History VideoGame / Othercide

** Taking to a more [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou menacing level]] when The BiggerBad reveals itself.

* BishonenLine: The final boss, natch- although the "humanlike" form is still obviously made of corpses piled together, with FloatingLimbs and a SurrealSymbolicHeads.

''Othercide'' is a [[{{Horror}} horror]] TacticalRPG was developed by French independent video game studio Lightbulb Crew, and published by Focus Home Interactive released for [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, and PC on July 27th, 2020, and for Nintendo Switch on September 10th.

It is also a NintendoHard Rougelite, with the oppressive power of your foes and painful lack of healing serving to accentuate the surreal, Stark GothicPunk atmosphere.

* CreatureHunterOrganization: Nostra, the organization that Mother was part of for hundreds of years, [[spoiler:although Mother rapidly became disillusioned with them due to [[VanHelsingHateCrimes their insistence that all Chosen Ones were too dangerous and needed to be killed, despite Mother's very existence proving that benevolent Chosen Ones were absolutely possible]]. It's double-subverted later on: [[spoiler:The group seemingly changes its views after a few hundred years, and begins rescuing and gathering Chosen Ones rather then killing them. Mother decides to give them a second chance and rejoin them... [[spoiler:only to discover the real reason why they were gathering up Chosen Ones is so they can turn them into a gateway to beyond the veil. The end result was [[BodyHorror a monstrous entity made by surgically fusing all of the Chosen Ones into one body]], still living, and [[AndIMustScream still entirely aware of what was done to them]]. Mother {{Mercy Kill}}s the monster and [[PayEvilUntoEvil butchers the entire Nostra Order]] before leaving for good]].

* BodyofBodies: The final boss is implied to be made of human resources - specifically, [[spoilers:the bodies of the many, many Daughters who have been killed on your path to the final boss]].

* NiceJobFixingItVillian: The Child [[spoiler:snatching up part of the Red Mother's essence to]] reanimate{ing} the Maid blows up in his face twofold: First, [[spoiler:it allows the creation of the first Scythedancer using the Maid's memories, creating a ManOfKyrptonite to the otherwise unstoppable boss]]. Second, it allows the Red Mother to better empathize with and understand his viewpoint, [[spoiler:aiding her attempts to [[HeelFaceTurn redeem him]]]].

* UnnamedParent: The Mother, or, [[FriendlyGhost posthumously]], The Red Mother, isn't actually the name of the player’s friend who dies at the beginning of the game. We just can’t remember her name, apparently. [[spoiler:The name's only revealed after beating the final boss and looking at the Flower of Paradise Remembrance. Ironic, considering we’re an Other named Memory.]]

* VillainousBSOD: After the forth boss fight, [[spoiler:The child feels regret and sorrow for what they've become and relents their connection to sorrow and their revenge upon the world. Suffering, meanwhile, [[GreaterScopeVillain has other ideas]].

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: At least one memory mentions that the Red Mother "lost her taste for life" and that she mainly lives out of a sense of duty to maintain the Veil. She also suffers from the "outliving your loved ones" part of this as she has lost family, a mentor, and her loved one during the course of her long, long life. Her loved one’s death is particularly relevant since they probably could have grown old together if not for her immortality. The only friends she's kept throughout her life are her Other, which manifests as a voice she’s heard in her head since she was a little girl and The Guide, another seemingly immortal person who shows up in her life from time to time changing appearance and even sex sometimes. (Though they only appeared as a woman once.) [[spoiler: The Guide is revealed to be another other named “Curiosity”. So basically all of the Red Mother’s Immortal friends are Others.]]

-> ''...Names are made to be forgotten. But still, if you can remember only one thing from our journey, please recall those few letters..[[spoiler: Lily]]''

!!Tropes

* AntiFrustrationFeatures

* AutobotsRockOut: For the first few missions of the game, the music is largely ambient and ominous, aside from the main menu music. Then comes the Surgeon boss battle, who busts out an orchestral rock soundtrack once all his mooks fall, complete with electric guitars and heavy drums. When he gets to a certain threshold of health, [[VariableMix the lyrics kick in as well]].

* BadBoss: averted- The Child loves his depraved creations, in an unusual way. [[spoiler: Suffering also averts this who merely mockingly asks "[[WeHaveReserves So]]?" when his minions are killed]], but otherwise shows no signs of abuse towards them...or to his ward, [[spoiler: The Child.]]

