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* AdvancingWallOfDoom: The aformentioned Hospital level climaxes with such a setpiece.
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* AdvancingWallOfDoom: The aformentioned aforementioned Hospital level climaxes with such a setpiece.
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* GottaKillThemAll: The stats screen at the end of a non-boss level tracks how many enemies killed per level, as well as [[DieChairDie how many non-explosive barrels destroyed]]. Curiously, the game has an achievement for going through The Forest level ''[[PacifistRun without killing any of the enemies]]''.
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* KillEmAll: The stats screen at the end of a non-boss level tracks how many enemies killed per level, as well as [[DieChairDie how many non-explosive barrels destroyed]]. Curiously, the game has an achievement for going through The Forest level ''[[PacifistRun without killing any of the enemies]]''.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The third act kicks off with the protagonist [[spoiler: finding Cousin Louis dead, swearing to KillEmAll.]] [[spoiler: The apparent truth isn't exactly what it seems.]]
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The third act kicks off with the protagonist [[spoiler: finding Cousin Louis dead, swearing to KillEmAll.]] [[spoiler: kill them all. The apparent truth isn't exactly what it seems.]]
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* EmergencyWeapon: Your knife serves as your fallback weapon or for when you want to save even more ammo on the CannonFodder. However it has decent range and attack speed for what it is. One upgrade path for it even turns it into a very dependable [[MacheteMayhem machete]] that solidly holds up against mid-game foes.
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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Aside of the [=NPCs=] encountered in the cutscenes[[note]]Dr.Sullivan at the end of Act 1, Tom Philips at the end of Act 3[[/note]], one of the only things encountered in-game that aren't hostile to the player is the friendly drunken sailor that acompanies the statues that serves as {{Save Point}}s.
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* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Aside of the [=NPCs=] encountered in the cutscenes[[note]]Dr.Sullivan at the end of Act 1, Tom Philips at the end of Act 3[[/note]], one of the only things encountered in-game that aren't hostile to the player is the friendly drunken sailor that acompanies accompanies the statues that serves as {{Save Point}}s.
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* NiceHat: The Priest wears one, and it's been added to his design in the final release, he used to not wear it in the Early Access builds.
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* FishPeople: The Fishers are a grenaider-type enemies that lob ''exploding fish'' at you. There are also Sewer Creatures hiding within pools of water that are essentially [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth The Deep Ones]].
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* FishPeople: The Fishers are a grenaider-type enemies grenadier-type enemy that lob ''exploding fish'' at you. There are also Sewer Creatures hiding within pools of water that are essentially [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth The Deep Ones]].
* FunWithAcronyms: Among the myriad of clues and story documents present that your character can examine is an advisory regarding scurvy posted by the American Sea Society or ASS.
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* GunsAkimbo: The revolver can be upgraded into this, which uppens up the firing rate [[AwesomeButImpractical but also takes a hit on the accuracy]], enough that after taking this update you might want to rely on your rifle or harpoon gun for long-distance engagements from then on.
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* GunsAkimbo: The revolver can be upgraded into this, which uppens up ups the firing rate [[AwesomeButImpractical but also takes a hit on the accuracy]], enough that after taking this update upgrade you might want to rely on your rifle or harpoon gun for long-distance engagements from then on.
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* InfiniteFlashlight: Neither of The Priest's lantern nor The Journalist's flashlight runs out of juice, and both can be upgraded to provide more light. [[VideoGame/Doom3 These cannot be held with a weapon at the same time]] however.
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* InfiniteFlashlight: Neither of The Priest's lantern nor The Journalist's flashlight runs out of juice, and both can be upgraded to provide more light. [[VideoGame/Doom3 These cannot be held with a weapon at the same time]] however.
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* KillEmAll: The stats screen at the end of a non-boss level tracks how many enemies you'd kill per level, as well as [[DieChairDie how many non-explosive barrels you'd destroy]]. Curiously, the game has an achievement for going through The Forest level ''[[PacifistRun without killing any of the enemies]]''.
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* KillEmAll: The stats screen at the end of a non-boss level tracks how many enemies you'd kill killed per level, as well as [[DieChairDie how many non-explosive barrels you'd destroy]].destroyed]]. Curiously, the game has an achievement for going through The Forest level ''[[PacifistRun without killing any of the enemies]]''.
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* LivingWeapon: The Shotgun can become this when upgraded into the Spitter, which has organic elements in it's design. There's also the game's rocket launcher, the Thundernomicon.
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* LivingWeapon: The Shotgun can become this when upgraded into the Spitter, which has organic elements in it's its design. There's also the game's rocket launcher, the Thundernomicon.
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* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: Played with. Some of the Wretches can be seen carrying a severed head, and if you destroy their actual head, they put on the spare head they were carrying as a backup and keep on going. The player can prevent this by destroying the spare head first.
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* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: Played with. Some of the Wretches can be seen carrying a severed head, and if you destroy their actual head, they put on the spare head they were carrying as a backup and keep on going. The player can prevent this by destroying the spare head first.first, or simply opting for center mass.
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* SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity: Zig-zagged. The game tends to give you plenty of supplies before a tough encounter, but its also just as eager to [[AfterBossRecovery give you the supplies just before the level ends]].
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* SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity: Zig-zagged. The game tends to give you plenty of supplies before a tough encounter, but its it's also just as eager to [[AfterBossRecovery give you the supplies just before the level ends]].
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* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: At the end, it turns out the protagonist ended up wiping out almost the entirety of Pesistville - including the Cousin one was summoned by to recover - [[DrivenToMadness under Cthulhu's influence]].]]
* VoodooDoll: Available as one of The Journalist's Madness Abillities, which unleases an area of effect damage around her.
* VoodooDoll: Available as one of The Journalist's Madness Abillities, which unleases an area of effect damage around her.
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* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: At the end, it turns out the protagonist ended up wiping out almost the entirety of Pesistville - including the Cousin one was summoned by to recover rescue - [[DrivenToMadness under Cthulhu's influence]].]]
* VoodooDoll: Available as one of The Journalist's MadnessAbillities, Abilities, which unleases unleashes an area of effect damage around her.
* VoodooDoll: Available as one of The Journalist's Madness
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: In one of the final levels in Act 5, the player is twice confronted with a series of fairly large pits they have to jump across onto narrow floating platforms that have been spaced almost at maximum jump distance, right after a medium-length combat section. Unlike all previous BottomlessPits which instantly killed the player, here they are teleported back to the starting platform with minor damage taken (which is even mitigated further by any armor they may have). As there is no save point after the fight they just had, this is a mercy allowing the player over a dozen tries, assuming they have enough health to spare.
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* HealThyself: The Priest's Crucifix skill is his portable healing ability. The Journalist meanwhile has access to herbs that has her summon a CoolSword [[LifeDrain that siphons health with each of the kill with it]].
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* HealThyself: The Priest's Crucifix skill is his portable healing ability. The Journalist meanwhile has access to herbs that has her summon a CoolSword [[LifeDrain that siphons health with each of the kill made with it]].
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* NintendoHard: Do not let your starting max health and armor of 200 fool you, as even in normal difficulties plenty of enemy types tend to hit like a truck. It can get worse in some later levels when the supplies tend to be hard to come by, to the point you will absolutely making use of your madness abilities to survive.
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* NintendoHard: Do not let your starting max health and armor of 200 fool you, as even in on normal difficulties plenty of enemy types tend to hit like a truck. It can get worse in some later levels when the healing supplies tend to be hard are harder to come by, to the point you will absolutely be making use of your madness abilities to survive.
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* TheUnpronounceable: [[spoiler: The fourth act's boss - colloquially reffered to as Glitch - has its name displayed under its health bar as a random mess of letters that changes up constantly]].
