Commonplace Rare/Playing With

Basic Trope: Something relatively easy-to-find in real life is rare in a video game.

• Played Straight: There are only four usable swords in the kingdom of Tropeland, and they're hard to find, despite all of the enemies wielding them.
• Exaggerated: There is one sword, a wooden sword, going for 9001 Dollars.
• Justified: There's a demon in the mines, so metal can't be used to forge a sword.
• Inverted:
  • There are swords everywhere. You can take enemies' swords.
  • Your first sword is made of Orichalcum.
• Subverted: There are only four swords, but you can mix-and-match to have six more.
• Double Subverted: And the six others are just clones of the first four.
• Parodied: The entire game is a quest to find a sword.
• Deconstructed: The Hero put so much effort into finding the sword that he was too exhausted to even use it.
• Reconstructed: So he gets a gun.
• Zig-zagged: There are only four swords in the kingdom. The Hero heads to the nearby kingdom of Sword-i Arabia where he finds hundreds of swords. He brings them back to Tropeland, where they are all burned due to being illegally bought.
• Averted: There are plenty of swords.
• Enforced: "We are going to destroy all weapons of war!"
• Lampshaded: "Where's a sword when you need one?"
• Invoked: "Something tells me I'm going to have a hard time getting a sword..."
• Defied: There's a sword delivery store.
• Discussed: "You know, swords really shouldn't be this rare..."
• Conversed: "I can't believe how badly the recent sword famine's hit!"

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