Inexplicable Treasure Chests: Chests with equipment are often found through exploring various nooks and crannies.He can also carry an oil lantern, but doing so makes combat impossible. Hollywood Darkness: Averted the darkness that claimed the world is no metaphor, and it is very hard for Nyx to see anything without light from Aether nearby.Homing Projectile: The meteors favored by both the game's first boss and the final boss.Nyx carries her to a boat and pushes it to drift away, while he himself gets taken by the suddenly reborn boss. Heartbeat Soundtrack: One is heard right after you defeat the Final Boss, which is followed by Aether collapsing, and a pulsing electrocardiogram reading appearing in the corner of the screen.Giant Mook: There are enemies like club-bearing trolls, or simply giant armored knights.Flunky Boss: The Final Boss will regularly summon basic enemies to compensate for its own lack of melee prowess.Nyx's own sword will be charged with some blue energy if he is close to Aether. Flaming Sword: The first boss has a conventional example, to go along with his ability to summon flaming meteors.He begins by calling down lightning, then switches to throwing down meteors, and then to freezing ice orbs. Fire, Ice, Lightning: The powers of the Final Boss.Everything Fades: Dead bodies sink into the ground without a trace mere seconds after collapsing.However, if Nyx dies, Aether will be slain by monsters on the spot, and after he revives at the nearest shrine, he'll have to reach her ashes to revive her. Unlike most examples, Aether's death means little, as she can be revived indefinitely. Escort Mission: The entire game is a variation on this, as Nyx's only goal is to safely deliver his daughter Aether to the sunlit lands.Dual Wielding: Nyx can fight with two one-handed weapons at once, though this obviously requires him to forgo a shield.As expected, it is highly damaging, but also cumbersome to wield. Drop the Hammer: A two-handed hammer is one of the weapons available to Nyx.Thus, smarter antagonists give up on trying to kill her and instead attempt teleporting into the battle in order to grab her and throw her into a prison. She may crumble to ash after getting hit, but a touch from Nyx will instantly revive her. Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: As an avatar of the world's last light, Aether cannot really die.Crapsack World: How else to describe a realm shrouded in darkness, where practically everyone is either dead or corrupted, and most other survivors are resigned to either of these fates?.The Corruption: The Darkness is explicitly said to have infected everything it could reach after its victory, and to corrupt the humans.
Some of the enemies also wield spears, like the armored knights who pair them with shields.There are also enemy halberdiers, who frequently go for a Spin Attack with their weapon. Their reach also allows him to outrange practically every enemy, and thus kite them to death. Blade on a Stick: Halberds are one of the weapons available to Nyx.The enemies can be kited with long melee weapons with relative ease.In particular, she may end up walking into quite obvious traps, or even straight-up flames. Artificial Stupidity: Aether's AI has issues.Enemies will sometimes wield them as well. An Axe to Grind: One-handed axes can be used by Nyx with a shield, or dual-wielded.After the End: The world has essentially undergone a magical apocalypse as a the result of evil winning.It is not to be confused with the 2018 Puzzle Platformer Light Fall.