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Script Breaking

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Script Breaking	comment	Most kinds of games rely on a certain set of triggers and rules to regulate the progress of the scenario and check whether certain conditions are met. In addition to triggers and rules, there are also implicit assumptions about the state of the world - that certain entities are still alive, that the player cannot reach spot X without having done task Y. These are usually collectively known as the game's "script". Often, particularly in games that allow a significant amount of free-roaming, if one attempts to do something that would make sense in the real world and/or within the game world, and that is technically allowed by the rules of the game, one will find that the game is not robust enough to cope and one will get stuck, be forced to go back or find that events play out in an illogical fashion. This typically happens by violating one of the assumptions about the state of the world. Killing an entity that the game needs later, using Sequence Breaking to reach location X without having accomplished task Y. And so forth. It is also common to experience this if one cheats, particularly by trying to create a specific condition without the proper prerequisites having been met. These situations often occur when the player tries to do things the scenario suggests is possible and even reasonable, but which the game rules cannot account for. See also But Thou Must!, Only Idiots May Pass and Stupidity Is the Only Option. For the idea of "breaking" a script in the writing process, see: Script Life Cycle. The polar opposite of this trope is Developer's Foresight. Often coincides with Sequence Breaking, which deals with the intended sequence of gameplay elements rather than the logical cohesion of the narrative, since breaking one of these tends to break the other as well.
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Script Breaking / int_12e3e094	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_12e3e094	comment	Stranglehold checks to see if you've beaten a section by crossing a trigger. However, it checks for any trigger. On those rare occasions where you can go backwards through the level, it is possible to advance by retreating.
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Script Breaking / int_2192aeb3	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_2192aeb3	comment	Fire Emblem: In Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, you can instigate some support conversations that refer to characters that haven't joined. A few of these were actually just translation errors though. Similarly, in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, you can have supports refer to events that haven't yet happened, most notably in Matthew and Serra's level A support, in which Matthew is still grieving over Leila's death, but the conversation can be triggered before Leila dies. Avoided in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, where supports are now based off the number of chapters both partners are deployed in, as opposed to amount of turns standing next to each other. Probably the main reason for this is Jill, who has most of her A supports referring to the death of her father, which doesn't occur until a specific chapter. Her supports are rigged so those conversations can't happen before said plot event. Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn has a visual example. The main villain of Part 2 takes Lucia hostage at one point and cuts off her hair to send to Elincia as proof that he has her. As such, she has two different models in her starting class, Swordmaster, one with long hair and one with short hair, but only a short-haired model for her third-tier class, Trueblade. The international releases, however, added in the ability to promote by reaching Level 21 (the Japanese version only allowed units to promote using items that don't start appearing until Part 3), and if you're playing on Easy and allow Lucia to solo the one chapter in Part 2 that she's available for, it's just barely possible to promote her in Part 2, while her hair should still be long. In Fire Emblem: Awakening, Paralogues 2 and 4 involve a mini-arc with Vincent and Victor. You fight Vincent in 2, and Victor seeks to avenge his death in 4. Except Paralogues can be completed in any order, meaning it's possible to do the latter first. In a case of Developer's Foresight, the dialogue changes in accordance with the order they are completed.
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Script Breaking / int_28b2079a	comment	In Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando, there's a shortcuts menu that you can unlock after beating the game, which gives you access to certain locations. Most of them are competitions; the tournaments, Hoverbike races, Giant Clank battles, and the Thugs-4-Less Jamming Array are available, but the final one is the Insomniac Museum. When you leave the Museum, you will ALWAYS fly to Silver City, Planet Boldan, which is roughly two-thirds of the way through the game, even if you haven't unlocked the planet.
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Script Breaking / int_2d3598f9	comment	LEGO Batman 2 has a number of these: In one case in a mission near the end of the game, the required exit to the next area is through a stopped fan. However, switching to Green Lantern and flying through the fan will leave Lantern stuck inside the area where the scene exit is supposed to be, but without triggering the exit. Some of the villains in Gotham City become strangely invulnerable if you switch to a character who is not appropriate to be fighting them. For example, Harley Quinn is completely immune to all of Superman's attacks, and can only take damage from Batman or Robin. Also, sometimes a villain can be pushed out of the location where they're supposed to show up, leaving the game confused and failing to start the encounter with the villain when they are approached. If you partner a character with flying or other special movement powers with one who lacks these (eg, Superman and Lois Lane), then travel a long distance across the map, the game will teleport the less mobile partner to you. However, in some cases it will teleport them to a location they were not supposed to be able to get to, such as inside a closed door that was supposed to be opened via a switch. Switching to them then allows you to continue the game from the unreachable location, possibly switching them out for a more capable character. Some of the buildings in Gotham City feature involved platforming sequences, many of which can be bypassed by using a flying character.
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Script Breaking / int_310b3174	comment	The Operation Flashpoint single-player campaign features at least two instances of this: In one mission, the player character is captured as soon as he reaches a particular area. It is possible to kill the enemies that do the capturing if one throws grenades into the area where they stand, in which case the cutscene will still play out, but the captors will be corpses lying still on the ground. In another mission, the player must attempt to slip a lorry full of partisans through an enemy control post. If one goes along with this, there is a scripted confrontation and one is forced to escape on foot while being pursued by enemies. Yet if one takes the lorry off-road before the control post, one can drive through the forest and reach the final destination without incident. At that point, the game's script forces the passengers to get out and head back to the control post on foot, to fight a skirmish that was supposedly undesirable.
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Script Breaking / int_33dd1d8f	comment	Half-Life: Near the beginning of the game, the player climbs a ladder to see two zombies fighting a security guard. The guard talks to the player upon seeing him. A particularly lucky and/or skilled player can shoot the guard to kill him as soon as he begins delivering his line, therefore causing the guard's corpse to speak. One happens when Freeman gets captured. In older versions of the game, you may break the script if you try moving around during the cutscene, leaving you in a dark "script-holding" room which you can't escape from.
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Script Breaking / int_33dd1d90	comment	Half-Life 2: At the beginning of the chapter "Sandtraps", Gordon will come across two men, on a rock, one injured. A small little scene will take place and summon three Antlions at once. If the player is extremely lucky and skilled, they can kill the antlions when they pop up before they are able to do anything, but the injured man will die regardless. Apparently one of "the greatest minds of our generation" cannot be saved. During the assault on the Overwatch Nexus, the player will come across some resistance members in a cell, and some Combine guards executing them to prevent them from being rescued. If you kill the guards before they can finish, any survivors will join your squad. There will always be exactly enough resistance members to bring your current squad up to its max of four, so if you only have one squad member there will be three prisoners. However, if you already have a full squad, there will still be one prisoner, and he will still crumple up and die even if you manage to kill the guards. Moreover, his death isn't triggered until you cross the threshold, so if you kill all the guards from outside, you can look through the door and see that he is still very much alive. Then you walk through the door, and instant ragdoll. Late in the game, the player can carry a turret into a room where an NPC ally is being held captive. The turret is hostile to the ally, and will open fire. For some reason this NPC lacks Gameplay Ally Immortality and can be killed by the turret, which prevents the game from advancing further.
