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Sword of Mana (Video Game)

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Sword of Mana, released in Japan as Shin'yaku Seiken Densetsu (æ–°ç´„ è�–剣ä¼�説) or The New Testament: Legend of the Holy Sword, is a Video Game Remake of the first game of the Mana series with many of the Final Fantasy references removed and many added details from the later games inserted. It was released for the Game Boy Advance in late 2003. Faithful remakes of the original 1991 video game were released in 2006 exclusively for Japanese mobile phones and in 2016 for iOS, Android, and Play Station Vita.Not so very long ago in the kingdom that would become known as Granz, a knight and sorcerer named Vandole stumbled upon the Mana Tree, inadvertently absorbed its power, and (of course) proceeded to slowly lose his mind and sense of self. He established an empire that abused Mana to power its technology, had a reign of terror, and was eventually vanquished by a small but powerful band of heroes. A bit of time has passed since, and those heroes had begun to settle down and stabilize the world, when trouble (naturally) reemerged. Stroud... Oh, please excuse me, Dark Lord (son of Granz, one of the previous generation's heroes) and his... um, friend Julius staged a bloody coup of the Granz regime and began a vicious persecution of the Mana tribe. In so doing, two young children—the son of one of the Granz aristocrats and a girl of the Mana tribe—have their lives very violently disrupted: the Mana tribe is wiped out and the girl is forced to go into hiding, while the boy's parents meet a similar fate. He isn't as lucky as her, and is forced to fight as a gladiator for Dark Lord's amusement.Ten years later, the boy makes an escape and the girl starts out on a journey to find other Mana tribe survivors. They bump into each other again, and destiny ensues.Like many of the other "old-school" Seiken Densetsu games, Sword of Mana allows the player to choose whether to play as the hero or the heroine. Unlike other Seiken Densetsu games, though, there are significant differences depending on who you choose to play—the hero's route has slightly more focus on dungeon gameplay; in the heroine's story, the characters (particularly the villains) are MUCH more well-developed.Also like many other "old-school" Seiken Densetsu games, Sword of Mana's story is wrought with angst, and a great many main characters die. Good luck not getting attached to any of them, though.
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Anyone Can Die
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Anyone Can Die: It's a wonder anybody actually survives this game.
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Continuity Porn
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Continuity Porn: Aside from Goremand and Isabella, we have Li'l Cactus, Niccolo, Dudbears, the Seven Wisdoms, Durac and Popoi's Notebook, and one of Julius' One-Winged Angel forms, which is an expy of Irwin.
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Transflormation
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Transflormation: What the heroine must undergo in order to save the Mana Tree. Julius also takes on a tree-like form after absorbing the last of the Mana Tree's power.
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The Stoic
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The Stoic: Devius. Except when you mess with his mother.
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The Virus
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The Virus: Medusa's venom inflicts Body Horror on Amanda; the Vandole family's addiction to Mana power eventually gets the better of Julius (of course, depending on whether he's Vandole himself or not, he may be the one who got the Vandole family addicted to Mana power in the first place).
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Childhood Friend Romance
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Childhood Friend Romance: Amanda is an Unlucky Childhood Friend for the hero, while Willy has a crush on the heroine. Sadly, Pair the Spares doesn't work out since Amanda is forced into a Mercy Kill because of Medusa's venom.
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Dragon Their Feet
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Dragon Their Feet: Despite the fact that the three surviving members of his team are nearby and doing perfectly well, Dark Lord still fights you on his own, outnumbered two to one. May be a case of This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself on Julius and Isabella's part; definitely a case of dickery on Goremand's.
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Generation Xerox
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Generation Xerox: Like every Vandole, Julius has distinctive red hair and green eyes. The heroine apparently looks just like her real mother, too. The legendary Gemma Knights were Gemma: a sword-wielding hero, Bogard: a man from the Mana clan, and Granz: a minstrel. What are the hero, Willy, and Lester again? And all of these characters are more or less doomed to re-enact the adventures of the previous generation. The heroine and Julius in particular have a pretty raw deal, as destiny has arranged for the former's self-sacrifice and the latter's loss of humanity, not helped that the same happened to their predecessors, Emperor Vandole and the heroine's mother Mana, as well.
