History VideoGame / Oni

The game has a small but dedicated modding community at http://oni.bungie.org/community/forum/index.php. Their main project is the Anniversary Edition mod, which fixes a lot of the game's ArtificialStupidity and adds back in DummiedOut features. [[http://mods.oni2.net/node/75 Mac]] version and [[http://mods.oni2.net/node/79 PC]] Version (requires full retail version of ''Oni'').

[[{{Homage}} Drawing inspiration]] from classic anime, chiefly Creator/ShirowMasamune's ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' (going as far as having main characters Konoko and Griffin be {{exp|y}}ies of Motoko Kusanagi and Daisuke Aramaki), ''Oni'' is an ActionGame by Creator/{{Bungie}} with a mix of [[ThirdPersonShooter firefights]] and [[BeatEmUp hand-to-hand combat]].

* TheTopicOfCancer: The creepy biological macguffin, the Chrysalis, is repeatedly described as being like cancer.

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything: During the tutorial level, Konoko takes a break at one point to watch another officer engage in unarmed combat with a pair of training drones. This fight is ''not'' scripted, and it is possible for the officer to either win or lose. Either way, Shinatama tells Konoko to move on after the fight is done, but if the officer lost, she sounds a lot more embarrassed and awkward ("Oh! Um... that wasn't supposed to happen... let's just move on....")

[[{{Homage}} Drawing inspiration]] from classic anime, chiefly Creator/ShirowMasamune's ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' (going as far as having main characters Konoko and Griffin be {{exp|y}}ies of Motoko Kusanagi and Daisuke Aramaki), '''''Oni''''' is an ActionGame by Creator/{{Bungie}} with a mix of [[ThirdPersonShooter firefights]] and [[BeatEmUp hand-to-hand combat]].

[[{{Homage}} Drawing inspiration]] from classic anime, chiefly Creator/ShirowMasamune's ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' (going as far as having main characters Konoko and Griffin be {{exp|y}}ies of Motoko Kusanagi and Daisuke Aramaki), '''''Oni''''' is an ActionGame by Creator/{{Bungie}} with a good mix of [[ThirdPersonShooter firefights]] and [[BeatEmUp hand-to-hand combat]], and an interesting story to boot. It's widely accepted that the only thing that stopped it from becoming a classic is that the game was rushed out the door due to Microsoft's purchase of Bungie -- features initially promised that never materialized included more enemies and a multiplayer mode.

* {{Badass}}: Most of the main characters, including Konoko, Griffin, Muro, Barabas and Mukade.

* HannibalLecture: Mukade gets cornered by Konoko. She asks him why she can feel him. This gives him the perfect opening to essentially tell her that she is just like him...a monster that gets off on killing. She is unable to give an appropriate response to this, except to try to deny it. She manages to defeat him and kill him off. However, it is painfully clear that Mukade hit a sore spot in terms of psychology.

* InstantAwesomeJustAddNinja: Level 9 introduces them, Level 10 is mostly about them, Level 11 features them, and Level 14 has them too. Well, gosh, when you make a game heavily based off of anime and put fighting into it, you gotta have ninja, don't ya?

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Griffin is possibly this. After all, he did tell his {{Genre Blind|ness}} scientist or cop to continue scanning for Konoko when he was told that Konoko most likely died in the acid. Too bad this did not help him too much against Konoko in the end.]]

The year is 2032. the World Coalition Government is in charge of 80% of the world's countries, and its peace-keeping forces crack down on everybody who threatens the status quo, while most of the population is centralized around atmospheric processors that keep out the massive pollution outside the cities. The WCG is opposed by a criminal organization known as The Syndicate, led by a man named Muro.

* KickChick: Konoko is so very much this. She has at least 18 moves at her disposal (a number of these moves only become available as you go through the game). At least 9 of these moves require Konoko to use her legs and ''kick''.

