History VideoGame / DarkDevotion

%%* ActionGirl: The protagonist.
* AlliterativeTitle

* AnIcePerson: Aureus fires magical arrows which leave patches of ice on the floor.

* ATasteOfPower: You start the game with a strong sword, good armor and a good shield. Needless to say, that doesn't last.

* HumanArchitectureHorror: The Virgin is an entirely normal woman in white rags, who is attached to the stone statue through MeatMoss that partially envelops it. She is completely unresponsive at first, and you have to hit her dozens of times in order for the battle to start properly. Once it does, two clawed arms emerge from the statue and finally start fighting back, with two fleshy tentacle legs also appearing halfway through.
** Once the battle is over, the MeatMoss bursts entirely, and she drops down, kneeling, unresponsive, but apparently still alive. Striking her again kills her for good and nets a Rose Targe shield.

* IaijutsuPractitioner: Elemiah the Crow Lady has an attack where she sheathes her katana before drawing it in a quick, lunging slash.
* InfinityMinusOneSword[=/=]DiskOneNuke: Adonias' Glinting Gladius is an early weapon whose stats are so well-balanced that many players keep using it for the majority of the game.

* StoryBreadcrumbs: Most of the storytelling is contained in the lore entries, and the few vague conversations.

* UnnecessaryCombatRoll: The main way to dodge attacks, as you become temporarily invincible midway through.

* BladeOnAStick:
** The aforementioned Executioner also wields a glaive in the other hand. Elinor fights with a golden spear.
** There are also halberds, which are available for the player, and are also frequently used by the enemies.

* WhipItGood: Whips are one of the available weapon types.

* AbsurdlySpaciousSewer: One of the levels is set there. It's also where you fight Martyr The Shredded.
* ActionGirl: The protagonist.

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The protagonist is heavily implied to go through this in the true ending.]]

* {{Backtracking}}: Averted. Every doorway is locked forever once you pass through it. Sometimes, you have a choice of several doorways to go through, and cannot discover what's behind the other doors unless you restart the game.

* {{BFS}}: The aptly named Asriel's Massive Sword. He is a large boss, so it fits him. When the protagonist can use it, though, it really looks like something out of ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''.

* BoomerangComeback: The robed cultists in The Ritualist's area can throw their sickles in this manner.

* BottomlessPits: Present, and are one of the rare ways to get an OneHitKill.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Faith is used for casting spells in place of mana. You can also expend faith at the statues in order to gain blessings, remove curses, or even open up some areas.
** There's also a flip side, as consistently failing to pray at the statues soon incurs powerful debuffs.

''Dark Devotion'' is a 2D side-view HackAndSlash game, developed by the French studio Hibernian Workshop, where you take on the role of a female Templar initiative, who is sent to purge the ancient fortress of the order which is connected to many of their darkest secrets, and has long been overrun by the forces of darkness. It was [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1997592363/dark-devotion-a-gloomy-indie-roguelike-rpg/description funded]] on Website/{{Kickstarter}} on October 16th, 2017, and released on [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] on April 25th, 2019, through UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and Website/GogDotCom.

* ALoadOfBull: The second form of [[spoiler: Nekosh, Keeper of Books]] is an ash-grey minotaur with two scythes.

* DuelBoss: The battle with The First One, who is a fellow Templar, and has a pretty similar moveset. His first stage is almost a case of a MirrorBoss, though it diverges in the second stage, when he loses the shield and sets his sword on fire instead.
** Elemiah, The Crow Lady plays this straighter, as she even begins the battle with an "En garde!" gesture, and regularly parries your attacks.

** The ghostly doppelganger of Sardorias, Prisoner of the Void, can do this.
* ShoutOut: The Ritualist drops a copy of the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Book of Eibon]] when you kill him.

* LifeDrain: Jezelel The Erratic heals and gains energy to cast some of her spells through draining the corpses that hang from the ceiling.

* TeleportSpam: The Executioner begins to teleport in his second phase. Jezelel The Erratic can do this from the start.

* PlayingWithFire: Nekosh, Keeper of Books sets the book he's reading on fire at the start of his battle, in order to create a ring of fireballs around himself. When he launches one at you, it's not hard to dodge, but will also send two flaming waves to the left and right after it hits the ground, which can only be avoided by rolling through them in time. However, this is only the warm-up exercise, as the main battle has him float and fight with a scythe, only occasionally making the flames emerge from the ground at your last position.

* PowerFloats: The Mysterious Entity floats above the ground, though her gauze tunic still reaches all the way to the floor. [[spoiler:Her second phase loses this power, however, and is reduced to crawling on the floor.]]