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* BittersweetEnding: The mutants rescue Hammon and save the Ark, but they also learn some upsetting things about how they were born.
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* FriendlyFireproof: Played straight with guns: party members can shoot right through each others' tiles with no problems. Best not to try it with grenades, though.
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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: One of the artefacts you can find is a Def'''r'''ibrillator. People in the Ark think that it was used for removing Fribs.
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** There are signs for Min Sko in the Forbidden CityCity, with a design and colour scheme suspiciously reminiscent of Swedish shoe retailer Din Sko.
** The game also features ads for "Pestbyrån", referencing convenience store/newsagent chain "Pressbyrån".
** The game also features ads for "Pestbyrån", referencing convenience store/newsagent chain "Pressbyrån".
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** "Klasses Fiskpastej", referencing "Kalles Kaviar".
** Häxchoklad, which you can find ads for, is a play on Kexchoklad, confectionary manufacturer Cloetta's flagship product.
** There are signs for Min Sko in the Forbidden City
** Häxchoklad, which you can find ads for, is a play on Kexchoklad, confectionary manufacturer Cloetta's flagship product.
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* ThisIsAWorkOfFiction: The following appears at the end of the credits: "All events and characters appearing in this work are unlikely to be based on anything or anybody who really exists (we'd love to meet a pig-faced person!)."
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* InsurmountableWaistHighFence: You have to go around anything more then knee high. On the bright side, you can probably hide behind it.
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* MutantDraftBoard: Literally. Mutants are not the only Stalkers out there, but being a Stalker is the only job a Mutant is generally allowed to be.
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* BoringButPractical:
** Chemical Flares give a 25% bonus to hit chance, conveniently counteracting the 25% penalty imposed by mutations that raise damage. It is also possible to throw them without alerting enemies, for your ambushing pleasure.
** One of the first things that you can buy from Pripp with artefacts is a 20% discount in Iridia's shop.
** Chemical Flares give a 25% bonus to hit chance, conveniently counteracting the 25% penalty imposed by mutations that raise damage. It is also possible to throw them without alerting enemies, for your ambushing pleasure.
** One of the first things that you can buy from Pripp with artefacts is a 20% discount in Iridia's shop.
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* MeleeATrois:
** In Izza And Fala, when you take on the Ghouls this will sometimes get the attention of the Polis-bots, which will then attack the Ghouls.
** In The Lair of the Horned Demon, if you hack the Mimir mech it will attack everyone, and the Ghouls will attack it instead of you.
* NoSell:
** Some helmets and pieces of armour grant the wearer immunity to specific attacks, e.g. fire, charging, critical hits, mind control.
** Enemies that use special attacks are immune to those attacks, e.g. Pyros cannot be hurt by fire.
** In Izza And Fala, when you take on the Ghouls this will sometimes get the attention of the Polis-bots, which will then attack the Ghouls.
** In The Lair of the Horned Demon, if you hack the Mimir mech it will attack everyone, and the Ghouls will attack it instead of you.
* NoSell:
** Some helmets and pieces of armour grant the wearer immunity to specific attacks, e.g. fire, charging, critical hits, mind control.
** Enemies that use special attacks are immune to those attacks, e.g. Pyros cannot be hurt by fire.
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* AbusivePrecursors: The Ancients, otherwise known as humanity ''before'' the back-to-back ends-of-the-world that wiped them all out. Majority of Bormin's complaints is them causing the end of the world, and it gets much more personal when he finds out [[spoiler:he, Dux, and Farrow were created as part of a supersoldier project, before the apocalypse.]]
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** On the one hand you have the people in The Ark, who are trying to live decent lives. On the other, you have the Ghouls, who seem to enjoy slaughter, and the Nova Sect, who want to destroy the whole Zone.
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* UnexplainedAccent: Everyone speaks with an American accent except for Farrow, who has a London accent. She is from the same region as everyone else, so by TranslationConvention one would expect her to have the same accent.
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* UnexplainedAccent: Everyone speaks with an American accent except for Farrow, who has a London accent. She is from the same region as everyone else, else [[spoiler: a bunker lab in Sweden]], so by TranslationConvention one would expect her to have the same accent.
