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* EventObscuringCamera: That one long narrow corridor in the Cosmodrome, where the camera shifts into SideView to hide how underdeveloped the entire area is. Considering that aiming is aligned to the ground plane, trying to shoot the enemies that unavoidably appear in this area [[FakeDifficulty suddenly gets much harder]]. In other locations, the camera sometimes gets [[ObstructiveForeground obscured by bits of level geometry]], even to the extent of the entire screen going black due to walls going right in front of the camera.
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* ScrappyMechanic: The game has numerous unpopular mechanics, but the most frequently mentioned ones are the obtuse map, the frustrating fast-travel system, and the ill-conceived and illogical [[BeefGate Beef Gates]] everywhere.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Stackmaster Poone is generally a far more interesting character and questgiver than Kira, since he's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who is genuinely trying to find a way for everyone to survive and to eventually secure their independence. Once Kira takes over he more or less vanishes from the plot; and most of the quests following that amount to "do this because yCorp tells you to, in order to secure yCorp's profits." As nogHead points out, even the endgame revelation doesn't actually change this.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Stackmaster Poone is generally a far more interesting character and questgiver than Kira, since he's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who is genuinely trying to find a way for everyone to survive and to eventually secure their independence. Once Kira takes over he more or less vanishes from the plot; and most of the quests following that amount to "do this because yCorp tells you to, in order to secure yCorp's profits." As nogHead points out, even the endgame revelation doesn't actually change this.this.
* UnderusedGameplayMechanic:
** The game's HollywoodHacking is a frequent target of criticism because of its simplicity - you literally press one button and either succeed or don't, depending solely on your cyberdeck level. Given how important interacting with the digital domain is in the cyberpunk genre, this is generally considered a missed opportunity.
** The bounty system. Instead of picking up targets from a bounty board and tracking them down, bounties are essentially just EliteMooks that you randomly run into while traveling the game world. They have no personality, no backstory, no reason given why there's a bounty on their head other than some generic "they've been naughty". And to add insult to injury, despite being internally divided into low-ranking and high-ranking bounties, they all pay out the same amount of cash (1,000 ucreds each), with their rank only being mentioned by your Imp and the bartender when you hand in the bounty.
* UnderusedGameplayMechanic:
** The game's HollywoodHacking is a frequent target of criticism because of its simplicity - you literally press one button and either succeed or don't, depending solely on your cyberdeck level. Given how important interacting with the digital domain is in the cyberpunk genre, this is generally considered a missed opportunity.
** The bounty system. Instead of picking up targets from a bounty board and tracking them down, bounties are essentially just EliteMooks that you randomly run into while traveling the game world. They have no personality, no backstory, no reason given why there's a bounty on their head other than some generic "they've been naughty". And to add insult to injury, despite being internally divided into low-ranking and high-ranking bounties, they all pay out the same amount of cash (1,000 ucreds each), with their rank only being mentioned by your Imp and the bartender when you hand in the bounty.
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!! [[{{Film/TheAscent}} The Film]]
* AdaptationDisplacement: Much more well known than the novella it's based on, especially in the West.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Sotnikov gets a few due to his sheer, unbending defiance in the face of the Nazis.
** The [[GrandInquisitorScene interrogation scene]]. Sotnikov refuses to sell out his comrades, contemptuously rejects Portnov's attempt at a BreakingSpeech, and calls Portnov "human scum" to his face. Portnov has a TortureTechnician come in and brand him, and even though he passes out from the pain he doesn't crack, and as soon as he wakes up he fixes Portnov with such a brutal DeathGlare that Portnov can't look him in the eye and orders him to be taken away.
** Later, Sotnikov makes one last ditch attempt to save the lives of the other prisoners by [[TakeMeInstead offering himself up to be executed]] while absolving them. Portnov is unmoved by his plea, but Sotnikov does get the chance to tell him "[[DyingDeclarationOfHate I wish I killed more of you bastards]]" before he's hauled off to the gallows.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack is understated but beautiful. Special mention goes to the mournful song that plays as Rybak and Sotnikov are first hauled into the POW camp.
* HoYay: There's quite a bit of physical affection between the male leads, mostly on Rybak's end. To be fair, most of it is in the context of Rybak trying to keep Sotnikov from freezing or bleeding to death with what little means he has.