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Oblivious to Love
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Oblivious to Love: The hero doesn't really figure out that the heroine likes him until near the end of the game, just enough to join her in her determination to Screw Destiny before it becomes clear that it's already too late to do so AND avert The End of the World as We Know It.
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Power Floats
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Power Floats: Julius can, and does when you fight him. Before he goes One-Winged Angel on you.
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Awesome, but Impractical
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Awesome, but Impractical: Mooglemorphis turns you into a Moogle! Along with BubbleBoat and Shadow, these spells make the player invisible to all monsters except those that can track you by smell, sight, and sound respectively. However you can't attack, move very slowly, and probably will still be surrounded by monsters if you were trapped before.
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Shipper on Deck
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Shipper on Deck: Li'l Cactus, it appears, ships Dark Lord and Isabella. And maybe the protagonists.
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Adapted Out
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Adapted Out: Julius' third form, traded for a fight against three yellow Gray Oxen before his original first form.
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Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You
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Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: This is the protagonist's reaction to seeing their counterpart corrupted.
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Sequential Boss
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Sequential Boss: Julius has a three-part battle. He first fights alongside a number of yellow Palette Swaps of the Gray Ox. Then his second phase has him do a Doppelgänger Spin before each attack. Finally, he goes One-Winged Angel using the power of the Mana Tree and sends you to an Amazing Technicolor Battlefield where he frequently flies out of your attack range.
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Class and Level System
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Class and Level System: You can select to level up according to 6 different archetypes; mixing and matching how you level can result in 42 different final classes.
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Don't You Dare Pity Me!
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Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Once the player character seriously injures Devius, Julius offers to heal him. Incensed at the very prospect, Devius refuses... and then stabs himself.
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All Deserts Have Cacti
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All Deserts Have Cacti: The Prickly Desert, naturally.
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Final Boss, New Dimension
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Final Boss, New Dimension: You get sent to one of these for the third and last phase of the final boss fight against Julius. It's kind of an abstract blue area with a shimmer effect in the foreground. You're confined to a small area of solid ground in the center while he constantly flies around. The location box in your menu just refers to the place as "Limbo."
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Because Destiny Says So
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Because Destiny Says So: The heroine MUST become the Mana Tree to avert The End of the World as We Know It, even if she'll live on as the new Mana Goddess like her mother before her.
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Manipulative Bastard
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Manipulative Bastard: Julius is manipulating Dark Lord's resentment over how the Mana Clan refused to aid his mother to serve his own goals.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: After you fight your way through the game, you find out that the heroine has to turn into the Mana Tree to save the world.
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Flunky Boss
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Flunky Boss: A few bosses fight alongside smaller minions. Medusa summons her snakes, which inflict poison upon collision and Kraken summons aggressive fish. Julius starts the first phase of his battle accompanied by four yellow oxen and periodically summons another if you slay them. Like the bosses themselves, these enemies don't appear in the bestiary.
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Planimal
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Planimal: Inverted. Many of the crops you can grow in the hot house resemble animals.
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Godhood Seeker
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Godhood Seeker: Julius/Vandole's goal.
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Homing Projectile
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Homing Projectile: The staff turns your attack magic into this, making it the heroine's default form of magic. If an enemy is close enough, it can come back around for a second hit. The knuckles cause a variant where you control the spell to send it in the direction of your choice. You can have it stop on top of an enemy for another hit as well.
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Plot Coupon
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Plot Coupon: The heroine's pendant, the titular sword... the heroine herself...
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Green Aesop
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Julius even calls the Mana Clan out on this very early in the story, perhaps in parody of the Green Aesop in Secret of Mana. "This wouldn't be happening if you'd stop keeping your powers to yourselves, you know." "Huh? But Mana is everywhere, how could we be hoarding it?" "...Wow, talk about completely missing the point."