* UniversalAmmunition: The Rifle shares the ammo with the Revolver. The rifle and the submachinegun can also be turned into completely different weapons that use different ammunition, making them share ammo with the rocket launcher and PlasmaCannon respectively.
* UniversalAmmunition: The Rifle shares the ammo with the Revolver. The rifle and the submachinegun can also be turned into completely different weapons that use different ammunition, making them share ammo with the rocket launcher and PlasmaCannon respectively.
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* TheUnpronounceable: [[spoiler: The fourth act's boss - colloquially reffered referred to as Glitch - has its name displayed under its health bar as a random mess of letters that changes up constantly]].
* UniversalAmmunition: The Rifle shares the ammo with the Revolver. The rifle and the submachinegun can also be turned into completely different weapons that use differentammunition, ammunition instead, making them share ammo with the rocket launcher and PlasmaCannon respectively.
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* WaveMotionGun: Your Rusty Vito submachinegun can be upgraded to become Des Goules. Quite devastating hitscan weapon, but also now uses up the rarer energy ammo that can be hard to come by, especially in earlier levels before the PlasmaCannon gets introduced.
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* WaveMotionGun: Your Rusty Vito submachinegun can be upgraded to become Des Goules. Quite Goules - A devastating hitscan weapon, but also now uses up the rarer energy ammo that can be hard to come by, especially in earlier levels before the PlasmaCannon gets introduced.
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* AllTheWorldsAreAStage: Before facing the final boss, the player must travel through a series of portals to places previously visited for a brief fight.
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* KillEnemiesToOpen: Frequently seen as doors and portals won't unlock or even appear until all enemies in a room are cleared. Also notably averted with two levels where the player can run past the final room of enemies and into the exit portal.
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* LudicrousGibs: Many enemies die messily and can leave behind massive bloodstains. Headshots can even make their brain pop out of the body.
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* DescendingCeiling: [[spoiler:There's one part in the first level of the final act where after getting a yellow key you'd have to quickly exit the maze before you'd get crushed by a spiked ceiling.]]
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* DescendingCeiling: [[spoiler:There's one part in the first level of the final act where In Act 5 after getting navigating a yellow key you'd have dark maze and retrieving a key, the lights come on to quickly exit reveal a descending spiked ceiling. The player must backtrack out of the maze while dodging respawned enemies before you'd get crushed by a spiked ceiling.]]it reaches the floor.
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* ElevatorActionSequence: Act 3 has a large descending cargo lift where waves of enemies will spawn to attack you in close quarters, capped off with two [[spoiler:Ygolaks]].
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* TheEndingChangesEverything: The ending has the player [[spoiler:wake up chained to a hospital bed, having apparently massacred Pestisville in an insane rage]]. This has major implications for everything that happened prior.
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* ScareChord: A notable instance plays in [[spoiler: the second level of the fourth act when at one point you'd stumble upon a silhoulette of some figure deep within the ice.]]
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* ScareChord: A notable instance plays in [[spoiler: the second level of the fourth act when at one point you'd stumble upon a silhoulette of some figure deep within the ice.]]ice.
* SchizoTech: It's the 1920s, but the cult has advanced labs, biomachinery, and even developed a plasma gun. The player character also somehow manages to jury-rig a tommy gun into a laser cannon.
* SchizoTech: It's the 1920s, but the cult has advanced labs, biomachinery, and even developed a plasma gun. The player character also somehow manages to jury-rig a tommy gun into a laser cannon.
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* UniqueEnemy: The pitchfork-wielding True Believers are only encountered in the level they are first introduced in, The Forest that kicks off the third act.
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* UniqueEnemy: UniqueEnemy:
** The pitchfork-wielding True Believers are only encountered in the level they are first introduced in, The Forest that kicks off the thirdact.act.
** Big, Ugly Fish is assisted by bouncing spawns which are not seen outside of the first stages of its fight.
** The pitchfork-wielding True Believers are only encountered in the level they are first introduced in, The Forest that kicks off the third
** Big, Ugly Fish is assisted by bouncing spawns which are not seen outside of the first stages of its fight.
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* BoringButPractical: The revolver you get at the start of the game isn't up to taking down larger enemies, but it's also one of the most accurate in the game. This makes it ideal for cleaning out Wretches, Liquidators, and Fat Fish while minimizing ammo spent. Its upgrades may make it more interesting, but losing damage or accuracy reduces its usefulness for clean-up duty.
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* BoringButPractical: The revolver you get at the start of the game isn't up to taking down larger enemies, but it's also one of the most accurate in the game. This makes it ideal for cleaning out Wretches, Liquidators, and Fat Fish while minimizing ammo spent. Its upgrades may make it more interesting, but losing damage or accuracy reduces its usefulness for clean-up duty.
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* BoomHeadshot: While the enemies are represented with sprites, the humanoid ones can be hit on the head for extra damage.
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* BoomHeadshot: While the enemies are represented with sprites, the humanoid ones can be hit on the head for extra damage. Killing one even triggers a "HEADSHOT" to appear in comic text above their collapsing body.
* BoringButPractical: The revolver you get at the start of the game isn't up to taking down larger enemies, but it's also one of the most accurate in the game. This makes it ideal for cleaning out Wretches, Liquidators, and Fat Fish while minimizing ammo spent. Its upgrades may make it more interesting, but losing damage or accuracy reduces its usefulness for clean-up duty.
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* FlunkyBoss: [[spoiler:Azyzz]] is assisted by the Yellow Cultist enemies, while [[spoiler:Big Ugly Fish]] is assisted by the bouncing blobs reminiscent of Spawns from ''VideoGame/QuakeI''.
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* FlunkyBoss: [[spoiler:Azyzz]] is assisted by the Yellow and Forest Cultist enemies, while [[spoiler:Big Ugly Fish]] is assisted by the bouncing blobs reminiscent of Spawns from ''VideoGame/QuakeI''.
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* SickeningSlaughterhouse: Act 3 passes through a slaughterhouse with partially dismembered pig corpses hanging all over the place. The runoff from the process flows through the open air a pit right next to a room filled with said corpses. The pit itself opens into a series of sewage tunnels filled with blood.
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!!Did I just named a trope? [[TitleDrop Forgive me father]]....:
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!!Did I just named name a trope? [[TitleDrop Forgive me father]]....:
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* BlackoutBasement: A few areas are dark enough that the lantern or flashlight are required to navigate. Enemies are still present and guns can't be fire with the light out, making fights more risky.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After taking enough damage, Slithers will kneel down and raise both hands in surrender while whimpering in fear.
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* HeWasRightThereAllAlong: Entering the final boss arena, it seems empty until two glowing eyes appear in the cliff in front of you, revealing [[spoiler:Cthulhu]] was sitting there watching you the entire time.
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* PinballProjectile: The Spitter/Abyssal Shotgun shoot out bouncing shrapnel in a matter similar to the Flak Cannon from ''VideoGame/UnrealI''.
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* PinballProjectile: PinballProjectile:
** The Spitter/Abyssal Shotgun shoot out bouncing shrapnel in a matter similar to the Flak Cannon from''VideoGame/UnrealI''.''VideoGame/UnrealI''.
** The [[spoiler:Abomination]]'s mortar and the NASSTOD's rounds will bounce for a short while before exploding unless they hit a targer first.
** The Spitter/Abyssal Shotgun shoot out bouncing shrapnel in a matter similar to the Flak Cannon from
** The [[spoiler:Abomination]]'s mortar and the NASSTOD's rounds will bounce for a short while before exploding unless they hit a targer first.
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* BodyHorror: It would be easier to name an enemy type that ''doesn't'' display this.
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* BodyHorror: It would be easier to name an enemy type that ''doesn't'' display this. [[spoiler:And the player character seemingly succumbs to it after killing Cthulhu before waking]].
