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Video Games Packet: front-loaded anvils editionWritten on a whim by Auroni Gupta1. A child is observed standing on the roof of this location, holding a chicken. Access to this place is unlocked by firing arrows at intruders to protect a wagon. The Letter to Mama is intended for a denizen of this place, but bringing it to her directly will cause you to miss out on the Postman’s Hat and a Piece of Heart. Performing four parts of a song here will complete a Bomber’s Notebook entry and will move Gorman to tears, causing him to give you the Circus Leader’s (*) Mask. Unless you have the Romani’s Mask, you will be refused admission into this place, where Madame Aroma hangs out and where the Indigo-Go’s rehearse for the Carnival of Time. The most expensive item for purchase here is the Chateau Romani. For 10 points, name this place from Majora’s Mask that in no way sells alcoholic beverages.ANSWER: Milk Bar2. In the first two Twisted Metal games, this was the secret weapon of the 1963 Chevrolet Impala Thumper. Despite an easy to dodge Counter Slap, the Uroburos Mkono from Resident Evil 5 can easily be defeated with one of these weapons, which you can only use against that particular boss. In Gang Garrison 2, this weapon and the minigun have an overheat functionality. Halo 3 includes this weapon in levels involving the Flood, against which it is pretty useful. ?The (*) Phlogistonator is functionally equivalent to this weapon, whose alternate fire can deflect projectiles. In Starcraft, a unit wielding this weapon does 16 concussive damage and can only be built with an Academy. This weapon is wielded by a character whose “meet the” video makes him sound like Arnold Schwarzenegger. For 10 points, name this primary weapon of the Pyro from Team Fortress 2. ANSWER: flamethrower3. One battle on this game takes place on a river surrounded on each side by trees that suddenly catch on fire; in that battle, you face a bunch of ghosts equal to the number of nonessential enemies that you killed. A secret item can be obtained in this game by attacking all sixty-four green Kerotan frogs. One character in this game gives the protagonist the synopses of a bunch of movies and continually mutters that he is a cannibal. The words on the game over screen of this game will eventually (*) morph into TIME PARADOX. Bosses in this game include The Sorrow, The Pain, The Joy, and The Fury. You can annoy Para-Medic in this game by constantly asking her if the animals you capture are edible or not. Initially, the protagonist is sent on the Virtuous Mission to retrieve the weapons scientist Nikolai Sokolov, but that changes with the betrayal of The Boss. Remade as Subsistence, it is the chronologically earliest in the Metal Gear series. For 10 points, name this 2004 game subtitled Snake Eater.ANSWER: Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (accept either) [or Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence before mentioned; accept whatever that is in Japanese, probably a cognate; prompt on Metal Gear Solid]4. One character in this game can summon a rabbit-driven clown car. Another, who pops out gears and bolts whenever anything hits him, is the “robo” counterpart to the main character. A rolling attack can be performed by a husband-and-wife team in this game, which introduces a horse doodle named Ponpon and the generically named L’Policier. A SomethingAwful reviewer of this game commented that its final boss, Judgment, “is as unbalanced as being thrown in jail for stealing a loaf of bread.” Playable characters in this game include (+) Enjolras, the Thenardiers, Eponine, Cosette, Javert, and of course Jean Valjean. For 15 points, name this Street Fighter 2 clone in which you fight as characters from Les Miserables, named either for the Japanese publication title of Les Miserables or the English bastardization thereof.ANSWER: Arm Joe [or Ah, mujou]5. When talking to a girl only called “[this character]’s friend,” who hangs out by a gargoyle statue, you have the option to “just play along with it.” While in the D-District Prison, this character makes friends with a Moomba. In Dissidia, this character expresses her frustration for getting stuck on boss battles, whereas in Kingdom Hearts, she tells Sora about the Paopu fruit and carries a jump rope. The official art shows this character playing an electric guitar at the concert at