History VideoGame / Sundered

* SchmuckBait: If you happen to enter a room that has a corrupted treasure sitting right out in the open with some sort of energy field surrounding it, do yourself a favor and don't touch it. Attacking the treasure will seal off the room with impenetrable doors and summon a horde, which almost always contains a [[BossInMooksClothing Lith' enemy]].
** {{Subverted}}. Surviving these encounters rewards you with a Perk.

-->''Endless horrors surround me...they hunger for my humanity. Will I resist, or embrace?''

* UpdatedReRelease: ''Sundered: Eldritch Edition'', which was released in December of 2018 and added an extra region, a new boss, and local co-op multiplayer to the game. The update was free for anyone who already owned a copy of the game on Steam or the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 PS4]], and it was also ported to the UsefulNotes/XboxOne and the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.

* DeflectorShields: Early on in the game, Eshe acquires a Shield that mitigates the damage she takes from enemy attacks. Corrupting it with an Elder Shard will make the shield deal back some of the damage it recieves.

* BonusBoss: ''Eldritch Edition'' adds a hidden boss called the Magnate of the Gong, who cannot be fought until the player finds each region’s hidden gong chamber and completes the puzzles within, which unlocks his room.

* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: The Proving Grounds. [[spoiler:The primary horde plays by different rules than the rest of the game, ''permanently'' spawning many Hunters, stationary mechs which never leave their position. Upon killing one and moving away, they will ''immediately'' respawn in the same spot!'']]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite the Shining Trapezohedron wishing to have Eshe [[spoiler:complete the ritual that will bring Nyarlathotep into the world (and subsequently cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt)]], it sounds utterly disgusted when telling Eshe about Emmitt Nelson [[spoiler:slaughtering the women and children of the Eschaton city.]] Granted, how much its word should be trusted is [[UnreliableExpositor debatable.]]

* FauxAffablyEvil: The Shining Trapezohedron acts surprisingly civil, polite, and encouraging towards Eshe, [[VillainousBreakdown until she starts destroying Elder Shards.]]

* IronicEcho: A [[BossSubtitles Boss Subtitle]] variant. Early on, The Shining Trapezohedron claims that the shrines are Eshe’s ‘beacon of hope’ in a bid to convince her to corrupt her abilities. Should the player follow through, [[spoiler:the first phase of the final boss of the Embrace path is a mirror match against the last of Eshe’s humanity, with the title ‘Eshe — Beacon of Hope’.]]

* MorphWeapon: The Shining Trapezohedron attacks by wrapping itself around one of Eshe’s limbs and shaping itself into a variety of different blades, fists, spikes and other appendages as she swings it around.

* OneHitPointWonder: The Shield Converter Perk turns Eshe into this. It adds a sizeable chunk of her health to her shield, but in exchange it reduces her max HP to 1. If the shield ever goes down, she’s dead.
* OneWingedAngel: In the Embrace path, [[spoiler:Eshe’s doppelganger will transform into Humanity, a Shoggoth-like monstrosity with too many eyes, limbs, jaws, and exposed spinal cords. Eshe herself does this in the Embrace Ending as well, as she merges with the Shining Trapezohedron and turns into a black HumanoidAbomination with glowing eyes and a SinisterScythe.]]

* TheResenter: With the world in collapse, The Valkyries came to the Eschaton in search of medicine, technology, and resources, and Kurarl Mirrah refused them. They went to war instead, resentful of their prosperity.

** This also applies to [[spoiler:Eshe in the Embrace ending, as after she merges with the Shining Trapezohedron, [[HumanoidAbomination she’s only human in appearance alone, and even that’s pushing it]]]].

-->'''Shining Trapezohedron''': "Hahaha! That is what I call a weapon!"

* UnwinnableByMistake: Solving one Magnate of the Gong puzzle requires the player to have at least three Energy in order to dash to the final exit. This is the base amount of energy, but the drawbacks of some perks reduce it, and the large and sprawling structure of the puzzle makes it so that it's not immediately obvious the lack of Energy is the problem.

* WasOnceAMan: Hysteria was once a human soldier named Emmitt Nelson, before the Eschatons captured him and transformed him into the nightmarish [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot zombie-cyborg]]-SpiderTank that he is now. This also applies to [[spoiler:Eshe in the Embrace ending, as after she merges with the Shining Trapezohedron, [[HumanoidAbomination she’s only human in appearance alone, and even that’s pushing it]]]].

* IronicEcho: A [[BossSubtitles Boss Subtitle]] variant. Early on, The Shining Trapezohedron claims that the shrines are Eshe’s ‘beacon of hope’ in a bid to convince her to corrupt her abilities. Should the player follow through, [[spoiler:the first phase of the final boss of the Embrace path is a mirror match against the last of Eshe’s humanity, with the titled ‘Eshe — Beacon of Hope’.]]

* FrickingLaserBeams: Hunters are armed with a powerful laser cannon that can shoot through walls, allowing them to snipe Eshe from adjacent rooms off-screen. [[spoiler:Nyarlathotep]] can conjure similar lasers, and takes it to the point of BeamSpam.

* ArcSymbol: ''Masks.'' Several enemies wear masks, such as the boss ''Dominion,'' who wears one to power up before the battle. Some creatures wear masks despite not having a face. And statues depict vaguely human beings wearing one to several masks. This is {{Foreshadowing}} that [[spoiler:the final boss is ''Nyarlathotep,'' whose seemingly infinite forms are referred to ask ''masks.'']]

* LastOfHisKind: Dominion is the first and last humanoid member of the Eschaton you meet. [[spoiler:He is their leader, Kruhal Milarh, sealed away by the Valkyries while all the women and children were killed and the men were turned into monsters from the failed summoning ritual.]]

* LastOfHisKind: Dominion is the first and last humanoid member of the Eschaton you meet. [[spoiler:He is their leader, Krural Mirrah, sealed away by the Valkyries while all the women and children were killed and the men were turned into monsters from the failed summoning ritual.]]

* WallCrawl: The Gravitational Boots allow Eshe to climb up any sheer wall, so long as she starts out at its base while standing on the ground. Their corrupted form, Atlach-Nacha’s Grip, allows Eshe to climb up and down any such wall like a spider, and she can start climbing from any point on the wall’s surface.