Omikron: The Nomad Soul: Difference between revisions

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.
Content added Content deleted
VisualWikitext
(Rescuing 0 sources and tagging 2 as dead. #IABot (v2.0beta9))
No edit summary
 
(One intermediate revision by one other user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{work}}
<!DOCTYPE html>
An [[Adventure Game|Adventure]] [[Video Game]] created by French studio [[Quantic Dream]]. Yes, that's the one behind ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)]]'' and ''[[Heavy Rain]]'', and is a game often forgotten to be mentioned in previews, reviews and discussions about Heavy Rain and Quantic Dream's work, which is unwarranted.
<html class="client-nojs" lang="en" dir="ltr">

<head>
The plot concerns [[No Fourth Wall|you]], or more specifically, your soul. You buy a video game that allows your soul to enter another world; the titular city of Omikron.
<meta charset="UTF-8"/>

<title>Login required - All The Tropes</title>
Said city is a terrifying [[Dystopia]] where all human activity is planned by a monolithic super computer named Ix. Ultimately, the player finds out that the reason they are in the city is... well... not what they initially expected. The plot has players go from working for the government to working with a terrorist group to ultimately working their way though a [[Government Conspiracy]] that shows [[The Man Behind the Man]] is quite horrifying.
<script>document.documentElement.className = document.documentElement.className.replace( /(^|\s)client-nojs(\s|$)/, "$1client-js$2" );</script>

