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(For the arcade Rhythm Game of the same name, please see Nostalgia (BEMANI)).Nostalgia, originally released in Japan as Nostalgio no Kaze (ノスタルジオの風, Nosutarujio no Kaze, lit. "Wind of Nostalgio"), is a role-playing video game developed by Red Entertainment and Matrix Software for the Nintendo DS handheld system. Initially released in November 2008 for Japanese audiences by Tecmo, an English version of the game was officially announced for North America by Ignition Entertainment for a October 2009 release. The game's development was headed by producer Keisuke Kikuchi, with programming and three-dimensional graphics by Matrix Software, who had previously developed Square Enix's Nintendo DS versions of Final Fantasy III and Final Fantasy IV.Taking place in an alternate reality steampunk version of the 19th Century, the game follows Eddie, a London boy and son of a great adventurer as he and his friends travel the world in an airship in search of his missing father. The game features both standard Turn-Based Combat and aerial battles between the player's customizable airship, the Maverick, and enemy airships. The player's party, consisting of Eddie, the Street Urchin Pad, a witch named Melody and the mysterious Fiona travel to such places as New York City, Cairo, Tokyo, Northern Europe and South America.The game follows The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Clichés to a tee, most likely on purpose in order to invoke nostalgia of old school NES and SNES generation RPGs. Whether it's successful or not is a subject of debate. Though the narrative is certainly nothing new, the gameplay is simple and fun, and there are plenty of sidequests and other optional content to keep players occupied.NOT to be confused with Nostalgia Filter or The Nostalgia Critic, or the Konami Rhythm Game of the same title. |
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Retired Badass |
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Retired Badass: Gilbert when you finally manage to drag him home. |
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Goggles Do Nothing |
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Goggles Do Nothing: Melody wears a pair over her pointy witch hat. |
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Blatant Item Placement |
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Blatant Item Placement: Why is there an airship repair kit in the Great Pyramid? |
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Title Drop |
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Title Drop: Not in-game, but plenty in English promotional material and press regarding the game. |
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Abandoned Mine |
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Abandoned Mine: The Eterna Mines |
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Like Father, Like Son |
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Like Father, Like Son: Eddie becomes an adventurer just like his daddy. More justified in Melody's case, as Mervielle Village is a literal village of mages and witches. |
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Status Effects |
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Status Effects: Notably, your airship can get them as well - catching on fire is analogous to poisoning, electric surges cause your airship to short out, working like paralysis, and disabling weapons ...disables your weapons. |
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Parental Abandonment |
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For Pad, it's Parental Abandonment that turns out to be a Sleeping Beauty style Rags to Royalty story via Laser-Guided Amnesia on both his and his mother's part |
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Awesome, but Impractical |
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Awesome, but Impractical: The Combination Attack skills each character gets as the plot unfolds. Sure, they're the strongest single attacks in the game and they hit every enemy on the field, but they also cost roughly 50 MP when few skills in the game crest the 20 MP mark and an endgame party won't have more than 300 maximum MP per character. Dead Shot borders on this, as fully powered-up, it has a very good - roughly 75% - chance to instantly kill a non-boss enemy, which is invaluable in the final areas and Bonus Dungeon... but it's one of the more expensive skills to power up, and there's a good chance you've already discredited it by that point as a Useless Useful Spell. |
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Visual Initiative Queue |
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Visual Initiative Queue: On the left side of the bottom screen. |
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Sky Pirate |
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Sky Pirate: Scarlett; it's suggested that there's more than just her out there and that many of the Random Encounters in your airship are pirates, but she's the only one you actually meet. |
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Game-Breaking Bug |
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Game-Breaking Bug: The now-infamous Albion glitch, where the second part of a Sequential Boss refuses to spawn on some cartridges, making the game Unwinnable on that cart, no matter how many times the game is restarted. Considering that said boss shows up about 2/3rds through the game - about fifteen hours in, give or take - and there's no other way of telling if a cart has the glitch, the Albion glitch has ruined the game for many players. |
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Bonus Dungeon |
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Bonus Dungeon: A particularly nasty one, where you fight not only hideously powerful normal enemies, but if you wear equipment or use skills that lower the random encounter rate? You also run a higher risk of encountering powered-up versions of every boss in the game, including the final boss. Oh, and did we mention that every boss-type enemy in the post-game has at least twice as many HP and does twice as much damage on average as the final boss? |
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Stable Time Loop |
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Stable Time Loop: Happily averted with Pad's mum. |
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Boring, but Practical |