* SignatureScene: Sotnikov's suicide attempt in the snow near the beginning of the film. It's on the cover for the Creator/CriterionCollection version of the film, and is one of the first things that comes up if you Google the film.
* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/ComeAndSee'', another Soviet war film focusing on Belarusian partisans. While ''Come and See'' is a brutal, uncompromising portrayal of the absolute worst crimes of the Nazi occupation shown through the eyes of a ChildSoldier, ''The Ascent'' is a slower, subtler, more spiritual film showing the personal ordeal of two older enlisted men. Elem Klimov, the director of ''Come and See'', was in fact married to Larisa Shepitko at the time this film was made, and doubtlessly drew great inspiration from it.
* TearJerker: The execution of Sotnikov, Demchikha, Basya, and the headman at the end.
!! [[VideoGame/TheAscent The Video Game]]
* AdaptationDisplacement: Much more well known than the novella it's based on, especially in the West.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Sotnikov gets a few due to his sheer, unbending defiance in the face of the Nazis.
** The [[GrandInquisitorScene interrogation scene]]. Sotnikov refuses to sell out his comrades, contemptuously rejects Portnov's attempt at a BreakingSpeech, and calls Portnov "human scum" to his face. Portnov has a TortureTechnician come in and brand him, and even though he passes out from the pain he doesn't crack, and as soon as he wakes up he fixes Portnov with such a brutal DeathGlare that Portnov can't look him in the eye and orders him to be taken away.
** Later, Sotnikov makes one last ditch attempt to save the lives of the other prisoners by [[TakeMeInstead offering himself up to be executed]] while absolving them. Portnov is unmoved by his plea, but Sotnikov does get the chance to tell him "[[DyingDeclarationOfHate I wish I killed more of you bastards]]" before he's hauled off to the gallows.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack is understated but beautiful. Special mention goes to the mournful song that plays as Rybak and Sotnikov are first hauled into the POW camp.
* HoYay: There's quite a bit of physical affection between the male leads, mostly on Rybak's end. To be fair, most of it is in the context of Rybak trying to keep Sotnikov from freezing or bleeding to death with what little means he has.
* SignatureScene: Sotnikov's suicide attempt in the snow near the beginning of the film. It's on the cover for the Creator/CriterionCollection version of the film, and is one of the first things that comes up if you Google the film.
* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/ComeAndSee'', another Soviet war film focusing on Belarusian partisans. While ''Come and See'' is a brutal, uncompromising portrayal of the absolute worst crimes of the Nazi occupation shown through the eyes of a ChildSoldier, ''The Ascent'' is a slower, subtler, more spiritual film showing the personal ordeal of two older enlisted men. Elem Klimov, the director of ''Come and See'', was in fact married to Larisa Shepitko at the time this film was made, and doubtlessly drew great inspiration from it.
* TearJerker: The execution of Sotnikov, Demchikha, Basya, and the headman at the end.
!! [[VideoGame/TheAscent The Video Game]]
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* ThatOneBoss: The Megarachnid is a major DifficultySpike. After mostly organic enemies, it's a robot, meaning you'll probably have to switch up to a different weapon type if you want to do decent damage against it. It's constantly deploying little spider robots against you and its primary attack is a flamethrower with a surprising amount of range. Oh, and if you decide to head back to the Warrens to grind up money and experience for better weapons and stats? The Megarachnid is ''deep'' in the bowels of [=deepStink=]; you can take the taxi out, but getting back to the boss fight is a dull slog that can take ''ten minutes'', fighting off waves of ferals.
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* ThatOneBoss: The Megarachnid is a major DifficultySpike. After mostly organic enemies, it's a robot, meaning you'll probably have to switch up to a different weapon type if you want to do decent damage against it. It's constantly deploying little spider robots against you and its primary attack is a flamethrower with a surprising amount of range. Oh, and if you decide to head back to the Warrens to grind up money and experience for better weapons and stats? The Megarachnid is ''deep'' in the bowels of [=deepStink=]; you can take the taxi out, but getting back to the boss fight is a dull slog that can take ''ten minutes'', fighting off waves of ferals.ferals.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Stackmaster Poone is generally a far more interesting character and questgiver than Kira, since he's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who is genuinely trying to find a way for everyone to survive and to eventually secure their independence. Once Kira takes over he more or less vanishes from the plot; and most of the quests following that amount to "do this because yCorp tells you to, in order to secure yCorp's profits." As nogHead points out, even the endgame revelation doesn't actually change this.
* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Stackmaster Poone is generally a far more interesting character and questgiver than Kira, since he's a JerkWithAHeartOfGold who is genuinely trying to find a way for everyone to survive and to eventually secure their independence. Once Kira takes over he more or less vanishes from the plot; and most of the quests following that amount to "do this because yCorp tells you to, in order to secure yCorp's profits." As nogHead points out, even the endgame revelation doesn't actually change this.
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* EsotericHappyEnding: While you save your own life and manage to earn your freedom, most of the rest of what you do merely serves (as nogHead points out) to protect the profits of a corporation. The catastrophe you avert at the end would have been localized, since the experiment has been tried and failed repeatedly before, so ultimately all you did was save some money, resources, and equipment for yCorp and the remnants of the Ascent Group.
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* GameBreaker: The Life Transfer augmentation marks every enemy in a given area and heals you whenever you damage a marked enemy. Combine that with a fast-hitting weapon like a minigun and you can heal yourself faster than enemies can damage you.
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** The Life Transfer augmentation marks every enemy in a given area and heals you whenever you damage a marked enemy. Combine that with a fast-hitting weapon like a minigun and you can heal yourself faster than enemies can damageyou.you.
** The spider drones you get after beating the Megarachnid have a cooldown that lasts precisely as long as they stick around, plus an energy cost of precisely the amount you'll regenerate in that time. This means you can keep them deployed all the time and, with high enough Cybernetics, they will swarm and obliterate or severely weaken many enemies without you having to do anything at all.
** The Pocket Mech (after a patch significantly buffed it) makes you nearly invulnerable while you're inside it, reducing all damage you take to ScratchDamage while giving you an extremely powerful weapon. What's more, said weapon fires so rapidly that with sufficient Tactical Sense it will fully recover your tactical charge, allowing you to keep it deployed constantly in combat.
** The Life Transfer augmentation marks every enemy in a given area and heals you whenever you damage a marked enemy. Combine that with a fast-hitting weapon like a minigun and you can heal yourself faster than enemies can damage
** The spider drones you get after beating the Megarachnid have a cooldown that lasts precisely as long as they stick around, plus an energy cost of precisely the amount you'll regenerate in that time. This means you can keep them deployed all the time and, with high enough Cybernetics, they will swarm and obliterate or severely weaken many enemies without you having to do anything at all.
** The Pocket Mech (after a patch significantly buffed it) makes you nearly invulnerable while you're inside it, reducing all damage you take to ScratchDamage while giving you an extremely powerful weapon. What's more, said weapon fires so rapidly that with sufficient Tactical Sense it will fully recover your tactical charge, allowing you to keep it deployed constantly in combat.
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* TearJerker: The execution of Sotnikov, Demchikha, Basya, and the headman at the end.
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* TearJerker: The execution of Sotnikov, Demchikha, Basya, and the headman at the end.end.
!! [[VideoGame/TheAscent The Video Game]]
* GameBreaker: The Life Transfer augmentation marks every enemy in a given area and heals you whenever you damage a marked enemy. Combine that with a fast-hitting weapon like a minigun and you can heal yourself faster than enemies can damage you.
* ThatOneBoss: The Megarachnid is a major DifficultySpike. After mostly organic enemies, it's a robot, meaning you'll probably have to switch up to a different weapon type if you want to do decent damage against it. It's constantly deploying little spider robots against you and its primary attack is a flamethrower with a surprising amount of range. Oh, and if you decide to head back to the Warrens to grind up money and experience for better weapons and stats? The Megarachnid is ''deep'' in the bowels of [=deepStink=]; you can take the taxi out, but getting back to the boss fight is a dull slog that can take ''ten minutes'', fighting off waves of ferals.
!! [[VideoGame/TheAscent The Video Game]]
* GameBreaker: The Life Transfer augmentation marks every enemy in a given area and heals you whenever you damage a marked enemy. Combine that with a fast-hitting weapon like a minigun and you can heal yourself faster than enemies can damage you.
