Ar Tonelico Qoga: Difference between revisions

The third game in the [[Eastern RPG|JRPG]] series by Gust is called ''Ar tonelico III: Sekai Shuuen no Hikigane wa Shoujo no Uta ga Hiku'' (''The Song of the Girl that Pulls the Trigger of the End of the World'') in Japan. This time around, the protagonist is a male named Aoto, and the two Reyvateils he meets are Finnel and Saki. The setting is the third tower, Sol Cluster, where [[Fantastic Racism|Reyvateils hold high importance over the second-class humans]].

 

 

 

** Finnel is very vocal about it. She even says she doesn't want to wear a certain item because she doesn't have the bust for it. Aoto immediately offers to make her some pads.

* [[All Men Are Perverts]]: You have the option of invoking this when programming Hyumas. After purging to the final level, the player can ask the girl to stip again. Depending on the girl being programmed, she may not object to the idea...

** Saki's 3rd Cosmosphere level lives by this.

* [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]

* [[Apologises a Lot]]: Saki.

* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: Saki has the power to turn humans into cake.

* [[Bandage Babe]]: Filament.

* [[Beam Spam]]: {{spoiler|Tyria loves this.}}

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: Aoto and Finnel, though they're probably just playing around more than anything.

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The story EXEC_FLIP_FUSIONSPHERE/. tells in its [[Con Lang|Hymmnos]] lyrics is arguably more interesting than the song's context in the game.

** It's at the same time the most beautiful and the most depressing thing you'll hear. Song [http://tindeck.com/listen/vzvq here], Lyrics [http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/EXEC_FLIP_FUSIONSPHERE here].

* [[Breast Plate]]: Sakia Lumei's armor can become this.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Many characters occasionally become very aware that they exist inside a JRPG, typically during synthesis. Cocona seems to be perpetually aware of this fact

** Also in Finnel's [[RPG Episode|RPG-style Cosmosphere level]], if you choose not to help Finnel, she'll keep asking until you choose to help her.

* [[Catgirl]]: Filament.

* [[Clothing Damage]]: Exaggerated to the point that you can't do a powerful special attack (especially when purging) unless one of you has been stripped down, even to the point of bearing your underwear!

* [[Detached Sleeves]]: Finnel, Akane if you squint.

* [[The Dulcinea Effect]]: Aoto to Saki in the first 5 minutes of the game.

* [[Expy]]: Richa. Dressed from head to toe in pink? Check. Infatuated with someone who doesn't return her feelings {{spoiler|(outwardly, at least)}}? Check. Very hyperactive whenever that person is in sight, usually charging towards them? Check. She's pretty much a human [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Amy Rose.]]

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Gengai.

* [[Foreshadowing]]: When you Dive into Saki, you'll see her Hymn Code is written: {{spoiler|'''SAKIA'''_FEHU_TILIA_HARVESTASYA}}. Guess what it means?

* {{spoiler|[[Genius Loci]]}}: {{spoiler|The final boss is the will of Ar Ciel.}}

* [[Flat Character]]: {{spoiler|Tyria}} and {{spoiler|Ar Ru}}'s Mind Guardians, they don't appear in any Cosmophere, so unlike other Mind Guardians who had some participation in Saki and Finnel's Binary Fields, we don't get to know their personalities.

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: {{spoiler|You can encounter Soma within Finnel's "second" Cosmosphere before discovering that Finnel is Soma during the course of the game. You can also fuse Finnel and Yurisica together in her real second Cosmosphere level and have Finnel fight as her after Yurisica helps you escape from Eternus Gallery (possibly before, as well), but Tatsumi doesn't bring up the fact that the girl that helped them escape from the prison was a Persona of Finnel.}}

** Tyria uses this a lot too and [[Gratuitous Italian|ciao]] anyone?

* [[Gratuitous French]]: Used by Aoto when trying to teach Akane about love.

** {{spoiler|Mute}}

* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]

** If you install the DLC Tsundere personality for Harvestasha, it turns in to a [[Love Triangle]].

* [[Hospital Hottie]]: Yurisica.

* [[Hypocritical Heartwarming]]: Aoto, pretty much constantly in Finnel's cosmosphere.

* [[Implausible Fencing Powers]]: ''Don't mess'' with commander Akane!

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: ''Almost'' everyone

** Tatsumi's weapon is called a V-Board, some kind of skateboard with a motor and a beam edge around it.

** Hikari Gojo is the biggest offender this time. Well officially it's a doctor bag, well not just a doctor bag. It's a doctor bag that can... let's see: Shoot laser beams, transform into a shield, bazooka, stun enemies with electric, a beam saber installed inside it, [[Gundam Seed|DRAGOON]] beam cannon pods, and a [[Wave Motion Gun]]. I tell you a doctor bag never been this [[Badass]] before.

