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''Overblood'' is a 1997 [[Sci-Fi]] [[Survival Horror]]/[[Adventure Game|Adventure]] game for the original [[PlayStation]]. It was developed by the Japanese company Riverhillsoft and published by EA. It was one of the many games [[Follow the Leader|made in the wake of the success]] of the first [[Resident Evil]].
The game begins as the protagonist wakes from cryostasis with amnesia. After saving himself from the life-threatening cold of the room by wearing a small vest he calls a [[Blatant Lies|jacket]], he learns learns from a computer terminal that his name is Raz Karcy and that he was never supposed to wake up. With the aid of the robot Pipo, he begins exploring the mysterious complex in which he is trapped, discovering the aftermath of an earthquake and the [[Everything's Deader with Zombies|unfortunate results]] of a Super Soldier project. Things [[It Got Worse|get complicated]] when he discovers he is infected with the mutation-causing [[The Virus|ARNA Virus]] and that someone wants to make sure he never escapes...
It is notably more puzzle oriented than other [[Survival Horror]] games, having less than ten enemy encounters over the course of the entire game, counting the boss. It was also commended for its use of companions whom you could control at will for puzzles.
While it was at the time considered rather average, it is now [[So Bad It's Good|incredibly entertaining]]: the laughably illogical puzzles are just barely passable, the animations for everything from jumping to just standing still are ridiculous, and its otherwise interesting but forgettable plot is chock full of Narm.
If you actually looked up this forgotten game, its likely because you watched the [[Let's Play|Super Replay]] of it on Gameinformer.com.
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* [[Amnesiac Hero]]: He remembers nothing.
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* [[Big Word Shout]]
* [[Body Horror]]: The result of the [[Viral Transformation]] entry below.
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]:
* [[Cloning Blues]]: {{spoiler|The main character
* [[Cute Machines]]: Pipo.
* [[Dress-Coded for Your Convenience]]: The good guys wear vests that are too small for them. The evil guys don't.
* [[Elaborate Underground Base]]: The first game took place entirely inside one.
* [[The Faceless]]: The mysterious man who helps the heroes along and the scientists in the discovered video.
* [[Genetic Memory]]:
* [[Good Morning, Crono]]
* [[Gosh Darn It to Heck]]: It feels like the script was deliberately kept rated G for whatever market appeal they were going for.
* [[Guide Dang It]]: There is nothing that indicates what objects can be interacted with. Many items are not even visible in the game, you just have to interact with one of several identical environmental objects to find the item needed. Crouching and interacting with an object has a different effect than interacting with it standing up, to the point where while standing up you will get "There's nothing here", and while crouching, you will find a crucial item. Completion requires you either check every single thing, from desks to boxes to walls, twice, or you use a guide.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:
* [[Laser Blade]]: The laser knife.
* [[Let's Play]]: The previously mentioned Gameinformer Super Replay of the entire game, [http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/12/31/super-replay-overblood-part-1.aspx found here
* [[Mad Scientist]]
* [[Magic Antidote]]: Once the [[Viral Transformation]] mention below is in full effect,
* [[Replacement Goldfish]]:
* [[Robot Buddy]]: Pipo. {{spoiler|We'll never forget you
* [[Say My Name]]:
* [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]]
* [[Super Soldier]]:
* [[Tap on the Head]]: Raz gets knocked out in a single punch from
* [[This Cannot Be!]]: Raz says this upon
* [[Time Limit Boss]]: The final boss must be beaten in five hundred seconds and still escape.
* [[Unskippable Cutscene]]: Throughout. Particularly frustrating during the aforementioned [[Time Limit Boss]].
* [[Viral Transformation]]: Happens to
* [[You All Look Familiar]]: The zombies all have the exact same model. More obvious than in other games because the only thing they wear is a solid-colored jumpsuit, normally blue but later [[Palette Swap|Palette Swapped]] to green.
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* [[Cool Airship]]: Billboard Island turns into one.
* [[Enemy Mine]]: The owners of Billboard Island force Arcano to fight with them after he tried to rob them.
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Arcano's younger sister
* [[Gosh Darn It to Heck]]: Averted when Arcano says both "shit" and "bastard" in the first cutscenes.
* [[High Altitude Battle]]
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* [[Man in White]]
* [[No Escape but Down]]: At the very start, Arcano jumps out a window.
* [[Only in It For the Money]]: Arcano, after he's finished the first job he was paid for he does decide to work for free.
* [[Or Was It a Dream?]]: Did Arcano see the spirit of his dead sister or was it a dream?
* [[Rubber Man]]: Kondo is this in his "green" form.
* [[Seers]]: Arcano has visions of the future.
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