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Boring, but Practical: See also Game-Breaker below. Combo Attack, when fully powered up, consists of six full-powered normal attacks, complete with overly flashy jump cuts. |
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Parasol of Prettiness |
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Parasol of Prettiness: A number of NPC ladies carry one, and some major characters do. |
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Mysterious Waif |
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Mysterious Waif: Fiona. |
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True Blue Femininity |
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True Blue Femininity: Melody's dress and hat are blue. |
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Heroes Prefer Swords |
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Heroes Prefer Swords: Eddie. This is especially notable as only a handful other characters in-game actually seem to use swords. Two are minions of the Big Bad, one is an Anti-Hero Sky Pirate, and one is the hero's father. The other explorers and adventurers in-game are hinted to use firearms or nothing at all. |
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A Taste of Power |
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A Taste of Power: At the very beginning of the game, playing as Gilbert. |
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Minidress of Power |
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Mini Dress Of Power: Melody kicks butt in a short, blue dress. |
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Green Rocks |
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Green Rocks: Purple Eterna, which is used to power airship engines, also somehow manages to be ancient Unobtainium that makes the strongest equipment in the game. |
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Charged Attack |
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Charged Attack: The Orb can be charged up as much as you want, increasing its attack stat until you just fire it into the face of your opponent. |
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RedemptionEqualsLife |
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Redemption Equals Life: Inverted; Scarlett's Heroic Sacrifice to protect her sister is the shock needed to jolt Astell out of her brainwashing. The Heel–Face Turn afterwards is an obvious conclusion, and as of such, she's the one agent of the Big Bad's cult that doesn't end up dying by your hand. |
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Suspend Save |
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Suspend Save |
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Conveniently an Orphan |
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Conveniently an Orphan: Your entire adventuring party, save for Eddie, for whom running out and risking life and limb adventuring is in the blood. Played different ways for each character: For Pad, it's Parental Abandonment that turns out to be a Sleeping Beauty style Rags to Royalty story via Laser-Guided Amnesia on both his and his mother's part For Melody, it's dead parents and later, dead surrogate parent, leading to a gigantic You Killed My Father. For Fiona, she's simply last of the Precursors. Their princess, in fact. |
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Gameplay and Story Segregation |
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Gameplay and Story Segregation: In a cut scene after one Hopeless Boss Fight, Melody comments that her attacks aren't doing anything. If any other character said this it would be fine (all physical attacks automatically missed against this boss)... but Melody's magic was the only thing doing any damage against the boss, making it a bit jarring that she's the one to comment. |
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Black Magician Girl |
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Black Magician Girl: Melody. |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday |
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But for Me, It Was Tuesday: The first time the party encounters Scarlet, she tries to rob them. When reminded of this in their second encounter, she doesn't remember them at all: She's a sky pirate, and she tries to rob people regularly. |
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Random Encounters |
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Random Encounters |
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Permanently Missable Content |
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Permanently Missable Content: Averted with items/treasure chests, but played straight with maps on two dungeons (which change layouts after their Load-Bearing Boss is destroyed) and with certain enemies in one segment later in the game. Only a problem if you're looking for 100% Completion. |
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Eenie, Meenie, Miny Moai |
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Eenie Meenie Miny Moai: Easter Island, or rather, the Easter Islands are in the game. Nothing more needs really be said. |
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MacGuffin Delivery Service |
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MacGuffin Delivery Service: It couldn't be more blatant that the tablet fragments you're handing to the Royal Exploration Agency will end up in the wrong hands. On top of that, there's also Fiona herself, who voluntarily goes BACK to the Tower of Babel after Gilbert rescues her from it in the prologue. |
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And Your Reward Is Clothes |
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And Your Reward Is Clothes: Beating the two most difficult Bonus Bosses nets you Melody and Fiona's ultimate armor, which are a Disgaea-esque demon-tail, horns, and fluffy nightie and angel-winged bikini, respectively. |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a |
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type |
Disney Death |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_6ef6417b |
comment |
Disney Death: Gilbert pulls this off so often that it turns the Sorting Algorithm of Mortality on its head thanks to being the parent of a protagonist. This also means his Heroic Sacrifice later in the game loses all dramatic effect. |
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type |
No Cutscene Inventory Inertia |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_721325ee |