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* AKA47: The "Rambino" rifle looks like the FN FAL assault rifle.
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* AutoSave: The game saves after every battle, and every time you open a chest. In "Iron Mutant" Mode it saves after every combat turn, and there are no manual saves.
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* BlackAndWhiteMorality: There is not a great deal of moral nuance in this game.
** On the one hand you have the people in The Ark, who are trying to live decent lives. On the other, you have the Ghouls, who seem to enjoy slaughter, and the Nova Sect, who want to destroy the whole Zone.
** The Rot Warren is a bunker whose inhabitants were slaughtered by Ghouls. If Farrow is your lead character when you explore it, she will propose payback, and say "We have to show them that good will always triumph over evil."
** On the one hand you have the people in The Ark, who are trying to live decent lives. On the other, you have the Ghouls, who seem to enjoy slaughter, and the Nova Sect, who want to destroy the whole Zone.
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* BlandNameProduct:
** Postmord vans (The Postnord postal service).
** Electroflux (Electrolux appliances).
** "Gundess" signs have the same colour scheme as Guinness beer.
** Gunilla's Secret (Victoria's Secret).
** Postmord vans (The Postnord postal service).
** Electroflux (Electrolux appliances).
** "Gundess" signs have the same colour scheme as Guinness beer.
** Gunilla's Secret (Victoria's Secret).
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* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy:
** If your characters are Hiding, then patrolling enemies will walk right past them without noticing. They can Hide behind, or ''in front of'', almost anything.
** Enemies will not react to glow sticks being thrown at them if none of your characters are in the guards' detection radius when the stick is thrown. This allows you to throw a stick, exit combat, and then start again with the enemies all lit up.
** If your characters are Hiding, then patrolling enemies will walk right past them without noticing. They can Hide behind, or ''in front of'', almost anything.
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* ShoutOut:
** In Metal Fields, Dux says of one building "That looks like a place you get processed in. [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 I am not a number, I am a free duck]]."
** The flavour text for the mutation Silent Assassin reads "Like the dome-headed assassins of the past, you are able to do great damage while hidden from your target. That's as long as you [[Franchise/{{Hitman}} hit... Man]]."
* StartsStealthilyEndsLoudly: In most areas you will quietly pick off an outer ring of lone static and patrolling enemies, ending up with a hard core who have to be assaulted head-on.
** In Metal Fields, Dux says of one building "That looks like a place you get processed in. [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 I am not a number, I am a free duck]]."
** The flavour text for the mutation Silent Assassin reads "Like the dome-headed assassins of the past, you are able to do great damage while hidden from your target. That's as long as you [[Franchise/{{Hitman}} hit... Man]]."
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* AfterTheEnd: Basically every single mundane means for the world to end has occurred to this one. Global political strife? Check. Economic collapse? Check. Massive environmental destabilization and widespread natural disasters? Check. Incurable plague? Check. All-out nuclear war? Check.
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* AfterTheEnd: Basically every single mundane means for the world to end has occurred to this one. Global political strife? Check. Economic collapse? Check. Massive environmental destabilization and widespread natural disasters? Check. Incurable plague? Check. All-out nuclear war? Check.
* ThePlague: The Red Plague, which devastated majority of the population after the massive ecological collapse but ''before'' the nuclear war. Its symptoms include bleeding paranoia, skin rashes, and worst of all, bleeding out of the eyes, and the brief shot we get of row upon row of dead victims is ''not'' pretty, to say the least.
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* ThePlague: The Red Plague, which devastated majority of the population after the massive ecological collapse but ''before'' the nuclear war. Its symptoms include bleeding paranoia, skin rashes, and worst of all, bleeding out of the eyes, and the brief shot we get of row upon row of dead victims is ''not'' pretty, to say the least.
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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: [[spoiler:When you reach Eden, you can find a note saying that Dr Ingmar Edison took some mutants to the birthing chamber instead of euthanising them. If you remember the Elder's claim to have found the mutants in the forest, this is a big clue to the subsequent revelation that the Elder created the mutants.]]
