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A 1995 ActionAdventure game by Creator/OriginSystems for DOS and Windows [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PCs]].

The game was technologically innovative for its usage of fully-textured 3D models (imagine the first ''Videogame/AloneInTheDark'', only with UsefulNotes/PlayStation quality models), but didn't have great sales, owing perhaps to its very high system requirements and it being advertised as an "InteractiveMovie" (while having little do to with them) just as that genre was losing its popularity.

The game was technologically innovative for its usage of fully-textured 3D models (imagine the first ''Videogame/AloneInTheDark1992'', only with UsefulNotes/PlayStation quality models), but didn't have great sales, owing perhaps to its very high system requirements and it being advertised as an "InteractiveMovie" (while having little do to with them) just as that genre was losing its popularity.

* PuzzleBoss: There are two or three of these. [[spoiler: Though you must engage in actual combat with the cyber-raptor, you can't beat it until you knock it onto the DilatingDoor on the floor and open door, dropping it into a cryo tank where it will fight with another unbeatable monster serving as a BeefGate. Later on there is another acid-dwelling monster that you must blow up with a missile from a crashed dropship.]]
* RagnarokProofing: [[spoiler: The Phyxx ruins at the Excavation Site survived ''really'' well for being a hundred thousand years old.]]

* SpritePolygonMix: Flat backgrounds, 3D objects, like in ''Videogame/AloneInTheDark1992''.

* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: Draining the alien battery you got from [[spoiler: the first alien leader]] too much (either by healing or firing your ArmCannon), and you will not have enough power to charge up [[spoiler: your escape vehicle.]]

* BlessedWithSuck: Yes, you're a cyborg with an ArmCannon and a HealingFactor, but you're also a deformed freak. [[spoiler: Also, both of those are powered by the same batteries that the escape ship needs.]]

* CloudCuckooLander: The Prime Paragon's logs spend time in this territory when he's not being TheFundamentalist.

* MultipleChoicePast: An interesting variation. Near the end, you discover who you were (from among several possible identities), but it's your prior decisions at four key points in the game that determine which identity it is.

* QuestForIdentity: One of the points of the game. Interestingly, your decisions at four key places in the game determine which of Dr. Mastaba's possible test subjects you were. [[spoiler: In all cases, it's ultimately AllForNothing, in a sense. After unlocking the file that reveals who he was, the protagonist concludes that he can never be that person again.]]

* SeeYouInHell: "I'm sure I'll be joining you and your men in hell very shortly." [[spoiler:(The protagonist is referring to the imminent explosion of a nuclear reactor nearby.)]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Dr. Escher survived but was captured, with Dr. Mastaba gloating that she will be his next test subject.]] But alas, all hope for a sequel/expansion was [[OrphanedSeries long since gone]].

* ThatManIsDead: The protagonist eventually does discover his true identity, but notes that [[ShaggyDogStory it hardly matters anymore, as he can never be that person again]].

* NintendoHard: Clunky tank controls and melee combat that doesn't cooperate with it, TrialAndErrorGameplay puzzles and potential instant deaths, an early part of the game is a TimedMission that is so difficult to deal with that it can come down to pure luck (and trying to savescum inside this part will automatically run out the timer every time the save is loaded, making the game impossible and thus forcing it to have to be done in one go), and the UnwinnableByMistake situation listed below. This game doesn't mess around.

* UnwinnableByMistake: Draining the alien battery you got from [[spoiler: the first alien leader]] too much (either by healing or firing your ArmCannon), and you will not have enough power to charge up [[spoiler: your escape vehicle.]]

* ImprobableWeaponUser / GrievousHarmWithABody: The fight right at the beginning of the game, where you beat up an AxCrazy psychopath with his own severed limb. [[NotSoDifferent All while shouting that you have no wish to harm him]].
** KarmaHoudini: Despite conducting horrendous UnwillingRobotization experiments [[spoiler:Dr. Mastaba gets away scot-free]].

* AmnesiacHero: A pre-requisite for the QuestForIdentity.

* ApocalypticLog: Caynan's logbook shows his descend into insanity. According to Dr. Mastaba's notes, [[LampshadeHanging the cyborgization victims after a certain point obsessively write down everything happening to them until they entirely succumb to insanity.]]
** You also have your own journal, providing additional thoughts on your situation. After you check a few entries, you (the character) will notice that you're not actually ''creating'' these logs, they just kind of show up...which results in a log entry about how your journal is apparently logging all of your thoughts ''for'' you.

* DeathWorld: Daedalus, the moon where the Mondite base is located, is a deeply unpleasant world with horrid fauna and an acid lake.

