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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: What Typhon did to the gods. In addition to the BalefulPolymorph Typhon also stole the Gods essence (and in Hephaistos' case, his memories too) and sealed them away, thereby making them docile and harmless ironic reflections of their true selves. Aphrodite became obsessed with helping the downtrodden and feeding the hungry, Ares is a chicken too scared to go to war, and so on.

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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: What Typhon did to the gods. In addition to the BalefulPolymorph Typhon also stole the Gods gods' essence (and in Hephaistos' case, his memories too) and sealed them away, thereby making them docile and harmless ironic reflections of their true selves. Aphrodite became obsessed with helping the downtrodden and feeding the hungry, Ares is a chicken too scared to go to war, and so on.

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* BestialityIsDepraved: Besides mentions of Zeus' multiple animal escapades, when you teleport into the Hall of Gods they'll often be shown having conversations with each other. During one of these Aphrodite will ask Ares if ''all'' of his body is back to normal and nothing is left of his rooster body, even "down below". He'll reassure her that he is all back to normal, to which she'll voice her disappointment.
-->'''Aphrodite''': Maybe some fantasies are better left unfulfilled I suppose...



-->'''Zeus''': {{GASP}}! You're '''''sick''''' Prometheus! Do '''NOT''' talk to me!
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: What Typhon did to the gods. In addition to the BalefulPolymorph he also stole the essence of their minds and personality (and in Hephaistos' case, his memories too) and sealed them away, thereby making them docile and harmless pale reflections of their true selves. Aphrodite became obsessed with helping the downtrodden and feeding the hungry, Ares was too scared to go to war, and so on.

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-->'''Zeus''': {{GASP}}! {{GASP}} You're '''''sick''''' Prometheus! Do '''NOT''' talk to me!
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: What Typhon did to the gods. In addition to the BalefulPolymorph he Typhon also stole the Gods essence of their minds and personality (and in Hephaistos' case, his memories too) and sealed them away, thereby making them docile and harmless pale ironic reflections of their true selves. Aphrodite became obsessed with helping the downtrodden and feeding the hungry, Ares was is a chicken too scared to go to war, and so on.



* MinorlyMentionedMythsAndMonsters: While the game does cater to popular monsters from Greek Mythology -- namely gorgons, harpies, Cerberus, and Chimera -- it also features some more obscure monsters such as Gegenees and the Hecatoncheires.

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* MinorlyMentionedMythsAndMonsters: While the game does cater to popular monsters from Greek Mythology -- namely gorgons, harpies, Cerberus, and Chimera -- it also features some more obscure monsters such as Gegenees and the Hecatoncheires.Hecatoncheires, even Typhon himself is rarely mentioned in modern media, with the BigBad title usually going to Hades instead.



* MythologyGag: The game is full of references to Greek mythology, particularly the SnarkToSnarkCombat between Prometheus and Zeus regarding the former's punishment by having an eagle eat his liver every day.

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The game is full of references to Greek mythology, particularly the SnarkToSnarkCombat between Prometheus and Zeus regarding the former's punishment by having an eagle eat his liver every day.day.
-->'''Prometheus''': I'd hug you, but I'm ''chained to a rock''.
** While Ares and Aphrodite were having nightly escapades, Ares instructed one of his soldiers to keep watch and warn him if he saw Helios' daylight. But the soldier fell asleep and Ares was caught. As punishment he turned the soldier into a Rooster so he'd always sing at dawn. Now Ares himself has been turned into a Rooster.
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* {{Bowdlerized}}: In-universe example. Apparently Gaia fudged the truth about Aphrodite's birth. She told Zeus that Aphrodite was born from a pearl that Ouranos found and threw into the ocean, when actually the "pearl" was one of Ouranos' testicles. Zeus is beyond ''horrified'' when Prometheus finally tells him the real story:
-->'''Zeus''': GASP! You're sick Prometheus! Do NOT talk to me!