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Fantastic Racism
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Fantastic Racism: In many flavors. Ordinary humans against the Mana tribe, humans in general against Mavoles and vice versa, and everyone and everything towards the Vandole family, whose body composition has been altered so much by Mana energy that they're no longer said to belong to any preexisting race.
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Slippy-Slidey Ice World
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Slippy-Slidey Ice World: The Snowfield and Kahla Peaks form one of these in the mountains around Lorimar Castle. The snow frequently gives way to patches of bare ice that the characters can slide on. The local Boss Room is an ice bridge in an ice cave, making it particularly difficult to dodge the boss as it climbs around the nearby ice pillars to attack from above and below.
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Bare-Handed Blade Block
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Barehanded Blade Block: Dark Lord, in the hero's opening sequence.
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Permanently Missable Content
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Permanently Missable Content: A number of treasures in can only be acquired at certain points of the game. If you didn't realize you were supposed to backtrack to an earlier town at just the right time, tough luck.
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This Is Your Brain on Evil
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This Is Your Brain on Evil: Vandole and Julius, who might be Vandole.
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Hello, [Insert Name Here]
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Hello, [Insert Name Here]: You have to enter names for both the hero and the heroine regardless of whose route you're playing.
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The Power of Love
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The Power of Love: How the player character gets past the ugliness of his/her friends' darkest secrets; particularly apparent in the heroine's route.
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Puppeteer Parasite
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Puppeteer Parasite: Boison Vine, one of Julius' servants. This plant controls the corpse of a Full Metal Haggar to move around, and once the crab is destroyed, he will flee to take control of a giant plant monster to deal with the player character.
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Punny Name
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Punny Name: Goremand. In case you don't get it, consider that it was called Deatheater in the Japanese version.
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Ultimate Blacksmith
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Ultimate Blacksmith: Good ol' Watts is your man/dwarf for forging equipment. He can also temper them too.
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Guide Dang It!
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Guide Dang It!: Sword of Mana takes a lot of cues from Legend of Mana. Unfortunately, this was one of them. Gardening is much more complicated than it looks like if you're trying to get certain kinds of produce, and trying out all the combination without a guide would be a ridiculously time-consuming expenditure. There's also the process of getting crystal weapons, Niccolo's special deals, and oh yes ALL of the advanced classes, especially the ones that require you to specialize in a weapon before you have access to it!
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Collision Damage
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Collision Damage: Rare monsters deal one point of damage and knock you flat on your back upon collision. Medusa's snakes inflict poison upon collision, but don't knock you down.
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Weapon-Based Characterization
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Weapon-Based Characterization: Swords for the hero, staves for the heroine. They can use other weapons, but these pairings are used in official art.
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Named by the Adaptation
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Named by the Adaptation: The heroine's mother was not named in the original Final Fantasy Adventure or in its more faithful remake Adventures of Mana, but is named Mana in this game.
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You Can't Fight Fate
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You Can't Fight Fate: The heroine is doomed to become the new Mana Goddess to save the Mana Tree, which was dying even before Julius started draining it, due to Julius and Dark Lord trying to phase out the world's use of, and reliance upon, the power of Mana. Worst of all, the heroine had passively sensed that this was true, but consciously acted to Screw Destiny until it was clear that if she doesn't do it, it'd cause The End of the World as We Know It.
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Cat Folk
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Isabella is a more straight example for Belladonna from the same game, with "Isabella" actually being her name instead of an alias to pass as human, in addition to being from the Bigieu clan*("Bigieu" was how the Trials villain's name was interpreted prior to her official Dub Name Change.) and her interest in Dark Lord mirroring Belladonna's obsession with His Dark Majesty.
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Spared by the Adaptation
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Spared by the Adaptation: Willy, who dies shortly after the beginning of the original Seiken Densetsu, gets a lot more characterization and screen time in Sword of Mana and survives the entire story.
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She Is Not My Girlfriend
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He Is Not My Boyfriend: The heroine to Watts re: the hero, in the scene where she gets the Kusarigama.
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Point of No Return
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Point of No Return: Dime Tower.