-->''Look how my daughter flourishes!''
-->''How my fears seem foolish now!''
** [[spoiler: Memory]] is also an example, expressing concern for and comforting The Mother throughout her extended lifespan. In one particular memory, it asks if it has unduly tormented The Mother by giving her [[WhoWantsToLiveForever eternal life]]: when she response that her life would be filled with joys and horrors anyway, the [[spoiler: extradimensional being]] actually express great relief.
* BodyHorror: Oh my, yes! The Nightmares and Surgeons only get more distorted and deranged as time goes on, being made from the unfortunate remnant of the city. A standout is The Surgeon- aside form his massive size and forcibly beak-like head, as a cloak primarily made of his own skin, there is also the ''massive array of scissors sticking out his back.''
* BodyofBodies: The final boss is implied to be made of Human resources- specifically, [[spoilers: The bodies of the many, many daughters who have been killed on your path to the final boss]].

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The Child's relationship with the maid, in a nutshell.
** This, alongside with some guilt, also forms the basis of [[spoiler: The Child's HeelFaceTurn, thanks to the Red Mother's efforts- although the first few attempts are rather rocky, leading to violent rejection.]]

* BigBad: The Child, [[spoiler:a "Chosen One" who fell past the DespairEventHorizon,]] and now wants nothing more than to destroy the world using creatures created fro trauma-[[spoiler: his own, namely]]
* BiggerBad: [[spoiler: The Suffering, or rather [[AnthromorphicPersonification Suffering]], wants to use the child's trauma in order to manifest in the waking world, and takes over after the child changes his mind.]]

* TheChosenOne: [[spoiler:"Chosen Ones" are people born with a connection to Unreality, such as Mother and The Child, granting them great strength and immortality, but burdening them with a duty to protect the veil between Reality and Unreality.]]
** ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: [[spoiler:It certainly sucked for The Child, at least, since he was experimented on in an attempt to find a cure for ThePlague. And Mother's childhood wasn't much better. And that's not even getting into what was done to all the other Chosen Ones who mother had rescued and then sent to Nostra.]]

* CombatStilettos: Taking a close look at the Daughters models on missions shows that they all wear GIGANTIC stiletto heels. [[LikeMotherLikeDaughter Notably,]] despite her OutOfClothesExprience, the Red Mother also stands on her toes in the same posture despite lacking shoes.

* CreatureHunterOrganization: Nostra, the organization that Mother was part of for hundreds of years, [[spoiler: although Mother rapidly became [[VanHelsingHateCrimes disillusioned with them due to their insistence that all Chosen Ones were too dangerous and needed to be killed, despite Mother's very existence proving that benevolent Chosen Ones were absolutely possible.]]]]
** Later subverted, [[spoiler: as the group changes its views after a few hundred years, and begins rescuing and gathering Chosen Ones rather then killing them]], which leads Mother to agree to join them after leaving centuries beforehand. [[spoiler:Then horrifyingly [[DoubleSubversion subverted again]], as it turns out their reason for gathering the Chosen Ones was to turn them into a a gateway to beyond the veil. This is done by [[BodyHorror surgically fusing them all together into a single body, still living, and still entirely aware of what was done to them]]... which Mother has to MercyKill. She also ends up butchering the entirety of the Order before leaving.]]

* TheDeadHaveNames: There is a cemetery in the inner void which lists the names of dead slain Daughters...[[RedshirtArmy Expect it to be full by the midpoint of the game.]]
** Surprisingly, The child express that each of his own nightmare creatures have names as well in a few blink-and-miss it lines when they are killed.

* 11th-Hour Ranger: The [[spoiler: Scytherdancer]] only joins the battle partway through the third of five bosses, but can then be birthed as normal like all daughters.
** Can also be invoked by the player by literally summoning new daughters right before you fight the final boss.
* DoubleMeaningTitle: Othercide, in this context, refers to both the "Otherside" of reality you inhabit, [[spoiler: and what you do to one of the "others" at the very end of the game, aka [[KillTheGod literal Other-cide]] ]]

* EldritchAbomination: The Suffering are horrific blasphemies from another reality. [[spoiler:Who are actually avatars of a ''single'' Abomination, Suffering, as he invades Reality by manifesting bits of the Child's traumas. The [[TomatoSurprise player]] is a benevolent one bound to the Mother.]]

