History VideoGame / PathfinderWrathOfTheRighteous

* SadisticChoice: At very end of Act 4/beginning of Act 5, you [[spoiler:return to Drezen. You have to decide whether or not to save Hilor and some NPC Crusaders in the prison, save Fye, One Eyed Devil, and Yaker in the Half Measure, or go to the Citadel to save Irabeth and the Storyteller. Whichever of the first two you go to first results in the other failing, and doing the third one first results in both of the others failing. So you either lose two merchants and a minor character, the questgiver who lets you respec and buy custom companions, or all four of them; you can't lose Irabeth and the Storyteller.]] It's possible to mostly subvert this by [[spoiler:unlocking the Gold Dragon path from Hal, resulting in him saving Irabeth, then visiting Hilor first and taking the Evil option telling him to forget about the prisoners, before finally saving the others in the tavern; all the plot [=NPCs=] survive and there's no mechanical consequence for the prisoners' deaths beyond a small Evil shift.]]

* SellWhatYouLove: It's revealed that the half orc paladin Irabeth Tirablade sold her beloved sword to buy an Elixir of Sex Shift for her transgender wife Anevia. The player can find it early in the game and give it back to her, which can help restore her resolve after the vents of the Lost Chapel.

* SellWhatYouLove: It's revealed that the half orc paladin Irabeth Tirablade sold her beloved sword to buy an Elixir of Sex Shift for her transgender wife Anevia.

** Averted with Ulbrig only, who will shift back to his human form to interact with NPCs in cutscenes and scripted dialogue. Fortunately he will shift back to griffon form afterwards if he was already in it and it won't count towards his daily limit of transformations.

At the start of the game, she's so strong that she can one-shot the player and party without trouble. The second fight against her normally wouldn't change, but the player's Mythic powers

* TheWormThatWalks: One of the mythic path options is the Swarm-that-Walks, which entails your character becoming a ravenous humanoid swarm of locusts.

* CripplingOverspecialization: Using the auto level feature will tend to create a party which is heavy on healers, archers, and dual-wielders, discouraging tanky defensive playstyles in favor of [[AttackAttackAttack charging in and piling on damage]] while heavily buffed. A few companions also come pre-specialized in extremely exotic weapon types. Surprisingly, Regill's specialization in the gnomish hooked hammer DoubleWeapon is well-provided for with several strategic drops, despite normally being very uncommon. Greybor gets hit hard, however, with dwarven waraxes being rare, and Woljif's favored magic daggers are unusually sparse compared to ''Kingmaker''. This can mean you're faced with the choice of either having the companion run around with an inferior weapon that fits their specialization or losing access to the specialization benefits but giving them a more up-to-snuff weapon which wastes their feat choices.

** Even an evil-aligned player character will be pitted against the demonic horde invading Mendev. This is especially pronounced if you choose the Lich, Swarm, or Demon Mythic Paths.

* FightingAShadow: Killing a Demon Lord does not destroy them permanently, but rather sends them to the Abyss for one year. If they are killed during this time, they die permanently. This can lead to great loss of status as they will stay in their fortresses and not lead their armies against other Demon Lords who challenge them.

** The inquisitor Hulrun, a KnightTemplar who has killed many innocents, yet is also genuinely a great warrior who has saved the city from demons countless times. Nobody in your party likes him save for the idealistic Ember, and multiple characters comment how if he wasn't such a capable fighter, they'd likely do something about his actions.
** Wenduag, as in addition to being a power-hungry sadistic cannibal, she's a tactless braggart and bully.
** Regill. The Hellknights have such a poor reputation that it's entirely possible for your entire party to suggest not rescuing them when Taker comes for help, save for Ember who would literally help demons. After joining the Party Refill hardly gets more friends.

** If Arushelae is fully redeemed, she says that Desna has severed her connection with the Abyss and removed her demonic powers so she can finally have a physical relationship with the Commander. But a quick glance at her character sheet shows that she still has her Vampiric Touch and other racial features.

** Although RelationshipValues exist in the game, how it works and what influences it does not get shown to the player. This can lead to accidentally romancing someone due to lack of signposting for less obvious choices, or cause characters to dislike the player character, and there isn't a way to know what the status of their views on your character are, unless you use a guide to see what choices cause certain things.

* HorrifyingTheHorror: Repeatedly. The player character is something so unusual and so far outside the boundaries of what the world is used to that nobody knows what to make of them, and that terrifies many of them. Minagho is the first one to be on the receiving end, but far from the last, and a high-Persuasion character gets plenty of chances to intimidate demons into not fighting. [[spoiler:This escalates to both Mephistopheles and Baphomet being 'concerned' about the player's power.]]

** [[invoked]]Camellia's [[spoiler:amulet of undetectable alignment]] doesn't hide the fact that she's [[spoiler:able to use the Scrolls of Protection from Good/Law, making her ChaoticEvil]]. Additionally, whenever you level her up, [[spoiler:if you select any class that has an alignment prerequisite, the game outright states her current alignment is ChaoticEvil]]. Not that it's hard to figure out otherwise based on her banter.

* InvisibleWall: In Crusade Mode during Act 3, you'll eventually hit a point where roads no longer continue into the Worldwound. No in-universe reason is given for this. Come Act 5 you'll suddenly be able to continue down those roads to Iz and the fortress of Threshold.

