History VideoGame / PlanEscapeTorment

* DiscOneNuke: For Fighters proficient in [[DropTheHammer hammers]], it is fairly easy to get Mazed quite early in the game and find a Brimstone Hammer, which will last you until mid-game or later.

* HeroesPreferSwords: One of the tropes to be silently defied. A total number of three swords appear in the game, and only one can be used by the protagonist as such. One is exclusive to supporting character Dak'kon, the second must be transformed into a different kind of weapon before the main character can wield it, and the third -- Celestial Fire -- is one of the most powerful weapons in the game, although the requirements for obtaining and wielding it are very specific. The Nameless One must make do with [[PowerFist knuckledusters]], [[DeviousDaggers daggers]], [[CarryABigStick clubs]], axes and very big [[DropTheHammer warhammers]] for most of the game even if he can wield Celestial Fire.

** The latter is optional in the [[UpdatedRerelease Enhanced Edition]] and can be replaced with an interface more akin to the ones found in the other [[UsefulNotes/GameEngine Infinity Engine games]].

* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: The FinalBoss has multiple versions based on how many levels the Nameless One's active class level. The lowest tier has 320 hit points, equivalent to about 5-6 casts of the Rune of Torment. Bringing the class level up to the cap gives 999 hit points.

[[YouWakeUpInAMorgue You wake up in a massive mortuary]]. You are the [[TheNameless Nameless One]], and you have [[AmnesiacHero no memory of who you are or how you got to the mortuary]], with only a heavily scarred body and a few tattoos to give you a clue of your past. Aided by a sarcastic talking skull Morte, you escape from the building into Sigil, the City of Doors, a place linked to countless planar portals, located at the center of the {{multiverse}}. Here, regaining your past becomes an increasingly complex proposition.

[[YouWakeUpInARoom You wake up in a massive mortuary]]. You are the [[TheNameless Nameless One]], and you have [[AmnesiacHero no memory of who you are or how you got to the mortuary]], with only a heavily scarred body and a few tattoos to give you a clue of your past. Aided by a sarcastic talking skull Morte, you escape from the building into Sigil, the City of Doors, a place linked to countless planar portals, located at the center of the {{multiverse}}. Here, regaining your past becomes an increasingly complex proposition.

** A [[SealedEvilInACan box]] found in the Hive which everyone is trying to get rid of. There are three options once you get it: open it while in the Hive [[spoiler: which pits you against a fairly weak demon]], exit the Hive without completing the quest [[spoiler: which will cause a BonusBoss to appear much later in the game]], or to simply complete the quest by talking to a bunch of people, earning some experience and a modest amount of money.

* PoweringVillainRealization: the Nameless One meets the Transcendent One -- a godlike being that has been haunting him for the entire game, because [[spoiler:TTO is actually TNO's own mortality, which he had cast off millennia ago and which has been growing more intelligent and powerful each time he has cheated death ever since. One way to defeat TTO is for TNO to reintegrate it into himself, becoming mortal again and negating the source of its power]].

** It's mentioned that the Nameless One forged the Fortress of Regret with his actions, similar to [[Literature/AChristmasCarol Jacob Marley's chains.]]
** In the upper level of the Xaosect building in the hive, you can find several barrels, one of which has a radiation hazard symbol on it, a reference to ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', the last game Black Isle made before ''Planescape: Torment''.

** [[spoiler:The zombie with the key in the Mortuary has to be fought and killed.]]

** {{Deconstructed|Trope}} with one NPC, Ingress. She is deathly afraid of this, and with ''good reason''. She's been desperately searching for the portal back home for ''decades'', but the portals she found led to dangerous places, and [[BodyHorror she suffered dearly for it]]. Now she refuses to walk through anything that could be a portal, for fear she'll activate it and be sent to some horrible place, leading to her essentially living in the middle of a street. [[VideoGameCaringPotential You can have a planeswalker guide her home]].