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Of the CruelTwistEnding kind. You seemingly bring down Cthulhu, only for him to laugh as you [[TransformationHorror morph into some kind of tentacled monstrosity]]..... only to wake up in a hospital where you are about to get questioned for murdering almost the entire of Pestisville's population ''and'' your own cousin, [[UnwittingPawn and you've done it all under Cthulhu's influence]].]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Of the CruelTwistEnding kind. You seemingly bring down Cthulhu, only for him to laugh as you [[TransformationHorror morph into some kind of tentacled monstrosity]].....monstrosity]]... only to wake up in a hospital where you are about to get questioned for murdering almost the entire of Pestisville's population ''and'' your own cousin, [[UnwittingPawn and you've done it all under Cthulhu's influence]].]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tom Philips alternates between a normal and mutated appearance when discovered and tries to talk to the player character, but cannot be understood to the player's mounting fury. [[spoiler:For a moment you saw through the illusions created by Cthulhu to trick you into killing everyone]].
* MonsterCloset: Several keys throughout the game have hidden closets nearby containing enemies waiting for the player.
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* TeleportSpam: The Cultist enemies are fond of doing this.
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* TeleportSpam: The Cultist enemies are fond of doing this.this; in fact, it's the only way they can move.
* TeleportingKeycardSquad: Aside from the monster closets that open right next to it, picking up a key often causes new enemies to spawn in previously cleared rooms or right on top of the player.
* TeleportingKeycardSquad: Aside from the monster closets that open right next to it, picking up a key often causes new enemies to spawn in previously cleared rooms or right on top of the player.
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* InterfaceScrew: The screen becomes DeliberatelyMonochrome of Limited Palette kind whenever your madness level gets high (altho' this effect can be disabled in options.... as well as be set to be ''forced on at all times'').
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* InterfaceScrew: InterfaceScrew:
** The screen becomes DeliberatelyMonochrome of Limited Palette kind whenever your madness level gets high (altho' this effect can be disabled in options.... as well as be set to be ''forced on at alltimes'').times'').
** The fourth boss, Glitch, corrupts his health bar so it displays a constantly changing mix of random gibberish symbols rather than an actual name.
** The screen becomes DeliberatelyMonochrome of Limited Palette kind whenever your madness level gets high (altho' this effect can be disabled in options.... as well as be set to be ''forced on at all
** The fourth boss, Glitch, corrupts his health bar so it displays a constantly changing mix of random gibberish symbols rather than an actual name.
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* BossArenaRecovery: The boss arenas contain a variety of ammo, health, and armor pickups. Some ammo pickups also respawn a randomized ammo type after a while.
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* DoppelgangerAttack: Twice during the Act 4 boss fight, it will disappear and spawn a dozen or so copies of itself. They have the same attacks as the original but much lower health, with each one killed chipping away at the boss health.
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* DoppelgangerAttack: Twice during the Act 4 boss fight, it will disappear and spawn a dozen or so copies of itself. They have the same attacks as the original but separate and much lower health, with each one killed chipping away at the boss health.health pools.
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* FlunkyBoss: [[spoiler: Azyzz is assisted by the Yellow Cultist enemies, while Big Ugly Fish is assisted by the bouncing blobs reminiscent of Spawns from ''VideoGame/QuakeI''.]]
* GasMaskMooks: The Luquidator enemies are mostly depicted as this, although they do have variants that deviate from this.
* GasMaskMooks: The Luquidator enemies are mostly depicted as this, although they do have variants that deviate from this.
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* FlunkyBoss: [[spoiler: Azyzz [[spoiler:Azyzz]] is assisted by the Yellow Cultist enemies, while Big [[spoiler:Big Ugly Fish Fish]] is assisted by the bouncing blobs reminiscent of Spawns from ''VideoGame/QuakeI''.]]
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* GasMaskMooks: TheLuquidator Liquidator enemies are mostly depicted as this, although they do have variants that deviate from this.
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* MechaMooks: [[spoiler: Abominations, introduced in the final act]], are biomechanical enemies armed with their energy mortars.
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* MechaMooks: [[spoiler: Abominations, introduced in the final act]], are biomechanical enemies armed with their energy mortars. Mutants also appear to be this, hunched over humans with machinery fused to their backs.
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* TakeCover: Some ranged attackers such as Liquidators will actively use cover, firing off a volley of attacks before quickly ducking out of sight.
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** Enemies may get caught on level geometry and end up stuck in place, where they can be plinked down from a safe angle without reacting.
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** Enemies Melee enemies may get caught on level geometry and end up stuck in place, where they can be plinked down from a safe angle without reacting.reacting. Similarly, ranged enemies can duck into cover and remain there even as you move to an angle where you can shoot them.
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--> '''The Priest:''' [[spoiler: ''Leave your humanity at this place......'' wait, [[SuddenlyFluentInGibberish why am I able to read]] [[BlackSpeech the devil's speech?]]]]
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--> '''The Priest:''' [[spoiler: ''Leave ''"Leave your humanity at this place......'' wait, the entrance...."'' Wait, [[SuddenlyFluentInGibberish why am how can I able to read]] recognize]] [[BlackSpeech the this devil's speech?]]]]
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* FatBastard: The Fat Fish enemies, bloated guys usually in suits that shoot out energy projectiles out of their cane. Upon taking lethal damage [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe they split into two]], and their upper half would still keep on crawling towards you and do some damage to you unless [[ChunkySalsaRule you score a killing blow with a headshot]].
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* FatBastard: FatBastard:
** The Fat Fish enemies, bloated guys usually in suits that shoot out energy projectiles out of their cane. Upon taking lethal damage [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe they split into two]], and their upper half would still keep on crawling towards you and do some damage to you unless [[ChunkySalsaRule you score a killing blow with aheadshot]].headshot]].
** [[spoiler:Ygolak and their Children]] are massively bloated and on dying will detonate with an explosive fart.
** The Fat Fish enemies, bloated guys usually in suits that shoot out energy projectiles out of their cane. Upon taking lethal damage [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe they split into two]], and their upper half would still keep on crawling towards you and do some damage to you unless [[ChunkySalsaRule you score a killing blow with a
** [[spoiler:Ygolak and their Children]] are massively bloated and on dying will detonate with an explosive fart.
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: The Ghoul enemies. It's not often you see anybody use ''gravestones'' either as a weapon or [[ShieldMook as a shield]].
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* ImprobableWeaponUser: The Ghoul enemies. It's not often you see anybody use ''gravestones'' or ''coffins'' either as a weapon or [[ShieldMook as a shield]].
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* AmbushingEnemy: Some explosive barrels are actually disguised enemies. When the player gets close, they'll reveal their limbs and rush toward them to explode.
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** Some explosive barrels are actually disguised enemies. When the player gets close, they'll reveal their limbs and rush toward them toexplode.explode.
** Two enemies, one melee and one ranged, hide underwater emerging only when the player moves in range.
** Some explosive barrels are actually disguised enemies. When the player gets close, they'll reveal their limbs and rush toward them to
** Two enemies, one melee and one ranged, hide underwater emerging only when the player moves in range.
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* DoppelgangerAttack: Twice during the Act 4 boss fight, it will disappear and spawn a dozen or so copies of itself. They have the same attacks as the original but much lower health, with each one killed chipping away at the boss health.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: In addition to the enemies susceptible of [[BoomHeadshot headshots]], the Liquidators can have their tanks on their backs shot off by the player, which [[BodyHorror melts them]] and reduces them from being ranged mooks to melee mooks. There are also severed heads carried by some Wretches that can be destroyed by the player.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: ArtificialStupidity:
** Enemies go inactive if they are too far from the player, allowing small groups to be kited out of the larger rooms. The flying [[spoiler:Entities]] can do this to themselves, as their erratic flying pattern can move them quickly out of the active range if the player does not move forward.
** Enemies may get caught on level geometry and end up stuck in place, where they can be plinked down from a safe angle without reacting.
