The Ooze

The Ooze is a Sega Genesis game in which the player assumes the role of a scientist named Dr. Caine. After he discovers a plot by his employers to release a deadly plague onto the world and make millions of dollars from the antidote, they capture him. They inject toxic waste directly into his veins, causing him to dissolve into a green ooze which sinks down the drain. He wakes up as a sentient puddle of glowing green ooze with a human head in the middle and an extendable arm. Understandably angry, Dr. Caine seeks revenge against his employers and plans to stop them before they release the plague.

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Tropes used in The Ooze include:

• And I Must Scream: The game over screen has you trapped forever inside a lava lamp. Considering that you're a sentient puddle and can not die through natural causes... The bad ending also has shades of this, with you unable to turn back into a human.
• Body Horror: Caine himself, as well as some of the monsters he fights.
• Cast From HP: Your projectile attack uses up a small piece of your body with each shot.
• Fridge Horror: When you think about it, slowly dissolving into a pile of slime while conscious would be insanely painful.
• Multiple Endings: Although they're not that much different from each other.
• Name of Cain: the name of the protagonist is, well, Cain.
• Nintendo Hard: Despite being a Sega game, this game is near impossible to just beat, let alone get the good ending.
• One-Hit-Point Wonder: If anything hits your head even once, you're donezos.
• Weaksauce Weakness: Your body disperses easily, and you can die by being sucked into drains or rolling downhill into a body of liquid.