* KnightTemplar: The veteran inquisitor Hulrun has been fighting for Kenabres for decades, determined to keep Kenabres safe from spies and cultists at all costs -- including rounding up suspects and hanging them or burning them at the stake with very little evidence, claiming to derive an infallible "all-seeing eye" from his goddess Iomedae. It's made clear by his fellow citizens, even those who sympathize with him, that he is paranoid and dangerous, and has killed many innocents -- and even then, they are hesitant to write him off, as he has genuinely saved the city from demons on numerous occasions as well. The player can make him their ally or murder him -- if they manage not to provoke him into branding them as heretics. Displaying your Angelic power alleviates some of his suspicions, though you're only given the chance to do so the first time you speak with him.

* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: The Glabrezu Voetiel from Woljif's questline first confronts you early in Act 3 and is a fairly credible miniboss fight at that point. When you meet him again in Woljif's Act 4 quest he's still exactly the same upgraded Glabrezu he was the last time you kicked his ass while your party has gained significantly both in experience and mythic power, very likely turning the rematch into a CurbStompBattle.

* ViolationOfCommonSense: Due to events at the beginning of Act 5, which you won't know about until you get there, the Crusade side suffers from a good deal of this. [[spoiler:Galfrey assumes command of your armies while you're away in the Abyss and will always lose them, making building up your army beyond what's needed pointless. Instead of focusing on your armies, level up your generals as high as possible, capture all the forts you can, and build and develop those as far as you can, since forts are unaffected.]] Furthermore, [[spoiler:available resources do carry over, meaning it makes sense to stall as long as possible before going to the Midnight Fane.]] Knowing this ahead of time can save you a lot of headaches and give you a head start going into Act 5. The only time this isn't true is if you're going for the secret ending, as that's on a time limit.

* WeCannotGoOnWithoutYou: Since the PC is the source of mythic power for the party, if the main character dies, the game ends. It's not yet clear why the main character cannot be revived, but it likely has to do with being the source of Mythic power.
* WithThisHerring: Present in the main game and exageratted in the second DLC. The player at least starts out with regular weapons and armor in the main campaign but in the latter they have to make do with torches and ''prop weapons'' for a while before actually finding a decent weapon. Armor meanwhile will either be damaged or has to be bought at exorbitant prices from rare NPC's, leaving most of the party to run around practically naked till they start killing human enemies in the graveyard area.

* WhenThePlanetsAlign: The Third Week of Gozran, year 4717, between the 16th and 21st is ''significant.''

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: The game is somewhat vague on what "Angels" are, seemingly specifying them as LawfulGood exclusively. In the original ''{{TabletopGame/Pathfinder}}'', "Angel" refers to several variants of Good Celestials; Archons (LawfulGood) Devas (NeutralGood), etc. among others. The Angel Mythic Path would be better defined as the Archon Mythic Path. It was likely boiled down to TheThemeParkVersion for people new to Pathfinder.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: The inquisitor Hulrun, a KnightTemplar who has killed many innocents, yet is also genuinely a great warrior who has saved the city from demons countless times. Among party members, Wenduag also counts, as in addition to being a power-hungry sadistic cannibal, she's a tactless braggart and bully.

* AwesomeYetPractical: The Magic-oriented generals. They quickly gain spells they can use once per battle phase to directly damage enemy troops, and eventually gain more powerful ones that can annihilate the entire opposing side of the battlefield in one blow. And since the power of those spells solely scales off the general's Power (squared) those generals can technically defeat any enemy by bringing a tiny contingent of tanky soldiers like Shieldbearers to stall the opponent until they can pop off enough spells to destroy them. It says something that in the community Setsuna Shy (who gets the widest area spell at the lowest level) has risen to such a status of MemeticBadass that not picking him as your first General is seen as putting the crusade in hard mode.

* {{Hypocrite}}: During the defense of Kenabres, you can find someone looting a body. You can tell him off for it. But there is nothing stopping you from looting the body yourself immediately after and no repercussions for it. And that's not even counting all the empty houses and dead bodies you undoubtedly looted before that point.

* {{Hypocrite}}: During the defense of Kenabres, you can find someone looting a body. You can tell him off for it. But there is nothing stopping you from looting the body yourself immediately after and no reprecussions for it.

* MedievalStasis: Played [[spoiler:mostly]] straight, despite the country of Numeria being right next door. [[spoiler:Until you reach the Blackwater dungeon, an underground technological laboratory that wouldn't look out of place in ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'' populated with augmented warriors and ''cyberdemons'', and unlocks the option to enroll the cyborgs in your own army upon completion]].

* CameraScrew: Maps with a lot of elevation changes like the Lost Chapel can wreak havoc with camera placement in turn-based mode.

* BladeOnAStick: A whole assortment are available: spears, scythes, glaives, etc. Of note is the fact that the major demon lords leading the Worldwound host, Deskari and Baphomet, hold scythe and glaives (respectively) as their favored weapons, meaning their followers use them religiously. (This can also make them a bit of a menace, since in the game system these weapons tend to have low crit chance but hit ''incredibly'' hard when they do.)