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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Dark Messiah of Might and Magic is a first person Action RPG by Arkane Studios set in the Might and Magic universe. It is in a few ways a bit of Spiritual Successor to Arkane's previous work Arx Fatalis (Itself one of Ultima Underworld, though Dark Messiah has little relation to either of the UU games.). It takes place in Ashan, the same world as the Heroes of Might and Magic V reboot.The game stars Sareth, a young student of a mage called "Phenrig" trained in both magic and martial arts. After a short training mission where a magic crystal is acquired, Phenrig sends Sareth "half a world away" to locate an artifact known as the "Skull of Shadows" — the crystal being a key to the Skull — with the help of fellow wizard Menelag and his apprentice/niece Leanna. Before Sareth leaves, a woman called "Xana" is fused to his spirit by Phenrig to advise him and provide running commentary.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Combat can be best described seeing the world through the eyes of a Combat Pragmatist. The game is built on Valve Software's Source engine and it makes full use of the engine's physics component. Objects in the world of appropriate size can be picked up and thrown at foes to disrupt them, while strong blows, or the game's dedicated "kick attack", can knock enemies around (this is particularly pronounced with Goblins and Undead due to their lack of bulk), pushing them into traps, bottomless pits or each other. Magic is similarly more than a rocket launcher. Spells allow you to freeze the ground, throw big things around with telekinesis, light your enemies on fire and be a general badass. The environment is often littered with cliffs, barrels, oil pots and spike racks, and the player is given incentive to take advantage of these factors. Enemies are both strong and plentiful and there is no EXP rewarded for killing them, only completing objectives. The player must use everything in his arsenal and all the fun things in the environment to survive fights, especially on higher difficulties.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })Arkane Studios was announced to be working on another "immersive first person RPG" in 2009 before their acquisition by Bethesda Softworks, which has since been revealed to be Dishonored. |
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Mission Control Is Off Its Meds |
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Mission Control Is Off Its Meds: The further you get, the more blatantly evil Xana gets. |
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Katanas Are Just Better |
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The Superior Naga Silksword bears a striking resemblance to Connor's sword from Highlander. |
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Romantic Fusion |
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Romantic Fusion: Xana and the protagonist are linked together magically early in the story, and the bond between them manifests as her voice broadcasting in his thoughts, and many of her demonic powers being usable by him. Given that Xana is a Succubus, their connection is given very sexual connotations, with Xana submissively promising to fulfill his every desire. |
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Godiva Hair: Xana, in demon form. |
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Hero Antagonist |
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Hero Antagonist: If you opt to be evil, then Arantir ends up as this as he's trying to prevent the calamity that you're intending to bring about. |
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Our Orcs Are Different |
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Our Orcs Are Different: They're the result of combining human and demon blood, for one, and have a red skin colour instead of green (despite the page image). They're a mixture of Tolkien and Blizzard orcs, as they look rather unattractive and are fairly aggressive towards humans, which they also eat, but they're also intelligent despite their use of Hulk Speak and have a strong sense of honour and friendship with each other. |
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Multiple Endings |
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Multiple Endings: With little variation in-between each. There are four ending cinematics depending on whether you cleanse Sareth of his demonic heritage, and whether you imprison or release Sareth's father. Leanna can be killed at several points (whether by your hand, by accident, or left for dead in the lair of a Giant Spider), but she will eventually attack you if you try to play both sides. |
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Emergency Transformation |
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Emergency Transformation: After you are impaled on a spike, Xana saves you by Demonic Possession, turning you into a demon. |
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Funny Background Event |
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Funny Background Event: When you arrive on the orc island you find two soldiers, one dead one badly wounded. Leanna and the mage Taergon will talk to the wounded one, who offers some information about the island. Meanwhile, the other mage accompanying you quietly walks over to the corpse and pokes it with his staff. Yup, he's dead. |
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Spiritual Successor |
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Spiritual Successor: As mentioned above Dark Messiah is one to Arx Fatalis (indeed, a few file names, primarily basic weapons, use "arx"). Additionally, Dark Messiah borrows the "marked secrets" system of early First Person Shooters, complete with the ability to find more powerful than standard weapons/armor early, while missed equipment is sitting out in the open a few levels down the line. As a combat focused shooter engine driven melee combat game with no shortage of Video Game Cruelty Potential, the game feels an awful lot like the last two games of the Dark Forces Saga. |
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Zombie Puke Attack: All of the zombies in the game can do this, inflicting poison damage, much to the player's annoyance. |
