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One Way Heroics (Video Game)

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Developed by Smoking Wolf using the Wolf RPG engine, One Way Heroics is an unusual Roguelike game with an interesting mechanic implemented to ensure progression and add a challenge: A wave of all-devouring darkness chases you as you adventure, forcing you to advance endlessly to avoid being destroyed as you seek to defeat the Demon Lord.You can get the game on Steam here, and find the official website here. An expansion was released called One Way Heroics Plus, expanding the game in many ways, which can be found here.A spinoff, Mystery Chronicle: One Way Heroics, was released in Japan on PlayStation 4 and PS Vita in 2015, with overseas releases for those two platforms as well as on Steam to follow in summer of 2016. It is a crossover between One Way Heroics and Spike Chunsoft's Mystery Dungeon series featuring updated graphics, music, and voice acting. One Way Heroics Plus, meanwhile, was re-released on the Nintendo Switch in 2020.Compare FTL: Faster Than Light, another Roguelike that has you fleeing from left to right.
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Shop Fodder
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Shop Fodder: There are a number of gemstones that exist only to be sold. Herbs gathered in the snow plains biomes can also be sold for more money than normal healing herbs.
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Earn Your Bad Ending
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Earn Your Bad Ending: Getting the End of the World ending, which results in the extinction of most life, can be quite challenging due to enemies getting stronger and stronger. This is even worse on the "Walk in the Park" version of the ending, where you have to deal with the Demon Lord chasing the hero.
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Item Caddy
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Item Caddy: Despite her title, Dosey's initial role is ultimately closer to this, as she uses herbs to heal you and gives you various rare potions during her conversations with you. Nami in Mystery Chronicle is a downplayed version of this, giving the hero one free Super Spicy Lunch Box that restores energy and boost Attack for several hundred turns as one of her Relationship Values events.
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Unstable Equilibrium
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Unstable Equilibrium: The Lord class in Mystery Chronicle is a Jack of All Stats and proficient with every weapon type, but this comes at the expense of decreased experience gain and an "Improperly Dressed" debuff which renders them extremely weak if any of their three equipment slots are unoccupied, making them particularly susceptible to ill-timed equipment destruction.
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Maximum HP Reduction
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On the other hand, eating raw or rotten food carries the risk of getting a Food Poisoning debuff, lowering max HP by 25% and weakening the player in combat for several hundred turns.
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Full-Frontal Assault
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Full-Frontal Assault: The Hero's ability Zenura Weave: they can gain massive permanent stat boosts in exchange for being unable to wear any armor, which also strips their sprite naked for the rest of the playthrough.
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Relationship Values
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Relationship Values: Party member affection rates increase via various means, mostly when you get far enough in the game, kill enough enemies, and use enough healing items.
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Lord British Postulate
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Lord British Postulate: Doubles with All-Powerful Bystander as written above. If the Dimensional Vault Guard is provoked, she'll turn out to be a One-Woman Army who is immune or heavily resistant to almost all forms of damage, not to mention that normal attacks at close range will just open the vault menu instead. Someone managed to kill her with Blasphemous Gels and lots of running away.
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Multiple Endings
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Multiple Endings: Several of them, including difficulty-based endings and one for each party member.
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Fairy Companion: Iris the Fairy, whom you can talk to, and also gives post-game commentary and advice. She even gets grouchy if you neglect her for a while, which can unlock an achievement!
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Dead All Along: Queen Freida.
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The Computer Is a Lying Bastard
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The Computer Is a Lying Bastard: One loading screen in Mystery Chronicle explains that Booby Traps can be revealed by attacking the tile it's on, then attacking it again to disarm it and pick it up for later use against enemies. The last part is untrue - the traps simply disappear when disarmed. The only methods of getting trap items are buying them from a trap vendor or using certain class abilities that craft explosive traps.
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Lawful Stupid
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Lawful Stupid: Apparently, the letter of the law still applies even when the world is being rapidly consumed. Why yes, you still need to pay the toll even though the people who collect it are going to die in a matter of minutes.
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Diabolus ex Machina
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Diabolus ex Machina: Unless you have a Parchment of Darkness with charges left in it, not even abusing the New Game Plus system to finish the game before Dosey can normally finish her Slow Transformation into a Killer Hound will save her. The epilogue will describe her transforming a short time after anyway.
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Breaking the Fourth Wall
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Breaking the Fourth Wall: The game does this every now and then. Iris has Medium Awareness, breaking the wall both for gameplay tutorial purposes and sometimes for comedy — especially when talking to an NPC with a Naughty personality type. Depending on how you do at the end of a run, the advice NPCs may also comment about the person on the "other side of the screen."
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The Holy Shrine doors are the only type of door that the Treasure Chest Key/Master Key item or the lockpicking skill can't open, instead requiring a Key of Seals. The walls surrounding the shrine are also impenetrable, only taking Scratch Damage. However, the sealed door can be opened through these methods anyway if one happens to have six Treasure Chest/Master Keys, or enough in-game time, stamina, and persistence to pick the seal door's lock with level 5 lockpicking or higher. The shrine walls are also not as impenetrable as they seem, although they only go down when they take 50,000 damage in one strike (generally only possible with late-game Force-using classes).
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Not the Intended Use
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Not the Intended Use: You are supposed to equip a bow to fire arrows at far away enemies. A strong enough character may just throw arrows by hand to great effect, although with only a range of two squares without any special effects from the arrow triggering. This is remedied in Plus, where arrows have to be equipped to the accessory slot in order to throw them. The Holy Shrine doors are the only type of door that the Treasure Chest Key/Master Key item or the lockpicking skill can't open, instead requiring a Key of Seals. The walls surrounding the shrine are also impenetrable, only taking Scratch Damage. However, the sealed door can be opened through these methods anyway if one happens to have six Treasure Chest/Master Keys, or enough in-game time, stamina, and persistence to pick the seal door's lock with level 5 lockpicking or higher. The shrine walls are also not as impenetrable as they seem, although they only go down when they take 50,000 damage in one strike (generally only possible with late-game Force-using classes).
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Bare-Fisted Monk
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Barefisted Monk: Anyone who takes the Pro-Wrestler perknote Renamed to "Pugilist" in Mystery Chronicle 5 times will become this, but especially the Hero Class, who then gains extremely enhanced avoidance stats after activating the Zenura Weave. While punching does less damage than most weapons, you have an increased chance to pull off Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs to make up for it, and you completely bypass the Demon Lord's barrier defenses too. Mystery Chronicle adds the (Sumo) Wrestler class, which bans you from using any equipment, but gives you amazing carrying capacity, awesome stat growth, a Last Chance Hit Point, and a wide variety of abilities. And you can still use the Pugilist perk.
