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Jade Empire (Video Game)
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Jade Empire is an Action RPG computer game developed by BioWare for the Xbox in 2005 and subsequently ported to the PC and, much later, to Macs and iOS mobile devices. It is set in a fantasy world based on Imperial China in which all (local) myths are true: ghosts, demons and ogres litter the landscape, magic is fueled by chi, and a Celestial Bureaucracy keeps the world in harmony. And there are flying machines that shoot fireballs.The story begins in the little town of Two Rivers, with you as the senior student in a martial-arts school run by the mysterious Master Li, a stern old man who is much more skilled than might be expected for a small-town teacher. Life is peaceful, though your friend Dawn Star is troubled by visions of angry restless spirits. Then the town is attacked by the Lotus Assassins, a sect of fighters who do The Emperor's dirty work. Li tells you he had prepared you for this day because you are the last of the Spirit Monks, warriors of the destroyed temple city of Dirge, guardians of the Water Dragon (a goddess of both life and death) and shepherds of the dead. Your training means you are The Only One who can restore the Water Dragon, who has been brought down by the Empire's rulers, and put the dead to rest. The story follows with twists and turns as you travel to various towns of the Empire, uncover the mystery of what happened twenty years ago, help the people you meet in their troubles, make new allies and learn new fighting methods.Jade Empire was BioWare's first original IP, as well as one of the few occidental RPGs in the Wuxia genre. It shares features with their earlier Knights of the Old Republic, including a Karma Meter, but has a simpler gear system and real time combat with a variety of techniques. The Karma Meter tries to step away from "good/evil" in favor of a philosophy of "Open Palm" and "Closed Fist" paths, an idea which they would take further with Mass Effect. | |
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Far East | |
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Far East: Avoided, mostly. The Jade Empire is well drawn and, aside from the deliberate fantasy setting, sticks fairly closely to Chinese culture and folklore, with the Land of Howling Spirits as a fantasy counterpart of Tibet. There are dashes of Japan thrown in; Silk Fox is essentially a ninja, and Death's Hand has a samurai style from his armor to the way he wields one large and one small sword. There's a few bits of Thai and Laotian architecture as well. | |
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The Man in Front of the Man | |
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The Man in Front of the Man: It is widely believed that Deaths Hand is corrupting The Emperor. Eventually it is revealed that the latter has bound the former's soul and was controlling him all along. | |
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Instant Expert | |
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Instant Expert: You can learn styles of martial arts in the space of about thirty seconds. Often by buying them from merchants. Occasionally there's a cut to black to illustrate teaching time, but it's not long at all. Admittedly, already knowing one style will probably make learning another one easy, but that’s still a little fast. However, given that this is the genre where Zhang Wuji learned Heaven and Earth Great Shift in six hours and Wudang style in five minutes, it’s not that implausible. And of course, you're only learning the basics; mastery comes when you start putting points into it. | |
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Unexpected Gameplay Change | |
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Unexpected Gameplay Change: The Marvelous Dragonfly missions emulate classic 2D flight combat games such as Galaga. | |
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Where It All Began | |
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Where It All Began: The player's Last Stand is held at the temple of Dirge, where all of the Spirit Monks were slaughtered twenty years ago. | |
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Tempting Fate | |
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Tempting Fate: During the final battle, the Big Bad traps you inside your mind and boasts that "Nothing in the mortal realm can help you! Nothing!" It turns out that Sagacious Zu is Not Too Dead to Save the Day. | |
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Slave Liberation | |
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Slave Liberation: Something you can do at several points, since slavery is a major plot element. In some cases this allow the player to demonstrate the good side of the Closed Fist philosophy, by allowing slaves to liberate themselves through violent means. | |
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Evil Versus Evil | |
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Evil Versus Evil: Late in Chapter 1, Gao's men follow him into the swamp, resulting in them fighting against and killing the bandits who'd taken refuge there. Sun Li vs. Sun Hai. Sun Hai wants to keep the throne no matter what, while Sun Li thinks he could do a better job. Judge Fang vs. the Lotus Assassins. The Lotus Inquisitor's quest requires you to keep Judge Fang from receiving a damning report on the Lotus Assassins. The Judge is a nasty piece of work who rapes and abuses prostitutes, but he's also a dogged opponent of the Lotus Assassins and, if he gets that report, could get in the way of their illegal operations with slavers and the Guild. | |
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Third-Person Seductress | |
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Third-Person Seductress: Downplayed. The female player characters are predictably attractive, and their costumes do little to hide their charms, but their slim figures don't stoop to the blatant exaggeration of some notoriously top-heavy heroines. Also has a Spear Counterpart in that two of the male PC models are constantly shirtless and quite buff. | |
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Unreliable Narrator | |
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Unreliable Narrator: Master Li is quite adept at telling just enough of the truth to present himself in a favorable light. For example, he narrates the events of the siege of their hometown, telling them that they were saved by another monk who carried them out of the monastery through a secret passage. He neglects to inform the Spirit Monk that he wasn't their savior, but instead the one who cut their protector down and took them away to raise them as his pawn. | |
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Only Six Faces | |
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Only Six Faces / You ALL Look Familiar: Just about every minor NPC has at least three or four identical twin siblings, which gets rather confusing when even quest givers and significant story NPCs (such as your Two Rivers classmates) will share the same faces. | |
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Multiple Endings | |
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Multiple Endings: Depending on your alignment, your romances, and certain story choices, you can get a few different endings for the story and your friends. | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man | |
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Single Woman Seeks Good Man: In one town, a woman named Ai Ling is the resident gang leader, but wishes to settle down with a normal life. | |
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Dead All Along | |
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Dead All Along: Several examples. Sun Hai, Death's Hand, Aishi's father and Master Radiant. Subverted with the last escaped spirit for the Necropolis, whose son paid Gravedigger Shen to bury him even though he wasn't dead yet. You can either actually kill the father, or help him and his son reconcile. | |
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Who Are You? | |
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Who Are You?: Asked verbatim by the Spirit Fox when the Spirit Monk shakes off petrification. | |
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership | |
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Asskicking Leads to Leadership: The second-most-important organizational principle of the Lotus Assassins is that the powerful lead, and murdering each other is a perfectly acceptable path of advancement. (Loyalty to Death's Hand and the emperor, however, is even more important than this.) | |
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Playing with Fire | |
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Dire Flame: Playing with Fire. | |
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Match Maker Quest | |
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Match Maker Quest: In one side-quest, you have to find a husband for Ai Ling. | |
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Stripperiffic | |
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Stripperiffic: Both men and women tend towards this. Lampshaded and justified by a loading page comment: "Ornate, flowing and even revealing clothing are seen as a sign of confidence and respect." | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something | |
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Royals Who Actually Do Something: And how. Seeing as this is a setting based on feudal China, it's to be expected, after all, with every member of the royal family quite active. The Emperor defeated a god and seized its power, his brother hatches a gambit to strike him down with you as his main pawn, and his daughter lives a double life of being both the Imperial princess, and your companion Silk Fox. | |
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Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand | |
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Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: Basically what the game's two ethics systems, Open Palm and Closed Fist, boil down to. | |
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Ominous Floating Castle | |
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Ominous Floating Castle: The Imperial Palace floats high in the air and is the place where you are murdered by Master Li right after you've vanquished Emperor Sun Hai, where the Water Dragon's mutilated body has been preserved to provide the Empire with water, and where you face Master Li one last time. In the Closed Fist ending, you assume the palace as the seat of your domain. | |
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Black Comedy | |
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Black Comedy: Every story that comes out of Black Whirlwind's mouth usually involves him getting drunk and killing something he shouldn't. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: Several characters note upon watching the player character fight that they think they saw a flaw in the player character's fighting style. At the very least, they identify an oddity in the character's personal technique. Fast forward to the defeat of the Emperor, a reunion with Master Li, and the master killing his student in one blow by exploiting the flaw exactly as he'd planned to do all along. Several characters even comment how the supposed flaw works as a highly cunning trap, in that a skilled opponent will attempt to search for an opening and become distracted from the actual battle. They then usually compliment you or your master. | |
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Aborted Arc | |
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Aborted Arc: The first Lotus Assassin the player encounters has the ability to summon ghosts. While the ghost theme is eventually revealed as a major part of the plot and setting, and some people have the power to control spirits, the idea that it's possible for the living to summon them was never explained or followed up on. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Said by the PC to a real bastard as the Open Palm conclusion of a sad questline. | |
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Power Crutch | |
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Power Crutch: The Dragon Amulet isn't strictly necessary for the Spirit Monk to use their powers, but it does make doing so a lot easier. Sun Li eventually steals the item and puts it to much better use than the Monk ever did. | |
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GunsAreUseless | |
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Guns Are Useless: Subverted. Oddly enough, in a game about flashy martial arts, traditional Chinese weapons, and magic, the European-style musket is a borderline Game-Breaker when fully upgraded. | |
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Unwanted Assistance | |
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Unwanted Assistance: In-Universe, there's a mild example of this regarding female attendants of Princess Lian a.k.a. Silk Fox. When you first meet her in her true role as the princess, you can repeatedly say rude and blunt things to her. Every time you pick that option, one of her attendants scolds you for your impropriety or even faints on the spot on Princess Lian's behalf. Princess Lian gets embarrassed at her attendants, since she feels their reaction is disproportionate to the actual scale of your offense. | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: While the vast majority of the game’s visual influence is Chinese, thus mostly averting the Far East trope, the developers weren’t so picky about which time period they copied things from. You get most NPCs walking around in Tang, Song or Ming dynasty-style clothes, but then there’s Dawn Star’s qipao and Qui the Promoter’s very Qing-influenced patterns, as well as guards in Han dynasty armor. There’s also a lot of gargoyle-like faces, from Shang and Zhou dynasty bronzes, in architecture and armor. | |
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Karma Meter | |
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Karma Meter: Represented by The Way of the Open Palm and The Way of the Closed Fist instead of good and evil. The game initially presents these as equally valid depending on the implementation and essentially standing in for Lawful and Chaotic. The NPC who initially explains it points out how Open Palm can make you a Knight Templar (the Big Bad is implied to be Open Palm) and how Closed Fist depends largely on the judgement of the practitioner as to when intervention is necessary (it's the difference between being a Social Darwinist and just not stealing other people's challenges). The actual practice still labels Open Palm as good and Closed Fist as evil, regardless of whether this action would make sense. Rather controversially, a choice made at the end of the game will reverse your karma meter entirely, which doesn't really make a lot of sense if both sides are supposed to have validity instead of black and white morality. Your philosophy is shown on your status screen, similar to KOTOR, and reaching higher levels will display a symbol of your philosophy over your head when you are stationary long enough. Sufficiently CF players will also have their shadow exhibit creepy wriggling tentacles. It's subtle enough to be very unnerving when you notice it. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: The events of Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 each happen in the course of a single day, as does the infiltration of the Lotus Assassins in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 takes place in a single day, the events of Chapters 5 and 6 seem to take place over the course of less than 24 hours, and Chapter 7 also takes place in a single day. | |
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Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_28c502f6 | comment |
Tactical Rock–Paper–Scissors: Fast attacks, power attacks and blocking. Fast attacks typically interrupt power attacks, power attacks break shields, and blocking protects against fast attacks. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_28c502f6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_28c502f6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_28c502f6 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_294ed981 | type |
Bilingual Bonus | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_294ed981 | comment |
Bilingual Bonus: Turtle eggs were said to be an insulting gift in the game. In Chinese, "turtle eggs" (王八蛋) is an insult akin to "son of a bitch". | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_294ed981 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_294ed981 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_294ed981 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_29e6dc40 | type |
HypocriticalHumour | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_29e6dc40 | comment |
You can criticize Gravedigger Shen for doing the same from corpses, although that doesn’t stop you from buying from him. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_29e6dc40 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_29e6dc40 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_29e6dc40 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | type |
Adam Smith Hates Your Guts | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | comment |
There is a supernatural being dedicated to making sure the things you need are available. He ends up just selling them to you directly to save time. Because he was demoted to this position thanks to all the paperwork your recent adventures have caused him, he holds a grudge and only sells things to you at a huge markup. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_29f44d3a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2a019fef | type |
Gay Option | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2a019fef | comment |
Gay Option: One male and one female NPC can be romanced by a PC of either gender. However, if you pursue a same-sex romance, the camera cuts away before they kiss, unless you install this Game Mod in the PC version. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2a019fef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2a019fef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2a019fef | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae | type |
Awesome, but Impractical | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae | comment |
Awesome, but Impractical: Drunken Master fighting style. It starts off twice as strong as the other fighting styles at their base level....but unlike them, Drunken Master can't be leveled up, leaving the player with little use for it later in the game. Plus, it can only be used while Henpecked Hou is the follower—and Hou is strictly a Support Party Member and won't directly participate in fights. So if a player wants to use Drunken Master, they'll be more or less fighting solo. You're better off just sticking with the other styles. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515 | type |
Ax-Crazy | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515 | comment |
Ax-Crazy: Fading Moon. Given her talk of her visions, it's possible she's mentally ill. Black Whirlwind. While he isn't a constant threat to the player character, talking to him about his past adventures reveals just how crazy he actually is. Exploits include resolving a dispute over who got possession of a woman by chopping her in half so each party could claim her, and solving a rat infestation by getting all the rats drunk. Bonus points to the second one because it ultimately resulted in the building the rats were infesting burning down. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2dc0d2bf | type |
Hidden Depths | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2dc0d2bf | comment |
Hidden Depths: Miao initially seems like an Ax-Crazy Undead Child ghost who wants revenge on orphanage master Kindly Yushan for abandoning her to die, but according to Yushan, she was once the most mature of his charges and acted as his de facto assistant while she was alive, making her death and descent into insanity all the more tragic. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2dc0d2bf | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2dc0d2bf | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2dc0d2bf | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2e8441c9 | type |
The Bad Guy Wins | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2e8441c9 | comment |
The Bad Guy Wins: One outcome, if the player chooses to taint the Water Dragon's body with the blood of your followers. You are the bad guy who wins. There is another outcome where the player can choose to let Sun Li wins, killing you and making you a martyr to inspire Jade Empire, which only serves to help Sun Li rule over the empire with an iron fist using you as a tool posthumously. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2e8441c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2e8441c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2e8441c9 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2ed5e99d | type |
Depraved Bisexual | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2ed5e99d | comment |