* AttackItsWeakPoint:
** In addition to the enemies susceptible of [[BoomHeadshot headshots]], the Liquidators can have their tanks on their backs shot off by the player, which [[BodyHorror melts them]] and reduces them from being ranged mooks to meleemooks. mooks.
** There are also severed heads carried by some Wretches that can be destroyed by theplayer.player.
** Shooting the wings of the [[spoiler:Entities of Torment]] will cause them to fall out of the air, turning from flying ranged attackers to ground-based melee attackers.
** Enemies go inactive if they are too far from the player, allowing small groups to be kited out of the larger rooms. The flying [[spoiler:Entities]] can do this to themselves, as their erratic flying pattern can move them quickly out of the active range if the player does not move forward.
** Enemies may get caught on level geometry and end up stuck in place, where they can be plinked down from a safe angle without reacting.
* AttackItsWeakPoint:
** In addition to the enemies susceptible of [[BoomHeadshot headshots]], the Liquidators can have their tanks on their backs shot off by the player, which [[BodyHorror melts them]] and reduces them from being ranged mooks to melee
** There are also severed heads carried by some Wretches that can be destroyed by the
** Shooting the wings of the [[spoiler:Entities of Torment]] will cause them to fall out of the air, turning from flying ranged attackers to ground-based melee attackers.
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Set in [[UsefulNotes/TheRoaringTwenties the 1920s]], players take on a role of either a Priest or a Journalist, either of them getting JumpedAtTheCall through a letter of their Cousin to investigate the town of Pestisville, [[LovecraftCountry Pestisville]], which turns out to be overrun by various Lovecraftian horrors. Their journey sets them up for an insane blood paved ride.
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* AKA47: Weapons that are modeled after real-life firearms are either given generic names (Revolver, Shotgun) or made up ones (The Thompson submachine gun being rechirstened rechristened as Rusty Vito, the Luger is the Noller, etc.).
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* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: Liquidator Squad Leaders manage to somehow combine this sort of look [[GasMaskMook with a gas mask]].
* ImprobableWeaponUser: The Ghoul enemies. It's not often you see anybody use ''gravestones'' either as a weapon or [[ShieldMook as a shield]].
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--> ''[[spoiler: You don't give a shit about Heaven. Hell is what awaits you.]]''
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'''Forgive Me Father''' is a {{Retraux}} FirstPersonShooter that draws from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos and is overlayed in a ComicBook-like style. It was released in April of 2022 after few months of early access, developed by Byte Barrel and published by 1C Publishing (who has taken to publish [[VideoGame/WrathAeonOfRuin a handful of]] [[VideoGame/{{Viscerafest}} other recent]] [[VideoGame/DreadTemplar throwback shooters]]).
Set in [[UsefulNotes/TheRoaringTwenties the 1920s]], players take on a role of either a Priest or a Journalist, either of them getting JumpedAtTheCall through a letter of their Cousin to investigate the town of Pestisville, which turns out to be overrun by various Lovecraftian horrors. Their journey sets them up for an insane blood paved ride.
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!!Did I just named a trope? [[TitleDrop Forgive me father]]....:
* AbandonedHospital: Present as one of the first act's levels.
* AbandonedMine: One of the fourth act's levels.
* AbnormalAmmo: The Worm Nest weapon shoots out worms that crawl on the ground and explode on contact with an enemy. It shares explosive ammo as with the Nasstod and the Thundernomicon.
* ActionBomb: The game has running exploding barrels that explode if you'd ever let them reach close to you. There are also [[spoiler: Ygolak and its children]], who explode upon their death.
* AdvancingWallOfDoom: The aformentioned Hospital level climaxes with such a setpiece.
* AirborneMook: Act 4 introduces [[spoiler: the Entity of Torment]], which flies erratically and shoots out projectiles, and becomes a ground-based melee mook after taking enough damage. The next act also introduces [[spoiler: Observers]], who also use projectile attacks and upon taking lethal damage [[LastDitchMove they attempt to bee-line towards you, crashing into anything]].
* AKA47: Weapons that are modeled after real-life firearms are either given generic names (Revolver, Shotgun) or made up ones (The Thompson submachine gun being rechirstened as Rusty Vito, the Luger is the Noller, etc.).
* AnimateInanimateObject: The player will eventually learn to be paranoid of ExplosiveBarrels.
* ApocalypseCult: Such are involved, aiming to awaken the Great Old One himself, [[spoiler: seemingly led by [[MayorPain Mayor Mahonay]].]]
* AttackItsWeakPoint: In addition to the enemies susceptible of [[BoomHeadshot headshots]], the Liquidators can have their tanks on their backs shot off by the player, which [[BodyHorror melts them]] and reduces them from being ranged mooks to melee mooks. There are also severed heads carried by some Wretches that can be destroyed by the player.
* AwesomenessMeter: The Madness meter can be treated as this, as it rises up as you deal damage (and finding alcohol in a middle of the fight) and resets backs to 0 whenever you don't deal any damage in a few seconds. Getting it to high levels has you deal more damage and plays a part in recharging your Madness Abilities, as well as [[DeliberatelyMonochrome screws up your vision a bit]].
* BadassNormal: The protagonists start out as this, being a mere Preacher/Reporter that is able to hold on their own during the apocalypse. They'd eventually become EmpoweredBadassNormal after gaining the Madness Abilities.
* BadassPreacher: One of the player characters. His Madness Abilities placate his more defensive style with items such as [[HealThyself a Crucifix]], [[TheParalyser an Aspergillium]], [[InvincibilityPowerup The Necronomicon]] and [[BottomlessMagazines The Medallion]]. The Priest downplays this himself with one of his one-liners.
--> '''The Priest:''' This place needs an exorcist, not a humble pastor.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Few of the later levels [[spoiler: from Act 4 onward]] can veer into this.
* BodyHorror: It would be easier to name an enemy type that ''doesn't'' display this.
* BoomHeadshot: While the enemies are represented with sprites, the humanoid ones can be hit on the head for extra damage.
* BoozeBasedBuff: Alcohol bottles are pickups that add up quite a bit to the Madness meter.
--> '''The Priest:''' This bottle deserves to be emptied.
* BossOnlyLevel: Every single final level of each act is this.
* BottomlessMagazines: Of the "guns that are not shotguns don't need to be reloaded" variety. The Priest also gets a Medallion as a Madness Ability that temporarily grants him infinite ammunition for short period of time.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Downplayed as [[SchrodingersPlayerCharacter neither The Priest nor The Journalist work together in the campaign as this is a single-player game]], nonetheless either of these are summoned into Pestisville by the same cousin Louis Martin, so chances are both of the player characters are related to each other.
* BubblegloopSwamp: The wetlands level from Act 2.
* BulletTime: The Journalist has a Madness Ability like this, and she activates it by lightening up a cigarette.
* CheckpointStarvation: [[spoiler: [[UnderTheSea The underwater level]] from Act 3]] has no Save Points whatsoever.
* ClothingDamage: You can rip off the shirts of the Wretches if you slash their torsos with the knife, [[FanDisservice not like you'd gain that much from the view]].
* CosmicHorrorStory: Aptly, this game has plenty of hallmarks of this. [[spoiler: [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu Fighting off the Lord of Everything not ending much that well]] very much included.]]
* CouldntFindAPen: Plenty of blood-written messages are strewn within the game.
* CreepyCemetery: The first level of the second act is this.
* DescendingCeiling: [[spoiler:There's one part in the first level of the final act where after getting a yellow key you'd have to quickly exit the maze before you'd get crushed by a spiked ceiling.]]
