ClaDun: This is an RPG: Difference between revisions

* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: Coco, by his own admission, seems to have the worst luck in the world.

* [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique]]: Sorcery in Cladun x2. Justified in that it's [[Awesome but Impractical]] and can be ''very'' harmful to the wielder themselves.

* [[Death World]]: Doom Gates, and ''how.'' They're completely infested with high-level mobs that are only encountered in the regular storyline as bosses. There is no standard level in the dungeons, so mobs can range from anywhere between level 1 and level 9999. The area is filled with incredibly nasty traps that can easily deal thousands of HP in damage if you're unlucky enough to get hit by one. Immortals fly around. [[Degraded Boss|Degraded versions of the final boss]] run around everywhere. Even better, Doom Gates are considered traps and thus you cannot even see one unless you're standing directly in front of it.

* [[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.}}

* [[Kick the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Upon first appearing in Cladun x2, the main characters question whether Death Glutton is truly evil; then he murders Parchmin, his Dragon, who had worked throughout the entire game to bring him back to life again, because he was annoying.}}

* [[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.

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: The prisoners of the Arcanus Cella in Cladun x2 have all had their memories wiped clean of the crimes they have done. {{spoiler|Or at least the criminals who came before Arcanus Cella was condemned - by the time Cladun x2 rolls around the only denizens present are Pekora, Lamb, Mouton, and the player character, who have not sinned and are being told this by Parchmin to fool them into losing hope.}}

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

* [[Roguelike]]: While an RPG, if dungeon-delving, the Cladun also borrows many elements of roguelike games with all of the randomly-generated environments.

* [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl]]: Souma and Pudding

* [[Sex Face Turn]]: Mouton tries to instill one of these in the player in the second game so that he can stop raiding dungeons {{spoiler|and stop giving Death Glutton more power to awaken with}} by telling Pekora and Lamb to try and seduce him, saying that it can't possibly fail. He promptly throws a fit when the player walks away due to anticipating the motive behind the action.

* [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]]: Invoked by {{spoiler|Parchmin}} as part of his [[Xanatos Gambit]]: while he's a natural shapeshifter, inducing a [[Freaky Friday Flip]] in one of his weakest forms would leave the victim stuck in a particularly weak body that poses little threat.

* [[Stalker Without a Crush]]: Sherbert is repeatedly described as Dotache's "stalker" until the characters learn why she's been acting like one.

* [[Theme Naming]]: Lots of desserts, in case you couldn't tell.

** [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: {{spoiler|...But of course, Asagi starts glitching out once she joins the party, proving [[The Protagonist]] is simply not in the cards for her. ''Ever.''}}

* [[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.