Fisherman’s Horizon. This character can cast (*) Rapture and The End, and her ultimate weapon, which has 255% natural accuracy, is the Strange Vision. By going to the Study Panel in Balamb Garden, you can access the website maintained by this character for her hero Laguna Loire. This character is last seen wearing the cowboy hat belonging to her crush Irvine Kinneas at the victory celebration following the defeat of Ultimecia. Along with Quistis and Zell, she pilots the Ragnarok. For 10 points, name this brown-haired nunchuk-wielding girl from Final Fantasy VIII.ANSWER: Selphie Tilmitt [either’s fine]6. The latest of these games is a freemium city-building iOS and Android game known as Tapped Out. Retsupurae called for its fans to boycott The Nostalgia Critic over his execrable Let’s Play of another of these games, in which you destroy germs in a bloodstream with an air pump and try not to lose your Zs. In another of these games, you can destroy Wasp Cameras to gain lots of coins. Probably the worst of these games allows you to play H-O-R-S-E, even though it’s a (*) skateboarding game. Sega filed a lawsuit against the developers of yet another of these games because that game was a ripoff of Crazy Taxi. In the best of these games, you disrupt Kang and Kodos’s plans to use Buzz Cola to brainwash townspeople into acting out the intergalatic reality TV show Foolish Earthlings. That game is a GTA-style sandbox driving game known as Hit & Run. For 10 points, name these games, such as Bart’s Nightmare, that were based on Matt Groening’s flagship TV series.ANSWER: video games based on The Simpsons7. A sword-wielding enemy from one game in this series dons a Mask of Reflection, which starts out blank and reflects the personality of the wearer. The co-founders of Amateur Pixels, Colin “Tempus” Noga and Aaron “AerialX” Lindsey, collaborated on a fan translation of one game in this series. In the third game of this series, you can switch between a strong character capable of moving bookcases and leaping from roof to roof, a woman who can slow enemies with the Sacred Stone charm, and the protagonist, who investigates the Tattooed Curse in the Manor of Sleep, where she ends up while chasing her fiance. Another game in this series, divided into chapters called (*) “Nights,” includes Spirit Orbs that power up the main weapon and involves a struggle against Sae, who was forced to undergo the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual alone. That game focuses on the twins Mio and Mayu Amakura. In the first game, Miku goes to the haunted Himuro Mansion to search for her missing brother. For 10 points, name this series of survival horror games in which you vanquish ghosts using the Camera Obscura.ANSWER: Fatal Frame [or Project Zero]8. In a non-canon game, a member of this group is replaced with a character named Algy. Another member of this group sneers “Daddy screamed real good before he died!,” shows up wearing a helmet and goggles at the Battle of Venom, and was fired from this group for his sadistic and greedy nature. Two members of this group become the leaders of the Sargasso Space Zone. This group includes the discharged (*) Pigma Dengar and the resigned Andrew Oikonny, who were replaced with the tryhard flirt Panther Caroso. The second-in-command of this group is the chameleon Leon Powalski. This group’s leader says “What’s the matter, scared?” as his taunt in Super Smash Brothers Brawl, in which his final smash is a red and black Landmaster. This team is hired by Andross to stop the heroes of an N64 game. For 10 points, name these rivals to Star Fox, led by an eponymous canine.ANSWER: Star Wolf9. A bowling minigame in this game ends with your opponent breaking a potted plant, revealing a key inside. In a sad part of this game, you unpack a Christmas tree from a box to provide a holiday celebration for a young girl with separated parents. You file a pencil down into graphite powder to sprinkle over a computer’s power cord in the final puzzle in this game, which you must do quickly or else you’ll suffocate. In this game, the name “JENNY” is uncovered by looking at the letters on five apple paintings. Characters in this game include Alan Parker, whose novel was (*) plagiarized by the disgusting jerk Martin Summer, and Rachel, the flirtatious secretary who you have frequent phone conversations with. As in its sequel Last Window, gameplay consists of solving puzzles, answering