History VideoGame / DhuxsScar

* FacialHorror: The reason for [[spoiler:Samael's strange PeekABangs]].

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll]]: [[spoiler:Only Samael and Sybil die prior to the ending, but since the entire point of the plot is to ''destroy'' the world, this is a given. However, everyone either gets reincarnated or goes to Heaven, so this is actually a rather benign example.]]

* MamaBear: [[spoiler:Sybil]] takes this trope and cranks it UpToEleven. [[spoiler: She survives three attacks from GOD to protect her little girl.]]

* ImprobableWeaponUser: [[spoiler:Jazz]]. The [[SimpleStaff staff]] is just for show.

* StupidSexyFlanders: If you have to ask, you aren't far enough in the game.

* VendorTrash: To avoid the MoneySpider trope. Lampshaded in their descriptions; "Just sell it. This game has no crafting quests."

** "[[Film/LordOfTheRings One does not simply walk into Mord...]] Protea."

* GoThroughMe: A variation; it's the good ([[GrayAndBlackMorality ish]]) guy getting stopped. [[spoiler:Nimue]] does this when [[spoiler:Halbarad]] is about to kill [[spoiler:Valedar]]. However, this is subverted when [[spoiler:Nimue]] says she's willing to die for [[spoiler:Valedar]], [[spoiler:Halbarad]] simply says, "Then die," and kills her. (Does not end well; it causes a major FreakOut on [[spoiler:Valedar]]'s part and makes him [[ActionBomb explode.]])

''La Cicatriz de Dhux / Dhux's Scar'' is a Spanish RPG by Erilex that was later translated into English. It contains unorthodox battles and a deep and interesting story rife with religious overtones. Nothing is as it seems in Dhux's Scar; the plot will take so many twists and turns that sometimes it can be hard to keep up.

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* ActionBomb: Incubi.

* BetterThanABareBulb

* CoolSword: Elijah.

* CrypticConversation: Often.

* DeconstructorFleet
* DecoyProtagonist: Dario.

* DirtyCoward: Elijah.
* DirtyOldMan: Jazz.

* DivineParentage: [[spoiler:Jazz and Faye.]]
* TheDragon: [[spoiler:Maikas/Michael]].

* FlunkyBoss: Hisque.

* FullFrontalAssault: Hisque.

* GoldenEnding: Ending B.

* {{Heaven}}: [[spoiler:SAFE.]]
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: [[spoiler:Gabrielle.]]

* JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: [[spoiler:Halbarad.]]

* LightningBruiser: Faye.

* TheMedic: [[spoiler:Jazz]].

* MetaGuy: Jazz.

* MinorMajorCharacter: Pope Ardheras.
* MoralityKitchenSink
* MultipleEndings

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Sybil.]]

* ObfuscatingStupidity and ObfuscatingInsanity: [[spoiler:Jazz.]]

* PointOfNoReturn: Multiple.

* PuzzleBoss: [[spoiler:Elijah]].

* SinisterScythe: Samael.

* SufferTheSlings: Celiann.

* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Michael.]]

* VisionaryVillain: [[spoiler:[[BigBad Alpha.]]]]

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Faye.

* UnderratedAndOverleveled: Averted. The main characters are a [[{{Mercenaries}} mercenary]], a traveling merchant, and a, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld supposedly]], teenage girl. These characters are *exactly* as strong as they should be according to their backgrounds. The mercenary with his high stats, and special abilities (including the only healing spell in the game) pretty much wins every battle single-handedly. The merchant has 1/3 the mercenaries maximum health, does 1/4 the damage with regular attacks and doesn't have any special attacks to spend his MP on. Though he has some great abilities to help get cheaper or special items from merchants and can do comparable damage to the mercenary by throwing amulets only he can use, but the cost of purchasing all those amulets add up so rapidly that [[AwesomeButImpractical it's cheaper to let the mercenary deal with everything and put the savings towards healing items]]. Meanwhile the girl is every bit as worthless as one would expect from an inexperienced girl ([[SuperpoweredEvilSide usually]]), Her damage is so pathetic that if not overleveled many enemies will NoSell her attacks, she has the lowest health and defense and spends every single encounter [[DefendCommand defending]] and nothing else; to the point that having her in the party starts to feels like a game long EscortMission.

So the story goes, but as one will soon find out, there's more to the story than it appears. The plot follows a weakling merchant called Elijah, a young girl called Celliann, and Faye, an androgynous bodyguard and old acquaintance of Elijah's. Faye is the only one of these characters that is really cut out for combat; Celiann is about as useful as you'd expect a little girl to be and Elijah can only dish out real damage by using magical amulets that are in limited supply. (Even then, a single regular attack from Faye usually deals comparable damage)

** Since healing is always a percentage of the characters maximum healing items, particularly MP based ones, become far cheaper relative to income in later levels, making grinding at later levels much easier, just a few extra MP restoring items, used for healing, can result in dozens of extra battles

** Arguably amulets as well. While they allow Elijah to do far more damage, each cost 100 gold. However, the amulet damage is still not much more then Faye's regular attack, and putting amulet money towards a cheap MP restoring potion to fuel faey's healing magic so he can [[BoringButPracticle kill everything with regular attacks]] and your get far more bang for your buck. The later in the game the more cost-inefficient the amulets get as healing items provide increasingly more mana while amulets actually do slightly less damage relative to level.
*** Then again the game, to a lesser extent then some games, has MoneyForNothing, so why not use some of it to speed up a boss battle?