comment |
No Cutscene Inventory Inertia |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_721325ee |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_721325ee |
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type |
Belligerent Sexual Tension |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_75d6bf40 |
comment |
Belligerent Sexual Tension: Pad and Melody are rather unsubtle about it, and Carlos lampshades it early on. |
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type |
Global Airship |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_77948f9e |
comment |
Global Airship: The only method of traveling across the World Map, hence you get one right near the start, and only lose the ships for a single dungeon or so. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_77948f9e |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_77948f9e |
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type |
Gaslamp Fantasy |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_78efbeda |
comment |
Gaslamp Fantasy: The game is 19th century earth if it was also a fantasy setting. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_78efbeda |
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1.0 |
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type |
DuelingGames |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_79b02b5c |
comment |
Dueling Games: With Black Sigil. They compete for "RPGs that make us remember much older RPGs." Small victories indeed... |
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type |
Tech Tree |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_7b4d0c39 |
comment |
Tech Tree: The special attacks fall into this, some of them only showing up when you've advanced certain skills far enough (as well as leveled up). |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_7b4d0c39 |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_7b4d0c39 |
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type |
Politically Correct History |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_7e74d66f |
comment |
Politically Correct History: none of the dark-skinned characters are treated with anything but the utmost respect. A ("coloured") NPC mentions that she wishes that people would treat the native africans better, but this never comes up again. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_7e74d66f |
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type |
Balancing Death's Books |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_7e851477 |
comment |
Balancing Death's Books: In order to save Fiona from her Heroic Sacrifice at the end of the game, Eddie, Pad, and Melody each give up a third of their own lifespan so that the Ancient Father can revive her. |
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type |
Monster Town |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_80a62687 |
comment |
Monster Town: The Land of Korol. |
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type |
Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_812ee32b |
comment |
Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: Inverted. Magic starts out quite effective, but by the end of the game, Melody (the party's designated mage) ends up typically throwing out healing items, which end up being more effective than what Fiona can heal with her magic, leaving her to simply exist for the sole purpose of giving Eddie more turns. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_812ee32b |
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type |
Combined Energy Attack |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_817693fa |
comment |
Combined Energy Attack: All of the Combination Attacks. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_817693fa |
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type |
Magitek |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_82d2715f |
comment |
Magitek: Flight cores and Orb weapons. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_82d2715f |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_82d2715f |
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type |
Where the Hell Is Springfield? |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_8504b817 |
comment |
Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Where The Hell Is Merveille Village? Yes, it's in France, but where exactly? |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_8504b817 |
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type |
Absurdly Spacious Sewer |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_87e661e8 |
comment |
Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: London's sewer systems were never quite THAT large. It even has the obligatory giant rats for you to slay as your introductory quest. |
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type |
Pixel Hunt |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_8fcb1ef4 |
comment |
Pixel Hunt: Finding JUST the right point to uncover a World Treasure can be an ordeal, especially at high altitudes. |
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type |
Aristocrats Are Evil |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_96144372 |
comment |
Aristocrats Are Evil: Almost totally averted and even the one wealthy character that could be seen as an antagonist is a Well-Intentioned Extremist. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_96144372 |
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type |
Tyop on the Cover |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_97c8b5b0 |
comment |
Tyop on the Cover: The cover of the Adventurer's Notebook says "Adventuer's Notebook." It wouldn't be so blatant if it didn't show the cover EVERY TIME YOU OPEN IT. |
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type |
American Kirby Is Hardcore |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_9d09bf1a |
comment |
American Kirby Is Hardcore: In the Japanese art, seen above, Eddie is standing on a field seeing a zeppelin flying in the air. In the American boxart◊ we see the player party doing battle poses. |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_9d09bf1a |
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type |
Fantasy World Map |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_a139f52b |
comment |