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Script Breaking / int_36b38a6	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_36b38a6	comment	In Champions of Norrath, after defeating the Spider Queen Shelox, the player is supposed to enter the tunnel Shelox emerged from in a cutscene before the fight. If, instead, the player uses a Gate Scroll to return to the town to sell the loot Shelox dropped and then use the Portal in town to return to the Portal outside the bosses chamber, the player becomes stuck. The door into the chamber is locked for the fight and was originally unlocked during a cutscene by an escort character. There is no mechanism for the player to unlock the door from the outside, and Portaling back to town and using a Gate Scroll (hoping to return to where the first Gate Scroll was used, in the chamber) teleports you to the last place you were teleported...which is the Portal outside the lair. Time to restart from the last save...
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Script Breaking / int_37b56f7	comment	In Baldur's Gate II during Chapter 4 you fight the Big Bad in a battle that is scripted to end after he loses a certain amount of hit points, triggering a dialogue in which he teleports away. You can then exit Spellhold and continue the game. However, if you somehow get extraordinarily (un)lucky and Irenicus fails his save against Disintegrate, then he does indeed Disintegrate - which renders the game Unintentionally Unwinnable, since he's no longer around to trigger the dialogue and you can't move on. Of course, by all in-universe logic, you'll have won right then because the rest of the game is about chasing and stopping him.
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Script Breaking / int_38304f1d	comment	This happens in Phantasy Star II if you kill the security bots coming to arrest you by cheating, after which you can no longer progress through the plot. This becomes far worse if you get afflicted with a glitch in which you get into a random encounter at the same time those things should attack you (win and you're stuck). Beyond frustrating if this occurs on a first playthrough.
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Script Breaking / int_396309a7	comment	Rabi-Ribi has a particular area — System Interior II — that you are only supposed to go to after reaching Chapter 7 and doing some things in that chapter (there's a block that prevents you from jumping to the necessary places that gets removed when the correct flag is triggered), but can be reached early through a few tricky techniques. Going to this area and completing it before you're supposed to will cause the relevant cutscenes to take place and Chapter 8 to apparently begin (as indicated by the eyecatch and your save file showing the appropriate chapter number). Fortunately, this doesn't actually skip any of the story; once you're back in control after Chapter 8 not-starts, you can continue on with what you were doing earlier and progress as usual, and you can't even enter the final dungeon anyway until you have all of the cast in town (except for Keke Bunny, who's optional). Notably, the game actually gives you an achievement for doing this (and many other sequence breaks).
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Script Breaking / int_43f52aa9	comment	Oblivion: Averted after some of the issues in Morrowind. Important NPCs are marked as "essential" and cannot be killed, only temporarily knocked unconscious. While the game cannot be rendered unwinnable, it also lost much in immersion. Bethesda made the main quest script more flexible, so that it can have multiple entry points. This allows experienced players to skip ahead of the hoop-jumping-intermediary-fetch-quests, or psychotic players to shoot 'em all as they go, but has surprised exploring first timers who weren't expecting to stumble back into the plot.
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Script Breaking / int_49a88442	comment	All boss encounters in Final Fantasy XIV follow a script that determines their attack patterns and said patterns change based on the target's remaining HP and/or after a certain amount of time passes. Parties that can pump out high amounts of damage very quickly can make the boss skip a phase and move onto the next one, which effectively makes the fight quicker to complete. In the early days of the game, script breaking (unintentionally or not) could cause the boss to completely break and not attack the party. While attacking a broken enemy would be a free win, it's a very quick way to get suspended or even banned for abusing the exploit. Certain bosses also have mechanics where they have to be performed or the party wipes. In those cases, breaking the script by doing too much damage too quickly will have the boss think you failed the mechanic and uses its instant kill attack.
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Script Breaking / int_507dfb6a	comment	In EarthBound (1994), it's possible to glitch through certain walls and walk directly to any location in the game. At some points, the game assumes certain characters are in your party whether you've met them or not (even if Ness is alone when he's captured in Threed, Paula appears when Jeff rescues him; Poo appears when Ness returns from Magicant). However, you can't simply walk through walls to the final boss; you have to use the Phase Distorter to reach his location, or the scripted end of the battle won't trigger.
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Script Breaking / int_526d4c5c	comment	In Knights of the Old Republic, on a Light Side run through the Star Forge you encounter Bastila a second time, which is supposed to be your opportunity to save her. You can choose instead to kill her, and the game will confirm her death in the usual manner... though it won't change the fact that she somehow shows up alive and well in the ending sequence. Patch 1.3 fixes this issue, however.
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Script Breaking / int_5908ee91	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_5908ee91	comment	Skyrim: It's possible for this trope to occur when first entering Solitude. A public execution will be happening, and while it's possible to kill the executioner, the man to be executed still dies regardless. Most notable is that the man to be executed can get up and run away, only to drop dead with his head cut off moments later. Funnily enough, they actually averted this in other cities: in particular, in Markarth, usually the first thing you see is an assassin stab a woman to death and then get taken down by the guards. If you're aware of this, you can kill the assassin before he kills the woman, in which case she'll merely be flustered and the quest chain this event starts reacts to make the appropriate minor changes.
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Script Breaking / int_5afbc0cb	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale: It was formerly possible to get the Pacifist Run Golden Ending despite having killed monsters. Due to some misplaced Event Flags, starting the "befriend Alphys" sidequest and going back to the Core let you still fight and kill monsters. This causes a Plot Hole because the Big Bad ostensibly needs to steal the SOUL of literally every monster in the Underground to complete The Plan on this route, but the actual ending plays out normally. This is because, after starting the pacifist ending route, the game stops checking if you've killed anyone. The first patch closed this hole by setting the "no more Random Encounters in the Core" flag earlier, leaving no room to kill monsters once you've started the route to the best ending. Muffet becomes spareable after surviving three "waves" of her attacks or by using one of her "spider products". Doing the latter after the former causes the scene where she receives a telegram showing you aren't an enemy to spiders to play twice.
