Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 7 - Interface Screw

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil
Walking Spoiler

Without further ado, let's get started!

MGS2
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Use the middle stick to dodge Joker's shots (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
Hideo (Metal Gear Solid)
Sanity effects (Eternal Darkness)

HMs:
Facehuggers (Alien vs. Predator)
Fission Mailed (Metal Gear Solid 2)
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Panic Mode (Haunting Ground)
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The winner of yesterday's trope, The Gunslinger, is Roland Deschain (The Dark Tower), who scored 5 votes.

Previous winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama
Continuity Reboot - Batman Begins / Tomb Raider (2013)
Opposing Sports Team - Monstars (Space Jam) / Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) / Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)
Calling Your Attacks - Falcon Punch (Super Smash Bros.)
Arc Words - You have failed this city! (Arrow) / Bad Wolf (Doctor Who)

Today's trope is Interface Screw. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InterfaceScrew

An event in a video game where the controller buttons are switched around, or the player's display is interfered with.

This may be one of the Standard Status Effects. When it's done well, it can be entertaining or funny. However, done poorly, it may break game immersion and cause frustration. If it makes the game noticeably more difficult to play, then it can be considered a form of Fake Difficulty. If such a status effect is available for the player to use on enemies, expect for it to either do nothing at all due to the lack of an interface between the AI and the game, or cause deliberate Artificial Stupidity to compensate for this

TL,DR: When you can't see what you're doing, or the controls are switched.

Nominations:
Blooper (Mario Kart)
Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)
The final boss (Beyond Good and Evil)

GavsEvans123 posted...

Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)

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N-Bomb (Perfect Dark)
VHS Distortion Panels (Mister Miracle 2017 series)
Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)

Honorable Mentions:
Pyroland (Team Fortress 2)
Hideo (MGS)
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Rankings so far:
Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island) - 3 votes
MGS2
Use the middle stick to dodge Joker's shots (Batman: Arkham Asylum)
Hideo (Metal Gear Solid)
Sanity effects (Eternal Darkness)
Blooper (Mario Kart)
The final boss (Beyond Good and Evil)
N-Bomb (Perfect Dark)
VHS Distortion Panels (Mister Miracle 2017 series)

MetalmindStats posted...

GavsEvans123 posted...

Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy (Yoshi's Island)

Ooh, I love this one. This.
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