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Whether it's worn for protection or style, helmets appear in various game genres.
Frozen water that can be a hazard to the player or used as a weapon.
Used to open doors, or anything else that is locked. In any game where the player has an inventory, it's a safe bet that a key will appear at some point.
A ladder is used to gain access to higher or lower ground. Also used as a weapon in most wrestling games.
Lava is molten rock, usually from the interior of a planet, and in games is often used as a hazard to players, or as a visible gameplay-area boundary.
Often used as either a weapon or in a weapon and also used often times as a weather effect, lightning is seen in several games. Called "thunder" in some games, even though thunder is the sound that lightning makes.
Traditionally, lightning is a form of electrical discharge originating within clouds. Within video games, lightning can be used as an offensive attack.
A mallet, not a hammer.
A map is a drawing on a piece of paper, or other surface, that indicates the locations of various landmarks.
Usually put on face to either hide the users face or as a stylish item.
Metal Armor is typically a heavy armor made from metal or some alloy.
A transport trolley locked on a rail. Often used to bring coal and other mined materials from inside mines to the surface.
The manliest type of facial hair.
Pants (a.k.a. trousers) are a type of leg covering.
A pentagram is a five-pointed star drawn using five straight lines. Though pentagrams have a variety of meanings, in video games they are most often seen upside-down, as symbols of the occult and evil.
Rail tracks, which are also known as Train tracks, railway, or simply tracks, are the rails which guide trains. There are many types of tracks that are used for different types of trains around the world.
A loose, fitting dress, typically worn by wizards or monks. Also regarded and used as a religious garment.
A mechanical lifeform, typically exhibiting superhuman abilities, that can be found in games as either the main protaganist or as powerful enemies or allies.
Rocks are the hard objects found randomly scattered across the ground all over the Earth's surface. They're not good for much more than smashing stuff or being made into other things. Handily crushes Scissors but cannot defeat the mighty Paper.
A corded length of fibers that has many uses.
Sand is a fine, granular material composed mainly of rock and mineral, primarily silica. Sand is the primary environment of many games with settings that include deserts, beaches, and the ocean floor, among many others.
A roll of parchment or paper inscribed with writing, symbols, pictures, etc.
Severed limbs are objects in video games that fall off of characters, often from explosions, gunshots,and melee weapons.
Vessel for transportation through water.
The topmost bone in the human body, it contains the brain and the eyes, and is generally considered a good thing to keep intact.
A series of words of power, usually accompanied by a series of hand gestures, that unlocks the powers of magic for a brief moment. Can be read or just spoken from memory.
Collect them, orbit them, conquer planets around them -- they're a staple of many genres of games.
A sculpted representation of a person or object, generally in butter or stone.
Stone and rock share many of the same mineralogical properties. Stone is often used to construct freestanding durable structures, requiring a great deal of force to break.
A length of exceptionally sharp metal with a handle, used for centuries as the go-to killing device for the human race. It's dead simple: you stick the pointy end in the thing you want to die. Or you could always slash them with the equally sharp sides. That works too.
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