Depraved Bisexual: Judge Fang, although many characters remark that would be an insult to depraved bisexuals everywhere. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2ed5e99d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2ed5e99d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_2ed5e99d | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_30f16d3f | type |
The Punishment | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_30f16d3f | comment |
The Punishment: Ji Xin was so evil, the spirits refused to allow him to pass on to the Great Wheel and instead trapped him in his "perfect" living form. Of course, he used this mummified body to kill grave robbers and anyone else he met. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_30f16d3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_30f16d3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_30f16d3f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3126c34a | type |
Insufferable Genius | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3126c34a | comment |
Insufferable Genius: Yaoru, although he is the only one who would call him a genius. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3126c34a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3126c34a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3126c34a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_319e4a2f | type |
Even Evil Has Standards | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_319e4a2f | comment |
Even Evil Has Standards: As depraved as Judge Fang is, he knows that the Lotus Assassins are worse and attempts to bring them down. Black Whirlwind also objects to mistreating children, particularly sending them into danger to pay back a debt. It's debatable as to whether Black Whirlwind is truly evil or just a Sociopathic Hero. While he admits to having done many bad things in his life, one gets the feeling they occurred due to ruthless pragmatism seasoned by a dash of Dumbass Has a Point. It's hinted that not every member of the Guild approves the way Gao the Greater and Kai Lan the Serpent get them mingled with the Lotus Assassins. While they don't agree with the way Kai Lan operates in the Imperial Arena without trying to keep his membership to the Guild a secret, it's more of a case of Pragmatic Villainy. However, when Kai Lan tries to have the player assassinated during a match, one Guild member asks Qui the Promoter to apologize to the player on the Guild's behalf. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_319e4a2f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_319e4a2f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_319e4a2f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_32768814 | type |
Kick the Son of a Bitch | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_32768814 | comment |
Kick The Son Of A Bitch: In order to impress the Lotus Assassin Inquisitor recruiter, you must eliminate one of their enemies. The "Open Palm" way to do it is to force Judge Fang, the Depraved Bisexual above, to resign. The trope partially applies if you impress the recruiter the "Closed Fist" way, as well: if you go that route, you have to make Minister Sheng look incompetent in front of an important visitor, but Sheng was intentionally designed to be an extremely annoying character, so whether or not you feel sorry for Sheng may vary. For that matter, he is pretty incompetent; you're not doing much more than exposing the truth with him, either. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_32768814 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_32768814 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_32768814 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_334b7f3a | type |
Cryptic Background Reference | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_334b7f3a | comment |
Cryptic Background Reference: Almost all of the scrolls with background information become relevant at some point in the game, except for one rather disturbing one in Tien's Landing that instead discusses what lies over the ocean to the west. This includes an endless tornado and something that sounds very much like either the effects of nuclear fallout or a volcanic caldera. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_334b7f3a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_334b7f3a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_334b7f3a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96 | type |
Kick the Dog | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96 | comment |
Kick the Dog: Literally, for Closed Fist practitioners; the lapdogs in the Imperial City provide powerups. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_34dcfc96 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3517000d | type |
Mad Scientist | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3517000d | comment |
Mad Scientist: The aptly-named Kang the Mad. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3517000d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3517000d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3517000d | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_38291355 | type |
Does Not Know His Own Strength | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_38291355 | comment |
Does Not Know His Own Strength: Zhong goes to hide in a tea shop after accidentally killing his master's ox, while playing catch with it. That is, he was throwing the ox up and catching her...and missed. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_38291355 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_38291355 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_38291355 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6 | type |
Boring, but Practical | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6 | comment |
Boring, but Practical: White Demon style, which you can take at the start, is this. No flashy moves or complex combos, not very fast or much range, just simple, powerful kicks and backhand strikes that will kill things stone dead. Similarly, Iron Palm, which is more or less White Demon but slightly faster and less damaging blow-for-blow. And same for Toad Demon style, the first shapeshifting form you learn (without the Special Edition Stone Rhino form); you simply become a monstrous toad armed with claws, tongue and your own considerable mass; now go to town. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_39b8d3d6 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3a1c2171 | type |
The Man Behind the Man | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3a1c2171 | comment |
The Man Behind the Man: Played with a fair bit. For the first few chapters, it seems Death's Hand and the Lotus Assassins are the true power behind the throne, using Death's Hand's favour with the Emperor to follow their own goals. Then you discover that the Emperor is aware of everything they've done... Naturally, you go and defeat him. At which point your Master, the Emperor's brother, kills you and takes the throne for himself. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3a1c2171 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3a1c2171 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3a1c2171 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3babae20 | type |
Degraded Boss | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3babae20 | comment |
Degraded Boss: The Lotus Assassins. In the first chapter, Master Li himself has to come out and stop the one assassin who's been standing back and letting his flunkies attack you, saying you would be no match for a Lotus Assassin yet. Chapter 2, you fight, but they're each at the center of their boss fights. By the end of Chapter 3, though, you've improved to the level where they're just another flavor of Mooks. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3babae20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3babae20 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3babae20 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666 | type |
Noodle Incident | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666 | comment |
Noodle Incident: Half of the Black Whirlwind's dialogue is about ways he got drunk, killed people, and killed people while drunk. Also, Kang has apparently run into Siege Golems before the attack on Dirge, and claims they can throw an ox “pretty damned far�. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3c0a4666 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3cb6468e | type |
Bad Liar | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3cb6468e | comment |
Bad Liar: Scholar Kongyu, aka Creative Yukong. He makes up fancy-sounding disciplines for his studies, but when pressed for details, simply repeats the name. Pressing him enough or having Sky talk with him forces him to confess. In fact, he points out that he couldn't possibly have managed to con Lady Rento. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3cb6468e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3cb6468e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3cb6468e | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3d19dd09 | type |
Punk Punk | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3d19dd09 | comment |
Punk Punk: Jade Empire ticks off a lot of the requirements for a Punk Punk story. Technology is ubiquitous? Mm-hmm. "The actual form of government varies, but it is usually somewhat sinister and oppressive"? Turns out so. "Can make people stronger, faster, more perceptive, etc"? Yes. "Can create Artificial Humans, Clockwork Creatures, or Ridiculously Human Robots" and "is developed with little regard for harmful consequences to society or nature"? Hells yeah. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3d19dd09 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3d19dd09 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3d19dd09 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3f0b2f50 | type |
Make It Look Like an Accident | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3f0b2f50 | comment |
Make It Look Like an Accident: In the Lotus Assassin's base, you can take out two of them this way. Also invoked by Kang, who encourages you to make Gao the Greater's death look like an accident and suggests that he "fall down a flight of punches." | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3f0b2f50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3f0b2f50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3f0b2f50 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3fe2b13f | type |
Ungrateful Bastard | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3fe2b13f | comment |
Ungrateful Bastard: Turnkey Shiji tried to save his prisoners from drowning in the flood of Old Tien's Landing. Unfortunately, the first guy he unlocked was a murderous sociopath who responded to his mercy by killing him. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3fe2b13f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3fe2b13f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_3fe2b13f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_40c57041 | type |
Manipulative Bastard | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_40c57041 | comment |
Manipulative Bastard: Sun Li The Glorious Strategist really lives up to his name, using his protege as a pawn to kill his brother. Even Gao the Lesser, an arrogant jerkass, ends up becoming an Unwitting Pawn to Sun Li, since Sun Li uses him to leak his identity. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_40c57041 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_40c57041 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_40c57041 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_40e2ac3f | type |
Flunky Boss | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_40e2ac3f | comment |
Flunky Boss: Deliciously parodied in a segment late in the game in which The Black Whirlwind is put up against a Jade Golem and an endless wave of soldiers. The player could theoretically kill them all day, while the game parodies Quake with an announcer narrating the kills. After you kill one hundred mooks, the narrator breaks the fourth wall and yells "Just kill the damn golem already!" | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_40e2ac3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_40e2ac3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_40e2ac3f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4108bb3e | type |
Doomed Hometown | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4108bb3e | comment |
Doomed Hometown: The hero actually has two of these. Two Rivers in the prologue and the Spirit Monks' monastery in the backstory. Master Li is actually responsible for both: he orchestrated the destruction of Two Rivers to motivate the Monk into taking down the Emperor for him, and carried out the siege of the Spirit Monks' monastery at the behest of his brother, the Emperor. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4108bb3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4108bb3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4108bb3e | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_42846e90 | type |
Elemental Powers | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_42846e90 | comment |
Elemental Powers: The various Magic styles take this form. Dire Flame: Playing with Fire. Ice Shard: An Ice Person. Stone Immortal: Dishing Out Dirt. Tempest: Blow You Away. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_42846e90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_42846e90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_42846e90 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_42c8293a | type |
Sibling Team | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_42c8293a | comment |
One pair of ghosts you have to deal with in the Necropolis is a criminal Sibling Team of brothers who appear to get along well. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_42c8293a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_42c8293a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_42c8293a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_43844bd7 | type |
You Fight Like a Cow | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_43844bd7 | comment |
You Fight Like A Drunk Cow: The Spirit Monk can give a lot of witty answers like this when unimpressed with other people's combat prowess. Hilariously, Black Whirlwind takes offense to being told he "fights like a drunk cow" and then elaborates on one Noodle Incident where he actually fought a herd of drunken cows who broke into a distillery. Apparently their milk tasted like crap for a whole week after it too. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_43844bd7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_43844bd7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_43844bd7 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_442a6995 | type |
Stupid Sacrifice | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_442a6995 | comment |
Stupid Sacrifice: The player is given this choice towards the end. Sun Li offers to kill the player without conflict to allow his perfect world to exist. Why you would do this after Sun Li has literally slaughtered your entire village, allowed a second one to die, killed you, screwed over his daughter, and shown absolutely no concern for creating any kind of good world (as the actual ending shows). If you're Open Palm, letting him live goes against everything you accomplished up to that point. If you're Closed Fist, then you don't care about the fate of the world anyway! The only reason to go through with this is for the posthumous fame Li promises (and fulfils, should you accept). Fortunately, you don't have to do this at all, and if you're aggressive enough, you don't even get the option. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_442a6995 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_442a6995 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_442a6995 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_447d9e50 | type |
Xanatos Speed Chess | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_447d9e50 | comment |
Xanatos Speed Chess: A subtle one. Sun Li is shocked you left the cave so soon. He had intended you to be safe in the cave, walled in, while the town was destroyed. You were supposed to come out of the cave to find everything destroyed, and Li himself would have probably either run and hid before they came and told you want happened, or, more likely, allowed himself to be captured so the Spirit Monk would be motivated to rescue him. That plan was ruined, and Sun Li quickly came up with an alternate plan that got you to the Imperial City. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_447d9e50 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_447d9e50 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_447d9e50 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_44a1dd10 | type |
King Incognito | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_44a1dd10 | comment |
King Incognito: Silk Fox is Princess Sun Lian. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_44a1dd10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_44a1dd10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_44a1dd10 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_45007296 | type |
Metaphorgotten | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_45007296 | comment |
Metaphorgotten: When the player character asks Kang the Mad how he is able to pilot the Marvelous Dragonfly remotely. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_45007296 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_45007296 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_45007296 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d | type |
Worthy Opponent | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d | comment |
Worthy Opponent: Crimson Khana considers you one if you warn her about the poison. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4604fd4d | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4713429e | type |
Pamphlet Shelf | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4713429e | comment |
Pamphlet Shelf: All books, scroll stands, and similar text items only have a few paragraphs worth of text at most. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4713429e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4713429e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4713429e | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4781adbb | type |
Jerk with a Heart of Gold | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4781adbb | comment |
Dawn Star is a highly compassionate woman of common birth, who is later revealed to secretly be a princess. Sun Lian is sharp-tongued but good-hearted, even if she insists that the player character not get distracted on minor problems. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4781adbb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4781adbb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4781adbb | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4832a3bb | type |
Always Chaotic Evil | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4832a3bb | comment |
Always Chaotic Evil: Averted with regard to ghosts, demons, and ogres. Some ghosts, mostly those of evil bent, are malign, and some have been driven insane by the screwed-up state of the afterlife, but others are benevolent and genuinely trying to make up for past mistakes. Demons are almost as likely to be benign as malign, and your party contains both. And while the player fights a tribe of savage ogres early in the game, the very next area features an ogre farmhand drinking sadly because he accidentally killed a beloved ox during a game they played together. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4832a3bb | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4832a3bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4832a3bb | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4a6e9fd9 | type |
Obnoxious In-Laws | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4a6e9fd9 | comment |
Obnoxious In-Laws: Gravedigger Shen despises his mother-in-law and takes a moment to gloat after the player defeats her ghost. That said, considering Shen's personality, it's possible that she disliked him for being a terrible person, not because she was a jerk herself. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4a6e9fd9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4a6e9fd9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4a6e9fd9 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4aa98555 | type |
Evil All Along | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4aa98555 | comment |
The Innkeeper never ate Henpecked Hou, because he wanted the cook to seem normal to the customers. He will also help you and keep his promise about silver if you kill the Forest Shadow. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4aa98555 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4aa98555 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4aa98555 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4ac8b81f | type |
Humans Are the Real Monsters | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4ac8b81f | comment |
Humans Are the Real Monsters: How the universe and the Water Dragon view us humans. The Spirit Monk can either redeem the human race — or prove the detractors correct. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4ac8b81f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4ac8b81f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4ac8b81f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4b220918 | type |