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Mauve Shirt: Duncan, the surviving guard from the orc attack on the temple reappears a few times and his cousin is an important character in the final level. Duncan is pretty much doomed to die after telling you about said cousin, as he has low health and there are a few enemies he will rush. You can save him with major effort, but his AI was not programmed for the possibility, and runs around in circles afterwards. |
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Awesome, but Impractical |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The inferno spell does tremendous damage to a foe standing right in front of you, and blinds you while it is being cast so that you can't see if the foe has stepped back out of the fire. With practice this needn't be a problem however. |
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Tomato in the Mirror |
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Tomato in the Mirror: Sareth is the Dark Messiah. |
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Multi-Melee Master |
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Multi-Melee Master: Sareth can fight with swords, staves, or daggers. And of course, his mighty boot. Swords are most plentiful and the most powerful weapon of the game is one. They can be paired with a shield. Staves do less damage, but provide better defense when blocking and provide a higher chance of knocking an opponent down and are therefore often useful when mobbed by enemies. Daggers always come in pairs. They do the least damage, but are the only weapons that can be used for stealth kills and a fleeing or stunned enemy can be taken down with a one-hit ranged kill by throwing the dagger. |
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Squishy Wizard |
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Squishy Wizard: Let's just say that if you choose to play an all-mage build then make sure you can quickly reach the heal spell. |
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I Can Rule Alone |
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I Can Rule Alone: By sticking with Xana the entire game, Sareth has the option of leaving his father trapped in Sheogh so he can rule Ashan with the Skull's power. |
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Artifact of Doom |
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The Orcs aren't evil, just territorial, and have every good reason to keep you from taking the Skull Of Shadows. |
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Super-Powered Evil Side |
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Superpowered Evil Side: After The Reveal, Sareth can take on a demonic form, courtesy of Xana. In this mode, you cannot cast spells or use special abilities, but you can drain an enemy's health to restore your own. |
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NoKillLikeOverKill |
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No Kill like Overkill: The Adrenaline mechanic gifts you a powerful One-Hit Kill upon dealing enough damage to your enemies. For melee weapons, this equates to a brutal dismemberment or beatdown, and for spells they often evolve into much more powerful versions of their original effects. An example would be Weaken, which normally just slows an enemy and makes them weaker, being able to permanently shrink an opponent when used with Adrenaline. |
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Benevolent Architecture |
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Benevolent Architecture: The game features a mechanic where kicking enemies into spikes causes instant death; why the enemies set up racks of spikes in their homes or gardens is never explained. |
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Elemental Powers |
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Elemental Powers: The game places heavy emphasis on this, with the three different enemy types (undead, Orcs, and humans) each being weak to a different element (holy, lightning, and fire, respectively). Interestingly, undead are weak to both holy and fire, and striking a ghoul with the Infinity +1 Sword holy weapon lights them on fire. |
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Stripperific |
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Stripperific: While Leanna's outfit isn't the worst example out there, it is still effectively the "wizard robe" armor minus the pants, 3/4s of the mantle and the sleeves. Xana doesn't wear much either. And her true form doesn't wear anything at all. |
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Anti-Anti-Christ |
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Anti Anti Christ/The Antichrist: Sareth, depending on your choice. |
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All Webbed Up |
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All Webbed Up: Spider lairs in Dark Messiah have loads of webbed corpses. |
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Infinity -1 Sword |
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Infinity -1 Sword: The Earthfire sword. You'll only obtain the game's Infinity +1 Sword at the very end of the penultimate level, and only if you're going for the good ending. Conversely, an observant player who scours the game for secrets can wield the Earthfire sword shortly before the midgame starts, just before you run into a bunch of enemies who take extra damage from fire. |
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Combat Pragmatist |
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Combat Pragmatist: Sareth frequently uses his environment to his advantage. This is actually ideal due to a number of factors: for starters, you don't gain EXP from killing enemies, so disposing of them in the quickest way possible is ideal. Secondly, even early on enemies deal a LOT of damage and can block your attacks frequently, making it difficult to win in a straight up fight. Lastly, the games numerous systems make it easy for a skilled player to dispose of his enemies however he wishes as enemies take lots of damage from falling, being hit with heavy objects, and so on. |
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Harmless Freezing |
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Harmless Freezing: Zapping an enemy with the Ice spell will simply leave them an immobile block of ice for a bit. You can kick them over and deal damage to them, but after a few seconds they'll defrost. |
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Duel Boss |