Fantasy World Map: Averted. The World Map in Nostalgia is an abridged Alternate History of Earth's. The creators take a few liberties with some locations though. Doubles as a Shown Their Work: later in the game you gain the ability to find World Treasures, similar to the "Discoveries" in Skies of Arcadia, and many of them are based directly on real-life landmarks... and are shockingly accurate in placement. It's the one instance where Google Maps actually functions fairly well as an impromptu guide. Which is helpful, since the NPCs that tell you about them are painfully vague in their locations. Triples - possibly - as a Shout-Out: The one biggest snafu with a World Treasure is the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, which are actually in China, appearing in western Kazakhstan, roughly 3000 miles west. This could be seen as a nod to Skies of Arcadia (as they were made by the same developers), whose biggest Guide Dang It! Discovery was a townsperson who notified you of a Discovery that was much further west than he actually said. While the map of the world does have wrap-around (ie. fly east of Japan and you'll end up in California), it doesn't work properly for a round world. Fly south of New Zealand and you'll end up in... North Korea? |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_a139f52b |
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type |
Red Is Heroic |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_a195310a |
comment |
Red Is Heroic: Eddie wears a long red coat. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_a195310a |
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1.0 |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_a195310a |
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type |
One-Hit Kill |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0 |
comment |
Dead Shot borders on this, as fully powered-up, it has a very good - roughly 75% - chance to instantly kill a non-boss enemy, which is invaluable in the final areas and Bonus Dungeon... but it's one of the more expensive skills to power up, and there's a good chance you've already discredited it by that point as a Useless Useful Spell. |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0 |
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type |
Handicapped Badass |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_a7b324e |
comment |
Handicapped Badass: Magi. One of her first appearances has her, due to poor design thought, riding up a flight of stairs in a wheelchair. Even ignoring her badassitude in-game, this has turned her into a bit of a Memetic Badass as well. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_a7b324e |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_a7b324e |
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type |
Motifs |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_aa2cd0c9 |
comment |
Motifs: Time and clocks in general seem to be a distinct, recurring motif throughout the game. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_aa2cd0c9 |
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1.0 |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_aa2cd0c9 |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_aa2cd0c9 |
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type |
Robe and Wizard Hat |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_b00a7c5e |
comment |
Robe and Wizard Hat: Melody's outfit is a short dress and wizard hat. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_b00a7c5e |
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1.0 |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_b00a7c5e |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_b00a7c5e |
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type |
Convection, Schmonvection |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_b0a91b69 |
comment |
Convection, Schmonvection: Mt. Fuji is an active volcano that the bad guys are trying to use to power a makeshift atomic bomb. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_b0a91b69 |
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1.0 |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_b0a91b69 |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_b0a91b69 |
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type |
White Magician Girl |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_b288a349 |
comment |
White Magician Girl: Fiona has the typical set of white magic spells, though she has an atypically higher ratio of attack and Status Buff spells than healing. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_b288a349 |
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1.0 |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_b288a349 |
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type |
Adventurer Archaeologist |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_bbd8d3f4 |
comment |
Adventurer Archaeologist: An entire society of them, arguably. Certainly enough to make an entire group, the Royal Exploration Agency. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_bbd8d3f4 |
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1.0 |
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type |
So Proud of You |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_bc37d80d |
comment |
So Proud of You: Melody's mother, about fifteen years after her death. Witches are apparently Crazy-Prepared. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_bc37d80d |
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1.0 |
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type |
JokeWeapon |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_c0c54000 |
comment |
Joke Weapon: Melody gets quite a few of these through the game as part of her standard equipment. While the guns, staves, and swords are all fairly standard, Melody's weapons include the typical magical rods, and less typical things such as a candy cane and an apple on a stick. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_c0c54000 |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_c0c54000 |
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type |
Shout-Out |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_c75df49a |
comment |
Triples - possibly - as a Shout-Out: The one biggest snafu with a World Treasure is the Bezeklik Thousand Buddha Caves, which are actually in China, appearing in western Kazakhstan, roughly 3000 miles west. This could be seen as a nod to Skies of Arcadia (as they were made by the same developers), whose biggest Guide Dang It! Discovery was a townsperson who notified you of a Discovery that was much further west than he actually said. |