Godhood Seeker | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4b220918 | comment |
Orthogonal to the Open Palm/Closed Fist debate is the question of whether humans should accept Heaven's authority over the world (Harmony) or seize control of it for themselves (Discipline). The heavens had decreed that the Jade Empire needed to face the Long Drought and the Sun Dynasty had to fall, and Sun Hai seized Dirge and wounded the Water Dragon to avert that fate, but in so doing left the Empire at the mercy of mad ghosts who can no longer reach the afterlife, as well as depriving other lands of water. Sun Li, meanwhile, believes he can use the Water Dragon's power better himself if he absorbs her and becomes a god, sending the dead on to the afterlife and keeping the Empire eternally prosperous under his authority. In this case, the game comes down on the side of Harmony, and refusing to uphold Heaven's authority is portrayed as evil whether you're Open Palm or Closed Fist. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4b220918 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4b220918 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4b220918 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4c24a9ed | type |
Power Copying | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4c24a9ed | comment |
Power Copying: Win against a guy who uses Tempest, you get Tempest; beat up a guy who uses twin axes, you get his axes as well as his axe style; defeat up a Jade Golem, you get to become a Jade Golem... In most cases, you actually buy the abilities from unrelated characters. However, all of the transformation styles play this straight, and you do learn a large number of styles as rewards from teachers after an honest fight. Played straight if you download the "Jade Empire in Style" mod, which among many, many other changes and additions, changes how you obtain most of the fighting styles to having to defeat the enemies who practice those styles. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4c24a9ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4c24a9ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4c24a9ed | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4cf04991 | type |
SocialDarwinist | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4cf04991 | comment |
Social Darwinist: The Closed Fist philosophy in a nutshell. However most of the options amount to being a Jerkass. There are sometimes situations in which you can do a Jerkass move or a more Social Darwinist one. In the bandit base, you can free a slave (Open Palm), enslave her (evil Closed Fist) or tell her to fight for her freedom (good Closed Fist). (Curiously, the latter gets you part of the special Open Palm fighting technique, rather than part of the Closed Fist fighting technique.) | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4cf04991 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4cf04991 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4cf04991 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536 | type |
Wham Line | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536 | comment |
Wham Line: Sagacious Zu actually gets one of the best Wham Lines that a lot of players never experience, due to how complex getting it actually is. If you talk to Zu constantly and demonstrate to him repeatedly that you value his opinion and trust his judgement prior to him leaving the party during the Lotus Assassin Fortress quest, close to the end of that quest he will tell the player that, in addition to being a former Lotus Assassin, he was actually one of the Assassins sent to kill Master Li's family after Li betrayed the Emperor at Dirge. Almost before players can recover from this devastating revelation, he drops the following bombshell on the player: And also: At the end of Aishi the Mournful Blade's quest. For context, Aishi had previously said that her father was dead, so if the Old Man is actually her father, he's actually a ghost. This comes up if you complete the Lord Lao sidequest and complete the flyer mission meant to free him: | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4f7b3c63 | type |
Three-Strike Combo | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4f7b3c63 | comment |
Three-Strike Combo: Most styles have a Three Strike Combo of quick attacks. Exceptions include Magic styles and the longsword, which have four strike basic combos. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4f7b3c63 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4f7b3c63 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4f7b3c63 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4f8037fd | type |
Mook–Face Turn | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4f8037fd | comment |
Mook–Face Turn: Subverted after the dam. You can ask the sergeant if he's OK with what the assassins are doing, and he says that people's lives don't matter compared to the will of the Emperor. Played straight in a few other occasions, such as one mercenary who surrenders, and a soldier who was press-ganged into the army to replace one whom a Lotus Assassin killed. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4f8037fd | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4f8037fd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4f8037fd | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4fff0dfe | type |
Sarcasm-Blind | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4fff0dfe | comment |
Sarcasm-Blind: When Sky demands pirates to step back and allow him to kill Gao the Greater in his introduction scene, one of them gives a sarcastic answer which another one fails to get. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4fff0dfe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4fff0dfe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_4fff0dfe | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_504e271f | type |
But Thou Must! | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_504e271f | comment |
But Thou Must!: You can't side with Kai Lan the Serpent in the arena. Before you can make a decision, Black Whirlwind bursts in and asks you to come with him so that he can tell you the truth about Kai Lan. Lucky Cho follows you down there, and you proceed to kill him, and Kai Lan decides there's nothing for it but to have you killed. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_504e271f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_504e271f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_504e271f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_514491f | type |
Job-Stealing Robot | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_514491f | comment |
Job-Stealing Robot: Many Lotus Assassins are afraid that the rise of the golem army will result in fewer opportunities to serve, and take out their frustrations on the Spirit Monk for stealing their glory. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_514491f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_514491f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_514491f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_517f8d71 | type |
Delusions of Eloquence | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_517f8d71 | comment |
Delusions of Eloquence: Promoter Qui has a bad habit of making up fancy words in order to seem smart. The player can call him out on it, but he brushes it off. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_517f8d71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_517f8d71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_517f8d71 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_52db461d | type |
Significant Anagram | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_52db461d | comment |
Significant Anagram: Scholar Kongyu is Creative Yukong. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_52db461d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_52db461d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_52db461d | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_537dd8fe | type |
Affably Evil | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_537dd8fe | comment |
Affably Evil: Sun Li. Even after being unmasked, he's reasonably polite to you. For a certain value of "evil," Fifth Brother of the Black Leopard School. He's loyal to the evil Smiling Hawk, but he's pleasant to you and believes that the school will be better off with a single master in charge. Sweet Poison Lyn is a Master Poisoner for the Guild, but she's rather polite to the Spirit Monk, agrees to a truce once Kai Lan is dealt with, and even confesses a certain interest in the Spirit Monk's rise to the championship. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_537dd8fe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_537dd8fe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_537dd8fe | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_53c7c51b | type |
And Call Him "George" | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_53c7c51b | comment |
And Call Him "George": An ogre named Zhong in the Tien's Landing teahouse did one of these with an ox. Specifically, he used to play a game with the ox where he threw her up in the air and caught her (she apparently liked it a lot). But one time he missed, and she landed on her head. He's quite upset about it. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_53c7c51b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_53c7c51b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_53c7c51b | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_53f5119f | type |
The Dragon | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_53f5119f | comment |
The Dragon: Death's Hand. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_53f5119f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_53f5119f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_53f5119f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_54d5074 | type |
Speaking Simlish | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_54d5074 | comment |
Speaking Simlish: The Old Tongue of Tho Fan, while making use of a Conlang created by an actual linguist, is a handful of recorded lines used in various situations based on tone and the age and sex of the speaker, similar to the alien languages spoken in the Old Republic games. The creators have it that most of the constructed sentences are jokes about cows. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_54d5074 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_54d5074 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_54d5074 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5527dc0c | type |
Plot Coupon | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5527dc0c | comment |
Master Li's original plan was to direct the Spirit Monk to start their journey by visiting Tien's Landing and collecting the Plot Coupon there. They don't find out about this until their flyer crashes there by sheer chance and they're astonished to find he has an agent waiting to greet them. The agent is as confused by this as they are, but points out they would have had to go there eventually anyway. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5527dc0c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5527dc0c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5527dc0c | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_55682078 | type |
King of All Cosmos | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_55682078 | comment |
King of All Cosmos: The Celestial Bureaucracy is sometimes depicted comically; in one case, a god assigned to calculate the karmic effects of your actions throughout the game berates you for making him fall behind on the rest of his work. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_55682078 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_55682078 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_55682078 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c | type |
Bragging Rights Reward | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c | comment |
Bragging Rights Reward: Defeating the Optional Boss in the Imperial Arena earns you the Superior Warrior Gem. There are barrels and crates that give randomly-generated treasure that give better gear. Additionally, beating all of the Arena without losing once (for most Arena fights, you don't die on a loss) earns you a Technique (minor stat increase). Not surprisingly, this is one of the hardest challenges in the game, barring Save Scumming. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_57dda60c | type |
The Emperor | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_57dda60c | comment |
The Emperor himself. He was an honorable and dutiful ruler within the Celestial order, only to have the cosmic order of the Universe try to unseat his dynasty with uncontrolled drought and famine through no fault of his own. So he decided to betray the Celestial Order as it had betrayed his dynasty and storm the equivalent of the Underworld. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_57dda60c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_57dda60c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_57dda60c | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_58d22032 | type |
Warrior vs. Sorcerer | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_58d22032 | comment |
Warrior vs. Sorcerer: The Imperial Arena arc can be concluded by having you taking control of the Black Whirlwind, a hulking mercenary who only uses two axes, to face off Kai Lan the Serpent, an evil Kung-Fu Wizard, in a duel to the death. It's even lampshaded as "might meets magic". | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_58d22032 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_58d22032 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_58d22032 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5a5de5ca | type |
Boss Rush | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5a5de5ca | comment |
Boss Rush: If you make it to the Gold Division of the Arena, you'll have to fight most previously-defeated opponents in the same fight. There is a ten-second pause before the entrance of each one, so beating them quickly enough will keep you from getting overwhelmed. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5a5de5ca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5a5de5ca | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5a5de5ca | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5b565147 | type |
Meaningful Background Event | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5b565147 | comment |
Meaningful Background Event: In the cutscene of Dirge's fall, pay attention to just before the Spirit Monk's guardian goes into the hidden passage, and you'll see Sun Hai uses the Water Dragon's power to throw Sun Li backwards while the guardian is in the foreground. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5b565147 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5b565147 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5b565147 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5ca80293 | type |
Pragmatic Villainy | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5ca80293 | comment |
Pragmatic Villainy: Death's Hand was once working for Sun Hai. Sun Li and an evil Spirit Monk don't kill him, they just convert him to their side separately. The Innkeeper never ate Henpecked Hou, because he wanted the cook to seem normal to the customers. He will also help you and keep his promise about silver if you kill the Forest Shadow. The majority of the Guild doesn't much like Kai Lan for his attempted power grab. After the Spirit Monk kills him, Sweet Poison Lyn tells you on the Guild's behalf that she hopes for a truce between you and them. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5ca80293 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5ca80293 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5ca80293 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5cdbd1f9 | type |
You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good! | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5cdbd1f9 | comment |
You Could Have Used Your Powers for Good!: You can tell this to the Big Bad. He responds by claiming that he would find that a waste of his talents. Also subverted, since his plan is to create his idea of a utopia. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5cdbd1f9 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5cdbd1f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5cdbd1f9 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f | type |
Save Scumming | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f | comment |
Playing it straight at the Arena, you get a bonus if you beat all the challenges without getting defeated even once. Save Scumming is useful to ensure this turn of events. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5d86966a | type |
Man on Fire | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5d86966a | comment |
Man on Fire: Talk to the Lotus Assassin sorcerer in the Lotus Assassin Fortress, and he will attempt a ritual to summon some spirits. The ritual fails and ends up turning two of his comrades into this. Shortly after Kang the Mad is introduced, he uses a fire bomb on some of Gao the Greater's men, setting one ablaze. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5d86966a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5d86966a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5d86966a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7 | type |
Kleptomaniac Hero | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7 | comment |
Kleptomaniac Hero: Averted for a short time in the first chapter, where an NPC actually asks you about his missing money. You can still commit wanton acts of vandalism against jars in the imperial city, however. You can criticize Gravedigger Shen for doing the same from corpses, although that doesn’t stop you from buying from him. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_5e7c0ab7 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_60547993 | type |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_60547993 | comment |
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: You can convince Ai Ling to pursue that route in one side quest. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_60547993 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_60547993 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_60547993 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6320eced | type |
Gameplay and Story Segregation | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6320eced | comment |
In theory, with the Open Palm philosophy as Harmony, remaining true to your place in nature, and the Closed Fist as Discipline, challenging the present order and achieving your own goals. Unfortunately, the game itself does a disservice to the trope by using Open Palm and Closed Fist as a generic good/evil Karma Meter. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6320eced | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6320eced | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6320eced | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_637ef67 | type |
New Game Plus | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_637ef67 | comment |
New Game Plus: The only way to access the Jade Master difficulty in the PC version. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_637ef67 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_637ef67 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_637ef67 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_63d861f8 | type |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_63d861f8 | comment |
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Gao the Greater is grief-stricken over his son's death, and wants to kill you in revenge. One pair of ghosts you have to deal with in the Necropolis is a criminal Sibling Team of brothers who appear to get along well. Averted with Sun Li and his daughter Dawn Star. If pressured he thinks about it hard, then decides that in the end the only reason he cared that she died was because his brother dared take something of his away from him, and her survival ultimately means nothing to him emotionally. Kia Jong is a slave trading merchant who deals with the Lotus Assassins, but he's fond of his niece Kia Min. If you prove you know her by correctly describing her, he'll give you a discount. | |
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-1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_63d861f8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_63d861f8 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: A popular theme, and even one of the Multiple Endings. In-story, one of the most poignant is Sagacious Zu. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6439de78 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_64c8eea8 | type |
Wolverine Claws | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_64c8eea8 | comment |
Wolverine Claws: Leaping Tiger style causes claws to grow from your hands in battle. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_64c8eea8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_64c8eea8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_64c8eea8 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_64f0c18c | type |
Critical Existence Failure | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_64f0c18c | comment |
