History VideoGame / ThiefTheDarkProject

* RemixedLevel: "Strange Bedfellows" sees Garrett revisit the Hammerite temple he infiltrated in "Undercover".

* BowAndSwordInAccord: Garrett carries both a bow and a sword, though the bow sees more use for delivery mechanism for {{Trick Arrow}}s than killing people, and the sword is a last-resort weapon, not his primary. If the player is very good, they will never use the sword.

* PlotCoupons: At one point, Garrett has to find the four keys to a locked cathedral.

** Hammerite Guards use Hammers instead of swords in combat which deal significantlymore damage to Garrett.

** Hammerite Guards use Hammers instead of swords in combat which deal signifficantly more damage to Garrett.
** Haunts use swords but are extremely fast, capable of keeping up with Garrett and attacking Garrett extremely rapidly in melee.

->-- '''The Book of The Stone'''

* UnwinnableByDesign: The way you finally escape from the Haunted Cathedral is by taking the explosive charge from the attic and using a fire arrow to blow it up near the (locked) back door to blast it open. This can be made impossible, but it requires you to intentionally try. The game provides several fire arrows in the attic along with the charge in case you're out, but you can pick these up and waste them if you really want to be stuck. The game very explicitly tells you to set off the charge in front of the door, but you can blow it up anywhere in the level, and there's only one charge doesn't respawn, meaning if you blow it up elsewhere you're screwed.

Along with ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' (released the same year), it is regarded as one of the first video games to pioneer the modern stealth genre. It was also among the earliest codifiers of the ImmersiveSim genre.

* KeyConfusion: When confronted with a locked door, Garret does not automatically pick the right key, even if he has it on him; the player has to manually select the key he wants Garret to use. This can become quite a problem if Garret has multiple keys on him and the player doesn't know which one fits what door. Since the trial-and-error of testing each key takes place in real time, it can build quite a bit of tension, when you are desperately seeking for the right key while the guards are closing in on your position.\

* KeyConfusion: When confronted with a locked door, Garret does not automatically pick the right key, even if he has it on him; the player has to manually select the key he wants Garret to use. This can become quite a problem if Garret has multiple keys on him and the player doesn't know which one fits what door. Since the trial-and-error of testing each key takes place in real time, it can build quite a bit of tension, when you are desperately seeking for the right key while the guards are closing in on your position.

* BaitAndSwitch: Your objective for mission 4: use your shiny new lockpicks to sneak into the Hammerite Temple and steal some loot. Simple enough. ''As soon'' as the mission actually starts, the shopkeeper who sold you the lockpicks is shot, two men outside say they killed Garrett, and this objective is crossed out, replaced by following your would-be assassins and finding their employer.

* UnintentionallyUnwinnable: The way you finally escape from the Haunted Cathedral is by taking the explosive charge from the attic and using a fire arrow to blow it up near the (locked) back door to blast it open. The insanity part comes in due to the game providing several fire arrows in the attic along with the charge in case you're out (though you can still choose to waste them if you want) as well being able to detonate the charge anywhere in the level (even though the game very explicitly tells you to set it off in front of the door), and there's only one charge in the level that doesn't respawn, meaning if you blow it up elsewhere you're screwed.

* GuideDangIt: "The Mage Towers", specifically, each of the elemental towers is locked and is [[TheKeyIsBehindTheLock said to have the key of another one of the towers inside it]]. So how do you get into a tower in the first place? [[spoiler: the lock on the door for the water tower is broken]] of course the only way you would know that (other than looking it up) is if you searched everywhere else in the level in vain for a key before finally deciding to look in the towers themselves in case there was some other way in. [[spoiler: To be fair, there ''is'' a note claiming the water tower has been closed down due to flooding, but inferring that to mean the lock is broken seems like a pretty big logical leap, especially since they use the word "closed", which seems to be saying just the opposite (it's more securely locked down than the others and there's no way in)]]

* MarathonLevel: The "Thieves' Guild" level. First there's the restaurant, then the casino, then the sewer passage to Reuben's place, then...you get the picture.

