History VideoGame / ArxFatalis

* ShinySense: While not present by default, high enough Intuition skill can sometimes highlight various concealed things of note in the environment, such as pieces of loot and secret switches.

* AdvancingBossOfDoom: [[spoiler: Black Beast.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: Lightning Bolt and Slow Time.

* BlingBlingBang: ''Nastily'' subverted. [[spoiler: With a secret spell you can summon an extremely tough warrior demoness, armed with a {{BFS}} and clad in what looks golden Ylside armor, who attacks you. After you kill her, in a fair fight or using some trick, she explodes, but you can pick up her sword and a random piece of her armor (helmet, leggings of chestplate) appears in your inventory. However, those pieces are breakable, have no model (they become invisible if you put them on), and have poor armor class compared to Ylside armor. While the leggings have decent armor class (the second largest, actually), they're still half as strong as the Ylside ones and not worth the fight. and the chest plate, probably due to mistake, is only as good as the plain chestplate (''four'' times worse than Ylside). At least the golden helmet plays it straight, as it's the strongest helmet in the game.]]

* DamselInDistress: Alia, though only episodically, and Shany.

* Invisibility: Available in ring, potion and spell forms, though all three sources are amongst the hardest to come by in their respective categories and practically any act will break the effect.

* PowerGlows: Enchanted weapons.

* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Rats. And Ratmen. And, good god, the summonable demon rat.

* ShakyPOVCam: [[spoiler: Enter the Black Beast]].

* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Incinerate and ''Mass Incinerate'' spells.

* InterfaceScrew: A Paralyze is a major one [[ThatOneAttack if casted on you]]. Even cursor is paralysed.

* JumpPhysics: Really awkward, on the verge of GoodBadBugs. You can somehow move twice as fast by bunny-hopping and [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou negate all falling damage]] by jumping off the ledge rather than walkking off it, but there is a [[ThatOneLevel dreaded jump-puzzle]] involving tiny platforms and lava...

* NonHealthDamage: In a play on StatDeath, max health is calculated by formula "Max health = 2*Constitution*(Your Level +1)", meaning that simply leveling up gives you a good load of health, even if your Constitution is at absolute minimum of 6, and making Constitution a DumpStat. However, HilarityEnsues if a lich randomly decides to cast a [[ThatOneAttack Curse spell]], decreasing all your stats by 10 - which, according to the above formula, means instant death for anyone with Constitution below 11.

* BonusBoss: A hidden spell summons (which one depends on RandomNumberGod) either a huge lightning-fast rat or a warrior demoness with a {{BFS}} who has [[AllYourPowersCombined all your enemies' powers combined]] and is nearly impossible to kill.

* BalefulPolymorph: Lord Inut turned himself permanently into a chicken.

* StoneWall: An interesting case is that it can be played UpToEleven. If you pump every point into defence, you will efficiently and very quickly become NighInvulnerable.[[spoiler: Even Black Beast, a OneHitKill on legs, can't hurt you; however, being also NighInvulnerable (though rather MightyGlacier), it can corner you and make you starve to death.]]

* DropInNemesis: [[spoiler: In dwarven mines you are hunted by Black Beast, a {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le OneHitKill MightyGlacier PuzzleBoss. You have to activate a steam hammer, lure the beast under it by whatever means and smash it. This, howewer, just slows it down, but now you can move into other room and throw a lever, which releases another lever, which, it turn, opens the LavaPit so you can lure the monster there. Hell, Black Beast is so slow, so why bother with whole hammer thing? Let's go for the lava already! Well, go and try. Once you throw the lever, the damn creature starts ''running'', effectively going {{Nigh Invulnerab|ility}}le OneHitKill LightningBruiser. Naturally, [[OhCrap your chances of survival plummet]].]]

* KillItWithFire: Fireball / Incinerate woks wonders with Ylsides, as well with everything else [[spoiler: except Akbaa which is [[ContractualBossImmunity deliberately fireproof]]]]. Mummies are especially sensitive to fire.

* BanditMook: Ratmen can steal your money during a fight.

** The Fireball spell can be learned quite early, after which a spellcaster can easily use it as their sole offensive spell for pretty much the rest of the game thanks to its reliable and high area damage.

* NonIndicativeName: While clusters of what can be assumed to be some sort of gnarly-looking fungal growth is growing from the walls in places, in general the so-called "Mushroom Forest" couldn't be much further from the image of a lush fairy-tale like woodland the name conjures up.

%% BalefulPolymorph: Lord Inut.

* InfantImmortality: Averted if you fail a certain side quest.

* AmnesiacHero: You wake up in a cell and the first thing the protagonist mentions to his fellow cellmate is that he doesn't remember his memory. The game's story involves saving thw world while also trying to rebuild your memory.

%% AmnesiacHero

''Arx Fatalis'', made by Creator/ArkaneStudios, is a first-person WesternRPG[=/=]ImmersiveSim that was intended as a SpiritualSuccessor to the ''VideoGame/UltimaUnderworld'' series, and has become of a CultClassic.

* UltimateBlacksmith: Dwarves. [[spoiler: well,there is actually the Ultimate Forge, and all blacksmiths were ''eaten'']].

* TurnedAgainstTheirMasters: from all things you can summon, only ''the chicken'' won't attack you at first glance.
* UltimateBlacksmith: Dwarwes. [[spoiler: well,there is actually the Ultimate Forge, and all blacksmiths were ''eaten'']].

* TheStarscream: [[spoiler: Atok, the foreman,|| is shown to be this during the Troll Strike quest, and his plan involved [[spoiler: stealing the Troll idol from King Pog, in order to cause the popularity of goblin King Alotar (who Atok claims cheated in the election) to plummet so that Atok may take the crown and eat all the pies he wants.]]

!!This game provides examples of:

* AllMythsAreTrue: Unless you take the time to read all the books, you may miss the one that names some of the gods that inhabit, or have inhabited the Noden, such as Akbaa, [[CthulhuMythos Ftaghn-Nayak]], Aldor and [[GreekMythology Zeus]]...

''Arx Fatalis'', made by Creator/ArkaneStudios, is a first-person WesternRPG[=/=]ImmersiveSim that was intended as a SpiritualSuccessor to the ''VideoGame/UltimaUnderworld'' series, and has become [[SugarWiki/NeedsMoreLove somewhat]] of a CultClassic.