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* MoodWhiplash: This otherwise dark game ends with the jarringly-peppy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW19g4Zq6is ending theme]], which wouldn't be out of place in the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series. The arcade version even ends with the game being [[AllJustADream revealed to be one big movie production]].
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* MoodWhiplash: This otherwise dark game ends with the a jarringly-peppy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW19g4Zq6is ending theme]], which wouldn't be out of place in the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series. The arcade version even ends with the game being [[AllJustADream revealed to be one big movie production]].
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* MoodWhiplash: This otherwise dark game ends with the jarringly-peppy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW19g4Zq6is ending theme]], which wouldn't be out of place in the ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' series. The arcade version even ends with the game being [[AllJustADream revealed to be one big movie production]].
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The jarringly-peppy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW19g4Zq6is ending theme]], which wouldn't be out of place in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo''.
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* SoundtrackDissonance: The jarringly-peppy [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW19g4Zq6is ending theme]], which wouldn't be out of place in ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo''.
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* CurbStompBattle: How any boss fight will go. Equip the right beast and you will curbstomp the boss, any of the wrong beasts and the reverse happens.
** Although the Weretiger, Werebear, and U.W.H. can wipe the floor with virtually anybody.
** Although the Weretiger, Werebear, and U.W.H. can wipe the floor with virtually anybody.
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* FurryFandom: Naturally.
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* DoingInTheWizard: Cybernetics and genetics instead of godly magic.
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* ShirtlessScene: In the Genesis version, the first Spirit Orb removes your shirt.
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* NintendoHard: The arcade version and its ports.
* ''Especially'' the ports. Three lives, no healing items, no extra lives, no MercyInvincibility, no continues.
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*ports. ''Especially'' the ports. Three ports, which give only three lives, no healing items, no extra lives, no MercyInvincibility, and no continues.
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* AllJustADream: The ending of the arcade reveals that the entire game was, apparently, one really bizarre movie.
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* AllJustADream: The ending of the arcade reveals that the entire game was, apparently, one really bizarre movie. [[WildMassGuessing Or alternatively, the entire game is real and became legend that it was adapted into a movie.]]
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* CycleOfHurting: No MercyInvincibility means this will happen ''a lot'' if you aren't careful. Especially with the Chicken Stingers in the second stage who will trip you up and then just destroy you while you're on the ground.
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* ''Especially'' the ports. Three lives, no healing items, no extra lives, no MercyInvincibility, no continues.
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Luke appears shirtless throughout the entire game. Justified since it tore after transforming the first time. The developers conveniently left his pair of pants unscathed, [[FridgeLogic even though it should have ripped as well.]]
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Luke appears shirtless throughout the entire game. Justified since it tore after transforming the first time. The developers conveniently left his pair of pants unscathed, [[FridgeLogic even though it should have ripped as well.]]
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* BalefulPolymorph: Brad [[spoiler: but Anastasia even more so.]]
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Luke appears shirtless throughout the entire game. Justified since it tore after transforming the first time. The developers conveniently left his pair of pants unscathed, [[FridgeLogic: [[FridgeLogic even though it should have ripped as well.]]
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** The Wendigo's grab-and-throw ability sounds fun but is aggravating to pull off correctly.
* BalefulPolymorph: Brad [[spoiler: but Anastasia even more so.]]
* BalefulPolymorph: Brad [[spoiler: but Anastasia even more so.]]
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* WalkingShirtlessScene: Luke appears shirtless throughout the entire game. Justified since it tore after transforming the first time. The developers conveniently left his pair of pants unscathed, [[FridgeLogic: even though it should have ripped as well.]]
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* BearsAreBadNews: Level 3's beast.
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Interestingly enough, the first game of this series is considered by many as a cult-classic game and [[SoOkayItsAverage an average game]] at the same time. The reason is because the SegaGenesis port was the first '''perfect''' port from an arcade game, being extremely similar to the arcade version in gameplay, sounds and even graphics[[hottip:*:although graphics[[labelnote:*]]although hardware limitations prevented the inclusion of the rather impressive (for the time) scaling effects sequences seen on the arcade original]].original[[/labelnote]]. [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny This doesn't sound awesome nowadays]] (we even have a trope called PortingDistillation), but don't forget we are talking about the late 80's, ports were either [[PortingDisaster terrible]], [[InNameOnly different]] or simpler games.
