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* OffstageVillainy: Thanks to the {{minimalissm}}, it's not clear to the player exactly what the God-King is guilty of, other than being smug and defending himself against armed maniacs that keep breaking into his castle. Some of the decor like the noose and dungeons is suggestive, and the novella goes into a little more detail.
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* {{Wutai}}: Saydhi's Estate, featuring cherry blossoms, koi ponds, a {{ninja}}, samurai, and {{oni}}.
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* ClippedWingAngel: [[spoiler:Once the Ancestor gets out of his Mech, he is utterly ''pathetic''. Not only is his damage output feeble, and his health only a third of his previous form, but his attack patterns are no different than the Iron Guards/Crusaders/Assassins you have been fighting the entire game. The biggest challenge is having enough health from the end of the Zero Mech fight.]]
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**There are some others too, like the Ballon of War (a balloon sword) and the Touch of Death (a gigantic index finger wielded as a sword). The balloon is actually still kind of useful though.
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* CripplingOverspecialization: Siris and the Aegis Forms. Fine when dueling an opponent one-on-one, not so much when you're attacked by a large number of ruthless savages.
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* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: Siris discovers this once he comes home from defeating the God King. He can think up numerous ways to kill an opponent with a woodcutting axe, but can't use it for its intended purpose, chopping wood.
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* AffablyEvil: The God King is complimentary of your skills and even offers you a job. [[spoiler:If you accept, he forgoes the usual villain betrayal and informs you that he needs your help in dealing with the Deathless Kings, who are actually [[CompleteMonster far, far worse than he is]].]]
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** [[spoiler:Siris' past name and title]] ''Ausar the'' '''''Terrible'''''. The few hints of his misdeeds in the games and novella show that he definitely earned that title.
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* LaserBlade: The Solar Weapons in the Skycages DLC.
* ShoutOut: Just about everything about BonusBoss [[spoiler: Ryth]] is a Shout Out to StarWars
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The music that plays during the [[spoiler: Ryth]] fight is one of [[StarWars Duel of Fates]]. [[ShoutOut It's pretty easy]] [[LaserBlade to see why.]]
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* LaserBlade: The Solar Weapons in the Skycages DLC.
* ShoutOut: Just about everything about BonusBoss [[spoiler: Ryth]] is a Shout Out to StarWars
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* BlackKnight: [[spoiler:Ausur when he wore the Vile set.]]
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* JokeItem: The sword Ruin, which has an attack of 1 and awards an achievement if it is used to [[CherryTapping kill the God King.]]
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[[caption-width-right:300:"Father, I will avenge you."]]
Infinity Blade is a 2010 action game for the [[IOSGames iOS]] (iPad and iPhone) operating system. It was developed by Chair Entertainment, best known for ''ShadowComplex'', utilizing Unreal Engine3.
In the game's tutorial, a nameless warrior faces off against the villainous [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast God King]]. The God King easily dispatches the warrior, adding his strength to the titular Infinity Blade.
19-21 years later, the warrior's son returns to kill the God King. If the second warrior is killed (which is likely, considering how tough the God King is), his son will return to continue the cycle (called a bloodline in game). The third warrior's son takes up arms after the death of his father, and so on. Bloodline after bloodline rises up to fight the God King.
The game plays like a swordfighting version of ''PunchOut''. Enemies are fought one at a time and player movement is limited to quick dodges rather than actual sidestepping during fights. The warrior can also block and parry attacks, and retaliate with his own sword or magic spells.
As the warrior kills enemies, he gets gold to buy better equipment and experience to make him a better fighter.
In October 4th of 2011, BrandonSanderson released "Infinity Blade: Awakening", a novella derived from the game. It tells the tale of Siris, one of the bloodline, who are styled Sacrifices, after he has defeated the God King.
A sequel was released on December 1st of 2011. It reveals that [[spoiler:the "bloodlines" of the previous game were, in fact, the same person, who is a reincarnating immortal that had suffered amnesia.]]
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!This game provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: The God King is complimentary of your skills and even offers you a job. [[spoiler:If you accept, he forgoes the usual villain betrayal and informs you that he needs your help in dealing with the Deathless Kings, who are actually [[CompleteMonster far, far worse than he is]].]]
** If you [[spoiler:reject his offer, he gets pissed off and [[TurnsRed starts putting his all into kicking your ass]].]]
** [[BonusBoss Easoleum]], one of the Deathless Kings is like this, with his pre-fight dialog implying that he only wants to fight you [[spoiler:because you are being manipulated by the God King]].
* AllThereInTheManual: The novella serves as the manual in this case.
* AntiVillain: The God King, arguably.
* BadassBeard: Easoleum has a good one.
* {{BFS}}: Even the swords that look small in the shop are ''massive'' in game.
* BigNo: at the end of Infinity Blade II.
* BlingOfWar: Easoleum has really fancy golden armor.
* BloodlessCarnage: There's some pretty brutal finishing moves, but none of the HighPressureBlood you'd expect.