* NoodleIncident: What exactly destroyed the old quarter of the city (where the Haunted Cathedral resides) is unknown, with Garret's narration in the cutscene implying even the people in-universe aren't entirely sure, but the most common stories about its destruction involve massive fires and [[ZombieApocalypse hordes of zombies.]]

* VillainBall: [[spoiler:Constantine's]] plan would have gone much better if instead of leaving Garrett to perish he had either a) paid Garrett as agreed and let him leave, or b) taken one extra step to directly kill Garrett.

* UnwinnableByInsanity: The way you finally escape from the Haunted Cathedral is by taking the explosive charge from the attic and using a fire arrow to blow it up near the (locked) back door to blast it open. The insanity part comes in due to the game providing several fire arrows in the attic along with the charge in case you're out (though you can still choose to waste them if you want) as well being able to detonate the charge anywhere in the level (even though the game very explicitly tells you to set it off in front of the door), and there's only one charge in the level that doesn't respawn, meaning if you blow it up elsewhere you're screwed.

* MeleeATrois: The game has the potential for this in any level where multiple types of [[{{AI}} AIs]] are around, e.g. "The Haunted Cathedral", "The Lost City". Zombies will attack anything alive, for example, not just the player; fire elementals will attack at least some types of living [[{{AI}} AIs]]; and so on.

* BlendingInStealthGameplay: In one mid-game mission, Garrett has acquired the garb of a novice in the [[ChurchMilitant Order of the Hammer]] and uses it to infiltrate one of their secured temples. As novices take an oath of silence, no one there will ask him to speak and provided he isn't caught anywhere he isn't supposed to be, no one will challenge his presence. The challenge lies in stealing right out from under the Hammerite's noses. [[spoiler: Fulfilling your primary objective will unavoidably sound an alarm throughout the temple, which blows Garrett's cover.]]

* FinalBossNewDimension: The final level of the game, [[spoiler: "Into The Maw of Chaos" where Garrett enter's The Trickster's realm where the normal laws of physics don't hold sway.]]

* FirstPersonGhost: Garrett's arms and weapons are viable during gameplay, but no part of his body beyond that.

* NoodleIncident: What exactly destroyed the old quarter of the city (where the Haunted Cathedral resides) is unknown, with Garret's narration in the cutscene implying even the people in-universe aren't entirely sure, but the most common stories about it's destruction involve massive fires and [[ZombieApocalypse hordes of zombies.]]

* TheOrder: The Hammerites, a group of anti-Pagan, anti-nature, intensely conservative [[ChurchMilitant Church Militants]] that Garrett runs into on occasion. However, they're not as much of a problem in this game as an offshoot of their's is in the sequel. [[spoiler:Garrett [[EnemyMine even temporarily allies with]] the Hammerites to help them thwart the BigBad and his plan.]]

->''"YE SHALL NOT ROB FROM THE HOUSE I HAVE BUILT, OR COMMIT ANY THEFT OR UNRIGHTEOUSNES, LEST YE BE STRUCK DOWN AND DRIVEN INTO THE EARTH FORTHWITH, AND THE LAND OF THE HEATHEN CONSUME YOU."''

->''YE SHALL NOT ROB FROM THE HOUSE I HAVE BUILT, OR COMMIT ANY THEFT OR UNRIGHTEOUSNES, LEST YE BE STRUCK DOWN AND DRIVEN INTO THE EARTH FORTHWITH, AND THE LAND OF THE HEATHEN CONSUME YOU.''

-->''YE SHALL NOT ROB FROM THE HOUSE I HAVE BUILT, OR COMMIT ANY THEFT OR UNRIGHTEOUSNES, LEST YE BE STRUCK DOWN AND DRIVEN INTO THE EARTH FORTHWITH, AND THE LAND OF THE HEATHEN CONSUME YOU.''
-->-- '''The Book of The Stone'''

-->''[[AC: YE SHALL NOT ROB FROM THE HOUSE I HAVE BUILT, OR COMMIT ANY THEFT OR UNRIGHTEOUSNES, LEST YE BE STRUCK DOWN AND DRIVEN INTO THE EARTH FORTHWITH, AND THE LAND OF THE HEATHEN CONSUME YOU.]]''