It does however get rid of his torch, forcing him to get another one. Collision Damage: Subverted in that while the protagonist does react to running into the Grinning Colossus, he can't really die.Chekhov's Gun: The torch you pick up halfway through the game plays a vital role in defeating the final boss.Breakout Character: The Grinning Colossus also appears as a boss in other web games Death vs Monsters 2, Anti-Idle: The Game, and Pickory.Bottomless Magazines: You have axes galore in your Hammerspace, but they are completely useless now.Boss Corridor: The game has this before the Boss Room.Boss-Arena Idiocy: Why does the Grinning Colossus even have a chandelier that can kill him if it fell on him as well as fire that can be used to burn it?.Blank White Eyes: The player character.Though we never find out his motivations or if he even has any in the first place. Big Bad: The Grinning Colossus, apparently.Benevolent Architecture: Lampshaded, just like nearly every other trope on here.Battle Theme Music: The Grinning Colossus has this.You can't kill the Grinning Colossus with them, and they can't cut the rope. The Grinning Colossus gets a One-Hit Kill from a chandelier. Achilles' Heel: The Grinning Colossus is defeated by a chandelier.Has no relation to the similar-sounding games Cut the Rope and Burn The Rope, other than the fact that ropes are involved. And if you want to listen to/download the end credits song, here's the link, but don't do so until AFTER you finish the game or it'll spoil the experience. It's free, though due to the discontinuation of Adobe Flash, an external plugin is needed to play it. Saying anything more would ruin the experience, so just play it here or here. It reminded me alot of “Still Alive” from Portal for some reason, and I found it pretty darn funny.Īnyway, the game was ridiculously short (2-4mins) but I found its quirky satire enjoyable and was pretty surprised I had fun with such a short game.You Have to Burn the Rope is a parody of Puzzle Bosses, Platform Games, and possibly video games in general, created by "Mazapan." It may also be considered to be the Mirror Universe version of I Wanna Be the Guy.
As I was ready to exit my browser, the credits rolled and a quirky, sarcastic, and ultimately pleasing song began.
After reflecting upon my actions for a couple of seconds, the screen dimmed and the game was over, I won. I grabbed a torch from the wall, jumped up above the colossus and burned the rope and then I watched as the chandelier being held by the rope came crashing on top of him. I threw my little axes furiously, but try as I may his health always regenerated faster than my axes hurt him, so I bit my pride and followed the advice that was so largely printed. my axes!)Īnd then I entered a huge chamber and what I saw shook me to the bone. To kill him you have to burn the rope above (but. You can’t hurt him with your weapons (we’ll see about that!)ģ. There’s a boss at the end of this tunnel (cool!)Ģ. Cool right? Anyway, so I continued down this strangely linear tunnel and came across large, very not subtle tips as doing so:ġ. I fiddled with the controls and foun that pushing any button (well other than arrows to move) made my little pink man throw axes. I clicked to start and was thrust into control of a peculiar little pink man with a black top hat in a linear tunnel. I thought this was a pretty funky title, so I clicked and tried it (well, and it also had an achievement just waiting to be unlocked). One game in particular that caught my eye was “You Have to Burn the Rope”. I tend to do most of my flash gaming on (I mean, c’mon, they give me achievements!). Recently I’ve been fooling around playing flash games more than usual.
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