* BonusBoss: Three of them in the Deathless Kings, which require the Infinity Blade to even fight, and even with that they are pretty hard. [[spoiler:Defeating all of them unlocks another bonus boss, the Zero Mech/Ancestor.]]
* BottomlessPit: The second part of the BonusDungeon, complete with the possibility of knocking an enemy into it.
* BribingYourWayToVictory: Using real money, players can buy massive amounts of gold. Because gold can be turned into experience points, with enough money you could have every weapon and a maxed-out character before you fight your first enemy.
* CallingTheOldManOut: The Warrior will call out [[spoiler:a clone(?) of the Ancestor for supporting the God King's agenda. This after generations of his descendants have sacrificed themselves trying to end his tyranny.]]
* ClassAndLevelSystem: An unusual example. Experience points are drained away from equipped items into the warrior after battles. Each piece of equipment has a set amount of points. When it's completely drained ("mastered"), any points you would get from using it are lost.
* CoolSword: Lots, and also cool maces, cool clubs, and cool axes.
* CoupDeGraceCutscene: After every battle.
* CurbStompBattle: The God King delivers one of these to the first warrior in a cutscene. If you aren't prepared for him, he'll do the same thing to you for dozens of bloodlines.
* CutsceneIncompetence: In the intro fight, the Dark Knight casually knocks away your sword and shield after a quick sparring match and then the God King {{One Hit Kill}}s you. This is understandable at the beginning, but restarting the bloodline lets you keep your previous levels and equipment. Which means you can be higher level than the God King and ''wielding the Infinity Blade'' and they still treat you as a harmless IdiotHero.
** The Warrior controlled during the tutorial doesn't share the levels and equipment of his descendants, so he is still a relatively low level warrior with lackluster equipment. Still counts, since the Dark Knight disarms him regardless of the player's skill.
*** And give the guy some credit, he was able to make it to the throne room past any of the God King's servants that were in his way.
* DoingInTheWizard: [[spoiler:The ending you get for defeating the God King is this. Your warrior notices a small digital control panel on the God King's throne. When touched, it activates a hidden mechanical projector, and a giant {{Hologram}} of the planet appears, implying that the Deathless are an advanced alien race. The glowing, touch-interface device on the throne may be a {{Shout Out}} to the iPhone, as Infinity Blade was the phone's equivalent of a blockbuster release.]]
** [[spoiler:The secret boss takes place in a cloning lab, and his first phase is a MiniMecha.]]
** There are also the various MiniMecha that you fight, the Iron Golems and such.
* TheDragon: The Death Knight always comes back as the right-hand man of the God King, no matter how many times you kill him.
* DropTheHammer: Literally, huge-type enemies will sometimes smash the ground before taking a swing at you.
* DualWielding: Several enemies do this, but you can't - not 'til the sequel, at least.
* EndlessGame: If you manage to defeat the God King, you get a cool ending sequence and start a new bloodline. You can repeat this sequence of events as long as you want.
* FanDisservice: The Warden enemy is naked except for a loin-cloth, but is extremely fat with this huge scar across his belly and has a freaky spiky headgear instead of a head.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: The novella reveals the story behind many of the gameplay elements, such as why all the enemies are fought one at a time, why the warrior always has the equipment of his father, and so on.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: When you finally manage to defeat the God King, the ending cutscene shows you stealing the Infinity Blade and killing him with it. Yet, this does not gain the Infinity Blade, for it must instead be purchased like any other weapon. [[spoiler: This is especially-jarring as a big part of the novella's plot is that killing the God King ''does'' result in getting the Infinity Blade.]]
* GenerationXerox: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] with the sequel's revelation.
* GoingThroughTheMotions: The warrior's weapons include swords, axes, morningstars and other weapons, yet his kill animations never change. This results in situations such as stabbing an axe straight through an enemy's stomach, or stabbing a mace through the back of a golem's neck.
* GuideDangIt: You have to commit suicide in the intro fight against the Dark Knight to [[spoiler:enter the negative Bloodlines]]. Easy enough if you know the secret, but practically impossible to figure out on your own.
* HopelessBossFight: The intro fight with the Dark Knight is this due to the above mentioned CutsceneIncompetence. Your first few fights against the God-King are going to be this for all intents as well.
* IdenticalGrandson: Part of the gameplay!
* INeedYouStronger: Or rather, your son, and his son after that, and...
* InTheHood: BonusBoss Kuero.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The eponymous Infinity Blade, carried by the God King. Unusually, you don't get it by beating him, you have to save up for it in the shop.
** In the New Game+, you can gain even more powerful sci-fi themed equipment.
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[[caption-width-right:350:This will happen to you repeatedly.]]
* KleptomaniacHero: Justified, the God King really did leave that treasure around just for you (apparently he's even kind enough to donate it to your next of kin.)
* {{Minimalism}}: The engine actually does allow the player to run around like in a traditional action game but the developers decided against allowing the player to do so as they felt it would be a waste of time.
