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Unfortunately, Albus, a member of Ecclesia and a close friend of Shanoa, chooses then to interrupt the ceremony; he attacks Barlowe and runs off with Dominus. Shanoa recovers a few weeks later, with her memories gone, and learns Albus attacked Wygol Village and kidnapped all the villagers. Barlowe sends her off to rescue the villagers, recover Dominus, and fulfill [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Mankind's Greatest Wish.]]
Compared to [[Castlevania Sorrow|the other]] [[Castlevania Portrait of Ruin|DS games]], ''Order of Ecclesia'' is much harder. Shanoa cannot take many hits, her ability to attack is limited by her [[Mana Meter|MP]] (granted, it fills up much more quickly than it has in previous games, but it's still a major limiting factor,) and leveling up doesn't make hard enemies suddenly trivial. Shanoa can absorb [[Mega Manning|glyphs from fallen foes]] and can [[Combination Attack|combine them]] for stronger attacks. Still, many fans were complaining [[It's Easy, So It Sucks|the other games were too easy,]] so here we are.
=== ''Order Of Ecclesia'' provides examples of: ===
* [[Absurdly High Level Cap]]: Unlockable by beating the game on Hard Mode lv1, which increases it to 255, when normally you'd be somewhere around 60-70 at most at the end of the game.
* [[Altum Videtur]]: Appears a lot throughout the game, from glyph names to names of locations.
* [[Anti
* [[Author Avatar]]: Koji Igarashi designed Shanoa as an envisioning of his wife, while he designed himself as Albus.
* [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence]]: {{spoiler|Albus's sacrifice results in this.}}
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** The names of the boss battle themes reference other Castlevania games in order of release date. See [[Theme Naming]] below.
* [[Copy and Paste Environments]]: Despite the visuals being genuinely very beautiful, there are many times when you'll see relatively distinctively complex map formations repeated verbatim in a conspicuously unlikely way. This is especially apparent in the caverns of the mountain area maps.
* [[Costume Porn]] / [[Pimped
* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: Dominus [[Cast From Hit Points|uses your life force to cast it.]] Needless to say, equipping all three Dominus glyphs is a bad idea {{spoiler|unless necessary}} (see [[Blood Magic]] above).
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: Shanoa has several attacks that are rapid fire but deal little damage. On the enemy side, Dracula's [[That One Attack|wave of]] [[Goddamned Bats|bats]] bypasses [[Mercy Invincibility]] and [[That One Attack|will shred you]] if you don't know how to handle it.
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* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Shanoa, post-amnesia, who even flat-out admits to a more cheerful NPC that she doesn't smile. {{spoiler|Inverted at the good ending, where she gives one smile for Albus before he [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence|ascended to a higher plane of existence]].}}
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]
* [[
* [[Everythings Cuter With Kittens]]: There are cats you can rescue and take back to the village. When you meet them at the village, you can [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|attack them]], play with them using the stylus, or use the catgirl transformation glyph to talk to them. You even have to save one as part of a villager quest.
* [[Evil Elevator]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in the fight with Brachyura, where an elevator [[Benevolent Architecture|with spikes on its underside]] is what finishes it off.
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** Dominus is [[Altum Videtur|actually from the Latin word for]] "lord" or "master".
** And if that wasn't enough of a clue, Hatred, Anger, Agony.
* [[Nice Hat]]: All of [[Retired Badass|Daniela]]'s quest rewards are nice hats. The Boss Rush mode has the most earnable treasures yet (11) and they are all headgear that reduces the cost of Glyph Unions for specific type of weapons. The nicest hat is probably Laura taking [[Pimped
* [[No Damage Run]]: Get through a boss fight with no damage, and you get a [[Bragging Rights Reward|medal]]. Hey, another use for the Death Ring!
* [[Not Completely Useless]]: The Scutum glyph will let you ignore Goliath's "punch debris from the ceiling attack." More importantly, this will nullify Dracula's destruction ray. Even more importantly, this glyph and another Scutum glyph is the easiest way to avoid Dracula's wave of bats...as well as another boss's extremely devastating attack.
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** Volaticus, the flying glyph, is given to you very late in the game. Useless? Not if you want to get through the Large Cavern.
* [[Number of the Beast]]: While "666" never comes up in its entirety, the HP costs, attack strengths, MP costs, and stat boosts of the Dominus Glyphs are full of 6s and are obviously meant to invoke this. (See the [[Cast From Hit Points]] entry above.)
* [[One
** Level 1 mode makes Shanoa/{{spoiler|Albus}} a three (or even two) hit point wonder for most of the game, so the Death Ring becomes a very good item to use.
* [[One
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: This time around, the [[Chupacabra]] hang out near Dracula's quarters, and it turns out a {{spoiler|[[Chinese Vampire|Jiang]] [[Bonus Boss|Shi]] moved in to the [[Bonus Dungeon|cave next door]]}}, creating an oddly multicultural vampire gathering.
