History Main / SignatureStyle

* Creator/DreamWorksAnimation is known for their {{All Star Cast}}s and liberal use of topical pop culture references. They have since toned these tendencies down, starting around the time of the first ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' film.

* It seems customary for most Creator/BioWare games to have a heroic sociopath [[TokenEvilTeammate on the protagonist's team]]. Teenage girls who have a tendency to be thieves/technical experts. (Imoen, Mission, Tali, Wild Flower, Sigrun, etc). These apply even when Bioware adapt [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog other franchises]], as is the case with ''VideoGame/SonicChronicles: The Dark Brotherhood.'' Heroic sociopath? Shadow, for starters, and also two other playable characters, [[spoiler:Eggman, who is at points ''mandatory,'' and secret character Omega]]. Thieving, technical expert teenager? Rouge the Bat. These characters are like this in Sega's offerings, too, but that their roles are either unusually flattering (Shadow, [[spoiler:Eggman]]), or unusually prominent (Rouge, [[spoiler:Omega]]) in ''Chronicles''.

* Creator/FromSoftware has many signature elements of their works. Their games utilize a relatively slow combat system that encourages learning attack tells, dodging accordingly, and finding vulnerable moments between those dodges. Combat is limited by stamina that drains with every action, so increasing it is a priority. Enemies hit hard, even the weaker enemies late in the game, and so the games push the player towards dodging rather than tanking hits. Money and experience are one unit. Their storytelling relies on background text rather than dialogue and cutscenes, and this text utilizes deliberate ambiguities and contradictions so that it's up to player interpretation. Notably, [=FromSoftware=]'s style has proven influential enough that [[FromClonesToGenre full or partial copycats]] have grown into a [[SoulsLikeRPG genre]] in their own right.

** At least seven stages.

** A pixel-based art style [[{{Retraux}} that looks like something out of the late 80s or early 90s]], specifically Platofrm/TurboGrafx16 / PC Engine games.