History VideoGame / KyaDarkLineage

''Kya: Dark Lineage'' is a 3D [[ActionGame action]] PlatformGame developed by French studio Eden Games, published by Creator/{{Atari}}, and released in 2003 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. It tells the story of ActionGirl Kya, who is teleported to AnotherDimension after her brother discovers an AncientArtifact in the basement of her house. She quickly becomes embroiled in a conflict between the local Nativ and an EvilOverlord named Brazul, who has been kidnapping and transforming the Nativs into loyal servants known as Wolfen. Her brother, by contrast, is quickly captured by Brazul, and used for his research. Armed with a bracelet, a boomerang-like hair clip, and a dose of magical abilities, Kya sets out to restore the Wolfen back to peaceful Nativs, defeat Brazul, and find a way to get back home.

* HundredPercentCompletion: To unlock most of the art gallery in the main menu, it requires you to turn all the Wolfun back to Nativs. Sadly, doing so defeats the point of earning any bracelets you missed, since the only thing you can use the abilities on are the hay-wolfun.

%%* BattleBoomerang: Kya's Boomy.
* BloodlessCarnage: Mixed: When a Wolfen is sent flying, by a kick or punch, it's possible to spot a tooth or two and a smear of blood. If Kya dies, however, it's a different story. Unless she lands in a grinder. No blood, just her getting split into sereval different pieces.
* CliffHanger: [[spoiler:The game ends with Kya and Frank attempting to use the medallion to go back to their world, but they end up in a vast desert, whereupon ''something'' charges at them, and "The End?" pops up.]]

* CoolAirship: Brazul's wolfun use several variants, from the hunter's small dirigible to medium-sized flying platforms that use big plants as ballasts to Brazul's large cannon-covered airship seen when he kidnaps the Nativs from their village.
* CraniumRide: One of the attacks Kya can get from the bracelets are the ability to ride a Wolfen. Charging into another Wolfen will knock it back, but Wolfens can still knock you off.

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Screwing up during a stealth section? Too far to run away? Yeah, you're better off jumping into that pit of water, or let the Wolfen kill you.

%%* GroinAttack: One of the many attacks Kya can learn, and it even works against the game's two Wolfen bosses.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Sometimes subverted. You can easily pass a wolfen whose eye-sight is 180 degrees from your location, but getting spotted is a different story. A wolfen will call his buddies to beat the smack out of you, or worse. Escaping them can be quite a pain, especially during stealth levels.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Happens pretty darn early. Kya learns that Brazul is her father almost immediately upon arriving in the Nativ's world.

* MenuTimeLockout: Checking your map and how many Wolfun are around/left happens through the pause menu. Selecting health items, soccer-bomb-balls and trap-balls are done in real-time by holding down one of the shoulder buttons and pressing either circle or square to switch through the stuff you've bought.
%%* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Victims of Brazul's TransformationRay.
* NoGearLevel: The game regularly mixes in light stealth elements while exploring various Wolfun encampments, but it comes to a head when Kya is imprisoned inside the Wolfun City.

* PermanentlyMissableContent: Getting HundredPercentCompletion requires, among other things, exorcising ''all'' Wolfun back into Nativs. Since the only way to do so is by incapacitating them in combat, and the world features a ''lot'' of bottomless pits, more often than not you may find yourself knocking a few off the edge of the map, or otherwise out of your reach. And the game sometimes ''won't'' respawn them like it should, and you'll quickly realize that each one that falls is potentially gone forever, locking you out of 100% completion.

%%* PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: The golden Boomy.

* SequelHook: The ending is made like one [[spoiler: with Kya and her brother waking up in a deserted place with a pov of something seeming to attack them.]]

* SoMuchForStealth: As mentioned above, if you screw up your stealth, it's either Fight or Flight. Fighting makes the stealth area easier (since exorcising a wolfun permanently removes it from the area), but of course it's up to you.

* ThrowingTheDistraction: Using your Boomy to hit a Wolfen can carry a nice distraction, or better, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments a fight between a group of Wolfens.]]

Has its [[TheWikiRule own wiki]] [[https://kyadarklineage.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page here.]]

