History VideoGame / EnslavedOdysseyToTheWest

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in the game, Trip and Monkey witness a self sufficient aquariam in the midst of a jungle infested zoo, with [[WideEyedIdealist Trip]] using it as an example of how her own community is self-sufficient in the wasteland, only for [[KnightInSourArmour Monkey]] to point out it doesn't matter how secure a community is if it can't deal [[OutsideContextProblem with outside factors that threaten it.]] [[spoiler: Seconds later, a machine crashes through the aquariam, killing the fish inside. When Trip and Monkey eventually reach her home, they indeed find it destroyed by [[BigBad Pyramid's mechs]], the outside factor in this case.]]

* BelligerentSexualTension: Oh so ''very'' much, between Monkey and Trip. Also [[{{Lampshade}} lampshaded]] by [[{{Genre Savvy}} Pigsy]] when asking whether or not the two are "together". And again in the very next cut scene as Pigsy looks towards the back of the boat where Monkey and Trip are standing, only to have conveniently shaped rubble form a heart behind them.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The ''entire point'' of the game is that Pigsy is trying to build himself a sexy {{Fembot}} so he can have a lover. The game implies as much of this as it can without breaking its Teen rating.

* JawsPOVSequence: Towards the end of the Dog sequence, Pigsy runs away from Dog while the camera is from Dog's perspective.

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* {{Acrofatic}}: Pigsy; never has a fat man been so agile, although the grappling gun probably helps.
* AdvancingBossOfDoom: The Dog, [[spoiler: for the first time you see one]]. Pigsy's DLC has a Dog chase through the eyes of the Dog.

* BoomHeadshot: Name-dropped by Pigsy.

** In the ''Pigsy's Perfect 10'' DLC, there is a part where, after using stealth to get around some mechs, Pigsy comments "my [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid gear sure is solid]]."

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: ''Pigsy's Perfect 10.'' While Monkey can easily tear through most of the MechaMooks, Pigsy cannot take a direct hit and must rely on a mix of gadgetry, stealth and a sniper rifle to get to where he needs to.

* ZergRush: The Mechs, especially on Hard Mode.

* TheUnfairSex: The game tends to swing towards this with Trip's enforced slavery over Monkey.

''Enslaved: Odyssey to the West'' is an ActionAdventure VideoGame developed by Creator/NinjaTheory. The game is published by Creator/NamcoBandai and out for UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}, and UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows.

* CoveredWithScars: Monkey, of the decorative and generic kind. Although not explained in-game, Nina Kristenson of Ninja Theory elaborates that the swirling designs on his torso [[{{Every Scar Has A Story}} are war scars he drew on himself after major battles.]] Considering the sheer amount he has, your mileage may vary as to [[{{Badass}} whether]] that's [[{{Crowning Moment of Awesome}} awesome]] [[{{Ax Crazy}} or]] [[{{Iron Woobie}} not.]]

* {{Badass}}: Monkey extremely, taking on legions of killer mechs and even mechs the size of skyscrapers.

* OneManArmy: Monkey.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Early in the game, Trip and Monkey witness a self sufficient aquariam in the midst of a jungle infested zoo, with [[WideEyedIdealist Trip]] using it as an example of how her own community is self-sufficient in the wasteland, only for [[KnightInSourArmour Monkey]] to point out it doesn't matter how secure a community is if it can't deal [[OutsideContextVillain with outside factors that threaten it.]] [[spoiler: Seconds later, a machine crashes through the aquariam, killing the fish inside. When Trip and Monkey eventually reach her home, they indeed find it destroyed by [[BigBad Pyramid's mechs]], the outside factor in this case.]]

* NostalgiaFilter: [[DeconstructedTrope Used more seriously]] [[JustifiedTrope than other examples.]] [[spoiler: [[BigBad Pyramid]] lived during the period before the world went to hell, and is so obsessed with bringing it back that he forges a machine based slave empire that has the slaves plugged into his memories into what the period was like.]] [[HannibalHasAPoint While he nearly manages to convince Monkey of his righteousness,]] [[KirkSummation Monkey rightfully points out that he's destroying the present and the future over something that no longer exists.]]

* OutsideContextVillain: Trip and Monkey are survivors trying to reach Trip's community, with talks of how the world was and what it could be generally being used as polite banter and wishful thinking. [[spoiler: [[BigBad Pyramid]] is a man stuck in the past who wants everyone else to join him there, justifying his efforts to enslave the populace as giving them hopes and dreams they wouldn't have otherwise.]] When the two sides eventually meet, it feels like people of different time periods and countries trying and failing to communicate.

* AndroclesLion: Averted.

* HugeGuyTinyGirl: She ''rides on his back''. It's like freakin' ''BanjoKazooie''.

'''''Enslaved: Odyssey to the West''''' is an ActionAdventure VideoGame developed by Creator/NinjaTheory. The game is published by Creator/NamcoBandai and out for UsefulNotes/PlayStation3, UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}, and UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows.

--> '''Monkey''': I'm going to need to find another way for you to get across. Wait in here til I get back. ''(motions for her to hide inside a metal box)''
--> '''Trip''': What? You're leaving me here? ''(visibly becomes angry)'' How do I know you'll come back?

--> '''Monkey''': So! ''(shoves her into the box before sarcastically adding)'' Then I'm coming back.

* BoomHeadshot: Name dropped by Pigsy.

* [[spoiler:DoomedHometown:]] [[spoiler: Trip ends up getting to her home only to find that the slavers have burned it to the ground and killed the inhabitants.]]

* EscortMission: Basically the premise of the game, but Ninja Theory has assured us it would not fall into the usual problems with escort missions.

* FreudianSlipperySlope:

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Monkey
** [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Pigsy]], especially after Pigsy's Perfect 10.

* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: Pyramid's plan is to to use one man's prewar memories to put people in a simulation of the world then, free from the hellish wasteland.]]

** Trip on two levels since, one, trip is a journey but also Tripitaka (Trip's full name) was an alternative name for the person Trip was based on.

* TakeThat: In chapter 5, after the Cloud sequence, Monkey and Trip will pass through a room containing "ancient, redundant technology." The contents of the room are corroded boxes of 3D televisions(which is ironic, considering that this game has 3-D TV support).

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Pigsy's Perfect 10. While Monkey can easily tear through most of the MechaMooks, Pigsy cannot take a direct hit and must rely on a mix of gadgetry, stealth and a sniper rifle to get to where he needs to.

--> '''Trip''': . . . . yes.

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* TakeThat: In chapter 5, after the Cloud sequence, Monkey and Trip will pass through a room containing "ancient, redundant technology." The contents of the room are corroded boxes of 3D televisions.

'''''Enslaved: Odyssey to the West''''' is an ActionAdventure VideoGame developed by Creator/NinjaTheory. The game is published by Creator/NamcoBandai and out for PlayStation3 and {{Xbox 360}}.

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''Enslaved'' is a story set one hundred and fifty years in the future where [[AfterTheEnd a global war has devastated the Earth.]] In this future, nearly the entire human race has been eradicated, but [[MechanicalMonster robots]] still plague the land. Although they are from a [[LostTechnology bygone era]], they are still following their orders to eradicate the humans. The storyline is loosely based on the ancient Chinese novel ''{{Journey to the West}}''.