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Made by Arkane Studios, ''Arx Fatalis'' is a first person [[Western RPG]] that was intended as a [[Spiritual Successor]] to the ''[[Ultima Underworld]]'' series, and has become somewhat of a [[Cult Classic]].
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The gameplay itself is very free-roaming after the initial tutorial sections, and many sections can be solved in different ways depending on the specialty skills the player has chosen. A notable feature is the magic system, which requires the player to cast spells by making various mouse gestures.
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* [[Advancing Boss of Doom]]:
* [[All Just a Dream]]:
* [[Amnesiac Hero]]
* [[Apocalypse How]]: A bit of a strange example as, while the sun burning out has caused somewhat of an apocalypse, most have survived it. Also
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Lightning Bolt and Slow Time.
* [[Awesome Yet Practical]]: A [[Fireballs|Fireball]] and Speed spells.
* [[Bad
* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Lord Inut.
* [[Bandit Mook]]: Ratmen can steal your money diring a fight.
* [[BFS]]:
*
* [[Bling Bling Bang]]
* [[Body Horror]]: {{spoiler|Akbaa at the end of the game
* [[Bonus Boss]]:
* [[Bonus Dungeon]]: The lowest parts of the crypts, although going there is essential to {{spoiler|getting the good ending}}.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: Harm, Poison cloud, Repel Undead, any weapon enchanted with Paralyse.
* [[Breakable Weapons]]:
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Kultar, your fellow prisoner from the very beginning of the game, returns to save you near the end if you help him.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: At some of the lower levels, you can stay near lava safely as long as you don't touch it.
* [[Deal With the Devil]]: {{spoiler|While the Sisters of Ederneum are more neutral than evil, King Poxsellis made a deal with them for his fourth-generation descendant to become their new queen in exchange for the powerful artifacts Krahoz and Zohark.}}▼
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The dragon.
▲* [[Deal
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: {{spoiler|Akbaa, although it is just an avatar, and the main character is implied to be on the verge of becoming a relative god himself at that point
* [[Difficult but Awesome]]
* [[Disc One Nuke]]
▲* [[Distressed Damsel]]: Alia, though only episodically, and Shany.
* [[Drop in Nemesis]]
* [[Dug Too Deep]]: {{spoiler|The Dwarfs, who moved to the lowest levels of the mine and came across a monster during their continued digging
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: {{spoiler|While Akbaa has to possess a body to manifest on Arx Fatalis, the glimpses of his true form seem to be almost nothing but tentacles and eyeballs
* [[Enemy Summoner]]: Iserbius ''loves'' summoning the demons, and Liches sometimes spawn zombies.
* [[Energy Being]]: {{spoiler|Guardians while in Noden}}.
* [[Everything Fades]]: Mostly averted but played straight with Ylsides, who explode after death so you can't loot their awesome armor.
* [[Fake Skill]]
* [[Feigning Intelligence]]: Goblins. ''All'' goblins,
* [[Functional Magic]]: There's hints that magic is the main reason the races were able to continue surviving after the sun went out.
* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: It isn't stated anywhere that a
▲* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: It isn't stated anywhere that a {{spoiler|world-saver demigod}} can't rob a bank (howewer, it's owner and especially his fiancee can count as [[Asshole Victim]]). Or simply [[Kleptomaniac Hero|loot everything that isn't nailed down or on fire]] (and if it is, you have a pickaxe and Douse spell).
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Some of the actions you must make to progress have incredibly vague hints, or almost none at all.
* [[Implacable Man]]:
▲* [[Grid Inventory]] / [[Inventory Management Puzzle]]
▲* [[Implacable Man]]: {{spoiler|Black Beast is undestructible. Can reach [[The Juggernaut]] levels when you see the sheer slaughter and devastation it brought.}}
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Averted if you fail a certain side quest.
* [[Infinity
* [[Infinity
▲* [[Infinity Minus One Sword]]: {{spoiler|Four of them (the stronger the sword the harder it is to obtain): Giant Slayer blade, forged two-handed sword, giant life-draining, paralysing sword of Inut, mithril two-handed sword. The latter may be later remade into [[Infinity Plus One Sword]]. }}
* [[Interface Screw]]: A Paralyse is a major one [[That One Attack|if casted on you]]. Even cursor is
* [[Item Crafting]]
* [[Jump Physics]]: Really awkward, on the verge of [[Good Bad Bugs]]. You can somehow move twice faster by bunny-hopping and [[Not the Fall That Kills You|negate all falling damage]] by jumping off the ledge rather than walkking off it, but there is a [[That One Level|dreaded jump-puzzle]] involving tiny platforms and lava...
* [[Karl Marx Hates Your Guts]]. Subverted twice:
* [[Karmic Death]]:
*
**
* [[Kill It
* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Pretty much every tough enemy (
* [[Magic Knight]]: Even playing a character with a heavy focus on melee and Rogue skills, magic is still frequently essential to solving puzzles and fighting certain enemies.
* [[Mama Bear]]
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Lord ''Inut'', obsessed with chickens to the degree of insanity, and Falan ''Orbiplanax'', the astronomer.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]:
* [[Multiple Endings]]: While the main ending is the same, a few sidequests have a major influence on the resolution of one of the central plot-lines of the game.
* [[Nobody Poops]]:
*
** Another poor goblin apparently ate too much rotten fish today...
* [[No Name Given]]: PC's (nick)name, Am Shaegar, literally means "the nameless one".
* [[Pound of Flesh Twist]]: {{spoiler|In the good resolution to the plot, when the Sisters of Ederneum come to take away princess Alia to become their new queen, it is revealed she is the fifth-generation descendant of Poxsellis and not the fourth, saving her from that fate
* [[Powered Armor]]: A magical example, strength-boosting Ylside armor.
* [[
* [[Puzzle Boss]]: {{spoiler|Black Beast}}.
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|The player character being from another world. The discovery of the lost princess of Arx Fatalis and why the Sisters of Ederneum are helping the Human kingdom
* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]: Rats. And Ratmen. And, good god, the summonable demon rat.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: King Lunshire is skilled in diplomacy and managed to save the most of his (if not the worlds) people by convincing ''all'' races, even those who were mortal enemies, to join forces for common survival. His father
* [[Schmuck Bait]]: On
* [[Shaky POV Cam]]:
* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: Ylside armor.
* [[Significant Anagram]]:
* [[Slasher Smile]]:
* [[Spontaneous Human Combustion]]: An Incinerate Spell works this way.
* [[Stone Wall]]
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Incinerate and ''Mass Incinerate'' spells.
* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]:
* [[Ultimate Blacksmith]]: Dwarwes.
* [[Underground Level]]: The entire game, for obvious reasons.
* [[The Unintelligible]]: The Ratmen.
* [[Useless Useful Spell]]: [[Life Drain]]. It will deplete your mana meter in seconds and works only in very small radius (roughly ONE step). You surely do not want to get that close to stronger enemies as they deal more damage than the spell heals, and weaker ones are pretty well killed without it.
* [[Well
** {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Iserbius]] genuinely believes that [[Bigger Bad|Akbaa]] will bring the sun back}}.
** {{spoiler|Also, Captain Carlo, who assassinated the queen because he suspected her in a conspiracy against the king, but could not tell the latter, knowing it would break his heart
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]:
* [[Wizard Needs Food Badly]]: You have to eat occasionally to not starve, but there's more than enough food for it to not become an issue.
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