<script>(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgCanonicalNamespace":"Special","wgCanonicalSpecialPageName":"Badtitle","wgNamespaceNumber":-1,"wgPageName":"Special:Badtitle","wgTitle":"Badtitle","wgCurRevisionId":0,"wgRevisionId":0,"wgArticleId":0,"wgIsArticle":false,"wgIsRedirect":false,"wgAction":"view","wgUserName":null,"wgUserGroups":["*"],"wgCategories":[],"wgBreakFrames":true,"wgPageContentLanguage":"en","wgPageContentModel":"wikitext","wgSeparatorTransformTable":["",""],"wgDigitTransformTable":["",""],"wgDefaultDateFormat":"dmy","wgMonthNames":["","January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"],"wgMonthNamesShort":["","Jan","Feb","Mar","Apr","May","Jun","Jul","Aug","Sep","Oct","Nov","Dec"],"wgRelevantPageName":"Special:Badtitle","wgRelevantArticleId":0,"wgRequestId":"42b03b6c56afc32b6e64e666","wgIsProbablyEditable":false,"wgRelevantPageIsProbablyEditable":false,"wgBetaFeaturesFeatures":[],"wgWikiEditorEnabledModules":[],"wgCategoryTreePageCategoryOptions":"{\"mode\":0,\"hideprefix\":20,\"showcount\":true,\"namespaces\":false}","wgCollapsibleVectorEnabledModules":{"collapsiblenav":true,"experiments":true},"wgMetrolookEnabledModules":{"collapsiblenav":true},"wgPreferredVariant":"en","wgMFExpandAllSectionsUserOption":true,"wgMFEnableFontChanger":true,"wgMFDisplayWikibaseDescriptions":{"search":false,"nearby":false,"watchlist":false,"tagline":false},"wgMediaViewerOnClick":false,"wgMediaViewerEnabledByDefault":true,"wgPopupsShouldSendModuleToUser":true,"wgPopupsConflictsWithNavPopupGadget":false,"wgRelatedArticles":null,"wgRelatedArticlesUseCirrusSearch":false,"wgRelatedArticlesOnlyUseCirrusSearch":false,"wgVisualEditor":{"pageLanguageCode":"en","pageLanguageDir":"ltr","pageVariantFallbacks":"en","usePageImages":true,"usePageDescriptions":false},"wgNoticeProject":"open","wgCentralNoticeCookiesToDelete":[],"wgCentralNoticeCategoriesUsingLegacy":["Fundraising","fundraising"],"wgCentralAuthMobileDomain":false,"wgVisualEditorToolbarScrollOffset":0,"wgVisualEditorUnsupportedEditParams":["undo","undoafter","veswitched"],"wgEditSubmitButtonLabelPublish":false});mw.loader.state({"ext.globalCssJs.user.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.site.styles":"ready","ext.gadget.NoSmallFonts":"ready","site.styles":"ready","noscript":"ready","user.styles":"ready","user":"ready","user.options":"ready","user.tokens":"loading","ext.socialprofile.responsive":"ready","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript":"ready","mediawiki.legacy.shared":"ready","mediawiki.legacy.commonPrint":"ready","mediawiki.sectionAnchor":"ready","mediawiki.skinning.interface":"ready","skins.vector.styles":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.user":"ready","ext.globalCssJs.site":"ready"});mw.loader.implement("user.tokens@0phoura",function($,jQuery,require,module){/*@nomin*/mw.user.tokens.set({"editToken":"+\\","patrolToken":"+\\","watchToken":"+\\","csrfToken":"+\\"});
A [[Genre Busting]] game that incorporates fighting, [[FPS]] and [[RPG]] elements alongside its adventure, [[Quantic Dream]] call the game a [[Just for Pun|"Soul Playing Game"]].
});mw.loader.load(["site","mediawiki.page.startup","mediawiki.user","mediawiki.hidpi","mediawiki.page.ready","mediawiki.searchSuggest","ext.centralauth.centralautologin","ext.collapsiblevector.collapsibleNav","ext.eventLogging.subscriber","ext.gadget.ATTSiteCode","ext.gadget.Altredirects","ext.gadget.purgetab","ext.gadget.Auto_Complete","ext.gadget.HotLicense","ext.gadget.Edittools","ext.hideSection","ext.popups","ext.urlShortener.toolbar","ext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.init","ext.visualEditor.targetLoader","ext.centralNotice.geoIP","skins.vector.js"]);});</script>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?debug=false&amp;lang=en&amp;modules=ext.socialprofile.responsive%7Cext.visualEditor.desktopArticleTarget.noscript%7Cmediawiki.legacy.commonPrint%2Cshared%7Cmediawiki.sectionAnchor%7Cmediawiki.skinning.interface%7Cskins.vector.styles&amp;only=styles&amp;skin=vector"/>
{{tropelist}}
<script async="" src="/w/load.php?debug=false&amp;lang=en&amp;modules=startup&amp;only=scripts&amp;skin=vector"></script>
* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: [[Master Computer|Ix]].
<meta name="ResourceLoaderDynamicStyles" content=""/>
* [[Another Dimension]]
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?debug=false&amp;lang=en&amp;modules=ext.gadget.NoSmallFonts&amp;only=styles&amp;skin=vector"/>
* [[Beneath the Earth]]: You eventually find your way down to Omikron's spacious catacombs.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/w/load.php?debug=false&amp;lang=en&amp;modules=site.styles&amp;only=styles&amp;skin=vector"/>
** [[Ancient Tomb]]
<meta name="generator" content="MediaWiki 1.31.1"/>
* [[City of Canals]]: Lahoreh, one of the districts of Omikron.
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/>
* [[Cool Sword]]: Barkaya'l, {{spoiler|which is empowered by the souls of all the ancient sorcerers of Omikron (minus one), and as such is the only weapon powerful enough to kill the [[Big Bad]]}}.
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png"/>
* [[Cyberpunk]]: Omikron.
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico"/>
* [[David Bowie]]: Provides the soundtrack, alongside regular Bowie collaborator Reeves Gabrels; several of the songs would appear on his album ''hours...''. He also plays TWO characters, who both have his polygonal likeness.
<link rel="search" type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" href="/w/opensearch_desc.php" title="All The Tropes (en)"/>
* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: {{spoiler|Sayl. He's played up in promotional material as the main character, with the intro showing him involved in sequences that come long after his death}}.
<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" href="https://allthetropes.org/w/api.php?action=rsd"/>
* [[Dialogue Tree]]
<link rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"/>
* [[Domed Hometown]]: Omikron, to protect it from an ice age that has engulfed the planet.
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="All The Tropes Atom feed" href="/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges&amp;feed=atom"/>
* [[Dug Too Deep]]: {{spoiler|While digging the foundations of Ix's palace, the construction workers accidentally unearthed the cage where the [[Big Bad]] was imprisoned, thus allowing it to extend its influence upon the world once again}}.
<link rel="dns-prefetch" href="//login.miraheze.org"/>
* [[Dystopia]]: Omikron.
<!--[if lt IE 9]><script src="/w/load.php?debug=false&amp;lang=en&amp;modules=html5shiv&amp;only=scripts&amp;skin=vector&amp;sync=1"></script><![endif]-->
* [[First-Person Shooter]]: Some segments of the game are played as an FPS.
</head>
* [[Government Conspiracy]]: {{spoiler|Omikron and every organization within it (apart from the terrorist group) are controlled by malevolent demons; the king of whom wants to torture your soul for eternity in order to fuel his attempt at mulitverse-conquest. The trusts, Ix and [[Evil Chancellor|Legatee Reshev]] are all their puppets}}.
<body class="mediawiki ltr sitedir-ltr mw-hide-empty-elt ns--1 ns-special mw-special-Badtitle page-Special_Badtitle rootpage-Special_Badtitle skin-vector action-view"> <div id="mw-page-base" class="noprint"></div>
* [[Irrelevant Importance]]
<div id="mw-head-base" class="noprint"></div>
* [[Justified Save Point]]: Magic rings with the ability to preserve your soul.
<div id="content" class="mw-body" role="main">
** [[Save Game Limits]]: You need to gather said rings.
<a id="top"></a>
* [[Last Fertile Region]]: Jahangir Park.
<div id="siteNotice" class="mw-body-content"><!-- CentralNotice --></div><div class="mw-indicators mw-body-content">
* [[Mega Corp]]: The government-linked trusts, Khonsu and Tetra.
</div>
* [[No Fourth Wall]]: One of the earliest examples of this trope in video games. The game begins with a police officer from another world asking ''you'' to transfer your soul into his body. It only gets more demented from there.
<h1 id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en">Login required</h1> <div id="bodyContent" class="mw-body-content">
* [[Optional Sexual Encounter]]: Once near the start of the game.
<div id="contentSub"></div>
* [[Pamphlet Shelf]]
<div id="jump-to-nav" class="mw-jump">
* [[Peace and Love Incorporated]]: The Omikron government, which uses thought modifiers.
Jump to: <a href="#mw-head">navigation</a>, <a href="#p-search">search</a>
* [[Place Beyond Time]]: You visit one.
</div>
* [[Player Headquarters]]: They get changed a couple of times.
<div id="mw-content-text">Please <a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&amp;returnto=Omikron%3A+The+Nomad+Soul&amp;returntoquery=action%3Draw" title="Special:UserLogin">log in</a> to view other pages.<p id="mw-returnto">Return to <a href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Main Page">Main Page</a>.</p>
* [[Point of No Return]]: Be sure to stock up before going on the path to confront the [[Big Bad]].
<noscript><img src="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" title="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;" /></noscript></div> <div class="printfooter">
* [[Red Light District]]: Qalisar.
Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Badtitle">https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:Badtitle{{Dead link}}</a>" </div>
* [[RPG Elements]]: The game includes fighting, [[First-Person Shooter]] and [[Adventure]] segments, with skill at all these segments being determined by the stats of the body you are currently inhabiting.
<div id="catlinks" class="catlinks catlinks-allhidden" data-mw="interface"></div> <div class="visualClear"></div>
* [[Save Both Worlds]]: Both Omikron and ''the real world''!
</div>
* [[Soul Jar]]: The player's soul may inhabit the body of several characters. Also, {{spoiler|Barkaya'l}}.
</div>
* [[Take Up My Sword]]: How you obtain the [[Cool Sword]].
<div id="mw-navigation">
* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: The Book of Nout.
<h2>Navigation menu</h2>
* [[Urban Segregation]]: The city of Omikron is divided into four districts, each with its own style of architecture and fashion. People aren't allowed to move freely between them, they need special passes to do so. Only three of the districts are visited during the game.
<div id="mw-head">
* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]: An early 3D example, you can explore the city of Omikron freely between (and often also during) missions: buy some stuff, read books, listen to music...
<div id="p-personal" role="navigation" class="" aria-labelledby="p-personal-label">

<h3 id="p-personal-label">Personal tools</h3>
{{reflist}}
<ul>
[[Category:Adventure Game]]
<li id="pt-login-private"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&amp;returnto=Omikron%3A+The+Nomad+Soul&amp;returntoquery=action%3Draw" title="You need to log in to use this wiki [o]" accesskey="o">Log in</a></li> </ul>
[[Category:Sega Dreamcast]]
</div>
[[Category:Omikron: The Nomad Soul]]
<div id="left-navigation">
[[Category:Science Fiction Video Games]]
<div id="p-namespaces" role="navigation" class="vectorTabs" aria-labelledby="p-namespaces-label">
[[Category:Video Game]]
<h3 id="p-namespaces-label">Namespaces</h3>
[[Category:Microsoft Windows]]
<ul>
[[Category:Quantic Dream]]
<li id="ca-nstab-special" class="selected"><span><a href="/w/index.php?action=raw&amp;title=Omikron%3A+The+Nomad+Soul" title="This is a special page, and it cannot be edited">Special page</a></span></li> </ul>
</div>
<div id="p-variants" role="navigation" class="vectorMenu emptyPortlet" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label">
<input type="checkbox" class="vectorMenuCheckbox" aria-labelledby="p-variants-label" />
<h3 id="p-variants-label">
<span>Variants</span>
</h3>
<div class="menu">
<ul>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="right-navigation">
<div id="p-views" role="navigation" class="vectorTabs emptyPortlet" aria-labelledby="p-views-label">
<h3 id="p-views-label">Views</h3>
<ul>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="p-cactions" role="navigation" class="vectorMenu emptyPortlet" aria-labelledby="p-cactions-label">
<input type="checkbox" class="vectorMenuCheckbox" aria-labelledby="p-cactions-label" />
<h3 id="p-cactions-label"><span>More</span></h3>
<div class="menu">
<ul>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div id="p-search" role="search">
<h3>
<label for="searchInput">Search</label>
</h3>
<form action="/w/index.php" id="searchform">
<div id="simpleSearch">
<input type="search" name="search" placeholder="Search All The Tropes" title="Search All The Tropes [f]" accesskey="f" id="searchInput"/><input type="hidden" value="Special:Search" name="title"/><input type="submit" name="fulltext" value="Search" title="Search the pages for this text" id="mw-searchButton" class="searchButton mw-fallbackSearchButton"/><input type="submit" name="go" value="Go" title="Go to a page with this exact name if it exists" id="searchButton" class="searchButton"/> </div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="mw-panel">
<div id="p-logo" role="banner"><a class="mw-wiki-logo" href="/wiki/Main_Page" title="Visit the main page"></a></div>
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-navigation" aria-labelledby="p-navigation-label">
<h3 id="p-navigation-label">Navigation</h3>
<div class="body">
<ul>
<li id="n-Home-Page"><a href="/wiki/Main_Page">Home Page</a></li><li id="n-ATT-Community-Portal"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Community_Portal">ATT Community Portal</a></li><li id="n-recentchanges"><a href="/wiki/Special:RecentChanges" title="A list of recent changes in the wiki [r]" accesskey="r">Recent changes</a></li><li id="n-randompage"><a href="/wiki/Special:Random" title="Load a random page [x]" accesskey="x">Random page</a></li><li id="n-MediaWiki-Help"><a href="/wiki/Help:Contents">MediaWiki Help</a></li><li id="n-Upload-file"><a href="/wiki/Special:Upload">Upload file</a></li> </ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-Troper_Tools" aria-labelledby="p-Troper_Tools-label">
<h3 id="p-Troper_Tools-label">Troper Tools</h3>
<div class="body">
<ul>
<li id="n-User-Blogs"><a href="/wiki/Special:ArticlesHome">User Blogs</a></li><li id="n-Newest-Blog-Posts"><a href="/wiki/Special:ArticleLists">Newest Blog Posts</a></li><li id="n-Write-a-Blog-Post"><a href="/wiki/Special:CreateBlogPost">Write a Blog Post</a></li><li id="n-Follow-Your-Friends"><a href="/wiki/Special:UserActivity">Follow Your Friends</a></li><li id="n-See-Friends.2FFoes"><a href="/wiki/Special:ViewRelationshipRequests">See Friends/Foes</a></li><li id="n-View-Your-Messages"><a href="/wiki/Special:UserBoard">View Your Messages</a></li><li id="n-See-Your-Gifts"><a href="/wiki/Special:ViewGifts">See Your Gifts</a></li><li id="n-Gift-a-Friend"><a href="/wiki/Special:GiveGift">Gift a Friend</a></li> </ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-Troping_Utilities" aria-labelledby="p-Troping_Utilities-label">
<h3 id="p-Troping_Utilities-label">Troping Utilities</h3>
<div class="body">
<ul>