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Script Breaking / int_5b95bc94	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_5b95bc94	comment	With the use of a cheat code in Grand Theft Auto III, a player can use cars as flying vehicles. If the player manages to master the controls of the vehicle, they can fly over the broken bridge that they start at in the beginning of the game, causing the script to completely skip the first third of the game. It's possible to skip the second island as well, with some creative use of boats (you can't get a boat over the pipes in the sea, but you can beach it and push it around on land... and back into the sea again). It's possible to cross the broken bridge immediately with some creative jumping (at least on the PC version), and if you ram a car into a moving subway train in the right part of the second island you can pop back up on the third island. This was averted in San Andreas; there are several ways to get to the blocked areas, but since you can't buy any property or enter any shops, all you'll be doing is running from the cops.
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Script Breaking / int_5e3832b5	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_5e3832b5	comment	In Cave Story, you can actually get past Chaco's house in Grasstown without getting the Fireball by getting hit by a bat at a specific point in your jump, giving you recoil that is just enough to get on top of the house. However, doing so gets you stuck since not getting the Fireball makes it impossible to get the jellyfish dialogue from Chaco which makes it impossible to get Jellyfish Juice which makes it impossible to advance the plot.
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Script Breaking / int_6b6d989e	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_6b6d989e	comment	The first-person-shooter Red Faction had rebel miners that were scripted to be killed by certain guards, either through grappling or general combat. Killing said guards before they could kill the miners (or were in the process of), would often cause the miners to grapple with 'invisible' enemies while the guards' corpse lay at his feet, or merely fall down dead when reaching the end of their script.
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Script Breaking / int_6c1d09b3	comment	In Fallout 3, if the player picks Mr. Burke's pocket before telling on him, he will repeatedly try and pull his gun of Lucas Simms, and if the player follows Lucas out of the bar, he falls over dead anyway. Lucas can be saved via other means though (Such as taking the hits for him and taking out Burke).
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Script Breaking / int_6e34b51b	comment	In Soldier of Fortune, there are numerous instances where an enemy scripted to fall from a perch in a sniper's nest when shot can be shot by the player before he's in position, resulting in the enemy character displaying the "falling" animation anyway, even if he's already on solid ground. Some enemies can likewise be shot by alert players before the game intended, after which they calmly proceed to their next scripted checkpoint missing arms, legs, or even heads. Only upon reaching said checkpoint do they apparently realize their wounds and expire. It is also possible for a sufficiently skilled or determined player to snipe the pilot of a helicopter carrying a pallet of crates meant to take off and leave immediately after coming into view. If the pilot is shot in this very narrow window of opportunity, the helicopter crashes while the crates continue up and away.
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Script Breaking / int_6f1bcb62	comment	Avoided in Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, where supports are now based off the number of chapters both partners are deployed in, as opposed to amount of turns standing next to each other. Probably the main reason for this is Jill, who has most of her A supports referring to the death of her father, which doesn't occur until a specific chapter. Her supports are rigged so those conversations can't happen before said plot event.
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Script Breaking / int_7357234c	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_7357234c	comment	By using a collision detection error, it is possible to get a few Pearls earlier than you're supposed to in Beyond Good & Evil. This isn't script-breaking in and of itself... But if you hunt for all the Pearls possible at that point in the game, it ends up giving you just enough Pearls to purchase the next hovercraft upgrade, the Jump Booster, which you aren't supposed to be able to do until after you've been to the Factory area. If you attempt to go to the next area, the Slaughterhouse, without visiting the Factory, the game gets rather confused—dialogue for Double H appears, even though he's technically still trapped in the Factory, referencing events in cutscenes you haven't seen, and Pey'j mysteriously vanishes. If you make it through Slaughterhouse Road and attempt to dock at the other side, the game freezes up—presumably because it has no idea just who the heck is your partner anymore.
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Script Breaking / int_7406f8b2	comment	In Quest for Glory I (at least the VGA remake), if you find brigands' messages and try to give them to the sheriff, the game displays a message "Oops. You did something that we did not expect. Whatever it was, it is not required to finish the game." and the game quits. The "oops" message is actually a debug message built into the Sierra game engine, and occurs when the game's script file does not specify a way of handling the command the player entered - script breaking in every sense of the word. There is a similar joke in Space Quest 4 in-game hint book.
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Script Breaking / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: Crafty players can jump down very deep pits in Halo: Combat Evolved to sequence break. However, more than sequence break, the player skips all the event flags in the map as well; Master Chief can trot to victory! Neither friend nor foe will spawn in the entire map due to the linear nature of the game's event tripping. A particular easy-to-achieve example is on the Combat Evolved level "Assault on the Control Room". Near the end of the level, the Chief crosses a bridge above an open area containing a pyramid which is the entrance to the eponymous Control Room point As soon as the patrolling enemies on the bridge see the player, an Elite takes off in a Banshee to harass you. Apparently, the game expects the player to fight across the bridge, through another series of identical rooms, emerge at the bottom of the pyramid, then fight back up the pyramid to the entrance; a sequence of events involving fighting several Hunters and a tank. Many players are unaware of this, however, since it is trivially easy to reach the invitingly empty Banshee before the Elite, then simply fly to the top of the pyramid and enter the Control Room, spawning no new enemies along the way. Halo 3: In "The Covenant" mission, landing the Hornet on the Citadel can prematurely trigger the next chapter, and when you reach the point where the Flood team up with you, the game freezes. A script break in the final mission allows you save the otherwise dead Sgt. Johnson and have him ride in the Warthog during the Escape Sequence.
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Script Breaking / int_76c6804a	comment	A glitch in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin makes it possible to enter a cutscene room from the wrong side — in which case the scene still happens, but with you standing behind the bad guys, who don't turn around. The fact that there are gestures in this scene makes it even more surreal.
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Script Breaking / int_78e27fa7	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_78e27fa7	comment	Similarly, in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade, you can have supports refer to events that haven't yet happened, most notably in Matthew and Serra's level A support, in which Matthew is still grieving over Leila's death, but the conversation can be triggered before Leila dies.
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Script Breaking / int_78e27fa7	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_78e27fa7
Script Breaking / int_7bff7264	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_7bff7264	comment	Crafty players can jump down very deep pits in Halo: Combat Evolved to sequence break. However, more than sequence break, the player skips all the event flags in the map as well; Master Chief can trot to victory! Neither friend nor foe will spawn in the entire map due to the linear nature of the game's event tripping.