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* AncientGrome: The manual says the protagonists are Roman centurions, yet the setting is clearly Greek and so are the gods' names.
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-- What ''"Rise from your grave"'' sounds like. [[labelnote:*]][[TechnologyMarchesOne Have in mind this sounded AWESOME when it was released![[/labelnote]]]]
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-- What ''"Rise from your grave"'' sounds like. [[labelnote:*]][[TechnologyMarchesOne [[labelnote:*]][[TechnologyMarchesOn Have in mind this sounded AWESOME when it was released![[/labelnote]]]]
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->''[[MemeticMutation ''WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE!'']]''\\
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released![[/labelnote]]]]
-- What ''"Rise from your grave"'' sounds like.
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: After you defeat Neff at the end of each stage (except the last), he steals all your powerups and escapes.
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-- What ''"Rise from your grave"'' sounds like. [[hottip: *:[[SeinfeldIsUnfunny Have in mind this sounded AWESOME when it was released!]]]].
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* InNameOnly: The only relation with the original is the fact that the protagonist becomes beasts, one of which is a werewolf [[MythologyGag (with the weretiger and werebear as unlockables)]]. It is in a modern setting, with the transformations being caused by genetic experiments.
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->''[[MemeticMutation ''WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE!'']]''\\
-- What ''"Rise from your grave"'' sounds like. [[hottip: *:[[SeinfeldIsUnfunny Have in mind this sounded AWESOME when it was released!]]]].
A BeatEmUp by Sega, appearing at the arcades in the late 1980's, and later ported to home consoles like the SegaMasterSystem and SegaGenesis. Two pseudo-sequels were made, one for the GameBoyAdvance titled ''Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms'', and a {{PlayStation 2}} sequel titled ''Project Altered Beast'' (which was released in Japan and Europe, [[NoExportForYou but not in America]]). The main gimmick is that your character can turn into various humanoid monsters, like werewolves and dragons.
Interestingly enough, the first game of this series is considered by many as a cult-classic game and [[SoOkayItsAverage an average game]] at the same time. The reason is because the SegaGenesis port was the first '''perfect''' port from an arcade game, being extremely similar to the arcade version in gameplay, sounds and even graphics[[hottip:*:although hardware limitations prevented the inclusion of the rather impressive (for the time) scaling effects sequences seen on the arcade original]]. [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny This doesn't sound awesome nowadays]] (we even have a trope called PortingDistillation), but don't forget we are talking about the late 80's, ports were either [[PortingDisaster terrible]], [[InNameOnly different]] or simpler games.
Story-wise, the original game has [[GreekMythology Zeus]]' daughter Athena being kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Neff and two centurions being [[FirstEpisodeResurrection resurrected]] to rescue her.
In ''Project Altered Beast'' the story follows a man called Luke Custer who is a [[SuperSoldier "Genome-Cyborg"]], [[BioAugmentation a human whose DNA and other genetic make-up has been artificially altered]] allowing [[LEGOGenetics micro-chips containing the genetic make-up of other creatures]] to [[ShapeShifting transform]] him into an [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent anthropomorphic beast]]. After surviving a [[HellishCopter helicopter crash]], Luke [[AmnesiacDissonance loses his memory]] and sets off to learn about the truth behind his past and the Genome-Cyborgs.
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!!Altered Beast uses the following tropes:
* AdaptationExpansion: The NES version adds a werelion, wereshark, and werebird, and the GBA game adds power-ups and beasts.
* {{Animorphism}}
* AllJustADream: The ending of the arcade reveals that the entire game was, apparently, one really bizarre movie.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The manual even says the protagonists are Roman centurions. And yet the setting is Greek, and so are the gods' names. (then again, Rome invaded Greece and stole their pantheon...)
* BaldOfEvil: Neff.
* ClassicCheatCode: Allows for reaching other levels, changing health/lives and order the beasts appear.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Probably unintentional([[{{Narm}} ly hilarious]]) in the SegaGenesis port.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Level 3's beast.
