Lord British Postulate: The game makes it apparent many times that the boss is unkillable without burning the rope.Life Meter: The boss has a certain amount of health, but the player has infinite health.Jump Physics: The protagonist can jump very high.Not the Eye Beams, not touching the boss, not falling from the top floor. By hacking the game it is possible to deplete the entire HP bar using only axes, but the Grinning Colossus still won't die. Healing Factor: The Grinning Colossus will take damage from your axes, but regenerates faster than you can keep up damage.Hammerspace: You can pull billions of axes out of nowhere in sequence.Gratuitous Panning: In the end credits.Girly Run: The protagonist moves this way.Ghost Butler: A wall appears at the end of the tunnel as soon as you enter the Boss Room.Gameplay and Story Segregation: For some reason, you cannot simply cut the rope with the infinite axes the player character carries around.Your character is also invincible, meaning the boss cannot harm them. Foregone Victory: Defeating the colossus is the only thing to do in the game in the first place.Foregone Conclusion: The very title already gives away that the protagonist defeats the Grinning Colossus by burning the rope.Floating Platforms: You have to go across some of these in order to get to the rope that must be burned.Flechette Storm: The main character can do this if you type fast enough.Falling Chandelier of Doom: What happens when you burn the rope.Eye Beams: The Grinning Colossus's signature attack.Then it asks you So What Do We Do Now? that you beat the game. It doesn't explain anything rather, it just reviews the entirety of the game. Expository Theme Tune: A rather strange version of this is seen in 'Now You're a Hero,' the end credits song.Excuse Plot: Taken to the point that there barely even is a plot.Exact Words: You have to burn the rope, you can't cut it with your axes.Exactly What It Says on the Tin: The title of the game is also the goal of the game.Easter Egg: After you read the instructions, right-click.Developer's Foresight: You actually can deplete the boss's health with the axes through a hack, but the game will still keep the boss alive.Credits Montage: The end credits show a montage of the events of the game.Credits Gag: The credits includes the phrase 'Special thanks to Umami'.Closing Credits: They play at the end of the game.Unfortunately, the Colossus's Healing Factor means even getting it down to no health will not kill it in this manner. The Computer Is a Lying Bastard: While the instructions claim that you cannot hurt the Grinning Colossus with your weapons, it is in fact possible.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. 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. 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.

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