Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders: Difference between revisions

* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Played straight with Gerald, Lucretia, and Regnier all use swords. Averted by Kendal, fights using both a hand mace and a staff long warhammer.

* [[Hide Your Children]]: Played straight with the justification that all of the events where characters are visible on screen take place on battle fields. Possibly averted with Thomas, one of Kendall's lieutenants, the youngest character in the game. He fights on the field along with Kendall and can get the crap kicked out of him (though he usually doesn't, being quite skilled as a fighter and a magician).

* [[In the Hood]]/[[Malevolent Masked Men]]: Regnier has a large brown hood and short cape. However, the hood casts only a partical shadow. The rest is completely covered by layered metal which completely conceals his face, no even leaving eyes holes or any normal facial features to look at. It's impossible to be sure with the hood but it appears that the "mask" is actually the faceplate of a helment from which Regnier's massive horns extend.

* [[Immortality Inducer]]: {{spoiler|The Ancient Heart, at least for Regnier.}}

* [[Ridiculously Fast Construction]]: Played straight, differently from other examples. Because the game isn't an RTS the construction doesn't appear on screen but there's nothing stopping you from switching a unit from infantry to cavalry or seige weaponry between missions, even if your in the desert miles from the nearest city.

* [[RPG Elements]]: You are able to select equipment for your leader and two secondary characters as well as the units as a while.

* [[Saving the World]]: Eventually becomes the main quest of the game though {{spoiler|it begins metaphorically (saving the human kindoms) when the head of the church gives you a mission and gets literal after that mission is completed and the god of darkness starts destroying everything}}.

* [[Siege Engines]]: Human units can employ seige weaponry such as catapults and ballistas.

* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: On the cynical side with a few idealist characters. The game largely feels more cynical with several characters clearly motivated entirely by their own desires. Good people exist, Gerald standing as a prime example, but these people are often forced or ordered to do unpleasantly pragmatic things. {{spoiler|There is a god of light, Nibel, who seems to also be the good god of the world. But it's eventually revealed that Nibel had to basically cheat Encablossa to get the current arrangement of the world, which is then put back on the track to darkness due to human action}}.