History VideoGame / PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The Commander in the secret ending. The Commander convinces Areelu Vorlesh there is enough of her child's soul in themselves to focus her research on them. Then depending on certain actions, the option is gained to kill Baphomet and Deskari permanently and use their realms for the tranformation. The Commander can become a demigod themselves or, if they fulfill other requirements, bring Areelu and/or their companions with them.]]

** If Arushelae is fully redeemed, she says that Desna has severed her connection with the Abyss and removed her demonic powers so she can finally have a physical relationship with the Commander. But a quick glance at her character sheet shows that she still has her Vampiric Touch and other racial features, likely because of the amount of extra work that would be needed to change her after.

** Council events will sometimes discuss events that just don't happen. Hal for example will talk about how the good dragons in your army feel awful about repeatedly having to burn down encampments despite those enemies being unable to fight back against the dragons. This never actually is something you see, do or order.

** If Arushelae is fully redeemed, she says that Desna has severed her connection with the Abyss and removed her demonic powers so she can finally have a physical relationship with the Commander. But a quick glance at her character sheet shows that she still has her Vampiric Touch and other racial features, likely because it would require changing Arushelae's gameplay usage drastically.

** In the early game enemies are statted up for a party of 6. You do not start off with 6 characters, and you also don't have the mythic abilities that make the game easier. A few classes that rely on Elemental damage, such as Alchemists and Kineticist, will also struggle against many of the demon enemies who are naturally resistant to the damage types those classes dish out in their early levels, until they can unlock their first mythic rank and use that to make their elements bypass elemental resistances.

* OutOfGenreExperience: Wrath is a high fantasy epic, but the Blackwater area has you [[spoiler:exploring a subterranean high-tech bunker filled with [[UnwillingRoboticisation cybernetically enslaved humans and demons]]. It wouldn't be out of place in a Series/{{Fallout}} game. Numeria is this for the world of Golarion as a whole, as might be expected for a nation built around a crashed starship.]]

*** A Commander that has Zon-Kuthon as their deity can reply to Anevia's off-hand mention dealing with his followers when she first met Irabeth by offering prayer to him in response, something Anevia will actively ignore you doing.

** Arueshalae, Lann, Sosiel and Wenduag were just [=NPCs=] in the original Adventure Path, but were promoted to playable companions in the game.

** A subtle example occurs in Act 4, disguised as a party banter between Nenio and Greybor. [[spoiler:Greybor asks Nenio what her "science" tells her regarding whether an assassination contract on the Commander or Queen Galfrey's would cost more; Nenio responds that price on Galfrey's head is currently higher, but that the Commander would likely surpass her in a little over eight months. Given the six-month time skip that occurs between Acts 4 and 5, Nenio's prediction neatly aligns with events late in Act 5 that will potentially see Galfrey's kingdom collapse and/or her lose her life in Iz.]]

* BonusBoss:
** Many side areas have optional bosses that aren't necessary to defeat for completion but are guarding some decent loot and are worth a good chunk of experience. Some of them include Pain Taster the Incubus, Sinful Sinew the Ecorchè, Maugla the Nabasu in the Lost Chapel, and the trio of Mandragoras under the Wizard's tower.
** It's self-defeating, but one can start the Devil Mythic Path via the Aeon path, have Melies set up a meeting with his boss, Mephistopheles (Lord of the 8th Circle of Hell) at the crossroads. Go to the crossroads, find out [[spoiler:[[KingIncognito Melies is Mephistopheles]] and he has some of his head honchos with him to do a trial on you to see if you are worthy of becoming a Devil. One can at this point choose to fight them all.]] Obviously this will fail the Mythic Path, win or lose. Have fun, he's a [[https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1693905524260153825/F5684B0FDC8D8096B36EA1478CE43D4AC98E6C86/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false level 39 Outsider, Level 20 Wizard]]! Something similar can also be done with [[spoiler:Early Sunset]] in Azata path.

* DisasterScavengers: When you're not fighting demons or their cultists, these are your main enemies especially in the first chapter.

