History VideoGame / Exmortis

* UltimateSacrifice: As it turns out, [[spoiler: Mr. Hannay discovers that he's innocent number five, and has to take his own life with a gun to open the portal to the Spirit Realm. He does so.]]

* HeartbeatSoundtrack: The very opening theme has heartbeats that give you chills...

* SimonSaysPuzzle: The door to [[spoiler: the cannibal's room]] is secured by one of these, by matching a pattern of flashing traffic lights to a 4-color keypad, with an old "Don't Walk" sign changing to "Walk" when solved. Made harder by said pattern being up to ''ten moves long'', and getting it wrong three times drops you into a [[PitTrap pit full of spikes, killing you]].

* NothingIsScarier: For a good chunk of the game, there's not much going on. A few mutilated body parts are strewn about here and there, and a few hallucinations, but otherwise, it's just dark rooms and the unsettling sound of wind blowing loudly.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: Vlaew talks this way in the first and third games. Averted in the second.

* VoiceOfTheLegion: Whenever he speaks, Vlaew has this.

** [[spoiler: After escaping the spirit world]], the second game lets you revisit the tunnel that [[spoiler: connected the underground Temple of Exmortis with the house and outside]]. But the passage to the temple collapsed behind you, and an incredibly brutal slaughter of people happened over time between both games.

** [[spoiler:The alternate ending isn't much better. If the protagonist refuses to become the Hand of Repose, then he'll be knocked unconscious and forced to relive the events of the game in a GroundhogDayLoop until he submits. This could be considered a BittersweetEnding were it not for the fact that the second game implies that he eventually accepted his destiny.]]
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: If you refuse to complete the ritual,[[spoiler: you get cloaked in the head and dragged back to the house, starting the game anew, until eventually you give in]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Subverted in the alternate ending. The Hand is forced to relive the events of the game until he accepts his destiny, and it's implied that even if the player chose the alternate ending, he eventually does.]]

* MadOracle: The author of the diary you find, who eventually becomes the Hand of Repose, a living gateway for the Exmortis to invade Earth. [[spoiler: Aka you]].

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Vlaew, respectively in ''Exmortis II'' and ''Exmortis III'' asks if Xavier is "still moaning about losing his little whore of a daughter", and refers to Mr. Hannay's spouse as his "whoring wife".

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Subverted in the alternate ending. The Hand is forced to wander the relive the events of the game until he accepts his destiny, and it's implied that even if the player chose the alternate ending, he eventually does.]]

A [[WebAnimation flash game]] series originally released on {{Newgrounds}} and created by Ben Leffler, who just loves to make creepy/scary-as-hell games, the Exmortis series A trilogy, the first game ([[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/189227 found here]]) in 2004 and the sequel two years later ([[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/303832 found here]]), with a closing chapter released as Shareware for Halloween 2009. The development blog is [[http://exmortis3.blogspot.com/ found here]]. And just for future reference, the first screen you see says that [[SchmuckBait you should play with the lights off and the volume turned up]]. ''Don't.''

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: More formally known as the Exmortis, they are ethereal entities that are made corporeal by leaving the spirit realm to which they were banished. They can be killed by conventional means, such as guns, but will merely be banished to the spirit realm, which they can leave and re-corporealize. And unfortunately for a few misguided humans, [[Main/HolyBurnsEvil Holy]] [[Main/AvertedTrope does not]] [[Main/HolyBurnsEvil burn evil]]. They have a variety of different appearances, from a closer resemblance to zombies than demons, to something that looks a little like a [[Series/TheElderScrolls scamp]].

* SatanicArchetype: An ancient, supernatural, narcissistic manipulator who overthrew a higher power with the help of a band of rebellious lesser beings? Sounds familiar. Inverted pentagram used as a symbol for him? Hmmm ... rings a bell. Seeks dominion over the earth? Now, I know that sounds like SOMEONE familiar. In all seriousness, Vlaew seems to be a stand in for the Devil, and may actually be the mythological basis for him InUniverse. Xavier Rehayem's book in the second game, ''Vetus Hostillis Exmortis,'' even [[Main/LampshadeHanging translates to ''Exmortis: The Ancient Enemy'']].

* SatanicArchetype: An ancient, supernatural, narcissistic manipulator who overthrew a higher power with the help of a band of rebellious lesser beings? Sounds familiar. Inverted pentagram used as a symbol for him? Hmmm ... rings a bell. Seeks dominion over the earth? Now, I know that sounds like SOMEONE familiar. In all seriousness, Vlaew seems to be a stand in for the Devil, and may actually be the mythological basis for him InUniverse. Xavier Rehayem's book in the second game, ''Vetus Hostillis Exmortis,'' even [[Main/LampshadeHanging translates to "Exmortis: The Ancient Enemy".

* SatanicArchetype: A narcissistic manipulator who overthrew a higher power with the help of a band of rebellious lesser beings? Sounds familiar. Inverted pentagram used as a symbol for him? Hmmm ... rings a bell. Seeks dominion over the earth? Now, I know that sounds like SOMEONE familiar. In all seriousness, Vlaew seems to be a stand in for the Devil, and may actually be the mythological basis for him InUniverse.