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* {{Bowdlerized}}: In-universe example. Apparently Gaia fudged the truth about Aphrodite's birth. She told Zeus that Aphrodite was born from a pearl that "Grandpappy" Ouranos found and threw into the ocean, when actually the "pearl" was one of Ouranos' testicles. own testicles cut off during the fight with Kronos. Zeus is beyond ''horrified'' horrified when Prometheus finally tells him the real story:
-->'''Zeus''': GASP! {{GASP}}! You're sick '''''sick''''' Prometheus! Do NOT '''NOT''' talk to me!

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* {{Bowdlerized}}: In-universe example. Apparently Gaia fudged the truth about Aphrodite's birth. She told Zeus Aphrodite was born from a pearl that was thrown into the ocean, when actually the "pearl" was one of Uranous' testicles. Zeus is quite squicked out by this when he learns the truth.

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* {{Bowdlerized}}: In-universe example. Apparently Gaia fudged the truth about Aphrodite's birth. She told Zeus that Aphrodite was born from a pearl that was thrown Ouranos found and threw into the ocean, when actually the "pearl" was one of Uranous' Ouranos' testicles. Zeus is quite squicked out by this beyond ''horrified'' when he learns Prometheus finally tells him the truth.real story:
-->'''Zeus''': GASP! You're sick Prometheus! Do NOT talk to me!



* CrowsNestCartography: As befitting an Ubisoft game, clearing out the map requires you to climb tall structures. Clearing out the fog requires you to climb the statues of the gods while finding landmarks can be done by scouting them out with the Farsight ability.

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* CrowsNestCartography: As befitting an Ubisoft game, clearing out the map requires you to climb tall structures. Clearing out the fog requires you to climb the humongous statues of the gods while finding landmarks collectibles and other side activities can be done by scouting them out with the Farsight ability.



* EverybodyHatesHades: Averted, as the game rather uses the titan Typhon as its main antagonist instead.

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* EverybodyHatesHades: Averted, as the game rather uses the titan Typhon as its main antagonist instead.instead and the creatures he's brought with him come from Tartarus and not Hades. Hades himself makes an appearance in the Lost Gods DLC.



* FissionMailed: Right when you jump into the first Vault of Tartaros. Zeus concludes Fenyx died and the screen cuts to black and fake Zeus-aggrandizing credits roll.

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* FissionMailed: Right when you jump into the first Vault of Tartaros. Zeus concludes that Fenyx died and died, the screen cuts to black and fake Zeus-aggrandizing credits roll.roll with Zeus and Prometheus listed for every role. Some of them quite colorful such as "Bumbling Storyteller" for Prometheus and "Torture Innovator" for Zeus. Then Prometheus interrupts him:
-->'''Prometheus''': It's not over yet. Not by a ''long'' shot.
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* BossOnlyLevel: The final "Myths of the Eastern Realm" passage consists entirely of the battle with Tao Wu.
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* BrutalBonusLevel: "A New God" has Trial of the Pantheon which can only be challenged once each and every relic is brought back to the Inner Circle. It's not necessary for completion but it's nice to rub it in Hermes's face. The reward is Phosphor of Olympos.

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* BrutalBonusLevel: "A New God" has Trial of the Pantheon which can only be challenged once each and every relic is brought back to the Inner Circle. It mostly consists of a series of minigame-style puzzles, like one that’s identical to baseball and another which references ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''. It's not necessary for completion but it's nice to rub it in Hermes's face. The reward is Phosphor of Olympos.
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* CrowsNestCartography: As befitting an Ubisoft game, clearing out the map requires you to climb tall structures. Clearing out the fog requires you to climb the statues of the gods while finding landmarks can be done by scouting them out with the Farsight ability.

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* AllTheWorldsAreAStage: [[spoiler:The Vault of Typhon has gimmicks from all four of the previous God Vaults.]]



* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The ''Myths of the Eastern Realm'' and ''The Lost Gods'' expansions will star new protagonists named Ku and Ash, respectively.

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* AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent: The ''Myths of the Eastern Realm'' and ''The Lost Gods'' expansions will star new protagonists named Ku and Ash, respectively.
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** Fetch-quest puzzle scenarios on the open world where you have to find X amount of objects for a puzzle almost always provide more items in an area than actually need to be used, preventing the player from stalling on a puzzle because they just can't find the last thing they need.
** Similar to the above, pressure switches often use designated boxes in the area for weights, but if the player can't find them, the switches also be pretty easily activated by rocks or segments of tree trunks and columns, as they'll be weighed down by anything Herakles' Strength can carry. The Phosphor's Clone upgrade ability also mitigates the challenge of these puzzles by conjuring a Fenyx-weight statue to put on switches which will activate any feather switch and contribute a good amount to the total for anvil switches.
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Don't know if this should go in Artistic License Religion instead since this is more about the stories than the practice and I don't see classical religion discussed on that page.

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* RealisticHumansCartoonyAnimals: The few human characters in the game are designed more realistically than a lot of the scenery, animals, and monsters. This divide even extends to separate the gods from human, with the gods having more stylized designs than the humans.


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* SadlyMythtaken: Largely averted, as the game has many researched references to Greek mythology, many of which are left to the viewer to pick up on from their own knowledge of the myth. There are some simplifications and artistic choices that break with tradition, however.
** Enemies are derived from the most famous Greek monsters, meaning they are species in ''Fenyx'' whereas they were often individuals or members of a small group in the original myths. The originals are still in the game to be fought as bosses on the open world, but would have been more unique in the myths.
** Gorgons are depicted as the more pop-culturey snake-tailed snake/human blend rather than the more classical versions which had more monstrous blends of features and probably had legs and were sometimes described as winged. The Gorgon armor for Fenyx, however, references classical visual depictions of Gorgons.
** The Hecatoncheires are quite understandably simplified to have fewer than the hundred hands they're named for, and have only one head with multiple eyes, rather than multiple heads, possibly to make a more cleanly threatening design.
** Athena is depicted with blue eyes despite her most famous physical feature being her grey eye color.

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* DevelopersForesight: Each rescued god has a quest to ask of you after they're restored. If you happened to find that objective and complete it beforehand, Fenyx will tell the god they've done it and receive the reward in a seamless conversation.



* ObviousRulePatch: Unclimbable walls and patches of stamina-draining energy in the air are obvious devices to lock the player into the designed sequences in Vaults of Tartaros, as their wings and climbing could otherwise serve to break several scenarios.



* TheQueensLatin: Averted. The characters are voiced by a Greek cast and have Greek accents.



* TheQueensLatin: Averted. The characters are voiced by a Greek cast and have Greek accents.

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** You can freely alter the difficulty of the myth-challenges, like keeping progress between attempts at the archery challenge, to tracking the location of marbles needed for the constellation challenge, to outright telling you how to complete the fresco challenges.

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** You can freely alter the difficulty of the myth-challenges, like keeping progress between attempts at the archery challenge, challenges so you don't have to hit every axe in one go, to tracking the location of marbles needed for the constellation challenge, challenges, to outright telling you how to complete the fresco challenges.



* CharacterCustomization: The player can choose Fenyx's gender, appearance and outfit.

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* CharacterCustomization: The player can choose Fenyx's gender, appearance and outfit.outfit, even featuring a toggle to choose whether their current headgear is displayed on the character or not.



* FatBastard: The Gorgons are noticeably overweight and noticeably villainous, such as one attacking Hermes.
* FissionMailed: Right when you jump into the first Vault of Tartaros. The screen cuts to black and snarky fake credits roll.