a pop quiz at the end of each chapter to summarize the events so far, and asking characters yellow and red-labeled questions to advance the plot. The protagonist works as a salesman for Red Crown, but is really after the whereabouts of his missing partner Bradley. For 10 points, name this Cing visual novel in which ex-cop Kyle checks into the title establishment.ANSWER: Hotel Dusk: Room 215 [or Wish Room: Angel’s Memory; or Wisshu Rūmu Tenshi no Kioku]10. Louise Haup and Paige Osborne are among those searching for this race’s carvings. This race suffers constant attacks from the ghosts within the Haunted Nolani. Characters from this race defeat Necromancer Rissa, destroy a dragon crystal, and attempt to reconcile with their fathers as part of their Personal Stories. The gladium is the lowest caste of this atheistic race, whose capital includes the lakes Ligacus Aquilo and Notos, as well as the Perimeter Loop and the starting instance, the (*) Hero’s Canton. The homeland of this race is accessible in The Eye of the North. Members of this race, whose capital is the Black Citadel, join the Flame, Ash, Iron, or Blood Legions. They used the cauldron of cataclysm to wreck the Great Northern Wall in the Searing, enabling them to launch an invasion of the kingdom of Ascalon. For 10 points, name this feline race from Guild Wars, the sworn enemies of humans.ANSWER: Charr11. One boss in this game allows you to get the first hit, then turns invisible and hits you with bleed-causing attacks, but can fortunately be tracked because she leaves footprints in the snow. That boss, Priscilla, is fought in an optional area that you can get to by walking into a painting with a Peculiar Doll. A series of pendulum traps strategically placed along a narrow bridge are encountered in another location in this game,?atop which an enemy hurls down firebombs during the boss fight with the Iron Golem. By freeing the Dusk of Oolacile, you can unlock this game’s DLC, in which your character takes the place of Knight (*) Artorias. A common trick used early in this game is to stand at the right side under a bridge and fire arrows at a dragon’s tail, obtaining the Drake Sword. This game, which was re-released as the much harder Prepare to Die edition, incorporates multiplayer in the form of invading other peoples’ worlds. The main character is a chosen undead who makes a pilgrimage to Lordran. For 10 points, name this difficult From Software-developed action RPG, the spiritual successor to Demon’s Souls.ANSWER: Dark Souls12. One mystifying moment in this game involves dodging gigantic, massively damaging ballista bolts, only to find that in a battle, the ballistae themselves shoot tiny arrows that don’t do much damage. By making three seemingly inconsequential decisions, one party member will confess her love for the protagonist, triggering one of ten extra scenes at the end of the game. Among this game’s 25 bad endings are one in which a party member betrays you because you captured the spy Mimel, one in which you inform an engineer about the power of Conuts, one in which you don’t stop (*) Aht’s sacrifice, and one in which you wait in ambush at Alma Mine. Early in this game, in which enemies can be moved around on a 3x3 grid in battles, you can choose to side with Rosch or Heiss, originating the Standard and Alternate History branches. In this game, desertification spreads throughout the world during a war between Granorg and Alistel, and it’s up to the White Chronicle wielder Stocke to stop it. For 10 points, name this Atlus-developed DS RPG in which you can travel through time.ANSWER: Radiant Historia [or Rajianto Hisutoria]13. This character infiltrates an enemy base disguised as a bagpipe-player in a game where he spends a large chunk getting the Secret Donut XY, the Prickly Pear Pizza, the Beauty Clay, and the Freshwater Pearl as ingredients to disarm a giant can of hairspray in outer space. An Asteroids minigame called Things from Space can be played in another game featuring this title character, in which he stops the leader of the Society of Meaningless Evil, Larceny, Lying and Yelling, Napoleon LeRoach. In a game that holds a lot of nostalgic appeal for me, this character retrieves Captain Drydock’s Lucky Charm by beating Mr. Bigpig at (*) Go Fish in the cantina, and uses gadgets like the laser toothbrush given to him by Monkey Penney. In that game, this character thwarts William the