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* TakeCover: High Cover and Low Cover reduce hit chances instead of reducing damage.
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* DogGotSentToAFarm: Referenced: One of the Achievements is "'''Sent to the farm'''. Put 20 Zone Dogs 'to sleep'."
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* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Done in the backstory alongside more mundane quarantines to try and contain the Red Plague. It didn’t work.
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* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Done in OminousMundanity: The radioactive, disfigured and psychopathic mutant-infested wastes outside of the backstory alongside more mundane quarantines Ark are referred to try as "The Zone."
* OmnicidalManiac: Plutonia andcontain her cult want to destroy the Red Plague. It didn’t work.Ark and the last remnants of civilization with it.
* OmnicidalManiac: Plutonia and
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* OmnicidalManiac: Plutonia QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Done in the backstory alongside more mundane quarantines to try and her cult want to destroy contain the Ark and the last remnants of civilization with it.Red Plague. It didn’t work.
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* AfterCombatRecovery: Injured characters are fully healed after battle on Normal difficulty, healed 50% on Hard and not healed on Very Hard. The cooldown counter is also reset on Normal.
* AntiGrinding: There is a finite amount of XP in the game. Dead enemies do not respawn, and cleared areas are not repopulated.
* ArbitraryHeadcountLimit: You start with two playable characters and end up with five. Only three are in the active party. You can swap characters in and out of the active party any time that you are not in combat, so The Other Two are clearly not staying back at base.
* BeefGate:
** You cannot explore the southern half of the map until you can find a way past the Level 25 Zone Dogs in The Iron Serpent.
** There is a big chest in the middle of The Grave of the Ancients. If you want to see what's in it instead of sneaking past, you'll have to beat one Mimir mech, two Mimir drones and three Polis-bots, all level 60 and within alerting distance of each other.
** You cannot explore the southern half of the map until you can find a way past the Level 25 Zone Dogs in The Iron Serpent.
** There is a big chest in the middle of The Grave of the Ancients. If you want to see what's in it instead of sneaking past, you'll have to beat one Mimir mech, two Mimir drones and three Polis-bots, all level 60 and within alerting distance of each other.
* {{Cooldown}}: Active mutant powers have a cooldown period of two or three enemy kills. The kills can be by any party member, not just the one who used the power.
* EarlyGameHell: Beatable enemies are hard to find at first, which obviously makes it harder to level up to take on the tougher enemies. However, if you stick with it, your weapons and mutant powers will become a bit stronger, you will become better at using them, and ways to beat the tougher enemies will start to present themselves.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: There is a sidequest to retrieve a key for an NPC called Lux. If you give him the key he will reward you, but you cannot investigate his suspicious basement. If you return to the area where you found the key, it will be returned to your inventory with no explanation, and you can now check out the basement.
* LimitedLoadout: Characters can carry two weapons and three grenades. The party can access a HyperspaceArsenal when out of combat, but when the bullets start flying the arsenal closes, and you have to make do with what the party have on their persons.
* LimitedMoveArsenal: Characters develop mutant powers throughout the game. At any one time they can only have one Major, one Minor and one Passive mutation active, but you can choose which ones are active any time that you are not in combat.
* NoticeThis: Collectibles sparkle gently. Scrap, loot and weapon parts are white, notes and chests are gold, artefacts are purple.
* LimitedMoveArsenal: Characters develop mutant powers throughout the game. At any one time they can only have one Major, one Minor and one Passive mutation active, but you can choose which ones are active any time that you are not in combat.
* NoticeThis: Collectibles sparkle gently. Scrap, loot and weapon parts are white, notes and chests are gold, artefacts are purple.
* PrecisionFStrike:
--> Say my name, jizzwipe: it's ''Farrow''.
--> Say my name, jizzwipe: it's ''Farrow''.
* SupportPartyMember: The Ghouls have a few. Shamans can call reinforcements, Med Bots and Plutonia can resurrect dead enemies.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Bormin and Dux, with emphasis on the Vitriolic part.