* ShootTheDog: Konoko can pull this off like no one else can. [[spoiler:She kills Mukade while he is down. Her act of shooting Griffin could be considered this. Her act of blowing up the atmospheric processors is probably this. She fights, and possibly kills, her own brother Muro. Then again, she learned all about that from Griffin, who made her uncle implant a Daodan Chrysalis within her, blew up Shinatama, and tried using Shinatama against her.]]

* ThirdPersonSeductress: Averted - while Konoko is certainly good-looking, she wears very practical TCTF uniforms when on duty, and casual street clothes otherwise. According to the development they had to fight tooth and nail not to give her a {{Stripperiffic}} outfit.

* [[VigilanteMan Vigilante Woman]]: [[spoiler:Konoko basically turns into this by Chapters 7 and 8. She ends up going after the TCTF and the Syndicate. Then again, the laws in this game are so poor that she could not have really achieved the results she needed by obeying.]]

* WaifFu: Konoko is pretty skinny and weighs probably less than 100 pounds. Despite this, she can beat the tar out of anybody, even big, huge musclemen. [[spoiler:It turns out to be justified, because she has the Daodan Chrysalis inside it. It apparently can improve her muscle tissue construction drastically -- essentially allowing her to fight like a 4-legged animal, even if she does not look physically any stronger.]]

* YouAreTooLate: Konoko finds out what Muro's plan is in the last chapter. She remarks to herself "There's too many stations: they could never be disarmed before Muro activates them. But there is one chance: if I overload the generators I could blow them up before the atmospheric damage is irreversible." The game is trying to use this trope, but there seem to be indications to the contrary. Regardless, Konoko is able to disrupt Muro's plan (but not stop it completely), which causes [[spoiler: the Apocalypse, a lot of dead people, and a number of survivors whose status is not elaborated upon]].

* ActionGirl: Konoko is ''so'' very much this. The TCTF female cops probably qualify, along with the Syndicate's Furies.

* KudzuPlot: The game's storyline ends up as this. Sure, the main storyline is resolved at the end, but you will be left with ''many'' questions by the end of the game. Part of this may stem from the fact that {{Bungie}} was trying so hard to get the game out of {{Vaporware}} status that they had to cut out things that would have filled in some blanks in the storyline. It is also possible that Bungie wanted this kind of plot, because a lot of Japanese anime and manga have a KudzuPlot.

* FragileSpeedster: All the ninja you encounter in this game move pretty darn fast, but fortunately have less health than the average enemy. The Furies and the female TCTF officers may qualify for this as well.

* GlassCannon: The Mercenary Snipers are very much in this trope. Their favourite weapon is the Mercury Bow, which is an ideal weapon for sniping and does a kegload of damage if it hits you. Being snipers, they like to keep a large distance between themselves and you. Fortunately for you, the Mercury Bow only contains two shots, and there is a 5-second delay between shots. Clearly, the snipers have to carry a lot of ammo clips. They have low health and once you disarm them they actually fight very poorly without their guns. Oh, and they can say "Wait till I reload!" It seems that they actually put a LampshadeHanging on this trope.

* GunsAreUseless: Ammo is extremely scarce and even the strongest guns aren't much use against the strongest enemies, and after a certain point in the game bosses become completely immune to weapon damage. This forces the player to rely on hand-to-hand combat.

* {{Badass}}: Konoko, absolutely.

* [[spoiler:BittersweetEnding]]

** However, the manual does not give information on Barabas, Mukade, Muro, or those Syndicate goons who blow up in 3 seconds when you kill them.

* {{Animesque}}

[[caption-width-right:256: DarkerAndEdgier {{Cyberpunk}} [[GirlsWithGuns Goodness]].]]

Enter Konoko, a TCTF agent fresh out of training, who is assigned to infiltrate a Syndicate facility and make contact with a mole inside. Helping her through a communication link are her commander, Griffin, her physician, Kerr, and MissionControl [[ArtificialHuman android]] Shinatama. Obviously, not everything is what it looks like...

