And now you're thinking with tropes! <<*
GLaDOS voice.*>>
Nice find!
Invisible to Normals really applies! I'll add it next time I edit the page. By the way, you can easily create an account on TVtropes (which they rather call "
handle"). It doesn't even ask for your e-mail address - only a name and a password is required, though be careful, because then you need to remember your password, since there is no password recovery. And there is an "edit page" link on the top of the pages, with a lot of other buttons. Hard to pick, I remember I also didn't find it at first.
TVtropes is pretty much addictive, indeed. Whenever I open it, I end up having ~50 different TVtropes tabs open... You open a page of a movie/series/video game, see what tropes it has, open some of them to get detailed information, look for known movies/series/video games listed for those tropes, open some other movies/series/video games... and it's an exponential, never ending process... you finish it when you really
have to for some reason. It's easy to spend an entire day digging tropes. Despite being an old site, I only found it last summer. Since then I always look up the tropes for all kinds of media I encounter.

Well if you browse it much, some pretty much popular tropes will stuck in your head and then it will be easier to collect tropes. But most cases you don't need to collect tropes, because they are usually collected by others already.

For example, I was shocked to find that even
Vuk has a page on TVtropes. Basically, it took a long time to find
anything that's not already on TVtropes.
Melolune is only the 2nd page I've created. (The first one is
this.) Actually, I was surprised it wasn't already there.
One important thing to know about tropes:
every little detail you can pick in a work is a trope, and most likely have a page for it on TVtropes already. If it isn't there directly, you might have found a
subversion,
inversion,
aversion, etc. of an existing trope. If accidentally you really find something that isn't a trope, create a page for it, and it's a trope afterwards. For example, I think I've found out a trope which I call "
Orange Blossom Effect", but I'm
berry sure there is already a trope for the phenomenon with some other name, I just couldn't find it yet - though if I'll be unable to find it eventually, I'll really write a page for it.
So, there are tropes in all details! Let's get back to
Melolune! Just to make an excercise, try to pick some details those are most probably tropes. Now I played a little with Melolune, so I have fresh memories to revise for tropes. I'll try to search for these on TVtropes some other time. I won't list tropes which I already listed on the TVtropes page.
Spoiler for Tropes, may contain spoilers:
- Big sister doesn't have a name - sure a trope. Not just No Name Given, but sure there is a concrete version where a family member or close relative doesn't have a name. As I said, will try to look it up. (Btw, what's with this "big sister"? Is she silent? 'Cause that's also a trope. Hehe, maybe she's Liele - I would be shocked for sure!
) - Accident happened in a mine.
- Parents die... Orphans! Ohh, how it didn't come to my mind earlier?
- Lots of useless items... Maybe there is a Loads and Loads of Items or something.
- What's behind those unbreakable crystals? It's a secret. This may utilize multiple tropes. (One is the secret, and one is the unbreakable obstacle that supposedly can be broken later, when you'll have the necessary skills.)
- Houses on trees!
- Openable crates.
- Dialogs and a bunch of RPG tropes...
- Can't save during the tutorial... might be a trope.
- Activating a bridge.
- Sleepwalking, footprints, waking someone up, building a home...
And this is the point where I got bored of collecting. Might continue later. And anyway, not sure that all of them worth to list. I like the snappy titles of tropes, remind me of the usually snappy titles of achievements (those you may get in a game, like in
Steam games). This is why I find achievements funny too. Moreover, I also like the sarcastic examples.

Anyway, now that I look at it, maybe my memory tricked me in a lot of things, for it's almost been a year I played the game... For example, maybe there aren't really so many clothes in it. I clearly remember the "
Fabulous Garb"... maybe it was too much in itself.

For some reason I remembered the game is full of clothes.
Nah, have to sleep.

Already left too short time to sleep for myself. <<*Sigh.*>>