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'''''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Battle of Aces''''' is a [[Fighting Game]], developed by Witchcraft (composed of the people who made ''[[Wild ArmsARMs]]'') and released for the [[PlayStation Portable]] by [[Namco Bandai]] in 2010.
 
As the name suggests, it's based on the ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' franchise, specifically the second season ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha AsA's]]''. It is set in an [[Alternate Timeline]] where Reinforce was not deleted at the end of the series. Because of this, the corrupted defence program of the Book of Darkness soon returns, shedding "Dark Fragments" that take the form of [[Evil Knockoff|Evil Knockoffs]]s of the main cast. At the head of this clone army are the "Materials": three super-powerful clones of Nanoha, Fate and Hayate who have gained sentience.
 
A sequel, ''Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny'', was released for PSP on December 22, 2011. It takes place three months after ''The Battle of Aces'', starting when [[Original Generation|two mysterious warriors]] arrive from the future. One of them is searching for the revived Materials, whose [[Divergent Character Evolution|personalities have grown]] from the one-dimensional [[Omnicidal Maniac|Omnicidal Maniacs]] they were in the first game. The other is trying to stop her.
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Meanwhile, the Materials are searching for something called the "Unbreakable Darkness", which seems to be linked to a whole new outbreak of Dark Fragments. Not only are these new Dark Fragments twisting time and space, pulling people from the past and future to the present age, but they are capable of copying long-dead people from the memories of the mages involved.
 
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==== ''The Battle of Aces'' provides examples of: ====
 
* [[Alternate Timeline]]
* [[Autobots Rock Out]]: One of the possible final battle music is an electric guitar version of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha AsA's|A's]]'' OP [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjUkKv5nzXA Eternal Blaze.]
* [[Beam Spam]]: In ''The Battle of Aces'' Hayate and her counterpart Material-D have ranged attacks like this.
** Fate, her counterpart Material-L, and in particular Chrono have a faster rate of fire for their weakest range attacks then any other character.
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* [[Counter Attack]]: Everyone has one at melee range. Zafira has one in ranged combat too.
* [[Disappears Into Light]]: The Dark Pieces after defeating them.
* [[Dream People]]: The non-Material Dark Pieces, which are copies of Nanoha and crew based on their memories, thoughts, and wishes during ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha AsA's|A's]]''. They fade away upon losing.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Material-S has a deeper voice than Nanoha.
* [[Evil Twin]] / [[Palette Swap]]: The three Aces each get one.
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* [[Limit Break]]: Full Drive Burst.
* [[Mana Meter]]
* [[Mirror Match]]: Justified in Story Mode by the existence of the Dark Pieces, which are copies from the heroes based on their memories and wishes during the time of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha AsA's|A's]]''.
* [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You|Nanoha Is About To Shoot You]]: Look at the boxart.
* [[Noblewoman's Laugh]]: Material-D, most obviously when she connects with a [[Counter Attack]].
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==== ''The Gears of Destiny'' additionally provides examples of: ====
 
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* [[Eldritch Abomination]]: The Unbreakable Darkness
* [[Expy]]:
** The Nanoha games are being developed by the people who made ''[[Wild ArmsARMs]]''. With that in mind, [http://img808.imageshack.us/img808/3627/10120102146dca60eba9e85.jpg Amitie Florian] is practically a mish-mash of [[Wild ArmsARMs]] protagonists [[Wild ArmsARMs 1|Rudy]], [[Wild ArmsARMs 3|Virginia]], [[Wild ArmsARMs 4|Jude]], and [[Wild ARMs 5|Dean]]. As part of the story she even have the move, Accelerator.
** In addition, the dying world of Eltria is Filgaia in all but name.
* [[For Want of a Nail]]: The first time fighting U-D her percentage to full power is different depending on who you picked to fight her. 5% for Hayate, 6% for Reinforce.
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* [[Idiot Hero]]: Amita, who seems to have watched a little too many Toku shows and believes that Hot Blood and Guts are all you need. Her idiocy actually causes causes a good amount of [[Poor Communication Kills]], delaying what should have been an easy alliance with the old heroes.
* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: How Unbreakable Darkness attacks various characters
* [[Kid From the Future]]: Vivio during the time of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid|Vi Vid]]'' is one of the playable characters here.
* {{spoiler|[[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]}}: {{spoiler|Done by the protagonist on themselves in the end so that they don't acccidentallyaccidentally alter the timeline. [[Genre Savvy|They also make sure to do it in a way so that they remember that the events happen, but the all the time travelling-traveling bits are hand waved away as something else so that they don't try to reverse it]]}}.
* [[Let's You and Him Fight]]: Still happens with characters thinking the other one is a Dark Piece. Vita didn't learn the last time.
* [[Look Behind You!]]: Used by Vivio to run away from Yuuno after their fight.
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* [[The Movie]]: Two of them, and they still managed to leave out all of the characters from the future: ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Reflection]]'' and ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Detonation]]''.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Material-S's Device, ''Luciferion''. This may be a [[Shout Out]] to the humorous fan theory that Raising Heart is actually the driving (destructive) force behind Nanoha's reputation as the "White Devil" or "[[Fan Nickname|Demon Cannon Girl]]".
** Material-L's Vulnificus isn't much more fluffy-sounding. Dearche, despite being the most [[Obviously Evil]] of the trio, has the rather mildly-named Yersinia Kruz in comparison.
* [[One-Man Army|One -Woman Army]]: Linith, as she {{spoiler|stomps over [[The Ace|Nanoha]], [[Lady of War|Signum]] and [[Gorgeous Gorgon|Reinforce Eins]] in one run (at least justified with Reinforce duesdue to her being [[Brought Down to Normal|severlyseverely weakened]] bytby this point of the story)}}.
* [[Original Generation]]: The Florian sisters, Kyrie and Amitie. Kudakeenu Yami - The Unbreakable Darkness.
* [[Playable Epilogue]]: Chapter X, a [[Denouement Episode]] that could only be accessed after winning all of the pre-climax fights against the Unbreakable Darkness in all routes.
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Material-S gains fire based attacks.
* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: The travel through time is causing Tohma's Tome of the Silver Cross to malfunction, which conveniently shuts down the [[Anti-Magic]] and other abilities that would make him broken in the A's timeline. Reinforce returns, but is slowly dying, which explains the [[Nerf|Nerfing]]ing she got here. On the other end of the spectrum, Kris and Asteon turned out to be capable of helping Vivio and Einhart gain limited flight capabilities, explaining why they're able to fight in mid-air here when they couldn't in Vivid.
* {{spoiler|[[Robotic Reveal]]}}: {{spoiler|The Florian sisters}}, first by a character recognizing them as not human, then by {{spoiler|Amita}} losing her arm while confronting the [[Big Bad]], {{spoiler|revealing circuitry}}.
* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Remember the Book of Darkness? Turns out, it was being used to seal an even bigger [[Eldritch Abomination]] than the Darkness of the Book of Darkness.
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