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: The player is always permitted to retry from the latest checkpoint (or level entrance) if Kya falls down a BottomlessPit, gets defeated in combat, or is otherwise killed. The only downside is that since you can increase Kya's max health by getting more health bars, depending on the way you died, you'll either lose a tiny bit of health or a lot. Sometimes even a whole health bar, and dying with multiple health bars won't regenerate them.

''Kya: Dark Lineage'' is a 3D [[ActionGame action]] PlatformGame developed by French studio Eden Games, published by Creator/{{Atari}}, and released in 2003 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. It tells the story of ActionGirl Kya, who is teleported to AnotherDimension after her brother discovers an ancient artifact in the basement of her house. She quickly becomes embroiled in a conflict between the local Nativ and an EvilOverlord named Brazul, who has been kidnapping and transforming the Nativs into loyal servants known as Wolfen. Her brother, by contrast, is quickly captured by Brazul, and used for his research. Armed with a bracelet, a boomerang-like hair clip, and a dose of magical abilities, Kya sets out to restore the Wolfen back to peaceful Nativs, defeat Brazul, and find a way to get back home.

''Kya: Dark Lineage'' was a 3D [[ActionGame action]] and PlatformGame published in 2003 by Atari for Sony's UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. It tells the story of ActionGirl Kya, who is teleported to AnotherDimension after her brother discovers an ancient artifact in the basement of her house. She quickly becomes embroiled in a conflict between the local Nativ and an EvilOverlord named Brazul, who has been kidnapping and transforming the Nativs into loyal servants known as Wolfen. Her brother, by contrast, is quickly captured by Brazul, and used for his research. Armed with a bracelet, a boomerang-like hair clip, and a dose of magical abilities, Kya sets out to restore the Wolfen back to peaceful Nativs, defeat Brazul, and find a way to get back home.

!!The game provides examples of the following:

* AttackItsWeakPoint: The boss of the Air Post level.
* BattleBoomerang: Kya's Boomy.

* ConceptArtGallery: [[HundredPercentCompletion Your reward for saving every Nativ that was turned into a Wolfen.]] Well, besides the stores that carry useful upgrades.
* ConvectionSchmonvection: Plenty of areas feature lava, particularly the Board race. Touching it simply hurts a bit, no different than if you brushed against a thorn bush. Your first proper boss battle is against a large worm that erupts from the earth, creating an impassable river of lava to box you in, while also spitting huge globs of the stuff at you.
* ContinuingIsPainful: Not as much, but whenever you die by any other means than losing all your health (like planting your face into the ground at freefalling speed), you usually lose all the health for that health bar. Also, certain times when you recover from death/reload last checkpoint, not all of your health will be back. [[spoiler:Screwing up Brazul's boss battle may count if you run out of health items or don't have enough health.]]

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: The player is always permitted to retry from the latest checkpoint (or level entrance) if Kya falls down a BottomlessPit, gets defeated in combat, or is otherwise killed.
** Only downside is that since you can increase Kya's max health by getting more health bars, depending on the way you died, you'll either lose a tiny bit of health or a lot. Sometimes even a whole health bar, and dying with multiple health bars won't regenerate them.

* FloatingContinent: The Nativ dimension/world is a collection of these, suspended in the sky.

* GroinAttack: One of the many attacks Kya can learn, and it even works against the game's two Wolfen bosses.

* HaveANiceDeath / TheManyDeathsOfYou: Oh boy. Even though Kya's deaths are [[BloodlessCarnage bloodless]], they are still gruesome. Get chased by a watch-dog? Get nom'd on like a bone. Fell into grinding spikes? Get cut into multiple pieces. Get squished? Get squished.

* NotQuiteFlight: Several levels feature air currents and updrafts that Kya can use to maneuver through the air.

* PermanentlyMissableContent: Getting OneHundredPercentCompletion requires, among other things, exorcising ''all'' Wolfun back into Nativs. Since the only way to do so is by incapacitating them in combat, and the world features a ''lot'' of bottomless pits, more often than not you may find yourself knocking a few off the edge of the map, or otherwise out of your reach. And the game sometimes ''won't'' respawn them like it should, and you'll quickly realize that each one that falls is potentially gone forever, locking you out of 100% completion.

* PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: The golden Boomy.
* RealSongThemeTune: Sweet Soca Music by Sugar Daddy plays during the credits with Kya and co. dancing to it. Also featured in the extras as a music video (and the first unlockable extra).