** Cocona's weapon is a {{spoiler|V-Board too, since she is Tatsumi}}. But she's a bigger offender than Tatsumi, her {{spoiler|V-Board}} can seperate into [[Bifurcated Weapon|two beam tonfas]]. The tonfas can generate a beam wave and beam twister, and by the way it can also float too considering it's originally was supposed to be a {{spoiler|V-Board}}. And when she uses her [[Limit Break|EX-Move]] she takes her original weapon: her hair clips, her beam sword generating hair clips. Yes, you read it right '''Beam Hair Clips'''! [[Rule of Cool|Only in Ar Tonelico...]]

* [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]]: amusingly deconstructed.

'''Tyria''': Why, of course it was me. '''They were created at the same time as this Tower's creation'''. }}

** Yeah, the treasure chests in this game are [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]].

* [[Intertwined Fingers]]: {{spoiler|Finnel and Akane do this in the ending, complete with both of them blushing.}}

* [[I Will Protect Her]]: Aoto says this a lot talking about Saki and Finnel.

** Also in Finnel's Level 9 Cosmosphere, {{spoiler|old habits are hard to break as evident when Momoko is reborn, picks on Finnel and (optionally) later tells you Finnel's "weak points".}} She has the best intentions in mind...

* [[Jiggle Physics]]: They even made an extra video explaining the physics of the different character models.

** She has a cat mask and how much she's already been shown to meow.

** Filament. Her purge has her creating cat ears and a tail out of magic! If it's still not enough, all her magic involves cats and her mind guardian is a cat.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Aoto asked Finnel why Clustenia has Dive Shops because... you know, they have no humans in their town, right? So why bother having dive machines? Even better, why install one in every house? Finnel only says that it's one of Clustenia's seven mysteries, leaving Aoto to wonder about the other six.

* [[Large Ham]]: Mute. Constantly. Aoto, too, whenever the protection of Reyvateils is concerned.

* [[Looped Lyrics]]: EXEC_COSMOFLIPS/.

* [[Pregnant Badass]]: Zoi, {{spoiler|Ar Ru's}} Mind Guardian, is quite a literal one, her evolution through each Purge it's just a ever increasing Gestation Period, and attacking with her babies.

* [[Pretty in Mink]]: Several of the outfits.

* [[Sexy Backless Outfit]]: Finnel's dress is rather revealing in that area.

** Also [http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/File:Krusche.jpg Krusche] has [http://artonelico.wikia.com/wiki/File:At3-cursye-elendia.jpg grown a bit] in the last 4 years.

** Is it cool? Is it fashionable? Is it [[Bohemian Rhapsody|the real life or or is it just fantasy?]] -Aoto.

** {{spoiler|XP is the nice Havestasya and Vista is the mean one.}} On purpose? No idea. Hilarious? You bet.

** "I've never seen a superhero in shorts, a tank top and a straw hat" - Cocona while synthesizing, as the topic was about what makes a superhero (they were talking about costumes). Aoto replies saying he'd kind of like to see that. Sounds like a reference to Luffy of One Piece!

* [[Split Personality Takeover]]: Although the alternate personalities are kind enough to give the body back after they finish up their business... Well, maybe not for {{spoiler|Suzunomia}}, but she got better.

** {{spoiler|Inverted with Saki. While it is later revealed that Sakia Lumei was actually the main persona and Saki an alternate persona, ''Sakia'' is the one who's trying to turn Saki into the primary personality.}}

* [[Stripperiffic]]: An actual part of the game system! Not to mention the fact that Finnel's base outfit has what resembles nipple tassels.

* [[Super Move Portrait Attack]]: Actually, make it Super Move Portrait Animation.

* [[Take That]]: When doing an Item Synthesizing a Rehearshal Frill with Tatsumi.

'''Tatsumi''': Aoto, with that statement you have made an innumerable amount of enemies. }}

* [[Teen Genius]]: [[Child Prodigy|Sasha]] again, only this time she can create her own personal Hymnnos and a satellite. Even Tyria commented that given another 3 years she may surpass her creator.

* [[This Is a Drill]]: Aoto's weapon has one in it. [[Lampshade Hanging|His love for them is lampshaded]] when you perform image synthesis and create a couple new weapons and Supermoves for Aoto.

* [[Timed Mission]]: {{spoiler|Defeating a boss called M.Y.U. in a certain time frame determines whether you can go on to get one of the true endings or not. Also, if you don't defeat the final boss quickly enough, a [[BFS|giant sword]] appears and kills you.}}

** All the Reyvateils have one that you can give as a present when "programming" in order help [[Through His Stomach|make them more agreeable to stripping further]].

* [[Transformation Sequence]]: the process of Purging, by removing pieces of clothes.

* [[Virtual Paper Doll]]

* [[Wet Sari Scene]]: The reason Soma's dress is often transparent.

* [[Winged Humanoid]]: Harvestasya, and {{spoiler|Ar Ru.}} Except they're not really wings; they're something else gameplay-related. I think you'd find it ''interesting.''

** 4) One of your Revyateil companions {{spoiler|turns people into cakes.}} And we haven't gotten into the battles yet. This game is so Japanese it's funny, similar to how Disgaea is.

* [[Zettai Ryouiki]]: A number of characters have this in some form or another.

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Eastern RPG]]