

There's no HUD, instead needing to check your journal to get an idea of your character's current health and open up your guns to check their ammunition. Diegetic Interface: Almost all of the game's UI elements are diegetic.When badly injured your character will begin walking with a noticeable limp and a reduction to jump height. Critical Existence Failure: Played Straight for the enemies, but Downplayed for the player.Keeping with the game's weapon holstering function, you can sheath the sword in it's cane. Cane Sword: The player's melee weapon and primary method of dealing with enemies stealthily is a fancy sword cane.The game does give the player a lantern, but it must be used sparingly since it also makes you much more visible to enemies. Blackout Basement: The kennels can only be opened after disabling the power, making large amounts of it near-lightless.Croup, hanged himself when the Huntsmen came to take the fishery. Better to Die than Be Killed: The owner of the fishery, Mr.They are nonetheless a proficient swordsman and a skilled marksman. Badass Bookworm: The protagonist is a Victorian-era doctor, which generally carries connotations of gentlemanly behavior and higher learning.Backstab: The primary way of disposing of most enemies is to charge up your melee attack and stab them in the back.Arrange Mode: While the higher difficulties do increase enemy damage, they also have more enemies, new enemy locations and patrols that are harder to sneak around, and less ammunition and healing items scattered throughout the level.Aluminum Christmas Trees: Despite looking like a work of fiction, the game's folding shotgun is actually based on a real weapon, although touting a regular pump-action mechanism instead of the rear grip and trigger being the pump handle.Alien Blood: The crowbeggars bleed dark green fluid when shot or stabbed.Air-Vent Passageway: As is fairly common for stealth games, the game features vents that can be crawled through in order to get around guards.

Unfortunately, by the time you get there, something even worse has killed them all and is penned up inside the Huntsmen are too scared of it to go in.

Adjective Animal Alehouse: The Slaughtered Goat, the local watering hole of choice for discerning axe murderers.Gloomwood contains examples of the following tropes:
