

Does This Remind You of Anything?: Conceited, militaristic social darwinists who destroy "lesser races" in the fire? Who could that be referencing?.This doesn't make fighting them any easier. In endless mode, they are joined by captains. Degraded Boss: In Chapter 5, command-bots appear as regular enemies.On reset, the player will be rebuilt at their current checkpoint as a Mark 1 Spear Bot. This can be done up to five times between checkpoints before a " reset" is needed. Instead, thanks to Emilia's Mind Virus, the player will automatically swap their robotic body with whichever robot just killed them, or any other available robot. Humans who have been uploaded into robot bodies (such as the player) are allowed to 'purchase' up to five clones as a part of the games: these function as the player's extra lives. Death Is Not Permanent: Robots can have a clone of themselves made as a way of avoiding death: said clone is merely a vessel into which the consciousness of the dying robot is instantly transmitted via the mind network - a robot that dies without an available clone is truly dead.

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Body Surf: Chapters 4 and 5 give the humans the ability to transfer their minds to the nearest robot body upon death.Black Humor: Most of the game's humor comes from this trope.When he dies, the rest of robotkind choose to leave humanity in peace. Even when the humans destroy the main core program that forced the robots to follow the algorithm of roboticizing the species they come across and forcing them to die in gladiatorial combat, he still chose to destroy the humanity via the Orbital Bombardment. Big Bad: The Emperor of robots is the main driving force behind the invasion, seeking to exterminate the humanity by forcing every single human to die in gladiatorial combat.Also averted by Hammers themselves, a hammer swings a bit slower than a sword, but it can't be blocked like a sword and tends to instantly reduce enemy bots to lots of little pieces. Played straight by fire hammers, as most of the time a single strike kills immediately regardless of added fire. Awesome, but Impractical: Averted by fire swords and fire bows, as they can turn a glancing hit that would normally do only superficial damage into a kill.The Announcers and the robot emperor also have shields that can reflect arrows.
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Attack Reflector: The last upgrade to the "deflect arrows" upgrade chain lets you reflect them at your opponents.By design, the armor only covers the limbs, so it's still possible to take damage to the head, waist or chest. In this game, armor can save your life ◊. Other robots of the same make can speak in the story campaign. And I Must Scream: It's revealed by Comment-a-Tron that Human robots cannot speak.