Thanks to ''WebSite/{{Kickstarter}}'', ''Planescape: Torment'' has two {{Spiritual Successor}}s: ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'' by Creator/ObsidianEntertainment released in March 2015, and ''VideoGame/TormentTidesOfNumenera'' by Creator/{{inXile Entertainment}} released in February 2017. The latter takes place in the ScienceFantasy far future Earth setting of ''{{TabletopGame/Numenera}}''. (inXile couldn't obtain the rights to the Planescape setting.) ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'' has also been pointed to as a spiritual successor, not only because of its clear inspiration from ''Torment'', but also because of its willingness to go further in its subversion of and innovation upon RPG tropes.

* BullyingADragon: "[[NonStandardGameOver You have tested your immortality against the wrong creature and have been destroyed]].", this is the GameOver quote if you decide to [[TooDumbToLive piss off]] the Lady of Pain or Lothar, so don't try to annoy them.

* NonStandardGameOver: Since you're immortal and can't get a "standard" game over, there are only a few ways to screw up:

** In the upper level of the Xaosect building in the hive, you can find several barrels, one of which has a radiation hazard symbol on it, a reference to ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', the last game Black Isle made before Planescape: Torment.

** In the upper level of the Xaosect building in the hive, you can find several barrels, one of which has a radiation hazard symbol on it, a reference to ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'', the last game Black Isle made before Planescape: Torment.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Getting the best ending is ''not'' easy, but is oh so worth it.]]

* {{Leitmotif}}: All the important characters and several of the locations have their own themes. Though with the exception of Deionarra's, Annah's, and Fall-from-Grace's, you probably won't even notice most of them because they either don't play in many circumstances, don't get played for long enough when they are played until they get overridden by something else, or don't even appear outside the game's soundtrack. Restoration mods make the theme songs more prominent, though this causes some problems of its own when, say, the player is in the Smoldering Corpse bar and Ignus's theme suddenly overrides the area music, which is bound to be at least somewhat confusing the first time.

* HurtingHero: All of the protagonists are drawn together under [[spoiler:the "Symbol of Torment", the tattoo on The Nameless One's arm,]] by their respective personal failures and anguish.

* EleventhHourRanger: By the time Vhailor - a strong combat-oriented companion - can be recruited into your party, there's at most 2-3 hours left before reaching the end credits.

** [[spoiler: Vhailor can also get a massive XP bonus near the end which gives him several levels in one go if requirements are met. Not quite the same as the Nameless one but still quite an insane amount. Dak'kon can get a similarly massive XP bonus by meeting a different requirement, though as he's a spellcaster and there's no means of resting before the final fight at that point, he doesn't get quite as much benefit from it.]]

* JigsawPuzzlePlot: Infamously, the plot of Planescape: Torment revolves around trying to find all the pieces of the Nameless One's history and piece them together in order to figure out who he is, where he came, and how he came to be.

-->"The Tome hums with the power of...well...of cheating. Blatant cheating."

--> '''[[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Marta]]:''' "Gotta pulls the stitchies out, the teethies, yes. And the thingies inside..."

* PointOfNoContinues: The player can revive over and over again, where OutOfContinues theorically applies if everyone else is dead. The final fortress is isolated from the rest of the planes, cutting you off from the supply of extra lives, and when all your party members are dead, you will not be able to revive any more.

--->'''The Nameless One''': "This is the last time we shall ever speak. Return to death, where you belong."

---> [[spoiler:'''The Transcendent One''']]: "I can forge planes with my power. I can unmake you."

* PointOfNoContinues: The player can revive over and over again, where OutOfContinues theoritically applies if everyone else is dead. The final fortress is isolated from the rest of the planes, cutting you off from the supply of extra lives, and when all your party members are dead, you will not be able to revive any more.

** In Carceri and Baator your spells get screwed up. For example a strength spell will actually diminish your strength instead of boosting it. Due to the flaky nature of this (not all spells are affected) it was assumed by many people to be a bug: but it's completely intentional since magic works differently on other planes. It's very unlikely a player would know this, though, since it's only mentioned in the Planescape campaign setting booklets.