Critical Existence Failure: Averted with the player character. When your health level drops low enough, you start moving notably slower and dragging your feet as an indication of the physical damage you've received. Played straight with non-player characters, though. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_64f0c18c | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_64f0c18c | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6552b710 | type |
The Syndicate | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6552b710 | comment |
It's hinted that not every member of the Guild approves the way Gao the Greater and Kai Lan the Serpent get them mingled with the Lotus Assassins. While they don't agree with the way Kai Lan operates in the Imperial Arena without trying to keep his membership to the Guild a secret, it's more of a case of Pragmatic Villainy. However, when Kai Lan tries to have the player assassinated during a match, one Guild member asks Qui the Promoter to apologize to the player on the Guild's behalf. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6552b710 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6602cad | type |
Permanently Missable Content | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6602cad | comment |
Permanently Missable Content: If the game suddenly removes various plot items from your inventory at the end of a chapter, then odds are that you've missed a sidequest. If you don't talk to Sagacious Zu as much as possible before he leaves your party for good in Chapter 3, then you'll miss out on learning the identity of Dawn Star's father. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6602cad | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_663b22d9 | type |
Dying as Yourself | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_663b22d9 | comment |
Dying as Yourself: One of the people that the cannibals are trying to corrupt into another cannibal asks for you to kill him before the transformation takes hold. You can grant his request. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_663b22d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_663b22d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_663b22d9 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_674e8192 | type |
Blind Obedience | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_674e8192 | comment |
Blind Obedience: The defining characteristic of the Lotus Assassins is that they are honed into fanatically-loyal servants of Death's Hand. While their organization's ruthless internal politics and respect for strength and power might suggest a Closed Fist mentality, several documents in their fortress make it clear that they actually adhere to no moral philosophy whatsoever. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_674e8192 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_67b0bd0e | type |
An Ice Person | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_67b0bd0e | comment |
Ice Shard: An Ice Person. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_67b0bd0e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_67b0bd0e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_67b0bd0e | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_685baef8 | type |
Decade Dissonance | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_685baef8 | comment |
Decade Dissonance: Some places, such as Two Rivers, are ancient Chinese straight out of Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Others are full of Magitek. Truth in Television. Imperial China was very advanced in certain areas (Ming shipbuilding and medicine come to mind), but the degree of penetration varied from place to place; doubly so when Europeans made contact. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_685baef8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_685baef8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_685baef8 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_688afa6a | type |
Evil Uncle | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_688afa6a | comment |
Evil Uncle: Sun Li and Sun Hai to Silk Fox and Dawn Star, respectively, although their own fathers weren't any better. Kia Min's uncle, Kia Jong, sells slaves and deals with the Lotus Assassins. Although he might give you a discount if you inform him that Kia Min is alive, if she's dead and you tell him he won't even flinch. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_688afa6a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_688afa6a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6ad328e9 | type |
An Economy Is You | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6ad328e9 | comment |
An Economy Is You: Subverted with Merchant Chiu, who tries to sell you all kinds of crap you don't need. There is a supernatural being dedicated to making sure the things you need are available. He ends up just selling them to you directly to save time. Because he was demoted to this position thanks to all the paperwork your recent adventures have caused him, he holds a grudge and only sells things to you at a huge markup. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6ad328e9 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6ad328e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6ad328e9 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6b05b601 | type |
Jerkass Has a Point | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6b05b601 | comment |
Jerkass Has a Point: Gravedigger Shen is an unpleasant and amoral person who sells the possessions of those buried in his ceremony and even willingly has an old man Buried Alive at his son's request, so he comes off as untrustworthy. However, he is telling the truth when he says he didn't kill Miss Chan's baby; he died around the time he was born. Gao the Lesser. Although the one point he turns out to be right about in no way excuses the things he does, it turns out that when Gao the Lesser endlessly complained that you were Master Li's favorite student and that Master Li focused more attention on you than he did on Gao or any other students...guess what? That's true! Since Master Li was counting on you someday killing Emperor Sun Hai, Master Li really did favor you over everyone else! It's heavily implied that the reason Master Li runs a school at all is because he wanted to ensure that his motives for training you seemed normal, and thus you would not grow suspicious. It also helped to conceal his location from the Lotus Assasssins for 20 years. A master of a school with many students might be prestigious but is certainly not strange. A master who runs a school with only one student is odd indeed. The Emperor himself. He was an honorable and dutiful ruler within the Celestial order, only to have the cosmic order of the Universe try to unseat his dynasty with uncontrolled drought and famine through no fault of his own. So he decided to betray the Celestial Order as it had betrayed his dynasty and storm the equivalent of the Underworld. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6b05b601 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6b510ace | type |
Hopeless War | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6b510ace | comment |
Hopeless War: The ghost crisis. Without the Water Dragon or Spirit Monks to ferry spirits to the reincarnation cycle, the ghosts of all who have died in the Empire remain trapped in the living world in semi-corporeal form. Being in such an unnatural state for long enough inevitably drives any spirit violently insane, leading to them attacking the living out of sheer jealousy. Anyone who dies shares the same fate, meaning that the ghostly hordes continually add to their number. As they are already dead, they cannot be destroyed, only temporarily dispersed in battle. By the time of the game, the Empire has suffered under the ghosts for twenty years and the problem is only growing worse with no relief in sight. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6b510ace | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6b510ace | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6b510ace | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: Many characters have names that are meaningful. For example, Dawn Star is named for a celestial event that happened at her birth, which turns out to be the burning of Dirge. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6be9e1a4 | type |
Cutscene Power to the Max | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6be9e1a4 | comment |
Cut Scene Power To The Max: Many of your followers get an establishing cutscene when you first meet them showing them very casually demolishing every enemy in their path. Once they actually join your party, however, they are amazingly incompetent, rarely able to take down even a single enemy on their own. (A common note among strategy guides is that most companions who have one are better in support mode, where they don't participate but give you some passive benefit, than in attack mode.) In higher difficulties, though, they're sometimes used as bait for the player to set up Harmonic Combos. In a strange twist on this trope, however, when said followers pass under your direct control for brief periods near the end game they become possibly even more deadly than in the cutscenes, causing the mooks they fight during The War Sequence to explode in showers of gore after only being hit once or twice and racking up kill counts in the dozens. Gao the Lesser, an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, manages to stun an ogre and kick him into a cave wall, causing him to be crushed under rocks. Gao does use fire for part of the fight, which ogres are vulnerable to, but when you actually fight him, Gao is stronger than a single ogre but otherwise is a fairly easy boss. Justified, as his fighting style is better for ogres, but he is not as good against the Spirit Monk. Likewise, Master Smiling Hawk, developer of the Hidden Fist technique manages to rapid-kick you through a wall with ease — one of only five people to ever canonically land a blow on the player character (the others being a ghost girl in Old Tien's Landing, the Fox Spirit, Death's Hand, and Master Li, most of which exploited the element of surprise). However, when fought in-game, he's only slightly stronger than Gao the Lesser was, and you fought him long ago and have no doubt upgraded since then. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6be9e1a4 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6e8a4791 | type |
Heroic Comedic Sociopath | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6e8a4791 | comment |
Heroic Comedic Sociopath: The Black Whirlwhind. He's constantly drunk and loves fighting and killing, but he's still portrayed as heroic (assuming you're Open Palm). Henpecked Hou offhandedly mentions that he killed the entire family of his wife's uncle in an attempt to poison his wife to death. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6e8a4791 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6e8a4791 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6e8a4791 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | type |
Guide Dang It! | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | comment |
Guide Dang It!: Getting The Reveal that Dawn Star is Sun Li's daughter. It isn't too much of a stretch that it involves talking to Sagacious Zu as often as possible, but the problem comes when Zu suddenly leaves the party for good after you get the Lotus Assassin recruiter's recommendation in Chapter 3. As such, it's hard to tell whether it's even possible to unlock this information, let alone what you ned to do it. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_70638525 | type |
Luke, You Are My Father | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_70638525 | comment |
Luke, You Are My Father: Played with. In some routes, you can find out that Dawn Star is in fact Master Li's supposedly-dead daughter. If you tell him this, he pauses, thinks about it, then casually decides that it doesn't matter and tries to kill you anyway, and her if you brought her with you. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_70638525 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_70638525 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_70638525 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_71bd62b9 | type |
Calling Your Attacks | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_71bd62b9 | comment |
Calling Your Attacks: Not usually in the spirit of the trope, but your character will call out the name of the technique you've just selected. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_71bd62b9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_71bd62b9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_71bd62b9 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_720e28a4 | type |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_720e28a4 | comment |
Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs: Henpecked Hou's wife didn't like his drinking, or his fighting, or his friends, or his friends' drinking and fighting. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_720e28a4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_720e28a4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_720e28a4 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_733e007a | type |
Unwitting Pawn | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_733e007a | comment |
Chapter 3. The Emperor is not an Unwitting Pawn of Death's Hand, but the mastermind behind the corruption in the Jade Empire. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_733e007a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_733e007a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_733e007a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7374ab13 | type |
Once More, with Clarity | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7374ab13 | comment |
Once More, with Clarity: All the events we see during the rendered cinematic of Master Li's story of the Battle of Dirge did actually happen, but Li's words warp the way we interpret them. When Abbot Song recounts the events, we see the same scenes, but with a truthful interpretation of them. Turns out the bearded monk who ran away with the baby wasn't Master Li, and the armored warrior with the red mask wasn't Death's Hand. Note also the twin swords that Death's Hand uses during the game, and who is carrying those weapons in the flashback. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7374ab13 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7374ab13 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7374ab13 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_747e6b7f | type |
Harmony Versus Discipline | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_747e6b7f | comment |
Harmony Versus Discipline: In theory, with the Open Palm philosophy as Harmony, remaining true to your place in nature, and the Closed Fist as Discipline, challenging the present order and achieving your own goals. Unfortunately, the game itself does a disservice to the trope by using Open Palm and Closed Fist as a generic good/evil Karma Meter. Orthogonal to the Open Palm/Closed Fist debate is the question of whether humans should accept Heaven's authority over the world (Harmony) or seize control of it for themselves (Discipline). The heavens had decreed that the Jade Empire needed to face the Long Drought and the Sun Dynasty had to fall, and Sun Hai seized Dirge and wounded the Water Dragon to avert that fate, but in so doing left the Empire at the mercy of mad ghosts who can no longer reach the afterlife, as well as depriving other lands of water. Sun Li, meanwhile, believes he can use the Water Dragon's power better himself if he absorbs her and becomes a god, sending the dead on to the afterlife and keeping the Empire eternally prosperous under his authority. In this case, the game comes down on the side of Harmony, and refusing to uphold Heaven's authority is portrayed as evil whether you're Open Palm or Closed Fist. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_747e6b7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_747e6b7f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_75470730 | type |
Collector of Forms | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_75470730 | comment |
Collector of Forms: In order to learn one of the transformational styles of combat, you must defeat a member of the race you're trying to transform into. For example, if you want the horse demon transformational style, you must first defeat a horse demon. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_75470730 | featureApplicability |
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1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_75470730 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_762b9223 | type |
Played for Laughs | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_762b9223 | comment |
Played for Laughs in the Inquisitor recruitment quest. One solution for the quest is to replace Sheng's honor gift to Fang with turtle eggs, which are not only a poor gift, but are especially bad due to how rare they are. After proposing the idea, Henpecked Hou mentions that he just so happens to have some, much to Silk Fox's astonishment. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_762b9223 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7885de85 | type |
MyDeathIsOnlyTheBeginning | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7885de85 | comment |
On top of this, the Water Dragon herself plays one. She uses Sun Li's entire gambit to ensure you'll be bringing her back from the dead. How she pulls this off is a combination of My Death Is Only The Beginning with you as the guy dying and an Unexplained Recovery with a little dash of Roaring Rampage of Revenge Of course, if you're evil, you can also screw them both over. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7885de85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7885de85 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_78ad42bd | type |
The War Sequence | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_78ad42bd | comment |
The War Sequence: The invasion of the army at the end of the game. Due to processing limitations, this still had to be handled in waves, but The Black Whirlwind's segment is literally an endless wave of them. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_78ad42bd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_78ad42bd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_78ad42bd | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7abd339f | type |
Black-and-White Morality | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7abd339f | comment |
Black-and-White Morality: In practice. In theory the two philosophies are meant to be a case of Harmony Versus Discipline, but the developers don't really do a good job showing that Closed Fist is not always bad and Open Palm is not always good. The Open Palm option always involves doing something good/helpful to others, while the Closed Fist option is usually the most dickish thing you could possibly do. It's quite telling that two of the Closed Fist options literally involve siding with demons. While killing an entire inn of them could be morally right Closed Fist in theory, you have to side with them to be Closed Fist. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7abd339f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273 | type |
Point of No Return | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273 | comment |
Point of No Return: Notable that, in a game with seven chapters, the point of no return occurs at the end of chapter three. Any quests you had will be canceled and it's a straight path to the end game as no side quests are given. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7bf14666 | type |
And Now for Someone Completely Different | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7bf14666 | comment |
When you're given control of Black Whirlwind, he's certainly no stranger of making a fine red mist out of his enemies, either. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7bf14666 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7c0bfb83 | type |
Obviously Evil | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7c0bfb83 | comment |
Obviously Evil: Gao the Lesser. He's an arrogant dick, constantly talks down to you and the other students, sexually harasses Dawn Star on multiple occasions, and doesn't feel the least bit sorry for when a group of his bodyguards get drunk and try to murder the PC, nor is he at all concerned about their resultant deaths. And yet, despite all this, Master Li doesn't even consider tossing him out of the academy on his ass until he cheats during your sparring match with him. Except that Sun Li likely kept Gao around to ensure he could engineer the destruction of Two Rivers, thus forcing the PC out of the only home they know and putting them on a path to fight and kill Sun Hai. The cannibals at the Pilgrim's Rest inn are rather creepy, and make thinly veiled demands for you to lure people in to help them with their hunger- in other words- people for them to eat. Master Smiling Hawk. He makes no secret of how he wants to take over Master Radiant's school, openly mentions the fact that the missing Second Brother is dead, and when asked about Second Brother's death, bluntly says, "I asked him to do something for me. He refused." In general, knowing who the good guy and the bad guy is in a given quest is insultingly simple. As a rule, if they sound like they're twirling a mustache while speaking to you, theirs is the way of the closed fist. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7c0bfb83 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7c0bfb83 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7cc8d769 | type |