* {{Expy}}: The Suffering looks more than a little like a [[Manga/Berserk Behelit]], complete with it's role in empowering The Child and it's connection to an AstralRealm. [[spoiler: in practice, it's role is closer to that of [[AnthropomorphicPersonification the Idea of Evil]].]]
** The Child has more than a few similarites with the Skull Kid of VideoGame/TheLegendofZeldaMajorasMask. A [[Lunacy Moon-themed]] [[MalevolentMaskedMan Malevolent Masked Child]] who destroys a city in a fit of pique by summoning an elder being, and then get trapped in a timeloop. Likewise, they both who turns out to be [[spoiler: a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds lashing out in pain and fear, manipulated by an EldritchAbomination for it's own ends.]]

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The Child- from [[spoiler: innocent, abused MadwomanInTheAttic]] to willing Apocalypse Maiden and the manifestation of Suffering incarnate.
** Averted with the The Mother- while she is a Chosen as well, she did not have the same meteoric rise, taking several centuries to become as powerful as she did.
* FullFrontalAssalt: A lategame enemy type, [[spoiler: the Corrupted Daughters,]] wear nothing but black slime and hatred as they tear apart your daughters.
* GothicPunk: Bleak gothic streets, constrain rain, surreal landscapes, and bodies everywhere. notbaly, the only colours of the game are sickly whites, deep blacks, and splashes of blood-red.
* GhostAmnesia: A major mechanic of the game. Much of The Mother's history was lost during her death, but they retain their power. Memories serve as equipment for you Daughters, and Remembrances provide permeant bonuses for all playthroughs.
** Notably, it's implied that while the Mother remembers her past just fine, it's ''you'' the [[AdressingThePlayer Dear Friend]] who's subject to the ghost amnesia- aka [[spoiler: [[BigGood The Other]] known as Memory.]]
* GiantCorpseWorld: Gigantic bodies decorate the background of several arenas in the game.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: The enigmatic being known only as Suffering is revealed to have been manipulating The Child's pain to break through into Reality]].

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Played more subtly than many examples, rather than having it spelled out; all the most truly evil characters-The Deacon and the Surgeon- are human. While [[spoiler: The Suffering]] is rather sadistic towards you and your daughters, it bares no ill intent towards The Child, and there is no indication it had any role in [[spoiler: his crushingly depressing life]] to say nothing of it's curiously wistful and contemplative demise.
** Even the Child fits to an extent, lashing out with immense cruelty[[spoiler: at a world that only taught him cruelty in return,]] but [[FromNobodyToNightmare The Suffering did not give him the motive-merely the means.]]

* InspiredBy: Info for the artbook mentions that besides various Western and Japanese influences, the game is inspired by the Othercide art director Alexandre Chaudet's experiences living with a blood disease.

* {{Lunacy}}: The more powerful enemies and bosses have a Crescent-moon motif symbolising TheSuffering, often jutting out of their bodies or forming a HolyHalo when they [[TurnsRed enter a new phase]]. Notably, [[spoiler: Memory]] has a similar motif inverted: an eclipse from the top left rather than curving to the bottom right, fitting it's nature as TheFoil to The Suffering.

* MadwomanintheAttic: [[spoiler: One of the Child's many traumas- locked in a clay basement under mud and stone by the abusive deacon.]]
* TheManBehindtheMonsters: The Child.
* MentalWorld: Zigzagged. With so much of the game literally made from the suffering and memories of various characters, to the point that stages are called "synapses", it is clear this applies to Othercide to some extent. However, it is unclear who's mind were actually in, or if these feelings are merely being overlaid over reality, or if there is any reality remaining outside the city.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: A number of the early Memories are of Mother's training under her nameless Master, [[spoiler: who was confronted and killed by Mother when they were both sent to kill a young Chosen One and Mother refused.]]

* MonsterProgenitor: A benign example, the Red Mother generates a small army of Daughters who are fighting to save the world from the Suffering.