* MookChivalry: Your enemies come one at a time, and kindly wait for you to loot any treasure nearby and heal up if you wish. Again justified because the God King actually ''wants'' you to reach him.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The ''God King'' and his ''Infinity Blade''.
* NewGamePlus: Justified in the story. Each new game is a descendant of the previous warrior. It's also mandatory, because you can't retry if you lose to the God King.
** After you defeat the BonusBoss, you can do a proper new game +, where you can master equipment twice and access the most powerful items.
* PlayerPreferredPattern: Averted due to the experience system detailed above. If you keep using a mastered weapon, you're missing out on EXP and slowing your leveling to a crawl. You have to constantly switch equipment to continue leveling up.
* RailingKill: The opponent on the bridge is always shield-bashed off into the void below. The opponent on the staircase next to the front gate is always knocked off and falls onto the courtyard below.
* ReverseGrip: The warrior does this for many of his kill animations.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:If you ally with the God King, he mentions that there are even more powerful and evil Deathless in the world (some of which act as bonus bosses in the Deathless Kings update), and if you kill him, his last words are "They're coming for you next".]]
** [[spoiler:Pretty much all of the Ancestor's pre-fight dialog heavily imply the God King has a secret plan.]]
* ShoutOut: The New Game Plus Helmet and Armour you get are the Fusion Helmet and Omega Armour from the developer's previous game: ShadowComplex.
* SlouchOfVillainy: The God King must have really terrible back problems by the third or fourth generation...
* SpeakingSimlish: Just to draw one of several comparisons to the TeamIcoSeries, the game uses a fictional language for all the in game dialogue.
** Humorously, it seems the word for blade in that language is infinity.
* UselessUsefulSpell: As you advance in bloodlines, offensive magic and elemental weaponry become less and less powerful. The God King is immune to all magic and elemental effects after the first time you beat him, and [[spoiler:The Ancestor is also immune to everything.]]
** Despite this, magic is still the most powerful stat in the game, simply because it lets you cast heal more often. With enough magic stat, you eventually have effectively infinite health.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: Averted, he gets more powerful as you do.
* VillainousHarlequin: The Wood Jester
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: The God King was once a mortal.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: The God King offers you to join him after the first stage of the fight. [[spoiler:If you accept, he tells you that the two of you need to work together to defeat even worse evils. Then the credits roll and you're placed back at the beginning of the fight. The only way to advance to a new bloodline is to kill the God King or be killed yourself.]]
** [[spoiler: Canonically, the Ancestor is a warrior who did accept the offer.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:The God King's motivation for wanting to kill the other Deathless is because they are all corrupt.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: The plot of the game, taken to the extreme.
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* ActionGirl: Isa. But she can cook too.
* [[spoiler:AmnesiacDissonance: The Dark Thoughts are revealed to be Siris' original persona's memory.]]
* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Ausar]] is ''heavily'' implied to be this in both the novel and the game's sequel, not only by everyone who speaks of him, but also [[spoiler:the dark thoughts]] that Siris is getting throughout the novel. However, it is also implied that [[spoiler:his MemoryGambit is his attempt at atoning for what he has done.]] This trope ends up leading to...
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Raidriar/The God King]] makes it perfectly explicit that he doesn't think [[spoiler:Ausar/Siris]] deserves ''any'' kind of honor because he is a CompleteMonster. Or, at least, [[spoiler:he used to be.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Siris:''']] What of honor?
-->[[spoiler:'''The God-King:''']] There are some I give honor, but not you, [[spoiler:Ausar]]. ''Never'' you.
-->[[spoiler:'''Siris:''']] What? I fought you with honor. I [[spoiler:''killed'']] you with honor.
-->[[spoiler:'''The God-King:''']] And I do believe that was the only time in your awful life that you ever showed honor to another.
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: [[spoiler:Siris' goal is to find a way to activate the Blade so that it can kill Deathless permanently. He only realized later that by killing the Ancestor, he already have activated the Blade.]]
* MemoryGambit: [[spoiler:It turns out that Siris/Ausar has been playing one for ''centuries'' -- though as of the end of the novella, neither the reader nor Siris know exactly why.]]
** Even the God-King thinks he had been masterfully played, but not by [[spoiler:Ausar]], but rather, by the Worker of Secrets.
* MagicFromTechnology: how some of the Deathless' powers work, possibly all of them. Some of the equipments have security question in case you forget the pass phrase.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: It's called Quantum Identity Pattern (Q.I.P.).
* TheReveal: Numerous!
** [[spoiler:The Ancestor is one of Siris' previous reincarnation's son.]]
** [[spoiler:The God-King's real name is Raidriar.]]
** [[spoiler:The warriors (of whom Siris is the latest) are actually a Deathless, named Ausar. And, what's more, the God-King ''knew it''.]]
** [[spoiler:The warriors are the only ones who can use the rings of magic, explaining why the enemies of the first game never used any.]]
