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The tower at the center of the world is said to be connected to paradise. Long ago it was sealed off due to the hordes of monsters ushering from it. Dreaming of a life in paradise, many have challenged the secrets of the tower, but no one knows what became of them. A party of adventurers formed from humans, ESP-using mutants, and monsters now challenges The Tower. Their journey will take them through four worlds and pit them against Ashura and his four fiends.
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* [[A Taste of Power]]: The King Sword can one-hit any enemy with a weakness, the King Armor provides +20 to defense and immunity to all elements, and the King Shield gives the whole party an elemental barrier. You get all of these ''in the first world'', likely within the first half hour of the game. Of course, you don't get to keep them - to get the Black Sphere and enter the Tower you have to return them to the Statue of Hero.
* [[Abnormal Ammo]]: Rocks. Contrary to popular belief, that is an accurate translation<ref>They're called いわ in the original Japanese version, which does translate to "rock"</ref>, and it's not a mistranslation of "rocket".
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* [[Artistic License Economics]]: HP600 potions cost 5000GP, and will boost your max HP by a random amount from 5 to 20 points as long as your maximum HP is under 600. For that same price you could buy 50 HP200 potions which will still boost your maximum HP by one point apiece even if your maximum HP exceeds 200.
* [[Badass Biker]]: So-Cho. Better still, he lends you his [[Cool Bike]].
* [[Blessed Withwith Suck]]: Among the possibilities that can come up with Mutants for a new power is a vulnerability to an element (or all of them).
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: It's not ''that'' bad, if a little stilted and lacking some of the subtleties of the original Japanese. But then you have items like "Balkan" (Vulcan) and "Catcraw" (Cat Claw). The ending credits are also completely missing from the NA version.
** Something was definitely lost in translation during the final encounter with {{spoiler|the creator}}. Your character is for some reason offended at being offered exactly what he/she was expecting as a reward for having climbed the tower, and decide that [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punching out the Creator]] [[Violence Is the Only Option|is the only option]].
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* [[Bubbly Clouds]]: The Sky World.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: The Sky World resistance leader has twin daughters. One is part of the resistance and the other works for Byak-ko. The latter is brought around by her sister's {{spoiler|noble sacrifice}}.
* [[The Cameo]]: Some graphics are reused from ''[[Final Fantasy I (Video Game)|Final Fantasy I]]'', such as the "Machine" [[Mini Boss]], whose depiction is shared with ''FF1'''s WarMECH. (In the Japanese versions of both games, this enemy is called "Death Machine".)
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: The man in the black hat.
* [[Contractual Boss Immunity]]: Subverted. Nearly every boss prior to the very endgame is susceptible to being instantly killed by petrification... and in the original Gameboy version, the ''final boss'' can be one-hit killed by a chainsaw due to a glitch.
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* [[Evil Chancellor]]: While the title is different, the disagreeable King Shield's steward definitely falls under this, as {{spoiler|you return just after he kills the king.}}
* [[Evil Tower of Ominousness]]: The Tower around which the game revolves.
* [[Fan Nickname]]: The mysterious man is commonly known as "Silk Hat" among Japanese players.
* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: The places you visit in the World of Ruins are based on their real-world counterparts in Tokyo. The town in the southwest is implied to be Shibuya. The skyscraper district is Shinjuku, though only mentioned by name in the original Japanese version. Ameyoko is a traditional-style shopping street just as it is portrayed in game. Akiba, where you can find the ROM, is a famous electronics district. Their locations on the map are roughly the same as in [[Real Life]].
* [[For the Evulz]]: {{spoiler|Creator's Reason in the Remake}}
{{quote| [[spoiler:'''God''': You've come at last. Congratulations. You are the first to complete this game.<br />
'''Leader''': Game?<br />
'''God''': This game, with it's splendid story, which I created!<br />
'''2nd Char''': What do you mean?<br />
'''God''': I had become bored with a peaceful world. So, I conjured Ashura.<br />
'''4th Char''': What were you thinking!<br />
'''God''': Ashura threw the world into chaos in a most entertaining way. But after that brief moment, he too, began to bore me.<br />
'''3rd Char''': And so, the game?<br />
'''God''': Yes! Quite so!! I wanted a hero to strike down the devil!<br />
'''Leader''': Everything that happened was part of the plot you wrote.<br />
'''God''': You are quick to understand. There were many who could not become heroes and disappeared. I found it thrilling; the spectacle of tiny beings, burdened by their own mortal fate, desperately fighting to survive.]] }}
* [[Four Is Death]]: Ashura's four fiends, who are based on the Chinese [[The Four Gods|Ssu-Ling]].
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* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: Tossing you into an unguarded jail without even bothering to strip you of your munitions (which by this point in the game should be rather copious) is par for the course, but extra bonus points for the fact that your daring jailbreak consists of nonchalantly bending the bars of your cell and strolling away as if nothing had happened.
* [[Harmful to Minors]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcg2_9VeQ1c You come across a handful of corpses which are identified as children.] Their father didn't fare much better. The contents of his [[Dead Man Writing|journal]] and the subsequent soundtrack stray into [[Nightmare Fuel]] territory, especially for a Nintendo game of the time.
{{quote| ''We barely made it to this shelter. We've run out of food and water, so we won't last much longer. Ken and Yuki, forgive me for leaving you. Akira, take care of your brothers. Creator, please look after the children.''}}
** The last sentence is particularly hard-hitting, as {{spoiler|the Creator ''created'' Asura, the threat they're fleeing from.}}
* [[Healing Spring]]: Scattered throughout the tower; they'll restore your HP. Sometimes subverted; some of them are fake and will do nothing. Also, once you get to {{spoiler|Paradise}}, there is an orb there that will restore your HP.
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* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: {{spoiler|The Creator}} is this to Ashura.
* [[Match Maker Quest]]: Your party's first quest is to get the King of Armor together with the girl he loves, the [[Inexplicably Identical Individuals|"most beautiful girl in the village"]]. Luckily, it's as simple as killing the bandit who was trying to coerce the girl into marrying him.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: Averted, surprisingly for a Nintendo title of the time. Characters who lose all their HP are starkly put in 'dead' status. Not to mention the {{spoiler|completely out of the blue roomful of explicitly dead children near the end of the game.}}
* [[Nice Hat]]: One recurring character is identifiable solely by his incredibly awesome black silk hat.
* [[Number of the Beast]]: Several monster types have 666 hit points maximum, including Boneking, Demoking, Tiamat, and some others.
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** Actually -- at least in the [[Wonder Swan]] remake -- you can technically leave it any time up until you start the last battle if you have a Door or someone with the teleport ability.
*** This is true for the original [[Game Boy]] version as well.
* [[Save Scumming]]: The only surefire way to hold on to mutant abilities and get the most out of stat raising potions. The good news is that saving and reloading are both incredily [[Anti -Frustration Features|fast and easy to do]]. The bad news is that there's only one save slot, which [[Unwinnable|may lead to problems]] if you're not careful.
* [[Shout-Out]]: The World of Ruins seems to be a reference to the "Neotokyo" genre, particularly to the film [[Akira (Manga)|Akira]]. The game itself seems heavily inspired by the tabletop RPG Gamma World.
** The in-game animation for the Saw weapon/ability in the [[Wonder Swan]] remake, where it shows a vertical slash bisecting the target. This is a reference to the {{spoiler|final boss's}} death animation, where he is bisected and splits apart.
* [[Soft Reset]]: The inclusion of this feature is notable mainly because of the sheer amount of [[Save Scumming]] one tends to do in this game.
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