History VideoGame / TwoWorlds

* SequenceBreaking: When the FinalBoss dies, the game ends. In the initial release, it doesn't matter where or when this happens -- so the SpeedRun strategy is, during the FinalBossPreview, trick him into provoking a nearby village full of InvulnerableCivilians, who retaliate by [[ZergRush mobbing him to death]].

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--> '''Hero:''' Rain again!

* TheSmurfettePrinciple: You sister is apparently the only female on the planet. The (always male) characters do sometimes mention their wives or daughters, but none are to be found in the entire game. This is likely because, since the player can only be male, the programmers never bothered to model any female versions of the clothing sets as that would just use up more time and resources. As a result, there are no female NPC models besides the unique model for your sister. The second game is noticeably better about this, with female [=NPC=]s and a number of female major characters.

* AntiFrustrationMeasures:

* OnlyAFleshWound: In those almost exact words. Quoth ''{{Unskippable}}'': "This is no time to quote [[Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail Monty Python]]!"

* ForMassiveDamage: The Humbling Blow skill from the second game knocks opponents down; if you then follow up with a standard attack while they're lying on the ground, you instakill them automatically, potentially dealing tens of thousands of hitpoints worth of damage in a single blow.

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* BeefGate: Enemies become progressively more powerful the further you get from the starting village, so if you try to explore in the wrong direction too early on you'll quickly find yourself being overwhelmed by enemies that are way out of your league.

* LordBritishPostulate: It's possible, by exploiting certain aspects of the combat engine (or, in the unpatched version of the game, simply not starting the main quest until you've grinded your way to reaching endgame character level), to actually kill Gandohar at the beginning of the main quest (this is akin to starting off the Lord of the Rings by having Frodo kill Gandalf right off the bat). In fact, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3njDh5_UPc speed runs]]" of the game exploit the fact that A) your character respawns, even if he is one-shot killed by the obvious final boss and B) that villagers can mob and kill said final boss. The game treats this as though you've beaten the final boss normally, even giving you the achievement for it.

** There's another sidequest that involves getting rid of the ghosts of some annoying imperial toll collectors...who happen to be medieval [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of the [[MarxBrothers Marx Bros.]] It also contains mild Ghostbuster references - the Groucho Expy says "If you don't pay the toll, you can't cross the stream" (to which your character replies "''What'' stream?" - the area you're in is almost bone dry), and when you talk to them before enacting your plan to exorcise them (trick them into following you into a nearby room with a mirror so that they look into it, realize they're dead and pass on), they refer to themselves as the Scoleri brothers, after the ghostly gangster brothers from ''Film/GhostbustersII''.

** When confronted by the ghost of a formerly defeated foe, you make a comment to the effect of [[Film/{{X-Men}} "I thought I'd try cutting off your head, see if that works."]]
** Valarin, the captain of the guard in Hatmandor, has [[LordOfTheRings Narsil]] mounted on his office wall.

** One quest is called [[MagicTheGathering Magic The Gardening]].
** You can find a ship's log in a wrecked pirate ship. According to the log [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean the captain's name was Jack and the first words recorded in the log are "the rum's gone"]].

** The first chapter is about recruiting a rebellion and building a massive army using the same mysterious Verita that Gandohar uses. [[spoiler:This army is never heard from again, except in the form of a hidden quest wherein you slaughter the ''very same'' golems in the Verita Caves to apparently save the miners. This has no effect on the plot, is not hinted at unless you re-enter the caves sometime after the reveal of the golems]]. In gameplay terms, [[spoiler:the golems are even overpowered compared to the rest of the enemies in the game and the weapons they drop require a staggering level 56 to wield when the game is completed at around level 46, hinting that they were slipped in as an afterthought]].

* CallASmeerpARabbit: The "scorpions" are quadrapedal and have a humanoid torso.

** The first game features the city of Ashos, which has a clear East Asian influence. It's located near a bamboo forest, has Japanese inspired architecture, and a lot of its population has East Asian-looks (although some are dark-skinned) and Japanese sounding names. Its guards also wield katanas and wear samurai-inspired armor.

** There is a city that is surrounded by bamboo trees and is populated with people who speak in Far East accents and have Japanese sounding names (although a lot of them are dark-skinned). Of course, all of the guards there wield katanas.
** And then there is that tavern in New Ashos, with the drunkards called Macek, Jarek and so on. Might be an EasterEgg from the Polish team of developers, though.

** And butchered modern English. None of the peasants can decide how to pronounce the names of their towns, no one told them how, and some of them don't even know how to pronounce ''real'' words.
-->'''Peasant''': "They said they wanted to buy my corral (pronounced "coral") for one piece of gold. I told them to stick it where the sun never shines."

** There is a city that is surrounded by bamboo trees and is populated with people who speak in Far East accents (although a lot of them are black-skinned). Of course all the guards wield katanas.

** There is an area with Bamboo trees and is populated with people who speak in Far East accents (although a lot of them are black-skinned) and sell katanas. It still uses European architecture.

* StandardFantasySetting

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* GuideDangIt: The "tutorial" lasts for less than 1 minute and pretty much only covers how to open doors, draw your sword, and swing it around. Everything else you have to figure out on your own. Some non-intuitive mechanics that bear mentioning are the fact that same items (i.e. 2 short swords or 2 grom shields) can be combined to create a more powerful version, how magic works (you create spells by stacking spell cards and booster cards), and the faction you can junction magic gems to your weapons to add elemental damage to them.

* ConstructedWorld
* DemBones: Called a "Necris" here.

** In the first game's instruction book there are pictures which suggest there were going to be more equipment, also with using cheat codes, you can find things in the game engine not in the final game.
*** Also in the first game: An entire city that is shown on the map but is inaccessible due to the massive gate between it and the rest of the world.

* DualWielding

* HeroicFantasy

* MedievalEuropeanFantasy

* OurDemonsAreDifferent

* OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame

* ScaledUp
* SceneryPorn

* TheUndead
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** Which has European architecture and is inhabited by black people.

* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: And butchered modern English. None of the peasants can decide how to pronounce the names of their towns, no one told them how, and some of them don't even know how to pronounce ''real'' words.

* ContinuityLockout: There is little to no in-game information about who's who and who stands for what in the Part Two. Even the manual provides only a very brief and vague synopsis. On the other hand, the vast overwhelming conflict of Orcs versus Humans is pretty much shelfed in the background as the story explains it

* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Instead of the asian-themed monsters you might expect, the second game's {{wutai}} island inexplicably has velociraptors roaming the forests.

* FollowTheLeader: "What you say? ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' made lots of money? Well we'd better get to work making something just like it! Except [[SmallNameBigEgo it will definitely be much better!]]"

* {{Hatedom}}: One has arisen due mostly to the [[SmallNameBigEgo overblown self-image]] of the folks at Southpeak Studios. On the other hand, most people just find think the first game is too funny to actually hate.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Almost everything that was said prior to the release of the game. You can go online -- sort of. You can customize your character -- but it won't matter, because he looks the same anyway. You can play a female character -- online. [[NonIndicativeTitle And there's only one world.]] Note that most of these features are in the second game.

* AbortedArc: ''[=TW2=]'' seems to suffer heavily from this. The story goes on nicely until [[spoiler:you finally make it out of the [[SwampsAreEvil Goddamn Swamp]], then you have to head out for the Big Bad's fortress only to end up being handed a TwistEnding the size of the castle you're infiltrating]]. It seems the game was originally planned to be significantly larger but the developers had to shorten it due to time and money constraints.

** Of course, WhatCouldHaveBeen ensues.