* MyGreatestFailure: The Mother regards being unable to prevent the Child's suffering as this. [[spoiler: She redeems herself posthumously.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: In her attempts to stop The Suffering by spawning Daughters to combat it, The Red Mother has unwittingly creating a potent new source of misery for Suffering to feed off- that of the many, many Daughters who were killed or lost in her attempt to kill suffering.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItVillian: The Child [[spoiler: snatching up part of the Red Mother's essence to]] reanimate{ing} the Maid blows up in his face twofold: firstly, [[spoiler: it allows the creation of the first Scythedancer using the Maid's memories, creating a ManOfKyrptonite to the otherwise unstoppable boss]]. Secondly it allows the Red Mother to better emphasise with and understand his viewpoint, [[spoiler: aiding her attempts to [[HeelFaceTurn redeem him.]] ]]

* NoNameGiven: Except for the Daughters, which you name yourself, nobody in the game has an actual name, instead being referred to by their titles - Mother (a.k.a Red Mother), The Child, Master, The Guide, The Paladin, The Khan, etc. [[spoiler: The Mother name is only revealed by the final remembrance- aka, when you've beaten the game.]]
* NunTooHoly: The Maid, the boss of the third era [[spoiler: subverts this. She's just as much as much a victim of The Deacon as The Child, and the version "resurrected" by The Child is more a TragicMonster than anything.]]

* ThePlague: One occurred before the start of the game, and is an indirect cause of the game's events, as well as the source of both the Plague Doctor and Infested enemies. [[spoiler: Specifically, it was the torment of being an immortal test subject for the cure that led to The Child becoming the Big Bad. ]]
* ThePrettyGuysAreStronger: In an endless army of warped beats, infected cultists, and maddened infected, it's the most humanlike creatures that are dangerous. [[spoiler: justified, considering they are corrupted copies of the most powerful warrior to ever live-in other words, [[EvilKnockoff Corrupted Daughters]]. ]]
** This also applies to the bosses, going from outright BodyHorror in MonstrousHumanoids to an undead, nearly-human [[EmptyShell husk]], to the [[spoiler: The Child, a normal human aside from being TheChosenOne of Suffering]] Downplayed with [[spoiler: The Suffering itself]], and even then their obvious mutilated body is still very humanoid compared to their prior form.

* ShapeshifterGuiltTrip: An inversion, and a surprisingly heartwarming example. In one memory, [[spoiler:Memory]] briefly takes on the form of The Mother's long lost spouse, in order to comfort her during her final march on the city. The latter isn't fooled for a second, but applicates the gesture.

* TaughtByExprience: How the Mother became the World's best warrior after initial training- literally centuries of experience. [[spoiler: FridgeBrilliance- How else would the Chosen one of Memory empower themselves?]]
** In addition to the norm benefits levelling up, Daughters collect more traits as they fight their way through the never-ending nightmares, the vast majority of which are beneficial.
** Notably, a daughter who is born at max level thanks to various Remnants will be notably weaker than one who fought their way up the hard way due to an absence of traits.

* TragicVillain: [[spoiler:The Child endured nothing but trauma throughout his life at the hands of people who were supposed to take care of him while also suffering the burden of responsibility that came with being a "Chosen One". He ended up crossing the DespairEventHorizon, lashing out at the world he was supposed to protect with monsters representing his painful past.]]
* TragicDream: What does The Suffering want with the world? [[spoiler: Simply to BE. it's not Suffering's fault that it requires trauma the way matter requires molecules.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Suffering]]''': ''...I wanted nothing. Love? Compassion? No. Only...to exist. If I cease than so does this flooded world...Nothing of me survives. Nothing [[KilledMidSentance remains-]] ''
** The Child has one as well- [[spoiler: A desire to resurrect The Maid, literally the only person who showed him kindness, by using the Red Mother's memories. Alas, his attempt only raises her as a twisted empty shell]] Notably,, this not his only goal, and it is entirely contained within the Third era- his main goal throughout the game is vengeance against the world by allowing the Suffering to manifest.

* UnnamedParent: The Mother, or, [[FriendlyGhost posthumously]], The Red Mother, isn’t actually the name of the player’s friend who dies at the beginning of the game. We just can’t remember her name, apparently. [[spoiler: The name's only revealed after beating the final boss and looking at the Flower of Paradise Remembrance. Ironic, considering we’re an Other named Memory.]]

** VillainousBSOD: After the forth boss fight, [[spoiler: The child feels regret and sorrow for what they've become and relents their connection to sorrow and their revenge upon the world. Suffering, meanwhile, [[BiggerBad has other ideas.]]

