The icing on the cake is that this actually sets up the events of The Behemoth's next game. The scene is ridiculous and set up in a way that makes you doubt that it is actually there, but no, it is there, and things only get more absurd as Hatty shoots it down with a huge laser. And then it shows up at the end of the game.

Bears Are Bad News: In one area of the chapter hub, there's a poster that reads 'Bear Hug is Nigh' and depicts a bear wearing star pasties.Battle Boomerang: A weapon both the player and enemy cats can use.It's quite entertaining, since it shows some recurring characters screwing with each other. Attract Mode: Leave the game alone before bringing up the title screen and you'll see a fairly long gameplay video demonstrating various useful tricks.This is only for main cutscenes, though the smaller ones (such as when the cats capture the player in the intro) are animated regularly. Art Shift: While the cutscenes have the same art direction as the main game, they're represented in a puppet show style, with every character and object being an unmoving cardboard cutout on a stick or string, and end up getting shaken around a lot.This all comes to a head when the hat inexplicably fires a giant green laser that kills the space bear and sets up the events of the next game. The narrator also suggests that the reason it's resulted in Hatty barely moving at all is because it's haunted by the souls of all the previous owners of the hat, whom all have conflicting viewpoints and thus can't agree on anything, resulting in the current owner being unable to so much as move. Artifact of Doom: Purrham Furbottom's hat, which the narrator quickly singles out as being Obviously Evil.Anthropomorphic Food: Walking toast enemies pop up in a few levels.And I Must Scream: Implied to be Hatty's fate due to wearing Purrham Furbottom's cursed hat for too long.Narrator: (cheery) Just a reminder: anyone caught trying to escape will be executed on the spot. Bonus points if you stick around until the Hall Of Dudes song loops: Affably Evil: The entire theater, which runs on the brutality of colosseums but the charm and class of, well, theaters.Achievement Mockery: The 'Consolation Prize' achievement, which is awarded for dying enough times.Perhaps the toppers are a cannon that fires suction cup darts and the bubble blower… thing that shoots some sort of highly corrosive bubble. Abnormal Ammo: Weapons and tools can be a bit strange.

Based off their Alien Hominid PDA Games.īattleBlock Theater as a whole is an example of: The game's co-op component is described as 'co-optional' (screwing each other over might as well be encouraged, or even mandatory), and there are many versus multiplayer gametypes, such as capturing tofu horses and shooting soccer balls into… basketball hoops.

The gameplay revolves around 'stages' in the decidedly gruesome prison/theatre that the game takes place in, where your character is currently locked up in, and the blocks that they are made up of. With the crew of hundreds imprisoned, they must fight like gladiators through numerous obstacle courses and rescue each other and Hatty. Thrown off-course and crashing on the island, Hatty is captured by the resident cat monsters and forced to wear a glowy red hat, turning him villainous. Friendship, a crew led by the world's bestest friend Hatty Hattington soon finds itself caught in a storm. the door.'īattleBlock Theater is a 2D co-op style Puzzle Platformer created by The Behemoth for the Xbox 360 and Steam. 'What a strange, mysterious island! And what's this? The shore is riddled with little friend-sized footprints! Guess the tide brought them to land! How utterly CONVENIENT! But where have they gotten to? Who knows? I don't! Do you? I don't! Do you? I don't! Do- WELCOME TO BATTLEBLOCK THEATER! Go inside.

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