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''[[Azure Dreams]]'' is a roguelike RPG released by [[Konami]] in the late 1990s. There are two different versions: one for the [[
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{{Tropelist}}
* [[Absolute Cleavage]]: Nico.
* [[Action Girl]]: Nico.
* [[Ambidextrous Sprite]]: Koh, in the tower. In a reverse of early incarnations of [[The Legend of Zelda
* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The box art for the PSX version: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131125171753/http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/azuredreams/azuredreamsj.jpg Japan] and [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Azure_Dreams_Coverart.png America].▼
* [[Antidote Effect]]: The hazak herb (which recovers a reduced attack stat,) is completely useless on all floors of the tower that do not contain [[Demonic Spider|Vipers]], the only monster capable of inflicting that effect. However, try to make it through those floors, and you'll probably be kicking yourself if you don't have any.▼
▲* [[American Kirby Is Hardcore]]: The box art for the PSX version: [http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/azuredreams/azuredreamsj.jpg Japan] and [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/78/Azure_Dreams_Coverart.png America].
* [[Anime Hair]]: Koh and his father Guy.
▲* [[Antidote Effect]]: The hazak herb (which recovers a reduced attack stat
* [[Asteroids Monster]]: Manoevas (PS1 version).
* [[Awesome Yet Impractical]]: Some of the lighter monsters (including Kewne, your familiar) can be picked up and hurled at an enemy. This gives your monster a free attack on the enemy in question, even if they would normally strike second and also keeps fragile Koh a few steps back from the monster. Impractical only for two reasons:
** The throw damages your monster, too. Given that the entire game is based around resource management, wasting even 1 or 2 HP can be the difference between victory or defeat.
** [[Camera Screw|Sometimes you miss]], and Koh apparently has a pretty good throwing arm and your monsters have a pretty bad case of [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|ADD]], leaving Koh to fight the monster alone and your monster to wander about the level randomly until you meet up with it again or go up a floor.
** Having two monsters out using the second collar you can find. Great for exploring end-of-the-run floors when you've got a Wind Crystal and plan to go back soon anyway. Not so great when you're trying to push for the top and need every Herb and MP-restorative you can get.
** The Dark Sword and Holy Swords respectively. Both have very good starting damage, but both succumb to rust, ultimately making the Gold Sword a better choice.
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*** However, rust traps only effect equipment you're actually wearing. You can preserve the effectiveness of any equipment from rust traps by taking it off when you're not using it.
*** The Mirror Shield is not only immune to rust traps and can be improved by blue sands, it actually ''fully reflects back all magic'' to monsters. The Live Shield also deals damage to monsters, even just by standing there, but sadly it is not immune to rust traps.
** The almost-impossible-to-find Trained Wand is immune to rust traps, bolstered by red sand, ''and'' improves the power of mixture magic. It's so rare as to be nearly nonexistent unless you
*** The Life Wand is immune to rust traps and while it only deals 1 HP per hit (and can't be enhanced), it ''gives you that 1 HP''. Best used when Koh also consumes Mahell seed, which boosts his attack speed.
** The Acid Rain ball kills ALL monsters in a room dead, no matter how high their level.
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* [[Bag of Spilling]]: The monsters keep their experience levels upon exiting the tower. ''You'', however...
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: Nico and most of the other girls in their swimsuits.
* [[Beautiful All Along]]:
* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Koh, Kewne, Cherrl and '''especially''' Mia.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]:
** Part of the reason why Ghosh can't stand to see Selfi fall in love with Koh.
**
* [[Big Eater]]: Koh, if he wins Patti's heart. He has to eat every item on her menu, and then a special dish afterwards.
* [[Black Magician Girl]]
* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: Ghosh borders on this considering his condescending personality and his treatment of Mia.
* [[Blue Eyes]]: Many characters have these.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: An easy way to increase an item's drop rate is to simply place it in storage. With 5 stored, even rare items like sands will be spawning regularly.
* [[The Casanova]]: Koh, eventually.
* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: This happens when you reach a certain floor in the tower and find out that
* [[Character Development]]: Most of the characters go through this during the game.
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Koh, so very much.
* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]: Nico, potentially.▼
* [[Child Prodigy]]: Many adventurers are said to only make it up the first few floors before having to give up. Koh seems to easily be able to traverse the tower on his first time, and can easily manage to get to higher floors each time he adventures in, depending on the player.
