ClaDun: This is an RPG: Difference between revisions

* [[Baleful Polymorph]]: {{spoiler|Widder in Cladun x2, by being on the wrong side of a [[Freaky Friday Flip]].}}

* [[Big Bad Friend]]: {{spoiler|Parchmin in Cladun x2, the guy with the red-and-black cape who goads you into killing monsters. Despite his impressive [[Xanatos Gambit]], however, he is not [[Obfuscating Stupidity]].}}

* [[Blood Knight]]: {{spoiler|Death Glutton, post-character development. He lost his love for destruction and death, but his love for battle was truly his, making him virtually a living example of a [[Disgaea]] demon and continuing the tradition of demons being [[Noble Demon|Noble Demons.]]}}

* [[Body Surf]]: {{spoiler|Parchmin spends the majority of Cladun x2 in Widder's actual body, posing as the Administrator of Arcanus Cella.}}

* [[Demoted to Dragon]]: Played with. {{spoiler|Parchmin first pretends to be opposing the [[Big Bad]], then he pretends to ''be'' the actual [[Big Bad]], but then it's revealed that the real [[Big Bad]] is still out there somewhere and he was just performing a massive [[Xanatos Gambit]] to awaken him.}}

* [[Devour the Dragon]]: The ultimate fate of {{spoiler|Parchmin in Cladun x2}}. Luckily, due to how the game is designed you can just turn him into a [[Player Mooks|Player Mook]] afterwards if you really liked him and want him to be around again.

* [[Double Entendre]]: The bestiary entries in both games are absolutely ''packed'' with them.

* [[Dungeon Crawling]]

** {{spoiler|Parchmin implies that this is the case with the "prison" he's set up in Cladun x2 and the people fated to die there, but it's subverted when it turns out that he's misunderstood humans and it tuns out to be nearly utopian for them.}}

* [[Faux Action Girl]]: Pekora and Lamb in Cladun x2.

** [[The Hero]]: The player

** [[The Lancer]]: {{spoiler|Widder}}

** Ditto with ice damage, by jumping into a stream of frozen water. In fact, this can actually be weaponized against monsters that are usually immune to normal damage, like Ghosts.

* [[Ineffectual Loner]]: Played with and zigzagged in Cladun x2. While the other named characters accuse your character of this due to him/her going off on his/her own to fight monsters, he/she is also supported by the members of the Magic Circle... which more or less means that they stay in the tavern while he/she goes off and fights.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: Crosstine isn't a stray cat. He's a familiar and comes from a noble bloodline!

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Mouton comes across as very arrogant. Pekora even makes a small aside to the player character that the only thing he doesn't know a lot about is humility.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Impossible to do in the games. Even if an NPC or PC is completely killed off, the editing function is sufficient enough for the player to remake them and give them their old name, even if they lose all of their progress.

* [[Kill It With Fire]]: Actually a dialog option in the game. As previously suspected, at least one of the localizers is [[One of Us]].

* [[Level Grinding]]: This is a [[Nippon Ichi]] game. Want to do the postgame? Prepare to do a ''lot'' of this.

* [[Lord British Postulate]]: While Immortals are supposed to only be killable through the Punish title in Cladun x2, they can also be defeated by reflecting their own damage back at them.

* [[Luck Based Mission]]: Widens in Cladun x2 have about a 1 in 1000 chance of dropping from a single enemy in the game, Hiyokkis. In order to max out your characters' stats, you are going to need at least four of them. You get two freebies, no more; and if you find one in a dungeon, you have to survive long enough to get out. Good luck.

** The Lucky Seven Magic Circle also qualifies. You have to finish a Rangeon with the level on the final floor being exactly level 777, and you have no control over exactly what level any particular floor will be at, meaning that you may have to go through hundreds of runs before you can obtain it. And it isn't even that great anyways, once you get powerful enough to take on a level 777 dungeon.

* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: The result of constantly spamming Arrow Rain in Cladun x2, [[Recycled in Space|except with arrows instead of ballistics.]]

* [[Marathon Level]]: The randomly-generated 99-floor dungeons, though luckily you can (and probably will) exit out early if you find an exit.

* [[Mercy Invincibility]]: Averted on the player's side. [[Nintendo Hard|What mercy?]]

* [[Metal Slime]]: Hiyokkis are birdlike creatures that are generally non-combatant and will run if attacked. Killing them nets you an enormous amount of gold, a guranteed item drop, and tons of experience, but they have enormous amounts of health and run away extremely fast. This is saved from [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] by the fact that according to the flavor text they're all insufferable jerks and taunt you about the items as they're running from you.

* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Parchmin in Cladun x2}}, though he is who he says he is. Sort of. It gets complicated.

* [[Money Spider]]: Every single monster in the game except, for some odd reason, mushrooms. The bestiary entry in Cladun x2 lampshades this with the description of Poles (turrets), saying that monsters "must use them as piggy banks."

* [[No Hero Discount]]: Even Coco the shopkeeper has to pay full price for his equipment. [[Fridge Logic|Who's he buying it from?]]

* [[Number Two for Brains]]: {{spoiler|Parchmin in Cladun x2, while his Xanatos Gambit was impressive, wasn't exactly a paragon of intelligence.}}

* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: {{spoiler|Parchmin the shape-shifting, fashion-conscious, slang-hurling ''human administrator.'' He's also [[The Mole]].}}

* [[Overrated and Underleveled]]: Every character that joins the Magic Circle starts out at level 1, even those that join very late in the game.

* [[Randomly Generated Levels]]

* [[Rebellious Princess]]: {{spoiler|Dotache, the middle-aged, ''male'' bartender, is a princess who deliberately cursed herself with a permanent disguise so she could run away.}}

* [[Retraux]]: The graphics are blocky, but still surprisingly detailed and nuanced. The Retraux also applies to the music; you can listen to the honestly beautiful soundtrack, or you can listen to an 8-bit chiptune version of it.

* [[The Rival]]: Sunday and Battleblo. Sunday wound up in Arcanus Cella so that she could find the "ultimate sword", while Battleblo followed her there in search of the "ultimate shield".

* [[The Mind Is a Plaything of The Body]]: {{spoiler|Widder in Cladun x2, while actually being human, has a ton of dog-related mannerisms due to being trapped in a [[Freaky Friday Flip]] in a dog's body for a manner of years.}}

* [[Throw the Dog A Bone]]: {{spoiler|Asagi finally gets her shot at being [[The Hero]]...}}

* [[Upgrade Artifact]]: There are a whole bunch of artifacts which increase different parameters for your main character. Special mention goes to Widens in Cladun x2, which can be attacked to an Ability slot to drastically power up a character's attacks. Enemies can get them too, which can lead to effects as mild as their projectiles going faster, or as drastic as the resident [[Mooks|Peons]] suddenly gaining the ability to fire massive explosive lasers out of their attacks.

* [[Vain Sorceress]]: Despina. She's also a lazy one, as she eventually gives up on trying to dispose of the mask.