* AFriendInNeed:
** Chapter 7 is all about this trope. The chapter is even titled with this trope. Konoko has this conversation with Griffin...
-->'''Konoko:''' "I'm going after her."\\
'''Griffin:''' "I have dispatched a Strike Team to recover the SLD."\\
'''Konoko:''' "This is personal."\\
'''Griffin:''' "Which is precisely why you should have nothing to do with it."\\
'''Konoko:''' "My mind is made up."\\
'''Griffin:''' "I am your Commanding Officer..."\\
'''Konoko:''' I don't care who you are. My friend is in trouble and I'm going to help her if I can. Stay out of my way.
** Konoko went against orders to help her friend Shinatama. This ends up causing her to lose her entire career as a cop, as well as becoming a fugitive. But then again, it is situations like this that show exactly where people's priorities and loyalties lie.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: [[spoiler: The ending of the game worked hard to avert this trope. First, it shows the city you played most of the game in. The destruction of the Atmospheric Processor apparently causes chaos, with people running around and screaming, buildings ending up on fire, and not to mention TCTF headquarters getting wrecked up. In short, it shows the Apocalypse occurring in the city. Then, it shows Mai Hasegawa walking through the city. She is not happy. If you think about it, most of the characters you encountered are most likely dead by the end of the game. Also, if think about how just about every city in the game probably suffered the same fate shown in the ending, well, you can understand how this trope is averted.]]

* AwfulTruth: Oh. My. Lord! This game uses this trope to a painfully straight degree. To describe it would take a lot of time to explain, but it essentially is a combination of [[spoiler:TomatoInTheMirror, TreacherousAdvisor, IAmWho, BrokenMasquerade, ''and'' IAmYourFather]]. Konoko's reaction is best described as a FreakOut.

** The trailers of this game actually did show blood being shed as a result of gun shots and physical combat. Bungie took it out because it would conflict with the hit-sparks, which was integrated with the fighting system; the other reason for removing the blood is that they wanted the game to be accessible to a wider audience and they feared it would of cause the game to get a higher [[UsefulNotes/EntertainmentSoftwareRatingsBoard ESRB]] rating than they intended.

* DangerouslyGenreSavvy: [[spoiler:Griffin is possibly this. After all, he did tell his GenreBlind scientist or cop to continue scanning for Konoko when he was told that Konoko most likely died in the acid. Too bad this did not help him too much against Konoko in the end.]]
* DarkActionGirl: The Furies are ''so'' very much this. [[spoiler:The TCTF female cops might qualify as this]].

* EvilVersusEvil: A case can be made that the war between the World Coalition Government (and by extension the Technological Crimes Task Force) and the Syndicate is essentially this. Why? Well, let's see. The WCG is a dictatorship that simply wants to maintain the status quo by any means necessary and the TCTF does the WCG's dirty work. Unfortunately, the world suffers from life-threatening pollution and the WCG treats it as the elephant in the room and will go after anyone who tries to bring it up. [[SarcasmMode Nice bunch]]. The Syndicate, on the other hand, is just as bad, if not worse. Every member of this group will happily kill civilians and unarmed people for no reason other than sadistic enjoyment. This group essentially lives to destroy the status quo and will hurt anyone who gets in the way without a qualm. [[SarcasmMode Another nice bunch]]. It is a good thing the character you play as is someone you can root for.

* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Father Like Daughter]]: Played with. Konoko behaves to an extent like her adoptive father Griffin. [[spoiler:Which is probably why his betrayal hurts.]] Later, Konoko discovers information on her biological parents, and it becomes clear that she has a number of the qualities her parents have (had?).

** [[spoiler:Muro is Konoko's older brother. The final proof appears at the end of the game, when Konoko disrupts Muro's plan. She types on the computer "Blam! Love, little sister".]]

* MirrorBoss: During a [[BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind trippy dream sequence.]]