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* FatBastard: The common Gorgons are noticeably overweight and noticeably villainous, such as one attacking Hermes.
* FissionMailed: Right when you jump into the first Vault of Tartaros. The Zeus concludes Fenyx died and the screen cuts to black and snarky fake Zeus-aggrandizing credits roll.



* GodIsFlawed: Pretty much the entire game is centered around the Olympian gods coming to terms with their own sins and vices, with Prometheus constantly calling out Zeus for all the terrible things he has done to both gods and mortals.

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* GodIsFlawed: Pretty much the entire game is centered around the Olympian gods coming to terms with their own sins and vices, with Prometheus constantly calling out Zeus for all the terrible things he has done to both gods and mortals.mortals, and Zeus starting to realize when he sees the torment the other gods have been put through because of him.



* LighterAndSofter: While some of the more risque stories in Greek mythology are alluded to, they tend to leave out a good chunk of the controversial aspects of it, such as the BrotherSisterIncest.

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* LighterAndSofter: While some of the more risque stories in Greek mythology are alluded to, they tend to leave out a good chunk of the controversial aspects of it, such as the BrotherSisterIncest.BrotherSisterIncest, and the game leans toward the comedy side overall.



* StrawFeminist: According to Zeus the women of Lemnos got "woke" and refused to sleep with the husbands, who made up a story about Aphrodite cursing the women with a terrible stench for refusing to sacrifice to her. Prometheus thinks this actually makes more sense than the myth.

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* StrawFeminist: According to Zeus the women of Lemnos got "woke" and refused to sleep with the husbands, who made painted them as this trope by making up a story about Aphrodite cursing the women with a terrible stench for refusing to sacrifice to her. Prometheus thinks this actually makes more sense than the myth.story being taken at face value.



* ViewersAreGeniuses: A number of the jokes rely on the player being familiar with Greek mythology. For instance, when Zeus learns that Hermes and Aphrodite had a child, he asks if it was a boy or a girl, only to conclude that they're non-binary when Prometheus answers, "No." It's never mentioned that the child was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphroditus Hermaphroditus]], having characteristics of both male and female and the source of the term "hermaphrodite".

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* ViewersAreGeniuses: A number of the jokes and references rely on the player being familiar with Greek mythology. mythology because they aren't spelled out completely. For instance, when Zeus learns that Hermes and Aphrodite had a child, he asks if it was a boy or a girl, only to conclude realize that they're non-binary when Prometheus answers, answers "No." It's never mentioned that the child was [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphroditus Hermaphroditus]], having physical characteristics of both male and female sex and the source of the term "hermaphrodite"."hermaphrodite".


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* TheQueensLatin: Averted. The characters are voiced by a Greek cast and have Greek accents.
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* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:Part of Zeus' HeelRealization comes from recognizing that the flaws he has come to hate humanity for are simply reflections of the very same flaws he and his fellow gods possess.]]

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: [[spoiler:Part of Zeus' HeelRealization comes from him recognizing that the flaws he has come to hate humanity for are simply reflections of the very same flaws he and his fellow gods possess.]]
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Any cutscene where Ares as a chicken will show his friend, a bear, doing something amusing, often in the background.
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** One of hair options for Fenyx is [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey Kassandra's hair]].

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** One A couple of the hair options for Fenyx is are [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedOdyssey Kassandra's hair]].and Alexios's hair]]. You can even get Alexios's PermaStubble.



** Even plot achievements have them as well. You get WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant upon meeting Hephaestos, and it seems this version of Athena is a [[Webcomic/OnePunchMan Sassy, Lost Child]] Aphrodite is now Literature/TheGivingTree.