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type |
Metal Slime |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_c923e7a6 |
comment |
Metal Slime: The Pegasus and Soleil, when encountered in the airship. In the dungeons they appear in, they're much less beneficial (but much easier to kill). |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_c923e7a6 |
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1.0 |
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type |
Rain of Arrows |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_cab5085a |
comment |
Rain of Arrows: Bullet version in Pad's Meteor Shot, unlocked when Random Shot reaches level 5. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_cab5085a |
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1.0 |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_cab5085a |
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type |
Lighter and Softer |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_ce6555f0 |
comment |
Lighter and Softer: In fact, it practically makes Skies of Arcadia look Darker and Edgier. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_ce6555f0 |
featureApplicability |
1.0 |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_ce6555f0 |
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type |
Ruins for Ruins' Sake |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_d38f49f0 |
comment |
Ruins for Ruins' Sake: Averted partially - most of the ruins you explore in the game have real-life and/or mythological roots. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_d38f49f0 |
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-1.0 |
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type |
Holy Hand Grenade |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_e42c07e6 |
comment |
Holy Hand Grenade: Fiona has a fair number of attack white magic. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_e42c07e6 |
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1.0 |
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Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_e42c07e6 |
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type |
Expy |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_e5421161 |
comment |
Expy: Intentionally invoked with Gilbert Brown, a definite Expy of Indiana Jones (complete with Fedora of Asskicking). May or may not have been intentional with his son. Red full-length coat, arguably British, blonde-haired teen named Edward? Not familiar at all, nosiree. Melody also looks a lot like Lina, and likes throwing fire around. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_e5421161 |
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Pimped-Out Dress |
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Pimped-Out Dress: Fiona's dress, among others. |
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Combination Attack |
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The Combination Attack skills each character gets as the plot unfolds. Sure, they're the strongest single attacks in the game and they hit every enemy on the field, but they also cost roughly 50 MP when few skills in the game crest the 20 MP mark and an endgame party won't have more than 300 maximum MP per character. |
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Cool Airship |
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Cool Airship: These are so common it's your only means of transportation in this game. Furthermore attack ships not only fire guns and cannons and magically charged orbs on it, many ships (including the party's) have a BFS attached to the front gan impale other ships by flying into them (without even taking collateral damage). |
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Who Wants to Live Forever? |
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Who Wants to Live Forever?: Played straight and toyed with in the case of Magi. Somehow related to her Psychic Powers, she describes herself as a 'broken clock', and suggests her powers and her improbable age are applications of being cursed with Time Stands Still. Toyed with in that near the end of the plot, it's suggested that the party has somehow allowed her to start aging again. |
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Atlantis |
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Atlantis: The real one, along with Mu and Lemuria, are available as optional sidequest dungeons. |
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Static Character |
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Static Character: Eddie gets basically no Character Development at all while the rest of the main team at least gets some. |
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Disc-One Final Dungeon |
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comment |
Disc-One Final Dungeon: The Mt. Fuji base fills every point of this trope except The Reveal and the presence of the Big Bad, who never actually shows his face until near the very last dungeon. While something is revealed, it's a much smaller plot point than some of the later reveals. |
| Nostalgia (Red Entertainment) (Video Game) / int_f55a1990 |
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You Killed My Father |
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For Melody, it's dead parents and later, dead surrogate parent, leading to a gigantic You Killed My Father. |
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Hopeless Boss Fight |
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comment |
Hopeless Boss Fight: All the first two fights against Carmine the Invincible and the first fight against Yang Gui. Even though they WOULD be potentially winnable, pushing down the bosses' monstrous HP before the game's script kicks in absolutely requires a cheating device. And breaks the game. |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Julius Fogg |
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Shown Their Work |
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Doubles as a Shown Their Work: later in the game you gain the ability to find World Treasures, similar to the "Discoveries" in Skies of Arcadia, and many of them are based directly on real-life landmarks... and are shockingly accurate in placement. It's the one instance where Google Maps actually functions fairly well as an impromptu guide. Which is helpful, since the NPCs that tell you about them are painfully vague in their locations. |
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