* MythologyGag: The boss of the second level is an [[AIIsACrapshoot insane AI]] called a "Deadly Brain". Shinatama describes it as having "gone rampant", a term originally invented by Bungie for use in the ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' trilogy and later reused in the {{Halo}} trilogy that describes an AI developing [[AGodAmI "delusions of godlike power"]].

* [[OneManArmy One Woman Army]]: Konoko, so very much. Unfortunately, the trope undergoes ''brutal'' deconstruction like you would not believe. Why? First, Konoko is able to tear through armies of people because [[spoiler: the Daodan Chrysalis enhances her abilities]], but the police she works for fears her abilities and devises deadly countermeasures in case she ever turns against them. Second, despite her ability to tear through armies of people, she fails [[spoiler:to save Shinatama and to save millions (maybe billions) of lives from Muro's plans]]. It really sucks to be a one-person army, does it not?

** [[spoiler:Konoko is blue, Muro is red]]. Does that help?

* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Ridiculous Human Robot]]: Shinatama. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because she has to be human enough to synchronize to Konoko, and also [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Muro when he's torturing her.

* [[SecretCharacter Secret Characters]]: One of the game's most popular cheats is the ability to play as ''any'' character (friend, foe, and everything in-between) in the game, including Shinatama (yes, really) and Muro (in both of his forms).

* StupidSacrifice: [[spoiler:Dr. Kerr dies protecting Konoko. Unfortunately, his sacrifice was this, very much. First off, it is possible to get a force shield before the cutscene, thereby defeating the whole purpose of Konoko needing to be protected in the first place. Second, Konoko has the Daodan Chrysalis, which should have allowed her to survive getting shot by the Mercury Bow. Comments on Youtube state that this scene was so contrived.]]

* TheBigGuy: The game may not appear to have one, but actually, the TCTF elites, both the normal ones and the Black Ops can be put in this role.
* TheBrute: Barabas is put in this role, despite the fact that he appeared to be TheDragon of Muro at first.
* TheChessmaster: [[spoiler:Griffin is revealed to be this, especially since he raised Konoko to be a weapon against Muro and the Syndicate. He also devised countermeasures in case she turned against him. However, it turns out that he is terrible at handling reversals. For instance, he did not anticipate Shinatama unhooking herself from the Deadly Brain computer and going after him instead of Konoko. Interestingly enough, the computer terminals reveal that Griffin really stretched out the budget available to him. In fact, the TCTF people had to remove a number of things, such as emergency override Griffin Alpha Zero (the code Griffin tried to use to shut down Shinatama and it did not work). Also, he hooked up Shinatama to the Deadly Brain, even though she was not even designed for it. Clearly, his need to prepare for every possible scenario and control every little thing ended up defeating him.]]
* TheChick: Shinatama fits this role like a glove. [[spoiler:This may be one of the reasons her death is so horrible.]]
* TheDarkChick: The female Furies of the Syndicate can qualify for this role.
* {{The Hero}}ine: Konoko. However, she really gets put to the test with this!
* TheLancer: Griffin can be considered this. He is definitely in this role [[spoiler:i fKonoko did not shoot him]].
* TheImmodestOrgasm: The first time Konoko experiences a Daodan Spike, she lets out this kind of cry. The other times, she does not.
* TheOnlyOne: Konoko is really the one person who can handle problems in this game. Of course, what helps to justify this is that she is a cop, and that it is her job to do this. [[spoiler: Later, she breaks away from the TCTF, which gives her the advantage of actually taking on problems without having to worry about politics or bureaucracy. She even says this trope word for word in her final diary entry, in which she says that she is the only one who can stop her brother Muro and his plans.]]
* TheTopicOfCancer: The creepy biological macguffin, the Chrysalis, is repeatedly described as being like cancer.