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: At least one memory mentions that the Red Mother “lost her taste for life” and that she mainly lives out of a sense of duty to maintain the Veil. She also suffers from the “outliving your loved ones” part of this as she has lost family, a mentor, and her loved one during the course of her long, long life. Her loved one’s death is particularly relevant since they probably could have grown old together if not for her immortality. The only friends she’s kept throughout her life are her Other, which manifests as a voice she’s heard in her head since she was a little girl and The Guide, another seemingly immortal person who shows up in her life from time to time changing appearance and even sex sometimes. (Though they only appeared as a woman once.) [[spoiler: The Guide is revealed to be another other named “Curiosity”. So basically all of the Red Mother’s Immortal friends are Others.]]

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''Othercide'' is a [[{{Horror}} horror]] StrategyRPG was developed by French independent game studio Lightbulb Crew, and published by Focus Home Interactive released for [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, and PC on July 27th, 2020, and for Nintendo Switch on September 10th.

* Benevolent Boss:

->''I have lived for hundreds of years. [[WhoWantsToLiveForever I have lost the taste of life during this immortal journey.]] [[DutyThatTranscendsDeath My only goal was to protect the veil, whatever the cost.]] Did [[DarkAndTroubledPast all this pain and suffering lead me to this fateful moment?]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Was failure inevitable?]] My Dear Friend, we have gone through so much sorrow, can't you even remember my name? [[SpirtAdvisor Through death, I will guide you...]]''
-->-- '''The Mother'''.

It is also a NintendoHard Rougelite, with the oppressive power of your foes and painful lack of healing serving to accentuate the surreal and dark GothicPunk atmosphere.

** The Child has more than a few similarites with the Skull Kid of VideoGame/TheLegendofZeldaMajorasMask. A [[Lunacy Moon-themed]] [[MalevolentMaskedMan Malevolent Masked Child]] attempting to destroy the world by summoning an elder being, who turns out to be [[spoiler: a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds lashing out in pain and fear, manipulated by an EldritchAbomination for it's own ends.]]

* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Played more subtly than many examples; all the most truly evil characters-The Deacon and the Surgeon- are human. While [[spoiler: The Suffering]] is rather sadistic towards you and your daughters, he bares no ill intent toward his ward The Child, and there is no indication it had any role in [[spoiler: his crushingly depressing life]] aside from allowing him to survive it, to say nothing of it's curiously wistful and contemplative demise.

-> ''...Names are made to be forgotten. But still, if you can remember only one thing from our journey, please recall those few letters..
[[spoiler: Lily]]''

->''I have lived for hundreds of years. [[WhoWantsToLiveForever I have lost the taste of life during this immortal journey. ]]

[[DutyThatTranscendsDeath My only goal was to protect the veil, whatever the cost.]]

Did [[DarkAndTroubledPast all this pain and suffering lead me to this fateful moment?]] [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption Was failure inevitable?]]

My Dear Friend, we have gone through so much sorrow, can't you even remember my name? [[SpirtAdvisor Through death, I will guide you....'']]''

My Dear Friend, we have gone through so much sorrow, can't you even remember my name? [[SpirtAdvisor Through death, I will guide you....'']]

-> ''...Names are made to be forgotten.
But still, if you can remember only one thing from our journey, please recall those few letters..
[[spoiler: Lily]]

* DoubleMeaningTitle: Othercide, in this context, refers to both the "Otherside" of reality you inhabit, [[spoiler: and what you do to one of the "others" at the very end of the game.]]

* TaughtByExprience: How the Mother became the World's best warrior after initial training- literally hundreds of years of combat exprience. [[spoiler: FridgeBrilliance- How else would the Chosen one of Memory empower themselves?]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler: The Child,]] and OH BOY do they fit the trope both in terms of [[RealityWarper power]] and [[TraumaCongaLine suffering.]]

** Suffering embodies the concept of suffering by allowing his Chosen One, the Child, to create various monstrosities based on the traumas and suffering he’s been forced to endure during his life. These are what you fight during the game. The Child also seems to have a devastating scream, which kills The Mother in the intro and he can affect certain gameplay mechanics with his “gifts” that can appear randomly during a play through. (For instance, a gift that reduces chance to dodge based off of the torpor he was often in as a result of the plague doctors injecting him with all sorts of drugs in their experiments to find a cure for ThePlague.)