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** Even plot achievements have them as well. You get WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant upon meeting Hephaestos, Hephaistos, and it seems this version of Athena is a [[Webcomic/OnePunchMan Sassy, Lost Child]] Aphrodite is now Literature/TheGivingTree.
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* UnflinchingWalk: Parodied in "The Lost Gods" with the description in the Hearth's Ferocity axe.
-->"Forged from volcanic stone, the wielder of this axe walks away from explosions without looking at them."
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** In "The Lost Gods," the mission to find Demeter is "[[ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Gardenian of the Guarden]]. Wait. What?"
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* GenreShift: "The Lost Gods" turns the game from a third-person game to a top-down hack and slash while still being a sandbox.
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* PointOfNoReturn: Once you enter Typhon's vault to challenge him, you won’t be able to go back to the Golden Isles. At least Prometheus drops a warning as you start heading there.

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* PointOfNoReturn: Once you enter Typhon's vault to challenge him, you won’t be able to go back to the Golden Isles. At least Prometheus drops a warning as you start heading there. "Myths of the Far East" has this happen before you go to challenge Tao Wu.
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** Performing 10 stealth attacks gives you the [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Join the Creed]] achievement/trophy.

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** Performing 10 stealth attacks gives you the [[Franchise/AssassinsCreed Join the Creed]] achievement/trophy. Another Assassin-worthy shoutout in "Myths of the Far East" has a cluster of lingzhi mushrooms patterned in the Assassin logo at Harmony Pavilion.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: In "A New God," you can find a rather "non-local" bell as Fenyx puts it in Mt. Olympus. The Bian Zhong Chimes are the Music Challenge for "Myths of the Far East."
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* TakenForGranite: The game begins with every mortal on the island except for Fenyx turned to stone by Typhon. [[spoiler: Then the WhamEpisode reveals Zeus was the one who did it because HumansAreBastards and he was going to start over. The reason Fenyx survived is cause they're the half-god child of Zeus.]] "Myths of the Far East" starts with Ku waking up to everyone around him turned to stone.
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* BrutalBonusLevel: "A New God" has Trial of the Pantheon which can only be challenged once each and every relic is brought back to the Inner Circle. It's not necessary for completion but it's nice to rub it in Hermes's face.

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* BrutalBonusLevel: "A New God" has Trial of the Pantheon which can only be challenged once each and every relic is brought back to the Inner Circle. It's not necessary for completion but it's nice to rub it in Hermes's face. The reward is Phosphor of Olympos.
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* BrutalBonusLevel: "A New God" has Trial of the Pantheon which can only be challenged once each and every relic is brought back to the Inner Circle. It's not necessary for completion but it's nice to rub it in Hermes's face.


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** One of the sides in the Trials of the Pantheon BrutalBonusLevel in "A New God" has Fenyx jumping over wheels, but wheels on fire by a cyclops. Sounds [[VideoGame/DonkeyKong familiar]]...
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** The description for the Vestment of Unity in "A New God."
-->"[[Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan You had the technology. You made it better. Stronger. Fas... lighter.]] You made it lighter. Sorry, was thinking of something else."
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** In "A New God," the expansion long quest to recover all the relics is "[[Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade It Belongs in a Museum... err... Pantheon]]!"
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* OnlyTheChosenMayRide: The flavor text for Hong Xin from the Black Emperor Character Pack says this trope in full.
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* MisplacedWildlife: The horse in War's Den, Muse, is a zebra, which is in no way native to Greece. Even its own game description lampshades it.
-->"No way did this zany looking horse originate on the Golden Isle. Who, or what, brought this little wonder to the island?"
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''Immortals Fenyx Rising'' is a WideOpenSandbox ActionAdventure video game based around Myth/ClassicalMythology, developed and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} and released December 3, 2020.

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''Immortals Fenyx Rising'' is a WideOpenSandbox ActionAdventure video game based around Myth/ClassicalMythology, developed and published by Creator/{{Ubisoft}} and released on December 3, 2020.
2020 for UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, UsefulNotes/PlayStation5, UsefulNotes/XboxOne, UsefulNotes/XboxSeriesXAndS, UsefulNotes/GoogleStadia, Windows and UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Rise from the ashes.]]

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