Sore Loser | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7cc8d769 | comment |
After Gao the Lesser loses in a fair duel against the player and tries to attack them with a style he was explicitly forbidden to use, Master Li puts him in his place with a harsh tone. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7cc8d769 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7cc8d769 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7cc8d769 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: After Gao the Lesser loses in a fair duel against the player and tries to attack them with a style he was explicitly forbidden to use, Master Li puts him in his place with a harsh tone. After the player corrupts a Jade Golem, causing it to wreak havoc in the Lotus Assassin Fortress, Grand Inquisitor Jia tells her subordinates that they didn't realize that one of their acolytes could be an infiltrator because of their infighting. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7d89315b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7d89315b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_7d89315b | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb | type |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Kai Lan recounts how Black Whirlwind got thrown out of the arena due to acts of violence, drunkenness, damaging property... and public drunkenness. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_808cbaeb | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_816a4e80 | type |
Star Wars (Franchise) | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_816a4e80 | comment |
"I find your optimism... disturbing." | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_816a4e80 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_816a4e80 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_816a4e80 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_81f909f2 | type |
Dishing Out Dirt | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_81f909f2 | comment |
Stone Immortal: Dishing Out Dirt. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_81f909f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_81f909f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_81f909f2 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8288929a | type |
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8288929a | comment |
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Several of the monks of Dirge betrayed their comrades, only to get executed by Sun Hai and bound to guard the fountains. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8288929a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8288929a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8288929a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_84f4a870 | type |
Puzzle Boss | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_84f4a870 | comment |
Puzzle Boss: The Mother is immune to all of your attacks. Lure her to destroy the weak pillars in her arena and the mountain will crush and kill her. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_84f4a870 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_84f4a870 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_84f4a870 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_85557b38 | type |
Reality Is Unrealistic | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_85557b38 | comment |
Reality Is Unrealistic: Sir Roderick may be a caricature, but the quest is based on an actual recorded event, despite how ridiculous it seems. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_85557b38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_85557b38 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_85557b38 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_85e9c342 | type |
Kung-Fu Wizard | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_85e9c342 | comment |
Kung-Fu Wizard: Building up your chi through martial-arts, meditation, etc. enables you to perform greater magical feats. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_85e9c342 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_85e9c342 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_85e9c342 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_863fa679 | type |
What Happened to the Mouse? | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_863fa679 | comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: If you give Kia Min the medicine that heals her, she will fight off her enemies, but it is never revealed what happens to her after the fall of Two Rivers. If this happens, you can tell her uncle that she was alive when you last saw her. Fifth Brother is never seen again after the Open Palm ending to the Black Leopard School quest, in which after you kill Master Smiling Hawk, First Brother succeeds Master Radiant. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_863fa679 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_863fa679 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_863fa679 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_875615dd | type |
Truth in Television | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_875615dd | comment |
Truth in Television. Imperial China was very advanced in certain areas (Ming shipbuilding and medicine come to mind), but the degree of penetration varied from place to place; doubly so when Europeans made contact. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_875615dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_875615dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_875615dd | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8767b1f3 | type |
Black-and-Gray Morality | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8767b1f3 | comment |
Black-and-Gray Morality: The conflict in the Southern Forest. The Forest Shadow might have done some questionable things, and it is rumored that fox spirits are usually untrustworthy but siding with her is the Open Palm choice compared to siding with The Mother. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8767b1f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8767b1f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8767b1f3 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: The Other you face in the Water Dragon's temple is this, a being from outside the human and spirit worlds. You never actually meet it, however; to attack you, the Other summons three clones of your character. It is possibly a reference to the Chinese mythological being/concept of "Hundun", the Formless Chaos before the world took its current shape, which could take any form. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8774fb47 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_88359b23 | type |
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_88359b23 | comment |
Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: One of the ways to conclude the "Matchmaker" sidequest is to hook up Ai Ling with Chumin the Craftsman with this dynamic making it work. Though Chumin's a skilled craftsman, he struggles financially since he's too soft to collect money from his customers, which is something Ai Ling, an Action Girl who turned a gang of thugs into an effective criminal organization, can help him with. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_88359b23 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_88359b23 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_88359b23 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8a0d290b | type |
Conlang | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8a0d290b | comment |
Conlang: Tho Fan (i.e. the Old Tongue). Completely fabricated by a linguist to (supposedly) sound like it was from the region and time period. This was done to cover up lines that didn't need to be voiced for the story. Instead, the creator noted that most of the lines are references to cows. If you listen closely, however, most of the lines repeat themselves at various points, depending on the speaker's gender, age and tone (for example, one voiceover might be applied every time an old man makes a joke, and another might be applied to one where a young woman threatens someone). | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8a0d290b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8a0d290b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8a0d290b | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8a800d36 | type |
Bilingual Dialogue | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8a800d36 | comment |
Bilingual Dialogue: Everyone in the game knows both the language translated as English and Tho Fan, so they speak in whichever they prefer. Lampshaded by the weaposmith in the tutorial, who will switch if asked. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8a800d36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8a800d36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8a800d36 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ae880f7 | type |
Deconstruction | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Deconstruction: Of pretty much every fantasy (Eastern or Western) Back Story ever. The definitive example within the work, however, is: Old Master: Sun Li is on the surface a perfect example of the Old Master stock character seen in martial arts stories, being a father figure to the Spirit Monk. He's powerful to the point of sinking a ship with one blow, and is knowledgeable of the goings-on of the setting, particularly in regards to the Emperor Sun Hai, which turns out to be due to a personal connection to them: he is the Emperor's brother, and once his chief strategist. However, late in the game, after Sun Hai is finally defeated, Li comes into Sun Hai's throne room, takes the Water Dragon's heart, tells the Spirit Monk that they made him proud, how everything has gone as it should, that the Spirit Monk remembering the basics he taught them warmed his heart...and then Li throws the Water Dragon's heart up into the air, then kills the Spirit Monk in a lightning-fast flurry, and steals the Dragon Amulet before they hit the ground. He had earlier explained that he planned the siege of Dirge, but soon after his betrayal it's revealed it was his idea in the first place, and that he and his other brother Sun Kin tried to kill Sun Hai when Hai took the Water Dragon's heart. He fled after failing, leaving Kin to his fate, killed the Spirit Monk's guardian and took the Spirit Monk with him into hiding, where he trained the Spirit Monk so that he/she would be strong enough to kill Sun Hai while also having a flaw that Master Li could exploit. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ae880f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ae880f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ae880f7 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8af25294 | type |
Bullet Time | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8af25294 | comment |
Bullet Time: The oh-so-fun Focus Mode. This is also one of the very few games where an enemy can also use it. After all, Master Li did teach you how to do it. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8af25294 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8af25294 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8af25294 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c1ad82f | type |
Proud Warrior Race Guy | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c1ad82f | comment |
Proud Warrior Race Guy: The Spirit Monk, aka you. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c1ad82f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c1ad82f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c1ad82f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c49c29e | type |
Zig-Zagging Trope | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c49c29e | comment |
The Lotus Assassins...it's complicated. On the one hand, the PC can get recruited as an acolyte despite being their #1 enemy, and once inside, they're shown to be so riddled with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder that it seems impossible that they can even keep their numbers up. The lives of acolytes and even full Lotus Assassins are of so little value that you can freely kill whoever you want without consequences, and even if masters die, you won't catch any heat for it: Their boss will just promote you over their dead bodies. However, it's not that simple. For the first part, they don't know exactly who you are; no Assassin has seen your face and lived to tell. And while their Social Darwinist methods appear self-destructive, it's telling that they've worked without a problem for around twenty years, turning out an Elite Army and Secret Police who are able to reliably project the Emperor's will anywhere in the Empire; the fact that the Empire is breaking down is because they just don't care to maintain it. Their methods only fail when the Spirit Monk arrives, because Master Li knows how they operate, and provided the Spirit Monk with the necessary tools to subvert and counter them. In short, they're normally effective, but Overshadowed by Awesome. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c49c29e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c49c29e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c49c29e | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c681acc | type |
Third-Person Person | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c681acc | comment |
Third-Person Person: Minister Sheng speaks this way, as though constantly reminding you who he is. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c681acc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c681acc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8c681acc | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8e20979 | type |
Wham Episode | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8e20979 | comment |
Wham Episode: Chapter 3. The Emperor is not an Unwitting Pawn of Death's Hand, but the mastermind behind the corruption in the Jade Empire. Chapter 4. Sun Li is really the Big Bad? Holy shit. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8e20979 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8e20979 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8e20979 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4 | type |
Asshole Victim | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4 | comment |
Asshole Victim: Considering that Third Brother is a condescending Jerkass, a Sore Loser when you beat him in a sparring match and The Dragon to Master Smiling Hawk, you won't feel too bad when Smiling Hawk drains his soul. The Open Palm solution to gaining membership into the Inquisitors is to force Judge Fang, a Depraved Bisexual who enjoys abusing prostitutes, to resign by blackmailing him with evidence of his activities. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ed5c6e4 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ff8d545 | type |
Kissing Cousins | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ff8d545 | comment |
Kissing Cousins: Indirectly. If you're male and pursue both Silk Fox and Dawn Star, you can end up in a ménage à trois with them. As Silk Fox is the daughter of the emperor, and Dawn Star is the secret daughter of the emperor's brother, you end up with this trope. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ff8d545 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ff8d545 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_8ff8d545 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_902fa0b4 | type |
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_902fa0b4 | comment |
Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: The Ancient Evil is almost a lampshade. For four chapters, you're fighting Imperial intrigue the whole way, and then in Chapter 5 your enemy is some kind of being from outside reality who has nothing to do with Master Li, the Emperor, or Death's Hand, and is only tangentially related to the Spirit Monks. It's never really explained or ever mentioned again, though it's strongly implied that it's patiently waiting for the Water Dragon to be completely out of the picture so that it can manifest. Its presence serves as a warning there's Always a Bigger Fish and that the Big Bad isn't prepared to deal with it when he ascends to godhood. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_902fa0b4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_902fa0b4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_902fa0b4 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_933576c8 | type |
Mighty Glacier | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_933576c8 | comment |
Mighty Glacier: Elephant demons are slow, but hit hard and soak damage while resisting many kinds of attack. The White Demon style is a player equivalent, with slow attack speed but heavy hits. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_933576c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_933576c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_933576c8 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_93a38c9b | type |
Magic Feather | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_93a38c9b | comment |
Magic Feather: Played with. For you, the Dragon Amulet is "a tool and a focus," and lets you draw on the Water Dragon's power and use essence gems, but as Abbot Song says, it's just a tool, and as a fully realized Spirit Monk, you no longer need it. However, for anyone who is not a Spirit Monk, the completed amulet allows them access to a Spirit Monk's ability to draw on the Water Dragon's power. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_93a38c9b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_93a38c9b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_93a38c9b | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_94680696 | type |
Shaped Like Itself | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_94680696 | comment |
Shaped Like Itself: If you ask Scholar Kongyu about his research, he will simply give a longer version of the name of the area of study. (This, of course, is a hint that he's actually the actor and suspected con artist Creative Yukong.) | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_94680696 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_94680696 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_94680696 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_954ad71c | type |
Evil Colonialist | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_954ad71c | comment |
Evil Colonialist: Sir Roderick Ponce von Fontlebottom the Magnificent Bastard. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_954ad71c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_954ad71c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_954ad71c | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_955aba87 | type |
Mook Chivalry | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_955aba87 | comment |
Mook Chivalry: Averted; in most battles you'll have at least three people at a time ganging up on you, though not necessarily to the point of overwhelming aggression. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_955aba87 | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_955aba87 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_955aba87 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_96d2ce42 | type |
In Vino Veritas | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_96d2ce42 | comment |
In Vino Veritas: You can trick Three Sheets Dutong into admitting that the writ proving his ownership of the teahouse is a forgery by giving him alcohol. However, give him too little and he's too cheerful to want to talk about it, and give him too much, and he gets too paranoid. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_96d2ce42 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_96d2ce42 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_96d2ce42 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_970c790a | type |
Big Bad | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_970c790a | comment |
Chapter 4. Sun Li is really the Big Bad? Holy shit. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_970c790a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_970c790a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_970c790a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_97926168 | type |
Rewatch Bonus | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_97926168 | comment |
Rewatch Bonus: Spelled out in this analysis of the Plot Twist. Pay attention to the flashback to the fall of Dirge, and you'll see a few hints of later events. Sun Li, who was in Death's Hand's armor at the time, spotted the guardian trying to sneak off, enabling him to track him down and kill him. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_97926168 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_97926168 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_97926168 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9858c391 | type |
Chick Magnet | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9858c391 | comment |
Chick Magnet: One of your playable characters, Furious Ming, will get comments about the number of admirers he has. Granted, he is a constantly shirtless man with abs for days. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9858c391 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9858c391 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9858c391 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_98a19d7f | type |
