Enslaved: Odyssey to the West: Difference between revisions

''Enslaved: Odyssey to the West'' is an action-adventure game developed by Ninja Theory. The game is published by Namco Bandai Games and out for [[Play Station]] 3 and Xbox 360.

 

 

The main character of the game, Monkey, is a lone wolf who's spent his entire life running from the machines. Eventually, Monkey is captured by the death machines, where he is placed on an [[Cool Airship|airship]] for transport to the city of Pyramid. It is there that he meets a technologically adept woman named [[Wrench Wench|Trip]]. Trip manages to escape, freeing Monkey in the process, who goes after her in an effort to get to an escape pod. He ends up trying to hijack hers, and is knocked unconscious in the landing. When he comes to, Monkey finds that Trip has placed a [[Restraining Bolt|slaver's headband]] on him in order to compel him to help her get home. She explains that she has hacked the headband so she can give him jolts of pain at will; and further that if Trip's heart ever stops then the headband will kill Monkey outright. As they try to make their way back to Trip's village they must fight robots that have been lying dormant for years. The two of them have a strained relationship but in order to survive this perilous world they need each other's help.

 

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* [[Abhorrent Admirer]]: Pigsy has a crush on Trip.

* [[Acrofatic]]: Pigsy; never has a fat man been so agile, although the grappling gun probably helps.

* [[Advancing Boss of Doom]]: The Dog, {{spoiler|for the first time you see one}}. Pigsy's DLC has a Dog chase through the eyes of the Dog.

* [[After the End]]: Takes place after the [[Robot War]].

* [[Carry a Big Stick]]: Monkey's collapsible staff. It's even capable of shooting plasma and EMP blasts.

* [[Cool Bike]]: Monkey has one.

* [[Crapsack World]]: Most of the human race is dead, the cities of the past are crumbling under lush jungles, and the world is covered in [[Mechanical Monster|Mechanical Monsters]].

* [[Curse Cut Short]]: We hear Monkey curse out Trip for locking him away from the escape pods, but severely muffled by a sound-proof door.

** Also counts as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]]

* [[Gatling Good]]: The trailer shows Monkey using mounted machine guns.

* [[Hair Decorations]]: After reprogramming the robotic dragonfly, Trip usually wears it in her hair where it looks like feathers.

* [[He Was Right There All Along]] - There's a section where Monkey, Trip and Pigsy are looking for parts to repair Pigsy's flying craft. The last part they need is a power cell, which they find sitting out in an open area, otherwise occupied only by large piles of junked machinery. Monkey and Pigsy have a brief discussion about how lucky they are to just find it sitting there, Monkey clearly not believing the group's apparent luck. Only after Monkey jumps down into the area and gets the cell does Pigsy warn him to "watch out for the Rhino." Monkey doesn't know what he's talking about - until one of the junk piles shifts, and a huge mech emerges from it.

* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: Not explicitly stated, but it is implied

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Pigsy and the Leviathan vs 5 scorpion mechs.}}

* [[Historical Beauty Update]]: Xuanzang was probably not an attractive red-headed [[Wrench Wench]]. Or female. Having said that, though, the original novel stressed that Xuanzang was a very [[Bishonen|attractive young man]] - to the extent that in plays of the novel, the role of Xuanzang is often PLAYED by a woman.

* [[Hover Board]]: Monkey's "Cloud"

* [[Humongous Mecha]]: The trailer also shows Monkey fighting a mech the size of a skyscraper.

** {{spoiler|you get to capture one that's even bigger.}}

* [[Improvised Weapon]]: Later in the game, Monkey can use the weapons from mechs himself.

* [[Jerkass]]: Pigsy. Full stop.

** [[Alternative Character Interpretation|Pigsy]], especially after Pigsy's Perfect 10.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: Monkey's able to dish out a ton of damage, but it also extremely fast and acrobatic.

* [[Loners Are Freaks]]: Lampshaded by Trip.

* [[Serkis Folk]]

* [[Ship Tease]]: Check out the scene in the opera house, right after Trip scans the dog.

** The little scarf thing hanging from Monkey's back pocket resembles a tail, something his source character (The Monkey King) had. Many of his movements and postures are more simian than human as well.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: The game's creators claim to have researched just how long it would take for cities like New York and Los Angeles to become jungles and wrote the plot accordingly.

** Naturally, they are ten seconds later.

* [[The Unfair Sex]]: The game tends to swing towards this with Trip's enforced slavery over Monkey.

* [[Walking Shirtless Scene]]: Monkey.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Pyramid.}}