History VideoGame / VaderImmortal

''Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series'' is an episodic VR game for the UsefulNotes/OculusQuest. Taking place in the ''Franchise/StarWars [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]]'', it focuses around the player, an unnamed smuggler who, along with their loyal, snarky droid named [=ZOE3=], finds themselves trapped on the planet Mustafar after they're dragged out of hyperspace by an Imperial Interdictor cruiser. They're then taken to be the honored guests of one of the most feared men in the Empire: Darth Vader.

* HopelessBossFight: [[spoiler: You go up against Vader, for God's sake.]] Fittingly, you don't win. You only survive.

For, you see, you didn't just stumble into the system by chance. Darth Vader has been searching for someone, a [[InTheBlood descendant]] of a Force-sensitive woman named Lady Corax that lived on Mustafar eons ago. With your abilities, Vader hopes to unlock a sanctum deep beneath his fortress, and overcome death itself to reunite with [[TheLostLenore his dead wife, Padme Amidala.]] Now, you and [=ZOE3=] have to escape from Mustafar, while also trying to survive Vader's scheme.

* DeathWail: Vader lets out a scream of anguish when he experiences a flashback vision of Padme breaking the news to him that she's pregnant.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Vader still can't let go of Padme - his whole motivation for seeking the Bright Star (aside from power) is to bring her back from the dead.

* {{Macguffin}}: The Bright Star, which is necessary to try and bring a person back from the dead. Lady Corvax attempted it on her husband and destroyed Mustafar with it, and Vader hopes to use it to try and revive Padme.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Vader does ''not'' take it well when he loses the chance to bring Padme back thanks to your intervention.]]

* AffablyEvil: Vader comes across as this. When you're first brought to his castle he says that if you open the cube he needs for his plan that he'll spare your life, and honors his word when you manage to do so. He also compliments you after the sequence in the elevator, saying you acquitted yourself well.
** By Episode II, he's willing to teach you how to harness the Force, as you'll need it to unlock the Bright Star. [[spoiler:Of course, this is all a means to an end. Once he has what he wants, [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness well]]...]]

* CoolShip: The ''Windfall'', your ship.
* CoolSword: You get to use a ''lightsaber.'' [[spoiler:As of Episode II and onward, you get your hands on what the Mustafarians call a Lightsword, which is basically a lightsaber with a ''much'' more arcane-looking hilt...and the ability to command a hidden army of battle droids!]]

* DeadpanSnarker: [=ZOE3=].

* DualWielding: Towards the end of the ElevatorActionSequence, Vader yanks your lightsaber out of your hands with the Force and takes down the last of Lady Corvax's security droids with it.

* NoKillLikeOverkill: The Imperial admiral in episode III comes after you - a smuggler captain who's currently on foot - in a ''[[CoolStarship TIE fighter.]]''
** Of course, seeing as you have a lightsaber and the Force, and already took out a bunch of Stormtroopers prior to facing him, the admiral's probably GenreSavvy enough to recognize that a blaster alone wouldn't cut it.

* VaderBreath: Natch.

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* ActionSurvivor: Your character is a smuggler that is in ''way'' over their head, but manage to competently wield a lightsaber and sneak around an Imperial fortress undetected.

* AssShove: Vylip helps you bust out of your holding cell by handing you a hydrospanner. ZOE is very concerned as to where he ''hid'' it.

** Episode III allows you to unlock dual lightsabers in the Dojo sessions.

* FeaturelessProtagonist: This being a VR game, you're only able to see your hands, though you can clip items to your belt when they're not needed.

* JustifiedTutorial: Entering Vader's private chambers draws you to pick up a lightsaber held in one of the rooms, which then activates a training droid. You can try to fight it, but it will judge your skill inadequate (since your character has likely never even ''held'' a lightsaber before, let alone used one) and guide you through blocking, attacking, and deflecting blaster bolts.

* SwordAndGun: In Episode III you can steal blaster rifles from stormtroopers and use them alongside your lightsaber.

** Episode 2 ends with [[spoiler:Vader taking the Bright Star, apparently killing Vylip and [=ZOE3=] again, and tossing you aside. You awaken to see an carving of someone with Lord Corvax's sword leading the guardian robots.]]

* DevelopersForesight: In ''Episode I'', if you hold your own against the droid that pops up when you first grab a lightsaber, the combat tutorial will be skipped, and you'll skip straight to the fight.

* ImprovisedLockpick: The hydrospanner you're given is able to unlock pretty much anything in the fortress, though you still have to get your hands dirty to do the specifics.

In-universe, the game takes place after the ''Secrets of the Empire'' VR experience at Disney Springs.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Vader keeps you alive and has his soldiers defend you throughout Episode I because you're still needed to obtain the Bright Star and help him in his plan.

** Episode 2 ends with [[spoiler:Vader taking the Bright Star, apparently killing Vylip and [=ZOE3=] again, and tossing you aside. You awaken to see an image of someone with Lord Crovax's sword leading the guardian robots.]]
* CoolShip: The ''Windfall'', your ship.

