Soma Bringer

Soma Bringer is an Action RPG for the Nintendo DS developed by MonolithSoft (of Xenosaga fame) and published by Nintendo.

In a world where the a magical energy source known as Soma drives the technology and daily lives of all its inhabitants, there lies a huge continent named Barnea. In recent years, the natural balance of Soma has been disrupted by the arrival of mysterious beings called Visitors. To investigate these occurrences, Secundady - the organization that regulates Soma in the world, creates a military division to deal with these Visitors - Pharzuph. The story follows the seven members of the 7th Division of Pharzuph. What they discover on one of their missions will determine the fate of the world....


 * Anthropomorphic Personification: Aletheia. Basically, think Getter Rays.
 * Class and Level System/Common Character Classes: Contains most of the standard classes, although with non-standard names
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: Zain, the Floating Continent
 * Fan Translation: Fully translated, aside from the Glossary which you'll never use.
 * Floating Continent: The city of Cremona, the continent of Zain.
 * Gaia's Vengeance:
 * Girl In A Cocoon: Idea
 * Good All Along: Master Laban.
 * The Good Captain: Einsatz is this to Pharzuph's 7th Division and it's members.
 * Gratuitous German: All over the place.
 * Healing Shiv: One of the Gunner class abilities is a trap that heals you if you stand on it.
 * Naive Newcomer: Welt at the start of the game.
 * No Export for You
 * Petting Zoo People: Monica, the Colonel, and all the Nubians.
 * Precursors: Ancient Cremonans.
 * Sequel Hook: There's no actual sequel hook in the game, but in one of the interviews leading to its release, Monolith said they've extensively developed the world and its story, but because it was a first title, only a few elements of the storyline best suited for an Action RPG were selected to be Soma Bringer.
 * Space Elevator: That ring you see in the sky in the opening moments of the game? That's actually an orbital ring, held down by a space elevator known as the Ring Tower.
 * Sprite Polygon Mix: Soma Bringer makes use of 3D Models on 2D backgrounds for it's gameplay.
 * X Meets Y: Secret of Mana meets Diablo.
 * Viewer Gender Confusion: Millers.
 * Yasunori Mitsuda: The game's composer
 * Yasunori Mitsuda: The game's composer