Jade Cocoon: Difference between revisions

 

 

The first game's premise has the protagonist Levant sent into the divine forest to find a cure for a deadly sleep-sickness brought to his village by locusts.

 

The second game, set a century after the end of the first, has [[Idiot Hero]] Kahu attempting to cure himself of a nasty curse which threatens to consume his mind.

 

* [[Adam Smith Hates Your Guts]]: You're Syrus' only chance to cure the sleep sickness and prevent the village from being swallowed up by the forest, eh? You're still paying for equipment and supplies.

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Mahbu and Levant

* [[Bad Export for You]]: Vatolka can only be obtained with a [[No Export for You|Pocketstation]].

* [[Bonus Boss]]: After beating Birdman the first time, you can return and fight him as many times as you want.

* [[Check Point Starvation]]: You have to go through the {{spoiler|[[Four Is Death|4th forest]] without being able to save the game nor fusing monsters}} due to story elements, namely that {{spoiler|everyone in your village has been [[Taken for Granite]]}}. The king... sovereign... some-guy-who-seems-to-be-in-charge in the next hub [[Lampshade Hanging|comments on your endurance]].

* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: {{spoiler|Mahbu}}

* [[Cute Witch]]: Mahbu

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Tamamayu means Jade Cocoon, so 'Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu' means...

* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Riketz, The Lion of Perrel

* [[Find the Cure]]

* [[Follow in My Footsteps]]: Kelmar does not want to be a blacksmith.

* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: Save with any unpurified firefly cocoons and quit and when you reload the game their magical abilities are Lost Forever.

** Can be turned into a [[Good Bad Bug]] with knowledge of how spells and elemental / non-elemental special attacks combine when merging. Unwanted elemental attacks can be removed by overwriting them with an attack of another element, and then remerging the resulting half-elemental with 'defanged' versions of the original until it's fully back to its old element. Unwanted non-elemental attacks can be removed in the same way, and unwanted spells don't matter because you have unlimited spell slots. Doing this allows you to create a minion with a full set of varied special attacks, and until the end of the Spider Forest you have full control of which minions you capture and manipulate.

* [[Heroic Mime]]: Levant again.

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: Both fights against Dream Man at the start of the game. Particularly cruel in the second battle in that you can easily defeat the [[Com Mons|Pataimel]] he throws out first, before he switches to his utterly unstoppable silver dragon Minion.

* [[Impossible Item Drop]]: Many minions will give you various potions and oils, others will drop clothes and weapons. Very rarely one will even drop an entire "Secret Minion" tablet.

* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Icicle, a [[BFS|ridiculously long sword]] that can reduce the HP of anything it hits to 1. This is made [[Awesome but Impractical]] by the fact that it can only be bought in the [[Bonus Dungeon]].

* [[Take Your Time]] : At several points of the game, everybody stresses how important it is to find the herb and save the day, however you can still get Mahbu to perform magic, buy armor/supplies, and speak to the Old man even if everbody senses something bad is about to happen.

* [[Urban Legend of Zelda]]: Vatolka until pictures finally surfaced recently. Getting him became the new one until it seemed to be confirmed that a [[No Export for You|Pocketstation]] would unlock it.

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* [[All Deserts Have Cacti]]: Some of the Wind forests contain your stereotypical cacti.

* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: The beast-amulet can hold up to a maximum of eight minions, once you've acquired the proper licences.

* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: It is quite common for an enemy with Tishous (an MP-restoring skill) to use the skill on itself during combat, even though it can do nothing that would reduce its MP anyway.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Or possibly [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]. In any case, Levant is both ridiculously powerful and implied to be pretty much in charge of the place.

* [[Call Back]]: The battle system of Jade Cocoon 2 is different from the one present in the first game, but one of the final boss fights has, in reference to the first game's gameplay, {{spoiler|Levant switching back and forth with a water dragon minion, which is another [[Call Back]] to the first minion Levant receives in the first game}}. Makes sense since the boss is {{spoiler|the [[Player Character]] from the first game.}}

** {{spoiler|The challenges in the dark forests of both games, and the emotions they are themed around, mirror one another:}}

* [[Collection Sidequest]]: Medals and Figures, though the medals are actually useful.

* [[Contractual Immortality]]: Levant from the first game, having {{spoiler|merged with Kemuel, a divine spirit.}} It is implied that he is over a century old.

* [[Cute Monster Girl]]: Cure. {{spoiler|Until her [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] kicks in, anyway.}}

* [[Dark World]]: The forests within the Kaya Gate, representing the dark half of the forest.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Most of Nico's dialogue is snark at Kahu's expense.

** One notable example is when Dr. Gil, when describing a woman he used to work with, says that he visited her house one evening and did not leave until the morning. The music stops for a beat while Nico says what the player is already thinking.

* [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: One of the Mau Beasthunters. The other one has a [[Verbal Tic]] and ends most of his sentences in squeak.

* [[Everything Fades]]: All minions do this when they're defeated in battle. Kahu and the other Beasthunters fall to the ground when they lose all of their Shields, but remain distinctly corporeal.

* [[Foreboding Architecture]]: Ogrevines containing Kalma are very small on the inside.

* [[Fungus Humongous]]: Shroomie. Evil helicopter fungus, even.

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: After touching the fairy cocoon, you're thrust into one of these. When you {{spoiler|fight him again later, he's a pushover.}}

* [[Idiot Hero]]: Kahu. His signature is a scrawling of his own face and an illegible scribble, for example, and he doesn't realise that there haven't been any cocoon masters in over 100 years.

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Most larval minions are this, especially the Mau class.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Kahu, {{spoiler|Cure}} and {{spoiler|Levant}}.

* [[Suspicious Videogame Generosity]]: Highly averted. You have no idea (without looking it up) what any given Ogrevine might contain until you enter it, and if it happens to be a boss, you're thrust straight into the fight.

 

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