History VideoGame / TitanSouls

* SurpriseCreepy: For the most part, ''Titan Souls'' is a colorful fantasy game where none of the monsters are too scary. Then [[spoiler:you fight the TrueFinalBoss. After defeating The Soul and entering the gate it was guarding, you wind up in an empty white void. Truth, a giant unblinking eye inside of two eye-covered wheels, then appears. When you damage it, the wheels move to the edges of the screen and become gates that fire black orbs with eyes and biting mouths at you, occasionally firing Truth at you. Once you hit Truth again, it briefly recoils before sprouting tentacles and beginning to chase you. While all of this is happening, the adventurous music of the rest of the game is replaced with atonal noise that wouldn't be out of place in a horror game.]]

* ShoutOut: [[spoiler:Truth]] shares a name and many aesthetics with a similar from Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist (though its design is more in line with the one from [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 the first anime adaptation]]).

''Titan Souls'' is an ActionAdventure BossGame, developed by Acid Nerve and released on April 14th, 2015 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]], UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita. Its gameplay is a mixture of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus''. The player controls a lone adventurer armed with a bow and a single arrow that has to be retrieved after every shot. The goal of the game is to kill 19 Titans who require only one hit to kill, however finding their weak spot is extremely hard.

!!Provides Examples Of:
* AnIcePerson: Stratus and Yeti.

* BonusBoss: If you look hard enough, you'll find an additional titan called [[spoiler:"The Elder"]]. Not only is he the only titan [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij2YnO_8F3c who actually talks]], he provides a bit of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDGTS_COcZI backstory]] in the game and is the only character in the game who actually has dialogue at all. However, [[spoiler: he doesn't actually fight you]].

** Knight Elhanan, accredited in some translations of the bible with killing Goliath, is referred to as 'Legendary Titan Slayer'.

* SurpriseCreepy: For the most part, ''Titan Souls'' is a colorful fantasy game where none of the monsters are too scary. Then [[spoiler: you fight the TrueFinalBoss. After defeating The Soul and entering the gate it was guarding, you wind up in an empty white void. Truth, a giant unblinking eye inside of two eye-covered wheels, then appears. When you damage it, the wheels move to the edges of the screen and become gates that fire black orbs with eyes and biting mouths at you, occasionally firing Truth at you. Once you hit Truth again, it briefly recoils before sprouting tentacles and beginning to chase you. While all of this is happening, the adventurous music of the rest of the game is replaced with atonal noise that wouldn't be out of place in a horror game.]]

** [[Exclusive to Hard Mode is Black Vinethesis, a stronger version of Vinethesis with more tentacles to hit you with. You have to go out of your way and follow a certain set of directions to reach it.]]

* BonusBoss: If you look hard enough, you'll find an additional titan called [[spoiler:"The Elder"]]. Not only is he the only titan [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij2YnO_8F3c who actually talks]], he provides a bit of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDGTS_COcZImore backstory]] in the game and is the only character in the game who actually has dialogue at all. However, [[spoiler:he doesn't actually fight you]].

''Titan Souls'' is an ActionAdventure BossGame, developed by Acid Nerve and released on April 14th, 2015 for [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]], UsefulNotes/Playstation4 and UsefulNotes/PlaystationVita. Its gameplay is a mixture of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus''. The player controls a lone adventurer armed with bow and a single arrow that has to be retrieved after every shot. The goal of the game is to kill 19 Titans who require only one hit to kill, however finding their weak spot is extremely hard.

The game uses a pixel art style with 3D elements for some of the titans. It plays as a top-down action-adventure with very simple controls: there is one button to shoot (or pull the arrow back to the player after shooting) and one button for rolling/running.

* GoForTheEye: The Elder, Eyecube, Obello and Rol-Qayin all have their only eye as weak spots.

* ArcherArchetype: The player character is armed with a bow and arrow and nothing else.
* ArmorIsUseless: Played with for Elhanan. Oh, sure, that fancy armor protects him just fine while he's wearing it, but hit his big arrow ONCE, and it disappears, leaving him immobile and defenseless for a few seconds. Granted, grabbing your own arrow and firing it again in that time is challenging, but it makes you wonder what he'd do against someone who thought to bring two arrows.
* AsteroidsMonster: Sludgeheart, one of the first titans in the game, splits into two whenever it's struck, with one half carrying its weak point. In Hard Mode, it and its parts split into three on hit.

* AttackTheTail: Onyxia's weakspot is on the tip of its tail.
* BeatingADeadPlayer: When the protagonist gets killed in combat, the boss will continue moving and attacking, aimed at his corpse. This can lead into amusing behavior like Gol-Iath [[PummelingTheCorpse pounding the protagonist into the ground]] as it fades to black.