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''Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden'' is a post-apocalyptic, heavily-stealth based turn-based strategy game developed by The Bearded Ladies Consulting and based on the Tabletop RPG of the same name[[note]]a revision of the prequel to ''TabletopGame/MutantUA'' and ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles''[[/note]]. The story follows the attempts of the Ark mutants, the last remnants of humanity, to survive the harsh, desolate world, with focus on the expeditions of the Stalkers, the brave souls that venture outside the walls for precious resources to keep the people fed and safe, and the machines working for one more day.
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''Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden'' is a post-apocalyptic, heavily-stealth based turn-based strategy game developed by The Bearded Ladies Consulting and based on the Tabletop RPG of the same name[[note]]a revision of the prequel to ''TabletopGame/MutantUA'' and ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles''[[/note]].''TabletopGame/MutantUA''[[/note]]. The story follows the attempts of the Ark mutants, the last remnants of humanity, to survive the harsh, desolate world, with focus on the expeditions of the Stalkers, the brave souls that venture outside the walls for precious resources to keep the people fed and safe, and the machines working for one more day.
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* CompositeCharacter: The animal-based mutants look like the animal mutants in ''Mutant Genlab Alpha'' but share the backstory of the human mutants of ''Mutant Year Zero''.
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** Bormin, Dux, and Farrow The mutants were [[spoiler:part of Mimir's "Mutant Project," intended to grow animal-like humanoids for unknown purposes.]]
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* TurnBasedCombat: Like one of the most famous modern examples, ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown,'' the game has a One Side, One Turn ruleset, with Square Grid movement. Everyone has two actions per turn, most commands and skills costing one, some demanding two. It also has Overwatch and reaction shots.
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* TurnBasedCombat: TurnBasedTactics: Like one of the most famous modern examples, ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown,'' the game has a One Side, One Turn ruleset, with Square Grid movement. Everyone has two actions per turn, most commands and skills costing one, some demanding two. It also has Overwatch and reaction shots.
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* StrategyRPG: Along similar lines to X-Com, though with real-time segments between turn-based combat.
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''Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden'' is a post-apocalyptic, heavily-stealth based turn-based strategy game developed by The Bearded Ladies Consulting.Consulting and based on the Tabletop RPG of the same name[[note]]a revision of the prequel to ''TabletopGame/MutantUA'' and ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles''[[/note]]. The story follows the attempts of the Ark mutants, the last remnants of humanity, to survive the harsh, desolate world, with focus on the expeditions of the Stalkers, the brave souls that venture outside the walls for precious resources to keep the people fed and safe, and the machines working for one more day.
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* AbusivePrecursors: The Ancients, otherwise known as humanity ''before'' the back-to-back ends-of-the-world that wiped them all out.
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* AbusivePrecursors: The Ancients, otherwise known as humanity ''before'' the back-to-back ends-of-the-world that wiped them all out. Majority of Bormin's complaints is them causing the end of the world, and it gets much more personal when he finds out [[spoiler:he, Dux, and Farrow were created as part of a supersoldier project, before the apocalypse.]]
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* BrokenPedestel: By the end, [[spoiler:the party’s view of the Elder is irrevocably shattered when they learn how he’s been lying to them for their whole lives.]]
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* BrokenPedestel: BrokenPedestal: By the end, [[spoiler:the party’s view of the Elder is irrevocably shattered when they learn how he’s been lying to them for their whole lives.]]
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* BrokenPedastel: By the end, [[spoiler:the party’s view of the Elder is irrevocably shattered when they learn how he’s been lying to them for their whole lives.]]
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* AngerBornOfWorry: The Elder gets so mad about the party trying to find Eden because [[spoiler:he wants to spare them the pain of finding out they’re actually just a bunch of genetic experiments.]]
* ApocalypticLog: A lot of the backstory is delivered through notes and journals left behind from the end times.
* BerserkButton: The Elder gets steadily angrier and angrier at the party for defying his orders by trying to find Eden. [[spoiler:It’s such a hot topic for him because he used to work there and knows they’ll find out about their true origins if they go.]]
* BirdPeople: Dux is a humanoid duck.
* BirdPeople: Dux is a humanoid duck.
