History VideoGame / Dex

* WhatAnIdiot: Seifer, a chump used in the scheme of [[MegaCorp BioTechFarm]] to poison his own people. Loraine, the head of the Seeders gang and his direct boss is not much better.
* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: Raycast, the only surviving member from the failed batch of the Crow's clones, serving as a guinea pig for the project that created him, existing as a barely humanoid mass of misshapen flesh and organs. He implies that however painful the experiments conducted on him are, he has to conceal his pain or else the researchers might put him in an unconscious state, depriving him of any resemblance of freedom he may have. The only thing that prevents him from being an example of AndIMustScream is his connection to Cyberspace, where he's nigh-omnipotent.]]

* 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. Overall, the whole quest is either a case of poor writing or a very obscure StealthParody.

* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Raycast]]. A downplayed example, however - [[spoiler: his]] motives are unarguably benevolent, and [[spoiler: his]] [[TheWoobie circumstances]] make [[spoiler: his]] tendency to lie and manipulate understandable, if not forgivable. Lily, the mistress of the Aphrodite brothel, is also this sans any redeeming circumstances. Dex herself can engage into it on one occasion [[spoiler:during the operation to bring down GSV-2, she can manipulate one of the scientists on the project into attempting to kill the chief security officer to get her key card and progress further. Depending on actions you did or did not do beforehand, there are several ways it can end.]]
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr.Niles, big time.

* [[spoiler: {{Transhuman}}: 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.]]

* LayeredMetropolis: Harbor Prime is one, with a respectable population of 13.8 million spread around in areas like the Highrise or the Slums.

* DoNotRunWithAGun: Played straight in the original edition - neither Dex, nor other characters in the game can move around or jump with their gun drawn. Being hit in melee will also force either her or the enemy to put their gun away. Averted in the [[UpdatedRerelease Enhanced Edition]].

-->'''Dr. Niles''': ''Or are you worried about being less you? You don't need a philosopher to tell you that you're more than a physical body. Soul, consciousness, destiny, call it whatever you will. But why would that "essence" be any worse off if you made your body better? You give it power! Jump higher, run faster, deduce quicker and kick ass harder...''

* 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.
** On the flip side, 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.

* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Free costume DLC adds three new outfits for Dex that you need to find and assemble first. They are not just for show however, and have some useful functions.

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

'''''Dex''''' is a CyberPunk {{Metroidvania}}/RolePlayingGame hybrid, developed by Dreadlocks. It was funded on Website/{{Kickstarter}} by the end of 2013, left UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access and [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/269650/ entered general sale]] on May 8th, 2015.

The story follows Dex, an augmented woman in the Harbor Prime city, who got on the wrong side of the Complex, a combined authority of the city's largest corporations. They send assassins after her, and she only escapes due to guidance from enigmatic Raycast, the leader of city's hackers seeking to wrest control back from the corporations.

* CollectionSidequest: Collecting antiques for Hank the weapon shop owner. There's not many of them but yes, some of these can be LostForever.

'''''Dex''''' is a CyberPunk {{Metroidvania}}/RolePlayingGame hybrid, developed by ''Dreadlocks''. It was funded on Website/{{Kickstarter}} by the end of 2013, left UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access and [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/269650/ entered general sale]] on May 8th, 2015.

The game follows a nonlinear approach in both gameplay and storytelling, frequently providing multiple ways of resolving quests and allowing the player to develop Dex in any way they see fit. Conversation skills, hacking/augmented reality, melee and ranged combat and even lockpicking can all be upgraded for different gameplay experience.

'''Dex''' is a CyberPunk {{Metroidvania}} RolePlayingGame hybrid, developed by ''Dreadlocks''. It was funded on Website/{{Kickstarter}} by the end of 2013, and then left UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access and [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/269650/ entered general sale]] on May 8th, 2015.

The story follows Dex, an augmented woman in the Harbor Prime city, who got on the wrong side of The Complex, a combined authority of the city's largest corporations. They send assassins after her, and she only escapes due to guidance from enigmatic Raycast, the leader of city's hackers seeking to wrest control back from The Complex.

The game follows a non-linear approach in both gameplay and storytelling, frequently providing multiple ways of resolving quests and allowing the player to develop Dex in any way they see fit. Conversation skills, hacking/augmented reality, melee and ranged combat and even lockpicking can all be upgraded for different gameplay experience.

* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Raycast]]. A downplayed example, however - [[spoiler: his]] motives are unarguably benevolent, and [[spoiler: his]] [[TheWoobie circumstances]] make [[spoiler: his]] tendency to lie and manipulate understandable, if not forgivable. Dex herself can engage into it on one occasion [[spoiler:during the operation to bring down GSV-2, she can manipulate one of the scientists on the project into attempting to kill the chief security officer to get her key card and progress further. Depending on actions you did or did not do beforehand, there are several ways it can end.]]

* WhatAnIdiot: Seifer, a chump used in the scheme of BioFarm to poison his own people. Loraine, the head of the Seeders gang and his direct boss is not much better.

* AnimalMotifs: Bird for Dex. She calls herslef "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.

* 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 acces 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 fullfills 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.]]