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Informed Equipment
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Informed Equipment: Played extremely straight. For example, the Knight's C sprite shows him in a full suit of plate armor, when his starting armor is basically a thick jacket. The one aversion is when the Hero class rips all their clothes off to gain great power.
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Beast Man
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Beast Man: Some of the unlockable class skins are this. The Pirate and Force Knight class unlock a lizardman skin while the Ninja class unlocks a wolfman skin.
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Level in the Clouds
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Level in the Clouds: In Mystery Chronicle, the hero will sometimes exit Pluton's domain in the skies above the world. Memoria freaks out about it when prompted for info about the "biome", and hastily points out that the hero could easily fall to their death with how many gaps between the clouds there are.
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Master of Unlocking
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The perk that gives you one point in the Lockpicking skill is called Master of Unlocking.
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World-Wrecking Wave
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World-Wrecking Wave: The Darkness itself leaves a barren wasteland of nothingness (and monsters) in its wake. When you reach 2000km, the ending implies that you reached the starting point of the Darkness, as all you see ahead of you is oblivion.
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Glass Cannon
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Glass Cannon: Force Users, who have low defense and (unless they have weapons or accessories to negate the wait) take increasing amounts of meditation to cast their spells, which do massive damage and have the largest AoE in the game. The Hero class can also count, having amazing fighting abilities, but take far more damage from the side or back than usual. Exaggerated with Zenura Weave, which gives them more stats in exchange for being unable to wear armor. Or clothes, although accessories and weapons are still fair game.
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Time Stands Still
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Time Stands Still: The "Awakening" ability you start with acts like this, allowing you to defeat tough enemies (or make a quick escape). However, you only get 5 uses per playthrough.
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Player Data Sharing
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Player Data Sharing: Both the original and Mystery Chronicle use Twitter to enable their Socialization Bonus features.
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Black Market
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Black Market: The Dark Brotherhood, which requires a Dark Brotherhood License or the Pirate class to unlock. You can also enter if your current bounty is high enough from killing friendly NPCs.
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Distant Finale
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Also in Mystery Chronicle, a text-only version occurs in Alma's good ending, showing the beginnings of the hero and Alma making out in an inn, then abruptly cutting to the Distant Finale before getting into more detail than that.
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Shoplift and Die
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Shoplift and Die: A variation with the Toll Collector in Plus. He will charge you a sum for being able to cross the border into another country. If you don't pay, he will attack you. And he's one of the most powerful NPCs in the game, many times more powerful than even the Demon Lord, so don't be surprised if you get one-hitted by him.
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No Hero Discount
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No Hero Discount: Averted with some but played extremely straight with others. Some people will give you free items or information in hopes that you use it to stop the Darkness. The shopkeepers themselves will still charge you full price, even though the shopkeeper is minutes away from being consumed by the Darkness (which is keeping pace with the hero). However, the higher your Charisma, the less the shopkeepers charge you. Exaggerated with the Toll Collector in Plus, who charges you a large sum of money to cross the border, even though the border will cease to exist in a matter of hours. You can spend Charisma to lower or waive the fee though.
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Procedural Generation
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Procedural Generation: The worlds are procedurally generated with a random seed word, which you can share with others.
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Boring, but Practical
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Boring, but Practical: The Master of Unlocking starting perk, which grants a single point in Lockpicking. That single point is enough to open crates and low-level chests without having to use up keys or waste your weapons' durability or ammo (or worse, break whatever's inside). The Cartography skill you can learn from the Court Trainer in Plus and Mystery Chronicles. All it does is point you towards the next town or dungeon once per day. Which is enough that you will usually never miss a town and reach several extra dungeons. The extra resources this grants you outstrip almost everything else you can get from castle NPCs or most starting perks.
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Yet Another Stupid Death
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Yet Another Stupid Death: As is the norm for roguelikes, a good number of deaths are self-inflicted by carelessness, like getting crushed by the autoscroll, getting surrounded and mobbed to death while trying to climb a mountain and outrun the deadly edge of the screen, running out of energy or stamina at the worst possible times, breaking a good weapon or shield because you overused it, using a bomb item in your inventory instead of throwing it at the enemy, and so on. Provided you haven't turned on Maniac Mode, your fairy companion will even point out potential reasons for your death, though they'll also admit if they can't figure out any way for how you could have lived any longer, either.
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Artifact of Doom
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Panty Shot's attacks get more and more powerful the longer you keep going. He explains this is because of the Artifact of Doom he's using as a weapon.
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Magikarp Power
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Magikarp Power: Dosey's healing items are useful, but keep those Buddy Tablets that she gives you during a conversation! When The Corruption overcomes her, you can use one on her Killer Hound form to calm her down, re-recruit her, and gain the most powerful Lightning Bruiser in the game. You normally would not expect unglamorous perks/stats such as Mountain Climbing or Swimming to be useful, but they are; Pirates and Hunters enjoy, respectively, unparalleled access to water and mountain tiles to attack or avoid enemies with impunity (and, if they can fight back, they must surmount a defensive bonus gained from standing in the tile) and access otherwise impossible treasure. While Swimming is fairly niche but useful, Mountain Climbing is seen as one of the most versatile stats in the midgame, as mountain chains can turn a tasty dungeon into an impassible trap. The Adventurer even more so than the Hunter and Pirate: with probably the weakest start other than the Tourist, it compensates for weak starting equipment and no combat-related bonuses by instead having some of the best skills in the game; the combination of Dash, Jump and Shadow Bind (effectively a ST-based Paralyze) makes it almost always possible to escape from monsters. When compared to other non-Tourist classes(the Tourist has it even worse due to the Travel Journal eating some of its level-ups), its growth in combat strength is likely the slowest, owing to the fact that leveling up can increase almost every single stat including Mountain Climbing, Swimming and Lockpicking - in fact, the only one Adventurer doesn't naturally level is Charisma. This means that a high-level adventurer will be able to move through water no more slowly than on land at the cost of only 0.5 ST per turn and through mountains in only 2, which is enough to safely escape from all non-flying, non-ranged enemies and gives you hefty terrain bonuses. Since the Adventurer's Guts ability lets you detect chests from 20 tiles away and the class gets a 50% appraisal bonus on top of its Intellect growth, you will probably get good equipment and Silver more reliably than any other class. If you find a Suspicious Medicine Peddler, take your chances with hunting Prairie Otters and using their pelts, or take out Demon Lord's Crystals from the Dimensional Vault, you can even increase your Charisma enough to recruit a party member or two. The Tourist's Clothing, a reward you get for clearing the Tourist Quest, is an armor with a ridiculous durability of 500 at the cost of having no armor rating or other effects whatsoever. The item description suggests that you enchant it up to compensate - likely as a reference to the Hawaiian shirt Tourist characters start with in NetHack , which is used similarly. However, given items in the dimensional vault can be repaired after a run anyway, you might want to use another high-durability armor for the same purpose, such as the Demon Lord's Coat. Panty Shot's attacks get more and more powerful the longer you keep going. He explains this is because of the Artifact of Doom he's using as a weapon. The Mystery Chronicle-exclusive Samurai class has a skill that works as such. It starts out not much stronger than your normal attacks and has both a very high ST cost and needs 4 durability points per use. However, use it often enough and it not only becomes stronger and more accurate, but cuts the weapon durability cost down to 3. Keep using it and it becomes even stronger, cheaper to use, and adds a chance of lowering your opponent's Attack stat. Still keep using it and its final upgrade makes it so its ST cost becomes negligible to the point of being spammable without ST recovery items under almost all circumstances, uses as much durability as a normal attack, therefore making it more efficient than attacking normally since it can't combo and therefore waste durability, and deals so much damage that the only things that could even survive getting hit with it once are boss-tier enemies — emphasis on could.
