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You can watch most of it as a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMh7OqVxhDk&feature=related movie featuring all its cutscenes].
It is now available on GOG.com and Steam.
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* [[Faster-Than-Light Travel]]: The Sender Spikes launch ships to Anachronox, and Anachronox sends ships to Sender Spikes around the galaxy, making it the hub of galactic transportation.
* [[The Future Is Noir]]: The Bricks, the first area of the game, is a place a ''[[Blade Runner]]'' character might find comfy.
* [[Game Breaking Bug]]:
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** The final boss is known for being an unstable event, as a bug can occur where the boss will attempt to respawn an orb when a party member is standing in place. This will lead to the game freezing.
* [[Global Currency]]: The galactic currency is the Canadian Dollar.
** It's the ''de facto'' Galactic Currency. One of the newsfeeds you can read in the game mentions that a conference will be taking place soon to decide if the "Loonie" should become the ''de jure'' currency.
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* [[Idiot Hero]]: Boots. He can't spell "Anachronox". He lives on the planet Anachronox.
{{quote|"''Unachronox!'' Man, you guys are dumb."}}
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Rho Bowman uses devices that attacks with '''SCIENCE!'''. Democratus attacks with orbital lasers and ''nukes''. Paco, being a comic-style superhero, equips old issues of his own comic to access his fighting moves. In addition to all this, spells are powered by ''insects''.
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Each character has their own. Notably, Paco's can be obtained earlier than you actually get the character, making him stupidly overpowered in the short term. Also, the "harmonic" mystechs, one for each color, are the most powerful mystech in the game, short of the eight super-bug modular mystech.
* [[Jerkass]]: Sly Boots. This is even mentioned [[All There in the Manual|in the manual]] when after giving the sob story of his life up until that point in his bio, Fatima (who narrates the manual) says "But don't feel bad for him. He's a jerk."
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* [[Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering]]: The Democratus High Council.
* [[Order Versus Chaos]]
* [[Overly-Long Fighting Animation]]: Unusually for a PC RPG of the time, some of the game's [[Limit Break|Bouge]] skills have cutscene-like animations. A "speed up" key is added in a later patch, which greatly remedies this situation.
* [[Power Walk]]: The ending cutscene.
* [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]]: Come on, you have to guide a team of {{spoiler|a loser detective, a sadist [[Badass Grandpa]], a robot that would make Asimov cry, a geek scientist who accidentally destroyed a planet and killed a lot of other scientists (though to be fair, you find out it wasn't actually her), a planet shrunk down to human size, a killer stripper and a drunkard superhero}}.
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* [[True Companions]]: And a bizarre set of one, at that. One of your companions is {{spoiler|an ''entire planet'', shrunk down to your scale}}.
* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]]: The game features at least one short stealth sequence and a mandatory rail shooting section.
* [[Virtual Ghost]]: Fatima, Boots' "LifeCursor", is actually the mind of Boots' secretary downloaded into a little flying apparatus that acts as a sort of a combination of futuristic PDA and your ''game cursor''. She appears to Boots as a hologram since she doesn't actually have a body. She is not overly happy with this arrangement.
* [[Welcome to Corneria]]: Played straight and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]]. Every character in the game is nothing but a stock set of phrases. One particular fellow in the Anachronox train station, however, is aware of this fact and preaches it to the masses. They don't believe him, of course. Near the end of the game, speaking to him will reward you with a harmonic mystech, his way of making sure you remember who he is.
* [[You All Look Familiar]]: Lampshaded via the character Multidude, who can create copies of himself.
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[[Category:Microsoft Windows]]
[[Category:Science Fiction Video Games]]
[[Category:Eastern RPG]]
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