Unhealthy undead
Video game concept
Undead creatures have negative health, or seemingly so, so healing them with anything causes them harm or outright "death".
22
games
10platforms
Alternate name: Negative health undead
WIN 2002-07
NDS 2007-10-25
PS1 1999-10-05
WIN 2008-04
WIN 1999-10-31
WIN 2011-01-26
PS1 2000-11-14
WIN 2002-08-31
WIN 2003-07
PSP 2010-11-11
GBA 2003-09-08
SNES 1994-04-02
Often any item, skill, spell or whatever that would revive otherwise dead person usually has completely opposite effect on undead, that is, they completely destroy them. Tends to be especially effective in boss battles.
This would also imply that killing anything beyond 0 health (to negative health) would cause them to turn into undead, but this seemingly never happens.
Occasionally the undead can be healed for real, but this is often accomplished by some form of negative energy spell or similar.
There are also games which allow enforcing undeath on anyone (called "zombification" in some older console RPGs), which either the opponents or the players can quickly follow with revive which effectively kills anyone for good.
This would also imply that killing anything beyond 0 health (to negative health) would cause them to turn into undead, but this seemingly never happens.
Occasionally the undead can be healed for real, but this is often accomplished by some form of negative energy spell or similar.
There are also games which allow enforcing undeath on anyone (called "zombification" in some older console RPGs), which either the opponents or the players can quickly follow with revive which effectively kills anyone for good.
The first Unhealthy undead video game was released on April 2, 1994.
Square, Blizzard and Square Enix published most of these games.