Snailiad

~~Video Game, Metroidvania~~

Snailiad is a Metroidvania Retraux Flash game created by auriplane.

The plot: You're a snail named Snaily Snail who has to set out to rescue the missing snails.

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Tropes used in this game:

• Abnormal Ammo: A pea shooter and a boomerang sort of make sense (though it begs the question of how Snaily holds the gun/boomerang), but rainbow waves?
• Added Alliterative Appeal: The stage names.
• Airborne Mooks: A lot of the enemies in this game fly.
• Always Check Behind the Chair: It's a Metroidvania game. It comes with the genre.
• Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: The battle with Giga-Snail.
• An Ice Person: The Iceballs.
  • Snaily himself after getting the Ice Snail powerup.
• Apathetic Citizens: The snails of Snail Town leave everything up to you.
• Author Appeal: The creator loves snails. And boy, does it show.
• Babies Ever After: The psychic snail in Snail Town predicts this of Snaily after getting the Golden Ending. "I can see the future, Snaily! I see you having 18,000,000 baby snails!! Congratulations!!"
• Big Bad: Moon Snail.
• Big Good: Isis.
• Bubbly Clouds: Lux Lirata has shades of this.
• Boss in Mook Clothing: The Devil (red) Blob. It moves very fast, shoots tons of energy ball... things, and takes way too many hits to die! Thankfully, there's only one in the entire game.
• Boss Rush: And dear God is it hard.
• Boss Subtitles: Although there's no descriptive sentence; it's only used to display the boss' name.
• Catching Some Zs: One of attacks of the final boss.
  • Which is derived from your Idle Animation.
• Chain-Reaction Destruction: Bosses do this in a rather spectacular manner.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Most of the snails could qualify.

"Cave Snail scares me! I'm staying over here!" Beat "Do you think Cave Snail is single?"

• Credits Gag: Downplayed: the credits amusingly lampshade the trend of putting "And You" at the end of their credits.
• Department of Redundancy Department: Snaily Snail.
• Dramatis Personae: At the end.
• Electric Jellyfish: They're an Invincible Minor Minion, at least until you get the Devastator.
• Everything's Better with Rainbows: The Rainbow Wave.
• Excuse Plot: Snails are disappearing. Go find them.
  • Subverted towards the end, though; the plot doesn't get very deep, but a semblance of one does form. Your mission of finding the disappearing snails is also referenced quite frequently.
• Flash of Pain
• Fragile Speedster: Sluggy Slug, your Player Character after choosing Slug Mode.
• Frickin' Laser Beams: The eyes on the walls in one section of Lux Lirata fire these.
• Giant Space Flea From Nowhere: Every boss except the final one, and they're pretty weird. Two giant feet with eyes? Really?
• Golden Ending: Achieved by getting all 30 helix fragments. Moon Snail becomes Sun Snail again and all is well.
• The Goomba: The Blob (purple slime).
• Goomba Stomp: Stompy seems hellbent on doing this to you.
• Gravity Screw: The Gravity Shell powerup allows you to do this.
  • The Gravity Turtles can also do this.
• Green Rocks: The helix fragments.
• Hailfire Peaks: Mare Carelia could be either Green Hill Zone, or Under the Sea.
  • Amastrida Abyssus combines Lethal Lava Land and Under the Sea (again).
• Hammerspace: Just how is Snaily holding all those boomerangs?
• Hearts Are Health
• Heart Container
• Heroic Mime: Snaily, in keeping with the 8-bit theme.
• Hyperactive Metabolism: Health is replenished by green and pink grass (guess which one replenishes more health).
• Idle Animation: Snaily falls asleep in his shell.
  • Which gets used by Giga-Snail as an attack.
• Item Get
• Invincible Minor Minion: The Jellyfish and the spikeballs. Subverted when you get the Devastator.
• Jungle Japes: Snail Town is something like this.
• Just for Pun: The two cannon enemies are called Canon (red) and Non-Canon (blue).
• Killer Rabbit: The Kitty. It looks like the harmless Snelks that randomly roam the areas, but it bounces around at a fast pace and shoots a bunch of bullets in between jumps.
• Lampshade Hanging: One of the snails in Snail Town asks "Don't you think it's weird that we all live in treehouses?"
  • Another snail in Lux Lirata quips, "Amazing work, Snaily!! Say, how'd we get into space, anyway?"
• Level Map Display: Type 1.
• Medium Awareness: Don't be surprised to see snails reference the fact that they are in a game. Particularly notable in this quote:

"Don't moon snails live in the ocean? Hey, this game isn't realistic!! What gives??"

• • "I hope the next game has more weapons. This game could have used a flame whip!"
• Minus World: ???, with its weird glitchy walls and strange music. It's actually the passageway to the Shrine of Isis.
• Mirror Boss: Moon Snail. Aside from changing his own gravity, he uses Devastator-style boomerangs and dark-colored waves in his first form. As Giga-Snail, he uses bigger Rainbow Waves, as well as using the Devastator-peashooter bullets. He even uses the idle animation as an attack; the Z's fly off in your general direction.
• My Name Is Question Marks: ???, a hidden area which contains the Shrine of Isis.
• Nintendo Hard: Oh yes.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: One snail in Snail Town manages to eat a pizza offscreen, after telling Snaily he would for nearly the entire game.
• One-Snail Army
• One-Winged Angel: The Final Boss, Giga-Snail.
• Precision-Guided Boomerang
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: There are several snake enemies.
• Retraux
• Reverse Shrapnel: The Angel (white) Blob, amongst others.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: The snails. In particular Snaily's idle animation.
  • The snelks may also qualify.
• Save the Princess
• Secret Character: Sluggy Slug (hero of Slug Mode).
• Seers: One snail in Snail Town can see the future. His words often describe what to do next.
• Shout-Out: "Up, up, down, down, left, right... wait, never mind, that's for some other game."
  • The Boss Rush version of the Space Box is called "Time Cube". Both versions also turn blue when they go berserk.
  • "I hope the next game has more weapons. This game could have used a flame whip!"
  • Upon starting a new game in Slug Mode, a fake password screen appears, which is filled out by an unseen person with "JUSTIN SNAILY".
  • "It's dangerous to go alone!"
• Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Spiralis Silere.
• Space Zone: Lux Lirata becomes this near the end.
• Suspicious Videogame Generosity: Pre-boss rooms are usually full of pink grass. The snails will outright tell you when there's a boss coming up, though, so it doesn't come as much of a surprise.
• Turns Red: Every boss does this, literally (though the Space Box actually turns blue when it goes berserk).
• Unique Enemy: Two of them. One's a cat listed under Killer Rabbit above, and the other's the Devil Blob. It's called that for a good reason.
• Under the Sea: Mare Carelia.
• Upgrade Artifact: The Devastator, which upgrades all three of your weapons.
• Wall Crawl: One of your abilities. Justified, as you're a snail.
• Widget Series: You better believe it.
• You No Take Candle: "I are Cave Snail! Thorgle borgle!!!!"