* EvilLaugh: The main villain goes "Ho ho ho ho" when stealing your spirit orbs.
* FacelessEye: Level 2 boss.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Level 4 has statues of anthropomorphic rhinos. Guess which form the final boss takes?
* FurryFandom: Naturally.
* GiantFlyer: The pterodactyl-like enemy.
* GrowingMusclesSequence: the effect of the first two powerups.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The final boss, the half-goat and half-horse enemies.
** Don't forget most of the beasts.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Level 2 beast, Level 3/4 bosses, a Chinese dragon-like enemy in Level 2.
* MagicPants: Character grows. Pants still on.
** Though [[ClothingDamage the shirt still gets shredded with each expansion]].
* NintendoHard: The arcade version and its ports.
* OneWingedAngel: All the bosses.
* OurMonstersAreDifferent: All the transformations of Neff. Including a weird flesh monster who throws his head at you, a eye-composed thing, a literal dragon-snail (too much snail) and a crocodile-jewel thing. His last form is a Rhino-man.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Level 1 and 5 beast.
* PantheraAwesome: The Level 4 beast, a weretiger.
* PersonalSpaceInvader: The enemy that goes on your head and stays there until you punch it out.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner:
--> '''Neff:''' [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM!]]
* [[RiseFromYourGrave Wise Fwom Youw Gwabe]]: Possible TropeNamer.
* SaveThePrincess
* ShapeshifterBaggage
* ShockAndAwe: Weredragon's powers.
* ShoutOut: The two-headed wolves are likely a reference to ''ClashOfTheTitans''.
* StupidStatementDanceMix: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_yx72yFpTo WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM, WELCOME TO YOUR-WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM!]]"
* TakenForGranite: Werebear's power.
* TempleOfDoom: Level 4.
* TookALevelInBadass: Werewolf returns more powerful in the final level.
** PaletteSwap: The Golden Werewolf's actual powers are no stronger than the normal Werewolf's. He just [[MadeOfShiny looks shinier]].
* TransformationSequence: The player character, after getting three "POWER-UP!" [[TransformationTrinket spirit balls]] (the Werewolf morph is [[http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/altered-beast/3.gif pretty detailed]]), and the villain when seeing you're transformed.
** Interestingly, the other transformation sequences were not nearly as detailed - they usually consisted of flickering back and forth from an image of the two forms rapidly.
** Instant in the C64 version.
* TurnsRed: The bosses.
* UndergroundLevel: Levels 2 and 3.
** Technically, levels 4 and 5 are also underground. The centurions are traveling to the ''underworld'', after all.
* UpgradeArtifact: The orbs that pop out of the blue wolves when you kill them.
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!The PS2 game ''(Project) Altered Beast'' has examples of these tropes:
* AllYourPowersCombined: This is Luke's specialty. He can equip different types of Genome Chips and transform into the beast most suited to deal with the current situation.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The [[HumanoidAlien U.W.H. (Unidentified Weightless Human)]] twenty-hit combo. On the plus side, it can [[OneHitKill kill any enemy]] except bosses. On the negative side, it requires [[SomeDexterityRequired memorizing a twenty button sequence, good timing]] and it only targets one enemy at time; in a game where monsters love to swarm you. Nonetheless, it's still necessary to defeat one of the [[MetalSlime rare enemies]].
* BatOutOfHell: The Balrog.
* BodyHorror: The transformation cutscenes. They're all quite detailed and [[PainfulTransformation painful looking]].
* BraggingRightsReward: The Weretiger form. Unlocked after obtainning every single Enemy, Beast, Boss and Unique data...which leaves nothing else to do.
* CannibalismSuperpower: [[spoiler: Anastasia]].
* DarkerAndEdgier
* GiantSpider: Xenesthis.
* InNameOnly: The only relation with the original is the fact that the protagonist becomes beasts, one of which is a werewolf [[MythologyGag (with the weretiger and werebear as unlockables)]]. It is in a modern setting, with the transformations being caused by genetic experiments.
* MonsterCompendium: Aside from the FlavorText, it also includes a small detail of the elemental tolerances and the option of looking at the monster's 3D model from different angles.
* MysteriousWaif: Anastasia.