<li id="n-ATT-Page-Creator"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:ATT_Page_Creator">ATT Page Creator</a></li><li id="n-Trope-Workshop"><a href="/wiki/Category:Trope_Workshop">Trope Workshop</a></li><li id="n-ATT-Forums"><a href="/wiki/Special:WikiForum">ATT Forums</a></li><li id="n-ATT-Forums-.28old.29"><a href="/wiki/Forum:All_The_Tropes">ATT Forums (old)</a></li><li id="n-ATT-WebChat-.28IRC.29"><a href="/wiki/Special:WebChat">ATT WebChat (IRC)</a></li><li id="n-ATT-WebChat-.28onwiki.29"><a href="/wiki/Special:Chat">ATT WebChat (onwiki)</a></li><li id="n-Troper-Userboxes"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:Userboxes">Troper Userboxes</a></li><li id="n-Mechanics-of-Writing"><a href="/wiki/Mechanics_of_Writing">Mechanics of Writing</a></li> </ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-Troper_Social_Networks" aria-labelledby="p-Troper_Social_Networks-label">
<h3 id="p-Troper_Social_Networks-label">Troper Social Networks</h3>
<div class="body">
<ul>
<li id="n-ATT-Twitter"><a href="https://twitter.com/ATTropes" rel="nofollow">ATT Twitter</a></li><li id="n-ATT-subreddit"><a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/AllTheTropes/" rel="nofollow">ATT subreddit</a></li> </ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="portal" role="navigation" id="p-tb" aria-labelledby="p-tb-label">
<h3 id="p-tb-label">Tools</h3>
<div class="body">
<ul>
<li id="t-specialpages"><a href="/wiki/Special:SpecialPages" title="A list of all special pages [q]" accesskey="q">Special pages</a></li><li id="t-print"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:Badtitle&amp;action=raw&amp;printable=yes" rel="alternate" title="Printable version of this page [p]" accesskey="p">Printable version</a></li><li id="t-urlshortener"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Special:UrlShortener&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fallthetropes.org%2Fw%2Findex.php%3Ftitle%3DSpecial%3ABadtitle%26action%3Draw">Get shortened URL</a></li> </ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer" role="contentinfo">
<ul id="footer-places">
<li id="footer-places-privacy"><a href="//meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy" class="extiw" title="m:Privacy Policy">Privacy policy</a></li>
<li id="footer-places-about"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:About" title="All The Tropes:About">About All The Tropes</a></li>
<li id="footer-places-disclaimer"><a href="/wiki/All_The_Tropes:General_disclaimer" title="All The Tropes:General disclaimer">Disclaimers</a></li>
<li id="footer-places-termsofservice"><a href="//meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use" class="extiw" title="m:Terms of Use">Terms of Use</a></li>
<li id="footer-places-mobileview"><a href="https://allthetropes.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Badtitle&amp;action=raw&amp;mobileaction=toggle_view_mobile{{Dead link}}" class="noprint stopMobileRedirectToggle">Mobile view</a></li>
</ul>
<ul id="footer-icons" class="noprint">
<li id="footer-copyrightico">
<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"><img src="https://meta.miraheze.org/w/resources/assets/licenses/cc-by-sa.png" alt="Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)" width="88" height="31"/></a> </li>
<li id="footer-poweredbyico">
<a href="//www.mediawiki.org/"><img src="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_88x31.png" alt="Powered by MediaWiki" srcset="/w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_132x47.png 1.5x, /w/resources/assets/poweredby_mediawiki_176x62.png 2x" width="88" height="31"/></a><a href="https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/"><img src="https://static.miraheze.org/metawiki/7/7e/Powered_by_Miraheze.png" alt="Miraheze Wiki Hosting" width="88" height="31"/></a> </li>
</ul>
<div style="clear: both;"></div>
</div>
<!-- Matomo -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var _paq = _paq || [];
_paq.push(["trackPageView"]);
_paq.push(["enableLinkTracking"]);
(function() {
var u = "https://matomo.miraheze.org/";
var globalId = 1;
_paq.push(["setTrackerUrl", u + "piwik.php"]);
_paq.push(['setDocumentTitle', "allthetropeswiki" + " - " + "Special:Badtitle"]);
_paq.push(["setSiteId", "2"]);
_paq.push(["setCustomVariable", 1, "userType", "Anonymous", "visit"]);
if ( globalId ) {
_paq.push(['addTracker', u + "piwik.php", globalId]);
}
var d=document, g=d.createElement("script"), s=d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; g.type="text/javascript";
g.defer=true; g.async=true; g.src=u+"piwik.js"; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s);
})();
</script>
<!-- End Matomo Code -->
<!-- Matomo Image Tracker -->
<noscript><p><img src="https://matomo.miraheze.org/piwik.php?idsite=2&amp;rec=1&amp;action_name=Special:Badtitle" style="border:0;" alt="" /></p></noscript>
<!-- End Matomo --><script>(window.RLQ=window.RLQ||[]).push(function(){mw.config.set({"wgBackendResponseTime":173,"wgHostname":"mw1"});});</script>
</body>
</html>