* DieChairDie: The non-explosive barrels don't contain much, but the game keeps track of how many of them you destroy in a level.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Most of the acts are capped off by you taking on an EldritchAbomination as a boss. [[spoiler: And yes, [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos the high priest of the Great Old Ones himself]] happens to be this game's FinalBoss. [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu With all that said however]], see the DownerEnding below.....]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Of the CruelTwistEnding kind. You seemingly bring down Cthulhu, only for him to laugh as you [[TransformationHorror morph into some kind of tentacled monstrosity]]..... only to wake up in a hospital where you are about to get questioned for murdering almost the entire of Pestisville's population ''and'' your own cousin, [[UnwittingPawn and you've done it all under Cthulhu's influence]].]]
* EldritchAbomination: Wouldn't exactly be a Lovecraft-influenced story without these kinds of beings being involved. [[spoiler: Including the first act's boss, Ca'tharsis, as well as [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu himself]].]]
* EldritchLocation: Act 4 leads up onto this and [[spoiler: the one after it is mostly set in this]].
* EmptyRoomUntilTheTrap: [[spoiler: Masterfully executed by the fourth act's boss. You walk into the BossRoom that resembles a small deathmatch arena.... [[NothingIsScarier and the boss is nowhere to be seen]]. The player can possibly take quite a while to seek out this boss until the character would voice "[[RightBehindYou ....is there someone behind me?", at which point]] [[JumpScare the player would better be sure to keep one's headphones volume down enough]]. ]]
* EquipmentUpgrade: Most of the weapons have one-two possible upgrade paths that could be taken. While some of the paths provide some basic damage/accuracy/firing rate upgrade, others transform the weapon into something else entirely to the point of using different ammunition altogether (like turning a burst rifle into a grenade launcher, turning a submachinegun into a WaveMotionGun, turning a PlasmaCannon into a Worm Nest).
* ExperiencePoints: The player character gains experience through killing enemies, each level-up granting one upgrade point. There's a perk that allows the player to gain experience faster.
* ExplodingBarrels: Present in both typical inanimate and [[AnimateInanimateObject sentient]] kinds.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Aside of the [=NPCs=] encountered in the cutscenes[[note]]Dr.Sullivan at the end of Act 1, Tom Philips at the end of Act 3[[/note]], one of the only things encountered in-game that aren't hostile to the player is the friendly drunken sailor that acompanies the statues that serves as {{Save Point}}s.
* FallDamage: Averted, discounting the designated BottomlessPits that kill the player instantly.
* FatBastard: The Fat Fish enemies, bloated guys usually in suits that shoot out energy projectiles out of their cane. Upon taking lethal damage [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe they split into two]], and their upper half would still keep on crawling towards you and do some damage to you unless [[ChunkySalsaRule you score a killing blow with a headshot]].
* FishPeople: The Fishers are a grenaider-type enemies that lob ''exploding fish'' at you. There are also Sewer Creatures hiding within pools of water that are essentially [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth The Deep Ones]].
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Take a wild guess.]]]]
* FleshGolem: The crab-men enemy is a bit of this.
* FlunkyBoss: [[spoiler: Azyzz is assisted by the Yellow Cultist enemies, while Big Ugly Fish is assisted by the bouncing blobs reminiscent of Spawns from ''VideoGame/QuakeI''.]]
* GasMaskMooks: The Luquidator enemies are mostly depicted as this, although they do have variants that deviate from this.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Some of the enemy types (Wretches, Fat Fishes, Squad Leaders, True Believers) feature this.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Some of the [[spoiler: children of Ygolak]] can be seen wearing these.
* GunsAkimbo: The revolver can be upgraded into this, which uppens up the firing rate [[AwesomeButImpractical but also takes a hit on the accuracy]], enough that after taking this update you might want to rely on your rifle or harpoon gun for long-distance engagements from then on.
* HealThyself: The Priest's Crucifix skill is his portable healing ability. The Journalist meanwhile has access to herbs that has her summon a CoolSword [[LifeDrain that siphons health with each of the kill with it]].
* HomingProjectile: The Yellow Cultist enemy casts these.
* HyperspaceArsenal: By the end of it all the player gets to carry at least a knife, revolver, shotgun, assault rifle, submachinegun, harpoon gun, a plasma cannon and an eldritch rocket launcher, and that's in addition to whenever the player gets to evolve any of these weapons.
* InfiniteFlashlight: Neither of The Priest's lantern nor The Journalist's flashlight runs out of juice, and both can be upgraded to provide more light. [[VideoGame/Doom3 These cannot be held with a weapon at the same time]] however.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: [[{{BFG}} The Tormentor]], a machine gun modelled after the Lewis gun that holds 100 bouncing bullets, and it has to be found in secret areas. It serves as a bit of a temporary powerup as it's discarded after you run out of bullets for it.
* InterfaceScrew: The screen becomes DeliberatelyMonochrome of Limited Palette kind whenever your madness level gets high (altho' this effect can be disabled in options.... as well as be set to be ''forced on at all times'').
* IntrepidReporter: The other playable protagonist. Her Madness Abilities placate her more agressive style with items like [[LifeDrain the Herb Sword]], [[BlindingCameraFlash a Camera]], [[SmartBomb a Voodoo Doll]] and [[BulletTime Cigarettes]].
* InvincibilityPowerUp: The Priest's Necronomicon ability serves as this.
* ImplacableMan: Few of the levels feature a Dark Bane, a slow-moving ghastly enemy that nonetheless can ''travel through walls'', [[OneHitKO can take you out in a single hit]] and it's so durable chances are you would end up beating a level without defeating that enemy, especially as it tends to teleport away after receiving enough damage.
* ItGetsEasier: The Priest would eventually get used to causing carnage which affects his combat lines. He gets to even find [[DieChairDie destroying random props like barrels]] to be "strangely therapeutic".
* KillEmAll: The stats screen at the end of a non-boss level tracks how many enemies you'd kill per level, as well as [[DieChairDie how many non-explosive barrels you'd destroy]]. Curiously, the game has an achievement for going through The Forest level ''[[PacifistRun without killing any of the enemies]]''.
* LastDitchMove: The Fat Fish would split their halves and crawl towards you (unless you'd score a headshot), [[spoiler: Ygolaks and their children]] fart and explode upon depleting their health, and [[spoiler: the observers]] would make an attempt to fly towards you at fast speed.
* LivingWeapon: The Shotgun can become this when upgraded into the Spitter, which has organic elements in it's design. There's also the game's rocket launcher, the Thundernomicon.
* LockAndKeyPuzzle: The good ol' three colored keys staple is present and accounted for.
* MechaMooks: [[spoiler: Abominations, introduced in the final act]], are biomechanical enemies armed with their energy mortars.
* MightyGlacier: The Crab-men serve their role as a slow but extremely durable enemy type.
* MookMaker: The Martyrs, the hourglass-resembling altars that repeatedly spawn enemies. [[spoiler: The final act also introduce Ancient Portals that serve a similar purpose]].
* NiceHat: The Priest wears one, and it's been added to his design in the final release, he used to not wear it in the Early Access builds.
* NintendoHard: Do not let your starting max health and armor of 200 fool you, as even in normal difficulties plenty of enemy types tend to hit like a truck. It can get worse in some later levels when the supplies tend to be hard to come by, to the point you will absolutely making use of your madness abilities to survive.
* NoNameGiven: As much as there are few named characters in the game, the playable characters are not among them, being referred to simply as The Priest and The Journalist.[[note]]We can assume they are the Martins as we do know the full name of their cousin, Louis Martin.[[/note]]
* NotUsingTheZWord: The zombie-like enemies are refered to as Wretches.
* OneHitPolykill: The Harpoon gun has enemy piercing properties.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Being a Lovecraft-inspired game, the enemy roster veers into this at times. The Gobblers, Patients (whenever they reveal their true form) and Slithers are the particular standouts.
* TheParalyzer: The Priest can use his Aspergillium Madness Ability to spray holy water on enemies to render them immobile for few seconds. The Journalist uses [[BlindingCameraFlash The Camera]] for the similar purpose, trading the range for wider area of effect.
