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{{work}}[[File:Monster Girl Quest Paradox logo.png|thumb|400px]]
The game starts in the same year as the original did, but with a twist. Thirty years prior to this, the Great Disaster occurred. This consisted of a number of strange and world-shaking events, the most notable being the disappearance of the Goddess Ilias. Needless to say, the entire world (monster and human alike) was stunned by this. Since then, monsters and humans have mostly decided to get along - a major departure from the original game.
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The game consists of three parts, or chapters. Part 1 was released on 14 March 2015, while Part 2 was released on 23 June 2017. The trailer for Part 3 was released on 18 June 2022.
Both parts have been completely translated into English. As of November 2020, the latest version of the English translation can be found [https://bitbucket.org/ArzorX/monster-girl-quest-paradox-translation/downloads/ here.]
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== A-F ==
* [[100% Completion]]: Extremely difficult, to say the least. There's innumerable sidequests, and roughly 150 companions (in Part 1 alone) to recruit and train.
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* [[Abandoned Laboratory]]: The Ancient Temple Ruins.
* [[Action Girl]]: The vast majority of enemies and allies are female.
* [[Adaptational Badass]]: Many Monster Girls are far stronger here than they were in the previous game. For example, Vampire Girl was, much like the other bandits, almost harmless and easy for Luka to defeat in the first game. Here she has a powerful AoE attack as an enemy, and is a powerful tank if recruited.
* [[Alice Allusion]]: Even more than the previous game, to the point that there is an actual character called the White Rabbit, who leads Alice around.
* [[All in a Row]]: Party members follow the party leader in this manner. This leads to amusingly-long lines if your active party includes characters that appear as separate sprites on the map, like the Sluggy Stars or Nefertiti Lamias.
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** The end of the first chapter. {{spoiler|You manage to return safely to the Paradox world, with important information on the threat of Chaos. But an entire world has fallen to Chaos, and the last living (for certain values of the word) inhabitant of that world sacrificed herself to let you escape}}.
** On the Ilias route, the ending of the second chapter also qualifies. {{spoiler|Sonya sacrifices herself to banish Adramelech and uses the last of her power to repair the damage to the world. She copies over an alternate version of her so that Luka won't be lonely, and erases everyone's memories of what happened.}}
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* [[Black Magic]]: A skill type, which includes spells that do elemental damage and inflict status ailments.
* [[Bleak Level]]: The Tartarus, and the town of Remina accessed from them. They represent a sudden, unnerving shift from the otherwise bright aesthetic of the rest of the game.
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* [[Can't Catch Up]]: With more than a hundred possible companions, this is inevitable. However, thanks to reserve party members receiving [[Leaked Experience]] with no risk, they can catch up quite quickly.
* [[Can't Drop the Hero]]: Luka can never be removed from the party, although he can be in either the active or reserve party.
* [[Cap]]: Jobs and Races cap at level 10, while normal level is capped at 30 (in Part 1) and later 60 (in Part 2) and increased to 70 in the version that includes the Collab Event. However, enemies in the Labyrinth of Chaos have stats and movesets that easily exceed this by unfathomable amounts.
* [[Casino Park]]: Grandoll, complete with gambling minigames.
* [[Cast from Hit Points]]: Dark and Necromancy skills consume HP to use, rather than SP or MP.
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* [[Frankenstein's Monster]]: Frederika, a giant zombie made from multiple corpses by Chrome. Unlike the original game (but like the original Frankenstein's Monster), she developed a new personality. After Chrome is defeated, Frederika asks to be allowed to stay with her.
* [[Funbag Airbag]]: In her sidequest, Rami literally throws herself off the summits of mountains. Thanks to this trope, she survives with no injury.
== G-L ==
* [[Gag Boobs]]: A few monsters, notably Rami and Nuruko.
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: There's countless factions in the game, all working towards their own, inscrutable ends. The fact that some of them come from alternate universes only complicates things further.
** Nero and Neris, {{spoiler|who are almost certainly the children of Luka and Alice}}, seem to be the group most focused on helping out Luka's party.