* ParentalFavoritism: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Eric Jobs]] quickly forgets about his previous subjects once he starts working on a new one. This gets to the point it becomes the cause of [[spoiler: [[BigBad Anastasia]]'s Start of Darkness]].
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: The Leviathan.
* ShapeshifterShowdown: There are 3 of these', first is a flashback sequence showing a fight between [[spoiler:Luke and Brad]] shown upon getting the Minotaur form, the second is an actual playable fight against [[spoiler:Brad]] and the third is against [[spoiler:Anastasia]]
* SuperSoldier: the "Genome Cyborgs".
* TheVirus: the "Genome Mist".
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->''[[MemeticMutation ''WISE FWOM YOUR GWAVE!'']]''\\
-- What ''"Rise from your grave"'' sounds like. [[hottip: *:[[SeinfeldIsUnfunny Have in mind this sounded AWESOME when it was released!]]]].
A BeatEmUp by Sega, appearing at the arcades in the late 1980's, and later ported to home consoles like the SegaMasterSystem and SegaGenesis. Two pseudo-sequels were made, one for the GameBoyAdvance titled ''Altered Beast: Guardian of the Realms'', and a {{PlayStation 2}} sequel titled ''Project Altered Beast'' (which was released in Japan and Europe, [[NoExportForYou but not in America]]). The main gimmick is that your character can turn into various humanoid monsters, like werewolves and dragons.
Interestingly enough, the first game of this series is considered by many as a cult-classic game and [[SoOkayItsAverage an average game]] at the same time. The reason is because the SegaGenesis port was the first '''perfect''' port from an arcade game, being extremely similar to the arcade version in gameplay, sounds and even graphics[[hottip:*:although hardware limitations prevented the inclusion of the rather impressive (for the time) scaling effects sequences seen on the arcade original]]. [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny This doesn't sound awesome nowadays]] (we even have a trope called PortingDistillation), but don't forget we are talking about the late 80's, ports were either [[PortingDisaster terrible]], [[InNameOnly different]] or simpler games.
Story-wise, the original game has [[GreekMythology Zeus]]' daughter Athena being kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Neff and two centurions being [[FirstEpisodeResurrection resurrected]] to rescue her.
In ''Project Altered Beast'' the story follows a man called Luke Custer who is a [[SuperSoldier "Genome-Cyborg"]], [[BioAugmentation a human whose DNA and other genetic make-up has been artificially altered]] allowing [[LEGOGenetics micro-chips containing the genetic make-up of other creatures]] to [[ShapeShifting transform]] him into an [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent anthropomorphic beast]]. After surviving a [[HellishCopter helicopter crash]], Luke [[AmnesiacDissonance loses his memory]] and sets off to learn about the truth behind his past and the Genome-Cyborgs.
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!!Altered Beast uses the following tropes:
* AdaptationExpansion: The NES version adds a werelion, wereshark, and werebird, and the GBA game adds power-ups and beasts.
* {{Animorphism}}
* AllJustADream: The ending of the arcade reveals that the entire game was, apparently, one really bizarre movie.
* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The manual even says the protagonists are Roman centurions. And yet the setting is Greek, and so are the gods' names. (then again, Rome invaded Greece and stole their pantheon...)
* BaldOfEvil: Neff.
* ClassicCheatCode: Allows for reaching other levels, changing health/lives and order the beasts appear.
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Probably unintentional([[{{Narm}} ly hilarious]]) in the SegaGenesis port.
* EverythingsWorseWithBears: Level 3's beast.
* EvilLaugh: The main villain goes "Ho ho ho ho" when stealing your spirit orbs.
* FacelessEye: Level 2 boss.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Level 4 has statues of anthropomorphic rhinos. Guess which form the final boss takes?
* FurryFandom: Naturally.
* GiantFlyer: The pterodactyl-like enemy.
* GrowingMusclesSequence: the effect of the first two powerups.
* HalfHumanHybrid: The final boss, the half-goat and half-horse enemies.
** Don't forget most of the beasts.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Level 2 beast, Level 3/4 bosses, a Chinese dragon-like enemy in Level 2.
* MagicPants: Character grows. Pants still on.
** Though [[ClothingDamage the shirt still gets shredded with each expansion]].
* NintendoHard: The arcade version and its ports.