* PinballProjectile: The Spitter/Abyssal Shotgun shoot out bouncing shrapnel in a matter similar to the Flak Cannon from ''VideoGame/UnrealI''.
* PlasmaCannon: The Energy Booster is this game's projectile-based energy weapon.
* PuzzleBoss: [[spoiler: Azyzz, the second act's boss, whom you'd have to destroy his shield altars before you'd be able to directly hurt it.]]
* RadioVoice: The Liquidators use this. Their death cries are even punctuated by a Radio beeping sound.
* RangedEmergencyWeapon: Your knife can become this if you'd pick the Throwing Knives upgrade.
* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: Played with. Some of the Wretches can be seen carrying a severed head, and if you destroy their actual head, they put on the spare head they were carrying as a backup and keep on going. The player can prevent this by destroying the spare head first.
* {{Retraux}}: The game combines the use of two-dimensional sprites for the props, enemies and weapons (and the sprites themselves are of rather high resolution compared to the usual throwback shooters) with modern lightning and effects, all overlayed with the comic book like coat of paint.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The third act kicks off with the protagonist [[spoiler: finding Cousin Louis dead, swearing to KillEmAll.]] [[spoiler: The apparent truth isn't exactly what it seems.]]
* SavePoint: The Cthulhu Statues have this role, every single one of these being acompained by the friendly drunken sailor. [[spoiler: Aside of the very final save point in the game - just before the FinalBoss - where he's been reduced to bones, the save point itself still works though.]]
* ScareChord: A notable instance plays in [[spoiler: the second level of the fourth act when at one point you'd stumble upon a silhoulette of some figure deep within the ice.]]
* StandardFPSGuns: A knife as a melee weapon (which can become a RangedEmergencyWeapon), a revolver (which can become dual-wielded or turned into a pistol), a shotgun (of a double-barreled kind), a submachine gun (which can be turned into a continous energy weapon), a battle rifle (that can me made either automatic or turned into a grenade launcher), a harpoon gun that fills the crossbow role, a rapid-fire energy weapon (that can be made into a ground-crawling launcher) and a rocket launcher.
* SuspiciouslyCrackedWall: A few secrets are hidden behind walls like these, starting from the level that introduces a (stock) weapon that can blow these up, the Thundernomicon.
* SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity: Zig-zagged. The game tends to give you plenty of supplies before a tough encounter, but its also just as eager to [[AfterBossRecovery give you the supplies just before the level ends]].
* SuperDrowningSkills: Depends on the level, on some of the levels the player can submerge onto the water just fine (they ''don't'' actually swim tho', they just move around like they are on the ground), some levels have pools that hurt the player, and some outright kill the player.
* TeleportSpam: The Cultist enemies are fond of doing this.
* TitleDrop: Occurs right after killing the very first few enemies as The Priest.
--> '''The Priest:''' Did I just kill a man? Forgive me father.....
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler: The game's ending implies just around the entire game may have been this]].
* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Knife Always Works]]: The initially melee knife can be upgraded into throwing knives of infinite supply.
* UnderTheSea: The penultimate level of Act 3 has you use a diving suit and go through an underwater area. UnderwaterRuins are present and accounted for.
* UndergroundMonkey: Few of the enemies have multiple costume variants, some of which being exclusive to certain levels, like how the Wretches have a more mummified appearance in the Graveyard level of Act 2, Liquidators having a [[CombatMedic Nurse]] variant in the Hospital level, as well as a Biohazard suit variant, etc.
* TheUnpronounceable: [[spoiler: The fourth act's boss - colloquially reffered to as Glitch - has its name displayed under its health bar as a random mess of letters that changes up constantly]].
* UniversalAmmunition: The Rifle shares the ammo with the Revolver. The rifle and the submachinegun can also be turned into completely different weapons that use different ammunition, making them share ammo with the rocket launcher and PlasmaCannon respectively.
* UniqueEnemy: The pitchfork-wielding True Believers are only encountered in the level they are first introduced in, The Forest that kicks off the third act.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: At the end, it turns out the protagonist ended up wiping out almost the entirety of Pesistville - including the Cousin one was summoned by to recover - [[DrivenToMadness under Cthulhu's influence]].]]
* VoodooDoll: Available as one of The Journalist's Madness Abillities, which unleases an area of effect damage around her.
* WaveMotionGun: Your Rusty Vito submachinegun can be upgraded to become Des Goules. Quite devastating hitscan weapon, but also now uses up the rarer energy ammo that can be hard to come by, especially in earlier levels before the PlasmaCannon gets introduced.
* WhamLine: A particular one at [[spoiler: the begining of the fourth act's second level, where analyzing the writing at the altar makes the protagonist question one's nature]].
--> '''The Priest:''' [[spoiler: ''Leave your humanity at this place......'' wait, [[SuddenlyFluentInGibberish why am I able to read]] [[BlackSpeech the devil's speech?]]]]
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'''Forgive Me Father''' is a {{Retraux}} FirstPersonShooter that draws from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos and is overlayed in a ComicBook-like style. It was released in April of 2022 after few months of early access, developed by Byte Barrel and published by 1C Publishing (who has taken to publish [[VideoGame/WrathAeonOfRuin a handful of]] [[VideoGame/{{Viscerafest}} other recent]] [[VideoGame/DreadTemplar throwback shooters]]).
Set in [[UsefulNotes/TheRoaringTwenties the 1920s]], players take on a role of either a Priest or a Journalist, either of them getting JumpedAtTheCall through a letter of their Cousin to investigate the town of Pestisville, which turns out to be overrun by various Lovecraftian horrors. Their journey sets them up for an insane blood paved ride.
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!!Did I just named a trope? [[TitleDrop Forgive me father]]....:
* AbandonedHospital: Present as one of the first act's levels.
* AbandonedMine: One of the fourth act's levels.
* AbnormalAmmo: The Worm Nest weapon shoots out worms that crawl on the ground and explode on contact with an enemy. It shares explosive ammo as with the Nasstod and the Thundernomicon.
* ActionBomb: The game has running exploding barrels that explode if you'd ever let them reach close to you. There are also [[spoiler: Ygolak and its children]], who explode upon their death.
* AdvancingWallOfDoom: The aformentioned Hospital level climaxes with such a setpiece.
* AirborneMook: Act 4 introduces [[spoiler: the Entity of Torment]], which flies erratically and shoots out projectiles, and becomes a ground-based melee mook after taking enough damage. The next act also introduces [[spoiler: Observers]], who also use projectile attacks and upon taking lethal damage [[LastDitchMove they attempt to bee-line towards you, crashing into anything]].
* AKA47: Weapons that are modeled after real-life firearms are either given generic names (Revolver, Shotgun) or made up ones (The Thompson submachine gun being rechirstened as Rusty Vito, the Luger is the Noller, etc.).
* AnimateInanimateObject: The player will eventually learn to be paranoid of ExplosiveBarrels.
* ApocalypseCult: Such are involved, aiming to awaken the Great Old One himself, [[spoiler: seemingly led by [[MayorPain Mayor Mahonay]].]]
* AttackItsWeakPoint: In addition to the enemies susceptible of [[BoomHeadshot headshots]], the Liquidators can have their tanks on their backs shot off by the player, which [[BodyHorror melts them]] and reduces them from being ranged mooks to melee mooks. There are also severed heads carried by some Wretches that can be destroyed by the player.
* AwesomenessMeter: The Madness meter can be treated as this, as it rises up as you deal damage (and finding alcohol in a middle of the fight) and resets backs to 0 whenever you don't deal any damage in a few seconds. Getting it to high levels has you deal more damage and plays a part in recharging your Madness Abilities, as well as [[DeliberatelyMonochrome screws up your vision a bit]].