Money, Dear Boy | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_98a19d7f | comment |
Money, Dear Boy: One of the easiest ways to build up your closed fist options is to go for the options that let you exchange moral integrity for silver. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_98a19d7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_98a19d7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_98a19d7f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9ac6b0c1 | type |
Sociopathic Hero | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9ac6b0c1 | comment |
It's debatable as to whether Black Whirlwind is truly evil or just a Sociopathic Hero. While he admits to having done many bad things in his life, one gets the feeling they occurred due to ruthless pragmatism seasoned by a dash of Dumbass Has a Point. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9ac6b0c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9ac6b0c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9ac6b0c1 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9aef0e13 | type |
They Died Because of You | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9aef0e13 | comment |
They Died Because of You: The night before Sun Li's army besieges Dirge, your former master appears in your dream to sic three of your dead classmates on you in the burning school of Two Rivers. Regardless of whatever you claim their deaths didn't bother you or say that you would have saved them if you could have, Master Li taunts you by saying that he masterminded their deaths to give you an incentive to act in accordance to his plan, so you are in a way responsible for their deaths. | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9aef0e13 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9aef0e13 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9aef0e13 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9b06e314 | type |
Greater-Scope Villain | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_9b06e314 | comment |
Greater-Scope Villain: Sun Li's manipulations have attracted a creature of... nothingness, which claims to be a power behind Mother. Had the Spirit Monk not put an end to Sun Li, said evil force might have grown too powerful for anyone to handle. As it is, it remains The Unfought. | |
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Hub City | |
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Hub City: The Capital City, which is the only city shown. It is setting for Chapter 3, which is the longest chapter, as well as the one with the most side quests. | |
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Brutish Bulls | |
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Brutish Bulls: The Bull Demons, among the strongest enemies in the game. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: There is a lot of foreshadowing to notice on repeat playthroughs, main quest and otherwise. The Water Dragon has been obliquely telling you what is happening and what will happen almost from the beginning, and Master Li's story at the start (and the accompanying rendered cinematic) are full of clues that are obvious in hindsight. Probably the most obvious example is when several characters, including Silk Fox, state that you seem to have a flaw that makes fighters think they can use it, but ends up being a trap. Only one person can exploit the flaw, as we find out later in the game, because he taught it to you for that express purpose. When starting the Inquisitor questline, Dawn Star will agree to whatever is necessary to find Master Li. Sagacious Zu, who is uncomfortable with the idea of infiltrating the Lotus Assassins, warns her not to sacrifice everything in the search of "your... your master." He almost lets slip that Sun Li is Dawn Star's father. | |
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Enigmatic Empowering Entity | |
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Enigmatic Empowering Entity: The Water Dragon is a good example of this. She frequently gives the player character new powers, hints, or advice, but is doing so so that the PC can help her in return. Notable in that the reasons for her vagueness is partially because she's weakened, but mostly because her plan to help you actually requires your Master to kill you at the climax of his own plot, since if you were told what would happen you'd likely not go through all the steps needed in the first place. | |
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Black Magic | |
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Black Magic: Subverted. Gao the Greater is an Evil Sorcerer who's taught some of his magic to his son, Gao the Lesser, and Master Li prohibits the Lesser from using his father's magic in a duel. But nothing about the magic is itself evil. Master Li wants Gao to use it anyway, so he can expel him for cheating. | |
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Genocide Backfire | |
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Genocide Backfire: You're the last Spirit Monk alive and now you're out to stop the guy that made you that way. As further proof of Master Li's bastardry, he's the one that ensured you would enact this trope so you'd do his dirty work for him. | |
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Jobber | |
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Jobber: In the Arena, Hapless Han is the unofficial "champion" of the qualifying division, and moving up into the actual ranks requires defeating him. As his name might suggest, Han isn't a very good martial artist and has no formal training. He gets a lot of grief for maintaining a sunny attitude about getting the snot beaten out of him on the reg for a living, although one of the higher-division champions points out that his position ensures he has a chance to spar with every single fighter who comes to the arena and that Han himself is constantly analyzing and learning from every new style that beats him up. | |
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Infinity +1 Sword | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e | comment |
Infinity +1 Sword: Tang's Vengeance, a pair of axes similar to Black Whirlwind's and the Jade Golem's. They're probably the most powerful weapon style available, but you get them by defeating the Ravager, the most deadly Optional Boss in the game. Still, at that point there's plenty about a third of game left, and a lot of not-bonus bosses to cleave through. | |
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Monstrous Scenery | |
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Monstrous Scenery: Green ghosts can be seen floating around in Old Tien's Landing. Unlike most of the other ghosts in the game, these do not interact with the player. | |
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Doppelgänger Spin | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_a7a8e779 | comment |
Doppelgänger Spin: The Phoenix Unity style involves this. After you defeat the first enemy, six full-powered clones spawn. | |
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Upsetting the Balance | |
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Upsetting the Balance: The reason everything has been going so terribly wrong for the country is that its emperor caught and tortured the Water Dragon, a deity who oversees rainfall and the cycle of reincarnation. This is a deep violation of tianxia, not least because it forces ghosts to hang around the mortal world instead of dissipating and reincarnating. | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance | |
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Deliberate Values Dissonance: Both various people from, and books written in the Jade Empire claim that the Empire is the height of human culture, and everyone foreign is idiotic and violent. Sir Roderick Ponce Von Fontlebottom The Magnificent Bastard thinks the same of wherever he comes from. | |
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Master Poisoner | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ac69035c | comment |
Sweet Poison Lyn is a Master Poisoner for the Guild, but she's rather polite to the Spirit Monk, agrees to a truce once Kai Lan is dealt with, and even confesses a certain interest in the Spirit Monk's rise to the championship. | |
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Armor-Piercing Response | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_aca32000 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Response: During the quest in which you resolve the Love Triangle between Bei, Lan and Ai Ling, you can tell Ai Ling that the Childhood Marriage Promise was made when they were kids, and that she's changed since then. Using those responses causes Ai Ling to give up on Bei without any persuade checks required. | |
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Oh, Crap! | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c | comment |
Oh, Crap! Gao the Lesser when he's cornered in the cave. Three Sheets Dutong, when he finds out that he drunkenly confessed to forging the writ. In the Lotus Assassin fortress, you get to train Master Shin's entourage as a pretext to kill them in training accidents. After you kill the second ones, the survivors are horrified, since you, a supposed initiate, killed the member of his entourage that happens to be a full-fledged Lotus Assassin. | |
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Evolving Title Screen | |
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Evolving Title Screen: Depending on your progress in the game, the title screen will show which town you are at the moment. | |
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Earth/Wind Juxtaposition | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_adc974b6 | comment |
Earth/Wind Juxtaposition: The mutually-exclusive fighting styles Stone Immortal and Tempest are themed around earth and wind respectively. Mistress Vo will only teach Stone Immortal to someone who has committed themselves to the Open Palm philosophy, since mastering earth requires harmony, awareness of one's surroundings and of the connections between all things. In contrast, Jian the Iron Fist will only teach Tempest to someone dedicated to Closed Fist, stating that wind is the most discordant element and a master of it should be committed to discord to the point of drawing strength from it. | |
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Living Statue | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ae0bbe52 | comment |
Living Statue: Though called golems, they're really a better fit for this trope. The common Clay Golems are based on Qin Shi Huangdi's terracotta army. There are also the giant-sized Jade Golems and the Humongous Mecha-sized Siege Golems, the latter of which are only seen in cutscenes. See also Powered by a Forsaken Child. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 | comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Sky. And you can be too. | |
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Klingon Promotion | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_b2c737e8 | comment |
Klingon Promotion: The Lotus Assassins allow this, though with caveats. Assassinating one's superior is only acceptable if the superior is incompetent, or can be made to look incompetent by the assassination. Accordingly, eliminating Master Shen for Master Gang, and possibly eliminating Master Gang for yourself, requires a little preparation, including buying off or silencing witnesses and sabotaging them in their responsibilities. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: An In-Universe example with Incisive Chorus' modified script, which includes insults against the Lotus Assassins and the Emperor. If you finish the quest successfully and say you enjoyed yourself, Incisive Chorus will conclude that this means you're not a real actor, making this a bit of a dig against actors. | |
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Too Dumb to Live | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_b58b4e3c | comment |
Too Dumb to Live: Several NPCs qualify: Kia Min has a decidedly reckless streak, which may have been what resulted in her being injured during the bandit attack. Old Ming warns you that if you give her bearded tongue grass(a painkiller), she'll try to fight and worsen her injured leg. Doing so will result in her being killed during the attack on Two Rivers, with one of her killers remarking that she tried to fight despite the fact that her leg was practically about to fall off. Merchant Jian, who turns up to punish you up for closing the dam when you return to Tien's Landing. Sure, let's hire a couple of mooks, and try to kill the warriors who've just defeated a horde of ghosts, demons, assassins and soldiers to complete the quest, that'll work! Lucky Cho, who tries to defeat you and Black Whirlwind single-handed. Gao the Lesser. Early in the game he bemoans to Master Li that all he (Master Li) does is lavish you with training and attention and, consequently, his own training has suffered for it. Despite clearly knowing this, he still thinks it's a fine idea to challenge you to a 1v1 duel. Partially averted as the fight isn't to the death (if you win it anyway.) Despite this, later on in the late stages of the first chapter of the game he challenges you again without anyone to step in and stop you from killing him despite: a) you have the option to bring in backup (either Sagacious Zu or Dawn Star) thus making it a 2v1, b) you've just finished bulldozing your way through a cave of toad demons and ogres to reach him and c) he's already gotten his ass handed to him once before by you during a previous 1v1 fight. Pretty much standard operating procedure for Lotus Assassin acolytes. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_b707726f | comment |
Hypocritical Humor: While preparing for the debate with Sir Roderick, you need to talk to the five judges and find out what kind of arguments they favor so you can more easily sway them. Each judge will scoff and announce that they are impartial, while naming two or three others and listing the techniques they listen for. The only exception is the Minister of Culture, who admits that he's ill-equipped to see his own flaws. | |
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Love Triangle | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_b7e0c5ff | comment |
Love Triangle: Resolving one in which a man is engaged, but has a childhood friend he supposedly promised to marry, is the focus of a Tien's Landing side quest. Also, you, as a male protagonist, could end in one of these, too. And if you play your cards right, it might have a relatively happy ending. | |
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Celestial Bureaucracy | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_b8cbdffb | comment |
Celestial Bureaucracy: Based in broad strokes on the celestial bureaucracy of Chinese mythology, but given its own spin. You meet a representative in the form of an accountant who lost his job keeping track of all the death and destruction you cause because he could not keep up with it. (Apparently the fight with Gao the Lesser alone required over three thousand pages and cost the jobs or maybe even lives of three accountants.) He was replaced with a full department, putting you in the same category as Black Whirlwind. | |
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Royally Screwed Up | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_b8f395f | comment |
Royally Screwed Up: Emperor Sun Hai turns out to be a megalomaniacal tyrant who would usurp the Water Dragon's power, while his brother Li and Kin were willing to betray him for power. The only people in the family with a working royal compass are Sun Lian/Silk Fox and Dawn Star, the latter of whom doesn't even know she's royalty unless you get the answers out of Sagacious Zu. | |
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Came Back Wrong | |
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Came Back Wrong: On two separate occasions, the Lotus Assassins offer to resurrect the loved ones of potential allies. Both of these potential allies (Gao the Greater and Sky) refuse, as they've heard stories about how this trope is what occurs when the Assassins attempt to do this. | |
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Aerith and Bob | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_b9d334b2 | comment |
Aerith and Bob: On the one hand, there are names such as "Sun Li", that sound like somewhat realistic, asian-inspired names. On the other hand, there are outlandish names such "Spear Catches Leaf". | |
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Throwing the Fight | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ba112560 | comment |
Throwing the Fight: At the start of the Imperial Arena questline, Cho accuses a fighter of throwing his matches("Did the glint of silver get in your eye?"), then kicks him down a flight of stairs to expel him from the arena, creating a vacancy for the player character. | |
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Unfinished Business | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_bafa1190 | comment |
Unfinished Business: The ghosts in the graveyard of the Imperial City. Though technically all ghosts are supposed to have this — it's only that the state of things in the world now won't let anyone pass, business or no business. | |
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Knight Templar | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_bbfaa837 | comment |
Knight Templar: According to Smiling Mountain, a common risk of following the Way of the Open Palm is becoming a tyrant to bend the world to be in accordance with your values. | |
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Perfectly Cromulent Word | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_bdbfd01c | comment |
Perfectly Cromulent Word: Qui the promoter is a major offender. Extra credit for actually using the phrase. One wonders if, since this is actually Chinese they're talking, he's just mangling the pronunciation. | |
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Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_bfaff026 | comment |
Gao the Lesser, an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, manages to stun an ogre and kick him into a cave wall, causing him to be crushed under rocks. Gao does use fire for part of the fight, which ogres are vulnerable to, but when you actually fight him, Gao is stronger than a single ogre but otherwise is a fairly easy boss. Justified, as his fighting style is better for ogres, but he is not as good against the Spirit Monk. | |
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Inn of No Return | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c0015c4c | comment |
Inn of No Return: It's pretty obvious that there's something dangerous going on with the Pilgrim's Rest inn. The inn's secret is that everyone apart from the cook is actually a mutant cannibal creature disguised by magic; they keep the human cook around to make things seem more "normal." | |
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Subverted Trope | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c145f69b | comment |
In most cases, you actually buy the abilities from unrelated characters. However, all of the transformation styles play this straight, and you do learn a large number of styles as rewards from teachers after an honest fight. | |
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Wuxia | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c3fc812d | comment |
Wuxia: Probably the most notable video game example. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c3fc812d | |
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Harder Than Hard | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c513249 | comment |
Harder Than Hard: The Jade Master difficulty level that you can unlock on the PC version. | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c513249 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c5491673 | type |
Statistically Speaking | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c5491673 | comment |
Statistically Speaking: You can influence aspects of the plot based on certain stats, but you're still not going to get past story-created obstacles. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c696f3ba | type |
Heroic Willpower | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c696f3ba | comment |
Heroic Willpower: The only way for a spirit in the world of the living to avoid going mad. If they have will enough they can stay sane for decades. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c696f3ba | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c71f715c | type |
Three-Stat System | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c71f715c | comment |
Three-Stat System: Body, Spirit, and Mind, which respectively determine HP, Chi (Mana), and Focus. They also determine the effectiveness of your three diplomatic skills. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | type |
