Psychosomnium - TV Tropes
- ️Thu Sep 13 2012
Nap time.
A Platform Game by cactus... so you already know it's gonna be weird. Though it's much MUCH Lighter and Softer than his other games, like Norrland or Hotline Miami.
Psychosomnium is a short, quite surreal story, telling the story of Jimmy, or rather, Jimmy's dream and the people who inhabit it, struggling with a mysterious unexplained problem.
Basically, it's your typical cute dream in video game form. It can be played online here
or downloaded here.
The game features the following tropes:
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: Triggered several times by the death of the character you're controlling right now; you then become the character who witnessed that death.
- Checkpoint: A red/green button beneath a pipe. Used to recover from deaths that do not advance the plot.
- Cutting the Knot: The rabbits demand carrots that don't exist... so you have to kill yourself where Mitch can see, at which point he'll take over and punch the rabbits to death for blocking his path.
- Dream Land: Jimmy's short dream.
- Fetch Quest: Subverted. A trio of rabbits demands carrots before they'll let you pass. They then mention, however, that carrots don't exist, and thus you're doomed to failure.
- Gainax Ending: The castle is the wizard. Roll credits. Well, it's a dream, after all.
- Genius Loci: The ending. The wizard is actually his own castle, apparently.
- Gonk: Shirley, for being the only female in the game, looks quite grotesque.
- Good Old Fisticuffs: Mitch punches the three bunnies out of the way.
- Graphics-Induced Super-Deformed: Pretty much everyone has very big heads.
- Killer Rabbit: Rabbits who kill you by touching.
- Misère Game: Player death is required to progress through the narrative (provided it meets the requirements).
- Sudden Soundtrack Stop: The soundtrack keeps going after characters die, except when McBee dies.
- Species Surname: McBee.
- Spikes of Doom: Tiny, triangular, cute spikes which instantly kill you. The game also includes ones falling from above.
- Video Game Demake: In the form of Microsomnium, imitating Game & Watch.
- Wrap Around: The stranger comes up against a wall that can't be jumped over, and needs to wrap around the left side of the area to progress. This is then followed by three screens that look identical that do not follow this trope.