* GravityMaster: The entire race of Phyxx. Their civilization was built upon the mastery of gravity. The upper class lives in low gravity cities where little physical effort is needed, while the worker/soldier class were grown in high gravity environments to make them stronger. HilarityEnsues.

* HeelFaceTurn: Caynan, one of the Mondite guards. Unfortunately, it didn't turn out well for him and he was made into a test subject himself.

* HumanPopsicle: [[spoiler:Well, an "alien popsicle". The few surviving Phyxx are crygenically frozen.]]

* MadScientist: Doctor Mastaba, and how!

* PhlebotinumRebel: You, and (somewhat) Dane, at least.

* PuzzleBoss: [[spoiler: There are two or three of these. Though you must engage in actual combat with the cyber-raptor, you can't beat it until you knock it onto the DilatingDoor on the floor and open door, dropping it into a cryo tank where it will fight with another unbeatable monster serving as a BeefGate. Later on there is another acid-dwelling monster that you must blow up with a missile from a crashed dropship.]]
* QuestForIdentity: One of the points of the game.

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler: The hero learns his past identity, but concludes that it doesn't matter, as - [[BecomingTheMask by this point]] - he can never be that person again.]]

* AmnesiacHero: A pre-requisite for QuestForIdentity.

* AxCrazy: The victims of the cyborgization process kept becoming this until Mastaba found out how to stop this. The player also has the option of acting AxCrazy themselves, as there are points where you can kill someone even though they pose no threat to you.
* BareFistedMonk: There are firearms in the game (and the [[ImprobableWeaponUser severed arm]]), but for the most part you can complete it beating up all enemies with your hands and feet.

* BlessedWithSuck: Yes, you're a cyborg, but you're also a deformed freak. [[spoiler: Also, the super ArmCannon that you unlock late in the game is powered by the same batteries that the escape ship needs.]]

* GoingCritical: Stopping a reactor from meltdown is one of the things you've got to do.

* KarmaHoudini: Despite conducting horrendous UnwillingRobotization experiments [[spoiler:Dr. Mastaba gets away scot-free]].

* MadScientist: Doctor Mastaba.

* SeeYouInHell: "I'm sure I'll be joining you and your men in hell very shortly." [[spoiler:(referring to the imminent explosion of a nuclear reactor nearby.)]]
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: Dr. Escher survived and captured, with Dr. Mastaba gloating that she will be his next test subject.]] But alas, all hope for a sequel/expansion was [[OrphanedSeries long since gone]].

* TheUnfought: [[spoiler:Dr. Mastaba got away scott free.]]

* UnwinnableByMistake: Draining the alien battery you got from [[spoiler: the first alien leader]] too much (either by healing or firing your arm cannon), and you will not have enough power to charge up [[spoiler: your escape vehicle.]]

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: The programmers couldn't make fluid lifelike animations, so you're a half-machine rather than a human. The game couldn't handle too many characters on-screen at once, so the base you're in is almost completely abandoned due to a disaster, and all of the fights are one on one.

* ImprobableWeaponUser / GrievousHarmWithABody: The fight right at the beginning of the game, where you beat up an AxCrazy psychopath with his own severed limb. All while [[InsaneTrollLogic shouting that you have no wish to harm him]].

* ImprobableWeaponUser / GrievousHarmWithABody: The fight right at the beginning of the game, where you beat up an AxCrazy psychopath with his own severed limb. All while shouting that you have no wish to harm him.

* [[spoiler: EarthShatteringKaboom: The reactor explosion of your base somehow manages to blow up the entire moon.]]
* [[spoiler: EleventhHourSuperpower: Near the end of the game your character acquires the ability to fire a destructive beam out of his wrist.]]

* [[spoiler:HigherTechSpecies]]: [[spoiler:The Phyxx]].

* [[spoiler: TheUnfought: Dr. Mastaba got away scott free.]]

* UnwinnableByMistake: Draining the sweet, sweet alien battery you got from [[spoiler: the first alien leader]] too much (either by healing or firing your arm cannon), and you will not have enough power to charge up [[spoiler: your escape vehicle.]]

A 1995 ActionAdventure game by Creator/OriginSystems.

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* NintendoHard: Clunky tank controls and melee combat that doesn't cooperate with it, TrialAndErrorGameplay puzzles and potential instant deaths, an early part of the game is a TimedMission that is so difficult to deal with that it can come down to pure luck (and trying to savescum can glitch out the timer, making the game impossible), and the UnwinnableByMistake situation listed below. This game doesn't mess around.