* [[Pimped
* [[Player Nudge]]: {{spoiler|If you don't rescue all the villagers, you get the bad ending halfway through the game. This bad ending pans over all the villagers you failed to rescue.}}
* [[Poor Communication Kills]]
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*** {{spoiler|It's never implied that he knew that Barlowe was planning to revive Dracula. He only wanted to warn Shanoa that using Dominus would kill her.}}
* [[Power Walk]]: {{spoiler|Dracula.}}
* [[Pre
* [[Press X to Die]]: Equip Dominus Anger, Dominus Hatred, and Dominus Agony<ref>Yes, you need to equip the back glyph as well, even though no other combo in the game includes one.</ref>. Press Up + X to die.
** {{spoiler|Except at the very end, where you need it to finish Dracula off and trigger the final cutscene. You better be quick about it too - if you aren't, Dracula will cast Demonic Meggido, aka a giant explosion that will instantly kill you. It can be avoided by flying into the corner, but it goes on forever and you'll eventually run out of MP and thus you won't be able to do anything except give up and die regardless.}}
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* [[Sealed Evil in A Can]]: Dracula.
* [[Secret Character]]: {{spoiler|Albus}} is available when you get the good ending.
* [[Sequel Difficulty Spike]]: It's shades harder than its predecessor ''[[Portrait of Ruin]]''. This can come off as a [[
* [[Sexy Backless Outfit]]: Shanoa wears a backless dress, which is [[Justified Trope|necessary]] because she absorbs [[Instant Runes|Glyphs]] through a large and intricate tattoo on her back. ...For an [[Emotionless Girl]], she sure does lift up her hair sensually.
* [[Shoot the Dog]] / [[What Happened to The Mouse?]] / [[Left Hanging]]: {{spoiler|At the end, Shanoa saved the world. But what happened to her after that? She lost everything at the end. The last shot of her is in the forest near Castlevania's ruins.}} The game itself says she was never heard from again.
* [[Shout Out]]: Goliath is basically a boss-monster-ified [[Fist of the North Star (Manga)|Raoh]], even reenacting his dying pose. Which makes him another classic [[Shonen Jump|Jump]] villain like [[Jo
** The requisite [[Gradius]] shout out occurs three times:
*** One of the villagers hums the first few notes of "Challenger 1985", the BGM of the first stage of the original ''Gradius''/
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** The ''Pneuma'' Glyph references [[Fatal Fury|Geese Howard's]] ''Reppuken'' attack, and can be dual-wielded for ''Double Reppuken''. Their combined charged attack just ''screams'' Raging Storm.
* [[Stealth Pun]] / [[Bilingual Bonus]]: One enemy is a former human that was a victim of an Une attack. Its name? Chosen Une.<ref>Une is French for "one".</ref>
* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]: Shanoa, of course. So much so that some women even flirt with her! As do a couple of the guy characters, and several of the enemies... yeah, EVERYONE wants Shanoa.
* [[Tarot Motifs]]: All the Rings are named after Major Arcana cards.
* [[Theme Music Power
* [[Theme Naming]]: The [[Boss Battle]] [[Battle Theme Music|tracks]] are, in order of appearance: [[Castlevania Symphony of the Night|Symphony]] of Battle, [[Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance|Dissonant]] Courage, [[Castlevania Sorrow|Sorrow]]'s Distortion, [[Castlevania Lament of Innocence|Lament]] to the Master, Chamber of [[Castlevania Portrait of Ruin|Ruin]], and [[Castlevania Order of Ecclesia|Order of]] the Demon.
* [[The Stoic]]: Shanoa's emotions are repressed because of her amnesia.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: The tinmen are MUCH harder than they were in Symphony of the Night, even despite having basically the same attack patterns. This is because they can whack you even if you jump over them (double jump works though), move faster than you, and can do a lot of damage VERY quickly.
* [[Turns Red]]: Dracula decides to ditch his [[One
** Brachyura as well. Literally. You have to make him do that for him to knock the ceiling out so you can climb higher, and repeat 3 times.
* {{spoiler|[[Treacherous Advisor]]:}} {{spoiler|Barlowe.}}
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** Brachyura, the [[Giant Enemy Crab]] after that, fits better. The first two bosses hit hard, but have simple attack patterns. (In fact, the Giant Skeleton comes back as a mook in a later level.) Cue Brachyura, a four-stage boss that renders your best weapons useless because he's beneath you. You ''have'' to learn his patterns in order to get to the top and deliver the now-famous finishing blow.
** It says a lot about this game that the first stumbling block ''is a [[Degraded Boss]] later.''
* [[Well
* {{spoiler|[[When She Smiles]]}}: {{spoiler|Albus's last wish is for a smile from Shanoa. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|She grants it.]]}}
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Thought {{spoiler|Barlowe}} would be the final boss, think again! You still have a whole castle to explore, along with a few more boss fights. Then again, you probably should have known that the game wouldn't have ended at that point, because the castle is shown on the menu screen.
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