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Duel Boss: The Orc leader Aratrok challenges you to one on the stipulation that you don't use magic. If you don't follow the rules, you will have to face his 4 henchmen along with him, but given that Aratrok is already insanely powerful (one of the few foes that can survive a finisher on normal) with no traps around, it's in your best interest to do so unless you are a pure-mage and can't win the fight normally. To be fair, the way the game works, any character can take advantage of the physics engine. |
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Dual Wielding |
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Dual Wielding: All daggers come in pairs. |
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Magic Knight |
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Magic Knight: Actively encouraged and an explicit ability of Sareth in the manual. Melee skills are bloody cheap to purchase and the skill that makes a pure-mage build really viable is only purchasable really late into the game (that being mana regeneration, something that costs a whopping 25 skill points and even more to lead up to it in the skill tree). The same is true of pure fighters. It is very easy to run out of healing until you have the late-game hitpoint regeneration power, but the heal spell is very cheap and mana does regenerate. As a result, alternating between the two is necessary to survive. One of the reasons why the Elements port is so disliked is that this factor of gameplay was removed entirely, forcing you into being either a fighter, mage, or thief. This, as a result, turns an already challenging game into an absolute nightmare on higher difficulties. |
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type |
Arrows on Fire |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_5869bd44 |
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Arrows on Fire: If you hold down the attack button to keep your bow drawn, you can set the arrow alight using fires in-game, such as torches. This allows you to deal fire damage and/or set barrels of oil on fire. |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_5869bd44 |
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Back Stab |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_5a08d0ae |
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Back Stab: You can pull off stealth kills once you raise your Sneak skill high enough. Useless Useful Stealth is averted here, this technique works on the Final Boss. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_5a08d0ae |
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type |
Nightmare Sequence |
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Nightmare Sequence: There are two dream sequences that turn to nightmares — one where you dance with Leanna and then stab her while Arantir watches, and one when you remember your first meeting with Xana in a different way, with her shoving you down and looking demonic. Depending on whether you betray Leanna later, the dancing dream can also be foreshadowing. |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_5c0fc07b |
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Nintendo Hard |
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Nintendo Hard: Even on normal, enemies deal a surprisingly large amount of damage. It's very easy to run out of healing potions if you don't act smart either, and even the dedicated healing spell can only be used so often. As a result, playing smart and efficiently is the way to go. |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_62259825 |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_63d861f8 |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For a certain definition of "love". Xana is a sociopathic succubus, but her arguable sole redeeming trait is her undying loyalty towards you in spite of her snarking. Your father is a more straightforward example. You'd expect him to be an uncaring demonic monster who sees you as a pawn in his schemes, but he actually respects you and wants to connect with the son that he didn't have the chance to be with in his formative years. |
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Flynning |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_65331274 |
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Flynning: Sareth's wild flailings bear almost no resemblance whatsosever to actual bladeplay if Flurry of Blows is the player's primary way of attacking. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_65331274 |
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type |
Dance of Romance |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_65c0f3fa |
comment |
Dance of Romance: Sareth has a dream where he dances with Leanna in the moonlight as romantic music plays. However, it soon turns to a nightmare. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_65c0f3fa |
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type |
Goomba Stomp |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_679d7cc7 |
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Goomba Stomp: Though it doesn't come up much, the player can damage enemies just by landing on them. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_679d7cc7 |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_679d7cc7 |
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type |
Trick Boss |
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comment |
Trick Boss: The whole game builds up to a final fight with Arantir at the end of the game. He's stronger than any other mages you've fought, but is still a relatively average opponent. Then he shields himself and summons an undead dragon to serve as the real Final Boss. |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_6acf5d1b |
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type |
The Reveal |
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comment |
The Reveal: After you acquire the skull you've been seeking for the whole game, your Evil Overlord demonic father reveals himself to you and explains how you were his Unwitting Pawn. That said, if you'd been paying attention to the cutscenes and Xana's dialogue or even just read the manual, you probably saw this coming. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59 |
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type |
Guide Dang It! |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 |
comment |
Guide Dang It!: The game never tells you that, if you want to find every secret in one playthrough, you need both the Telekinesis spell and Burglary skill. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8 |
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type |