Kid’s evil plan to get rid of all dairy products. For 10 points, name this protagonist of Operation Ozone, Some Assembly Required, and Dry Cereal, the vulpine star of a line of Humongous Entertainment adventure games. ANSWER: Spy Fox [prompt on Fox]14. A glitch in this location allows the player to keep plunging further and further into a water-filled bottomless pit, and is triggered by trying to flip a switch here without using a Metal Cap. In the DS remake, you can get another star here by using Wario to smash a brick block, revealing a Star Switch. Other challenges in this place include dodging several rolling rocks and navigating a midair obstacle course to collect eight red coins. One of the most recognizable features of this level, accessed by jumping into a (*) pool of liquid metal, is the friendly swimming beast Dorrie. For 10 points, name this underground level of Super Mario 64 in which toxic gas continuously depletes the player’s health in the namesake labyrinth.ANSWER: Hazy Maze Cave15. One of these objects is appraised at $50 because it does not show signs of sulfide-related corrosion. You apparently don’t need this object to run a pasta shop. Another character says of the inscription on this object that “there are many numbers like it, but this one is mine.” Yet another of these objects is found underneath a sled. ?Just before you bluff and claim that a small bottle was filled with poison, you produce another of these items to show that Maggey Byrde was framed. Furio Tigre used that paper one to pull off an (*) impersonation in Trials and Tribulations. Another of these objects was confiscated from a man who later became a hoodied hobo playing piano at a borscht club, because that man presented a forged page from the diary of Vera Misham. To fill in for its usual owner, Miles Edgeworth is once lent one of these objects, which he pins on his lapel. For 10 points, name this oft-presented item, the first in your evidence list, proof that Apollo Justice and Phoenix Wright are attorneys.ANSWER: attorney’s badges [or police badges; also accept prosecutor’s badges even though none of the clues fit]16. These creatures are temporarily set back by destroying a mechanical fan and five atmospheric stabilizers. One variant of this species has absorbed your attacks and fires them back at you with their eye, the only vulnerable portion of their bodies. That variant is a specialized form of another type, which is protected by a spiky shell that they try to ram you with. These creatures murdered everything else on their home planet (*) SR388. Although an oversized one of these steals the data, you can still recover the Varia Suit after defeating it in a boss battle. They come in yellow, green, blue, and red varieties, which restore progressively more energy, bombs, and missiles. One of these creatures causes Samus to lose control of her gunship, which then crashes into an asteroid belt, by multiplying rapidly in her nervous system. For 10 points, name these parasitic enemies fought in Metroid Fusion, which mimic their infected hosts.ANSWER: X [accept subtypes like Core-X and Hardcore-X]17. In a platformer, you control one of these beings with a red scarf and attempt to create the Ultra Dessert within an artificial 10-hour time limit. In another game, one of these beings will sit on the top screen of your DS and provide funny comments about the goings-on below, but will say “I’ll refrain from commenting for a while” during the more important cutscenes. Fuka is half-transformed into one of these beings, as she only wears the hat and jacket of one. These beings are more powerful in a stage accessible only by passing a (*) bill in the Dark Assembly. The different tiers of these beings are: private, captain, colonel, general, king, and god. These beings were created by taking the souls of thieves and murderers and sewing them shut into a body. Fond of saying “dood,” these beings explode upon being thrown. For 10 points, name these lovable creatures from the Disgaea series, who resemble penguins with peg legs and bat wings.ANSWER: prinnies18. Part of this segment of a larger game involves shooting the three eyes of a machine that charges up a powerful blast. A notable flowchart created by Pacifien exhaustively details all of the potential outcomes of this segment of the game. This segment’s outcome changes depending on how many missions you did between first unlocking it