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Interspecies Romance
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Interspecies Romance: Mavole law forbids marriage and interbreeding with humans. Sometimes couples try anyway; when the geas kicks in for the Mavole member of the couple, the results are never pretty. Poor, poor Medusa. As for the children of such a union, there doesn't seem to be a taboo against relationships, but we never see one take its course without the half-blood dying midway through. Children of such a union do tend to lead very messed-up lives. Poor Devius and Dark Lord.
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Creepy Crossdresser
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Creepy Crossdresser: Julius is bordering on this, what with the painted nails, hot pink cape, and brightly colored robes. He doesn't present as trans, though.
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What Happened to the Mouse?
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What Happened to the Mouse?: Goremand. A scene where he spoiled the ending and got a proper exit was Dummied Out.
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That Man Is Dead
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That Man Is Dead / Do Not Call Me "Paul": Gurnda and Stroud prefer to be known as "Devius" and "Dark Lord" respectively. You can only get away with calling them by their names from their "old lives" if you're very close to them. The latter corrects the hero's parents when, not knowing about the name change, they address him as Prince Stroud.
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The Chosen One
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The Chosen One: The heroine is a woman of the Mana clan, and thus is able to sacrifice her body to sustain the Mana Tree, becoming the next Mana Goddess in doing so.
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High-Speed Train Reroute
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High-Speed Train Reroute: The abandoned mine is a Minecart Madness level where you have to do this several times to reach the boss and advance the plot.
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Mini-Boss
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Mini-Boss: The Ebony and Ivory Butlers act as this in Vinquette Hall, leading up to Count Lee, and are variants of the Werewolf enemy. Which one you fight depends on which route you're playing. A guardian dragon serves as this at the halfway point of the Mana Sactuary.
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Reed Richards Is Useless
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Dark Lord thinks the Mana clan's non-interference policy is stupid and makes his displeasure VERY clear.
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Posthumous Character
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Posthumous Character: Vandole and Mana. Granz too, but this eventually turns out to be subverted, as Julius secretly kept him alive to siphon off his magic behind Dark Lord (who has been shown to publicly shun magic)'s back.
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Cthulhumanoid
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Cthulhumanoid: Devius's One-Winged Angel form is a large mollusk-like humanoid with a nautilus for a head and tentacles for limbs. Li'l Cactus even calls him Old Squidface.
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Artificial Stupidity
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Artificial Stupidity: It's best to let your partner die rather than waste healing items on them. If you actually try to keep them alive, the entire game can become an Escort Mission. Except in Dime Tower, where you are best off simply playing as Marshall and blasting everything to pieces with laserbeams before your main character has a chance to get themself killed.
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Sword of Plot Advancement
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Sword of Plot Advancement: The titular sword, though it's really more of a Plot Coupon—you can't use it, and it's rusted, so even if it was usable, it wouldn't do you any more good than your other weapons. Even at the climax of the game, where the sword is restored to its proper glory, you still can't use it.
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: Each of the six class trees from Trials of Mana show up again here. Isabella (in appearance only; her real name of Bigieu/Belladonna is not used in this game) and Goremand have expies here as well.
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Elite Mooks
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Elite Mooks: Kill 1000 of a specific enemy and the black version replaces them. This applies to ALL enemies. For example the standard Rabbite becomes a Black Rabbite (though not the Seiken Dentetsu 3 version). Said monsters also drop high end materials required for the best equipment.
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Devius and Dark Lord are furious when the hero kills Medusa, not caring that Medusa had had an episode, forcing the hero to act in self-defense. Devius even kidnaps Bogard to force a fight to the death as revenge.
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Half-Human Hybrid
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Half-Human Hybrid: Medusa's children, Dark Lord and Devius, fathered by Lord Granz.
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Infinity +1 Sword
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Infinity +1 Sword: Crystal equipment. We're talking MASSIVE stats in all categories, not counting the number of times you can temper them. Crystal weapons even have a chance to deal ALL-(yes, that's what it actually says) elemental damage, while crystal armors resist ALL elements and make you immune to Charm. However, you may find that a mix of other types of armors that resist other Status Effects may be better than just straight-up pure defense. Also however, you'll notice that the heroine can only have crystal weapons and gloves. That's where Altena Felt comes in—does the same job as crystal for fabric equipment, but grants immunity to Confuse instead. The secret Brownie Ring, which increases all of your stats by 55.
