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3 | ''Pray for Death'' is a 1996 FightingGame developed by Light Shock Software and published by Virgin Interactive for DOS [[Platform/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]]. It was one of the many fighting games [[FollowTheLeader that tried to copy]] ''Franchise/MortalKombat'', with a TwoAndAHalfD art style similar to ''VideoGame/KillerInstinct''. However, it's worth mentioning that it includes Franchise/{{Cthulhu|Mythos}} as a character. |
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5 | One day, the Grim Reaper decides to organize a fighting tournament between ten dead fighters, with the winner getting to come back to life. |
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7 | This game is still sold on Platform/{{Steam}} and Website/GOGDotCom. It can also be played in a browser or downloaded [[https://www.dosgames.com/game/pray-for-death/ here]]. |
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9 | Not to be confused with the 1985 {{Ninja}} movie of the same name starring Sho Kosugi. |
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11 | !!''Pray for Death'' provides examples of the following tropes: |
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13 | * AIIsACrapshoot: Painbringer. A "malfunction" turned him from a military training automaton into a genocidal robot supremacist. |
14 | * AlienBlood: Cthulhu's blood is green, Anubi's is purple. |
15 | * AllMythsAreTrue: The Norse god Odin is mentioned in Wolfrich's bio, the Egyptian god Anubis (named "Anubi" here) has his cult, and Cthulhu is here as well. |
16 | * AxCrazy: Pantera and Maelstrom. The latter once slaughtered ''his own entire army'', thinking he would [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness no longer need them]]. |
17 | * BadassNormal: In a game which features {{killer robot}}s, [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]], [[BigRedDevil demons]], and {{physical god}}s, Jan Fun is pretty much an ordinary man who is really, really good at martial arts. |
18 | * BadBoss: Working for Sir Maelstrom is hazardous to your health. Just ask his army, who got slaughtered by him. |
19 | * BladeBelowTheShoulder: Sir Maelstrom has two blades on each of his gauntlets. |
20 | * BruceLeeClone: Jan Fun is a Chinese martial artist who immigrated to America, invented a martial art, and died in 1973 under mysterious circumstances. Even his name is just Lee's Cantonese given name (Jun-Fan) with the vowels switched. The only difference to the real Creator/BruceLee in his backstory is that Jan Fun opened a dojo instead of becoming an actor. |
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23 | * DanceBattler: Pantera, who kills dancing to the sound of techno. |
24 | * DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Well, considering the man himself is a fighter, anybody is capable of felling the mighty Cthulhu. Even [[BadassNormal Jan Fun]] can put up a fight against him, and killing him is Maelstrom's goal. |
25 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Pantera in her ending, once [[HeelRealization she's unable to cope with the idea of having escaped Hell.]]]] |
26 | * DrugsAreBad: An addiction to hard drugs ended up aggravating Pantera's mental state, and causing her to become a SerialKiller. |
27 | * TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Cthulhu's plan for if he escapes from Hell is to destroy the dimension that humanity resides in. |
28 | * EvilVersusEvil: It's a given when all of the playable combatants have been damned to Hell. Some are ALighterShadeOfBlack though. |
29 | * FallenAngel: Uriel didn't want to help build Hell. Therefore, she was sentenced out of Heaven. |
30 | * FinishingMove: At the end of a fight, the winner can perform a "deadly move" to kill the loser. |
31 | * HighPressureBlood: All characters bleed a lot during the finishing moves - even when they are barely hit or not hit at all. Even Death himself bleeds! Averted only for Maelstrom and Painbringer, as their metal bodies give of [[SwordSparks sparks]] when hit. Pantera actually [[LampshadeHanging comments on this]] before battle. |
32 | * HoistByHisOwnPetard: Maelstrom renounced his Christianity to harness the dark power of the Necronomicon. Several years later, the Turks used its powers to [[DraggedOffToHell send him off to Hell]]. |
33 | * HowTheMightyHaveFallen: [[spoiler:Hilariously, Cthulhu's ending shows that he, the Great Old One who wanted the destruction of the world, has been reduced to performing at a water park billed as "Polip-Man".]] |
34 | * IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels: From easiest to hardest: Dead, Ectoplasm, Zombie, Demon and Entity. |
35 | * ItsPersonal: [[HornyVikings Wolfrich]] decides that now he's in Hell, he has the opportunity to go after his killer Xenobius. |
36 | * KillTheGod: Maelstrom's God complex means that he wants to get rid of any competition: more specifically, Cthulhu. |
37 | * ManVersusMachine: Painbringer's main goal is to kill Jan Fun and prove the superiority of machines over men. |
38 | * MySkullRunnethOver: This is what rendered Xenobius DeadToBeginWith; the power of Odin's coffer ended up rapidly aging him. |
39 | * NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: Maelstrom's backstory indicates that he is clearly meant to be UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler, down to Wallachia being his homeland and having "novels" written about him being mixed with legend (an obvious reference to [[Literature/{{Dracula}} Stoker's novel]]), not to mention how he was eventually killed by the Turks (the primary adversaries of the historical Vlad the Impaler). |
40 | * SuccubiAndIncubi: Murgan's backstory calls him a succubus, although he doesn't really do any seducing in-game and he'd more logically be called an incubus. |
41 | * TokenGoodTeammate: While all of the other participants are bloodthirsty maniacs, wrathful grudgeholders and/or malevolent gods, Uriel and Jan Fun are there for relatively more noble reasons; the former to [[TheAtoner repent for her prior crimes]], and the latter to reunite with his bereaved family. |
42 | * TomeOfEldritchLore: Maelstrom's main goal is to find the Necronomicon and become a god. |
43 | * WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler:Death admits that he has a lot of respect for Jan Fun should the latter best him in combat.]] |
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