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Indestructible Edible
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Indestructible Edible: Averted, since fire damage can burn herbs. Plus also introduces rotting food, which happens randomly. If food becomes too rotten, it will become Blasphemous Gel, which can be thrown to poison enemies and destroy the Dark Dragon's barrier.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: The normal ending, especially if you've talked to the Demon Lord and know more of the plot details. Yes, the darkness is stopped and the rest of the world is safe, but a huge portion of the world has already been destroyed and it will happen again… once more, after which something even worse will happen. Plus the Demon Lord wasn't really a bad guy. Most of the epilogues are this. In some of them, your companions die happily; in another one the protagonist starts losing memories. Averted in the Dimensional Ruler ending, where the player becomes a Physical God and gives all the characters their Golden Ending. And the Travel Journal ending, where you effortlessly destroy the Darkness.
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Auto-Scrolling Level
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Auto-Scrolling Level: The major mechanic of this game. It also adds to the story and the tension of the game's mood.
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Power-Up Food
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Power-Up Food: You can find various non-aggressive animals that drop stat-boosting items when killed. However, doing that makes the Jade Forest Rangers hostile.
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Hyperactive Metabolism
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Hyperactive Metabolism: Zigzagged: Any food you eat to restore your energy only takes one turn to take effect. Played straighter with foods that recover both HP and energy at the same time. On the other hand, eating raw or rotten food carries the risk of getting a Food Poisoning debuff, lowering max HP by 25% and weakening the player in combat for several hundred turns.
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Always Female
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In Mystery Chronicle, this trope happens when the player "pleads fervently" to let a Toll Collector pass through their gate for free (at the expense of 3 Charisma), despite there being nothing to show, given the pixelated art style. The Always Female Toll Collector gets flustered, the screen cuts to black, then the Toll Collector is next seen in a daze and saying "Wow...", implying the Player Character just french kissed her as a bribe.
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Low-Level Advantage
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Low-Level Advantage: A very odd case. Leveling up itself is helpful, but your character level itself does very little (it mostly unlocks one special skill per class unless you're a Force User). Instead, your level is used as an additional currency. You can trade "levels" for bonus stats, a free save, or (for the Force User) extra Force Spells, but you keep all the stat gains so you're actually stronger than before. However, due to the usefulness of high-end Force User spells, you're better off saving your levels until you learn them before you start spending them on Goddess Statues.
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Golden Ending
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Golden Ending: The Dimension Ruler ending, exclusive to Plus.
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Infinity -1 Sword
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Infinity -1 Sword: Holy Weapons and Armor. They're all both powerful and lighter than the next-best thing, and the weapons get guaranteed or near-guaranteed critical hits. Oh, and since critical hits completely bypass the Demon Lord's barriers, so do holy weapons. However, most Holy Weapons tend to veer a bit too far towards Awesome, but Impractical due to their low durability, as well as the fact that getting guaranteed critical hits later in the game isn't exactly difficult. The armor is another story, though.
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Villain Forgot to Level Grind
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Villain Forgot to Level Grind: The Demon Lord is indeed powerful, but as you travel, both you and the random foes will eventually surpass the boss.
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Useless Useful Spell
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Useless Useful Spell: Averted; nothing is immune to status effects, including the Demon Lord. He can be confused, rooted in place, set on fire, or even pacified, the last of which is especially unusual as a thing that works on the final boss. Sadly. the True Final Boss does have the typical immunities, but then again it has no physical presence in the game, is described as being as large as a mountain, and is literally the entire left side of the screen. The Plus expansion adds another True Final Boss, and several alternate quests with their own bosses. All of these new bosses are vulnerable to status effects.
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Long Song, Short Scene
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Long Song, Short Scene: Frequently with some conversation tunes, but very notable with the Demon Lord's themes, which you often hear only the intro before the Lord vanishes. #3 in particular is good enough if you sit around for a bit, and then it just keeps going. Justified, as most of the music comes from free resource sites and was not composed specifically for this game.
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Plot-Powered Stamina
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Plot-Powered Stamina: You're able to keep going for days or even weeks. Upon beating the Demon Lord or reaching the end of the world, you immediately pass out into a lengthy sleep before waking up days later.
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Throwing Your Sword Always Works
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Throwing Your Sword Always Works: Almost everything in the game can be thrown at enemies as an impromptu weapon, save for arrows in Plus. Literally everything, including ranged weapons, shields and armor, accessories, even things with a weight of 0. The damage dealt scales with the hero's Strength stat and how much the thrown item weighs - a Wrestler throwing a 12 weight halberd will do thousands of damage, while a Force user throwing random jewels and scrolls won't get much mileage out of that.
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Macrogame
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Macrogame: Aside from unlocking perks and classes, you get a "dimensional vault" which you can store items in at the end of the game (whether you won or lost) and then withdraw at the start of a later run. Eventually, you can store enough powerful items to win the game several times over, not that you could carry them all. Plus adds the ability to customize the starting castle, using "dimensional coins" that can be gathered through gameplay. Heavily downplayed if you use Maniac mode, which disables the Dimensional Vault, only allowing you to use items you find in your current run, although you can still start class unlock quests that you've opened up from previous runs.
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Nobody Poops
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Nobody Poops: Talk to Iris enough and she will lampshade a number of things the hero is not doing during his days-long race against the darkness.
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Money for Nothing
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Money for Nothing: Money can be short early on, but as the game goes on your income will accelerate faster than anything you'd want to spend it on. Your maximum inventory weight is a FAR more oppresive limit on what you can buy than your wallet. And then later on, the frequency of shops starts decreasing. That is, unless you managed to find Dark Brotherhood shops (and have appropriate pass), which will sell extremely powerful scrolls and items that are normally extremely hard to find (and are appropriately priced, of course). Averted if Panty is in the party, since he'll leave if you run out of money for his fees.