Gameplay Ally Immortality |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_742a6e78 |
comment |
Gameplay Ally Immortality: Averted. Allied soldiers and mages rarely fight alongside you, and when they do they only have about as much health as the basic enemy Mooks. When Leanna follows you around as a partner, she only has slightly more health than a basic Mook and dies all too easily if she gets mobbed by two or three enemies at once. |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_742a6e78 |
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type |
Obviously Evil |
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comment |
Obviously Evil: Xana. The Demon Sovereign isn't a slouch in the "look evil" department: Glowing Eyes of Doom, plus red spiked armor. |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_7c0bfb83 |
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type |
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_7c862b8a |
comment |
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Xana, as every other succubus in the series, frequently suggests that Sareth betray his allies, even when they are technically on her side. She will even betray the Demon Sovereign if Sareth chooses to leave his father sealed.. Perhaps surprisingly she stays entirely loyal to you throughout the game, even going out of her way to save and revive you when you are killed midway into the game. |
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type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_7d89315b |
comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Arantir is very fond of telling Sareth how pathetic he is. |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_7d89315b |
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type |
Dracolich |
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comment |
Draco Lich: The final boss is a Spectral Dragon that Arantir summons to deal with you. |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_7f93643c |
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Cap |
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comment |
Cap: You can only hold 20 of an item at once. This really only becomes an issue with food rations (which all food becomes when picked up) and mana potions for non-pure mages. |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_834427cd |
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type |
Unwinnable |
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comment |
Unwinnable: Your health doesn't regenerate, and healing items are both finite and relatively scarce. Even worse, the basic healing potions only restore a portion of your health, and the special items that restore you to full health are very rare and usually only found in secret areas. As a result, if you do poorly in the first few levels, it's quite possible to end up in a situation where you don't have enough health to make it past the next area, and the healing items nearby aren't enough to help you get through. However, after the first few chapters you acquire an ally who will heal you to full health after every battle, and then a ring that (very slowly) regenerates your health over time. There's also an upgrade that causes your health to regenerate, but you won't be able to purchase it until very late in the game. Averted if the player takes the time to explore the levels, as Full Health Potions and Magic Mushrooms can be found early on, both of which fully restore the player's health. The Magic Mushrooms also fully restore the player's mana. |
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type |
What Happened to the Mouse? |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_863fa679 |
comment |
What Happened to the Mouse?: Phenrig disappears from the plot after the tutorial, despite being Sareth's foster father and implicitly being aligned to demons. |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_863fa679 |
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type |
Villain Protagonist |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_898ff050 |
comment |
Villain Protagonist: Potentially, depending on the ending you go for. |
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1.0 |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_898ff050 |
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type |
Deconstruction |
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comment |
Deconstruction: In a similar vein to Bioshock a year later, a deconstruction of But Thou Must!. You're initially given the impression that you're trying to stop Arantir from enacting an evil plan, but it's revealed halfway through the game that YOU are the Dark Messiah, and that your Affably Evil dad wants you to take up the mantle as the saviour of demonkind, and that you've been set up the entire game by Xana and your teacher to fulfill your destiny. Unfortunately, the plot twist is telegraphed fairly blatantly and loses most of its impact as a result. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_8ae880f7 |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_8ae880f7 |
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type |
Demonic Possession |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_906365a2 |
comment |
Demonic Possession: A benevolent version is used by Xana when you are Impaled with Extreme Prejudice. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_906365a2 |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_906365a2 |
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type |
Artificial Stupidity |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_940a5958 |
comment |
Artificial Stupidity: The AI doesn't recognize that walking through a burning puddle of oil is a bad idea. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_940a5958 |
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1.0 |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_940a5958 |
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type |
Betty and Veronica |
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comment |
Betty and Veronica: The game presents you with two strongly contrasted female companions in the form of the blonde, goody-two-shoes mage Leanna and the dark-haired, sultry, and Obviously Evil Xana. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_94e4c8ab |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_94e4c8ab |
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type |
Same Character, But Different |
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comment |