** [[spoiler:The significance of the Infinity Blade is that it can kill the Deathless permanently.]]
* ShoePhone: [[spoiler:The magic rings you have been collecting in the game also served as the God King's listening device.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Isa killed Siris before the God King managed to stab Siris with the Infinity Blade, which would have resulted in Siris' permanent death. This also alerted the God King that someone knew the nature of the Deathless better than what should have been known.]]
* [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror:Siris himself is a Deathless who arranged to be reincarnated into a baby with his memory wiped each times he dies.]]
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* {{Acrofatic}}: [[spoiler:Thane]] looks big and fat, but he's capable of moving extremely fast.
** Sorta. It's difficult to tell, considering he's pretty damn tall, and he has all that armor on, for all we know, he could be rather strong and muscular, which would explain his ease of movement despite the armor.
* AntiMagic: The Worker of Secrets has the ability to distrupt Deathless' Quantum Identity Pattern and kill them permanently. This also applies to the Infinity Blade that he forged.
* ATasteOfPower: You start with the Infinity Blade and some other really good gear.
* BaitAndSwitchBoss: The introduction to the Stone Demon, the second Blood Sentinel and guardian of the bridge seal. The knight you first see starts cursing at you and promising to rip the flesh from your bones...then a winged stone golem--the ''real'' Stone Demon--[[KilledMidSentence drops down and crushes him]].
* BatmanGambit: The end of the game is a Batman Gambit, as the Worker tries to get Siris to [[spoiler:fight Raidriar]]. Of course, this could easily have been avoided had he simply stopped to listen, but the Worker knew that [[spoiler:Siris hated Raidriar enough to attack him first and think later, and that Raidriar hated Ausar enough to not consider Siris worthy of respect or enlightening about the nature of the Worker.]]
* BeehiveBarrier: If you look carefully, you'll notice that the gold portions of the armor worn by the God-King and the Worker of Secrets are made of hexagonal scales.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The Behemid.
* BossRush: The fights before [[spoiler: the God King]].
* {{Big No}}: Siris gives one after [[spoiler:the Worker of Secrets imprisons him]]
* CallBack: Six months later, while walking up to a cliff and looking at a big tower: "Worker, I will free you."
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The first game's events seem to have taught the God-King to heed the EvilOverlordList.
-->'''Siris:''' Give me a sword. Fight me!
-->'''The God-King:''' I think not. You... surprised me, last time. I don't think I'll put myself in that position again.
* DegradedBoss: [[spoiler:In the 3rd fight with Thane (right after his 2nd fight) he has much less HP and attack power than in the 2nd fight.]]
* {{Disney Villain Death}}: [[spoiler:Happens to Thane in the second fight. He gets better, though.]]
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: [[spoiler: Turns out Ausar imprisoned the Worker of Secrets, and in revenge he imprisons Siris to get himself out. [[HopeSpot Although in the post-credit scene Isa is shown coming to the Vault, readying her weapon.]]]]
* DualWielding: One of the three weapon types - focuses more on dodging and quick attacks, and can't block.
* EatenAlive: This will happen to you if you fail to release yourself from a Monstrosities jaws before your HP dips to zero. The monster will pick Siris up in it's jaws and devour him.
* EvilBrit: The Deathless now speak with British accents.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Not with the Infinity Blade, this time, actually. [[spoiler:The Worker of Secret steals it in the ending.]] Some weapons (such as Thane's), however, end up being a different type of weapon than how their original user wields it - Thane's weapon appears to be a "light" sword, but when you use it, it's a [[DualWielding dual weapon]].
* {{Hey Its That Voice}}: {{Troy Baker}} {{Laura Bailey}} voice Siris and Isa.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The tutorial scene spoils the ending of the novella, although nothing much is explained about it, ''unlike'' in the novella.
* MeaningfulName: Very subtle. [[spoiler: Ausar]] is one of the suspected original [[spoiler: Kemetian pronunciations for the god we call O''siris''--and remember who it is that keeps getting reborn from death]]. Going by this, you could also make connections between [[spoiler: several other characters and Egyptian neteru. Saydhi/Seth, Isa/Isis, Raidriar/Ra]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The God King's real name, [[spoiler:Raidriar]], ''doesn't'' undermine his image by any means. When you [[spoiler:finally take him on as the final boss, his full name and title ''Raidriar the God King'']] only serves to underline how powerful this guy is.
* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingItHero: Siris's steadfast belief that freeing the Worker of Secrets would save the world gets shattered ''fast'' when the Worker reveals that he just trapped ''Siris'' in the Vault, and that he has every intention of making all the other Deathless into his own personal army of conquest.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:So you knocked Thane off tower and descend into Worker of Secrets' prison, then when you approach him, Thane appears again to fight you, but...see DegradedBoss.]]
* OhCrap: Siris's reaction when the God-King appears.
* SceneryPorn: Non-combat sequences have been added which allow the player to pan around the Unreal Engine 3 scenery and tap on hidden items to obtain them. This has the added benefit of showing off how well optimized the graphics are for an iOS title especially compared to the first game, but the developers have once again eschewed free movement.
