History VideoGame / CliveBarkersUndying

* ReviveKillsZombie: This is literally the only way to kill the Skeleton Monks, until you get the Scythe and are able to decapitate them.

* PuzzleBoss: A lot of the bosses are pretty much invincible until they run out of juice. Lizbeth goes invincible with her LimitBreak, and you have to wait for her to tucker out before you can take her head off. Ambrose gets all [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever gigantimous]], and you have to wait until he's distracted so that you can hit his weak point for a large amount of damage. Aaron is invulnerable until one of his spears gets stuck, at which point you rush in and finish him off.

* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: Creator/CliveBarker was brought in partway through development for a rewrite of the story, and he also ended up doing a character's voice. His name was attached to it because ElectronicArts thought it would sell. Unfortunately, despite being a very good game, it didn't -- due in no small part to the sum total of EA's marketing campaign for the game being slapping "Clive Barker's" in front of the title.

* ImplacableMan: The Covenant siblings cannot be killed by any mortal weapon, only with the Scythe of the Celt. Even then, Lizbeth's head snarls and spits at Patrick before [[{{Badass}} he lights it on fire and throws it off a cliff]].

* {{Determinator}}: Let's face it: Patrick pretty much IS this trope. Let's see here: Survive UsefulNotes/WorldWarOne? Check. Survive at least decades of conflict with Otto Keisinger? Check. Get through Irish customs unnoticed in order to fulfill a life debt? Check. Fight through wave after wave of unspeakable abominations that have racked up quite the kill count? Check. Handle the ArtifactOfDoom with fairly marginal damage? Check. Kill off the undead and superhuman Covenant siblings one by one? Check. Go into HELL to defeat Keisinger? Check. Survive [[spoiler: Jeremiah]]'s betrayal? Check. Take down the [[spoiler: EldritchAbomination]] that helped cause this godforsaken train wreck in the first place? Check. Basically, by the end, he is pretty much surviving more-or-less because it seems like he can't bloody DIE.

* BrokenBridge: Sure'n you'll be hearing Patrick's [[{{Oireland}} Oirish]] brogue declaring a door to be "Stuck!" or "Won't budge!" and awful lot, boyo.

* SetAMookToKillAMook: The game had a resurrection power, but it was rather weak since it could only work on one enemy at a time, and resurrected enemies would crumble to dust after a couple dozen seconds and also had a random chance of turning on you and attacking you.
** Of course, the same spell only works on monsters. If used on a living person, it only lets you give [[PsychicAssistedSuicide one type of order]].

* PuzzleBoss: A lot of the bosses are pretty much invincible until they run out of juice. Lizbeth goes invincible with her LimitBreak, and you have to wait for her to tucker out before you can take her head off. Ambrose gets all [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever gigantimous]], and you have to wait until he's distracted so that you can [[ForMassiveDamage hit his weak point for massive damage]]. Aaron is invulnerable until one of his spears gets stuck, at which point you rush in and finish him off.

* LetsPlay - Vexation [[http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Undying/ does a LP of this game]] along with supplementary journals and backstory.
** [[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=350177 There's an SS LP that allows you to follow the story if you're bandwidth challenged.]]
** LetsPlay/{{Helloween4545}} [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA02F40A0A8564275 did one as well]].

->-'''Aaron Covenant.'''

->''"Can you hear the whispers, Jeremiah? Even another continent isn't far enough. Remember, I tried to go as well. I still heard them, even in Asian dens and German gutters. I figured it out, it's inside ... It won't be long until you cross the threshold, brother."'' \\

-->'''Aaron Covenant.'''

-->''"Can you hear the whispers, Jeremiah? Even another continent isn't far enough. Remember, I tried to go as well. I still heard them, even in Asian dens and German gutters. I figured it out, it's inside ... It won't be long until you cross the threshold, brother."'' \\
--'''Aaron Covenant.'''

* DarkIsNotEvil: Its revealed after the fight with Keisenger that the bird-like monsters, no matter how hideous they are, you have been fighting throughout the level are in fact just slaves under Keisengers control, and they thank you after you kill him.

* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Lizbeth kept the animated corpse of her mother in her lair, seated at a dining table and presumably "keeping her company."

* RecycledSoundtrack: The entire soundtrack (with the exception of the Main Theme) was shamelessly copypasted from the obscure ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' FPS ''{{Trespasser}}''.

