slowly crashing into the planet or trying to deny your creeps, an evil moon is no joke.
These aliens swear allegiance to Sir Grodus and Lord Crump. Their signature move is their X greeting.
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