Game cliches

I don't know what you mean by being serious or not and slightly successful. :l
Serious as in asking the question, or serious as in what the story is.

The question.
Never mind what I said.
But do look over the TVTropes link I posted.
At first glance, these are the cliches I see, in bold:
boy named Evan and his magic corgi, Kaz, living on an island. Then they have to go to a post apocalyptic continent called Tat per request of an astral sage.

On the way they meet a friendly skeleton knight named Yant who dies trying to save them from a slew of other skeleton knights, but not before he gives them a super cool spear.

Post-apocalypse is cliche, having a magic animal companion is cliche, otherworldy beings' requests are cliche, meeting friendly bad guys is cliche, self-sacrifice by a bad guy turned good guy is cliche, and giving weapons is cliche.