Script Breaking / int_7bff7264	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_7bff7264	featureConfidence	1.0
Halo: Combat Evolved (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_7bff7264
Script Breaking / int_7dad8347	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_7dad8347	comment	In the FreeSpace series of space sims, events are usually triggered by the presence or the absence of a certain ship. To prevent script breaking, mission designers often make script-important ships invulnerable, or cause them to self-destruct if the mission doesn't go out as planned. The "fix" itself causes certain problems, for example, a player manages to immediately disarm an enemy capital ship that was supposed to destroy a friendly target, the friendly ship will still give out a mayday call and blow up anyway. Other times, during an attack that's "impossible to repel", the invulnerable or self-destruct events are not included because the mission designer is confident that the script will go out as planned anyway. When the "impossible" event happens, and the player managed to fend off the three dozen Goddamned Bats and successfully defended the disabled friendly cruiser (that was destined to blow up), the mission just freezes. Or maybe the rebel cruisers that are "no match" for the gigantic GTVA Colossus get in its blind spot and slowly chip away at it until it blows up. Script breaking in FreeSpace will have ship commanders talking from the dead, or from subspace, or the action just stopping and never getting the "Return to Base" order. In Freespace 2, there's a mission where you're supposed to destroy some of the Sathanas' main guns to give the Colossus a fighting chance. It's possible to destroy all guns, which makes the next mission hilarious: The Colossus sticks to it's script and delivers panicked damage reports even if it's receiving no damage. There is also a slight subversion in Freespace 1 in the first mission where you encounter the Shivans. If you manage to destroy the Shivan ship that's supposedly out of your league, you'll get a medal and a special mention in the debriefing. Space sims in general have notoriously bug-prone objective systems, usually don't allow in-mission saves, and often change objectives in mid-mission or vaguely state mission objectives to begin with. This can lead to a lot of Guide Dang It! moments where the player isn't sure if they're failed, succeeded, or if the game has bugged out on them.
Script Breaking / int_7dad8347	featureApplicability	1.0
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FreeSpace (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_7dad8347
Script Breaking / int_802ca7b	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_802ca7b	comment	It's possible to kill every named baddy in GoldenEye (1997), whether or not they are supposed to die at that point. Generally, though, you can only get away with killing Ourumov without failing your mission. Unfortunately, the storyline never changes. Baron Samedi, in particular, can be killed in the ending cutscene of his level. During his maniacal laughter.
Script Breaking / int_802ca7b	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_802ca7b	featureConfidence	1.0
GoldenEye (1997) (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_802ca7b
Script Breaking / int_825ec83f	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_825ec83f	comment	The Logomancer: The dialogue in the cutscene at the start of Aspect of Family assumes that you've broken the rules in the Aspect of Blood at least once, even if you never did.
Script Breaking / int_825ec83f	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_825ec83f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Logomancer (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_825ec83f
Script Breaking / int_85698529	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_85698529	comment	In Paper Mario 64, using a hack to defeat Bowser during the unwinnable boss battle at the beginning will not only be script breaking but will break the rest of the game [1].
Script Breaking / int_85698529	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_85698529	featureConfidence	1.0
Paper Mario 64 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_85698529
Script Breaking / int_86814cd0	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_86814cd0	comment	Final Fantasy IV: You can pass Mist without entering with careful timing and the use of a tent, thus bypassing the Event Flag which triggers the earthquake. You can't go very far with just Kain and Cecil (The game crashes if you try and talk to Tellah) but this does allow you to enter Mist from the wrong side and actually explore the town, getting your hands on some late-game equipment that will turn Rydia into a walking nuclear bomb. Casting warp in the crystal room after the Calcobrena battle will bring back the dark crystal, and grabbing it triggers the Event Flag of the dark crystal in the Sealed Cave. Now merely entering said cave will make the game think you've completed it, allowing you to bypass That One Level that's crawling with Trap Doors.
Script Breaking / int_86814cd0	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_86814cd0	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy IV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_86814cd0
Script Breaking / int_88d74855	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_88d74855	comment	Kya: Dark Lineage is susceptible to this, at least if you're able to engage in any Sequence Breaking at all. For instance, in the final area (the Wolfen Lair), you're supposed to progress through the level and get captured by the Wolfen, who will take away your weapon. This may not seem like much, but it's actually damned important. It is possible to get through the blocked door, over the top, and sneak in the back way. Clever, right? Wrong. The game was not at all prepared for this, and will still trigger the cutscene wherein Kya is caged up and unarmed- at least in theory. In practice, retaining your weapon through this sequence break makes the game Unwinnable, as you then have no way of accessing the command you need to get out of the cage once the cutscene is done. Admittedly, Sequence Breaking is made far, far more difficult (supposed to be impossible, of course!) than in games that reward it, but to not anticipate at all that some player would try it is just silly.
Script Breaking / int_88d74855	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_88d74855	featureConfidence	1.0
Kya: Dark Lineage (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_88d74855
Script Breaking / int_8aef1fcf	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_8aef1fcf	comment	There is a similar joke in Space Quest 4 in-game hint book.
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Script Breaking / int_8aef1fcf	featureConfidence	1.0
Space Quest (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_8aef1fcf
Script Breaking / int_8b5820ed	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_8b5820ed	comment	In Red Dead Redemption, you can get into Nuevo Paraiso and West Elizabeth well before you should be able to. The initial methods, which have since been patched, were camping on the New Austin side of the middle bridge to Nuevo Paraiso and camping on a very specific spot on the New Austin side of the river dividing New Austin and West Elizabeth to get into West Elizabeth. After they were patched, people found you could still get to West Elizabeth by getting arrested by the police in a spot that the game considered part of West Elizabeth but was actually in New Austin. After THAT was patched, people found out yet another way of getting into West Elizabeth; by riding a stagecoach down the hill near the broken bridge leading into West Elizabeth and aiming for the river, you could sail across to the other side. And people found out that it was then still possible to get over to Nuevo Paraiso by standing on the very edge of the aforementioned bridge to Nuevo Paraiso, shooting anyone you could see in Nuevo Parasio to rack up a bounty in Nuevo Parasio and then racking up enough for the police to get close enough to arrest you and take you into Mexico. There's not much to do besides buying properties and doing challenges, though.
Script Breaking / int_8b5820ed	featureApplicability	1.0
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Red Dead Redemption (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_8b5820ed
Script Breaking / int_95bd5a8e	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_95bd5a8e	comment	Dishonored has a hilarious example which occurs if Corvo exposes the Lord Regent's crimes after rewiring one or more of the "Wall of Light" security devices in his mansion to attack the guards instead of Corvo. The guards arrest the Lord Regent and begin to follow a script of marching the Lord Regent through the mansion to the exit and to prison - but their route takes them through one of the rewired Walls of Light, meaning they lead the Lord Regent into it and watch him get incinerated in front of them.