* BrokenPedastel: By the end, [[spoiler:the party’s view of the Elder is irrevocably shattered when they learn how he’s been lying to them for their whole lives.]]
* TheDragAlong: Dux makes it well known that he considers the whole quest a mistake and that he’d rather just go back to the Ark. He gets dragged along anyways.
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* PettingZooPeople: Bormin, Dux, and Farrow are mutants who look like a pig, a duck, and a fox, respectively. They have no idea why they look that way, are not happy about it, and are pretty sure the Ancients have something to do with their predicament, as always.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: The Mutants are all part-animal, [[spoiler:as the results of genetic experiments by the Ancients.]]
* HeroicBSOD: The game ends with [[spoiler:Bormin in the middle of a particularly severe one, having learned that his whole life is basically a lie.]]
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Done in the backstory alongside more mundane quarantines to try and contain the Red Plague. It didn’t work.
* PardonMyKlingon: The characters mix normal swear words like “hell” or “goddamn” with weirder, animal-based ones like “duck” instead of “fuck”.
* PettingZooPeople: Bormin, Dux, and Farrow are mutants who look like a pig, a duck, and a fox, respectively. They have no idea why they look that way, are not happy about it, and are pretty sure the Ancients have something to do with their predicament, as always. [[spoiler:They’re right.]]
* PigMan: Bormin. Specifically, he’s a humanoid wild boar.
* OmnicidalManiac: Plutonia and her cult want to destroy the Ark and the last remnants of civilization with it.
* HeroicBSOD: The game ends with [[spoiler:Bormin in the middle of a particularly severe one, having learned that his whole life is basically a lie.]]
* QuarantineWithExtremePrejudice: Done in the backstory alongside more mundane quarantines to try and contain the Red Plague. It didn’t work.
* PardonMyKlingon: The characters mix normal swear words like “hell” or “goddamn” with weirder, animal-based ones like “duck” instead of “fuck”.
* PettingZooPeople: Bormin, Dux, and Farrow are mutants who look like a pig, a duck, and a fox, respectively. They have no idea why they look that way, are not happy about it, and are pretty sure the Ancients have something to do with their predicament, as always. [[spoiler:They’re right.]]
* PigMan: Bormin. Specifically, he’s a humanoid wild boar.
* OmnicidalManiac: Plutonia and her cult want to destroy the Ark and the last remnants of civilization with it.
* TechnicallyLivingZombie: The Ghouls, though they’re much more intelligent than zombies are usually portrayed; they’re dumb as rocks, but can speak, follow order, and generally have coherent thoughts. It’s just all buried under a perpetual psychotic rage.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Bormin accuses the Elder of being this, as seen in the page quote. [[spoiler:There's quite a lot of evidence that backs it up once they reach Eden and discover he was a scientist involved with creating him and the mutants.]]
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Bormin and Dux, with emphasis on the Vitriolic part.
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* FutureImperfect: Thanks to loss of knowledge and degradation of many ancient projects, many speculations about relics tend to be off from its intended purpose. One example being assuming "Boom Box" as an explosive device rather than a slang for a music player.
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* FutureImperfect: Thanks to loss of knowledge and degradation of many ancient projects, many speculations about relics tend to be off from its intended purpose. One example being assuming "Boom Box" as an explosive device rather than a slang for a music player.player, and many of the stat-boosting clothing assumed to have all been used for war and combat, like American Football armour, and a Poker hat.
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* AbusivePrecursors: The Ancients, otherwise known as humanity ''before'' the back-to-back ends-of-the-world that wiped them all out. Aside from the numerous
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* FutureImperfect: Thanks to loss of knowledge and degradation of many ancient projects, many speculations about relics tend to be off from its intended purpose. One example being assuming "Boom Box" as an explosive device rather than a slang for a music player.
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* AbusivePrecursors: The Ancients, otherwise known as humanity ''before'' the back-to-back ends-of-the-world that wiped them all out.
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* ApocalypseCult: The Nova Sect, a cult composed of Ghouls who want to end the world ''again,'' after being cast out by the mutants of the Ark.
