History VideoGame / Dex

* OffModel: A lot of the animations are jarringly low on frames.

* UselessSpleen: Averted to a ridiculous degree. One of optional quests has you helping a downtrodden family of mother and son, where the mother is dying from a disease and needs a spleen transplant to stay alive. Dex has CriticalResearchFailure because she can suggest using the son's spleen for transplantation, but that's treated as the dumb idea it is. Removing a vital organ from him will cause him to die, leaving the mother without anyone to take care of her. And no, this is not a con on their part.

* DenialOfDiagonalAttack: Averted. Dex can free-aim with a mouse reticule when she’s using guns. The enemies have no problems with firing diagonally too.

* FictionalCurrency: Averted. In Harbor Prime, regular dollars remain perfectly valid.

* AIIsACrapshoot: Kether, an AI developed by the Complex that would allow them to put all of Cyberspace under their control. During the final testing stages it went rogue and escaped into Cyberspace, but was subdued by a counter-program GSV that keeps it in a deadlock to this day.

* AnimalMotifs: Bird for Dex. She calls herself "little bird" in one of her monologues, her cyberspace avatar in original edition is a stylised bird's head, and, from behind, the hem of her longcoat seems like a bird's tail.

* BadassLongcoat: Dex always goes around dressed in one

* GunsAreUseless: Averted. Shooting someone from even a basic pistol kills them in seconds, as opposed to longer and fairer melee. Bullets will run out, however, and new clips cost money, so Dex’ll often have to fight with her fists regardless. Likewise, Dex can be killed quite swiftly by the gun-wielding enemies, too, especially in the early game. Getting the Ballistic Dermal Layer augmentation (which halves the ranged weapon damage) will soon become a priority.

* LoonyFan: One of the optional quests has you dealing with one stalking a washed-up celebrity Barbara.

* MegaCorp: It's a cyberPunk setting, so of course you have several of these running around. The Complex is one notch higher in the food chain, veering into NebulousEvilOrganisation territory.

* NoSell: The Euroforce [=BattleRig=] of the Enhanced Edition or Extra Outfits DownloadableContent, makes Dex ImmuneToBullets when blocking, which renders some enemies utterly unable to damage a blocking Dex. Such as Armagear soldiers, who don't have a heavy attack to break her guard, being capable of only regular melee, which regular blocking utterly stops, and guns, which use ''bullets''.

* {{Transhuman}}: [[spoiler: Dex is a result of a program to create a new breed of humans. However, people at the head of the program have different ideas on the purpose behind development of these new humans.]]

* UnproblematicProstitution: Thoroughly averted. Aphrodite's brothel turns out to keep its male prostitutes addicted to drugs in order to keep them going. The one independent prostitute, Charlene at the top of the Chinese Quarter is implied to be an ex-employee but is still addicted to drugs.

* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Dex is one of modified clones of the head of the Complex, a person known as The Crow.]]

* BadassLongcoat: Dex always goes around dressed in one.

* CoolOldGuy. Decker. Also Richmond, Soto.
* CriticalHit: These can be scored during combat, either through luck or by hitting specific areas. Shooting enemies in the head is a particularly reliable way to score one.

* MultipleEndings: [[spoiler: 3 in total. However only 2 of these can be accessed at a time, depending on a choice you make earlier.]]

* UnproblematicProstitution: Thoroughly averted. Aphrodite's brothel turns out to keep its male prostitutes addicted to drugs in order to keep them going. The one independent prostitute is implied to be an ex-employee but is still addicted to drugs.
* UselessSpleen: Averted to a ridiculous degree. One of optional quests has you helping a downtrodden family of mother and son, where the mother is dying from a disease and needs a spleen transplant to stay alive. [[CriticalResearchFailure Using the son's spleen for transplantation is not an option, because removing a vital organ from him will cause him to die, leaving the mother without anyone to take care of her.]] And no, this is not a con on their part.

* VendorTrash: T-shirts, necklaces, implant remains, porn magazines, toilet paper...

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The protagonist herself is just one example.

* GoodOldFisticuffs: Dex is proficient at this, and can defeat even gun-wielding armored soldiers when upgraded. It’s never as fast as just shooting them, though.