* BadassNormal: The protagonists start out as this, being a mere Preacher/Reporter that is able to hold on their own during the apocalypse. They'd eventually become EmpoweredBadassNormal after gaining the Madness Abilities.
* BadassPreacher: One of the player characters. His Madness Abilities placate his more defensive style with items such as [[HealThyself a Crucifix]], [[TheParalyser an Aspergillium]], [[InvincibilityPowerup The Necronomicon]] and [[BottomlessMagazines The Medallion]]. The Priest downplays this himself with one of his one-liners.
--> '''The Priest:''' This place needs an exorcist, not a humble pastor.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Few of the later levels [[spoiler: from Act 4 onward]] can veer into this.
* BodyHorror: It would be easier to name an enemy type that ''doesn't'' display this.
* BoomHeadshot: While the enemies are represented with sprites, the humanoid ones can be hit on the head for extra damage.
* BoozeBasedBuff: Alcohol bottles are pickups that add up quite a bit to the Madness meter.
--> '''The Priest:''' This bottle deserves to be emptied.
* BossOnlyLevel: Every single final level of each act is this.
* BottomlessMagazines: Of the "guns that are not shotguns don't need to be reloaded" variety. The Priest also gets a Medallion as a Madness Ability that temporarily grants him infinite ammunition for short period of time.
* BrotherSisterTeam: Downplayed as [[SchrodingersPlayerCharacter neither The Priest nor The Journalist work together in the campaign as this is a single-player game]], nonetheless either of these are summoned into Pestisville by the same cousin Louis Martin, so chances are both of the player characters are related to each other.
* BubblegloopSwamp: The wetlands level from Act 2.
* BulletTime: The Journalist has a Madness Ability like this, and she activates it by lightening up a cigarette.
* CheckpointStarvation: [[spoiler: [[UnderTheSea The underwater level]] from Act 3]] has no Save Points whatsoever.
* ClothingDamage: You can rip off the shirts of the Wretches if you slash their torsos with the knife, [[FanDisservice not like you'd gain that much from the view]].
* CosmicHorrorStory: Aptly, this game has plenty of hallmarks of this. [[spoiler: [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu Fighting off the Lord of Everything not ending much that well]] very much included.]]
* CouldntFindAPen: Plenty of blood-written messages are strewn within the game.
* CreepyCemetery: The first level of the second act is this.
* DescendingCeiling: [[spoiler:There's one part in the first level of the final act where after getting a yellow key you'd have to quickly exit the maze before you'd get crushed by a spiked ceiling.]]
* DieChairDie: The non-explosive barrels don't contain much, but the game keeps track of how many of them you destroy in a level.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Most of the acts are capped off by you taking on an EldritchAbomination as a boss. [[spoiler: And yes, [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos the high priest of the Great Old Ones himself]] happens to be this game's FinalBoss. [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu With all that said however]], see the DownerEnding below.....]]
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Of the CruelTwistEnding kind. You seemingly bring down Cthulhu, only for him to laugh as you [[TransformationHorror morph into some kind of tentacled monstrosity]]..... only to wake up in a hospital where you are about to get questioned for murdering almost the entire of Pestisville's population ''and'' your own cousin, [[UnwittingPawn and you've done it all under Cthulhu's influence]].]]
* EldritchAbomination: Wouldn't exactly be a Lovecraft-influenced story without these kinds of beings being involved. [[spoiler: Including the first act's boss, Ca'tharsis, as well as [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu himself]].]]
* EldritchLocation: Act 4 leads up onto this and [[spoiler: the one after it is mostly set in this]].
* EmptyRoomUntilTheTrap: [[spoiler: Masterfully executed by the fourth act's boss. You walk into the BossRoom that resembles a small deathmatch arena.... [[NothingIsScarier and the boss is nowhere to be seen]]. The player can possibly take quite a while to seek out this boss until the character would voice "[[RightBehindYou ....is there someone behind me?", at which point]] [[JumpScare the player would better be sure to keep one's headphones volume down enough]]. ]]
* EquipmentUpgrade: Most of the weapons have one-two possible upgrade paths that could be taken. While some of the paths provide some basic damage/accuracy/firing rate upgrade, others transform the weapon into something else entirely to the point of using different ammunition altogether (like turning a burst rifle into a grenade launcher, turning a submachinegun into a WaveMotionGun, turning a PlasmaCannon into a Worm Nest).
* ExperiencePoints: The player character gains experience through killing enemies, each level-up granting one upgrade point. There's a perk that allows the player to gain experience faster.
* ExplodingBarrels: Present in both typical inanimate and [[AnimateInanimateObject sentient]] kinds.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Aside of the [=NPCs=] encountered in the cutscenes[[note]]Dr.Sullivan at the end of Act 1, Tom Philips at the end of Act 3[[/note]], one of the only things encountered in-game that aren't hostile to the player is the friendly drunken sailor that acompanies the statues that serves as {{Save Point}}s.
* FallDamage: Averted, discounting the designated BottomlessPits that kill the player instantly.
* FatBastard: The Fat Fish enemies, bloated guys usually in suits that shoot out energy projectiles out of their cane. Upon taking lethal damage [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe they split into two]], and their upper half would still keep on crawling towards you and do some damage to you unless [[ChunkySalsaRule you score a killing blow with a headshot]].
* FishPeople: The Fishers are a grenaider-type enemies that lob ''exploding fish'' at you. There are also Sewer Creatures hiding within pools of water that are essentially [[Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth The Deep Ones]].
* FinalBoss: [[spoiler: [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Take a wild guess.]]]]
* FleshGolem: The crab-men enemy is a bit of this.
* FlunkyBoss: [[spoiler: Azyzz is assisted by the Yellow Cultist enemies, while Big Ugly Fish is assisted by the bouncing blobs reminiscent of Spawns from ''VideoGame/QuakeI''.]]
* GasMaskMooks: The Luquidator enemies are mostly depicted as this, although they do have variants that deviate from this.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Some of the enemy types (Wretches, Fat Fishes, Squad Leaders, True Believers) feature this.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Some of the [[spoiler: children of Ygolak]] can be seen wearing these.
* GunsAkimbo: The revolver can be upgraded into this, which uppens up the firing rate [[AwesomeButImpractical but also takes a hit on the accuracy]], enough that after taking this update you might want to rely on your rifle or harpoon gun for long-distance engagements from then on.
* HealThyself: The Priest's Crucifix skill is his portable healing ability. The Journalist meanwhile has access to herbs that has her summon a CoolSword [[LifeDrain that siphons health with each of the kill with it]].
* HomingProjectile: The Yellow Cultist enemy casts these.
* HyperspaceArsenal: By the end of it all the player gets to carry at least a knife, revolver, shotgun, assault rifle, submachinegun, harpoon gun, a plasma cannon and an eldritch rocket launcher, and that's in addition to whenever the player gets to evolve any of these weapons.
* InfiniteFlashlight: Neither of The Priest's lantern nor The Journalist's flashlight runs out of juice, and both can be upgraded to provide more light. [[VideoGame/Doom3 These cannot be held with a weapon at the same time]] however.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: [[{{BFG}} The Tormentor]], a machine gun modelled after the Lewis gun that holds 100 bouncing bullets, and it has to be found in secret areas. It serves as a bit of a temporary powerup as it's discarded after you run out of bullets for it.
* InterfaceScrew: The screen becomes DeliberatelyMonochrome of Limited Palette kind whenever your madness level gets high (altho' this effect can be disabled in options.... as well as be set to be ''forced on at all times'').
* IntrepidReporter: The other playable protagonist. Her Madness Abilities placate her more agressive style with items like [[LifeDrain the Herb Sword]], [[BlindingCameraFlash a Camera]], [[SmartBomb a Voodoo Doll]] and [[BulletTime Cigarettes]].