* AGodAmI: a Lich commander can eventually grant spells to undead warriors and clerics under their control, including [[spoiler:a revived Staunton Vhane]]. The secret ending [[spoiler:involves all paths but Legends achieving (demi-)godhood.]]

* UselessUsefulSpell: Aside from inflated spell resistance and save bonuses, any spell that has a non-scaling hit dice cap on what targets it can effect (e.g. Color Spray, Scare) is almost certainly going to be a complete waste of a slot after Chapter 1 because of inflated enemy hit dice counts. Instantaneous casters like Ember and Daeran get this the worst because there's no way to trade out spells from their list without respeccing.

* BlackComedy: The PC can find a chicken statue in the wild, along with a [[FictionalDocument crumpled note]] from a sculptor named Floggy who kept making art pieces that unintentionally offended a different group of people each time (usually resulting in him getting beaten up). In an attempt to offend absolutely no one, he made a completely innocuous statue of a chicken, only to first attract cultists of [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils the obscure infernal duke Iaoazrael]], and then {{Knight Templar}}s who killed the cultists and began looking for the creator of "the blasphemous chicken".

* EasyLogistics: You can give orders to the Crusader armies no matter your distance from them or if enemies block the path between you, presumably via magic.

** If Arushelae is fully redeemed, she says that Desna has severed her connection with the Abyss and removed her demonic powers so she can finally have a physical relationship with the Commander. But a quick glance at her character sheet shows that she still has her Vampiric Touch and other racial features, likely because it would require changing Arushelae's sheet drastically.

** When refusing to give Shamira the info she wants, she'll hit the player with ''Mind Fog'' and begin trying to rip the info from their mind, necessitating to succeed some pretty harsh will saves while affected by Mind Fog. Notably, her version of Mind Fog does not allow the player a save, nor does it roll against any spell resistance present.
*** Notably, Life Bubble works, something multiple party members can learn. You still have to make the will saves, but it's a bit more fair.

** Arueshalae's starting stats are [[https://imgur.com/gallery/ajLwv1g significantly reduced compared to her tabletop incarnation]] due to her becoming a PlayerParty member. She's still PurposelyOverpowered, just not to such an extreme degree.

** The Cavalier class in general is unfortunately crippled by bugs in both turn-based and real-time modes affecting its core ability, Charge. Charging is awesome when it works; an enormous number of bonuses can be stacked on the attack, allowing characters to potentially one-shot most enemies and even some bosses. The game often however refuses to recognize charging as a valid action, even when a clear path and line of sight to the target exists, and occasionally a character will successfully initiate a charge, only to inexplicably stop in front of the enemy and cancel their action. Pre-battle cutscenes will often randomly dismount you, meaning you'll be wasting a turn getting back on while all your allies are already attacking (and thus sometimes getting in the way of the charge!), and every now and then starting a cutscene while mounted will just flat-out break it, forcing you to reload. Also, due to lances not being implemented as a separate weapon type,[[note]]In the tabletop game, lances are one of only two martial weapons in the spear group, and do double damage when used from the back of a charging mount. The CRPG has a single enchanted longspear (simple weapon), labeled a "lance".[[/note]] the best reach weapons in the game are classified as "polearms" rather than "spears" (a [[ArtisticLicenseHistory historically nonexistent distinction]] inherited from the tabletop game), which significantly weakens their damage output and cripples the spear-reliant Disciple of the Pike archetype. Finally, the aforementioned pathfinding issues still apply to medium and large mounts too, not just huge ones, just to a lesser extent.

* BalanceBuff: On tabletop, the Zen Archer archetype has to spend a ki point before declaring an attack in order to apply their unarmed damage dice to ranged attacks. The CRPG makes this a passive power that is always active, significantly increasing their damage output beginning at 8th level.

Two more DLC planned include a follow up for the ''Through The Ashes'' campaign alongside another DLC allowing players to resume the festival that got interrupted by the demon attack and Commanders following the ''Legend'' mythic path to have a party for all their companies and allies.

*** A Commander that has Zon-Kuthon as their deity can reply to Anvenia's off-hand mention of him by offering prayer to him in response, something Anvenia will actively ignore you doing.