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Safety in Indifference
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Safety in Indifference: The hidden Elven village. The Elves admit that they don't care about the end of the world. They just want you to leave when you're finished with your business.
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Nostalgia Level
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Nostalgia Level: The "Dark Lord" sidequest that's required to unlock the One Way Hero in Mystery Chronicle. It starts with you meeting King Victor, has you meet several Non Player Characters from the first game along the way, and ends with you slaying the Dark Lord. Unfortunately, she's not responsible for the Shine Raid.
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Dark Is Not Evil
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Dark Is Not Evil: King Victor is a Necromancer and older brother of the Demon Lord, who are the last survivors of an ancient culture responsible for performing Heroic Sacrifice after Heroic Sacrifice to force the Darkness back to sleep when it wakes.
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Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs
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Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Stack enough Pro-Wrestler perks and you can pull this off.
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No Honor Among Thieves
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No Honor Among Thieves: The Black Market merchants might sell you weapons with prices inflated for their special qualities—whether those qualities are detrimental or not.
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Fragile Speedster
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Fragile Speedster: The Adventurer. Low health, but he can dash and also can move two tiles in one turn (even jumping over enemies to let allies attack from behind). He also levels up in both swimming and mountain climbing (eventually crossing both terrains in one turn). The Hunter also has high speed, dashing, and mountain climbing but lousy health, designed for kiting enemies with a bow or spear.
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Socialization Bonus
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Socialization Bonus: There are leaderboards, and you can also meet the Ghosts of fallen Players who will give you some of their experience points and a random item when you talk to them. You can also warn each other of threats in a specific world, share random seeds, or even post your exploits on Twitter.
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Disc-One Nuke
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Disc-One Nuke: Given the right world generation seeds and enough Save Scumming, anything can become one of these with easy access to specialty merchants and liberal use of the Dimensional Vault. Alternatively, a world that has a really early Holy Shrine and the means to access it works just as well. For the non-Save Scumming version, Panty Shot's Sword (Keyton's Sword in Mystery Chronicle) is a fairly easy to obtain sword that has an unusually high 22 melee attack for its weight class (4, like other broadswords), even outpacing some of the Holy Weapons in certain aspects. All one has to do is get Panty Shot's/Keyton's Relationship Values maxed out, then clear the current run with them in the party (either that, or they give the sword to the hero on their deathbed).
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Really 700 Years Old
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Really 700 Years Old: The Demon Lord, and also King Victor.
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Save Scumming
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Save Scumming: You are given ample opportunity to die, learn, and start over from your last save (like Dark Souls) until the ending is Future Perfect. HOWEVER: You get a small penalty to your overall score for every single time that you save the game.
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Dump Stat
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Dump Stat: Outside of the early game, Charisma — there are so few party members in the game in the first place, and usually the few you can find you will either get at the very beginning (or they become unobtainable, at least for that playthrough) or you will naturally (or unnaturally by murdering animals) amass more than enough Charisma to acquire them in later towns. It also marginally improves shop prices and ally damage, but the former is of little value and the latter is only meaningful if you have multiple allies. However, the Plus version's toll gates allow you to avoid the toll by begging, which sacrifices your Charisma. Vitality is fairly weak to level up; when choosing perks, Survivor is more efficient for hp, while Strength is more efficient for general use and weight limit (if you don't want to take the perk that improves weight limit only). Further devalued by how, when naturally leveling up, there is a separate +10hp bonus you may level up randomly in addition to a +vit bonus, so you have a higher chance of getting hp in one way or another than a different, possibly more desired bonus. Wisdom and Intelligence are, naturally, fairly useless for physical-based characters. In contrast, Agility and Strength have at least marginal use on par with Vitality for all classes. Max stamina is invaluable for some classes, who rely on stamina-draining skills like Dash or Bash. It's useless for other classes, who have only few or no stamina using skills (most notably the Force User and Force Knight, who both have many energy-using skills but no stamina-using skills at all). The Plus expansion adds Max Energy as a stat that can be increased on level up. However, food is usually only consumed either when you're low enough for the whole effect or your inventory is full, and even for the most energy-hungry classes the starting 100 energy will last through any fight save the final boss.
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Save-Game Limits
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Save-Game Limits: For what's essentially a Roguelike, the game's extremely merciful when it comes to this: not only can you save your game every time you run into the often-appearing Save Attendant, but she also sells a random number of Save Crystals that you can use at any time to save your game. The Goddess Of Time, Chronos, also randomly offers you a chance to save your game in exchange for 5 levels, a very reasonable cost considering the levels work as a secondary form of currency as stated above: you can also load any save an unlimited number of times, which is a godsend when you attempt to beat the game by reaching the end of the world, considering there's no telling when you run into a dead end with no way out. The only real limitation is that your score is saved when you die or finish the game for the first time, meaning that you can't get any additional Hero Points for your marathon-length run if you die at any point.
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin'
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Can't Get Away with Nuthin': NPCs will somehow be completely aware of your poaching and murdering, even though all evidence of the misdeeds should have been swallowed by the Darkness.
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Heel–Face Turn
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Heel–Face Turn: The Dark Knight, The Dark Lord, and The Healer Dosey after she transforms into a Killer Hound can join your party under the right conditions. Mystery Chronicle's counterparts, Aerdou and Alma, follow the same path, with Dosey having an easier condition for their Heel–Face Turn.
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Nintendo Hard
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Nintendo Hard: True to the nature of most Roguelikes, OWH is a challenging game, with punishing terrain, fierce monsters that randomly have buffs, and the scarcity of items/money, but it's still relatively merciful compared to some other examples thanks to the greatly variable difficulty level and rare but permanent opportunities to save your progress and reload it as you wish, although you can only get additional Hero Points the first time you die or beat the game per save.
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Permanently Missable Content
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Permanently Missable Content: Better grab your items before they get swallowed by the advancing Darkness! The autoscroll also prevents you from backtracking to that Appraiser who just got swallowed by the Darkness.
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Animal Wrongs Group
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Animal Wrongs Group: The Jade Forest, which will try to kill you if you harm rare animals which are worth 5 levels to kill and drop stat-boosting items. Apparently that one fox is more important than the one hero who can save the world. Worse yet, their AI doesn't allow them to avoid collateral damage when hunting you, which means they could end up attacking civilians and even innocent animals. Killing any of them will raise your wanted level even though they generally attack first, putting the player at odds with other town NPCs. Fortunately, they can be dealt with through other means, like using non-lethal throwing items to deter them. In any case, the faction will send progressively more powerful members for every new encounter, making them impossible to truly thwart once riled up, unless one manages to find a church through dumb luck and pay them enough money to absolve them of their hunting sins.