Latest revision as of 13:20, 9 December 2018

An Adventure Video Game created by French studio Quantic Dream. Yes, that's the one behind Fahrenheit (2005 video game) and Heavy Rain, and is a game often forgotten to be mentioned in previews, reviews and discussions about Heavy Rain and Quantic Dream's work, which is unwarranted.

The plot concerns you, or more specifically, your soul. You buy a video game that allows your soul to enter another world; the titular city of Omikron.

Said city is a terrifying Dystopia where all human activity is planned by a monolithic super computer named Ix. Ultimately, the player finds out that the reason they are in the city is... well... not what they initially expected. The plot has players go from working for the government to working with a terrorist group to ultimately working their way though a Government Conspiracy that shows The Man Behind the Man is quite horrifying.

A Genre Busting game that incorporates fighting, FPS and RPG elements alongside its adventure, Quantic Dream call the game a "Soul Playing Game".

Tropes used in Omikron: The Nomad Soul include:
  • A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Ix.
  • Another Dimension
  • Beneath the Earth: You eventually find your way down to Omikron's spacious catacombs.
  • City of Canals: Lahoreh, one of the districts of Omikron.
  • Cool Sword: Barkaya'l, which is empowered by the souls of all the ancient sorcerers of Omikron (minus one), and as such is the only weapon powerful enough to kill the Big Bad.
  • Cyberpunk: Omikron.
  • David Bowie: Provides the soundtrack, alongside regular Bowie collaborator Reeves Gabrels; several of the songs would appear on his album hours.... He also plays TWO characters, who both have his polygonal likeness.
  • Decoy Protagonist: Sayl. He's played up in promotional material as the main character, with the intro showing him involved in sequences that come long after his death.
  • Dialogue Tree
  • Domed Hometown: Omikron, to protect it from an ice age that has engulfed the planet.
  • Dug Too Deep: While digging the foundations of Ix's palace, the construction workers accidentally unearthed the cage where the Big Bad was imprisoned, thus allowing it to extend its influence upon the world once again.
  • Dystopia: Omikron.
  • First-Person Shooter: Some segments of the game are played as an FPS.
  • Government Conspiracy: Omikron and every organization within it (apart from the terrorist group) are controlled by malevolent demons; the king of whom wants to torture your soul for eternity in order to fuel his attempt at mulitverse-conquest. The trusts, Ix and Legatee Reshev are all their puppets.
  • Irrelevant Importance
  • Justified Save Point: Magic rings with the ability to preserve your soul.
  • Last Fertile Region: Jahangir Park.
  • Mega Corp: The government-linked trusts, Khonsu and Tetra.
  • No Fourth Wall: One of the earliest examples of this trope in video games. The game begins with a police officer from another world asking you to transfer your soul into his body. It only gets more demented from there.
  • Optional Sexual Encounter: Once near the start of the game.
  • Pamphlet Shelf
  • Peace and Love Incorporated: The Omikron government, which uses thought modifiers.
  • Place Beyond Time: You visit one.
  • Player Headquarters: They get changed a couple of times.
  • Point of No Return: Be sure to stock up before going on the path to confront the Big Bad.
  • Red Light District: Qalisar.
  • RPG Elements: The game includes fighting, First-Person Shooter and Adventure segments, with skill at all these segments being determined by the stats of the body you are currently inhabiting.
  • Save Both Worlds: Both Omikron and the real world!
  • Soul Jar: The player's soul may inhabit the body of several characters. Also, Barkaya'l.
  • Take Up My Sword: How you obtain the Cool Sword.
  • Tome of Eldritch Lore: The Book of Nout.
  • Urban Segregation: The city of Omikron is divided into four districts, each with its own style of architecture and fashion. People aren't allowed to move freely between them, they need special passes to do so. Only three of the districts are visited during the game.
  • Wide Open Sandbox: An early 3D example, you can explore the city of Omikron freely between (and often also during) missions: buy some stuff, read books, listen to music...
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Omikron:_The_Nomad_Soul?oldid=1666507"