* SchizoTech: The guy who guards the third seal wears jet boots and fight you by riding a giant robot he's been fixing. In addition, the various living brutes and knights throughout the Vault are joined by very obvious MechaMooks.
* SchmuckBait: After killing the first boss with the Infinity Blade, Siris finds a stone with an Infinity-Blade-shaped aperture, just like the one that unlocked the God-King's lab. It takes his sword and disappears.
-->'''The God-King:''' Yes... I thought you might fall for that. You opened the pathway to my dungeons, after all.
* [[spoiler:SealedEvilInACan]]: [[spoiler:The Worker of Secrets is probably as bad as, if not worse than the other Deathless. The Archivist and the Exo-Pilot who controls Goliath definitely consider the former to be the case.]]
* SpeakingSimlish: The very first line spoken by Isa, but {{averted}} for the rest of the game.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Everyone suddenly speaks English.
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"Perhaps your descendants will fare better."
[[caption-width-right:300:"Father, I will avenge you."]]
Infinity Blade is a 2010 action game for the [[IOSGames iOS]] (iPad and iPhone) operating system. It was developed by Chair Entertainment, best known for ''ShadowComplex'', utilizing Unreal Engine3.
In the game's tutorial, a nameless warrior faces off against the villainous [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast God King]]. The God King easily dispatches the warrior, adding his strength to the titular Infinity Blade.
19-21 years later, the warrior's son returns to kill the God King. If the second warrior is killed (which is likely, considering how tough the God King is), his son will return to continue the cycle (called a bloodline in game). The third warrior's son takes up arms after the death of his father, and so on. Bloodline after bloodline rises up to fight the God King.
The game plays like a swordfighting version of ''PunchOut''. Enemies are fought one at a time and player movement is limited to quick dodges rather than actual sidestepping during fights. The warrior can also block and parry attacks, and retaliate with his own sword or magic spells.
As the warrior kills enemies, he gets gold to buy better equipment and experience to make him a better fighter.
In October 4th of 2011, BrandonSanderson released "Infinity Blade: Awakening", a novella derived from the game. It tells the tale of Siris, one of the bloodline, who are styled Sacrifices, after he has defeated the God King.
A sequel was released on December 1st of 2011. It reveals that [[spoiler:the "bloodlines" of the previous game were, in fact, the same person, who is a reincarnating immortal that had suffered amnesia.]]
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!This game provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: The God King is complimentary of your skills and even offers you a job. [[spoiler:If you accept, he forgoes the usual villain betrayal and informs you that he needs your help in dealing with the Deathless Kings, who are actually [[CompleteMonster far, far worse than he is]].]]
** If you [[spoiler:reject his offer, he gets pissed off and [[TurnsRed starts putting his all into kicking your ass]].]]
** [[BonusBoss Easoleum]], one of the Deathless Kings is like this, with his pre-fight dialog implying that he only wants to fight you [[spoiler:because you are being manipulated by the God King]].
* AllThereInTheManual: The novella serves as the manual in this case.
* AntiVillain: The God King, arguably.
* BadassBeard: Easoleum has a good one.
* {{BFS}}: Even the swords that look small in the shop are ''massive'' in game.
* BigNo: at the end of Infinity Blade II.
* BlingOfWar: Easoleum has really fancy golden armor.
* BloodlessCarnage: There's some pretty brutal finishing moves, but none of the HighPressureBlood you'd expect.
* BonusBoss: Three of them in the Deathless Kings, which require the Infinity Blade to even fight, and even with that they are pretty hard. [[spoiler:Defeating all of them unlocks another bonus boss, the Zero Mech/Ancestor.]]
* BottomlessPit: The second part of the BonusDungeon, complete with the possibility of knocking an enemy into it.
* BribingYourWayToVictory: Using real money, players can buy massive amounts of gold. Because gold can be turned into experience points, with enough money you could have every weapon and a maxed-out character before you fight your first enemy.
* CallingTheOldManOut: The Warrior will call out [[spoiler:a clone(?) of the Ancestor for supporting the God King's agenda. This after generations of his descendants have sacrificed themselves trying to end his tyranny.]]
* ClassAndLevelSystem: An unusual example. Experience points are drained away from equipped items into the warrior after battles. Each piece of equipment has a set amount of points. When it's completely drained ("mastered"), any points you would get from using it are lost.
* CoolSword: Lots, and also cool maces, cool clubs, and cool axes.
* CoupDeGraceCutscene: After every battle.
* CurbStompBattle: The God King delivers one of these to the first warrior in a cutscene. If you aren't prepared for him, he'll do the same thing to you for dozens of bloodlines.
* CutsceneIncompetence: In the intro fight, the Dark Knight casually knocks away your sword and shield after a quick sparring match and then the God King {{One Hit Kill}}s you. This is understandable at the beginning, but restarting the bloodline lets you keep your previous levels and equipment. Which means you can be higher level than the God King and ''wielding the Infinity Blade'' and they still treat you as a harmless IdiotHero.