▲* [[Childhood Friend Romance]]: Nico, potentially.
* [[City of Adventure]]: Monsbaiya.
* [[Cleavage Window]]: Nico.
*
* [[Continuing Is Painful]]: Less so than other [[
▲** Unless you have the ultimate [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMFa35VV4Ao Catawump].
* [[Cool Big Sis|Cool Little Sis]]: Weedy, so very much.
* [[Crutch Character]]: To an extent, Kewne. While, technically speaking, he never stops being useful, quite a few monsters with the appropriate levels and monsters fused the right way have unique abilities, unique magic, or are otherwise an improvement.
* [[Cute Bookworm]]: Mia.▼
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Nico.
▲* [[Cute Bookworm]]: Mia.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Selfi at one point in the game.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Fur in both versions towards Koh. {{spoiler|She uses this in the Playstation version to tease Koh. It eventually backfires on her when Koh sees Ghosh flirting with her, only for her to deny Ghosh's advances. She admits to treating Koh better, and will admit she likes him, but tries to switch it back to making it seem she only does because she feels sorry for him, even to go as far as mentioning his dead father. Koh gets upset at this and leaves, leaving Fur saddened by what's happened.}}▼
{{quote| '''Fur:''' Dunno why, but Koh's lookin' real good to me lately. Better go get my eyes checked out or somethin'.}}▼
* [[Death Is a Slap On The Wrist]]: Subverted. If you get 0 HP in the Tower, you get knocked out and wake up in Town, same as if you used a wind crystal. However, you lose EVERYTHING you had with you except for Home-hatched familiars. ▼
** The main reason why to some gamers, Azure Dreams can be as scary as a survival horror game. Just imagine losing all those valuable items!▼
*** It's worse when you find that valuable Monster Egg or [[Infinity+1 Sword|Trained Wand]], only to get murdered before finding a Wind Crystal. Especially because there's [[Lost Forever|a chance it will never appear again.]]▼
* [[Dangerous Sixteenth Birthday|Dangerous Fifteenth Birthday]]: When Koh became 15, he was allowed to enter the monster tower for the first time and face all of its perils.
▲* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Fur in both versions towards Koh.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Koh's father died shortly after Weedy was born, {{spoiler|although some say that his spirit has been seen at the top floors of the tower from time to time....}}▼
▲{{quote|
▲* [[Death Is a Slap
▲** The main reason why to some gamers, Azure Dreams can be as scary as a survival horror game. Just imagine losing all those valuable items!
▲
▲* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Koh's father died shortly after Weedy was born,
* [[The Dragon]]: Both a literal and a somewhat figurative example are the Dragons at the higher floors who are also some of the last monsters you see before the final boss.
* [[Drunk
* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Monsters come in three types: Fire, Wind, and Water. Fire beats Wind, Wind beats Water, and Water beats Fire.▼
* [[Dummied Out]]: Several items were coded into the [[PS 1]] game, but assigned a 0% chance of dropping on any given floor, although it is still possible for them to be spit out by a Barong. Some, like the shomuro herb, which was made to cure a status effect that was never implemented, are effectively useless.
▲* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Monsters come in three types: Fire, Wind
* [[Hair Decorations]]: Nico, Patti, and Weedy all have these.▼
* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: Koh for Cherrl.
* [[Familiar]]: Any monster that you hatch and raise is called this. To get higher in the tower, it is essential that they become stronger, as unlike Koh, their levels don't reset when they leave the tower.
* [[Fan Service]]: Arguably the main motivation to complete the Water Medal quest and re-open the swimming pool, as whichever of the seven girls Koh has won over are regular patrons (though only one shows up at a time), complete with new character portraits clad in swimsuits. For the [[Ho Yay]], a swimsuit-clad [http://th04.deviantart.net/fs25/150/f/2008/144/f/2/Azure_Dreams___Ghosh_Rode_by_S3RG3J.jpg Ghosh]{{Dead link}} is also a regular patron.
* [[Fan Service
* [[Fragile Speedster]]: The Picket, who can move twice as fast as any monster, but drops if you hit it once.▼
▲* [[Fission Mailed]]: {{spoiler|The final boss.}}
* [[Five-Man Band]]: A particularly good one occurs later on actually.