* {{Retcon}}: Previously, the reasoning for Mustafar's hellish volcanic landscape was given as the planet's orbit being caught between two gas giants, tearing the surface apart. Here, the blame is instead shifted to Lady Corvax's use of the Black Star. [[spoiler:This may be intended to explain why, after the events of the game, Mustafar experienced a regrowth of vegetation, as seen in the opening scene of ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker''.]]

* ArtShift: When the Mustafarian Priestess is telling you what Vader wants you for, the entire scene (likely a Force vision) shifts to a painting-esque sequence told in static images. Similarly, when [[spoiler:the Black Bishop]] tells you what actually happened to Lord Crovax.

* HeroicSacrifice: Vylip Foma, a Mustafarian lore master you find, charges a group of stormtroopers in order to distract them from you and [=ZOE3=]. [[spoiler:Becomes a DisneyDeath when he comes back in Episode II.]]

* {{Mooks}}: Stormtroopers, as always.

* ShooOutTheClowns: [=ZOE3=] makes up most of the comedic moments on this ship with the fact that she never stops talking. The end of the first episode has Vader picking her up with the Force and hurling her across the room. She's not seen for the rest of the episode.

* WorldWreckingWave: Lady Corvax's use of the Bright Star to try and bring her husband back to life caused this, utterly destroying the formerly verdant surface of Mustafar and turning it into the lava-covered hellscape it is today.

* ArtShift: When the Mustafarian Priestess is telling you what Vader wants you for, the entire scene (likely a Force vision) shifts to a painting-esque sequence told in static images.

* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Vader keeps you alive and has his soldiers defend you throughout the story because you're still needed to obtain the Bright Star and help him in his plan.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Episode 1 ends with Vader walking off into the blackness of Lady Corvax's sanctum, telling you that even though the Force is with you, you'll need to develop your powers very quickly if you hope to survive what's ahead.

* HeroicSacrifice: Vylip Foma, a Mustafarian lore master you find, charges a group of stormtroopers in order to distract them from you and [=ZOE3=].

* SinisterMinister: The Black Bishop, a mysterious cloaked figure that knows a great deal about Vader's objective.

''Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series'' is an episodic VR game for the UsefulNotes/OculusQuest. Taking place in the new canon of the Franchise/StarWars universe, it focuses around the player, an unnamed smuggler who, along with their loyal, snarky droid named [=ZOE3=], finds themselves trapped on the planet Mustafar after they're dragged out of hyperspace by an Imperial Interdictor cruiser. They're then taken to be the honored guests of one of the most feared men in the Empire: Darth Vader.

''Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series'' is an episodic VR game for the UsefulNotes/OculusQuest. Taking place in the new canon of the Franchise/StarWars universe, it focuses around the player, an unnamed smuggler who, along with their loyal, snarky droid named ZOE3, finds themselves trapped on the planet Mustafar after they're dragged out of hyperspace by an Imperial Interdictor cruiser. They're then taken to be the honored guests of one of the most feared men in the Empire: Darth Vader.

For, you see, you didn't just stumble into the system by chance. Darth Vader has been searching for someone, a [[InTheBlood descendant]] of a Force-sensitive woman named Lady Corax that lived on Mustafar eons ago. With your abilities, Vader hopes to unlock a sanctum deep beneath his fortress, and overcome death itself to reunite with [[TheLostLenore his dead wife, Padme Amidala.]] Now, you and ZOE3 have to escape from Mustafar, while also trying to survive Vader's scheme.

* ActionPrologue: The game starts with you and ZOE3 having stolen some spice from the Hutt Cartel, with starfighters flying all around you trying to shoot down your ship before you jump to hyperspace.

* DeadpanSnarker: ZOE3.

* ElevatorFailure: Engineered. Once the Empire finds out that you've escaped from your holding cell, they shut down the elevators in the fortress, forcing you and ZOE3 to find another way up.

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: You are only referred to as "Captain" by ZOE3.

* HideTheEvidence: When you're brought onto Mustafar, ZOE3 and you do your best to hide the fact that you're smugglers, including hiding the illicit credits you have and wiping the ship's navicomputer to hide where you've been.
* HeroicSacrifice: Vylip Foma, a Mustafarian lore master you find, charges a group of stormtroopers in order to distract them from you and ZOE3.

* ItHasBeenAnHonor: ZOE3 says at one point while you're sneaking around Vader's castle that no matter what happens, it's been a good run.

* MotorMouth: ZOE3 almost never stops talking.

* ShooOutTheClowns: ZOE3 makes up most of the comedic moments on this ship with the fact that she never stops talking. The end of the first episode has Vader picking her up with the Force and hurling her across the room. She's not seen for the rest of the episode.

!! ''Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR series'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* JustifiedTutorial: Entering Vader's private chambers draws you to pick up a lightsaber held in one of the rooms, which then activates a training droid. You can try to fight it, but it will judge your skill inadequate and guide you through blocking, attacking, and deflecting blaster bolts.

* DualWielding: Towards the end of the ElevatorActionSequence, Vader yanks your lightsaber out of your hands with the force and takes down the last of Lady Corvax's security droids with it.

* DuelWielding: Towards the end of the ElevatorActionSequence, Vader yanks your lightsaber out of your hands with the force and takes down the last of Lady Corvax's security droids with it.