Good evening everybody! This is Aifos coming to you alive from the Owl Express! I’m half expecting someone to get murdered, or for the train to explode, but so far it’s been a pretty nice ride! And, you know, a wise man once said *ahem*; Wise man: “If Mafia explode, Mafia drop pons!” . . . I’m sure that has something to do with what I just said.. Maybe not.. But it does deal with the topic at hand! Gameplay mechanics and lore don’t always work together perfectly. A perfect example of this is the ever so common health bar! In most games lore (or real life for that matter) there’s not this threshold where you go from being perfectly fine, to dead from crossing it. Some games, however, find ways to make [i]all[/i] their game mechanics lore friendly. Sometimes comedically, sometimes cleverly, sometimes really stupidly. And this thread is about all three! [b][u]Tl;dr? Here’s my point![/u][/b] Times games made its gameplay mechanics lore-friendly? My answer; (warning; major spoilers to A Hat in Time) [spoiler]A Hat in Time has some humorous ones. The first comes to mind during the Snatcher boss fight. All bosses up to this point turned blue, when they were vulnerable, but soon after starting the fight he says something like: “You’re probably waiting for me to turn blue, aren’t you? Sorry kiddo, blue just doesn’t suit me. And I guess that makes me immortal, huh!? Hahaha!” Resulting in the logical option of splashing him wity blue paint. Sadly, the next boss didn’t turn blue at all, and was simply permanently vulnerable, kind of ruining the Snatcher’s whole joke, but as seen from this boss, health pickups were part of the canon. She kills a few of your allies, who then explode into health pickups called “pons”. After seeing this, your allies decide to all start killing eachother, and you get enough pons to become immortal for the final (chaotic) last phase of the fight. It was this strangely sad, but also comedic scene, but don’t worry! They come back to life when you reverse time, and fix everything! :D[/spoiler]