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The game is set in the sky world of Orelus, and follows [[Heroic Mime]] Byuu as he leads the [[La Résistance|The Resistance]] against the [[The Empire|Granbelos Empire]]. Along the way, he rescues his childhood sweetheart, Princess Yoyo. The princess, a summoner, has the ability to communicate with the Holy Dragons and use their powers in battle. The heroes attempt to collect their power to use against the empire, while Emperor Sauzer attempts to gather them for himself. Their battle against the Empire and the greater threat it unleashes range all across the sky and even into the world of origin for the dragons themselves. And Yoyo's experiences with the Empire weren't all negative...
The game directly influenced ''[[Final Fantasy X]]''. The plot structures and several key characters of the two games are very similar. This link between the two games was lampshaded with ''
''[[Bahamut Lagoon]]'' is also notable for having very pretty graphics, being one of the last Squaresoft games to be released for the Super Nintendo. It's ''also'' notable for having quite explicit sexual content (though primarily in dialogue) and an openly gay old wizard as one of its main characters.
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▲* [[Abduction Is Love]]: Palpaleos kidnaps Princess Yoyo, {{spoiler|and then they fall in love.}}
* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: {{spoiler|Poor Byuu.}}▼
* [[Another Dimension]]: {{spoiler|Altair.}}▼
* [[Anti-Villain]]: {{spoiler|Both Sauzer and Palpaleos.}}▼
* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]: Fahrenheit's main function besides being an HQ, just replace Aircraft with Dragons.
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: The number of units allowed on the field is determined by how many dragons are under your control, with four humans being assigned to each dragon.
* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Don't expect your dragons to differentiate between a switch and normal floor. Even if that switch will trigger a trapdoor that instantly kills four of your characters.
** The enemy falls victim to this as well
* [[Assassin Outclassin']]: When you recruit Sajin and Zeroshin into your army, they also give you a free assassination as a bonus. You can choose the target to be either the [[Rebellious Princess]], a [[Mighty Glacier]] or a [[Red Shirt]]. No prizes for guessing which target is the only one they actually succeed in killing.
* [[Back From the Brink]]: Set to liberate all of the Orelus years after it was completely conquered by [[The Empire]].
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* [[Character Development]]: A surprising amount. Mostly for Yoyo.
* [[The Chosen One]]: The Dragnar.
* [[Cognizant Limbs]]: The [[Final Boss]],
* [[The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches|Console RPG Cliches]]: Bahamut Lagoon is notable for [[Averted Trope|averting]] or [[Subverted Trope|subverting]] a great number of them.
* [[Cool Ship]]: An entire floating ''continent''.
* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Yoyo. A good part of the game is spent attempting to rescue her from the Empire.
* [[Did Not Get the Girl]]: See [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]] below.
▲* [[Damsel in Distress]]: Yoyo. A good part of the game is spent attempting to rescue her from the Empire. {{spoiler|Associated tropes are subverted, though, in that she falls for her kidnapper and is actually the one of most powerful characters in the game, in terms of both story and gameplay.}}
* [[The Dragon]]: Palpaleos to Emperor Sauzer.
* [[Dragon Rider]]: Every squad of up to four characters rides a single dragon which gives them powers based on its abilities, and the ability to command that dragon in combat.
* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Byuu and Palpaleos.
* [[Element Number Five]]: Earth, Light and Dark aren't visible in your dragons' stats. Earth is the first extra element, a dragon who knows [[Fire, Ice, Lightning|Fire, Ice and Lightning]] magic can use Earth at the same level as its worst element. Then, a dragon with maxed out Earth, Healing, Poison, Strength and Defense will gain access to the Light and Dark elements. Very few monsters resist these elements, and finishing off enemies with them gives a chance to drop the best items in the game. Unfortunately, they also cost a lot of MP to cast.▼
* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]
▲* [[Element Number Five]]: Earth, Light and Dark aren't visible in your dragons' stats. Earth is the first extra element, a dragon who knows [[Fire, Ice, Lightning|Fire, Ice and Lightning]] magic can use Earth at the same level as its worst element. Then, a dragon with maxed out Earth, Healing, Poison, Strength and Defense will gain access to the Light and Dark elements. Very few monsters resist these elements, and finishing off enemies with them gives a chance to drop the best items in the game. Unfortunately, they also cost a lot of MP to cast.
* [[The Empire]]: Granbelos.
* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]: Subverted
* [[Fire, Ice, Lightning]]
* [[Fishing Minigame]]: Very briefly, to catch Donfan, of all things.