** The Warrior controlled during the tutorial doesn't share the levels and equipment of his descendants, so he is still a relatively low level warrior with lackluster equipment. Still counts, since the Dark Knight disarms him regardless of the player's skill.
*** And give the guy some credit, he was able to make it to the throne room past any of the God King's servants that were in his way.
* DoingInTheWizard: [[spoiler:The ending you get for defeating the God King is this. Your warrior notices a small digital control panel on the God King's throne. When touched, it activates a hidden mechanical projector, and a giant {{Hologram}} of the planet appears, implying that the Deathless are an advanced alien race. The glowing, touch-interface device on the throne may be a {{Shout Out}} to the iPhone, as Infinity Blade was the phone's equivalent of a blockbuster release.]]
** [[spoiler:The secret boss takes place in a cloning lab, and his first phase is a MiniMecha.]]
** There are also the various MiniMecha that you fight, the Iron Golems and such.
* TheDragon: The Death Knight always comes back as the right-hand man of the God King, no matter how many times you kill him.
* DropTheHammer: Literally, huge-type enemies will sometimes smash the ground before taking a swing at you.
* DualWielding: Several enemies do this, but you can't - not 'til the sequel, at least.
* EndlessGame: If you manage to defeat the God King, you get a cool ending sequence and start a new bloodline. You can repeat this sequence of events as long as you want.
* FanDisservice: The Warden enemy is naked except for a loin-cloth, but is extremely fat with this huge scar across his belly and has a freaky spiky headgear instead of a head.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: The novella reveals the story behind many of the gameplay elements, such as why all the enemies are fought one at a time, why the warrior always has the equipment of his father, and so on.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: When you finally manage to defeat the God King, the ending cutscene shows you stealing the Infinity Blade and killing him with it. Yet, this does not gain the Infinity Blade, for it must instead be purchased like any other weapon. [[spoiler: This is especially-jarring as a big part of the novella's plot is that killing the God King ''does'' result in getting the Infinity Blade.]]
* GenerationXerox: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] with the sequel's revelation.
* GoingThroughTheMotions: The warrior's weapons include swords, axes, morningstars and other weapons, yet his kill animations never change. This results in situations such as stabbing an axe straight through an enemy's stomach, or stabbing a mace through the back of a golem's neck.
* GuideDangIt: You have to commit suicide in the intro fight against the Dark Knight to [[spoiler:enter the negative Bloodlines]]. Easy enough if you know the secret, but practically impossible to figure out on your own.
* HopelessBossFight: The intro fight with the Dark Knight is this due to the above mentioned CutsceneIncompetence. Your first few fights against the God-King are going to be this for all intents as well.
* IdenticalGrandson: Part of the gameplay!
* INeedYouStronger: Or rather, your son, and his son after that, and...
* InTheHood: BonusBoss Kuero.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The eponymous Infinity Blade, carried by the God King. Unusually, you don't get it by beating him, you have to save up for it in the shop.
** In the New Game+, you can gain even more powerful sci-fi themed equipment.
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[[caption-width-right:350:This will happen to you repeatedly.]]
* KleptomaniacHero: Justified, the God King really did leave that treasure around just for you (apparently he's even kind enough to donate it to your next of kin.)
* {{Minimalism}}: The engine actually does allow the player to run around like in a traditional action game but the developers decided against allowing the player to do so as they felt it would be a waste of time.
* MookChivalry: Your enemies come one at a time, and kindly wait for you to loot any treasure nearby and heal up if you wish. Again justified because the God King actually ''wants'' you to reach him.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The ''God King'' and his ''Infinity Blade''.
* NewGamePlus: Justified in the story. Each new game is a descendant of the previous warrior. It's also mandatory, because you can't retry if you lose to the God King.
** After you defeat the BonusBoss, you can do a proper new game +, where you can master equipment twice and access the most powerful items.
* PlayerPreferredPattern: Averted due to the experience system detailed above. If you keep using a mastered weapon, you're missing out on EXP and slowing your leveling to a crawl. You have to constantly switch equipment to continue leveling up.
* RailingKill: The opponent on the bridge is always shield-bashed off into the void below. The opponent on the staircase next to the front gate is always knocked off and falls onto the courtyard below.
* ReverseGrip: The warrior does this for many of his kill animations.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler:If you ally with the God King, he mentions that there are even more powerful and evil Deathless in the world (some of which act as bonus bosses in the Deathless Kings update), and if you kill him, his last words are "They're coming for you next".]]
** [[spoiler:Pretty much all of the Ancestor's pre-fight dialog heavily imply the God King has a secret plan.]]
* ShoutOut: The New Game Plus Helmet and Armour you get are the Fusion Helmet and Omega Armour from the developer's previous game: ShadowComplex.
* SlouchOfVillainy: The God King must have really terrible back problems by the third or fourth generation...
