debtcollector said:
Yep TV Tropes sure is a fun website. Care to explain what any of those capitalised phrases mean?
Sure!
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Giant Space Flea From Nowhere is a boss or plot creature that - at the end of near-end - of everything, appears without any real build-up or explanation. Suddenly, BAM! The real big bad without any reason for it. In Final Fantasy, guilty parties are Ultimecia, Zemus/Zeromus, and Necron. And Necron is the only one from a cool game who's kind of a cool boss. This is not to be, meanwhile, used on Lavos from Chrono Trigger, who IS like a giant space flea in literal body, but is given great build-up and integration in plot.
Nice Job Fixing It Villain is the reverse of
Nice Job Breaking It Hero, meaning that instead of the hero accidentally making things worse when he thought he was doing right, the villain has accidentally screwed itself over through its machinations. There would have been no plot, action, OR danger if the sorceress had left well enough alone, but she screwed it all up herself by meddling in time.
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Idiot Ball is a term used for when a character does things contrary to anything resembling common sense. To whit, if you are ruling the future and you have no enemies, you do not DO things that could make enemies appear out of time itself, certainly not the enemies who are prophecized to kill you. You let the dark rule and status quo continue.
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Goddamned Boss or varients thereof refers to a severely irritating boss battle which is completely and utterly testing the limits of what a person is willing to put up with. Ultimecia has four stages. You fight her, you fight her Guardian Force Griever, you fight them merged, and then you fight her AGAIN. The stage is already set badly when you consider the combat/leveling/junction system of the game itself is shit. THEN, you couple onto that that not only does every stage have way too much HP and bullshitty powers, but that it's also according to a PATTERN, which you will see repeated for a long time. IT'S BORING. Well, the last part isn't patterned. You just have to deal with your HP being dropped to one all the freakin' time. It's annoying, and you HAVE TO go through with it if you want to complete the game.
Guide Dang It is in reference to when something or alot of somethings isn't covered in the manual or some other instruction, or even the guide. I actually have the guide, so I can safely say that some or alot of things in there just don't help, are wrong, or are missing when it would be relevant. I think an alternate interpretation of this trope is in order when the game has forced tutorials that are long and tedious.
And finally,
The Computer Is A Cheating Bastard refers to the game more-or-less screwing with you. Powers that should work - or indeed be unblockable - don't, except for the enemy's side. The Limit Breaks being tempermental or not properly working because of QTE bullshit or some other failed mechanic. The game, at times, undoing all of the crap you spent 20 minutes or so setting up in the menu screens. Hell, I'd just as soon call out the entire game for making it so - with the leveling system and core mechanics - you are never actually much stronger than the pidddling little creatures you've been facing the whole time. EXP is suppose to point out how - after X amount of times - a freakin' bat should be a JOKE to me because I am clearly an expert bat-handler now. When that doesn't happen in an RPG, that's just fucked up.
