Tvtropes void bastards1/31/2024 ![]() Robbie's mass-produced bretheren, when controlled by cloudAI in the endgame, all have red monitors and antennae in juxtaposition. Good Colors, Evil Colors: Robbie has a green monitor and green antennae.Festering Fungus: The cause of The End of the World as We Know It.Eating Machine: Robbie can consume organic material to recharge his batteries, but it's not terribly efficient.Sprites used in the dungeons were all hand-drawn, but designed to look like 3-D models. Cute Machines: Robbie, the player character.Cursed with Awesome: Items with high levels contamination tend to be this, having a more powerful effect balanced by a nasty side-effect.Cursed Item: Contamination works like this, reducing or even outright changing the effects of items depending on how contaminated an item is.Everything in your inventory except for food that you store in the vault is then converted into raw resources, which are necessary to progress through the game. You lose all your levels and items when you leave a dungeon, regardless of whether or not you died. Computer Equals Monitor: cloudAI has you smash factoryAI's monitor to kill her, though as stated above it's possible that part of her survived.You can also equip "Knacks" that act as a Character Class by making certain perks more or less likely to appear, and you can even have some perks be removed from the game altogether.While you start at level 1 each time you enter a dungeon, every time you level up you get to choose between two random perks.CamelCase: A recurring motif factoryAI is named this way. ![]() The horror of it is downplayed because she always goes back to her semi-healthy state of having a mushroom infection. Butt-Monkey: Sadly, Toriko goes through a lot of demeaning things to cure the various diseases she can contract.Various maladies continue to plague her in the sequel, thus necessitating Robbie to dungeon-dive to gather materials to make things for her treatment. In fact, even when she's perfectly healthy she has fungal protrusions growing out of her head and right eye socket. Body Horror: Pretty much any disease results in this happening to Toriko.You've either destroyed cloudAI and doomed any chance of humanity being revived, or you've sacrificed Toriko in hopes of a better future. A Taste of Power: The sequel starts with Robbie extremely deep in a dungeon, at a very high experience level with a lot of perks piled up, such that you have to be actively trying to get Robbie killed off.Artificial Intelligence: factoryAI, obviously.The sequel makes it clear that factoryAI did in fact survive. Ambiguous Situation: In the original game, it's not entirely clear if factoryAI has been Killed Off for Real, since in Ending 1 Robbie finds something in the AI's remains that seems to talk to him.An Interior Designer Is You: You can craft furniture to decorate Toriko's terrarium.Anti-Hoarding: You can only take food out of the dungeons everything else is converted into raw materials when you return to the scrapyard.even if it means killing factoryAI and sacrificing Toriko to do so. Is a Crapshoot: factoryAI admits early on that she's responsible for killing the humans she was supposed to protect, and has been wracked with guilt ever since, while cloudAI wants to find a way to revive humanity. The game was released in 2020 for the Nintendo Switch and the Playstation 4.Ī sequel was released in Japan in July 2022, with a Western release coming Spring 2023. Between dungeon dives you can feed and take care of Toriko, as well as craft furnature for Toriko's terrarium using resources you've found in dungeons. Furthermore, you have to be wary of contamination: Not only do contaminated items have a reduced effect ( most of the time), but contaminated food can cause Toriko to come down with any number of horrible disease that require you to track down a cure. The major twist is that you have to balance your dungeon-crawling with taking care of Toriko, who you can monitor using a Tamagotchi-like device. and an AI named factoryAI taking care of an ill girl named Toriko, who might be the last human on earth.The game revolves around Robbie exploring randomly-generated dungeons in a manner that is very clearly inspired by the Mystery Dungeon series, and more specifically the Shiren the Wanderer subseries. Void tRrLM() //Void Terrarium note Simply pronounced "Void Terrarium" is a Genre Blending Virtual Pet Roguelike developed by Nippon Ichi, about a robot named Robbie note But not that one.
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