* InvincibilityPowerUp: The Priest's Necronomicon ability serves as this.
* ImplacableMan: Few of the levels feature a Dark Bane, a slow-moving ghastly enemy that nonetheless can ''travel through walls'', [[OneHitKO can take you out in a single hit]] and it's so durable chances are you would end up beating a level without defeating that enemy, especially as it tends to teleport away after receiving enough damage.
* ItGetsEasier: The Priest would eventually get used to causing carnage which affects his combat lines. He gets to even find [[DieChairDie destroying random props like barrels]] to be "strangely therapeutic".
* KillEmAll: The stats screen at the end of a non-boss level tracks how many enemies you'd kill per level, as well as [[DieChairDie how many non-explosive barrels you'd destroy]]. Curiously, the game has an achievement for going through The Forest level ''[[PacifistRun without killing any of the enemies]]''.
* LastDitchMove: The Fat Fish would split their halves and crawl towards you (unless you'd score a headshot), [[spoiler: Ygolaks and their children]] fart and explode upon depleting their health, and [[spoiler: the observers]] would make an attempt to fly towards you at fast speed.
* LivingWeapon: The Shotgun can become this when upgraded into the Spitter, which has organic elements in it's design. There's also the game's rocket launcher, the Thundernomicon.
* LockAndKeyPuzzle: The good ol' three colored keys staple is present and accounted for.
* MechaMooks: [[spoiler: Abominations, introduced in the final act]], are biomechanical enemies armed with their energy mortars.
* MightyGlacier: The Crab-men serve their role as a slow but extremely durable enemy type.
* MookMaker: The Martyrs, the hourglass-resembling altars that repeatedly spawn enemies. [[spoiler: The final act also introduce Ancient Portals that serve a similar purpose]].
* NiceHat: The Priest wears one, and it's been added to his design in the final release, he used to not wear it in the Early Access builds.
* NintendoHard: Do not let your starting max health and armor of 200 fool you, as even in normal difficulties plenty of enemy types tend to hit like a truck. It can get worse in some later levels when the supplies tend to be hard to come by, to the point you will absolutely making use of your madness abilities to survive.
* NoNameGiven: As much as there are few named characters in the game, the playable characters are not among them, being referred to simply as The Priest and The Journalist.[[note]]We can assume they are the Martins as we do know the full name of their cousin, Louis Martin.[[/note]]
* NotUsingTheZWord: The zombie-like enemies are refered to as Wretches.
* OneHitPolykill: The Harpoon gun has enemy piercing properties.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Being a Lovecraft-inspired game, the enemy roster veers into this at times. The Gobblers, Patients (whenever they reveal their true form) and Slithers are the particular standouts.
* TheParalyzer: The Priest can use his Aspergillium Madness Ability to spray holy water on enemies to render them immobile for few seconds. The Journalist uses [[BlindingCameraFlash The Camera]] for the similar purpose, trading the range for wider area of effect.
* PinballProjectile: The Spitter/Abyssal Shotgun shoot out bouncing shrapnel in a matter similar to the Flak Cannon from ''VideoGame/UnrealI''.
* PlasmaCannon: The Energy Booster is this game's projectile-based energy weapon.
* PuzzleBoss: [[spoiler: Azyzz, the second act's boss, whom you'd have to destroy his shield altars before you'd be able to directly hurt it.]]
* RadioVoice: The Liquidators use this. Their death cries are even punctuated by a Radio beeping sound.
* RangedEmergencyWeapon: Your knife can become this if you'd pick the Throwing Knives upgrade.
* RemovingTheHeadOrDestroyingTheBrain: Played with. Some of the Wretches can be seen carrying a severed head, and if you destroy their actual head, they put on the spare head they were carrying as a backup and keep on going. The player can prevent this by destroying the spare head first.
* {{Retraux}}: The game combines the use of two-dimensional sprites for the props, enemies and weapons (and the sprites themselves are of rather high resolution compared to the usual throwback shooters) with modern lightning and effects, all overlayed with the comic book like coat of paint.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The third act kicks off with the protagonist [[spoiler: finding Cousin Louis dead, swearing to KillEmAll.]] [[spoiler: The apparent truth isn't exactly what it seems.]]
* SavePoint: The Cthulhu Statues have this role, every single one of these being acompained by the friendly drunken sailor. [[spoiler: Aside of the very final save point in the game - just before the FinalBoss - where he's been reduced to bones, the save point itself still works though.]]
* ScareChord: A notable instance plays in [[spoiler: the second level of the fourth act when at one point you'd stumble upon a silhoulette of some figure deep within the ice.]]
* StandardFPSGuns: A knife as a melee weapon (which can become a RangedEmergencyWeapon), a revolver (which can become dual-wielded or turned into a pistol), a shotgun (of a double-barreled kind), a submachine gun (which can be turned into a continous energy weapon), a battle rifle (that can me made either automatic or turned into a grenade launcher), a harpoon gun that fills the crossbow role, a rapid-fire energy weapon (that can be made into a ground-crawling launcher) and a rocket launcher.
* SuspiciouslyCrackedWall: A few secrets are hidden behind walls like these, starting from the level that introduces a (stock) weapon that can blow these up, the Thundernomicon.
* SuspiciousVideogameGenerosity: Zig-zagged. The game tends to give you plenty of supplies before a tough encounter, but its also just as eager to [[AfterBossRecovery give you the supplies just before the level ends]].
* SuperDrowningSkills: Depends on the level, on some of the levels the player can submerge onto the water just fine (they ''don't'' actually swim tho', they just move around like they are on the ground), some levels have pools that hurt the player, and some outright kill the player.
* TeleportSpam: The Cultist enemies are fond of doing this.
* TitleDrop: Occurs right after killing the very first few enemies as The Priest.
--> '''The Priest:''' Did I just kill a man? Forgive me father.....
* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: [[spoiler: The game's ending implies just around the entire game may have been this]].
* [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks Throwing Your Knife Always Works]]: The initially melee knife can be upgraded into throwing knives of infinite supply.
* UnderTheSea: The penultimate level of Act 3 has you use a diving suit and go through an underwater area. UnderwaterRuins are present and accounted for.
* UndergroundMonkey: Few of the enemies have multiple costume variants, some of which being exclusive to certain levels, like how the Wretches have a more mummified appearance in the Graveyard level of Act 2, Liquidators having a [[CombatMedic Nurse]] variant in the Hospital level, as well as a Biohazard suit variant, etc.
* TheUnpronounceable: [[spoiler: The fourth act's boss - colloquially reffered to as Glitch - has its name displayed under its health bar as a random mess of letters that changes up constantly]].
* UniversalAmmunition: The Rifle shares the ammo with the Revolver. The rifle and the submachinegun can also be turned into completely different weapons that use different ammunition, making them share ammo with the rocket launcher and PlasmaCannon respectively.
* UniqueEnemy: The pitchfork-wielding True Believers are only encountered in the level they are first introduced in, The Forest that kicks off the third act.
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: At the end, it turns out the protagonist ended up wiping out almost the entirety of Pesistville - including the Cousin one was summoned by to recover - [[DrivenToMadness under Cthulhu's influence]].]]
* VoodooDoll: Available as one of The Journalist's Madness Abillities, which unleases an area of effect damage around her.
* WaveMotionGun: Your Rusty Vito submachinegun can be upgraded to become Des Goules. Quite devastating hitscan weapon, but also now uses up the rarer energy ammo that can be hard to come by, especially in earlier levels before the PlasmaCannon gets introduced.
* WhamLine: A particular one at [[spoiler: the begining of the fourth act's second level, where analyzing the writing at the altar makes the protagonist question one's nature]].
--> '''The Priest:''' [[spoiler: ''Leave your humanity at this place......'' wait, [[SuddenlyFluentInGibberish why am I able to read]] [[BlackSpeech the devil's speech?]]]]