* BadBoss: Averted all round.
** The Red Mother display both pride in her daughters when they succeed and offers comfort to the players if they loose or have to reset,[[spoiler: as well as sorrow at the appearance of The Corrupted Daughters]]
** Also averted by [[spoiler: The Child of all people, who mentions giving names to every one of his minions and expressing sorrow when they're killed.]]
** Downplayed with [[spoiler: Suffering, who merely mockingly asks "[[WeHaveReserves So]]?" when his minions are killed]], but otherwise shows no signs of abuse towards them...or to his ward, [[spoiler: The Child.]]

* TragicDream: What does The Suffering want with the world? [[spoiler: Simply to BE. Unfortunately the amount of suffering required for this to happen is nothing short of apocalyptic.]]

* BodyOfBodies: The Final Form of the final boss. [[spoiler: Specifically, made of the bodies of the many, MANY daughters who died to get you where you are. ]]

* BodyofBodies: The final boss.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The Child's relationship with the amid, in a nutshell.

* BishōnenLine: The final boss, natch- although the "humanlike" form is still obviously made of corpses piled together, with FloatingLimbs and a SurrealSymbolicHeads.

* BiggerBad: [[spoiler: The Suffering, or rather [[AnthromorphicPersonification Suffering]], wants to use the child's trauma in order to manifest in the waking world.]]

** Can also be invoked by the player by literally summoning new daughters right before you fight the final boss...At your own peril.

-->'''[[spoiler:Suffering]]''': ...I wanted nothing. Love? Compassion? No. Only...to exist. If I cease than so does this flooded world...Nothing of me survives. Nothing [[KilledMidSentance remains-]]

** VillainousBSOD: After the forth boss fight, [[spoiler: The child feels regret and sorrow for what they've become and relents their connection to sorrow and their revenge upon the world. Suffering, meanwhile, has other ideas!]]

Descend into Humanity’s last hope. The Daughters, echoes of the greatest warrior to ever live, are all who stand before Suffering -dread creatures pulled from the worst of Humanity’s crimes against itself- and death- while unravelling the mystery of who [[TomatoInTheMirror you]] are, who the red mother is, and how The Child became what he is.

* AmbiguousSituation: Time and space may be a bit warped; your "home base," if you can call it that, seems to just be an eldritch void from which the ghost of Mother dispatches her daughters, and you're thrown into this world en media res. Figuring out exactly what's going on and where you are is part of the game.

* FromNooneToNightmare: The Child- from [[spoiler: innocent, abused MadwomanInTheAttic]] to the manifestation of Suffering incarnate.

** Even the Child fits to an extent, lashing out with immense cruelty[[spoiler: at a world that only taught him cruelty in return,]] but [[FromNoOneToNightmare The Suffering did not give him the motive-merely the means.]]

* FromNooneToNightmare: The Child- from [[spoiler innocent, abused MadwomanInTheAttic]] to the manifestation of Suffering incarnate.

* GiantCorpseWorld: Gigantic bodies decorate the background of several arena in the game.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler:The enigmatic being known only as Suffering is revealed to have been manipulating The Child's pain to break through into Reality]].

** Even the Child fits to an extent, lashing out with immense cruelty[[spoiler: at a world that only taught him cruelty in return,]] but [[FromNooneToNightmare The Suffering did not give him the motive-merely the means.]]

* AlasPoorVillain: Most bosses get a moment of sorrow before they're dispatched, with one of the most poignant belonging to [[spoilers: Suffering, surprisingly]].

Descend into Humanity’s last hope. The Daughters, echoes of the greatest warrior to ever live, are all who stand before Suffering -dread creatures pulled from the worst of Humanity’s crimes against itself- and death.

* AlphaStrike: Burst, in a nutshell- You get an extra 50 action points above the standard 50, , but your next turn on the initiative tracker comes in 100, rather than 50 time units later. Better make sure you kill everything on the field or have some interrupt ready, or you can expect a world of hurt.

** Downplayed with [[spoiler: Suffering, who merely mockingly asks "[[WeHaveReserves So]]?" when his minions are killed]], but otherwise shows no signs of abuse towards them...or to his ward, [[spoiler: the child.]]

* DarkFantasy: Oh yes. ''Pitch black'' Fantasy may be a better description.

* HealthDamageAsymmetry.

