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Raid: Shadow Legends is a turn-based RPG gacha mobile game by Plarium Games.
The game is set in the realm of Teleria, a land that is under attack by the Dark Lord, Siroth. It's up to you and your team of champions to make things right.
The game gained notoriety for its aggressive marketing strategy in the middle of the 2010s because it sponsored numerous well-known YouTubers and streamers at the time.
Tropes:
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The second stage of the main campaign takes place in the massive underground sewers of the war-torn city of Arnoc. It's spacious, flowing with a nasty green sludge and is home to a large horde of unfriendly lizardmen that want to make the party lunch.
- Back from the Dead: After the initial raiding party is turned into smoldering charcoal by the sudden appearance of a powerful dragon The Arbiter allows the player to revive a single one as their starting Champion to begin their adventure.
- Breath Weapon: The dragon kills three of the champions in the intro by spewing fire at them.
- Classical Movie Vampire: The awkwardly-named Seducer, in a black suit and red cape with pallid complexion and long hair, basically a modernized take on this trope if it was designed by Rob Liefeld.
- Curbstomp Battle: The boss fight with the dragon in the game's intro is quickly cut short after the dragon eats Elhain and wipes the floor with the other three champions.
- Dragon Hoard: The intro tutorial features a dragon boss whose lair is filled with gold and treasure.
- Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors: Magic is stronger than Spirit which is stronger than Force which is stronger than Magic. The fourth element, Void, is resistant to the other three affinities.
- Friendly Skeleton: The commercials features Death Knight as a nice guy talking to the audience espousing how awesome it is to use Death Knight (an undead mook) and a following commercial has him despondent at how much of a loser he is and not a champion, before he goes to sleep and is remade into Ultimate Death Knight. In the actual video game, Death Knight was an evil monster before he grew into what was portrayed in the commercial
. - Furry Confusion: The lizardmen are the only race with quadruped units that are clearly also reptiles.note Best not to think too much into it.
- Lizard Folk: There's an entire subgroup of Champions that fit in this category. Hostile humanoid lizard monsters also appear early on in the main campaign as enemies.
- Running Gag: Deathknight is the Butt-Monkey of the series, and his appearances in ads would invariably have him be humiliated in some manner or another. This ended in 2022 when Ultimate Deathknight was introduced, finally giving him a chance to shine.
- Swallowed Whole: The dragon throws Elhain in the air and eats her whole.
- Total Party Kill: The game opens with a pretty typical adventuring party mowing down a bunch of mooks and showing off their various special abilities as they make their way through a dungeon. Then a dragon appears, promptly eats one of them as a snack and torches the rest. From there players select a single Champion to revive and serve them for the rest of the game as their starting character.
- Wight in a Wedding Dress: Rotos the Lost Groom and Siphi the Lost Bride are members of the Undead Hordes. They and their guests were murdered on the day of the couple's wedding on orders of a money-lender who sought revenge against Rotos for skipping on his debts for over a decade. Because Rotos had spent that time as a pirate, he wasn't missed and not much was done by law enforcement to catch the murderers. The locals, however, did bury them, only to find that two roses left on the couple's graves turned an eerie shade of blue. The couple's murderers are the first to find out that it's a blue that represents the couple's ghostly hide, but none of them lives to tell.