and actually doing it. Obtaining an IFF transponder unlocks this mission, in which platforms containing waves of enemies move toward you and you have to destroy eight feeding tubes. You have to send an (*) escort for the crew, upgrade your shields, weapons, and armor, and use a loyal squad member to travel through the vents and summon a biotic shield in order to ensure maximum survivability in this portion of the game, which is accessed by unlocking and going through the Omega-3 relay. For 10 points, name this mission in which Shepard’s crew infiltrates a Collector Base, the final act of Mass Effect 2.ANSWER: the suicide mission from Mass Effect 2 [or the attack on the collector base in Mass Effect 2 before mentioned; or going through the Omega-3 relay in Mass Effect 2 before mentioned; prompt on the finale of Mass Effect 2 or similar answers]19. One objective in this game reads that a certain character, “worthless though he is, must survive.” Locations introduced in this game include Hanoon and the Silken Asteroids. The Krantian Civil War is a conflict that is only mentioned in this game. Sev’Rance Tann and Echuu Shen-Jon are the protagonists of this game’s expansion pack. The first campaign of this game has you play as OOM-9, transitioning from the tutorial, which culminates at the Battle of Alaris Prime, a (*) Wookiee colony. Apart from every faction needing to place their buildings within the radius of a power core, the ability to store nerfs in an Animal Nursery, and stronger monks in the form of Jedi Warriors, this game is basically a ripoff of Age of Empires II. For 10 points, name this Star Wars RTS.ANSWER: Galactic Battlegrounds [accept Galactic Battlegrounds: Clone Campaigns at any time]20. Rona Hassildor refuses to accept this identity. You have to kill twelve of these creatures, find four ingredients, and retrieve five sapphire amulets to complete a quest given by the head of one group of these beings, Volrina Quarra. In a questline involving these creatures, you have to locate a moth priest, find Valerica in the Soul Cairn, retrieve the powerful Auriel’s Bow, and kill Lord Harkon, a powerful one of them who rules from Vorlikar Castle. The Opusculus Lamae Bal ta Mezzamortie details the origin of these creatures, which were the product of Lamae Beolfag’s vengeance after being (*) raped by Molog Bal. The Dawnguard hunt these creatures, who collect “cattle” and elect not to cure their disease within 72 hours. In order to revert to the earlier stages of their illness, these creatures prey on sleeping NPCs. For 10 points, name these creatures from the Elder Scrolls series that are weak to sunlight and feed on the blood of their victims.ANSWER: vampires [accept subtypes]21. By using the action button three times on a black “M” spraypainted on a wall in this game, several floating Mario fireballs will appear. Earlier, you can find a set of children’s crayon drawings summarizing the plot of the previous game. One character in this game dies when he makes an ill-advised wheelchair lunge at the antagonist. One level of this game takes place in a dilapidated funhouse, where an enemy dies when the explosives inside his rigged CaptainBaseBallBat-Boy suit are set off. This game introduces the (*) Squeaky Cleaning Company, the front for a group of contract killers known as the Cleaners. This game begins at an ICU ward, where the protagonist ends up after being shot by Detective Valerie Winterson, who is secretly the mistress of Inner Circle mafioso Vladimir Lem. Though presumed dead, Mona Sax returns in this game, only to be killed off for good. For 10 points, name this 2003 third-person shooter sequel that brought back its noir-as-fuck protagonist. ?ANSWER: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne22. By completing this subplot in Ryu ga Gotoku Kenzan, you can help one dude complete a guide book. In one game, the successful completion of this kind of subplot results in you receiving a motorcycle key, thus gaining Alilat, the ultimate form of the Empress Arcana. Although it’s a mediocre at best turn-based RPG, the distinguishing feature of Riviera: The Promised Land is that it’s this kind of game. Usually, these kinds of games include a day/night cycle where you can (*) schedule events like coming to class, going to the gym, or taking a walk outside. This kind of mechanic results in four different potential outcomes at the Gold Saucer in Final Fantasy