* OneWingedAngel: All the bosses.
* OurMonstersAreDifferent: All the transformations of Neff. Including a weird flesh monster who throws his head at you, a eye-composed thing, a literal dragon-snail (too much snail) and a crocodile-jewel thing. His last form is a Rhino-man.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Level 1 and 5 beast.
* PantheraAwesome: The Level 4 beast, a weretiger.
* PersonalSpaceInvader: The enemy that goes on your head and stays there until you punch it out.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner:
--> '''Neff:''' [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM!]]
* [[RiseFromYourGrave Wise Fwom Youw Gwabe]]: Possible TropeNamer.
* SaveThePrincess
* ShapeshifterBaggage
* ShockAndAwe: Weredragon's powers.
* ShoutOut: The two-headed wolves are likely a reference to ''ClashOfTheTitans''.
* StupidStatementDanceMix: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_yx72yFpTo WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM, WELCOME TO YOUR-WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM!]]"
* TakenForGranite: Werebear's power.
* TempleOfDoom: Level 4.
* TookALevelInBadass: Werewolf returns more powerful in the final level.
** PaletteSwap: The Golden Werewolf's actual powers are no stronger than the normal Werewolf's. He just [[MadeOfShiny looks shinier]].
* TransformationSequence: The player character, after getting three "POWER-UP!" [[TransformationTrinket spirit balls]] (the Werewolf morph is [[http://www.i-mockery.com/shorts/altered-beast/3.gif pretty detailed]]), and the villain when seeing you're transformed.
** Interestingly, the other transformation sequences were not nearly as detailed - they usually consisted of flickering back and forth from an image of the two forms rapidly.
** Instant in the C64 version.
* TurnsRed: The bosses.
* UndergroundLevel: Levels 2 and 3.
** Technically, levels 4 and 5 are also underground. The centurions are traveling to the ''underworld'', after all.
* UpgradeArtifact: The orbs that pop out of the blue wolves when you kill them.
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!The PS2 game ''(Project) Altered Beast'' has examples of these tropes:
* AllYourPowersCombined: This is Luke's specialty. He can equip different types of Genome Chips and transform into the beast most suited to deal with the current situation.
* AwesomeButImpractical: The [[HumanoidAlien U.W.H. (Unidentified Weightless Human)]] twenty-hit combo. On the plus side, it can [[OneHitKill kill any enemy]] except bosses. On the negative side, it requires [[SomeDexterityRequired memorizing a twenty button sequence, good timing]] and it only targets one enemy at time; in a game where monsters love to swarm you. Nonetheless, it's still necessary to defeat one of the [[MetalSlime rare enemies]].
* BatOutOfHell: The Balrog.
* BodyHorror: The transformation cutscenes. They're all quite detailed and [[PainfulTransformation painful looking]].
* BraggingRightsReward: The Weretiger form. Unlocked after obtainning every single Enemy, Beast, Boss and Unique data...which leaves nothing else to do.
* CannibalismSuperpower: [[spoiler: Anastasia]].
* DarkerAndEdgier
* GiantSpider: Xenesthis.
* InNameOnly: The only relation with the original is the fact that the protagonist becomes beasts, one of which is a werewolf [[MythologyGag (with the weretiger and werebear as unlockables)]]. It is in a modern setting, with the transformations being caused by genetic experiments.
* MonsterCompendium: Aside from the FlavorText, it also includes a small detail of the elemental tolerances and the option of looking at the monster's 3D model from different angles.
* MysteriousWaif: Anastasia.
* ParentalFavoritism: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Eric Jobs]] quickly forgets about his previous subjects once he starts working on a new one. This gets to the point it becomes the cause of [[spoiler: [[BigBad Anastasia]]'s Start of Darkness]].
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: The Leviathan.
* ShapeshifterShowdown: There are 3 of these', first is a flashback sequence showing a fight between [[spoiler:Luke and Brad]] shown upon getting the Minotaur form, the second is an actual playable fight against [[spoiler:Brad]] and the third is against [[spoiler:Anastasia]]
* SuperSoldier: the "Genome Cyborgs".
* TheVirus: the "Genome Mist".
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