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Ascended Extra
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Ascended Extra: All the characters' roles were expanded and given more depth, but especially Willy stands out for this trope. He didn't even manage to survive the first ten minutes of Final Fantasy Adventure, and here he actually makes party member status! Along with being one of the markedly few characters to actually survive the game.
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Karma Houdini
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Karma Houdini: Goremand. Possibly only to be expected, as he's an Expy of — or possibly even the same character as — Goremand from Trials of Mana, who was never killed there either. But at least in Trials you could punch his smug face in. Here he's The Unfought.
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Accentuate the Negative
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Accentuate the Negative: In the end, Julius' shadow shows the protagonist the main characters' vices.
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Breaking and Bloodsucking
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Breaking and Bloodsucking: Despite warnings and misgivings, the hero and heroine stay the night at Vinquette Hall, and this time both the heroine and Isabella are taken by the vampire in the night. However, because of Adaptational Heroism, Count Lee is a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire trying to protect the women of the Mana Clan.
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Save the Villain
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Save the Villain: The heroine toward every major antagonist you fight. Her route only. It never works.
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Era-Specific Personality
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Era-Specific Personality: The antagonists are given much more development than in Final Fantasy Adventure. The heroine also has her own storyline instead of being a Damsel in Distress.
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Infinity +1 Element
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Crystal equipment. We're talking MASSIVE stats in all categories, not counting the number of times you can temper them. Crystal weapons even have a chance to deal ALL-(yes, that's what it actually says) elemental damage, while crystal armors resist ALL elements and make you immune to Charm. However, you may find that a mix of other types of armors that resist other Status Effects may be better than just straight-up pure defense. Also however, you'll notice that the heroine can only have crystal weapons and gloves. That's where Altena Felt comes in—does the same job as crystal for fabric equipment, but grants immunity to Confuse instead.
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Forced Transformation
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Forced Transformation: Lester, and several other minstrels in Devius' manor. Inverted with one of them, who actually liked being a bird.
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Morality Chain
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Morality Chain: Dark Lord to Julius. True to type, he completely succumbs to his Vandole blood right after Dark Lord's death and makes a beeline for the Mana Tree. Alternately, if "Julius" is an assumed identity of Vandole, he dropped his "Julius" facade because Dark Lord is no longer a threat.
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Screw with Medusa, and Devius and Dark Lord will make you suffer. Also, don't address the latter two by their birth names. Just don't.
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Mystical Waif
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Mystical Waif: Julius to the villains' side, although Sword of Mana is far more vague on how he and Dark Lord wound up together than the original Final Fantasy Adventure, where Dark Lord was significantly older and Julius was an orphaned child he found in a cave. This does not seem to be the case here, as the two of them are roughly the same age.
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Informed Attribute
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Informed Attribute: The game booklet claims that Julius is a master swordsman. We never see him pick up a weapon.
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Luke, I Am Your Father: Bogard is the heroine's father.
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Canon Name: The hero and heroine have several. To avoid confusion, they are not used here, and are referred to as "the hero" and "the heroine" respectively. In Final Fantasy Adventure and Adventures of Mana: Hero and Heroine in Japanese, and Sumo and Fuji in English. In Sword of Mana: Duke and Elena in Japanese material, and Matt and Rose in the English strategy guide and official promotional comics.
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Anti-Villain: Dark Lord is just bitter over his father's refusal to save his mother; Julius is slowly succumbing to his Vandole blood (that's if he's not Vandole himself). Even so, they're both psychopaths who kill many innocent people and settle at ruining many other lives just as badly to obtain their own goals without hesitation.
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Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Usually not overtly so, but it does make the bowdlerised English versions of scenes that originally had impassioned swearing a little Narmtastic. See the entry for Narm itself below.