** [[The Hero]]: Koh.
** [[The Lancer]]: Selfi.
** [[The Smart Girl]] Fur.
** [[The Big Girl]]: Nico.
** [[The Chick]]: Patti.
** [[Team Pet]]: Kewne.
▲* [[Fragile Speedster]]: The Picket, who can move twice as fast as any monster, but drops if you hit it once.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The expensive Aura Bike is really fun to ride and helps you get around town quickly, but look carefully at it when Koh is riding it sideways.▼
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:
▲*
** At the end,
* [[Glass Cannon]]: The Killer, who has high attack and critical-hit ratio, but only moderate defense.
* [[Glasses Girl]]: Mia.
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* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: Weedy's monster book.
* [[Guide Dang It]]:
*
** Depending on what you say to Cherrl about
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Cherrl.
* [[Heavy Sleeper]]: Koh never seems to wake up himself, his girlfriends or his sister usually having to wake him up.
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* [[Hot Mom]]: Wreath.
* [[Ill Girl]]: Cherrl (PS1 version only).
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: As well as some of the characters' normal garb, most of the girls' swimsuits, though elaborate, would certainly be impractical as actual swimming garb. Standout examples include [http://www.deviantart.com/download/84618242/10f213c9059779d09366dc8dcb07c7c5.jpg Nico's]{{Dead link}} suit, which is fastened by metal clasps that make it look like a pair of denim overalls with the middle section and legs missing, and [http://media.photobucket.com/image/azure+dreams+swimsuit+/akadewboy/Azure%20Dreams/SelfiSwimsuitAnimated.gif Selfi's] suit, which has an enormous pink bow and a ''small bell'' on the front.
* [[Infinity+1 Element]]: The legendary monster has a special "Shadow" element that nothing else has.
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]:
*
** The Trained Wand counts as this, being harder to find than a Gold Sword, but benefiting from both Red Sands and Mixture Magic. Like the Gold Sword, it will never rust.
* [[Jerk
* [[Jerk
* [[Killed Off for Real]]:
* [[Kill It
* [[Leitmotif]]: Most of the tracks in the game not based on the [[Recurring Riff]] (see below) are character leitmotifs. All seven girlfriends get their own musical theme (which plays whenever they wake Koh in the morning after being won over), as does Ghosh, and arguably most of the tradespeople (each shop has its own theme).
* [[Lethal Joke Character]]:
*
** Also the dark green Pulunpas on the higher floors, because of their ability
* [[Life or Limb Decision]]:
* [[Likes Older Women]]: Koh, considering that three of his girlfriends (Fur, Patti, Vivian) are older than him.
* [[Lost Forever]]:
** Because getting certain items or eggs is based off the [[Random Number God|RNG]], it's entirely possible that if you die in the tower holding the specific items, they will never appear again.
* [[Marathon Level]]: The forty floors of the Monster Tower: since you start on the first floor every time you enter the Tower, they must all be beaten in a single sitting to win the game. It should be noted that you are able to save between floors. To avoid abusing this, once you save, it'll go back to menu. Whenever you activate this save, if you restart for whatever reason, you automatically show up in your bed as if you lost.
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
*
** Also Patti Pan the waitress, whose first name can reference a meat patty, and whose last name can reference the cooking utensil, or the Japanese word for bread.
** And the monster called Killer which has high attack stats, and an even higher critical hit ratio, and they love to come in multiples.
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* [[Mighty Glacier]]: The monster appropriately called Glacier.
** Also the Block and its evolution the Metal.
* [[Missing Mom]]:
*
** Also Patti.
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Kewne, though it's against his will
* [[Mon]]
* [[Money Fetish]]: Fur. Fur. '''Fur'''.
** To the point that she will charge Koh for the privilege of looking at her in her swimsuit if you talk to her at the swimming pool
* [[Monster Compendium]]: Weedy has a monster book that will give some background information about monster's you have encountered. You must either meet them in the tower, hatch pre-evolutions/evolve for certain monsters, or make various buildings and play the mini-games in them to discover new monster types.
* [[Mooks but No Bosses]]: In the [[PS 1]] version, you'll face 38 floors teeming with monsters on your journey up the tower, but not a single unique encounter. The sorceror Beldo waits at the top, but
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: All of the girls qualify to a certain degree, but [http://www.rpgamer.com/games/azure/azure/graphics/people/wplay01.jpg Nico's]{{Dead link}} [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/4460/764845-nico.jpeg normal]{{Dead link}} attire and [http://redrobotblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/furbikini.jpg Fur's] bikini make them stand out even more so.