Same Character, But Different: Retroactively with Heroes of Might and Magic VI, which was made after Dark Messiah but takes place four centuries before it. In HOMMVI, Xana is very much an Anti-Villain Noble Demon; she's sweet, honest, level-headed, and loyal, and her biography even notes that she's pretty close to being the Inferno faction's Token Good Teammate. It looks like after 400 years in Hell, by the time Dark Messiah takes place her personality has corrupted into the more typical seductive and evil succubus personality. |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_9890e176 |
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type |
Kill It with Fire |
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comment |
Kill It with Fire: Enemies die quickly once they've been set on fire. There are multiple convenient fires to kick enemies into and even more oil jars which will create a small puddle that can be ignited with any attack that generates flame, including the multiple flaming weapons. |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_9c1f758a |
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type |
Wreaking Havok |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_a2761f46 |
comment |
Wreaking Havok: The primary function of telekinesis and kicking. |
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1.0 |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_a2761f46 |
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type |
Good Parents |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_a30c287 |
comment |
Good Parents: Sareth's demon-lord father is actually pretty good to his son, assuming that you don't decide to rebind him into his prison. A bit like Darth Vader and Luke, without the dueling. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_a30c287 |
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1.0 |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_a30c287 |
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type |
Infinity +1 Sword |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e |
comment |
Infinity +1 Sword: Light Elemental weapons are the most powerful in the game (and also have the added benefit of doing extra damage to undead, the most common enemy type encountered), but since your character is a half-demon hybrid who's also carrying around a demoness in his head, you can't actually use them until the last chapter where you can purify yourself at the temple of the world's Crystal Dragon Jesus, who also is good enough to provide you with a Light Elemental weapon, in case you didn't manage to find any before. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e |
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1.0 |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e |
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type |
Shielded Core Boss |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_aa42f179 |
comment |
Shielded Core Boss: The Final Boss. It's Arantir, who summons a skeletal dragon to fight you and remains invulnerable as long as it lives. After defeating it, he's open for a few seconds after which he summons it again. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_aa42f179 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
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1.0 |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_aa42f179 |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 |
type |
Deadpan Snarker |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 |
comment |
Deadpan Snarker: Sareth eventually starts responding to Xana's "advice" this way. Xana also has her moments, mostly where Leanna is concerned. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 |
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1.0 |
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1.0 |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438 |
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type |
Fake Kill Scare |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_ae422bac |
comment |
Fake Kill Scare: Leanna appears to be killed by Arantir. However, you get the chance to rescue her from his lair later in the game. |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_ae422bac |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
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Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_ae422bac |
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type |
I Did What I Had to Do |
| | Dark Messiah of Might and Magic (Video Game) / int_b17f6a27 |
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I Did What I Had to Do: "I do this for the sake of Ashan." — said by Arantir while he is killing Sareth. |
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Horned Humanoid |
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Horned Humanoid: Xana's demon form has six horns on her head. |
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Glowing Eyes of Doom |
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The Demon Sovereign isn't a slouch in the "look evil" department: Glowing Eyes of Doom, plus red spiked armor. |
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These Hands Have Killed |
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These Hands Have Killed: In the dancing dream, after Sareth stabs Leanna, he looks at his hands in horror. |
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Mission Control |
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Mission Control: Xana, with the odd variation in that she's inside you. |
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CharacterClass |
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Character Class: Averted, the game uses a point buy system for abilities. Played straight in the multiplayer though. |
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Neck Lift |
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Neck Lift: Orcs can do this to you if you aren't careful, lifting up Sareth and then hurling him backwards a good distance away. If you're unlucky enough to have a particularly high dropoff behind you when this happens, well... |
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Big "NO!" |
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Big "NO!": Performed by Leanna, if you choose to release your dad. |
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Shout-Out |