Shout-Out | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: Numerous to Water Margin. The hard-drinking, hard-fighting Black Whirlwind acts like Lu Zhishen and is named after Li Kui. Sagacious Zu is named after Lu Zhishen, a.k.a. "Sagacious Lu". The fact that the heroes face a father and son, Gao the Greater and Gao the Lesser, is very similar to how the outlaws in Water Margin oppose Magistrate Gao and his son Gao. One of the lines in an early area is "careful, there are outlaws in the marsh". A couple to Austin Powers, with a straight rip-off of the master debator/cunning linguist joke, and a reference to a sketch of some dolphins with a strange apparatus on their heads and a scribbled note saying, "No, sharks!" What's the betting the apparatus is a frickin' laser...? Master Li and Henpecked Hou are both named after characters in Bridge of Birds. Of course, while Bridge of Birds’ Master Li has a flaw in his character, Jade Empire’s Master Li made sure you had a flaw in your style. Lustful Lao is a parody of The Simpsons Comic Book Guy. One of the subjects you can discuss with him prompts him to say "Worst. Subject. Ever." Not the only shout out to the Simpsons: Qui the Promoter has a line of 'Everything I say is perfectly cromulent, and it might do you well to embiggen your vocabulary.' When talking to Qui the Promoter about fighting in the Arena, he will tell you "You are indeed mysterious, stranger", a reference to the first KOTOR, in which the main character had the option of duelling under the name "The Mysterious Stranger". Leaping Tiger Style turns you into Wolverine. On two separate occasions — including the very first dialogue option— you have the opportunity to tell someone they "fight with all the grace of a cow." "I find your optimism... disturbing." Big Tian, the farmer, and his description of marriage seems to be a reference to The Good Earth. Silk Fox appears to borrow a fair chunk of her character concept and design from Jen in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, as well as a small part of her motivation (at one point, she mentions that she's worried that Death's Hand might persuade the Emperor to marry her to him). One of the graves in the Imperial city necropolis reads "To the Nameless One. His Torments have ended." Considering the setting, it might also serve as a reference to Jet Li's character in Hero (2002). In the tea house at Tien's Landing, there's a cook who challenges you to eat his meals, which damage one of your stats (depending on the meal). At the end he'll up the challenge and ask you to try a final, truly disgusting meal. He specifically wants you to describe it because he doesn't have to nerve to try it himself, so he says "...and remember, this is for posterity, so please... be honest." In the epilogue: "As for Percival, he tired of being called Shirley, and returned to his village." If you try to go to the outer courtyard of Dirge before talking to your party, the game tells you "You must gather your party before venturing forth." Gravedigger Shen makes a pun joke and says "Eh-heh. A little graveyard humor there, see." This is a shout out to Igor's (from Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness) puns and trademark Catchphrase. An early NPC in your school is named Jing Woo; Jingwu is a common romanization for Chin Woo School. | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c75df49a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c868a42a | type |
Freudian Excuse | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c868a42a | comment |
Freudian Excuse: Deconstructed in the case of Aishi the Mournful Blade. The reason she commits the crimes she does is because she's haunted by the screams of the boy who Captain Sen drowned as a child. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c9861848 | type |
Video Game Caring Potential | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c9861848 | comment |
Video Game Caring Potential: While the Closed Fist choices tend to be more personally rewarding, it's hard to choose them simply because of how much of jerkass you are in them. | |
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| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c9954979 | type |
Crippling the Competition | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_c9954979 | comment |
Crippling the Competition: An early side quest requires you to heal an injured fellow student so she can take part in a competition against you. The Open Palm choice is to get her a medicine that actually heals her, but if you prefer the Closed Fist, you can give her an ointment that only removes the pain, resulting in her starting the fight with much less health and ending up crippled for life. For extra adherence to the Closed Fist ideology (one of the few cases when it's actually used correctly) you can reveal to her what you did afterwards, and tell her that relying on you made her weak; she should have dealt with her problem on her own. | |
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| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ca03acbc | type |
Freudian Slippery Slope | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ca03acbc | comment |
Freudian Slippery Slope: One made even more ridiculous by the guy sliding down it apparently having no idea how it comes across when he praises the Spirit Monk for defeating the Outlander in debate by calling them a "cunning linguist" with "oral skills" that had the "crowd gushing", against a foe that "manhandled every defense we erected". His assistant keeps giggling. | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ca03acbc | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ca3a6dbd | type |
Informed Ability | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ca3a6dbd | comment |
Informed Ability: Your character's subtle peculiarity in his/her fighting style. Sun Li demonstrates it quite succinctly, but we never actually get to see the weakness in play. Of course, if we could see it, then it wouldn't be subtle. | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ca3a6dbd | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cadf2d2a | type |
Death of a Thousand Cuts | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cadf2d2a | comment |
Death of a Thousand Cuts: Invoked with the Thousand Cuts style, which uses multiple light strikes to overwhelm an opponent's defenses. Even the so-called heavy attacks are really just a sudden rush of many quick jabs. | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cadf2d2a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cbdd9a55 | type |
We ARE Struggling Together | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cbdd9a55 | comment |
After the player corrupts a Jade Golem, causing it to wreak havoc in the Lotus Assassin Fortress, Grand Inquisitor Jia tells her subordinates that they didn't realize that one of their acolytes could be an infiltrator because of their infighting. | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cbdd9a55 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cc4d190a | type |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cc4d190a | comment |
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? By the time you fight Sun Li, he's fully capable of backing up his A God Am I sentiments, as shown repeatedly when you fight against his proxies. Another example is the demon called Mother. Defeating — but not killing — her for the first time required a celestial embodiment of cunning arranging for the burning of a whole forest. But the PC manages to defeat Mother one-on-one (albeit with some celestial help in the background, a couple of allies, and a very convenient arena). | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cc4d190a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cd86f11f | type |
Kill the Parent, Raise the Child | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cd86f11f | comment |
Kill the Parent, Raise the Child: Sun Li The Glorious Strategist took part in the massacre of the Spirit Monk monastery orchestrated by his brother, Emperor Sun Hai. Leaving the monastery, he killed a Spirit Monk who was fleeing across the mountains with a baby, then took the baby into the backwoods of the empire and raised them, training them in martial arts so they would grow up to become a Tyke Bomb, assassinate Sun Hai for him and allow him to claim the empire for himself. | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cd86f11f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cedeae6a | type |
Wacky Wayside Tribe | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cedeae6a | comment |
Wacky Wayside Tribe: The events at the Pilgrim's Rest Inn. Neither the Forest Shadow nor Mother have anything to do with Master Li or the Emperor, and they're only relevant to you because you need to solve the situation to get a Plot Coupon. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cedeae6a | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cf92fea8 | type |
Cassandra Truth | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: At the end of Chapter 1, after you're informed of Master Li's backstory, you can go up to all of the students at the school and tell them exactly who he really is. None of them believe you because they think it's too outlandish. You get the same reaction from Silk Fox if you attempt to tell her during your second encounter with her, and Sagacious Zu at the end of the first chapter is initially disbelieving. | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_cf92fea8 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d24ed873 | type |
Developer's Foresight | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d24ed873 | comment |
Developer's Foresight: Even though you're only given control of characters other than the PC for a minute or two each, each of them has a separate objective and, in one case, a joke, in the quests menu. | |
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No Campaign for the Wicked | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d291ea97 | comment |
No Campaign for the Wicked: In most places, this is averted. However, in the Arena storyline, Kai Lan the Serpent offers to let you join him...but the Black Whirlwind barges in and forces you to come with him, and the following circumstances set you against Kai Lan. Whatever your usual alignment, in the Arena you're going to be a Face. | |
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| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d39e327f | type |
What the Hell, Hero? | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: On the Closed Fist path, you begin as a Jerkass and progress down the slippery slope from there. The more moral members of your party will complain about this. If you bind Death's Hand to your will, you must bind their wills, and if you taint the Water Dragon, most will turn on you. If you choose to side with the cannibals instead of the Forest Shadow, prepare to really, REALLY feel bad about yourself. Especially since the choices have options like "I see I was wrong. I will redeem myself by killing all of you". If you have Fuyao kill her would-be master, her mother is appalled that you turned her daughter into a murderer, but is still grateful that you saved them from slavery. | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d39e327f | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71 | type |
Mirror Boss | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71 | comment |
Mirror Boss: The final boss, Sun Li, can do anything you can do, including use Focus to engage Bullet Time. | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d47d9b71 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d5359ecb | type |
Moment of Weakness | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d5359ecb | comment |
Moment of Weakness: While Steeper Yanru is loyal to Old Mother Kwan and is determined to expose Three Sheets Dutong as a fraud, he can accept a bribe from Dutong to keep quiet. However, if the player refuses the bribe, Yanru will kick himself for even considering it. | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d5359ecb | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d5b3df2d | type |
Dark Action Girl | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d5b3df2d | comment |
Dark Action Girl: You'll definitely end up as one of these if you play as female taking the Closed Fist path. Dawn Star and Silk Fox can be encouraged to follow the path of the Closed Fist and become dark too. | |
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| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d62dd556 | type |
The Chessmaster | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d62dd556 | comment |
The Chessmaster: Master Li, who manipulates multiple characters and prophecy itself throughout the story to rise to power. The Water Dragon herself, who uses the previous chessmaster's plots to advance her own agenda of restoring order. | |
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Those Magnificent Flying Machines | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_d881756c | comment |
Those Magnificent Flying Machines: Oh, yes. Based around insects, and the better quality ones are designed by Kang the Mad. Reading about their history in one particular Pamphlet Shelf reveals that they're based around the idea that a real-life Chinese bureaucrat's misadventure was followed up on. | |
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| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_da484c4a | type |
Drunken Master | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_da484c4a | comment |
Drunken Master: An actual fighting style once used by Henpecked Hou and utilized by having him in your party so he can keep throwing jugs of wine to you. If a bit unpredictable, it's still one of the more powerful styles in the game after the Game-Breaker styles. The Black Whirlwind's greatest feats were all achieved while drunk, and when you take control of him in the penultimate battle he uses Hou's bottles as power-ups. | |
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| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_db33bc7e | type |
Ludicrous Gibs | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_db33bc7e | comment |
Ludicrous Gibs: One gets the feeling that BioWare was proud of their blood-spraying technology, and aimed to show it off as much as possible. If you don't turn the gore options off, there are a few examples: Hit enemies with a harmonic combo and they explode in a shower of blood. Mirabelle does it in an in-engine cutscene as well. When you're given control of Black Whirlwind, he's certainly no stranger of making a fine red mist out of his enemies, either. | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_db33bc7e | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_db4b76d1 | type |
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_db4b76d1 | comment |
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Master Li gives one at the beach before killing the Lotus Assassin with just four strikes. | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_db4b76d1 | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_dc0d80ee | type |
High-Pressure Blood | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_dc0d80ee | comment |
High-Pressure Blood: Oh my, is it under a lot of pressure! Any decapitated enemies will stand upright for several seconds with a crimson geyser spouting from their necks. It even takes a moment for the splatters to start to fall around their (still standing) bodies. | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_dc0d80ee | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_dc1761bd | type |
A God Am I | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_dc1761bd | comment |
By the time you fight Sun Li, he's fully capable of backing up his A God Am I sentiments, as shown repeatedly when you fight against his proxies. | |
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1.0 | |
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Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_dc1761bd | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_dc579c91 | type |
Contrived Coincidence | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: Master Li's original plan was to direct the Spirit Monk to start their journey by visiting Tien's Landing and collecting the Plot Coupon there. They don't find out about this until their flyer crashes there by sheer chance and they're astonished to find he has an agent waiting to greet them. The agent is as confused by this as they are, but points out they would have had to go there eventually anyway. Played for Laughs in the Inquisitor recruitment quest. One solution for the quest is to replace Sheng's honor gift to Fang with turtle eggs, which are not only a poor gift, but are especially bad due to how rare they are. After proposing the idea, Henpecked Hou mentions that he just so happens to have some, much to Silk Fox's astonishment. | |
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1.0 | |
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| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_de72739d | type |
Flexible Tourney Rules | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_de72739d | comment |
Flexible Tourney Rules: The Imperial Arena is supposed to be a place for martial artists to test their skills against one another in fair combat, with a few monsters thrown in for flavor, and nobody dies because the arena's warded to protect against such things. But under Kai Lan the Serpent, the former martial atmosphere of the arena is downplayed in favor of "providing entertainment to the people," as well as making Kai Lan money. Fighters are booked into uneven fights, forbidden styles are used in special events, other special fights are used to test Imperial Army weaponry, and this isn't counting actual cheating and poisonings. | |
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Gambit Pileup | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_de9047ac | comment |
Gambit Pileup: There's two Chessmasters, and one honorable mention who's still running a scheme of his own. Most of the game's story is focused on untangling exactly what is going on. | |
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Awful Wedded Life | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_deecc9eb | comment |
Awful Wedded Life: If the fact that his name is Henpecked Hou doesn't clue you in, then his good ending where he is able to escape his wife should. | |
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Updated Re-release | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_df1793de | comment |
Updated Re-release: The PC version adds content, some of which was already in the Xbox Limited Edition. | |
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Culture Chop Suey | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_df60d405 | comment |
Culture Chop Suey: The presence of golems, which are from Jewish folklore, in a setting based on Imperial China. However, this is really an example of Translation Convention. The designs are based on the Terracotta Army, and golem has become a pretty generic term in English for any sort of magically-animated automaton, so an animated Terracotta Warrior could quite accurately be called a clay golem. | |
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Translation Convention | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e11b003d | comment |
Translation Convention: The cast mostly speaks English with North American accents. Bizarrely however, some NPCs speak "the Old Tongue" (Tho Fan), a weird, not-very-Chinese-sounding, Jabba-the-Hutt language invented for the game by a Canadian linguist. This was intended both for flavor (as it mimics the split between Cantonese and Mandarin in modern day China), and also to save on space as Tho Fan only has a limited number of stock sound clips and can be recycled over and over without being readily apparent. | |
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Childhood Marriage Promise | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e195807e | comment |
Childhood Marriage Promise: Part of a side quest, with the twist that the Unlucky Childhood Friend trying to collect on the promise is a gang leader. Depending on whether you're playing the Open Palm or Closed Fist path, this can end quite badly. In the Open Palm route, you can convince the gang leader not to hold him to a promise he made as a child, pointing out how frivolous kids can be about saying various things. | |
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Authority Equals Asskicking | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e34ada78 | comment |
Authority Equals Asskicking: Emperors Sun Hai and Sun Li, and the player character if Closed Fist or they romanced Silk Fox. | |
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Load-Bearing Boss | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e4cf1ef0 | comment |
Load-Bearing Boss: Inverted. You defeat the cannibal demon Mother by smashing the supports in her chamber and crushing her with her own lair. | |
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The Igor | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e5120d | comment |
Gravedigger Shen makes a pun joke and says "Eh-heh. A little graveyard humor there, see." This is a shout out to Igor's (from Quest for Glory IV: Shadows of Darkness) puns and trademark Catchphrase. | |
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He Who Must Not Be Seen | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e52a0cac | comment |
She Who Must Not Be Seen: Henpecked Hou's wife, a monstrous woman of incredible girth that gives him nightmares. You only know of her from the stories he tells. His epilogue — assuming he lives to the end of the game — eventually reveals that he found a way to escape her. | |