* SpeakingSimlish: Just to draw one of several comparisons to the TeamIcoSeries, the game uses a fictional language for all the in game dialogue.
** Humorously, it seems the word for blade in that language is infinity.
* UselessUsefulSpell: As you advance in bloodlines, offensive magic and elemental weaponry become less and less powerful. The God King is immune to all magic and elemental effects after the first time you beat him, and [[spoiler:The Ancestor is also immune to everything.]]
** Despite this, magic is still the most powerful stat in the game, simply because it lets you cast heal more often. With enough magic stat, you eventually have effectively infinite health.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: Averted, he gets more powerful as you do.
* VillainousHarlequin: The Wood Jester
* WasOnceAMan: [[spoiler: The God King was once a mortal.]]
* WeCanRuleTogether: The God King offers you to join him after the first stage of the fight. [[spoiler:If you accept, he tells you that the two of you need to work together to defeat even worse evils. Then the credits roll and you're placed back at the beginning of the fight. The only way to advance to a new bloodline is to kill the God King or be killed yourself.]]
** [[spoiler: Canonically, the Ancestor is a warrior who did accept the offer.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:The God King's motivation for wanting to kill the other Deathless is because they are all corrupt.]]
* YouKilledMyFather: The plot of the game, taken to the extreme.
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!Additionnally, the novella "Infinity Blade: Awakening" provides examples of:
* ActionGirl: Isa. But she can cook too.
* [[spoiler:AmnesiacDissonance: The Dark Thoughts are revealed to be Siris' original persona's memory.]]
* CompleteMonster: [[spoiler:Ausar]] is ''heavily'' implied to be this in both the novel and the game's sequel, not only by everyone who speaks of him, but also [[spoiler:the dark thoughts]] that Siris is getting throughout the novel. However, it is also implied that [[spoiler:his MemoryGambit is his attempt at atoning for what he has done.]] This trope ends up leading to...
* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler:Raidriar/The God King]] makes it perfectly explicit that he doesn't think [[spoiler:Ausar/Siris]] deserves ''any'' kind of honor because he is a CompleteMonster. Or, at least, [[spoiler:he used to be.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Siris:''']] What of honor?
-->[[spoiler:'''The God-King:''']] There are some I give honor, but not you, [[spoiler:Ausar]]. ''Never'' you.
-->[[spoiler:'''Siris:''']] What? I fought you with honor. I [[spoiler:''killed'']] you with honor.
-->[[spoiler:'''The God-King:''']] And I do believe that was the only time in your awful life that you ever showed honor to another.
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: [[spoiler:Siris' goal is to find a way to activate the Blade so that it can kill Deathless permanently. He only realized later that by killing the Ancestor, he already have activated the Blade.]]
* MemoryGambit: [[spoiler:It turns out that Siris/Ausar has been playing one for ''centuries'' -- though as of the end of the novella, neither the reader nor Siris know exactly why.]]
** Even the God-King thinks he had been masterfully played, but not by [[spoiler:Ausar]], but rather, by the Worker of Secrets.
* MagicFromTechnology: how some of the Deathless' powers work, possibly all of them. Some of the equipments have security question in case you forget the pass phrase.
* OurSoulsAreDifferent: It's called Quantum Identity Pattern (Q.I.P.).
* TheReveal: Numerous!
** [[spoiler:The Ancestor is one of Siris' previous reincarnation's son.]]
** [[spoiler:The God-King's real name is Raidriar.]]
** [[spoiler:The warriors (of whom Siris is the latest) are actually a Deathless, named Ausar. And, what's more, the God-King ''knew it''.]]
** [[spoiler:The warriors are the only ones who can use the rings of magic, explaining why the enemies of the first game never used any.]]
** [[spoiler:The significance of the Infinity Blade is that it can kill the Deathless permanently.]]
* ShoePhone: [[spoiler:The magic rings you have been collecting in the game also served as the God King's listening device.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler:Isa killed Siris before the God King managed to stab Siris with the Infinity Blade, which would have resulted in Siris' permanent death. This also alerted the God King that someone knew the nature of the Deathless better than what should have been known.]]
* [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror:Siris himself is a Deathless who arranged to be reincarnated into a baby with his memory wiped each times he dies.]]
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!Infinity Blade 2 provides examples of:
* {{Acrofatic}}: [[spoiler:Thane]] looks big and fat, but he's capable of moving extremely fast.
** Sorta. It's difficult to tell, considering he's pretty damn tall, and he has all that armor on, for all we know, he could be rather strong and muscular, which would explain his ease of movement despite the armor.
* AntiMagic: The Worker of Secrets has the ability to distrupt Deathless' Quantum Identity Pattern and kill them permanently. This also applies to the Infinity Blade that he forged.
* ATasteOfPower: You start with the Infinity Blade and some other really good gear.
* BaitAndSwitchBoss: The introduction to the Stone Demon, the second Blood Sentinel and guardian of the bridge seal. The knight you first see starts cursing at you and promising to rip the flesh from your bones...then a winged stone golem--the ''real'' Stone Demon--[[KilledMidSentence drops down and crushes him]].