Script Breaking / int_95bd5a8e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Dishonored (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_95bd5a8e
Script Breaking / int_98bab0e5	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_98bab0e5	comment	In Aviary Attorney, a piece of evidence you can pick up is a poisoned chocolate wrapper. At one point, Sparrowson will demonstrate that the wrapper (and therefore also the chocolate that was in it) is poisoned by eating it. It's possible to miss picking up the wrapper, but the scene will happen exactly the same way even if you don't have it, with Sparrowson eating a chocolate wrapper that you never actually had.
Script Breaking / int_98bab0e5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Aviary Attorney (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_98bab0e5
Script Breaking / int_9d34190a	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: In Morrowind, Anyone Can Die, because the Player Character can kill them. This includes main quest essential NPCs, which naturally break the primary way of completing the main quest. For the majority of these characters, a pop up message appears explaining that you've made the main quest unbeatable and encouraging you to load a saved game from before. However, some important NPCs do not generate this message upon being killed, while some not important to the main quest do generate it. The game does offer a legitimate "backpath" method of beating the main quest which requires only one NPC to be alive, but it is well hidden and extremely difficult (due to one part of it causing a permanent Maximum HP Reduction of about 200 points on the Player Character). A third option is to use the game's famous Alchemy Exploit, which makes you powerful enough to handle the Artifact of Doom MacGuffins without dying instantly and forcefully completing the main quest. (Only if you misplace said items is the game truly unwinnable.) Oblivion: Averted after some of the issues in Morrowind. Important NPCs are marked as "essential" and cannot be killed, only temporarily knocked unconscious. While the game cannot be rendered unwinnable, it also lost much in immersion. Bethesda made the main quest script more flexible, so that it can have multiple entry points. This allows experienced players to skip ahead of the hoop-jumping-intermediary-fetch-quests, or psychotic players to shoot 'em all as they go, but has surprised exploring first timers who weren't expecting to stumble back into the plot. Skyrim: It's possible for this trope to occur when first entering Solitude. A public execution will be happening, and while it's possible to kill the executioner, the man to be executed still dies regardless. Most notable is that the man to be executed can get up and run away, only to drop dead with his head cut off moments later. Funnily enough, they actually averted this in other cities: in particular, in Markarth, usually the first thing you see is an assassin stab a woman to death and then get taken down by the guards. If you're aware of this, you can kill the assassin before he kills the woman, in which case she'll merely be flustered and the quest chain this event starts reacts to make the appropriate minor changes. User-created Game Mods for each of the games are sometimes plagued with "talk triggers" not activating. When the player is meant to be able to advance conversation with a NPC, they are given a "talk trigger" to ask something new. These can break — by no fault of the player — rendering the quest impossible to continue.
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The Elder Scrolls (Franchise)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_9d34190a
Script Breaking / int_9f89a5f0	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: In the second-gen games, using a "Walk Through Walls" GameShark code and walking up to sprites you are not supposed to touch will either make the sprites say "object event" or crash the game. The same thing happens in the first gen games too, and you can encounter some pretty bizarre glitch trainer battles with it. You can also break sequence in both Game Boy titles and get into PokÃ©mon battles without actually having any pokemon in your party, which also results in funky (and game-breaking) glitches. Can happen in the first gen games when you attempt to go to the bike-only road without a bike. The guard will tell you to get lost until you have a bike but if you're persistent, you can end up on the road anyway - riding the bike you don't have!
Script Breaking / int_9f89a5f0	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_9f89a5f0	featureConfidence	1.0
PokÃ©mon (Franchise)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_9f89a5f0
Script Breaking / int_a5e6a399	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_a5e6a399	comment	Several first-person-shooters (including Red Faction and Command & Conquer: Renegade) have dying allies who are scripted to deliver a message and then expire. Since these scripts are uninterruptable, the player character can freely whale on the dying soldier/medic/civilian/scientist with any weapons he has available, while the poor schmuck continues delivering his important dialogue. Half-Life features a similar situation, with scientists and guards who are supposed to remain in sitting, lying, crouched (or otherwise immobile) positions (and usually deliver a Message Of Importance). When given a whack with the crowbar, they will ignore their previous script, stand up, and perform as any other instance would.
Script Breaking / int_a5e6a399	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_a5e6a399	featureConfidence	1.0
Command & Conquer: Renegade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_a5e6a399
Script Breaking / int_a796bde8	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_a796bde8	comment	Metal Gear Solid has a mid-game event take place behind the Level 6 Key door in the holding cells, an area you reach within minutes of starting the game (and possibly before you've even picked up a single weapon). It's possible to glitch your way past the door by clipping through the walls of the air vent, tricking the game into thinking you've made it that far and allowing you to skip five bosses albeit at the cost of a reduced health bar. It's a favorite tactic for Speed Runs.
Script Breaking / int_a796bde8	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_a796bde8	featureConfidence	1.0
Metal Gear Solid (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_a796bde8
Script Breaking / int_a895e9d3	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_a895e9d3	comment	Portal 2 contains some very subtle tweaks to avoid script breaks. The most obvious is that the color of the very last portal you shoot in the game is ignored. It's possible to break a script in Chapter 9. There's a sequence where you are supposed to use a funnel to escape a room, only to get attacked by a crusher. You're then supposed to replace your portal onto a panel that shows up and get taken into an alcove But it's possible to jump into the alcove and watch as the crusher just stops.
Script Breaking / int_a895e9d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_a895e9d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Portal 2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_a895e9d3
Script Breaking / int_ae050a9f	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_ae050a9f	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: The game only checks for completion of two of the five "adult" temples. By abusing certain bugs, the savvy gamer can complete the Shadow and Spirit temples without completing the Forest, Fire or Water temples and then gain access to the final temple. The game assumes that you have completed the other three. It's also possible to beat the game while skipping all 5 temples by glitching items into your main hand and capturing stuff in bottles to overwrite the quest flags. That's nothing. With some clever glitching it is possible to beat the game, without ever becoming an adult, in 24 minutes. See for yourself.
Script Breaking / int_ae050a9f	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_ae050a9f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time / Videogame	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_ae050a9f
Script Breaking / int_b5a2b326	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_b5a2b326	comment	In Morrowind, Anyone Can Die, because the Player Character can kill them. This includes main quest essential NPCs, which naturally break the primary way of completing the main quest. For the majority of these characters, a pop up message appears explaining that you've made the main quest unbeatable and encouraging you to load a saved game from before. However, some important NPCs do not generate this message upon being killed, while some not important to the main quest do generate it. The game does offer a legitimate "backpath" method of beating the main quest which requires only one NPC to be alive, but it is well hidden and extremely difficult (due to one part of it causing a permanent Maximum HP Reduction of about 200 points on the Player Character). A third option is to use the game's famous Alchemy Exploit, which makes you powerful enough to handle the Artifact of Doom MacGuffins without dying instantly and forcefully completing the main quest. (Only if you misplace said items is the game truly unwinnable.)