VII. ?Rebuilding a worn-down farm and this other mechanic are the main draws of Harvest Moon, in which you accomplish it by showing a character a colored feather after giving them multiple gifts. For 10 points, name this kind of game mechanic in which you romantically interact with other characters.ANSWER: dating sims [or any answers suggesting relationship sims or marriage sims or romance sims]23. One move of this type causes the user to faint automatically, dealing an amount of damage equal to the user’s hitpoints. If you want to get the number of a gym leader specializing in this type, you’ll have to talk to his wife. Another gym leader of this type can be seen walking to Snowpoint City to train, and is motivated by her deadbeat dad, who gambles in her city’s Game Corner. Viable competitive moves of this type include a non-dragon 60 power attack that switches your opponent’s pokemon out, a 100 power move that lowers the user’s (*) speed, and a physical move that deals more damage the heavier the opponent is. Gym leaders of this type include Marshal, Maylene, and Chuck, and an Elite Four member of this type, though not rock, carries around an Onix. Representative Pokemon of this type include Mienshao, Conkeldurr, and Hariyama. For 10 points, name this type used by Bruno, that’s weak to flying and psychic moves but super effective against normal.ANSWER: fighting24. In this game, you have to light a green bubble before you can turn a bolt with a wrench to open a dam. One object in this game is the solid-gold coffin used for the burial of Ramses II. One part of this game is a “twisty maze” in which there is nothing distinguishing any of the individual screens, making most players drop some of their items to use as landmarks when navigating it. One in-joke originated by this game involves counting a pile of leaves, finding that there are (*) 69,105 of them. If you die in this game without restoring, you end up in a forest with none of your items. The objective of this game is to locate nineteen treasures and to put them all in the trophy case. For 10 points, name this pioneering text adventure game, the first to suggest that if it is pitch black, then you are likely to be eaten by a grue.ANSWER: Zork I25. A mutilated skull and a ring with inward-facing spokes are two of the torture devices in this character’s realm. An amusing post by user “rodlake,” titled “Best [this character] loot ever!” displays a picture of five scrolls of town portal. This character’s “shell” is a unique cuirass that grants +20% resistances and +50% cold resist. He can use a charge attack, a stunning smite, and a absolutely debilitating Holy Freeze aura. This character is fought after using the (*) Horadric Staff on a “real” tomb, and he spews snails and maggots when he is killed. Because there is no exit to this hydralisk-esque boss’s chamber, which is super cramped, he is often considered the most difficult fight in the game, despite being a Lesser Evil. For 10 points, name this Act II boss in Diablo 2.ANSWER: DurielTIEBREAKERMODERATOR NOTE: THIS TOSSUP IS A JOKEAt the end of the seventh part of his essay “Introduction to the Origin of Geometry,” Husserl applies a precursor to this philosophy to geometry and accompanying sciences, claiming that they are “riveted to the hypotheses held to their principles.” This philosophy is more literally exemplified by the title of a section which compares the Parthenon to early automobiles, and is further subdivided into “Liners,” “Airplanes,” and “Automobiles.” A sexist interpretation of this philosophy might apply to a thought experiment proposed by (*) Frank Jackson in “What Mary Didn’t Know,” which imagines that woman inside her own room pondering colors. In its modern form, this philosophy was stated just before a suggestion to make one sentence “compatible to readers and players of all faiths” and was replied to in another instance by “while pithy, your are wrong.” A quote from Towards a New Architecture that titles five visual tournaments by Mike Bentley exemplifies this philosophy. For 10 points, name this philosophy, propounded by Matt Jackson, which would make it incorrect to write “this tossup sees a lot of chair throwing and eye-rolling.”ANSWER: events/objects are incapable of vision [or events/objects can’t see; reverse-prompt on eyes that do not see; prompt on partial answer] ................
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