* Shadowland: Brazul's island is fittingly dark and foreboding.

* SuperDrowningSkills: ''And how!'' Most areas featuring water let Kya fall immediately right through them and die. Makes sense since ''certain'' waters have an unhealthy color and might have different densities, but seriously, how did she not learn how to swim?
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Sometimes subverted. You can easily pass a wolfen whose eye-sight is 180 degrees from your location, but getting spotted is a different story. A wolfen will call his buddies to beat the smack out of you, or worse. Escaping them can be quite a pain, especially during stealth levels.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Victims of Brazul's TransformationRay.

* WouldHitAGirl: Wolfens. [[spoiler:Brazul/Kya's father.]]

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: A boomerang in it helps, too!

* LostForever: Getting OneHundredPercentCompletion requires, among other things, exorcising ''all'' Wolfun back into Nativs. Since the only way to do so is by incapacitating them in combat, and the world features a ''lot'' of bottomless pits, more often than not you may find yourself knocking a few off the edge of the map, or otherwise out of your reach. And the game sometimes ''won't'' respawn them like it should, and you'll quickly realize that each one that falls is potentially gone forever, locking you out of 100% completion.

* HundredPercentCompletion: To unlock most of the art gallery in the main menu, it requires you to turn all the Wolfens back to Nativs. Sadly, doing so defeats the point of earning any bracelets you missed, since the only thing you can use the abilities on are the hay-wolfens.

%%* CliffHanger
* CoolAirship: Brazul's wolfen use several variants, form hunter's small dirigible to medium-sized flying platforms that use big plants as booyance to Brazul's large airship seen when he kidnaps the Nativs from their village.

* ConvectionSchmonvection: Plenty of areas feature lava, particularly the Board race. Touching it simply hurts a bit, no differnt than if you brushed against a thorn bush. Your first proper boss battle is against a large worm that erupts from the earth, creating an impassable river of lava to box you in, while also spitting huge globs of the stuff at you.

%%** [[spoiler:The ending.]]
%%* FinalBossPreview

%%* LukeIAmYourFather
* MenuTimeLockout: Checking your map and how many Wolfens are around/left happens through the pause menu. Selecting health items, soccer-bomb-balls and trap-balls are done in real-time by holding down one of the shoulder buttons and pressing either circle or square to switch through the stuff you've bought.
* NoGearLevel: The game regularly mixes in light stealth elements while exploring various Wolfen encampments, but it comes to a head when Kya is imprisoned inside the Wolfen City.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd2JoSXk6yU As seen here.]]

* OneHitKill: Although a few enemies can perform this on Kya, there's still enemies that can do so. The watch-dogs and the [[EliteMook Mumified Wolfens]] are the few that can. The watch-dogs will treat Kya like a large bone and the Mumies have a insta-kill move they can perform if the player is not careful.

* SoMuchForStealth: As mentioned above, if you screw up your stealth, it's either Fight or Flight. Fighting makes the stealth area easier (since exorcising a woflen permanently removes it from the area), but of course it's up to you.

* LostForever: Getting OneHundredPercentCompletion requires, among other things, exorcising ''all'' Wolfun back into Nativs. Since the only way to do so is by incapacitating them in combat, and the world features a ''lot'' of bottomless pits, more often than not you may find yourself knocking a few off the edge of the map, or otherwise out of your reach. And since they don't respawn, you'll quickly realize that each one that falls is gone forever, locking you out of 100% completion.

* ConvectionSchmonvection

* OneHitKill: Although a few enemies can perform this on Kya, there's still enemies that can do so. The watch-dogs and the [[EliteMook Mumified Wolfens]] are the few that can. The watch-dogs will treat Kya like a large bone and the Mumies have a insta-kill move they can perform if the player is not careful.
* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Aton. [[spoiler:Even after his HeelFaceTurn, he only did it to make sure the Nativs would be left alone.]]

Has its [[TheWikiRule own wiki]] [[https://kyadarklineage.fandom.com/wiki/Main_Page here]].

NeedsWikiMagicLove.

* SoMuchForStealth: As mentioned above, if you screw up your stealth, it's either Fight or Flight. Fighting makes the stealth area easier (since exorcizing a woflen permanently removes it from the area), but of course it's up to you.