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The Remake
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The Remake: Mystery Chronicle is really more of a re-imagining than a proper sequel. The basic premise is the same, just with light instead of darkness, all of the mechanics and classes from the original game and Plus return, but with new content, new graphics, and voice-overs.
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All in a Row
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All in a Row: Unlike the companions, cooperative Non Player Characters will occupy space on the map and will try their best to follow the player.
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Punny Name
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Punny Name: There's a mercenary named Panty. "Panty Shot". Iris comments on how lame the name is. It turns out Panty intentionally Invoked this so that enemies will be forced to call out his name. In Mystery Chronicle, he goes by the equally ridiculous "Pants-Bandit", which Memoria lampshades.
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Marathon Level
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Marathon Level: One of the endings requires reaching 2000 km rather than fighting the Demon Lord. That's at least three times as far as most characters should be by the time they're ready to kill the Demon Lord. Oh, and once you've achieved that, you can try for up to 10000 km. The game gets progressively sparser with towns and save points as you go, and the chance of the few towns you're able to find being empty except ,for a single NPC, a pair of low-tier chests, or even a horde of zombies just keeps going up. Initially this makes keeping your energy up an issue, but later the weaker enemies are replaced with bears and tigers who frequently drop food. The Plus expansion also adds another ending which requires you to reach 3000 km in the much harder alternate dimension.
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Nominal Importance
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Nominal Importance: Played with for Soldier D, one of the soldiers from the castle. Despite not having a name, he will join your party if you have at least 4 charisma and can hold his own in combat. But he's still weaker than any of the other recruitable characters (especially for his price). If you ask Iris about him, she'll complain that he doesn't have a name, an affection rating, dialog, or any special traits.
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Marathon Boss
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Marathon Boss: The Demon Lord fight can be ended pretty quickly in a normal game, even on hard mode. But in Maniac mode, he gets increased stats and a truly massive health bar, so that even well beyond when the game would normally end, you'll be hard-pressed to kill him in one go.
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No Ontological Inertia
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No Ontological Inertia: Tragically averted with Dosey's Killer Hound transformation. Even if you use New Game Plus to finish the game faster than is normally possible and defeat the Darkness which caused it, it will still finish after the adventure.
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Excuse Plot
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Excuse Plot: Defeat the Demon Lord and stop the Darkness! Actually subverted — beneath the surface, there's quite a complex plot linking all the worlds.
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And the Adventure Continues
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And the Adventure Continues: Most of the endings feature the hero and Iris deciding to keep up the adventuring lifestyle forever, though in some endings this "adventuring" sounds more like just traveling a lot.
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Weak to Magic
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Weak to Magic: Most armored things in the game play this straight, including the player if their armor doesn't have Force damage reduction or Anti-Magic items. Clear Slimes play this trope the straightest, taking Scratch Damage from all physical attacks, but are defeated by even the lowly Force Fire in one shot.
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Suicide by Cop
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Suicide by Cop: The Demon Lord wants you to end his life of servitude to the Darkness.
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Random Drop
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Random Drop: Most enemies logically drop weapons or throwing ammo associated with them, like Imps and their Big Stones, and some beasts can drop Animal Meat, but there are other things that can be dropped entirely at random, mostly if the enemy in question has a title like Pack-Rat or Rich. As a variation of this trope, merchants also have their inventory randomized as the east part of the map generates.
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Bolivian Army Ending
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Bolivian Army Ending: The End of the World ending. You've gone all the way around the planet and are now in the lifeless plane that used to be King Victor's palace. The Demon Lord shows up to give you a Holy Sword to reveal the Dark Dragon, and the last line is you rushing at it. If you get to the end of the world on Walk in the Park, the Demon Lord will fight alongside you.
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Unfriendly Fire
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Unfriendly Fire is in effect for both allies and enemies, but the enemies didn't seem to get the memo. Ranged enemies make zero effort to avoid damaging their allies if they're in their line of sight (or area of effect for magic-capable enemies). They'll even level up if they kill an allied monster before the player does. If the allied monster doesn't die, they'll instead start fighting each other.
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True Final Boss
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The Plus expansion adds another True Final Boss, and several alternate quests with their own bosses. All of these new bosses are vulnerable to status effects.
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Eldritch Abomination
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Eldritch Abomination: The Darkness that's chasing you is an invulnerable wall of destruction that annihilates everything it touches. And that's not a joke — the Dark Dragon that generates it is a mountain-high monster that takes 10,000 years of sleep to reach its full strength, whereupon it can destroy all complex life. The whole Demon Lord system is an attempt to artificially lengthen the cycle, and even that's a temporary stopgap because there aren't any more candidates.
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Rocket-Tag Gameplay
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Rocket-Tag Gameplay: The further you get on higher difficulty levels, the more the gameplay creeps towards this: while enemy HP and defense doesn't generally scale fast enough that not being able to kill them in 1-2 hits becomes an issue, their attacks are still strong enough that they can murder you in a few hits if you're not careful. This also makes fire-breathing enemies an even bigger threat, both because the otherwise massive defense that your allies get when they're leveled high enough doesn't seem to protect them from it and thus it can kill them in a single hit since their HP doesn't go past 999 unlike yours as well as setting you on fire if you're not wearing fireproof armor: while the herb- and gem-destroying effect is a minor annoyance at best when you're at a high level, the burn effect does more damage the higher your level is and a single fire breath can stack multiple different-leveled burn effects on you that you can't survive even with constant item use if you're exceptionally unlucky.
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Bears Are Bad News
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Bears Are Bad News: Bears can be found in volcano and snow areas, and their high attack power can easily tear you apart in 1-3 hits.
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Hard Mode Perks
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Hard Mode Perks: Well, harder mode perks. The easiest difficulty has weaker enemies than other difficulties, you get a plant that continuously grows healing herbs, the Demon Lord doesn't regularly pop up to attack you before retreating, and when you do fight the Demon Lord, you have a fully party worth of NPCs backing you up. On the downside, runs are much shorter than on other difficulties because after 400km, the Demon Lord spawns and won't ever leave, so unless you are strong enough and well-equipped to run away from him forever, you will have to deal with him when he spawns. And the best gear doesn't spawn til way beyond 400km, and for the most part you won't find any recruitable NPCs within that time frame either.
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Kissing Discretion Shot
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Kissing Discretion Shot: In Mystery Chronicle, this trope happens when the player "pleads fervently" to let a Toll Collector pass through their gate for free (at the expense of 3 Charisma), despite there being nothing to show, given the pixelated art style. The Always Female Toll Collector gets flustered, the screen cuts to black, then the Toll Collector is next seen in a daze and saying "Wow...", implying the Player Character just french kissed her as a bribe. Also in Mystery Chronicle, a text-only version occurs in Alma's good ending, showing the beginnings of the hero and Alma making out in an inn, then abruptly cutting to the Distant Finale before getting into more detail than that.
