History VideoGame / APlagueTaleInnocence

* TimedMission: The game runs on TakeYourTime except for a couple of action-based sequences that require you to perform a task in a given amount of time. For example the sequence where Amicia and Rodric have to cross a street behind a moving wagon with archers firing at them from a distance.

* MacGuffinDeliveryService: Subverted. Once Amicia finds the 'cSanguinis Itinera'' at the secret library, Vitalis shows up to seize the book but you manage to escape.

* ForYourOwnGood: This is Amicia's justification for not telling Hugo about their mother having survived.

* AllForNothing: Zigzagged. The part where you have to find the cure for Hugo. First, Amicia retrieves the ''Sanguinis Itinera'' from the university, [[DestructiveSaviour which gets destroyed in the process]], and then Amicia and Lucas chase back to the de Rune estate to create the elixir. All this is for nothing when [[spoiler:Hugo escapes the next day and turns himself over to Vitalis, where he reaches the next threshold.]] The intro for Chapter 16, upon loading a game, mentions that the elixir slowed the Macula's development and prevented Hugo from crossing the first threshold too quickly.

* TakingTheBullet: It's [[TheReveal revealed]] that, [[spoiler:the estate's caretaker Lambert jumped in front of Amicia's mother to take the hit from Nicholas' sword.]]

* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Unbeknownst to Amicia, Hugo overheard Arthur talking about how Beatrice was still alive and held captive by Vitalis. Later, he asks Amicia if they would ever see their mother again. Amicia, having decided not to tell Hugo anything knowing that she can't mount a rescue, tells him that she's dead. When he asks if it hurts where she is, Amicia says it doesn't. As soon as Amicia's asleep [[spoiler:Hugo runs away to try to find her.]]

* CorruptChurch: The Inquisition is a corrupt sect of the Catholic Church, or at least started out that way. Overheard dialogue in a mission late in the game seems to imply they no longer consider themselves Christians, and are only exploiting the institutions of the Church to accumulate political power. When a Catholic Archbishop shows up to investigate them, he labels them heretics and occultists and has them excommunicated.

* BreakTheCutie: Amicia is introduced being spirited and headstrong, but the Inquisition's raid on her home shakes her to her core, and [[FromBadToWorse it just gets worse from there]].

* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: When Amicia and Hugo try to sneak out of their house, they bump into a guard. Good thing their mother is there to take him out with a stone from behind.

* HollywoodTorches: It's not ''as'' bad as it could be. All the locations where flaming torches and lanterns can be seen have had people in them recently who would have lit them - the Roman bath [[spoiler:on the de Rune estate]] has had Inquisition soldiers snooping around in it. It may be a gameplay element showing the player which items can be set alight, but no matter how long-abandoned a place is, there will be faintly smouldering dim coals when the heroes arrive.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: [[spoiler:Killing Vitalis is a big one for the protagonists. Yes, Vitalis was a corrupt sadistic power-hungry monster who no one in the audience would miss, especially since he was ''excommunicated''. The townsfolk don't immediately run off or try to capture Hugo and Amicia and may or may not know much about the witch-boy with rat-powers who killed a psychotic witch-tyrant with worse rat-powers and saved them. But regardless of whether or not he was evil, the fact the protagonists killed such a high figure in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church means that the Church will never stop hunting them and the local townsfolk ''do'' know the two are wanted, and so they have to leave the region.]]

* TestedOnHumans: Vitalis has no qualms to send in his mooks to test out Hugo's new powers.

* TimedMission: The game runs on TakeYourTime except for a couple of action-based sequences that require you to perform a task in a given amount of time.

* TorchesAndPitchforks: After they first leave their castle, the townsfolk first avoids Amicia and Hugo, then they start chasing them down.
* TortureCellar: The Inquisition has one which Hugo has to infiltrate in order to find his mother.

* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: When Amicia and Hugo try to sneak out of their house, they bump into a guard. Good thing the mother is there to take him out with a stone from behind.