Joey

Fighting Style
 Primary Attack
 Evade

**Joey** (Sometimes referred to as "Joe Shinobe") is one of The Heroes, one of the Children Of Morta, and Uncle Ben's son. His mother is Sheila, who has passed away years before the events of the game.

## Codex

Newly-found son of Ben, and an experienced brawler. Joey's large build and strong arms made him a dependable fighter. He learned to fight from his mother Sheila, who was a famous warrior in Terralava. When he was young, he joined Sheila in the resistance groups fighting against the cruelty of Gyn and the machines who ruled their homeland. During one of their operations he was captured by the Corrupted machines. His captivity lasted several months, until his mother helped him escape, but she was killed in the fight that ensued. After that, he had no recourse but to leave Terralava for a while.

When he returned, he was determined to continue his fight against Gyn, and that's when he received unanswered letters that Ben had sent Sheila. Reading his father's pleas and professions of love for his mother changed his mind, and he decided to go to rest of the Bergsons - whom he'd never met - to help them with the their fight against the Corruption. His first effect on his family, even if he didn't realize it himself, was to cause Ben to quit his excessive drinking.

Although Joey loves exercise, and despite his intimidating physique, he has a kind heart and a soft soul.

## Personality

Joey is soft-hearted gentle giant that cares deeply for his family. After meeting the Bergsons, he quickly became a part of the family and was welcomed with open arms. His bounding with Ben resulted into him quit drinking, and Joey loves helping his father in his workshop.

Joey enjoys using his spare time to train, and found in Mark a strong friendship and rivalry, often sparring with him.

Joey starts to develop romantic feelings towards Linda, often talking to himself into confessing to her.

## Gameplay

Joey's gameplay can be described as a "Berserker". Many of his abilities trigger after he takes damage or is low on health, making him a very high risk, high reward character. He boasts from large swings with his hammer, and excels at dealing area-of-effect damage in close range. He can work as a tank of sorts in co-op, however trading survivability for pure damage.

### Pros

* Highest health in the game.
* High damage-per-hit, with each attack dealing significant damage.
* Vengeance and Iron Will allow Joey to deal more damage as he is injured.
* Smite and Whirlwind are very powerful area-of-effect abilities.
* Forceful Evasion is a core part of his gameplay, as it can be used offensively and allows him to easily close the gap between his opponents.
* Can passively increase the rage generation and Guardian's Rage duration of the other characters.

### Cons

* Slowest and largest character in the game, being an easy target.
* His slow swings can make harder to hit faster enemies.
* Lacks any defensive abilities like John, meaning that despite his high damage output, he actually goes down very quick if played too recklessly.
* Very reliant on the other family members passive traits to be truly effective, specially John's.

## Gallery

* Joey's older design from early development seen in the Kickstarter.
* Joey's sprite in-game.

## Trivia

* During early development of the game, Joey was to form a relationship with John's daughter, Linda.
	+ Reminiscents of this concept can still be found in the game, in moments where Joey talks to himself about Linda, implying his romantic feelings for her.
* Joey's design in the early development was slightly different, wearing a small cloak over his vest.