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* BodyHorror: Ghouls, humans twisted by the radiation and toxicity of the Zone. Of particular note are the Sect's "Brothers," who wield electric/psychic powers, and whose heads are ''stuffed to the brim with cancerous tumours.'' Also notable is the description of the symptoms of the Red Plague, which includes ''bleeding out of your eyes.''
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* BodyHorror: Ghouls, humans twisted by the radiation and toxicity of the Zone. Of particular note are the Sect's "Brothers," who wield electric/psychic powers, and whose heads are ''stuffed to the brim with cancerous tumours.'' Also notable is the description of the symptoms of the Red Plague, which includes rashes on the skin, high fever, and ''bleeding out of your eyes.''''
* CriticalHitClass: Farrow's unique selling point is that she can deal excessive amounts of critical hit damage so long as she's hidden. As such, many of her skills allow her to remain in stealth even during the heat of combat. Dux and Selma can also be this, by using their skills geared towards gaining height advantages and improving range, long-range weapons especially.
* CriticalHitClass: Farrow's unique selling point is that she can deal excessive amounts of critical hit damage so long as she's hidden. As such, many of her skills allow her to remain in stealth even during the heat of combat. Dux and Selma can also be this, by using their skills geared towards gaining height advantages and improving range, long-range weapons especially.
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** The Elder's name is [[spoiler:Dr. Ingmar Edison, otherwise known as the scientist of the Mutant Project who smuggled out Dux and Bormin, after the two of them were meant to be executed along with the rest of mutants.]]
** Bormin, Dux, and Farrow were [[spoiler:part of Mimir's "Mutant Project," intended to grow animal-like humanoids for unknown purposes.]]
** The Elder's name is [[spoiler:Dr. Ingmar Edison, otherwise known as the scientist of the Mutant Project who smuggled out Dux and Bormin, after the two of them were meant to be executed along with the rest of mutants.]]
** Bormin, Dux, and Farrow were [[spoiler:part of Mimir's "Mutant Project," intended to grow animal-like humanoids for unknown purposes.]]
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* ThePlague: The Red Plague, which devastated majority of the population after the massive ecological collapse but ''before'' the nuclear war. Its symptoms include bleeding paranoia, skin rashes, and worst of all, bleeding out of the eyes, and the brief shot we get of row upon row of dead victims is ''not'' pretty, to say the least.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Left-to-right: Bormin, Selma, and Dux, the first playable mutants]]
->''Of course the world ends. You did that to us. When the ice melted, you said nothing. When the plague spread, you did nothing. When the nukes dropped, you ''became'' nothing.''
->''At least that's what the Elder says. But cheer up. You'll be happy know that despite your mistakes, life remains. In a small settlement high above the raging river, people are living and thriving.''
->''We call it the Ark.''
-->'''Bormin'''
''Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden'' is a post-apocalyptic, heavily-stealth based turn-based strategy game developed by The Bearded Ladies Consulting. The story follows the attempts of the Ark mutants, the last remnants of the humanity, to survive the harsh, desolate world, with focus on the expeditions of the Stalkers, the brave souls that venture outside the walls for precious resources to keep the people fed and safe, and the machines working for one more day.
The plot kicks off with Bormin and Dux on a standard run out for scrap metal, before the Elder informs them the Ark's head mechanic, Hammon, is missing. The search quickly spirals into a desperate, dangerous adventure for survival and trying to prevent yet ''another'' catastrophic apocalypse, all while trying to figure out just why exactly the world and they got that way in the first place.
Gameplay is a hybrid of real-time stealth and exploration, sneaking around the wastes and around your enemies' awareness, before initiating turn-based strategy combat. Ideally, this is ''after'' you take out lone guards and stragglers away from the pack, before they can alert the rest of their buddies, fire back at you, or use their vast array of dangerous skills, but one wrong move is all it takes for everything to go horribly awry...
It was published by Funcom on December 2018 for PC, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/XboxOne.
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!! This work provides examples of:
* AbusivePrecursors: The Ancients, otherwise known as humanity ''before'' the back-to-back ends-of-the-world that wiped them all out.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: As seen above with Selma, she certainly ''looks'' human, until you notice her grey, amphibian skin and the horns on her head. Similarly, Magnus appears completely normal, but has much of the bioelectric mutations of the Nova Sect Brothers, though without the brain tumours.