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Joke Character
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Joke Character: The Tourist in Plus and the Zombie in Mystery Chronicle. They both start out with no stats above 0, spread their level bonuses evenly (and "waste" some of them for journal pages and charisma respectively), and cannot access the dimensional vault. To get their special ending, the Tourist then has to waste turns in "exciting" (aka dangerous) situations to fill the travel journal, while also micromanaging its pages for balance. All it gets to compensate is extra starting cash and a limited-use escape ability. The Zombie doesn't have a special quest, but it does have -99 charisma (ensuring no allies when allies were the main way to survive as a Tourist) and is weak to fire. And no extra cash.
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Video Game Cruelty Punishment
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Videogame Cruelty Punishment: However, both of these can come back to bite you. Jade Forest rangers (and later Lieutenants, possibly the game's strongest enemy) hunt people who hurt otherwise nonhostile endangered animals. And of course most towns have guards and heavily-armed equipment dealers who will thrash you for attacking them; and even if you can easily slaughter them, good luck getting any new party members or learning new spells, being told where the next few towns are, or getting both meals out of a chef. Plus adds in a rare inversion: there are settlements that will only allow the player in if they have "sin", which is gained by killing neutral wildlife or NPCs. Under certain circumstances, it's almost encouraged to be rather unheroic while not getting blamed for it. While the Demon Lord or the Dark Angel want to kill you, they won't shy away from attacking NPCs if they're close by. This essentially means that one can sell a whole bunch of valuables to a merchant, manipulate the Demon Lord or the Dark Angel into approaching them so that they get killed, then grab everything you sold and everything the merchant had on them, meaning you potentially get twice the money and a whole bunch of items you couldn't possibly afford — with no sin penalty whatsoever!
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Absurdly High Level Cap
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Absurdly High Level Cap: Whether or not there is one isn't known, but if you play the game on the hardest possible difficulty level and aim for the maximum distance, it's basically impossible not to reach at least level 1000 unless you run from every single enemy. On the other hand, since every level only increases a single random stat and levels also double as an alternative form of currency as described below, you can beat the easier difficulty levels on level 10 or lower.
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Apocalypse How
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Apocalypse How: If left unchecked, the Darkness could consume the whole world. And all this is being done to delay a later apocalypse which will wipe out all life, and is simply being delayed until space travel is hopefully invented.
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Revenge
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If you recruit the Demon Lord, but then make it into the Dimensional Passageway, she'll comment on you abandoning the original plan to fight the Dark Dragon, but goes along with it because defeating the Dimensional Ruler is better in the long run. The Mystery Chronicles version of this quest has Alma swearing Revenge on Pluton for his abuses of her on top of the original goal of saving the multiverse.
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Artificial Stupidity
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Artificial Stupidity: Cooperative NPCs are prone to getting stuck around impassable tiles and being lost to the darkness, sometimes forcing the player to wait for them. They also can't climb mountains or swim, meaning a bad mountain formation or river can boot all of them from the party. That being said, there are two rare scrolls that permanently bestow the NPC in front of the player with the ability to fly or swim as a workaround. Throwing a float potion at the NPC also temporarily works. Unfriendly Fire is in effect for both allies and enemies, but the enemies didn't seem to get the memo. Ranged enemies make zero effort to avoid damaging their allies if they're in their line of sight (or area of effect for magic-capable enemies). They'll even level up if they kill an allied monster before the player does. If the allied monster doesn't die, they'll instead start fighting each other.
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Fighting Clown
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Fighting Clown: The bonus "C" sprites for Swordmaster, Adventurer, and Tourist, and to a lesser extent Ninja.
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Not Me This Time
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Not Me This Time: The Dark Lord is not responsible for the Shine Raid in Mystery Chronicle.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: The Demon Lord, who will appear to challenge you eventually (400km into an adventure on the A Walk in the Park difficulty). In Mystery Chronicle, the Big Bad is instead the Fallen Angel.
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Press X to Die
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Press X to Die: Going onto a lava tile without levitation will instantly kill you. The game will gladly let you do this by holding down the key corresponding to the direction of the lava, with the warning phrase "You are already melted."
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Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels
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Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels: Walk In The Park (Easy) Afternoon Stroll (Normal) Grueling Campaign (Hard) Inhumane Odyssey (Harder Than Hard)
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Atrocious Alias
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Atrocious Alias: Invoked by Panty Shot, simply because he's amused by his opponents being forced to refer to him as such.
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Unknown Item Identification
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Unknown Item Identification: All equip-able items have 3 levels of identification: the lowest only tells you their basic weapon type and weight, the middle one tells you their name and basic item stats and description, and complete identification adds any existing modifiers and current durability. You can fully or partly identify them automatically if your Intelligence is high enough, and failing that, there are scrolls and occasional NPCs which can identify all the items in your inventory.
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Interface Spoiler
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Interface Spoiler: Players can identify towns, shrines, and dungeons on the minimap based on the color of the tiles that show up. Each terrain tile has a different color, so it's possible to tell which tiles are mountains and which are just ruins (which do nothing to hinder your movement). You can't tell what is a town, shrine, or dungeon just by looking at the map, but you know it's going to be one of those three. Averted in Mystery Chronicle, as town and dungeon tiles no longer show up on the minimap. Thankfully, many classes have a passive ability that lets them locate either towns, dungeons, friendly NPCs, or treasure chests.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: On both the original and Plus version, beating the Demon Lord on Inhumane Odyssey results in a bizarre dream where the hero sees a mysterious figure and somehow knows it's manipulating all the dimensions and the Darkness. On the original version, one would be inclined to believe the hero is a Conspiracy Theorist. On the Plus version, you can actually fight the mysterious figure.
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Elite Mooks
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Elite Mooks: Denoted by a triangle or a star above them. However, you can't tell just how much stronger they are without seeing their name or using a Hunter, which usually means hitting them.
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In-Universe Game Clock
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In-Universe Game Clock: Time advances whenever you perform an action; the amount of time that passes depends on a number of factors, such as Agility (the faster you are, the less time you need to cross a single tile). If Maniac mode is turned on, any action you take will advance time by a fixed six minutes (thus, 10 actions = 1 hour and 240 actions = 1 day), effectively making the game strictly turn-based.
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Amazing Technicolor Battlefield
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Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: Pluton's domain in Mystery Chronicle has a background full of galaxies and other blue-and-purple swirly bits. It also doesn't scroll at the same rate the player moves, implying that the hero is walking on an invisible floor.
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Samus Is a Girl
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Samus Is a Girl: The Dark Lord is revealed to be one.
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Infinity +1 Sword
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Infinity +1 Sword: The items for the two "alternate" ways of beating the game (without killing the Demon Lord) are heavier than their holy counterparts but even more powerful and with better durability too, especially the bow (which has damage and durability almost double its holy counterpart and longer range). However, there's not much left to do by the time you earn them and you can only ever use them by opening the dimensional vault, and they don't cover every weapon type (or any body armor) like the holy items do.
