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* [[Artificial Gravity]]: Seen on the Sky Garden, where you can jump off the edge and wind up walking upside-down on the underside with gravity pulling everything upward.
* [[Art Initiates Life]]: Inverted; {{spoiler|Ishtar's paintings trap people inside them}}.
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: The game states that {{spoiler|the way the comet causes rapid evolution is by speeding up time, so that the organisms mutate faster. However, organisms cannot evolve, only populations -- once your chromosomes combine, you're stuck with that DNA. Granted, this ''could'' potentially work if it was ''mutating'' the organisms, similar to radiation, which is probably what was originally meant. Of course, in that case, it would not be the biological superweapon the spirits claim it to be, since it's extremely rare for radiation to result in positive mutations.}}
** Another biology fail: They say that a camel's hump contains water. It does, in the sense that all organic matter does, but it's a storehouse for fat.
* [[Beta Couple]]: Lance and Lilly.
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* [[Catch a Falling Star]]: Used and subverted.
* [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]] (goes hand in hand with [[Dark Is Not Evil]]): Subverted for most of the game, then [[Double Subversion|double-subverted]] at the last minute.
* [[Controllable Helplessness]]: There's nothing you can do to get out of the prison cell in Edward Castle faster, even though you can walk around and examine things. The same is true of the shipwreck sequence.
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: To say that {{spoiler|Rolek}} engages in shady activities is to say that the ocean is damp. That said, it may be because {{spoiler|Neil's parents were replaced with demons}}.
* [[Crap Saccharine World]]: Even without the impending doomsday, starvation, slavery, and human trafficking are widespread. Pointed out in-game that the nicest looking towns tend to have the seediest underbellies.
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* [[Difficulty Spike]]: Mu, where the blobs and skeletons of previous levels are suddenly and unexpectedly replaced by rock-hard enemies that can become temporarily invincible, teleporting monsters with homing shots, a water depth puzzle, and a [[That One Boss|particularly difficult]] [[Dual Boss]]. Ankor (sic) Wat is another spike, though mercifully there isn't a boss at the end of it.
* [[Dwindling Party]]: A (mostly) non-fatal version. Will's group grows to six members at some points, but they leave one or two at a time as the game nears its conclusion.
* [[Dream Melody]]: Will has his grandmother's lullaby, which turns out to be the key to revealing her village of origin and an identifying call. Also, a couple dungeons have background music that turn out to be versions of other melodies.
* {{spoiler|[[Earth All Along]]: After defeating the comet, the world assumes its natural shape, which is that of present-day Earth.}}
* [[Easy Amnesia]]: Lance suffers this at one point.
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* [[The Maze]]: Mountain Temple. The manual even suggests drawing a map as you explore the area.
* [[Message in a Bottle]]: Will and Kara find one...while adrift at sea themselves. You eventually get a chance to help the people who wrote the note when you storm the Diamond Mine and set them free. In return, they give you a healing song (for Lance's memories).
* [[Mysterious Mercenary Pursuer]]: The Jackal chases Will throughout the game, {{spoiler|but only shows up once near the end}}.
* [[One of These Doors Is Not Like the Other]]: In some areas, there appears to be no door at all, but paying careful attention to {{spoiler|the wind, or else the sound made by striking}} reveals the secret.
* [[One-Winged Angel]]: The [[Final Boss]] has two forms.
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** Gaia even ''lampshades'' that despite how close they became over the course of their adventure, neither of them found anything interesting about each other at first, and they shouldn't be so obsessive about it. {{spoiler|They find each other on the restored Earth, and though they are presumably happy together, it's doubtful they'll ever realize the relevance of it.}}
* [[Space Elevator]]: The [[Tower of Babel]]. [[Wild Mass Guessing|Possibly.]]
* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Angkor Wat is spelled 'Ankor Wat' in the game.
* [[Spin to Deflect Stuff]]: Will's flute can block incoming attacks by spinning it. But then again, he does have telekinesis.
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''Soul Blazer'' (to the point where a leaked early translation was titled ''Soul Blazer: Illusion of Gaia''). And ''[[Terranigma]]'' is one to this.
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