* ThatOneBoss: The Megarachnid is a major DifficultySpike. After mostly organic enemies, it's a robot, meaning you'll probably have to switch up to a different weapon type if you want to do decent damage against it. It's constantly deploying little spider robots against you and its primary attack is a flamethrower with a surprising amount of range. Oh, and if you decide to head back to the Warrens to grind up money and experience for better weapons and stats? The Megarachnid is ''deep'' in the bowels of [=deepStink=]; you can take the taxi out, but getting back to the boss fight is a dull slog that can take ''ten minutes'', fighting off waves of ferals.
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* HoYay: There's quite a bit of physical affection between the male leads, mostly on Rybak's end. To be fair, most of it is in the context of Rybak trying to keep Sotnikov from freezing or bleeding to death with what little means he has.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Much more well known than the novella it's based on, especially in the West.
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* TearJerker: The execution of Sotnikov, Demichika, Basya, and the headman at the end.
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* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Film/ComeAndSee'', another Soviet war film focusing on Belarusian partisans. While ''Come and See'' is a brutal, uncompromising portrayal of the absolute worst crimes of the Nazi occupation shown through the eyes of a ChildSoldier, ''The Ascent'' is a slower, subtler, more spiritual film showing the personal ordeal of two older enlisted men. Elem Klimov, the director of ''Come and See'', was in fact married to Larisa Shepitko at the time this film was made, and doubtlessly drew great inspiration from it.
* TearJerker: The execution of Sotnikov,Demichika, Demchikha, Basya, and the headman at the end.
* TearJerker: The execution of Sotnikov,
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* AwesomeMoments: Sotnikov gets a few due to his sheer, unbending defiance in the face of the Nazis.
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* AwesomeMoments: Sotnikov gets a few due to his sheer, unbending defiance in the face of the Nazis.
** The [[GrandInquisitorScene interrogation scene]]. Sotnikov refuses to sell out his comrades, contemptuously rejects Portnov's attempt at a BreakingSpeech, and calls Portnov "human scum" to his face. Portnov has a TortureTechnician come in and brand him, and even though he passes out from the pain he doesn't crack, and as soon as he wakes up he fixes Portnov with such a brutal DeathGlare that Portnov can't look him in the eye and orders him to be taken away.
** Later, Sotnikov makes one last ditch attempt to save the lives of the other prisoners by [[TakeMeInstead offering himself up to be executed]] while absolving them. Portnov is unmoved by his plea, but Sotnikov does get the chance to tell him "[[DyingDeclarationOfHate I wish I killed more of you bastards]]" before he's hauled off to the gallows.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack is understated but beautiful. Special mention goes to the mournful song that plays as Rybak and Sotnikov are first hauled into the POW camp.
* SignatureScene: Sotnikov's suicide attempt in the snow near the beginning of the film. It's on the cover for the Creator/CriterionCollection version of the film, and is one of the first things that comes up if you Google the film.
* TearJerker: The execution of Sotnikov, Demichika, Basya, and the headman at the end.
** The [[GrandInquisitorScene interrogation scene]]. Sotnikov refuses to sell out his comrades, contemptuously rejects Portnov's attempt at a BreakingSpeech, and calls Portnov "human scum" to his face. Portnov has a TortureTechnician come in and brand him, and even though he passes out from the pain he doesn't crack, and as soon as he wakes up he fixes Portnov with such a brutal DeathGlare that Portnov can't look him in the eye and orders him to be taken away.
** Later, Sotnikov makes one last ditch attempt to save the lives of the other prisoners by [[TakeMeInstead offering himself up to be executed]] while absolving them. Portnov is unmoved by his plea, but Sotnikov does get the chance to tell him "[[DyingDeclarationOfHate I wish I killed more of you bastards]]" before he's hauled off to the gallows.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack is understated but beautiful. Special mention goes to the mournful song that plays as Rybak and Sotnikov are first hauled into the POW camp.
* SignatureScene: Sotnikov's suicide attempt in the snow near the beginning of the film. It's on the cover for the Creator/CriterionCollection version of the film, and is one of the first things that comes up if you Google the film.
* TearJerker: The execution of Sotnikov, Demichika, Basya, and the headman at the end.