* GridInventory: Dex has a rather large one, covering 56 slots, with multiple items of the same type fitting into one slot, and quest-specific items marked in red to prevent the player from accidentally throwing them out. And unlike ''VideoGame/DeusEx'', ammo clips take up slots like any other item.

* BiTheWay: Dex can purchase the services of both male and female prostitutes, and flirts casually with both sexes.

* ShellShockedVeteran: The head of security at Redmond-Watts is one, crossed with PsychoForHire as he snapped during his tour and went on a killing spree at [=POWs=]. You can hack his office monitors to replay security camera footage of that, which renders him near-catatonic.

* TheChosenOne: There's an urban legend about the Kether's seed, a human who received a copy of the rogue AI Kether's consciousness into their brain, and who will be able to break its standstill with GSV. And then there's Dex who for some reason can access Cyberspace with no equipment at all. You can easily connect the lines here, and indeed, in the end [[spoiler: it gets subverted. Dex really is a Kether's seed, ''a'' seed, one of many. Or, more accurately, one of the clones made by the Complex in order to create a human breed that would be able to be constantly connected to Cyberspace without any mechanical devices, and thus, controllable from there. The only special thing about her is that she's the first discovered clone that fulfills all of the Complex's criteria for her kind. By no virtue of her own - she's just the first lucky success from many tries.]]

* BiTheWay: Judging from certain items' descriptions Dex is definitely into the opposite gender, but the fact there's an achievement for having sex with two male prostitutes and one female shows she is this.

* RayGun: You can nab a working prototype of one in Redmond-Watts facility.

* LifeMeter: All enemies have a red bar displaying their health below their sprite, and there’s also a percentage just to the right doing the same.

* MegaCorp: It's a cyberPunk setting, so of course you have several of these running around. The Complex is one notch higher in the food chain, veering into NebulousEvilOrganisation territory.

* DialogueTree: Used during the conversations with all characters, and more important decisions have explanation tags like [threaten] or [complete mission].

* ArtificialHuman: [[spoiler:Dex is one of modified clones of the head of the Complex, a person known as The Crow.]]

* UnproblematicProstitution: Thoroughly averted. Aphrodite's brothel turns out to keep its male clientele addicted to drugs in order to keep them going. The one independent prostitute is implied to be an ex-member of their clientle but is still addicted to drugs.

* TheChosenOne: There's an urban legend about the Kether's seed, a human who received a copy of the rogue AI Kether's consciousness into their brain, and who will be able to break it's standstill with GSV. And then there's Dex who for some reason can access Cyberspace with no equipment at all. You can easily connect the lines here, and indeed, in the end [[spoiler: it gets subverted. Dex really is a Kether's seed, ''a'' seed, one of many. Or, more accurately, one of the clones made by the Complex in order to create a human breed that would be able to be constantly connected to Cyberspace without any mechanical devices, and thus, controllable from there. The only special thing about her is that she's the first discovered clone that fulfills all of the Complex's criteria for her kind. By no virtue of her own - she's just the first lucky success from many tries.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: Kether, an AI developed by the Complex that would allow them to put the whole Cyberspace under their control. During the final testing stages it went rogue and escaped into Cyberspace, but was subdued by a counter-program GSV that keeps it in a deadlock to this day.

* GameBreaker: Hacking enemies in AR, especially with the upgrade that makes it go twice as fast. The AR hack works on all enemies, stops time whilst you're in AR, has no cost or cooldown (other than taking 50HP of dump shock if all your focus is depleted due to viruses). The hack completely stuns enemies for ~5 second and makes most of them vulnerable to a OHKO from behind. If too many enemies surround you, just stun all of them, unload a few rounds/punches into one, rinse, repeat.

* AmbiguouslyBi: Judging from certain items' descriptions Dex is definitely into the opposite gender, but the fact that she can buy services from both male and female prostitutes rather puts her here.

%% * MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr.Niles, big time.
* MegaCorp: It's a CyberPunk setting, so of course you have several of these running around. The Complex is one notch higher in the food chain, veering into NebulousEvilOrganisation territory.