[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/undying1.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:300:Looks like just a normal family ...[[http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/5503/undying4.jpg Hey, wait a second]] ...]]

** ...which results in the much-hyped [[EldritchAbomination Undying King]] being summoned, leaping out of the ground looking like a pissed-off mummy, as befit his name, only to seemingly disintegrate before engaging you...
** ...only ''then'' [[spoiler: to raises out of the ground in the form of some odd-EldritchAbomination-crab-spider-scorpion ''thing'']]. After him, the game ends. Promise.

* {{Determinator}}: Let's face it: Patrick pretty much IS this trope. Let's see here: Survive WorldWarOne? Check. Survive at least decades of conflict with Otto Keisinger? Check. Get through Irish customs unnoticed in order to fulfill a life debt? Check. Fight through wave after wave of unspeakable abominations that have racked up quite the kill count? Check. Handle the ArtifactOfDoom with fairly marginal damage? Check. Kill off the undead and superhuman Covenant siblings one by one? Check. Go into HELL to defeat Keisinger? Check. Survive [[spoiler: Jeremiah]]'s betrayal? Check. Take down the [[spoiler: EldritchAbomination]] that helped cause this godforsaken train wreck in the first place? Check. Basically, by the end, he is pretty much surviving more-or-less because it seems like he can't bloody DIE.

* RecycledSoundtrack: Much of the soundtrack was first used in ''{{Trespasser}}''.

* ShutupHannibal: "You know what [[spoiler:Jeremiah]]? You talk too much." * slices off his head*

** [[http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA02F40A0A8564275 Helloween4545 did one as well]].
* LivingStatue: The game has a weird bit where to get to the upper floor of a room in magical alternate dimension, the player must use the scrying spell on the statue in the center of the room. This shows [[spoiler: its heart exposed, which the player must then shoot with his gun. This causes blood to pour out and allow the player to swim to the upper level]].

* PlaceOfPower: The Standing Stones

* EnemyMine: The skeletons in the monastery aren't actually controlled by Lizbeth, according to WordOfGod. That doesn't stop them to temporarily allying with Lizbeth and her Howlers to try to kill you.

* FanDisservice: Lizbeth is wearing nothing but a barely-there torn dress, complete with {{Gainaxing}}, but she's so horrifying it's not even ''remotely'' attractive. This is driven home when you use the scrye on one of her pretty portraits.
** Although, both {{Lets Play}}s comment on her being attractive and her [[HaveANiceDeath victory pose over Patrick]] makes it obvious she was intended to be hot in uncomfortable ways. Creator/CliveBarker's stuff tends to be "interesting" like that.

* AllThereInTheManual: The game comes with Jeremiah's journal, where he explains how the Covenants were cursed and how they all met their untimely end. Also, you can find a transcript of some chat with one of the game developers [[http://jonhunt.com/smf/index.php?topic=3.0 here]].

* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Trsanti, a sort of pirate/gypsy hybrid. Patrick's journals show that he relishes slaughtering as many of them as he can.

* AndIMustScream: Aaron was [[spoiler:chained up and eaten alive by rats]], with his jaw removed so he couldn't scream.
* AnimateDead: The game has the Invoke spell, which raises dead enemies to fight on your side for a little while. It also [[ReviveKillsZombie insta-kills skeletons]]. And [[spoiler: makes a targeted male Trsanti '''''kill himself''''', though not the female Trsanti for some reason]].
** A journal [[spoiler: written by a Trsanti witch [[LampshadeHanging specifically calls out]] the tribe's men for their weak-mindedness]].

* BeatingADeadPlayer: The game had a unique "kill-the-player" animation for every single enemy in the game (except for the Lesser Monto Shonoi).
* BigScrewedUpFamily: It's hinted that the Covenant family has a dark history involving untimely deaths, creating all sorts of bloody rumors.

* BodyHorror: Bethany got her final revenge on her brother Aaron by [[spoiler:chaining him inside her private dungeon and letting rats ''eat him alive'', removing his jawbone so he can't scream.]]
** Which also qualifies as YouFailBiologyForever, since removing someone's jawbone does not affect his ability to scream - the ''vocal cords'' should be removed for it. As a matter of fact, he could probably do ''nothing but scream''.

* BuriedAlive: An ancient warrior is buried alive at the Standing Stones to seal the Undying King. Also, [[spoiler: Lizzbeth.]]