* [[Nice Guy]]: Koh.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Selfi has one of these.
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* [[Odango Hair]]: Nico's hair.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Several characters qualify for this given the game's art style, but Cherrl really stands out considering that she is actually 15 and around the same age as Koh, even though she looks like she's 12, and even younger than Mia, who's 14.
* [[Open-Minded Parent]]: Wreath. Understandably, because Guy was always hunting in the monster tower himself. Though the trope is both [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] and played straight with Koh's girlfriends. She comments that many are great help around the house, but otherwise [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] [http://i.imgur.com/ZRAHt.png the fact he has so many.]
*
* [[Playing
* [[Posthumous Character]]:
▲** As an additional reward, you also get to keep your father's old sword. While it is only slightly stronger than most other weapons that drop during gameplay, it can be upgraded like every other blade and has a unique sprite.
▲* [[Playing With Fire]]: Kewne, and a lot of the other monsters.
* [[Punny Name]]: Fur Gots.
* [[Randomly Generated Levels]]
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* [[Relationship Values]]: You can flirt with as many as seven girls in the PS1 version of the game, and to get the best "ending", you'll have to score with them ''[[Unwanted Harem|all]]''.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Ghosh and Selfi.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Pulunpas([[PS 1]])/Catawumps(GBC). Also Wumps(baby Catawumps), especially Wumpi, Selfi's familiar that helps show her kinder side.
* [[The Rival]]: Ghosh to Koh.
* [[Robe and Wizard Hat]]: Selfi wears this.
* [[Rose-Haired Girl]]: Patty and Vivian.
* [[Self-Imposed Challenge]]: Seeing how far you can go up the tower by going in with nothing, only using the items you pick up in it.
* [[Sexy Backless Outfit]]: Most of the girls have this going on.
* [[She's Got Legs]]: Most of the girls, but Vivian the dancer obviously excels in this category.
* [[Shock and Awe]]: Several monsters have this ability.
* [[Shrinking Violet]]: Mia,
* [[Skippable Boss]]: On the second floor of the tower, sometimes Ghosh would challenge you to a duel. If you accepted, you could fight him, or walk away from him as he followed you, and hop on the elevator to the next floor, leaving him behind.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Stalker
▲* [[Stalker With a Crush]]: Mia, after she falls in love with you but before Koh confronts her about it, will follow him around town at every single location.
* [[Stone Wall]]: The Block and its evolution the Metal.
* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]:
** [
** This is actually inverted with [[The Rival]] Ghosh, and his sister Selfi, who really have no similar physical looks to the point where you might think they aren't actually related.
* [[Supreme Chef]]: Patti Pan.
* [[Tenchi Solution]]: A possible outcome in the PS1 version; the fact that, post-[[Relationship Upgrade]], half of the girls (Nico, Selfi, Fur
* [[This and That]]: In the PS1 version, a post-[[Relationship Upgrade]] Nico uses this phrase when reminiscing about her childhood interactions with Koh. "I remember that even when you were a little kid, you would get me and we would do this and do that."
* [[Title Drop]]: Done by Cherrl after completing her sidequest... and screwed up by the localization crew when they translated the line as "sky-colored dreams".
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* [[Tomboy]]: Nico.
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Nico to a certain degree. She's definitely got the cute part down at least, with just a dash of troubled past thrown in for good measure.
* [[Tsundere]]: Nico and Selfi and Fur (PS1 version mostly).
* [[The Ugly
* [[Underboobs]]: Nico is sporting an impressive pair in one group [http://www.chudahs-corner.com/img/cover/k/KICA-7808_back.jpg picture]{{Dead link}} of the instruction manual, and on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20130924093831/http://www.rpgfan.com/soundtracks/azure/cover_l.jpg cover] for the music CD.
* [[Unwinnable]]: If you beat the game and made it to the top floor without a way to escape the tower, you're pretty much screwed because there's no other way out from the top floor. I hope you have a Wind Crystal, because it's going to suck if you don't.
* [[The Vamp]]: Fur and Selfi.
* [[Vendor Trash]]:
*
** Also the eggs of some of the weaker monsters.
* [[Wizard Needs Food Badly]]: Your monster buddies need to be well fed, or they won't be able to move or attack.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Selfi, Wreath, Weedy and
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