Script Breaking / int_b5a2b326	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_b5a2b326	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_b5a2b326
Script Breaking / int_b7c72249	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_b7c72249	comment	Entering X-X!V''Q as a name in Castlevania: Symphony of the Night and letting a certain enemy hit you will fling you through the room where Death appears, skipping the scripted moment when you are supposed to lose your Taste of Power and allowing you to keep end-game weapons and equipment for the entire gamenote "Luck Mode", which is enabled by that name, drops Alucard's HP to 25 and Defense to 0. This is the only time in the game you can lose more than half of your maximum health from a single attack, which will send Alucard flying uncontrollably until he hits something due to the way the knockback is implemented.
Script Breaking / int_b7c72249	featureApplicability	1.0
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Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_b7c72249
Script Breaking / int_ba366aa8	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_ba366aa8	comment	A certain stealth mission in Syphon Filter 2 involves a mountain bridge, which is rigged with bombs, and guarded by a small army of mooks. Two minutes after level starts, their captain gives an order to blow these bombs; so you're expected to find a silent weapon, dispatch of him before that happens (without raising alarm, of course), and continue searching for bombs without any time limit. However, it's totally possible for Logan to disarm all four bombs in these two minutes, without breaking stealth as well. For some reason, you still lose the mission when the timer reaches 00.
Script Breaking / int_ba366aa8	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_ba366aa8	featureConfidence	1.0
Syphon Filter (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_ba366aa8
Script Breaking / int_bd41836e	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_bd41836e	comment	StarCraft: In the mission "Agent of the Swarm" (the Zerg mission where you have to defend the Chrysalis until it hatches), normally you're supposed to wait until it hatches then infest a Terran Command Center, but there's nothing stopping you from just waltzing into the base and taking the command center as soon as the mission begins (although, through legit means it'll probably hatch before you get near the command center). This makes the conversation at the end of the mission weird since Infested Kerrigan hasn't hatched yet but they're talking to Raynor as if they already hatched. In an early Terran mission, Raynor tries to stall a Zerg invasion until evacuation transports can arrive. Even if all the Zerg on the map are destroyed, the Terrans still leave at the end of the mission.
Script Breaking / int_bd41836e	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_bd41836e	featureConfidence	1.0
StarCraft (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_bd41836e
Script Breaking / int_bdc2b9c1	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_bdc2b9c1	comment	In the final mission of the single player campaign in Age of Mythology, you are supposed to get Arkantos turned into a demi-god and have him kill a statue of Poseidon. But if you're good you can just destroy the statue with your mortal army, at which point, sure enough, there's a cutscene of demi-god Arkantos fighting and finishing off the statue.
Script Breaking / int_bdc2b9c1	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_bdc2b9c1	featureConfidence	1.0
Age of Mythology (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_bdc2b9c1
Script Breaking / int_beac6ffb	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_beac6ffb	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, you can do this after you defeat a dungeon boss. You reset time back to the first day and warp straight to the dungeon and then the boss, after which characters who shouldn't remember who you are will act as though they've always known you. (However, this "Groundhog Day" Loop is a major feature of the game; once you solve certain quests and attain certain rewards, they stay solved and you keep the Plot Coupon even if you reset the clock again.)
Script Breaking / int_beac6ffb	featureApplicability	1.0
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_beac6ffb
Script Breaking / int_bf948159	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_bf948159	comment	The infamous "Red Key Card bug" from Little Big Adventure / Relentless is caused by script breaking. Normally, in order to break into the museum, you need to get said key card from a character and use it on the back door of the museum to get in and do some stuff here (including stealing several items). However, it is perfectly possible to steal these items by just fighting your way in from the front door, and if you do this, the game will assume you already have the key card, so you can no longer get it. The nasty part is that you'll need the card later on and won't be able to complete the game without it.
Script Breaking / int_bf948159	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_bf948159	featureConfidence	1.0
Little Big Adventure (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_bf948159
Script Breaking / int_c0c57462	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono Trigger encourages script breaking in the New Game Plus to access many of the game's multiple endings, and can, in fact, legitimately allow the player to kill the final boss about 20 minutes after the introductory cutscenes. However, this does result in some bizarre dialogue before the fight, given that the party may never have even seen the Day of Lavos video to begin with, let alone have learned what they know about Lavos. Tool-assisted run of the whole game from the beginning show how the storyline can be messed up to the point of the plotline being a complete mess.
Script Breaking / int_c0c57462	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_c0c57462	featureConfidence	1.0
Chrono Trigger (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_c0c57462
Script Breaking / int_c2463c53	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_c2463c53	comment	A minor-but-amusing case in Final Fantasy V. Normally, the first time you enter the Sealed Castle in the second world, Galuf will explain to you exactly what the Castle is all about. It is never required that you visit the Sealed Castle in the second world, and if you put it off until Galuf dies, then Krile will explain everything Galuf does, in the exact same way Galuf would have, and the text even will be credited to "Galuf".
Script Breaking / int_c2463c53	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_c2463c53	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy V (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_c2463c53
Script Breaking / int_c4a1d59e	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_c4a1d59e	comment	In Call Of Duty: World At War, on the Vendetta mission, by performing a series of very simple jumps after the sniper duel, you can reach the area where Amsel is later on in the mission. There are invisible triggers all over the place which spawn soldiers, trucks and Amsel. By going through the triggers in a certain order, you can get Amsel to appear. This makes getting the achievement for killing him with a pistol a LOT easier.
Script Breaking / int_c4a1d59e	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_c4a1d59e	featureConfidence	1.0
Call of Duty (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_c4a1d59e
Script Breaking / int_c686bb8	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_c686bb8	comment	In Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, you can instigate some support conversations that refer to characters that haven't joined. A few of these were actually just translation errors though.
Script Breaking / int_c686bb8	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_c686bb8	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_c686bb8
Script Breaking / int_c72021c5	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_c72021c5	comment	In Deus Ex, the player, attempting to escape New York by catching a helicopter in Battery Park, is met on his way out of the subway by an overwhelmingly large enemy force led by a character flagged as invincible. There are several ways to sneak around the group without being caught, but even if you get to the helicopter, you can't take off — the game requires that you be captured. Earlier in the game, it is possible to go from a bar in which the pilot of the helicopter that transports the player is drinking to another area, complete the mission there, have him arrive in the helicopter for pickup, and through creative use of crates jump back over a fence and make it back to the bar, where the pilot can still be found. There's also various Boss Battles that can be completely skipped if the player manages to kill his enemy before triggering the cutscene (usually by approaching said enemy) that initiates the battle. Subverted with Anna Navarre. The smartass player wanting to break the script by killing her before she starts her dialogue (by placing a mine on the entryway) will cause the game to proceed exactly as you'd expect in the event of Navarre's murder. Killing such people as Joe Greene and the gatekeeper before you're asked to results in JC Denton telling them he offed them already - Dowd and Filben will remark that you're Properly Paranoid.