* AfterTheEnd: Basically every single mundane means for the world to end has occurred to this one. Global political strife? Check. Economic collapse? Check. Massive environmental destabilization and widespread natural disasters? Check. Incurable plague? Check. All-out nuclear war? Check.
* TheBeforeTimes: Frequently referenced when it comes to "ancient artifacts," and the Elder's dialog. Due to the degradation of technology, and so much lost knowledge and technology, even mundane things like a pizzeria are assumed to have been a dispensary for some ancient ambrosia.
* BlackComedy: As is often the case for post-apocalyptic settings. Of particular note is one last letter a father left his daughter during an ill-fated evacuation from the Red Plague, where he explains he accidentally killed her pet turtle and replaced it with a different one. Said turtle died after he accidentally dropped his beard trimmer in his tank, and his death was "painless" after a few minutes of absolute agony. Also, the turtle was the wrong gender.
* BodyHorror: Ghouls, humans twisted by the radiation and toxicity of the Zone. Of particular note are the Sect's "Brothers," who wield electric/psychic powers, and whose heads are ''stuffed to the brim with cancerous tumours.'' Also notable is the description of the symptoms of the Red Plague, which includes ''bleeding out of your eyes.''
* EnemySummoner: Ghoul Shamans, who yell out for additional reinforcements to make your life hell.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: Pripp, proprietor of his eponymous bar, and an ancient artifact dealer in the Black Market. The numerous perks you can buy for him are all obviously illegal, shady, or detrimental to someone other than you in some way.
* PettingZooPeople: Bormin, Dux, and Farrow are mutants who look like a pig, a duck, and a fox, respectively. They have no idea why they look that way, are not happy about it, and are pretty sure the Ancients have something to do with their predicament, as always.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: The team reaches "Eden" in the form of a Mimir bunker; there they find out that the Elder was an Enclave scientist who helped create them. Bormin is hardly a minute into the resulting existential crisis when a radio clicks on, demanding a response from the Sweden command center.]]
* ShockAndAwe: The Nova Sect Brothers' brain tumours somehow give them the ability to supercharge their neural activity into a level that can be weaponized, discharged into foes, or used to empower allies. Later on, you get Magnus, who has the same powers except without the outwardly cancerous mutations.
* ThePlague: The Red Plague, which devastated majority of the population after the massive ecological collapse but ''before'' the nuclear war. Its symptoms include bleeding out of the eyes, and the brief shot we get of row upon row of dead victims is ''not'' pretty, to say the least.
* TurnBasedCombat: Like one of the most famous modern examples, ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown,'' the game has a One Side, One Turn ruleset, with Square Grid movement. Everyone has two actions per turn, most commands and skills costing one, some demanding two. It also has Overwatch and reaction shots.
* UnreliableNarrator: Bormin accuses the Elder of being this, as seen in the page quote. [[spoiler:There's quite a lot of evidence that backs it up once they reach Eden and discover he was a scientist involved with creating him and the mutants.]]
[[caption-width-right:350:Left-to-right: Bormin, Selma, and Dux, the first playable mutants]]
->''Of course the world ends. You did that to us. When the ice melted, you said nothing. When the plague spread, you did nothing. When the nukes dropped, you ''became'' nothing.''
->''At least that's what the Elder says. But cheer up. You'll be happy know that despite your mistakes, life remains. In a small settlement high above the raging river, people are living and thriving.''
->''We call it the Ark.''
-->'''Bormin'''
''Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden'' is a post-apocalyptic, heavily-stealth based turn-based strategy game developed by The Bearded Ladies Consulting. The story follows the attempts of the Ark mutants, the last remnants of the humanity, to survive the harsh, desolate world, with focus on the expeditions of the Stalkers, the brave souls that venture outside the walls for precious resources to keep the people fed and safe, and the machines working for one more day.