* CyberneticsWillEatYourSoul: The idea is scoffed at by Dr. Niles, who does most of the agumentations for Dex and has a bionic eye himself:

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

* UselessSpleen: Averted to a ridiclous degree. One of optional quests has you helping a downtrodden family of mother and son, where mother is dying from a disease and needs a spleen transplant to stay alive. [[CriticalResearchFailure Using son's spleen for transplantation is not an option, because removing a vital organ from him will cause him to die, leaving the mother wihout anyone to take care of her.]] And no, this is not a con on their part. Overall, the whole quest is either a case of poor writing or a very obscure StealthParody.
* VendorTrash: T-shirts, necklaces, implant remains, porn magasines, toilet paper...

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: Raycast, the only surviving member from the failed batch of the Crow's clones, serving as a guinea pig for the project that created him, existing as a barely humanoid mass of misshapen flesh and organs. He implies that however painful the experiments conducted on him are, he has to conceal his pain or else the researchers might put him in an unconsious state, depriving him of any resemblance of freedom he may have. The only thing that prevents him from being an example of AndIMustScream is his connection to Cyberspace, where he's nigh-omnipotent.]]

* 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 out of control and escaped into Cyberspace, but was subdued by a counter-program GSV that keeps it in a deadlock to this day.

* TheChosenOne: There's an urban legend about the Kether's seed, a human who received a copy of the rogue A.I. Kether's consciousness into their brain, and who will be able to solve it's standstill to GSV. And then there's Dex who for some reason can acces Cyberspace with no equipment at all. You can easily connect the lines here, and indeed, in the end [[spoiler: it gets subverted. Dex is indeed 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 thing special about her is that she's the first discovered clone that fullfills 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.]]

* HeavilyArmoredMook: The police at Harbor Prime, clad in full-body black armour, are this compared to many regular thugs Dex will frequently face.

* MegaCorp: The Complex is a union of several corporations that are already very large in their own right.

* FreezeFrameBonus: In the cutscene where Dex first comes to Fixer's Hope, behind Decker you can spot a picture of him and a girl lookig very similar to Dex. This puts his loyalty to her into a new light. [[spoiler: This also adds a whole new level of possible implications once you learn details about the Complex's cloning program.]]

* DoNotRunWithAGun: Played straight in the original edition - neither Dex, nor other characters in the game can move around or jump with their gun drawn. Being hit in melee will also force either her or the enemy to put their gun away. Averted in [[UpdatedRerelease Enhanced Edition]].

* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler: Raycast]]. A downplayed example, however - [[spoiler: his]] motives are unarguabl benevolent, and [[spoiler: his]] [[TheWoobie circumstances]] make [[spoiler: his]] tendency to lie and manipulate understandable, if not forgivable. Dex herself can engage into it on one occasion [[spoiler:during the operation to bring down GSV-2, she can manipulate one of the scientists on the project into attempting to kill the chief security officer to get her key card and progress further. Depending on actions you did or did not do beforehand, there are several ways it can end.]]

* [[spoiler: {{Transhuman}}: 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 people.]]

* {{Cyborg}}: Dex is ''not'' one from the beginning of the game; that metal thing on the back of her head is a ''necklace''. Dex's new friends are ''freaked out'' that she can access cyberspace without hardware. There's nothing stopping her from getting further cybernetic augmentations throughout the game, with the limit of 7 augmentations in any playthrough.

* DoNotRunWithAGun: Neither Dex, nor other characters in the game can move around or jump with their gun drawn. Being hit in melee will also force either her or the enemy to put their gun away.

* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: The only movement Dex is allowed to make with her gun drawn.

* {{Cyborg}}: Dex is one from the beginning of the game, with the entire back of her neck subsumed by metal implants to allow the access to Cyberspace. She an gain further cybernetic augmentations throughout the game, with the limit of 7 augmentations at any one time.

* LayeredMetropolis: Harbor Prime is one, with a respectable population of 13.8 million spread around in areas like the Highrise or the Slums.

The story follows Dex, an augmented woman who is hunted by the authorities of Harbor Prime city, and has to seek the assistance of city underworld and an enigmatic Raycast to survive and uncover the truth behind the events that transpire. The game follows a non-linear approach in both gameplay and storytelling, frequently providing multiple ways of resolving quests and allowing the player to develop Dex in any way they see fit. Conversation skills, hacking/augmented reality, melee and ranged combat and even lockpicking can all be upgraded for different gameplay experience.

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

* SkyscraperCity: Harbor Prime is one, with a respectable population of 13.8 million.

'''Dex''' is a CyberPunk {{Metroidvania}} RolePlayingGame hybrid, developed by ''Dreadlocks''. It was funded on Kickstarter by the end of 2013, and then left UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access and [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/269650/ entered general sale]] on May 8th, 2015.

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

''''Dex''' is a CyberPunk {{Metroidvania}} RolePlayingGame hybrid, developed by ''Dreadlocks''. It was funded on Kickstarter by the end of 2013, and then left UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access and [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/269650/ entered general sale]] on May 8th, 2015.

---> '''Dr. Niles''': ''Or are you worried about being less you? You don't need a philosopher to tell you that you're more than a physical body. Soul, consciousness, destiny, call it whatever you will. But why would that "essence" be any worse off if you made your body better? You give it power! Jump higher, run faster, deduce quicker and kick ass harder...''

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