History VideoGame / Darkspore

** [[spoilers: The Destructors and Xylan are even worse: Xylan is the leader of the Darkspore and the game's BigBad, while the Destructors are Crogenitors that sided with Xylan and were willingly turned into his lieutenants]].

** Some of the bosses are into this in a big way. Contagion the Deadly Epidemic, anyone? How about Zain the Hellfire Death? Or how about [[spoiler: Xylan the Corrupter, Master of Darkspore?]]

* AbusivePrecursors: Crogenitor Ingto, (creator of Necrogenesis and overseer of Nocturna) was a very nasty piece of work, if the results of his manipulation are any indication. For starters, he somehow managed to shatter the membrane separating the world of the living and the world of the dead, which caused horrible mutations in the various species of Nocturna. Mutations that included most Nocturni children being born agonizingly crippled and dying shortly after birth. Then, of course, is the fact he created people like Arakna, who's almost as pleasant as he is.
* AsYouKnow: The game starts out with one. Justifiable, since the player's character has been in cryosleep forever.

** Some of the bosses are into this in a big way. Contagion the Deadly Epidemic, anyone? How about Zain the Hellfire Death? [[spoiler: Xylan the Corrupter, Master of Darkspore?]]

** Some of the bosses are into this in a big way. Contagion the Deadly Epidemic, anyone? How about Zain the Hellfire Death? [[spoiler: Nashira, the Shadow Void?]]

* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Xylan]], the Crogenitor who discovered Exponential DNA, infuses himself with E-DNA, believing he could be able to control the side-effects. It goes about as well as one expects; he turns into [[spoiler:The Corruptor]], [[HiveQueen ruler of the Darkspore]] and the game's apparent BigBad.

[[TheWikiRule There is now]] [[http://darksporegame.wikia.com/wiki/DarksporeWiki a wiki]] for the game.

** Like in ''WorldOfWarcraft'', loot is also color-coded by quality. In ascending order of potency, White items are standard, Green are uncommon, Blue are "rarified" and Purple are "purified". There's also Yellow, Orange and Red, which are the uncommon, rarified and purified versions of special reward loot found only at the end of a mission.

* ShoutOut: Blitz has a special move called [[GuiltyGear Ride the Lightning]].

''Darkspore'' is an {{spinoff}} of ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', released on April 26, 2011. Imagine ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'', with ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' item drops, and your heroes are ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' creatures.

''Darkspore'' is an {{spinoff}} of ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', released on April 26, 2011. Imagine ''{{VideoGame/Diablo}}'', with ''WorldOfWarcraft'' item drops, and your heroes are ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' creatures.

As experiments of this sort are known to do, the E-DNA project went [[GoneHorriblyWrong pear-shaped quickly]], causing the birth of a virus-like {{HiveMind}} known as the [[TitleDrop Darkspore]]. Assimilating some Crogenitors and killing most of them (taking the Genetic Heros with them), the few surviving Crogenitors were put onto sleeper ships, [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture to be awakened when their on-board computers had figured out how to use E-DNA without the whole Making-Darkspore result.]]

There is now [[http://darksporegame.wikia.com/wiki/DarksporeWiki a wiki]] for the game.

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* ViolationOfCommonSense: In-universe example: [[spoiler:Xylan]], the Crogenitor who discovered Exponential DNA, infuses himself with E-DNA, believing he could be able to control the side-effects. It goes about as well as one expects; he turns into [[spoiler:The Corruptor]], [[HiveQueen ruler of the Darkspore]] and the game's apparent BigBad.

There is now [[http://darksporegame.wikia.com/wiki/DarksporeWiki a wiki]] for the game. Characters/{{Darkspore}}

There is now [[http://darksporegame.wikia.com/wiki/DarksporeWiki a wiki]] for the game.

* AbusivePrecursors: Crogenitor Ingto, the creator of Necrogenesis and overseer of Nocturna was a very nasty piece of work if the results of his manipulation are any indication. For starters, he somehow managed to shatter the membrane separating the world of the living and the world of the dead, which caused horrible mutations in the various species of Nocturna. Mutations that included most Nocturni children being born agonizingly crippled and dying shortly after birth. Then, of course, is the fact he created people like Arakna, who's almost as pleasant as he is.

* SceneryPorn: Overlaps with SceneryGorn. The environments in all of the stages are very visually stunning, to the point that players get lost easily if they don't use the minimap. Especially in forest stages, what with all the (beautiful) leaves, fronds and vines obstructing the camera and whatnot.

* MightyGlacier: Heroes in the "Sentinel" class. They have high health and can take a lot of hits, but they're no pushovers when it comes to dealing damage, either. The best example is probably Titan, who has a forcefield that absorbs a certain amount of damage depending on his resist rating. He has a nice short-ranged machine gun that hits all enemies around him, dealing a nice amount of damage, and all of his attacks involve clearing away large amounts of enemies. [[GameBreaker In fact, he's so well-equipped that he can even face up against enemies of his own Genesis type.]] Sentinels are generally able to muscle their way through stages using their sheer bulk and persistent attacking power, whereas Ravagers get struck down pretty quickly and Tempests get worn out eventually. This probably explains why there are only seven Sentinel heroes.