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Sword and Sorcerer: Dark Lord and Julius. Depending on their class growth, the main characters can also count.
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Slap-Slap-Kiss: The hero and heroine can't stand each other early on, but eventually fall for each other.
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What the Hell, Hero?: Dark Lord thinks the Mana clan's non-interference policy is stupid and makes his displeasure VERY clear. A more humorous example occurs if the player accepts the side quest to trade away Li'l Cactus and then the follow-up quest to get him back. Entries in Li'l Cactus' journal naturally don't get added while he's gone, but get filled in retroactively when he returns. The entry that gets added for the sidequest where he gets traded away is just the word "TRAITOR" repeated for the entire page length.
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Spread Shot: The axe causes your attack magic to hit an expanding area, though only the fire, water, and earth spells visualize it as spreading projectiles. Moon, wind, and wood spells are visualized as expanding waves, light as two projectiles that zigzag around each other and them move outward, and darkness as an expanding sphere.
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We Cannot Go On Without You: Your partner is free to bite it, and in some cases might be recommended, but if the one you're playing as at the time bites it, it's Game Over.
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Meteorite: Jake aerolite, hal, ankh, vinek.
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The End of the World as We Know It: Due to Dark Lord and Julius banning the use of Mana power alongside worship of the Mana Goddess, the Mana Tree is dying yet again, and only the heroine's sacrifice can stop it, once Julius is defeated.
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Adaptation Name Change: In the Japanese version of Final Fantasy Adventure, Vandole was spelled �ンドール (better translated as "Bandol"). To go along with the newer Mana series references, Sword of Mana changed it to ヴァンドール (Vandole), suggesting a greater connection to the Secret of Mana character of the same name.
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Flying Face: Medusa's One-Winged Angel form is a giant floating head with snakes for hair and the third eye that she can fire a petrifying beam from.
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Expy: Goremand is based on the character of the same name from Trials of Mana, being a soul-eating Monster Clown. Isabella is a more straight example for Belladonna from the same game, with "Isabella" actually being her name instead of an alias to pass as human, in addition to being from the Bigieu clan*("Bigieu" was how the Trials villain's name was interpreted prior to her official Dub Name Change.) and her interest in Dark Lord mirroring Belladonna's obsession with His Dark Majesty.
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Star-Crossed Lovers: Pretty much every single love story turns out this way: The protagonists in the hero's route, Dark Lord and Isabella, Pamela and Durac, Bogard and Mana, and Granz and Medusa.
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Elemental Crafting: The game uses surprising variety of materials for equipment. There are eight classes of materials and two broad gear categories: fighter-type heavy armor and mage-type light armor. Any given piece of equipment can be made from several different material classes, leading to the hero wearing a bone breastplate and metal gauntlets while the heroine wears a cloth robe and wooden sandals. A given material class isn't "better" than another but they give different properties to the equipment they make. The full material list follows: Cloth: Cotton, silk, hemp, felt. Wood: Oak, holly, boabab, charcoal, ash, dion, mistletoe, fossil. Leather: Animal hide, gator, centaur, pegasus. Bone: Animal, elephant tusk, black bone, fossil. Metal: Bronze, iron, steel, alloy, iron, alloy, lead, mythril silver, orihalcum. Scale: Fish, lizard, snake, dragon. Meteorite: Jake aerolite, hal, ankh, vinek. Stone: Marble, obsidian, pedan, crystal.
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Laser-Guided Amnesia: Medusa's incurable memory loss—essentially the magical version of Alzheimer's—devastates her spouse and children, and eventually causes her family to splinter.
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Sidekick: Even out of the NPCs, the protagonists wind up with particular characters more often than not—for the hero, his designated backup is Lester; for the heroine, this is Willy.
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The Lost Lenore: Mana to Bogard.
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Our Werewolves Are Different: The Werewolf and Wolfiend enemies look like standard werewolves and attack with moon-elemental magic. Count Lee's butlers also take on werewolf-like forms with the same abilities when fought as mini-bosses.
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Robot Buddy: Marshall, a robot found in the Tower of Dime, is your companion in both routes.
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