Script Breaking / int_c72021c5	featureApplicability	-0.3
Script Breaking / int_c72021c5	featureConfidence	1.0
Deus Ex (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_c72021c5
Script Breaking / int_cdd994cc	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_cdd994cc	comment	In Phantasy Star III, you get thrown into the dungeons near the start of the game, and then you must fight your way out. Unless, of course, you buy an escapipe beforehand (which requires selling your starting gear) and use it in the dungeons. You escape the dungeons just the same, but because you're meant to fight your way out, you cannot advance the plot. Talk to the King and he gives the page quote at the top, indicating that the developers predicted some wiseguy would try an escapipe in there.
Script Breaking / int_cdd994cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_cdd994cc	featureConfidence	1.0
Phantasy Star III (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_cdd994cc
Script Breaking / int_ce2b5aba	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_ce2b5aba	comment	In Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, it is possible to kill the final boss by strangling him with a garotte through a wall. If you do this, then the cutscene before the boss fight will show a shotgun floating in mid-air, and during the battle you'll fight the boss' flying corpse. And if you strangle him after the boss battle start, he will be on the ground in a HUUUUUGE puddle of blood. The Dev team assume you would shoot him with the M60 or another really heavy gun.
Script Breaking / int_ce2b5aba	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_ce2b5aba	featureConfidence	1.0
Hitman	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_ce2b5aba
Script Breaking / int_d32c3060	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_d32c3060	comment	In the second-gen games, using a "Walk Through Walls" GameShark code and walking up to sprites you are not supposed to touch will either make the sprites say "object event" or crash the game. The same thing happens in the first gen games too, and you can encounter some pretty bizarre glitch trainer battles with it. You can also break sequence in both Game Boy titles and get into PokÃ©mon battles without actually having any pokemon in your party, which also results in funky (and game-breaking) glitches.
Script Breaking / int_d32c3060	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_d32c3060	featureConfidence	1.0
GameShark (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_d32c3060
Script Breaking / int_d5166b44	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_d5166b44	comment	Halo 3: In "The Covenant" mission, landing the Hornet on the Citadel can prematurely trigger the next chapter, and when you reach the point where the Flood team up with you, the game freezes. A script break in the final mission allows you save the otherwise dead Sgt. Johnson and have him ride in the Warthog during the Escape Sequence.
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Script Breaking / int_d885311a	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_d885311a	comment	Arx Fatalis has a Puzzle Boss that requires two steps to kill. A fast player can actually perform the second step before the first, which removes the boss as a threat but the game does not acknowledge the boss as actually defeated. Players thus miss out on substantial experience for the kill, and missing the first step may close off areas that need to be explored.
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Script Breaking / int_d885311a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Script Breaking / int_db7ce447	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_db7ce447	comment	In Chapter 2 of The Magic of Scheherazade for the NES, you're supposed to fight through the Chapter, bouncing back and forth between the present and the past, going through caves with invisible pits, with the goal being to ultimately acquire a character who can guide you through the Maze Desert, a Lost Woods sort of area, to the Palace of the boss of the Chapter. Problem: The sequence through the Maze Desert is always the same, and the game doesn't bother to check to make sure you actually acquired said guide character, making it possible to skip most of the Chapter and go directly through the Maze Desert to the Palace. It's clear Culture brain never bothered testing this scenario, as the characters you skip by doing this show up in any post-Chapter cutscenes (But, oddly enough, not in the RPG battle sequences. In fact, you can't even select individual characters you acquire later in those sequences—you have to select their Formations; the game won't scroll past the "holes" created by the missing characters). Given the game is pretty good about checking for other breaks (The funniest "You can't do that!" message is probably "You don't have enough friends to defeat Troll"), this specific one is rather surprising.
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Script Breaking / int_e0213763	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_e0213763	comment	Ultima VII: It's possible to finish the game by getting the last two prisms with script breaking, leaving Alagner alive and skipping the Time Lord. Trying to reach the square prism without protection subjects you to damage that eventually exceeds your maximum hit points. The Forge of Virtue add-on increases your maximum hit points but the programmers forgot to increase the damage done when you go for the square prism. Result: it's now easy to get the prism without protection if you heal yourself. The path to the round prism doesn't kill you if you don't have the needed items. It just sends you back. It turns out that repeatedly trying will eventually get you there anyway. This may have been an interaction between a fast machine and a slowdown program.
Script Breaking / int_e0213763	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_e0213763	featureConfidence	1.0
Ultima VII (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_e0213763
Script Breaking / int_e18ab4ea	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_e18ab4ea	comment	Strife is painfully easy to break. From minor and recoverable things like going back to break the illicit power tap (and failing a mission you've already completed) to major things like killing the Sigil piece holders in the wrong order, which makes the game Unwinnable. There's only two 'official' sequences, one for the happy ending (Programmer, Bishop, Oracle, Macil, Loremaster) and one for the Downer Ending (Programmer, Bishop, Macil, Loremaster, Oracle), but you have access to two of the last four for the entire second half of the game and can theoretically kill them at any time. The game plays fine as long as you obey everyone's orders, but don't ever think for yourself.
Script Breaking / int_e18ab4ea	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_e18ab4ea	featureConfidence	1.0
Strife (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_e18ab4ea
Script Breaking / int_e5d617a3	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_e5d617a3	comment	An annoying one in F.E.A.R., though it got patched. There is one laptop in the entire game that is plot relevant, the rest are there for listening pleasure. The thing is, once you download the data from the laptop, you can't download it again. You also get to see this laptop and use it before said plot relevance is made. So when your CO asks you to download the data from the laptop, which you might've done already, you can't download it and complete the objective. Spend all the time in the world running around the map, but you'll just have to restart from your last save.
Script Breaking / int_e5d617a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_e5d617a3	featureConfidence	1.0
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Script Breaking / int_e5dfd2c1	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_e5dfd2c1	comment	In Zork III, grues prevent you from going into dark places; this normally justifies the need for a lamp, but one place was blocked by a lake that extinguishes your lamp, requiring you to find Grue Repellent. However, in early versions of the game you could put the lamp inside a chest and take it to the area without being extinguished. Strange because the unintended, script-breaking activity also happened to be perfectly logical—of course putting the lamp inside something keeps it from getting wet.