* SquishyWizard: Heroes in the "Tempest" class. They're not as good as taking hits as [[MightyGlacier Sentinels]] are, but they have powerful ranged attacks and useful support moves that can give enemies a hard time. They're usually the most difficult to use of the heroes, which probably explains why they are the most common hero class.

* LightningBruiser: Heroes in the "Ravager" class. They're low-health and go down quickly, but they're quick as the wind and hit like a truck. Maldri is perhaps the best example, because he has an amazing attack that involves rapidly jumping between enemies 6 times, at lightning speed, dealing impressive amounts of damage.
** Blitz is a literal example of a LightningBruiser. He's of the Plasma genesis type, which involves manipulation of hot elements like fire and ''electricity''. And one of his attacks, called "Ride the Lightning", involves shooting across the screen to hit a cursor-targeted enemy.

* RedBaron: Almost every named character, usually pertaining to what their powers are (For example, Blitz the Storm Striker attacks with lightning).

->''Assemble an army of living weapons!''

''Darkspore'' is an ActionRPG {{spinoff}} of ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', released on April 26, 2011. Imagine ''{{VideoGame/Diablo}}'', with ''WorldOfWarcraft'' item drops, and your heroes are ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' creatures.

* RandomEffectSpell: Maldri's squad ability, Probability Assault, which inflicts random Quantum debuffs every time he damages or is damaged by an enemy. Effects include slows, time stops, banishes, knockbacks, and a special AoE attack. His basic attack is similar; it has the absolute largest damage range in the game, meaning it can alternate from dealing vast amounts of damage to ridiculously pitiful Critical Hits in the blink of an eye.

* SchrodingerFu: A specialty of Quantum Genesis heroes, but especially Maldri: one of his skills abuses quantum physics to attack every enemy he ''could'' be attacking at the same time.

* ItGotWorse: If you posit that ''Darkspore'' takes place in, and after ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', it makes things really depressing. Those lovable races you made in Spore? They all worked on E-DNA, were practically wiped out, and the few remaining Spore Creatures are essentially weapons only.

''Darkspore'' is an ActionRPG {{spinoff}} of ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'', released on April 26, 2011. Imagine ''{{Diablo}}'', with ''WorldOfWarcraft'' item drops, and your heroes are ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' creatures.

* ScrappyMechanic: All game information is stored server side. Therefore you must have an Internet connection to play Single Player. Also though not as bad is that it's impossible to create a new save.

* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Of a limited sort. There are five "genesis types", which are never [[MemeticMutation super effective]] against each other; rather, heroes are weak to attacks of their ''own'' genesis type. Note that this only applies in the PvE campaign- nothing of this sort happens in PvP.

* DiscOneNuke: Sage is pretty strong compared to the other heroes in the beginning. He has massive healing, passively spawns two adds that fight with him, has a decent [=AoE=] that also snares enemies, and most importantly, is the first Tempest (ranged weapon user) that you get, and his blaster shots also heal himself and his pets for a portion of the damage dealt. He can easily handle anything while the two ravagers you start with take a lot more damage and have to be in close range. As the game progresses, other heroes end up catching up to him, particularly Viper and Arborus.

* PaletteSwap: Each hero has four different variants with different abilities, base stats, and appearances, each variant having a different use than the others (for example, Sage Alpha(Enrage) is more supportive and better for multiplayer, while Sage Beta(Virulent Vines) is more damage focused and better for singleplayer).
* RandomEffectSpell: Maldri's squad ability, Probability Assault, which inflicts random Quantum debuffs every time he damages or is damaged by an enemy. Effects include slows, time stops, banishes, knockbacks, and a special AoE attack. His basic attack is similar; it has the absolute largest damage range in the game, meaning it can alternate from dealing vast amounts of damage to ridiculously awful Critical Hits in the blink of an eye.

* [[AnAdventurerIsYou Standard RPG Archetypes]]: Tank (Sentinel), DPS (Ravager), Tempest (Healing/Support/ranged DPS). All three types have the ability to deal damage to enemies just fine; how they ''do'' it is different.

* GoodIsNotNice: Going by the Genetic Hero profiles, roughly half of the Heroes you resurrect were ''not'' good people; an assortment of scoundrels, burglars and living weapons of mass destruction before being turned on the Darkspore. Sometimes before augmentation, even.

* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: ''Plasma''genetic creatures are red/orange, ''Quantum''genetics are blue, ''Bio''genetics are green, ''Cyber''genetics are gray and yellow, and ''Necro''genetics are purple/black. This makes the ability to customize your Hero's colors somewhat counterproductive, although you can still add different-colored body patterns to make them reasonably distinct.