Magical Vacation: Difference between revisions

 

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* [[Awesome McCoolname]]: General Knucklestorm.

* [[Ax Crazy]] / [[Psycho for Hire]]: [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Magnus Muzzleflash]], a "murderous psychopathologist and a gun-toting pox" who doesn't think twice on gunning down his own troops if they get on his way. He was actually in prison due to his crimes against the galaxy before Abalon required his services.

* [[Dark Messiah]]: Master Kale {{spoiler|wants to speed up the upcoming apocalypse because he thinks the world has "gone off it's proper course.'' With the [[Robot War]] set to start in a few years, Sorbet finds it hard to argue with him.}} Depending on [[WMG|your interpretation]], Farina might fit too.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mokka

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: {{spoiler|Semolina immediately volunteers to be made into a [[Cosmic Keystone]], and does so before the party can try to stop her. And Sorbet reveals if Semolina hadn't done it, she would have.}}

* [[Elemental Powers]]: The main system of magic. The full list of elements in the game is earth, machine, bug, wood, poison, beast, thunder, water, beauty, sword, wind, sound, fire, love, darkness, and light. The sequel trims it down to earth, fire, wind, water, wood, light, and darkness.

* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: In ''Magical Starsign'', the elements are effective against one another like this: Wind -> Earth -> Water -> Fire -> Wood -> Wind. Dark and Light are weak to each other.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: One of the otters is named - I kid you not - '''Hard-Up Hank'''.

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]: The Book of the Darned.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Brie Pourri and a good portion of the Space Police.}}

* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: You get to name your entire party. Not only that, the dev team went the extra mile with when user-inputted names are spoken in certain context: Soon after Mokka joins the party, Lassi has a line where she whispers to your character, addressing him/her by name in a hoarser whisper. How do they show that she's adding emphasis without the ability to use italics? The same way most people do it: ALL-CAPS. ''Even if your name isn't in all-caps.'' Most games don't do this, even in mid-all-caps lines.

* {{spoiler|[[Human Resources]]}}: {{spoiler|Robots? Their battery cores are made from gummified humans. Even your [[Robot Buddy]] Mokka.}}

* [[Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality]]: Subverted: everyone's magic is useful in combat and in exploration.

* [[Jack of All Stats]]: Your character and Chai

* [[Kill It with Water]]: Sorbet

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: The Space Police make a good example.

* [[Magic Knight]]: Especially Pico, who can have a good mix of attack and IQ, but Mokka, the main character, and Chai can pull this role off as well.

* [[Mighty Glacier]]: Mokka. Slow as hell and has almost one and a half times as much health as anyone else. Also has the best defense out of anyone else.

* {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Saved Enough]]}}: {{spoiler|Miss Madeline}}.

* [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]: Pretty much every employee in the Space Police HQ.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]]: The sequel has an 800 year timeskip. The same teachers are still teaching at the magic school, and they still look the same.

** Lampshaded by Chai.

** An NPC in the beginning mentions a teacher named Pistachio. Pistachio was a party member in Vacation.

* [[Recycled in Space]]: Magical Starsign

* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: {{spoiler|Oh, though you saved Miss Madeline from her fate? Too bad, she has to join the [[The Lifestream]] just as you finally rescue her. Kinda goes double due to all the effort you went to in order to save her in the previous game.}}

* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Kovomaka is diverse, the other planets in the galaxy consist of a jungle, a volcano, a tropical island, windy plains, and rocky barrens.

* [[Space Pirates]]: The Pirate Otters. Right down to rehashing 18th century pirate wardrobes and accents.

* [[Space Police]]: Uh, the Space Police. However, they're not exactly out to help people

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Every party member except for Mokka could fit but Lassi and Sorbet are the best examples.

* [[Stepford Smiler]]: {{spoiler|Sorbet and Semolina. Especially Semolina, though. At least with Sorbet her inner thoughts surface more often than not.}}

** {{spoiler|Arguably, the game's world itself is a Stepford Smiler, with jokes and bright colors hiding a rather sordid history. Arguably, Kale's [[Start of Darkness]] was noticing this.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Suicide Is Painless]]}}: {{spoiler|Talk to the villagers after Semolina becomes a [[Cosmic Keystone]]. They reveal she wasn't very happy with her life. Sorbet reveals the same thing about herself.}}

* [[Surprise Creepy]]

* [[Terrible Trio]]: Pirate otters, who sometimes come in Terrible Quartets, too.