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Gimmick Fights

  • Writer: Daniel Sullivan
    Daniel Sullivan
  • Nov 29, 2024
  • 1 min read

Chess Board (you have to move carefully because enemies threaten certain spaces via magic, martial arts, weapons, traps, etc.)

 

  • Checkers (you move carefully, bulling past an enemy to a power-up)

  • Airships (everyone constantly jumping off shit with feather fall, rings, gliders, chutes, griffons, tow-ropes, whatever)

  • Boats/Karts (one member steers, another fights)

  • Race (out of a crumbling temple?)

  • Whomps (only the environment can kill enemies - push them onto the target spots)

  • ACME style cartoon nonsense (gnommish shit)

  • Shrinky-dinks (everyone get shronked and the monsters they fight are seemingly huge)

  • Animated objects (the house seems to hate you, but it's all animated objects, mimics, etc.)

  • Gravity mischief (turns off, or double, or levers let it switch between either, whatever)

  • Bombs-only (bomberman style)

 
 

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