* EnfanteTerrible: Celliann, adorable fourteen year old girl and AxCrazy OmnicidalManiac.

** They actually made more sense in spanish: '''S'''[[spoiler:istema (System)]] '''A'''[[spoiler:bsoluto (Absolute)]] '''F'''[[spoiler:elicidad (Happiness)]] '''E'''[[spoiler:terna (ethernal)]], which translates to Absolute System of Ethernal Happiness. '''E'''sfera '''D'''e '''E'''mociones '''N'''egativas, or, in english, Negative Emotions Sphere, which itself is a funny acronym if you think about it.

** You can also use the Merchant's Lens to f*k the merchants over. Normally, they'd attempt to scam you if you barter. They can't with the lens.

* MediumAwareness: Jazz. He liked videogames and one of his friends is obsessed with The Observer, Erilex's previous game.

* RRatedOpening: You wanted an oldschool RPG? Here's your oldschool RPG. With gore. Whoa.

** ShoutOut: "[[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Those are just flesh wounds!]]"

** Cellliann's actually much more fitting for this trope, since her powers are far greater than the amulets'... but she's still physically a little girl.

* UnderratedAndOverleveled: Averted. The main characters are a [[{{Mercenaries}} mercenary]], a traveling merchant, and a, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld supposedly]], teenage girl. These characters are *exactly* as strong as they should be according to their backgrounds. The mercenary with his high stats, and special abilities (including the only healing spell in the game) pretty much wins every battle single handedly. The merchant has 1/3 the mercenaries maximum health, does 1/4 the damage with regular attacks and doesn't have any special attacks to spend his MP on. Though he has some great abilities to help get cheaper or special items from merchants and can do compable damage to the mercenary by throwing amulets only he can use, but the cost of purchasing all those amulets add up so rapidly that [[AwesomeButImpractical it's cheaper to let the mercenary deal with everything and put the savings towards healing items]]. Meanwhile the girl is every bit as worthless as one would expect from an inexperienced girl ([[SuperpoweredEvilSide usually]]), Her damage is so pathetic that if not overleveled many enemies will NoSell her attacks, she has the lowest health and defense and spends every single encounter [[DefendCommand defending]] and nothing else; to the point that having her in the party starts to feels like a game long EscortMission.

-->"[[CrowningMomentOfFunny Not a good time to overwrite your last save file. Seriously.]]"

* ImplausibleFencingPowers: Faye.

'''La Cicatriz de Dhux / Dhux's Scar''' is a Spanish RPG by Erilex that was later translated into English. It contains unorthodox battles and a deep and interesting story rife with religious overtones. Nothing is as it seems in Dhux's Scar; the plot will take so many twists and turns that sometimes it can be hard to keep up.

* ShoutOut: [[VideoGame/ChronoTrigger "Male, female, what's the difference? Power is beautiful, and I've got th-"]] [[LampshadeHanging "Yeah, yeah, I get it. Let's stop right there before we delve too far into reference hell."]]
** Faye's InfinityMinusOneSword is called the "{{Phantasmagoria}}".

So the story goes, but as one will soon find out, there's more to the story than it appears. The plot follows a weakling merchant called Elijah, a young girl called Celliann, and Faye, an androgymous bodyguard and old acquaintance of Elijah's. Faye is the only one of these characters that is really cut out for combat; Celiann is about as useful as you'd expect a little girl to be and Elijah can only dish out real damage by using magical amulets that are in limited supply. (Even then, a single regular attack from Faye usually deals comparable damage)

** Arguably amulets as well. While they allow Elijah to do far more damage, each cost 100 gold. Put that money towards a cheap MP restoring potion to Faye magic and let him take care of the rest and your get far more bang for your buck. The later in the game the more cost-inefficient the amulets get as healing items provide increasingly more mana.

* PlotArmor: Exploited by Jazz.

** "[[LordOfTheRings One does not simply walk into Mord...]] Protea."

* FragileSpeedster: [[spoiler:Samael.]]

* AwesomeYetPractical: [[spoiler:Samael's "Soul Reap"]] ability. It usually deals more damage than a physical attack, and additionally drains HP and MP.

** arguably amulets as well. While they allow Elijah to do far more damage, each cost 100 gold. Put that money towards a cheap MP restoring potion to Faye magic so he can take care of everyone and your get far more bang for your buck, and the further into the game one goes the more true this is.
*** Then again the game, to a lesser extent then some RPGs, has MoneyForNothing, so why not use some of it to speed up a boss battle?