* BatmanGambit: The end of the game is a Batman Gambit, as the Worker tries to get Siris to [[spoiler:fight Raidriar]]. Of course, this could easily have been avoided had he simply stopped to listen, but the Worker knew that [[spoiler:Siris hated Raidriar enough to attack him first and think later, and that Raidriar hated Ausar enough to not consider Siris worthy of respect or enlightening about the nature of the Worker.]]
* BeehiveBarrier: If you look carefully, you'll notice that the gold portions of the armor worn by the God-King and the Worker of Secrets are made of hexagonal scales.
* BigCreepyCrawlies: The Behemid.
* BossRush: The fights before [[spoiler: the God King]].
* {{Big No}}: Siris gives one after [[spoiler:the Worker of Secrets imprisons him]]
* CallBack: Six months later, while walking up to a cliff and looking at a big tower: "Worker, I will free you."
* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: The first game's events seem to have taught the God-King to heed the EvilOverlordList.
-->'''Siris:''' Give me a sword. Fight me!
-->'''The God-King:''' I think not. You... surprised me, last time. I don't think I'll put myself in that position again.
* DegradedBoss: [[spoiler:In the 3rd fight with Thane (right after his 2nd fight) he has much less HP and attack power than in the 2nd fight.]]
* {{Disney Villain Death}}: [[spoiler:Happens to Thane in the second fight. He gets better, though.]]
* [[spoiler:DownerEnding]]: [[spoiler: Turns out Ausar imprisoned the Worker of Secrets, and in revenge he imprisons Siris to get himself out. [[HopeSpot Although in the post-credit scene Isa is shown coming to the Vault, readying her weapon.]]]]
* DualWielding: One of the three weapon types - focuses more on dodging and quick attacks, and can't block.
* EatenAlive: This will happen to you if you fail to release yourself from a Monstrosities jaws before your HP dips to zero. The monster will pick Siris up in it's jaws and devour him.
* EvilBrit: The Deathless now speak with British accents.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Not with the Infinity Blade, this time, actually. [[spoiler:The Worker of Secret steals it in the ending.]] Some weapons (such as Thane's), however, end up being a different type of weapon than how their original user wields it - Thane's weapon appears to be a "light" sword, but when you use it, it's a [[DualWielding dual weapon]].
* {{Hey Its That Voice}}: {{Troy Baker}} {{Laura Bailey}} voice Siris and Isa.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The tutorial scene spoils the ending of the novella, although nothing much is explained about it, ''unlike'' in the novella.
* MeaningfulName: Very subtle. [[spoiler: Ausar]] is one of the suspected original [[spoiler: Kemetian pronunciations for the god we call O''siris''--and remember who it is that keeps getting reborn from death]]. Going by this, you could also make connections between [[spoiler: several other characters and Egyptian neteru. Saydhi/Seth, Isa/Isis, Raidriar/Ra]].
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: The God King's real name, [[spoiler:Raidriar]], ''doesn't'' undermine his image by any means. When you [[spoiler:finally take him on as the final boss, his full name and title ''Raidriar the God King'']] only serves to underline how powerful this guy is.
* [[spoiler:NiceJobBreakingItHero: Siris's steadfast belief that freeing the Worker of Secrets would save the world gets shattered ''fast'' when the Worker reveals that he just trapped ''Siris'' in the Vault, and that he has every intention of making all the other Deathless into his own personal army of conquest.]]
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:So you knocked Thane off tower and descend into Worker of Secrets' prison, then when you approach him, Thane appears again to fight you, but...see DegradedBoss.]]
* OhCrap: Siris's reaction when the God-King appears.
* SceneryPorn: Non-combat sequences have been added which allow the player to pan around the Unreal Engine 3 scenery and tap on hidden items to obtain them. This has the added benefit of showing off how well optimized the graphics are for an iOS title especially compared to the first game, but the developers have once again eschewed free movement.
* SchizoTech: The guy who guards the third seal wears jet boots and fight you by riding a giant robot he's been fixing. In addition, the various living brutes and knights throughout the Vault are joined by very obvious MechaMooks.
* SchmuckBait: After killing the first boss with the Infinity Blade, Siris finds a stone with an Infinity-Blade-shaped aperture, just like the one that unlocked the God-King's lab. It takes his sword and disappears.
-->'''The God-King:''' Yes... I thought you might fall for that. You opened the pathway to my dungeons, after all.
* [[spoiler:SealedEvilInACan]]: [[spoiler:The Worker of Secrets is probably as bad as, if not worse than the other Deathless. The Archivist and the Exo-Pilot who controls Goliath definitely consider the former to be the case.]]
* SpeakingSimlish: The very first line spoken by Isa, but {{averted}} for the rest of the game.
* SuddenlyVoiced: Everyone suddenly speaks English.
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"Perhaps your descendants will fare better."
