History VideoGame / Hellsign

* McNinja: The Ninja character class is an Australian guy whose starting gear include Japanese sandals[[note]]ninja shoes are a special class of footwear which helps to dodge better, but can only be worn after taking the relevant skill[[/note]] and caltrops (and a small handgun). There's an Asian-looking character portrait available, though. Note that each character can be played like this, but the Ninja class is the only one to start with the relevant skills and gear.

* InterfaceScrew: One of the hazards you can encounter during contracts is the explosion of lightbulbs inside a room. If you're caught in the blast and aren't wearing Protective Earwear, the screen will be blurred and the audio replaced with tinnitus for several seconds. Depending on whether it happens during a fight or not, it can result in either a minor annoyance, or a critical handicap which can even kill you.

* InterfaceScrew: One of the hazards you can encounter during contracts is the explosion of lightbulbs inside a room. If you're caught in the blast and aren't wearing Protective Earwear, the screen will be blurred and the audio replaced with tinnitus for several seconds.

* {{Roguelike}}: Missions have some elements of this: levels are randomly generated, saving is impossible, and dying results in losing most of the current mission's gain (and most of the reward you would have gained if you fled the site alive). On the other hand, there's no permadeath, and dying during a mission doesn't steal anything you gained ''before'' starting the current mission.

* InterfaceScrew: One of the hazards you can encounter during contracts is the explosion of lightbulbs inside a room. If you're caught in the blast and aren't wearing earing protection gear, the screen will be blurred and the audio replaced with tinnitus for several seconds.

* YouAllMeetInAnInn: The story mostly progresses by speaking with various [=NPCs=] in a bar named "The Shaggy Jackal".

* CountryMatters: "Cunt" occasionally appears in dialogs, in its Australian meaning. The ingame includes a lexicon, which translates the term as "good sir".

* {{Jerkass}}: Lucky is the kind of guy who would rip the arm from a homeless man because there was a 50% chance they 'may' have been infected with a soul-eating demon from hell.

* WithThisHerring: At character's creation, the Drifter class is the most blatant example of this (you only start with the tier-1 flashlight, a nailgun, the tier-1 EMF meter, and a syringe filled with some street drug), but several of the others start with guns described as rusty, and the player character in general is described as being not rich.

* CreepyCentipedes: The Tasmanian Megaplede monster is a giant centipede.

* {{Roguelike}}: Missions have some elements of this: levels are randomly generated, saving is impossible, and dying results in losing most of the current mission's gain. On the other hand, there's no permadeath, and dying during a mission doesn't steal anything you gained ''before'' starting the current mission.

* McNinja: The Ninja character class is an Australian guy whose starting gear include Japanese sandals and caltrops (and a small handgun). There's an Asian-looking character portrait available, though.

''[=HellSign=]'' is a thriller top-down shooter RPG made by Ballistic Interactive, about an amnesiac hunter of the supernatural cursed with the Hellsign, a demonic brand that grants its bearer ResurrectiveImmortality at the cost of endless nightmares and a soul-eating demon strapped to their back.

* WithThisHerring: At character's creation, the Drifter class is the most blatant example of this (you only start with a flashlight, a nailgun, an EMF meter, and a syringe), but several of the others start with guns described as rusty, and the player character in general is described as being not rich.

* ParanormalInvestigation: The premise of the game is basically a mix of paranormal investigation and ActionRPG gameplay, where you must carefully prepare your missions, take the right gear onsite, explore places with an EMF meter, and fight monsters.

* NailEm: A nailgun is the starting weapon of the Drifter class (it functionally counts as a one-handed gun).

* LimitedLoadout: There's exactly two weapon slots: one for long guns, and one for one-handed guns.

* ParanormalInvestigation: The premise of the game is basically a mix of paranormal investigation and ActionRPG gameplay, where you must carefully prepare your missions, take the right gear onsite, explore places with an occult detecting device, and fight monsters.

* ParanormalInvestigation: The premise of the game is basically a mix of paranormal investigation and ActionRPG gameplay.
* StarterEquipment: Each character class starts with a gun (except the Mercenary, who starts with two), ammo, a flashlight, an EMF meter, and a syringe of drugs. The exact item in those slots, and the content of other slots (chest armor, footwear, headgear, various accessories, etc.) depends on the character class. The Drifter is the one with the least starting items.

Hellsign is a thriller top-down shooter RPG made by Ballistic Interactive, about an amnesiac hunter of the supernatural cursed with the Hellsign, a demonic brand that grants its bearer ResurrectiveImmortality at the cost of endless nightmares and a soul-eating demon strapped to their back.

* CombatPragmatist: You get to use a wide variety of traps against monsters, many of which are downright brutal[[note]]spiders are easily set on fire, centipedes don't do well against caltrops, ghouls typically get their feet stuck in bear claws, swarms are easily distracted by meat, shadow beasts instantly die the instant they meet an ultraviolet light, Banshees are weak to Silver rounds and can be damaged with EMP mines, Kelpies are weak to Incindiary rounds and explosions, and Shadows are weak to ultraviolet rounds and floodlights. You can also install ''guillotines'' and EMP tripmines on doors[[/note]].

* TwentyBearAsses: Most of your money comes from selling the evidence of supernatural attacks to a fixer, who then resells them to the case managers with an analysis.