For example, consuming Herbal Honey gives you knowledge of the true names of all plants and eating Alphabet Soup gave you knowledge of Runes.

Potion-Brewing Mechanic: You can create magical potions by combining various ingredients you found.

However, after managing to hit the bullseye of a practice target with only four shots, you'll be called a 'master bowman' and become able to use it. You can arm yourself with a crossbow, but you'll always miss the target.

Possession Implies Mastery: Zig-zagged.

Palette Swap: The purple guard, who fights like the red guard but is tougher.

Our Werewolves Are Different: There is a hairy man standing in your way to a key, who will beg you for a Mercy Kill, before he turns into a wolf that will eat your neck if you don't kill him with a silver tipped crossbow bolt.

Nintendo Hard: For starters, strategy guides straight up recommend reloading if you get hit once, because healing items are that rare.

The games seemed to take a sadistic pleasure in showing the player gruesome death screens depending on how they were killed.

A cautious player will know to leave items in rooms where they can pick them up only when they're needed.

This obviously includes one-of-a-kind items you need to beat the game, if you haven't wasted them on preparing a non-essential spell before. The sequel takes this a step further, as items will be damaged or destroyed under certain circumstances (like being struck by fire, falling into a trap or going underwater).

Inventory Management Puzzle: In the first game you can only carry so much weight before you start losing strength with every step, and some items have other items inside of them.

Improbable Weapon User: One creature uses a skull attached to its hand to bite you.Holy Burns Evil: Downplayed, in the sense that having a crucifix on yourself won't harm vampires, only prevent them from attacking you (and even then, it doesn't work on the vampire from the coffin).Gorn: Scenes from both games include things like blood on walls, limbs cut in half, severed heads, exploding heads, piranhas eating your arm to he bone, maggots feasting on a dead man's ripped throat, and that excludes the death scenes.Feathered Fiend: A man shows up who sics his hawk at you, which will rip your eyes out with its talons unless it's successfully shot with a crossbow.

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