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* [[Geo Effects]]: Different terrains hurt, heal or protect, and all can be altered with the right elemental attack.
** [[Grimy Water]]: The poison swamp Geo Effect, which could be changed to a normal swamp via healing magic.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Palpaleos
* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Byuu actually uses ''two'' swords, to establish him as cooler than the stock sword-wielding units.
* [[Heroic Mime]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Sauzer and Palpaleos.
* [[Highly-Visible Ninja]]: Sajin and Zeroshin.
* [[Ill Girl]]: Frederica.
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: While not having specific characters with improbable weapons, it does have various items that all characters can throw to cause damage or status effects. These items include Sweet Memory, Porno Mag, and Botched Cookie.
* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Cross Knights Byuu {{spoiler|and Palpaleos}} and to the lesser extent the Knights Rush, Truce and Bikkebakke.
* [[The Kingdom]]: Every other nation besides the Granbelos Empire.
* [[Kleptomaniac Hero, Found Underwear]]: Byuu finds quite a number of "drawer things"
* [[La Résistance]]: The Resistance/Orelus Liberation Army.
* [[Magic Knight]]: Every physical combatant, courtesy of the dragons.▼
▲* [[Lady of War]]: The Light Armors - Lukia, Jeanne, and Mist.
* [[Magikarp Power]]: Minidevils and Dancing, paired with an Uni Uni or Black Dragon.
▲* [[Magic Knight]]: Every physical combatant, courtesy of the dragons.
* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Royal Guard Matelite and the Heavy Armor Warriors Taicho, Gunso and Barclay.
* [[Neat Freak]]: Persona.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: When you liberate Cambell from [[The Empire]] 's grip, most of the people (including the queen) are displeased with you doing this. One man says that [[Anti-Villain|"If we obeyed [The Imperial Soldiers], they were actually nice guys," and another says that Palpaleos told him he'd grow up to be strong.]]▼
* [[Ninja]]: Assassins Sajin and Zeroshin.
▲* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: When you liberate Cambell from [[The Empire]] 's grip, most of the people (including the queen) are displeased with you doing this. One man says that [[Anti-Villain|"If we obeyed [The Imperial Soldiers], they were actually nice guys," and another says that Palpaleos told him he'd grow up to be strong.]]
* [[Non-Elemental]]: Uni magic. It's typeless, does double damage, but also has a 50% failure rate.
* [[
* [[Not So Different]]: Sauzer. {{spoiler|He wants to usher in the new age and prevent apocalypse, just with ''himself'' as the Dragnar. Given Yoyo's weakness and the other part of the prophecy}}...
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: The final boss starts as a giant
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Both the dragons and the Holy Dragons.
* [[Plot Coupon]]: The Holy Dragons.
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* [[Rebellious Princess]]: Yoyo.
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Yoyo, again.
* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Donfan.▼
* [[The Sky Is an Ocean]]
▲* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: Donfan.
* [[Summon Magic]]: The Holy Dragons.
* [[Talented Princess, Regular Guy]]: Byuu might be a pretty good knight, but he takes a back seat, both in power and story role, to Princess Yoyo.
* [[This Is the Final Battle]]: Subverted. Hornet tells you the final battle is about to begin in chapter 18, but it doesn't actually happen until chapter 23.
* [[The Three Faces of Eve]]: With no less than ''three'' example groups: main characters Yoyo, Melodia (the [[Bratty Half-Pint]]
* [[Token
* [[Units Not to Scale]]: Units, forests, castles, houses - they all take up one square. This even has the added bonus of combining this trope with [[Party in My Pocket]].
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: {{spoiler|Byuu. Yoyo ends up choosing Palpaleos over him
** {{spoiler|Matelite}}, in a way, is one as well.
*** Then again,
* [[Unsound Effect]]: The "weird noises" that seem to pop up spontaneously during dialogue seem to indicate arousal (Donfan's trademark "boing" sound, natch), scheming (Ectarina's), and spitefulness (Mist).
* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]]: The game offers ample opportunities to rudely break poor Sendak's heart over and over and over again
* [[Villainous Friendship]]: Sauzer and Palpaleos.
* [[Weather of War]]: The Sandstorms.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Played for humor (sort of). Byuu gets called out on the torture of an enemy soldier if the player chooses to do so.
** [[But Thou Must!|Not that the player has any real choice there
* [[Whip It Good]]: Barbarella's weapon of choice.
* [[Womb Level]]: The Imperial flying giant nautilus.
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