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Physical God
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Averted in the Dimensional Ruler ending, where the player becomes a Physical God and gives all the characters their Golden Ending. And the Travel Journal ending, where you effortlessly destroy the Darkness.
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Mordor
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Mordor: Corrupted Lands. Almost no towns, not much plant life, and the toughest enemies in the game. Unlike other "difficult" terrains, there's no special items to compensate, so you generally want to race through it quickly.
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All-Powerful Bystander
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All-Powerful Bystander: Several Non Player Characters are ridiculously overpowered and some even surpass all of the final bosses, but they never go after the monsters or the villains unless directly provoked. Of course, they'll have no problem whaling on the player if he/she breaks the law.
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Ratchet Scrolling
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Ratchet Scrolling: Once something is scrolled off to the left, it's consumed by the Darkness and you can't go back. In fact, trying to go off the left side of the automatically-scrolling screen is an instant Game Over.
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Breakable Weapons
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Breakable Weapons: All your equipment has limited durability, so you may want to save the big weapons for tough enemies. Spare (good) weapons are heavy and scrolls to repair things without making them extra-brittle afterwards are rare.
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Inventory Management Puzzle
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Inventory Management Puzzle: What the game turns into even for high weight limit characters, as it's basically impossible to carry everything you want to have. The player character's weight limit is also Capped to 99 regardless of whether or not their STR theoretically lets them carry more, so every class will eventually hit a ceiling no matter what (unless they have a Travel Bag which breaks past this limit, usually at the expense of a better accessory or a shield).
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Convection, Schmonvection
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Convection, Schmonvection: Stepping on a lava tile is instant death. Iris says that she shouldn't have to tell you that. There's no problem with walking next to them, though.
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Dungeon Bypass
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Dungeon Bypass: Axes (and to a lesser extent any strong attack) can easily bust down walls, making shortcuts into and out of dungeons to grab their treasure. This is very important since failing to get out quickly will get you swallowed by the darkness.
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Double Unlock
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Double Unlock: To unlock a class, first you need to use Dimensional Coins to build the room that houses the class's Quest Giver NPC. Then you need to talk to that NPC at the start of a new run, which sees you trading out your save-the-world main quest for a new quest, which ends the run once you complete it.
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Double Standard
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Double Standard: Parodied with Hero's Zenura Weave: Everyone will either think you're crazy or ask you to at least find some pants to wear, but if you're playing as a female character, some people will complement your body and other female party members will even be jealous of you. Downplayed in that either way, using this skill drops you to -99 Charisma, meaning that without extremely copious amounts of Level Grinding, you will never be able to recruit another NPC.
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One Stat to Rule Them All
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One Stat to Rule Them All: Depends on the build: physical classes are better off focusing on Strength while the likes of Force User naturally benefit more from pumping all their extra levels into either Intellect or Willpower.
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Obvious Rule Patch
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Obvious Rule Patch: In Mystery Chronicle, you're always given the choice between two characters to recruit, but getting both is supposed to be impossible since they're on opposite ends of the map. However, one can take a Teleport Potion out of the Dimension Vault, get one character, then use the potion and hope you get close enough to the other one... only to find that they're no longer there. It's especially egregious since a big part of those characters' story lines revolves around each other, so what could have been Developer's Foresight instead turns into this.
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Last Chance Hit Point
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Mystery Chronicle adds the (Sumo) Wrestler class, which bans you from using any equipment, but gives you amazing carrying capacity, awesome stat growth, a Last Chance Hit Point, and a wide variety of abilities. And you can still use the Pugilist perk.
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JokeWeapon
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Joke Weapon: The Fluffy Baton. On one hand, it adds 50% to your accuracy and 150% to your Combo stat. The downside? It boasts an attack stat of -999, meaning that unless you spend the entire trip grinding, you'll never get it to deal more than 1 point of damage at a time. However, due to how status effects work and thanks to its high durability, one can potentially turn it into a Lethal Joke Weapon by applying the right scrolls.
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Harder Than Hard
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Inhumane Odyssey (Harder Than Hard)
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Final Boss Preview
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Final Boss Preview: The Demon Lord shows up to chase you around for a bit once every so often. The first few times he does so, he gets extra layers added onto the "barrier" that you must destroy before you can damage him, so it's best just to run.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Queen Frieda has heard about women who have a thing about sparkling undead and wonders if she should try it too since she's undead as well. And Iris — about a certain Princess Peach, who has a thing about being constantly kidnapped. One of the classes added in Plus is the Tourist. The perk that gives you one point in the Lockpicking skill is called Master of Unlocking. One of the messages you can post along with your victory is "I am winrar!"
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The Corruption
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Dosey's healing items are useful, but keep those Buddy Tablets that she gives you during a conversation! When The Corruption overcomes her, you can use one on her Killer Hound form to calm her down, re-recruit her, and gain the most powerful Lightning Bruiser in the game.
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Anti-Villain
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Anti-Villain: Turns out the Demon Lord is trying to get you to kill her to stop the Darkness, or rather the Dark Dragon.
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Made of Indestructium
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Made of Indestructium: Shrine walls cannot be broken through. They have exceptionally high HP, and any attack, no matter how powerful, will only do Scratch Damage. You can't make enough of a dent into one before the Darkness catches up.
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Developer's Foresight
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Developer's Foresight: If you make it to 2000 km while doing a non-Demon Lord quest, the dialogue will change depending on your quest. If you recruit the Demon Lord, but then make it into the Dimensional Passageway, she'll comment on you abandoning the original plan to fight the Dark Dragon, but goes along with it because defeating the Dimensional Ruler is better in the long run. The Mystery Chronicles version of this quest has Alma swearing Revenge on Pluton for his abuses of her on top of the original goal of saving the multiverse. Each cause of death is accompanied by a few sentences describing how the player died. In particular, dying to tick damage from an enemy with a curse or stench aura, which is rather hard to do unintentionally, have their own unique death messages. NPCs found only in towns and settlements with an entry condition (e.g. the Town of Sinners or a Knight fortress) will refuse to render their services to the Player Character if they circumvent the entry condition, such as knocking back the NPC or door blocking access to the town. Some of them even chew out the PC for resorting to such methods. One notable subversion is talking to the Demon Shrine Guard while the Demon Lord is your ally: he has no special dialogue for that event, much less let you pass to power her up. Even if you're intended to work for that bonus, apparently the Demon Lord is an Unusually Uninteresting Sight.