* Lunacy: The more powerful enemies and bosses have a Crescent-moon motif, often jutting out of their bodies or forming a HolyHalo when they [[TurnsRed enter a new phase]]. Notably, [[spoiler: Memory]] has a similar motif inverted: an eclipse from the top left rather than curving to the bottom right, fitting it's nature as TheFoil to The Suffering.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The Child [[spoiler: snatching up part of the Red Mother's essence]] to reanimate the Maid blows up in his face twofold: firstly, it allows the creation of a new form of Daughter mid-battle,[[spoiler the Scythedancer]] that is The Maid's WomanOfKryptonite, and secondly allows the Red Mother to better emphasise with an understand his viewpoint, [[spoiler: aiding her attempts to [[HeelFaceTurn redeem him.]] ]]

* UnnamedParent: The Mother, or, [[FriendlyGhost posthumously]], The Red Mother, isn’t actually the name of the player’s friend who dies at the beginning of the game. We just can’t remember her name, apparently. [[spoiler: Ironic, considering we’re an Other named Memory.]]

* WoobieDestroyerOfWolrds: [[spoiler: The Child,]] and OH BOY do they fit the trope both in terms of [[RealityWarper power]] and [[TraumaCongaLine suffering.]]

* BigBad: The Child, [[spoiler:a "Chosen One" who fell past the DespairEventHorizon, and now wants nothing more than to destroy the world using creatures created from his own traumas.]]

* CombatStilettos: Taking a close look at the Daughters models on missions shows that they all wear GIGANTIC bright red stiletto heels.

* NoNameGiven: Except for the Daughters, which you name yourself, nobody in the game has an actual name, instead being referred to by their titles - Mother (a.k.a Red Mother), The Child, Master, The Guide, The Paladin, The Khan, etc.

* WeirdCurrency: Vitae is collected after a mission and can be spent on equiping a memory or generating a new Daughter. Also there are Shards for unlocking memories from a Rememberance.

* WorldsBestWarrior: Mother is the greatest warrior of all time.

** Memory, [[spoiler: the player character]], embodies the concept of memory by allowing their Chosen One, [[spoiler:The Mother]], to perfectly recall everything she’s experienced through her many, many years of living. This probably extends to things that would be useful for combat as well, resulting in her being [[WorldsBestWarrior the greatest warrior of all time]]. After her death in the beginning of the game, and the two “exchanging” their realities, Memory seems to use other abilities it didn't, or more likely couldn't, use during [[spoiler:The Mother]]'s life. One of these is using her memories to create AnthropomorphicPersonifications of it's own to fight against the creatures Suffering and The Child has created, [[spoiler:The Daughters]]. They seem to represent different periods of [[spoiler:The Mother]]'s life and Memory can further power them up by equipping them with memories of certain experiences [[spoiler:The Mother]] had during her life. Memory also seems to be able to resurrect [[spoiler:Daughters]] that it remembersif it has a resurrection token, though if this is an exclusive ability of theirs or just a quality of resurrection tokens is unclear. May also be a bit of a TimeMaster, if the ability to [[spoiler: reset the game and return to different eras if you possess certain objects]] is interpreted as them manipulating time. They can also apparently use certain objects with memories attached to them for various effects.

*** [[spoiler:SoulSlingers]] seem to represent [[spoiler: The Mother]]'s time as a [[{{Pun}} hired gun]] for the Nostra order, where she worked with a Bounty Hunter and a Seer to find and help other Chosen Ones before finding out [[BodyHorror what they were really doing with The Chosen Ones]] she’s been saving, then slaughtering them all and leaving. This is reflected in [[spoiler:gameplay]] with [[spoiler:SoulSlingers]] having abilities that help and support her sisters, this part of [[spoiler:The Mother]]’s life being particularly focused on teamwork, and having abilities which can kill multiple weak enemies at once, probably reflecting her slaughter of the Nostra.

** Curiosity, [[spoiler: also known as The Guide]] embodies curiosity in all his (though he appeared as a woman once, apparently able to change sex and appearance) interactions with [[spoiler:The Mother]] as curiosity is what drew him to her in the first place. He tends to act like a sort of TricksterMentor to her at times and tells her of things he thinks would interest her, or [[Pun pique her curiosity]], should I say, which often results in her next stage of life.

''Othercide'' is a [[{{Horror}} horror]] StrategyRPG was developed by French independent game studio Lightbulb Crew, and published by Focus Home Interactive released for [=PlayStation=] 4, Xbox One, and PC on July 27th, 2020.