** Luka's father Marcellus appears to be on Luka's side, but is pursuing his own plans, which are uncertain. What faction he's allied with, if any of them, is a mystery.
** The Lilith Sisters are behind several of the problems the party encounters, but claim to be saving the world. What's more, they seem to be following the orders of {{spoiler|Alice I}}. They turn out to be {{spoiler|from an alternate world where the monsters won the Great Monster Wars, and they are trying to transfer the souls of the Paradox world's inhabitants to their own.}}
** The three Seraphs, who also appear to be trying to preserve the world and are directly opposed to the Lilith Sisters. They turn out to be {{spoiler|from an alternate world where the angels won the Great Monster Wars, and are selecting a subset of humans to bring to their own world.}}
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** The kingdom of Grangold has declared war on the other human nations, and is currently winning, thanks to its army of monsters and dolls and its mysteriously powerful king. {{spoiler|It has been taken over by the Tamamo no Mae of the same world the Lilith Sisters came from, and she is driving it to ruin for her own amusement.}}
** Most bewildering of all, the mafia is also a powerful faction, if a hidden one. It seems to be opposing the Church, to the point of attempting to assassinate the San Ilia King. {{spoiler|Merlin and Lazarus}} are high-ranking figures in it, and seem to have their own plans...
** The Collab Scenario introduces another group, the Apostles of Chaos, a group of extremely powerful Apoptosis who wish to "return everything to nothingness". One would think they'd be part of Black Alice's faction, but they make zero mention of her and are pursuing their own plans, revolving around a mysterious figure they call "The Father of Chaos", {{spoiler|who is heavily implied to be a potential future version of Luka}}.
** The preview for Part 3 introduces YET ANOTHER faction, the Alliance of Wisdom, which seems to be made up of alternate timeline versions of Promestein (not the Promestein in the player's party) and her Seekers of Truth from the first game. They have their own objectives and their own plan for dealing with Chaos.
* [[Gameplay and Story Integration]]:
** Each character's trait and list of races tends to reflect their background. For example, Luka has an advantage with hero-related skills and weapons, and has access to the Human race {{spoiler|and the Angel race}}.
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* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: You can recruit monsters to join your team, and you can recruit a staggering amount of them.
* [[The Grim Reaper]]: Reaper, apparently. Like all supernatural entities in the setting, she appears as a [[Cute Monster Girl]], one with red hair, purple eyes, black clothing and a [[Sinister Scythe]]. She resides in Hades, which similarly is the afterlife of the setting.
* [[The Guards Must Be Crazy]]: The guards
** The same also applies to the Navy Marines as well. Is that a suspicious Dog Girl spy? Nah, it's just a friendly bribe-giving person, no need to worry about it.
* [[Guest Star Party Member]]:
** Nero becomes the only controllable character if you lose against the Armored Berserker. He's easily powerful enough to defeat the boss on his own, but you lose control after winning the battle.
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* [[Job System]]: Set up very similar to the one used by ''[[Dragon Quest VI]]''.
* [[Joke Character]]: The four Unfortunate Friends: Amira, Pyhar, Domaimer and Santos. The human and monster parts of their bodies are inverted (reflected in the names of the first three, which are the Japanese syllables for lamia, harpy and mermaid reversed). They're the only monster companions to have no request scenes.
** [[Lethal Joke Character]]: But they're not necessarily useless. Pyhar, for example, gains a bonus to evasion and magic evasion from her trait. Combined with the innately high evasion of harpies, and another buff to boost it further, she can achieve 100% evasion and avoid all attacks. (With the exception of Auto-Hit-type attacks that usually guaranteed to hit, unless cancelled out by a party members' counter attack such as Hild's CIWS/Advanced CIWS Defense Ability for instance before it hits) Santos is an even '''better''' example since his trait allows him a 20% chance to "divide" after each turn, thus granting him a temporary buff to act twice or even '''four times''' per turn whilst the "Divide/Divine Destiny" buff(s) are active.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: As is standard for the series, all enemy monsters will rape Luka upon defeating the party, and many will outright kill him. Some of them explicitly have histories of crimes against humans, the Roper being one example. This doesn't prevent them from being recruited, at which point there's no way to punish them.