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Light Is Not Good | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e543a655 | comment |
Light Is Not Good / Dark Is Not Evil: An early NPC explains the karma system this way, since Open Palm can lead to being a Knight Templar and a Closed Fist practitioner might still step in to help the weak if they are too overwhelmed to survive and grow from their challenges. In actual gameplay it is nearly always still just good and evil, although the Big Bad may be Open Palm depending on whether you believe his motives are what he says they are. | |
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Is That What He Told You? | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e67aff55 | comment |
Is That What He Told You?: Said by the Water Dragon to the player character after the player character's death at the hands of Sun Li. | |
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Asian Fox Spirit | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e6c72641 | comment |
Asian Fox Spirit: Forest Shadow and her servants are huli jing. | |
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Accidental Truth | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e784bb8c | comment |
Accidental Truth: When Sky first appears and is confronted by Gao's pirates, he directs their attention to the player and tries to scare them off by saying that the player is a deadly fighter. After the pirates are killed in the following fight, Sky admits he had no idea how right he was about the player's combat skills. | |
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Powered by a Forsaken Child | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e794cb54 | comment |
Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Emperor's golem army are animated by the trapped souls of the recently dead, and they have to be killed painfully for the best effects! | |
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Old Master | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e7b1cb24 | comment |
Old Master: Sun Li is on the surface a perfect example of the Old Master stock character seen in martial arts stories, being a father figure to the Spirit Monk. He's powerful to the point of sinking a ship with one blow, and is knowledgeable of the goings-on of the setting, particularly in regards to the Emperor Sun Hai, which turns out to be due to a personal connection to them: he is the Emperor's brother, and once his chief strategist. However, late in the game, after Sun Hai is finally defeated, Li comes into Sun Hai's throne room, takes the Water Dragon's heart, tells the Spirit Monk that they made him proud, how everything has gone as it should, that the Spirit Monk remembering the basics he taught them warmed his heart...and then Li throws the Water Dragon's heart up into the air, then kills the Spirit Monk in a lightning-fast flurry, and steals the Dragon Amulet before they hit the ground. He had earlier explained that he planned the siege of Dirge, but soon after his betrayal it's revealed it was his idea in the first place, and that he and his other brother Sun Kin tried to kill Sun Hai when Hai took the Water Dragon's heart. He fled after failing, leaving Kin to his fate, killed the Spirit Monk's guardian and took the Spirit Monk with him into hiding, where he trained the Spirit Monk so that he/she would be strong enough to kill Sun Hai while also having a flaw that Master Li could exploit. | |
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Barred from the Afterlife | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e7f9c214 | comment |
Barred from the Afterlife: This is happening to everybody as a result of the Water Dragon no longer being bound. When the game starts, twenty years' worth of restless spirits have piled up, and the Empire's really starting to feel the effects. | |
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Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First! | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e8428d18 | comment |
Screw the Rules, They Broke Them First!: At the end of the Imperial Arena questline, Kai Lan the Serpent, master of the arena, invokes a centuries-old rule to use his right as former champion to challenge you, the new champion. The Black Whirlwind, a companion who has a grudge against Kai Lan, asks to fight him on your behalf, but while Kai Lan opposes the substitution, you can point out that it has happened before. If you do, Qui will then mention the time when Kai Lan surprised you with a toad demon as your opponent, and allow the Black Whirlwind to fight on your behalf. | |
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The Plan | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e851b5 | comment |
The Plan: And a borderline roulette, if the guy weren't so good at it. Master Li, really the Emperor's brother Sun Li, killed a spirit monk rescuing you from the destruction of Dirge in order to raise you as his prized pupil. He trained you in a unique fighting style that borders on modern cryptosecurity; an opening in your defenses that shifts so swiftly and dynamically that everyone who tries to exploit it ends up distracted instead. The one weakness was that if someone knew exactly where the opening would end up, they could kill you instantly - and Master Li knew all the positions of your shifting flaw. That way, he'd get you to kill all the people he needed dead - in particular, his now god-like brother Emperor Sun Hai, who is uniquely suited to be dealt with by a Spirit Monk. Then, in your moment of triumph, he would use your trust and exploit your fighting style's weakness to execute you. On top of this, the Water Dragon herself plays one. She uses Sun Li's entire gambit to ensure you'll be bringing her back from the dead. How she pulls this off is a combination of My Death Is Only The Beginning with you as the guy dying and an Unexplained Recovery with a little dash of Roaring Rampage of Revenge Of course, if you're evil, you can also screw them both over. | |
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Freudian Trio | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e8cae797 | comment |
Freudian Trio: The Sung brothers are a textbook example of this dynamic; the youngest brother Bu is the most simpleminded and has to offer only naive comments (Id), the eldest brother Sui is a coolly composed and educated astronomer (Superego), and the middle brother Bo is the most approachable with his sound layman demeanor (Ego). This comes well into play while conversing with the brothers; Sung Bo is the one you can question, with his brothers throwing in their own comments that are left for Bo to explain. | |
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Defensive Feint Trap | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e993a60f | comment |
Defensive Feint Trap: A number of characters remark that that the Spirit Monk's fighting style has what looks like a flaw in it, but in actuality is a fake that leaves their enemies vulnerable to a counterattack when they try in vain to exploit it. They then get confused when the Monk doesn't know what they're talking about, since it's so obviously built into their muscle memory at a fundamental level and must have been a major part of their training. It turns out to be an actual flaw engineered by the Monk's master that can only be exploited by someone who already knows what it is; once it's revealed the Monk corrects it. | |
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Exact Words | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
Exact Words: Of Death's Hand: "That is the armor of a man who knows no remorse, no pity." Death's Hand is wearing the speaker's old armor. | |
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Fascist, but Inefficient | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_eb04f8d5 | comment |
Fascist, but Inefficient: The Empire really does not have things together. Once the PC ends up on their radar, they announce a search for the "Scourge of the South" in the Imperial City with laughably incorrect and contradictory descriptions, and the PC can even talk to the crier who's making the announcement. The Imperial Army is forbidden from actually doing its job and guarding the city, while the Lotus Assassins are too busy with the Emperor's golem army project to even try to maintain order. The only way the government gets anything done is when they subcontract their job to criminal gangs. The Lotus Assassins...it's complicated. On the one hand, the PC can get recruited as an acolyte despite being their #1 enemy, and once inside, they're shown to be so riddled with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder that it seems impossible that they can even keep their numbers up. The lives of acolytes and even full Lotus Assassins are of so little value that you can freely kill whoever you want without consequences, and even if masters die, you won't catch any heat for it: Their boss will just promote you over their dead bodies. However, it's not that simple. For the first part, they don't know exactly who you are; no Assassin has seen your face and lived to tell. And while their Social Darwinist methods appear self-destructive, it's telling that they've worked without a problem for around twenty years, turning out an Elite Army and Secret Police who are able to reliably project the Emperor's will anywhere in the Empire; the fact that the Empire is breaking down is because they just don't care to maintain it. Their methods only fail when the Spirit Monk arrives, because Master Li knows how they operate, and provided the Spirit Monk with the necessary tools to subvert and counter them. In short, they're normally effective, but Overshadowed by Awesome. | |
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Jerkass | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Most evil NPCs qualify, but a few stand out. Gao the Lesser. The other students and townspeople can't stand him. Gravedigger Shen. He steals from the dead, is willing to accept easy solutions to his ghost problems as opposed to moral ones, and is fairly spiteful toward the spirit of his dead mother-in-law. The Third Brother of the Black Leopard school is arrogant, unpleasant and a Sore Loser. Iron Soldier, champion of the Silver Division, considers you beneath him when you're fighting your way up to his level, and is bitter about you defeating him. You can ask him if he's always so belligerent. | |
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In Which a Trope Is Described | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ec3ff1f7 | comment |
In Which a Trope Is Described: The beginning of each chapter includes a three-line "Wherein X happens" foreshadowing of what's to come. | |
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Martial Pacifist | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_ed46da54 | comment |
Martial Pacifist: Most followers of the Way of the Open Palm. | |
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| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_edae412c | type |
Fighter, Mage, Thief | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_edae412c | comment |
Fighter, Mage, Thief: A couple examples: In general, the Three-Stat System of Body/Health, Spirit/Chi, and Mind/Focus almost but not quite matches up with Fighter, Mage, Thief. Body and Spirit match up with Fighter and Mage, respectively, but Focus ends up as a "Duelist" (mix of Fighter/Thief) rather than pure "Thief." When choosing your character, the types available to you include Balanced (Jack of All Stats), Strong (Fighter), Magic (Mage), and Fast (Thief), though you can subvert it by customizing your character's stats after choosing. The three Sung brothers in the Imperial Arena form this dynamic: Sung Bu fights with two swords (Fighter), Sung Sui switches between a staff and fire/ice magic (Mage), and Sung Bo uses the quick Monkey Paw martial style (Thief). | |
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Blow You Away | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_eea93c96 | comment |
Tempest: Blow You Away. | |
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One Bad Mother | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_eeadb1c7 | comment |
One Bad Mother: The Mother, the main villain of the Southern Forest storyline. | |
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Unskilled, but Strong | |
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Unskilled, but Strong: The Sung brothers note that the Ravager lacks technique, but he makes up for it with his stamina, and the Ravager is noted to have killed an ogre in a single blow. | |
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Dumbass Has a Point | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_f360fc33 | comment |
Dumbass Has a Point: Sir Roderick Ponce von Fontlebottom the Magnificent Bastard, during his debate, has several good points about the Jade Empire buried in the storm of logical errors and ethnocentrism. The best one is where he is amazed that the Jade Empire doesn't use the Dragon powder to make guns.note In real life, the Chinese seem to have been the first to develop gunpowder weapons; it's just that these early firearms and cannons lacked the more advanced metallurgy and firing mechanisms of later ones developed in Europe. | |
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Enemy Civil War | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_f52ae5d8 | comment |
Enemy Civil War: Master Gang is plotting to usurp Master Shin's position in the Lotus Assassin Fortress. Jia calls out her subordinates on petty power struggling, which undermines the Assassins' mission. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Herod | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_f77aa221 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Herod: The backstory showcases the Emperor wiping out the Spirit Monks to the last, so that none will remain to protect the Water Dragon, allowing him to enslave her for great power. However, he missed you, the Player Character, who was hidden away and raised by the Emperor's brother. This trope then turns out to be invoked and subverted; the only reason the Emperor's brother saved you was so that you would have the motivation and drive necessary to overthrow the Emperor, at which point his brother steps in, bumps you off, and sits his ass on the throne. | |
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-0.3 | |
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Barrier Change Boss | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_f85b870f | comment |
Barrier Change Boss: Sun Hai can't be hit with whatever type of style (Unarmed, Weapon, Support, and Magic) he's currently using. | |
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Video Game Cruelty Potential | |
| Jade Empire (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4 | comment |
Video Game Cruelty Potential: Closed Fist is supposedly based on certain philosophy, but the vast majority of the choices are pretty much just about being a Jerkass. Most notably when you have to solve a problem with a love triangle, the Closed Fist choices include either murder, the worst being killing every person involved, or pushing someone into an unwanted marriage. | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good | |
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Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Stabber Yuxi, one of the convicts who drowned when Old Tien's Landing was flooded, believes that Turnkey Shiji chose to come to the quarry instead of fleeing with the others because he wanted to mock the prisoners who were left to drown. In reality, Shiji tried to rescue them because he didn't think even they deserved such a horrible death. | |
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Buried Alive | |
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Gravedigger Shen is an unpleasant and amoral person who sells the possessions of those buried in his ceremony and even willingly has an old man Buried Alive at his son's request, so he comes off as untrustworthy. However, he is telling the truth when he says he didn't kill Miss Chan's baby; he died around the time he was born. | |
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We Buy Anything | |
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We Buy Anything: Essence Gems are your only equipment and are considered somewhat valuable, so anyone will buy and sell them (though only Spirit Monks can use them properly). This is the only non-quest item in your inventory anyway, so obviously all stores should be equipped for this. | |
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I Call It "Vera" | |
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I Call It "Vera": Sir Roderick's blunderbuss, Mirabelle. | |
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Player Character | |
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The Player Character can be this way too, even when playing as Open Palm. | |
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Cruelty Is the Only Option | |
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Cruelty Is the Only Option: In the Special Edition, obtaining one of the pieces for the new Infinity Plus One Style requires you to do one of the darkest Closed Fist choices in the game(selling Fuyao and Yifong into slavery)—even though there are two Closed Fist choices and one Open Palm choice at that point, the more reasonable (and indeed more accurate to the concept of Closed Fist) choice of having Fuyao kill her would-be owner gives you a component for the advanced Open Palm style instead. | |
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Go-Karting with Bowser | |
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Go-Karting with Bowser: Two NPCs in the town of Tien's Landing are a teacher and his student. Both are now mortal enemies, as they now represent opposing philosophies. However, once a year, they meet in Tien's Landing to play a game similar to Go. Without pieces. Or a board. After one of them teaches you a technique that embodies your philosophy, they finish their game and part, planning to meet again next year — assuming neither dies in the interim. They do not exclude the possibility that they could well kill each other if they appear on opposite sides of a conflict, but their dialogue suggests that they're just Vitriolic Best Buds. | |
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Video Game Cruelty Punishment | |
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Video Game Cruelty Punishment: If you go along with the plot to poison Crimson Khana before your arena match, Dr. An will use her medical expertise to realize what you've done and refuse to do further business with you, freezing out her wares if you haven't already cleaned out everything important. This can potentially permanently lock out a the scientist quest. | |
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Accidental Murder | |
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Accidental Murder: Mister Ren's wife Feng served him an improperly cooked fish and gave him fatal food poisoning, causing him to assume that she murdered him. The Open Palm solution to the quest is to help him realize the truth so he can forgive her, while the Closed Fist solution is to kill her in revenge. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Emperor Sun Hai destroys Dirge, slaughters the Spirit Monks and kills the Water Dragon so he can end the drought that has killed hundreds of thousands of his people. Since he goes mad with power afterwards, though, it is questionable how well-intentioned he actually is. Sun Li also claims to be one, but again, his actions don't seem to support it. | |
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Evil Is Petty | |
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Evil Is Petty: As opposed to the idealized "self-reliance" credo of Closed Fist, many of the in-game Closed Fist options are little more than doing jerkish things for no rational reason. Perhaps best exemplified that your 'reward' for going 100% Closed Fist is the ability to literally Kick the Dog for Chi and Focus orbs, which is pointless because dogs are only found in areas where Chi and Focus shrines exist. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: It is obvious that a fair amount of research has gone into the background: Those motions that the students are doing in the school's courtyard at the beginning? That's not some made up wuxia stuff to look pretty. It's a section from an actual tai chi form. A lot of Chinese philosophical ideas are present in this game. Master Li’s final speech reeks of Legalism, the Water Dragon tells you that the Long Drought happened because it was time for something new to take the place of the Sun Dynasty, Kang the Mad paraphrases the parable of the millipede from Zhuangzi, and so on. | |
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Perpetual Poverty | |
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Perpetual Poverty: An odd example: in the Imperial City, one NPC is, in fact, a young noble with expensive tastes, who is begging nonetheless. He explains that he's doing just out of principle: working would be beneath his dignity, and stealing would be morally wrong, so he simply asks instead. If you try to give him a coin out of amusement at his antics, he rejects it as "compensation for entertainment." | |
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