* HundredPercentCompletion: To unlock most of the art gallery in the main menu, it requires you to turn all the Wolfens back to Natives. Sadly doing so defeats the point of earning any bracelets you missed, since the only thing you can use the abilities on are the hay-wolfens.

* ConceptArtGallery: [[HundredPercentCompletion Your reward for saving every Native that was turned into a Wolfen.]] Well, besides the stores that carry useful upgrades.

* SoMuchForStealth: As mentioned above, if you screw up your stealth, it's either Fight or Flight. Fighting makes the stealth aread easier (since exorcizing a woflen permanently removes it from the area), but of course it's up to you.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Sometimes subverted. You can easily pass a wolfen who's eye-sight is 180 degrees from your location, but getting spotted is a different story. A wolfen will call his bodies to beat the smack out of you, or worse. Escaping them can be quite a pain, especially during stealth levels.

* ThrowingTheDistraction: Using your Boomy to hit a Wolfen can carry a nice distraction, or better, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments a fight between a group of wolfens.]]

* BloodlessCarnage: Mixed: When a Wolfen is sent flying, by a kick or punch, it's possible to spot a tooth or two and a smere of blood. If Kya dies however, it's a different story. Unless she lands in a grinder. No blood, just her getting split into sereval different pieces.

* ConceptArtGallery: [[HundredPercentCompletion Your reward for saving every Native that was turned into a Wolfen]]. Well besides the stores that carry useful upgrades.

* ContinuingIsPainful: Not as much, but whenever you die by any other means than losing all your health (like planting your face into the ground at freefalling speed) you usually lose all the health for that health bar. Also certain times when you recover from death/reload last checkpoint, not all of your health will be back. [[spoiler: Screwing up Brazul's boss battle may count if you run out of health items or don't have enough health.]]

%%** [[spoiler: The ending.]]

* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: Kya. Her father who hails from AnotherDimension is completely whatever the heck he is.]]

* JerkassWithAHeartOfGold: Aton. [[spoiler: Even after his HeelFaceTurn, he only did it to make sure the Nativs would be left alone.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Brazul mentions how his people were exterminated a long time ago, making him [[spoiler: and by extension - Kya]] the very last of his race.

* NonStandardGameOver: If Kya is hit with Brazul's TransformationRay during a boss fight against the Wolfen [[spoiler: Aton]]. No HeroicWillpower or FightingFromTheInside occurs here.

* SoMuchForStealth: As mentioned above if you screw up your stealth it's either Fight or Flight. Fighting makes the stealth aread easier (since exorcizing a woflen permanently removes it from the area) but of course it's up to you.

* TransformationRay: Brazul's machine transforms peaceful Nativ into loyal, obedient Wolfen soldiers. He spends much of the game trying to weaponize it, resulting in boss battles against a Wolfen [[spoiler: Frank]] and [[spoiler: Aton]].
* WouldHitAGirl: Wolfens. [[spoiler: Brazul/Kya's father.]]

Has its own wiki page: http://kyadarklineage.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

* ThrowingTheDistraction: Using your Boomy to hit a Wolfen can carry a nice distraction, or better, [[CrowningMomentOfFunny a fight between a group of wolfens.]]

* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Screwing up during a stealth section? Too far to run away? Yeah, you're better off jumping into that pit of water, or let the wWlfen kill you.

* MenuTimeLockout: Checking your map and how many Woflens are around/left happens through the pause menu. Selecting health items, soccer-bomb-balls and trap-balls are done in real-time by holding down one of the shoulder buttons and pressing either circle or square to switch through the stuff you've bought.

* SoMuchForStealth: As mentioned above if you screw up your stealth it's either Fight or Flight. Fighting makes the stealth aread easier (since excorsizing a woflen permanently removes it from the area) but of course it's up to you.
* SuperDrowningSkills: ''And how!'' Most areas featuring water let Kya fall inmediately right through them and die. Makes sense since ''certain'' waters have an unhealthy color and might have different densities, but seriuosly, how did she not learn how to swim?

* CliffHanger

** [[spoiler: The ending.]]
* FinalBossPreview

* LukeIAmYourFather

* NintendoHard: More of a YMMV but [[spoiler: Brazul's]] fight might count, especially with his cheap powerpunches, which knocks a decent chunk of health out, and stuns you for a certain amount of time.