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Script Breaking / int_e6fb021b	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_e6fb021b	comment	At one point in the FPS Shogo: Mobile Armor Division, the player finds himself in an underground tunnel, where proceeding forwards will trigger a cutscene where an enemy appears, runs off, and causes the tunnel to cave in by exploding it. However, careful examination of said tunnel reveals a logo of Monolith (the game's creators), which when shot causes the same explosion, making the cutscene look totally wrong as a result.
Script Breaking / int_e6fb021b	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_e6fb021b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Script Breaking / int_e79477d2	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_e79477d2	comment	Black Mesa: In "Unforeseen Consequences", as the elevator plummets to the bottom of the shaft, you can throw a physics object through the glass, allowing the player to climb up the emergency ladder a little earlier then the player is supposed to. The elevator still falls, but provided that you loaded the next section in before it is destroyed, the scientists would be alive and well at the bottom of the shaft. You can also place the chair near the edge of the elevator platform before the elevator falls, which actually stops the thing from falling. The scientists on the elevator will still be stuck in their "scared" poses though. By abusing the way that rocket testing chamber loads in "Blast Pit", along with quick thinking and strategic Satchel Charge/grenade placement, it's possible to save Leeroy Jenkins. Naturally, the dev team never accounted for the slim chance that this would happen, as once you've defeated the Tentacles, Jenkins (who would've just shrugged off a face-full of rocket exhaust) just stands still and makes idle comments. During "Surface Tension", prior to entering the Laser Tripmine warehouse, the Crowbar Collective added a scene where you witness a scientist run out of a nearby structure to help a security guard downed by a HECU sniper in the area. A few moments later, the sniper would then kill the scientist as he tries to help the security guard. If you kill the sniper before he shoots the scientist however, the scientist remains on the field forever kneeling before the now dead security guard. This was fixed in the 2015 retail release; after the sniper is killed, the scientist will become startled, run into the nearby minefield, and die anyway.
Script Breaking / int_e79477d2	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_e79477d2	featureConfidence	1.0
Black Mesa (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_e79477d2
Script Breaking / int_e9e265b6	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_e9e265b6	comment	In Fire Emblem: Awakening, Paralogues 2 and 4 involve a mini-arc with Vincent and Victor. You fight Vincent in 2, and Victor seeks to avenge his death in 4. Except Paralogues can be completed in any order, meaning it's possible to do the latter first. In a case of Developer's Foresight, the dialogue changes in accordance with the order they are completed.
Script Breaking / int_e9e265b6	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_e9e265b6	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem Awakening (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_e9e265b6
Script Breaking / int_ecd2d797	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_ecd2d797	comment	In Baldur's Gate a character called Biff the Understudy will appear to deliver the lines of characters that have been killed prematurely. Not happening anymore in the sequel. Players quick with area-of-effect spells can kill two minor characters who set off an otherwise mandatory sidequest involving the main character being poisoned and needing a special antidote, preventing the quest from ever activating. Skipping the sidequest has no ill effect, and taking the pair out right away means that some good loot can be snagged a bit early.
Script Breaking / int_ecd2d797	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_ecd2d797	featureConfidence	1.0
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Script Breaking / int_f186f924	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_f186f924	comment	Horizon Zero Dawn: There's some Old Ones armour that is arguably the best armour in the game, and the quest to unlock it is one of the first you'll receive after you leaving the starting area. However the game doesn't expect you to find the final keys to the puzzle till very nearly the final dungeon. It is possible by abusing the game's geometry and a few invisible walls to leap over the fortress guarding Carja territory and by abusing a few more to get into all the dungeons where the power cells are. Interestingly enough, because the game doesn't think you should be able to get into them yet, no enemies spawn within, allowing you to just pick up the cells and warp back.
Script Breaking / int_f186f924	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_f186f924	featureConfidence	1.0
Horizon Zero Dawn (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_f186f924
Script Breaking / int_f28342	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_f28342	comment	In Ecstatica II, you were supposed to open the doors to the main hall by striking them with the rod retrieved from the top of the prison tower. However, it was possible to jump from the terrace above onto one of the balconies of the main hall and get in that way. However, you weren't able to get the doors open from the inside, and there were no other exits.
Script Breaking / int_f28342	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_f28342	featureConfidence	1.0
Ecstatica II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_f28342
Script Breaking / int_f9b9dfe4	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_f9b9dfe4	comment	Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn has a visual example. The main villain of Part 2 takes Lucia hostage at one point and cuts off her hair to send to Elincia as proof that he has her. As such, she has two different models in her starting class, Swordmaster, one with long hair and one with short hair, but only a short-haired model for her third-tier class, Trueblade. The international releases, however, added in the ability to promote by reaching Level 21 (the Japanese version only allowed units to promote using items that don't start appearing until Part 3), and if you're playing on Easy and allow Lucia to solo the one chapter in Part 2 that she's available for, it's just barely possible to promote her in Part 2, while her hair should still be long.
Script Breaking / int_f9b9dfe4	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_f9b9dfe4	featureConfidence	1.0
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_f9b9dfe4
Script Breaking / int_fa5e90fd	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_fa5e90fd	comment	Players using the Mission Architect system in City of Heroes can learn first-hand what the developers have to go through to make sure that missions work properly, especially when trying to get fancy with chained objectives. If the script is not planned out well and tested it could end up making a mission near, if not actually, impossible to complete. The author needs to learn to think of everything that their players might do.
Script Breaking / int_fa5e90fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_fa5e90fd	featureConfidence	1.0
City of Heroes (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_fa5e90fd
Script Breaking / int_fd350996	type	Script Breaking
Script Breaking / int_fd350996	comment	Ultima VII Part II is full of even more of them. You can get around multiple event triggers with the Serpent Bond spell (which turns you into a snake), which allows you to bring your party members into a dream world, as well as loot some cool treasure you're not supposed to have. You can also make two temporary party members become permanent additions by circumventing the trigger that would kill them off. During one virtue challenge, you have to walk a narrow path coated with acid, which causes constant damage. In order to survive, you're supposed to recruit Petra the Automaton and switch bodies with her, which makes you immune to the acid. After completing this, Petra leaves. However, you can do the challenge just fine as is, as long as you have a steady supply of healing. (Even a bunch of bandages will do fine.) If you then recruit Petra after doing the challenge, she'll never get to leave.
Script Breaking / int_fd350996	featureApplicability	1.0
Script Breaking / int_fd350996	featureConfidence	1.0
Ultima VII Part II (Video Game)	hasFeature	Script Breaking / int_fd350996

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