Canabalt/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Crowning Music of Awesome: The background music. Doubles as an Ear Worm.
    • As with most other soundtracks from Danny Baranowsky, it's available for download from Bandcamp, for free.
  • Excuse Plot: Not even that, really. In the background Humongous Mecha stomp between ruined buildings, stopping to zap things out of sight. Closer by, futuristic craft roar past you and occasionally a missile will land in your path, wherever it is you're supposed to be going. Whatever's going on, it's a bad day.
    • The plot can be summed up with: "Press X or C to start your daring escape."
    • The Kongregate version describes it as "Outrun the demolition of your city with just one button!"
  • Goddamned Window: One of the buildings in the generated-on-the-fly landscape has a window a little too low to hit with your usual jump, and this will often be your doom. Especially if you're moving too fast to really react to the scenery.
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