* [[Keystone Army]]: Monster armies can be routed by defeating their leader(s). This is how you stop {{spoiler|the monster invasions of the four human nations in the second chapter.}}
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* [[The Lost Woods]]: Enrika is located in one of these.
* [[Ludd Was Right]]: The inhabitants of the aptly named Luddite Village believe this. They eschew the advanced technology that the rest of the world uses, believing it to be heretical, even as the majority of the faith accepts it.
== M-R ==
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Promestein, full stop.
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* [[Mutually Exclusive Party Members]]:
** Part 1 has Alice and Ilias, and Lily and Lucia. It's possible to have both of the latter pair on a New Game Plus, due to party members other than Alice/Ilias being carried over. Having both Alice and Ilias is impossible without cheating.
** Part 2 introduces more of these, including some companions who are exclusive to the Alice or Ilias routes. Alice gives access to {{spoiler|Alicetroemeria, Lilith and Lilim, and Morrigan}}, while Ilias gives access to {{spoiler|Heinrich, Eden, Micaela-chan and Lucifina-chan}}.
* [[Mutually Exclusive Powerups]]: Both Alice and Ilias, and Lily and Lucia, offer various skills and abilities. Thanks to the above restriction, these are mutually exclusive. However, the Holy skills taught by Ilias can be learnt later when {{spoiler|Luka unlocks the Angel race}}. Similarly, the Cursed Sword skills taught by Alice can be learnt from a job available in Part 2.
* [[Necromancer]]: An intermediate job, whose skills are [[Cast from Hit Points]]. Also the professions of Chrome, La Croix and Kagetsumugi.
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* [[Took a Level in Badass]]:
** Humans as a race, compared to the original game. Here, thanks to a combination of improved technology, all humans now being able to use magic, and [[Charles Atlas Superpower]], combat-trained humans can now fight on the same level as monsters and angels.
** In the original game, the King of San Ilia was an ineffectual, doddering old man who barely did anything. In this game {{spoiler|he's been turned into a cyborg after an attempted bombing, and along with the vast array of weaponry his new bodies contains, it also seems to have sharpened his mind, such that he's almost a completely different character: shrewd, proactive, possessing powerful holy magic, and is an expert machinist on top of all that}}.
** In the original game, Lazarus was the leader of the ineffectual [[Fantastic Racism|Ilias Kreuz]] organisation, and couldn't even manage to kill monsters with his bombings. Here? {{spoiler|He's a high-ranking figure in [[The Mafia]], which is presented as a major faction in the setting}}.
** Likewise, the Grangold King. He couldn't fight at all in the original game (though he did become a competent ruler). Here, he's a [[One Man Army]] with magic capable of devastating armies. This is because {{spoiler|he (like other royals) has the bloodline of an ancient race of powerful humans. This blood was awakened by Lilith, turning him into what can only be described as an [[Eldritch Abomination]]}}.
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* [[World Tree]]: An enormous tree which serves as the homeland of the Plant race. It produces a fruit which is capable of curing any illness.
* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: Hades appears to work this way. No matter how much time Luka spends here, his companions will only see him staring at a wall for an unspecified, but implicitly much shorter period of time.
* [[Yin-Yang Bomb]]:
** Mixing Light and Dark energies is extremely dangerous, but if done correctly, it produces a hybrid energy greater than the sum of its parts: Chaos energy. Beings who can use Chaos are among the most powerful and dangerous in the game.
** The Apoptosis monsters can use both light and dark power.
** Nero and Neris also fit, {{spoiler|likely due to their lineage}}.
** {{spoiler|Black Alice was infused with both Light and Dark energies in the original game, and supercharged from the experiment that summoned her into the Paradox timeline, becoming the most powerful known being in existence}}.
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: {{spoiler|When Adramelech attacks the Administrator's Tower, La Croix holds her off while the party flees. Adramelech breaks through, but not without being weakened to 10% of her power}}.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Not literally zombies, but the spread of Apoptosis in {{spoiler|the world of the alternate Administrator's Tower}} strongly fits this trope.
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