* BlobMonster: Sludgeheart and Mol-Qayin. Mol-Qayin stretches the definition slightly, being a blob of magma.

* ChestBlaster: Gol-Set can fire a powerful beam from its exposed weak point located on the chest. The weak point will then be sealed off after use.
* ChestMonster: Avarice is a giant mimic chest that [[TeleportSpam often teleports]] and spews out coins to attack.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Weak points are represented by the color pink.
* DeadlyGas: Vinethesis pumps out purple toxic fumes that will follow you around.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: The protagonist, apparently. Either way, they're barefoot the entire game.
* EldritchAbomination: [[spoiler:Truth.]]
* ElectrifiedBathtub: Onyxia can electrify the entire pool, which will fry you if you don't get on the floating ice platforms in time.
* EpicFlail: Gol-Qayin uses its two flails to move and attack.

* FreezeRay: Stratus can summon a tower that fires a beam that creates shards of ice along its path. [[spoiler: It can be baited to hit Stratus' teeth, exposing his weak spot in the process]].
* FrictionlessIce: Brainfreeze moves by sliding when its brain is encased in a block of ice.

* HelpfulHallucination: In Hard difficulty, Obello's weak spot is only revealed when you enter a drugged state by touching the trail left by its spore bullets.

* MirrorMatch: Knight Elhanan and [[spoiler:The Soul]] use attacks that are very similar to your own, although they're much harder to hit than you. Knight Elhanan is even implied to be a (possibly former) titan slayer like you.
* MoneyMauling: Appropriately for a ChestMonster, Avarice's main form of attack is firing giant gold coins out of its mouth.
* MushroomSamba: Obello, a giant mushroom, fires projectiles that explode into clouds which cause a brief InterfaceScrew if you are nearby (or kill you on a direct hit).

* OneHitKill: The player character as well as all the titans die after one hit.

* OneHitPolykill: Knight Elhanan's arrows instantly pierce through the pillars in Hard Mode.

* PinballProjectile:
** Knight Elhanan's big arrow has the tendency to bounce around the environment.
** Gol-Hevel's bullets ricochet off walls in Hard Mode.

* ShotInTheAss: The Yeti's weak point is his exposed butt.
* SnowballFight: Throwing giant snowballs is one of the Yeti's attacks.
* SpinAttack: After it is forced to re-orient itself three times, Gol-Qayin goes berserk, spinning around the battlefield and pounding the ground. In Hard Mode, it does this every time it needs to re-orient itself.

* TacticalSuicideBoss: Knight Elhanan, despite having plenty of normal arrows to shoot at you, repeatedly uses his giant arrow, which is the only way to make him vulnerable.

* ZeroEffortBoss: [[spoiler:The Elder]], who [[spoiler:speaks to you]] and then makes no effort to defend itself. It is, however, well-hidden.

* MeaningfulName: Knight Elhanan, accredited in some translations of the bible with killing Goliath, is referred to as 'Legendary Titan Slayer'. Also, Gol-Qayin and Gol-Hevel - the original Hebrew names of Cain and Abel - which gives a very strong hint how one was murdered and the other disgraced.

Titan Souls is 2015 action-adventure developed by Acid Nerve. Its gameplay is a mixture of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' and ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus''. The player controls a lone adventurer armed with bow and a single arrow that has to be retrieved after every shot. The goal of the game is to kill 19 Titans who require only one hit to kill, however finding their weak spot is extremely hard.

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* FinalDeath: Enabling Iron Mode enforces this trope, erasing your save file on death.

* WhiteVoidRoom: Where you fight the TrueFinalBoss. Literally inverted in Hard Mode, where the color palettes of nearly everything involved is inverted.

* ChestBlaster: Gol-Set can fire a powerful beam from its exposed weak point located on the chest. The weak point will then be sealed off after use.

* GiantHandsOfDoom: Both Gol-Iath and Gol-Set will try to crush you with their hands.

* WhiteVoidRoom: Where you fight the TrueFinalBoss. Literally inverted in Hard Mode, where the color palettes of nearly everything involved is inverted.

* BoomerangComeback: Holding down the shoot button after you've fired the arrow draws it back towards the protagonist. With enough momentum, the arrow can inflict damage this way -- perfect for striking weak points positioned on their backs.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: After death, the player character instantly re-spawns at the last checkpoint with no penalties whatsoever (apart from an increasing death counter).

** [[spoiler:Truth]] starts to fire a laser from its eye in the [[spoiler:final]] phase of the fight.

* MirrorMatch: Knight Elhanan and [[spoiler:The Soul]] use attacks that are very similar to your own, but have much better defenses. Knight Elhanan is even implied to be a (possibly former) titan slayer like you.