* TheSmartGuy: Dr. Kerr is put into this role. [[spoiler:You can bet that his death is ''not'' a good thing]].
* TheStoic:
** Griffin. This is established in the very first chapter. Konoko finds the corpse of a mole named Chung. Here is the resulting dialogue:
-->'''Konoko:''' "Chung..."\\
* Konoko reports to Griffin*\\
'''Konoko:''' "It's Chung. I found him."\\
'''Griffin:''' "Dead?"\\
'''Konoko:''' "Yes Sir."\\
'''Griffin:''' "Keep moving."
** Griffin says the above lines without emotion, showing himself to be quite the stoic.
* TheSyndicate: ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* [[spoiler:TheUnmasquedWorld: By the end of the game, the entire human race is forced to admit and to realize that the world outside the Atmospheric Processors is poisonous. Unfortunately, they had to have this driven home via the Apocalypse, which resulted in a lot of deaths. Fortunately, the ones still alive will stand a chance at surviving this poisonous world, thanks to the Daodan Chrysalis.]]

* {{Ubermensch}}: Konoko is this, oh so very much. Muro and his Syndicate, as well as [[spoiler:Griffin and his TCTF]] would qualify as The Last Man. At first, she starts off with the morals of the TCTF. Then she rejects it, and essentially tries to adopt a new set of morals. [[spoiler:In fact, it could be said that the Daodan Chrysalis enables Mai and anyone who possesses one the ability to become the Ubermensch]]. The battle between Konoko and Mukade could be interpreted as a battle between two Ubermensch, or a battle between one Ubermensch and one NietzscheWannabe. It does raise a question on what would happen if two Ubermensch encountered each other (and if they could live with each other). [[spoiler:Konoko's decision to shoot Griffin or spare him could be interpreted as a decision on what kind of Ubermensch she wants to be. Shooting Griffin would make Konoko an Ubermensch combined with TheSocialDarwinist. Sparing Griffin would make Konoko an Ubermensch combined with MessianicArchetype. Another interpretation of her decision is that shooting Griffin means that she succeeded in destroying the Last Man, and sparing Griffin means that she decided to convert him to her way of thinking.]] She manages to bring down Muro and the Syndicate, [[spoiler:as well as bringing about the Apocalypse, which most certainly destroys the society she rejected. The ending seems to imply that Konoko will give a Daodan Chrysalis to every person she finds. In this way, she would be able to start a new society, one that she would be able to live in]].

* [[WellDoneSonGuy Well Done Daughter Girl]]: Konoko wanted Griffin to be proud of her. She shows this right at the beginning of the game. [[spoiler:She stops trying as early as Chapter 7. It was just as well, really, when you consider the BrokenPedestal...]]

** "RISING FURY!!!" "DEVIL SPIN KICK!!!" "STRIKER SLAM!!!" "NUCLEAR TACKLE!!!" "BLOCKBUSTER!!!", to name a few. Interestingly, [[FinalBoss Muro]] avert the trope. Everyone else does it, even TCTF troopers.

** Enemies attacking you with rocket launchers at point-blank rage.

** The trailers of this game actually did show blood being shed as a result of gun shots and physical combat. Bungie took it out because it would conflict with the hit-sparks, which was integrated with the fighting system; the other reason for removing the blood is that they wanted the game to be accessible to a wider audience and they feared it would of cause the game to get higher [[UsefulNotes/EntertainmentSoftwareRatingsBoard ESRB]] rating than they intended.

* BodyguardBabes: Furies. According to [[AllThereInTheManual the manual]], the blue rank of Furies are bodyguards to lesser Syndicate bigwigs while the red class are Muro's personal elite.

** The trailers of this game actually did show blood being shed as a result of gun shots and physical combat. Bungie took it out because it would conflict with the hit-sparks, which was integrated with the fighting system; the other reason for removing the blood is that they wanted the game to be accessible to a wider audience and they feared it would of cause the game to get higher [[EntertainmentSoftwareRatingsBoard ESRB]] rating than they intended.