The plot kicks off with Bormin and Dux on a standard run out for scrap metal, before the Elder informs them the Ark's head mechanic, Hammon, is missing. The search quickly spirals into a desperate, dangerous adventure for survival and trying to prevent yet ''another'' catastrophic apocalypse, all while trying to figure out just why exactly the world and they got that way in the first place.
Gameplay is a hybrid of real-time stealth and exploration, sneaking around the wastes and around your enemies' awareness, before initiating turn-based strategy combat. Ideally, this is ''after'' you take out lone guards and stragglers away from the pack, before they can alert the rest of their buddies, fire back at you, or use their vast array of dangerous skills, but one wrong move is all it takes for everything to go horribly awry...
It was published by Funcom on December 2018 for PC, UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, and UsefulNotes/XboxOne.
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!! This work provides examples of:
* AbusivePrecursors: The Ancients, otherwise known as humanity ''before'' the back-to-back ends-of-the-world that wiped them all out.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: As seen above with Selma, she certainly ''looks'' human, until you notice her grey, amphibian skin and the horns on her head. Similarly, Magnus appears completely normal, but has much of the bioelectric mutations of the Nova Sect Brothers, though without the brain tumours.
* AfterTheEnd: Basically every single mundane means for the world to end has occurred to this one. Global political strife? Check. Economic collapse? Check. Massive environmental destabilization and widespread natural disasters? Check. Incurable plague? Check. All-out nuclear war? Check.
* TheBeforeTimes: Frequently referenced when it comes to "ancient artifacts," and the Elder's dialog. Due to the degradation of technology, and so much lost knowledge and technology, even mundane things like a pizzeria are assumed to have been a dispensary for some ancient ambrosia.
* BlackComedy: As is often the case for post-apocalyptic settings. Of particular note is one last letter a father left his daughter during an ill-fated evacuation from the Red Plague, where he explains he accidentally killed her pet turtle and replaced it with a different one. Said turtle died after he accidentally dropped his beard trimmer in his tank, and his death was "painless" after a few minutes of absolute agony. Also, the turtle was the wrong gender.
* BodyHorror: Ghouls, humans twisted by the radiation and toxicity of the Zone. Of particular note are the Sect's "Brothers," who wield electric/psychic powers, and whose heads are ''stuffed to the brim with cancerous tumours.'' Also notable is the description of the symptoms of the Red Plague, which includes ''bleeding out of your eyes.''
* EnemySummoner: Ghoul Shamans, who yell out for additional reinforcements to make your life hell.
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: Pripp, proprietor of his eponymous bar, and an ancient artifact dealer in the Black Market. The numerous perks you can buy for him are all obviously illegal, shady, or detrimental to someone other than you in some way.
* PettingZooPeople: Bormin, Dux, and Farrow are mutants who look like a pig, a duck, and a fox, respectively. They have no idea why they look that way, are not happy about it, and are pretty sure the Ancients have something to do with their predicament, as always.
* SequelHook: [[spoiler: The team reaches "Eden" in the form of a Mimir bunker; there they find out that the Elder was an Enclave scientist who helped create them. Bormin is hardly a minute into the resulting existential crisis when a radio clicks on, demanding a response from the Sweden command center.]]
* ShockAndAwe: The Nova Sect Brothers' brain tumours somehow give them the ability to supercharge their neural activity into a level that can be weaponized, discharged into foes, or used to empower allies. Later on, you get Magnus, who has the same powers except without the outwardly cancerous mutations.
* ThePlague: The Red Plague, which devastated majority of the population after the massive ecological collapse but ''before'' the nuclear war. Its symptoms include bleeding out of the eyes, and the brief shot we get of row upon row of dead victims is ''not'' pretty, to say the least.
* TurnBasedCombat: Like one of the most famous modern examples, ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown,'' the game has a One Side, One Turn ruleset, with Square Grid movement. Everyone has two actions per turn, most commands and skills costing one, some demanding two. It also has Overwatch and reaction shots.
* UnreliableNarrator: Bormin accuses the Elder of being this, as seen in the page quote. [[spoiler:There's quite a lot of evidence that backs it up once they reach Eden and discover he was a scientist involved with creating him and the mutants.]]