* SpinAttack: After it is forced to re-orient itself three times, Gol-Qayin goes berserk, spinning around the battlefield and pounding the ground. In Hard Mode, it does this every time it needs to re-orient itself.
* SpritePolygonMix: The game is mostly 2D, but some of the titans and a few effects are in 3D.

* TacticalSuicideBoss: Knight Elhanan, big time. Despite having plenty of normal arrows to shoot at you, he repeatedly uses his giant arrow, which is the only thing that can expose his weak point.

* ArcherArchetype: The player character is one, only armed with a bow and arrow and nothing else.

* AttackItsWeakPoint: Shoot any of the titans in their weak spot and they're killed in one hit. The trouble is finding ''when'' they're vulnerable.

* BonusBoss: If you look hard enough, you'll find an additional titan called [[spoiler:"The Elder"]]. Not only is he the only titan [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij2YnO_8F3c who actually talks]], he provides a bit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDGTS_COcZImore backstory]] in the game and is the only one who actually gives any dialogue in the game at all. However, [[spoiler:he doesn't actually fight you]].
* BoomerangComeback: Holding down the shoot button after you've fired draws the arrow back towards the protagonist. With enough momentum the arrow can damage enemies this way -- perfect for striking weak points positioned on their backs.

* DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist: After death, the player character instantly re-spawns at the last checkpoint. There are no penalties whatsoever (apart from an increasing death counter).

* ElectrifiedBathtub: Onyxia can electrify the entire pool which will fry you if you don't get on the floating ice platforms in time.

** Eyecube fires optic blasts from its eye and the beams are powerful enough to launch it in the air when it shoots the ground.
** Gol-Set can shoot out lasers from both of its eyes.
** [[spoiler:Truth]] starts to fire a laser from its eye in the [[spoiler:final]] phase

* HelpfulHallucination: Obello's weak spot will only be revealed in Hard difficulty when you enter a drugged state by touching the trail left by its spore bullets.

** Several titans can only be hurt by turning one of their attacks against them, though you always have to hit them afterward.
** This is turned around on you during the final boss battle. If you miss, the boss can suck in your arrow and fire it back at you. If you try to use your power to suck it back you will also suck in his arrow (which still kills you).

* OneHitPolykill: Knight Elhanan's arrows instantly pierces through the pillars in Hard Mode.

* ShotInTheAss: The Yeti's weak point is his exposed butt, shooting him there will kill him.
* SnowballFight: The Yeti likes to chuck big snowballs at you. The snowballs are not lethal, and will only knock you around. Colliding with a wall from this knockback, however, kills you.

* VagueAge: The player character. [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/57d5204a3c70c7741107b630b244c6a9/tumblr_nmttcwCyBa1qbcrjmo3_500.jpg The]] [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/cff5dee3025544442ecf7ff8dc30e47f/tumblr_nmttcwCyBa1qbcrjmo2_500.jpg official]] [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/4e5b0989d6d81f7dd61bac5079ba1bc1/tumblr_nmttcwCyBa1qbcrjmo1_500.jpg art]] makes him seem pretty young, but then again, it may be a case of OlderThanTheyLook.
* WastedSong: Every titan has its own song, ranging from 1-3 minutes long. The game's nature ensure that every titan can be killed quickly if you know what your'e doing, but a few can easily be killed in under five seconds. Most pronounced is Rol-Qayin, whose song is three minutes long even though you can kill it by firing an arrow before it finishes its first attack.

* GoForTheEye: The Elder's, Eyecube's, Obello's and Rol-Qayin's weak spot are their eyes.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Several titans can only be hurt by turning one of their attacks against them, though you always have to hit them afterward.

* ZeroEffortBoss: [[spoiler:The Elder]], who [[spoiler:speaks to you]] and then makes no effort to defend itself. It is, however, well-hidden.

* AsteroidsMonster: Sludgeheart, one of the first titans in the game, splits into two whenever it's struck, with one half carrying its weak point.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Shoot any of the titans in their weakspot and they're killed in one hit. The trouble is finding ''when'' they're vulnerable.

* WhiteVoidRoom: Where you fight the TrueFinalBoss.

* AsteroidsMonster: Sludgeheart, one of the first titans in the game.

** [[spoiler:Truth]] starts to fire laser from its eye in the [[spoiler:final]] phase

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Knight Elhanan is said to be a legendary titan slayer, yet, by the time you meet him, he's a titan himself.

* SnowballFight: The Yeti likes to chuck big snowballs at you.

* PinballProjectile: Knight Elhanan's big arrow has the tendency to bounce around the environment.

* ChestMonster: Avarice is a giant mimic chest that often spews out coins.

* FrictionlessIce: Brainfreeze moves by sliding while its brain is encased in a block of ice.

** [[spoiler:Truth]] starts to fire laser from its in the final [[spoiler:final]] phase