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Shout-Out: The Master Thief's armor you can acquire towards the end of the game is embossed with a "G", a reference to Garrett from the Thief series (which the game's stealth gameplay strongly resembles), and must be reached with use of rope arrows, one of the signature tricks of the Thief games. The Superior Naga Silksword bears a striking resemblance to Connor's sword from Highlander. Goblins sometimes shout "Float like Goblin! Sting like bee!" while they attack you. |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice |
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Sareth is thrown into a spike by Arantir in the middle of the game, piercing him clean through the torso. |
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Magic Skirt |
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Magic Skirt: Leanna has one of the shadowy variety. Blatantly obvious in the opening to chapter 5 where she sits in-front of you and you see right down it. |
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Beware My Stinger Tail |
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Beware My Stinger Tail: In your demon form, your charged attack strikes at an enemy with your tail. |
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Hard Work Hardly Works |
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Hard Work Hardly Works: Lampshaded by the Final Boss, who wonders who will win the duel: a twenty-year-old Magic Knight or someone who trained for centuries. In all fairness though,this is more a case of inverted Cutscene Incompetence since at this point he has literally curbstomped you in every encounter so far, even killed you by levitating you onto a shrine, impaling you. One could argue he was exhausted from raising an undead dragon and performing his banishing ritual. |
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Screw Destiny |
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Screw Destiny: If you choose so, you can spit on the millennium-old prophecy and seal Sheogh pernamently, be it from good intentions, or so that you don't have to share Ashan with anyone. |
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Escort Mission |
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Escort Mission: Leanna is subject to a few, but thankfully she 1: has her health on screen, 2: can be told to stay put, 3: heals herself (and you!), 4: Isn't an awful fighter in most of them, and the one she is outclassed in you've killed most of the enemies before starting the escort. |
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Anti-Villain |
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Anti-Villain: The Orcs aren't evil, just territorial, and have every good reason to keep you from taking the Skull Of Shadows. Arantir is honestly trying to stop the prophesy from being fulfilled. Which, if you opt to do and release your demonic father, ends up making him the lesser evil. |
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Mundane Made Awesome |
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Mundane Made Awesome: Phenrig describes fairly mundane things with absolutely delicious quantities of ham. |
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Ship Level |
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Ship Level: One area is a ship you need to clear of enemies so you can use it for transport. |
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Blade Lock |
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Blade Lock: You can enter a "contest of might" with an opponent where your weapons lock together and you push against each other. |
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Dark Messiah |
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Dark Messiah: Averted. The "Dark Messiah" is not a Messianic Archetype with morally questionable goals, but a demon/human hybrid that will free the demons from their prison; he is not a dark saviour, he is the saviour of the dark. Potentially, anyway. |
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Fighter, Mage, Thief |
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Fighter, Mage, Thief: The game's three skill trees basically boil down to this. The game encourages you mix and match, however, as certain abilities are quite handy regardless of your build, such as the ability to pick locks. |
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Evil Feels Good |
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Evil Feels Good: So Xana promises. Sareth seems to agree if you use his Superpowered Evil Side much. |
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Anti-Grinding |
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Anti-Grinding: Grinding is made completely impossible: XP is awarded only for advancing in the story. |
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No-Gear Level |
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No-Gear Level: Sareth's horse is startled away at the start of chapter 1, taking everything he found in the prologue with it. Given you get far more than what you found in the prologue (which is a short sword, 2 health potions and maybe a bow) before you have any use for it and Sareth kept the plot coupon on his person, this just makes the intro a bit more cinematic. A strange example occurs in chapter 7, where you can't even use your spells (which are treated as inventory items by the game, complete with taking up space) until you get your stuff back, nor can you pick up any items (they are stored in your taken backpack, and you still can't even hold one in your hands). Thankfully both enemies you meet before getting your stuff back are conveniently in front of a fire and bottomless pit and you can still kick, plus you just got access to a "demon form" ability that doesn't need weapons. |
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Video Game Cruelty Potential |
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Video Game Cruelty Potential: Put it this way... hacking the limbs off of your enemies is the least imaginative thing you can do. To put it another way, it sure is convenient how the game starts placing throwable, fragile jars of oil around the levels just as you start getting access to fire spells. |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Though it is really hard to agree with him given he murders and imprisons civilians while laying waste to everything in his path, Arantir is out to stop you from fulfilling the prophecy and seal Sheogh forever while he's at it, which is a good-ish thing. |
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