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Schmuck Bait
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Schmuck Bait: You are told up front that breaking open the Soul Jar in a Demon Shrine will do nothing except powering up the Demon Lord. Guess what — that's exactly what it does, and it does nothing else. Granted, this isn't necessarily a bad thing, as you can potentially recruit the Demon Lord with enough charisma and the right item.
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The Unpronounceable
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The Unpronounceable: Because of the seed nature for setting up each dimension's terrains — area names included — bizarre, often vowel-less configurations of letters are pretty much the norm. It might not have been as much of a nuisance in the original Japanese (i.e. syllable-based alphabet), where every possible syllable except "n" ends in a vowel, but for our alphabet...Lampshaded in one of the random prologues.
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Guest Fighter
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Guest Fighter: Mystery Chronicles has the the Ultimate Student and Wanderer classes, which come from Danganronpa and Shiren the Wanderer. Not only do these change your character graphics, but they also override your character's name. The Ultimate Student class lets you play as Makoto Naegi, Komaru Naegi, or Monokuma. While they have weak stats, they get the "hacking gun" from Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls right off the bat, and have "Truth Bullet" abilities that you can upgrade as you gain levels. The Wanderer class lets you play as Shiren, Tao, or Asuka. They're a bit of a Jack of All Trades with balanced offense, defense, and movement abilities, but they suck at using Force powers. They also have special abilities that are extremely powerful, but can only be used at night.
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The End of the World as We Know It
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The End of the World as We Know It: The darkness consumes everything, and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. If you stay nearby, NPCs can be heard dying as soon as the screen scrolls past them.
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Area of Effect
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Area of Effect: The Lightning spell hits all tiles within a 5x5 area in front of you. Force Users can rely on this spell to effectively destroy anything in the area. Extremely useful for destroying walls and treasure chests… or wiping out large towns if you feel like being a psychopath.
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Have a Nice Death
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Have a Nice Death: Whenever something kills you, a cutscene is created that lovingly describes how your weakened adventurer succumbs to the killing blow.
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Unusually Uninteresting Sight
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One notable subversion is talking to the Demon Shrine Guard while the Demon Lord is your ally: he has no special dialogue for that event, much less let you pass to power her up. Even if you're intended to work for that bonus, apparently the Demon Lord is an Unusually Uninteresting Sight.
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Despair Event Horizon: Even the physically healthy Non Player Characters (who can probably move faster than you at first) have given up on outrunning the Darkness.
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Diagonal Speed Boost: Like in many roguelikes, moving diagonally makes you move to an adjacent space that would otherwise take two turns to get to. The game even has a key command that, when pressed, restricts you to diagonal movements.
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When All Else Fails, Go Right: The Darkness comes from the west and you have to keep going east.
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Made of Explodium: Some flammable items don't like it when you get hit by fire attacks while you carry them, and make this known violently. It can get painful if that vial of Liquid Dragon Flame ignited while in your inventory.
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Light Is Not Good: Mystery Chronicle swaps out the Darkness with a just-as-deadly Shine Raid.
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Advancing Wall of Doom: The game's main distinguishing feature.
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Splash Damage: Elzite Bombs and Bomb Arrows explode violently enough to spill over into adjacent tiles when they go off. Don't stand right next to something you're attacking with them!
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Explosive Stupidity: Bombs can not only be thrown, they can also be "used", i.e. detonate it while carrying it to damage not only surrounding enemies, but yourself and any ally NPCs that happen to be with you. Oh, and when you select an item, including explosives, the sub-menu defaults to the "Use" command rather than "Throw". Have fun blowing yourself up by accident for the ten millionth time!
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Videogame Cruelty Potential: You can hunt otherwise non-hostile wildlife and torment the neutral NPCs. You can also use NPCs as a distraction while running away from (or getting free hits on) the Demon Lord.
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Wizard Needs Food Badly
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Wizard Needs Food Badly: If you drop to 0 Energy, your movement, Strength, and Agility are greatly lowered, your HP regeneration rate is halved, and you stop generating stamina, so you better carry enough items that restore it. This is a more significant problem for Force Users, since their spells run off Energy instead of Stamina like the special abilities of most other character classes.
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But Now I Must Go
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But Now I Must Go: The Golden Ending, "Dimension Ruler", has your character setting things right in their world, reviving all characters that have perished and the recruitable NPCs getting along with each other. You then go to other dimensions in order to save their world.
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Anti-Grinding: The advancing Darkness prevents you from just hanging around in the same area to grind enemies; you must keep going whether you feel sufficiently leveled or not.
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Arbitrary Headcount Limit: Each party member you want to recruit consumes some of your charisma, and even if you have enough charisma, you can't have more than three, although Plus adds mercenary characters and animals to purchase that do not count towards this limit. However, recruitable NPCs are so rare outside of daily scenarios that you'll often run into nobody except the optional starting pet and the overpriced-but-guaranteed Guard D.
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Our Werewolves Are Different
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Our Werewolves Are Different: Dosey seems to have have been somehow cursed by the Darkness to become a Killer Hound basically by proximity. When she survived her village's consumption, she grew wolf ears and a tail. About 10 days after her joining your party, she will suddenly grow teeth and attack you. You can kill her, or you can recruit her again as a Canine Companion. It is possible, but exceedingly hard, to make it through the game such that she will not transform.
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Player Character
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NPCs found only in towns and settlements with an entry condition (e.g. the Town of Sinners or a Knight fortress) will refuse to render their services to the Player Character if they circumvent the entry condition, such as knocking back the NPC or door blocking access to the town. Some of them even chew out the PC for resorting to such methods.
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Non-Indicative Difficulty: Walk In The Park, the "easy" difficulty, has the Demon Lord show up at 400 km, and will hunt you down until either you or him die. If the Demon Lord hits the edge of the screen, he'll teleport to the right of you. Afternoon Stroll, the "normal" difficulty, makes him appear sooner, but unlike on WitP, he will disappear after a while and return later again and again, so he's not always chasing you all the way to the endgame. This makes it harder to get the End of the World ending on WitP.
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Destroyable Items: Breaking treasure chests open carries the risk of destroying the items inside. Herb-type items, jewels and bombs also have a chance of getting destroyed if they're hit by a fire attack, whether carried by a character or not. They respectively degrade into burnt leaves (restoring only a meager 5% energy), charred jewels (reducing their sell value) and spontaneously explode.
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Item Crafting: A minor version: equipment can already have some modifiers on them when you find them and there are a number of scrolls that can add modifiers to them, with some of the more common modifiers having scrolls and items dedicated to them. However, the stronger modifiers are gotten randomly from using a Scroll of Swordplay or Phalanx on the said items, you can only have up to 8 modifiers on a piece of equipment and adding another removes the oldest one.
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Death Seeker: The Demon Lord, since it's the only way she knows how to stop the Darkness… unless you're up to the task of killing the Dark Dragon or Dimensional Ruler, that is.
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