Monster Girl Quest! Paradox RPG: Difference between revisions

** Prior to most bosses, there's a magic circle or other means of restoring the party's HP and MP to full.

* [[Apocalypse How]]: {{spoiler|A potential Multiversal example. At least one Universal example succeeds, the destruction of the world with the Administrator's Tower}}.

** It's even more arbitrary when one considers that some party members are multiple people, e.g. Nefertiti Lamias (four sisters). They even appear as multiple characters outside of the battle screen.

* [[Armor Is Useless]]: Played straight in the higher levels of the Labyrinth of Chaos. Due to the enemies' stats increasing indefinitely, they'll eventually be able to kill you no matter what armor your characters wear. Having maxed out Evasion and/or Magic Evasion, elemental resistances/immunities/absorption, or just killing the enemies before they kill you becomes vital.

* [[Beef Gate]]: You can enter the forest around Enrika as soon as you can leave Ilias Village. The inhabitants will one-shot you if you try this, however.

* [[The Berserker]]: The Berserker job. Notable in that no item exists in Part 1 that teaches the job, meaning that the only character that can have it (without cheating) is Mina the Minotaur Girl, who starts with it.

* [[Big Eater]]: Both Alice and Ilias.

* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: The "Pocket Castle" is a massive castle shrunk down to pocket size you can enter and exit on the world map to switch out companions. In fact, after recruiting certain party members, you can also use it as a portable inn, item shop, and a weapons/armor store.

* [[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.

* [[Casino Park]]: Grandoll, complete with gambling minigames.

* [[Cast from Hit Points]]: Some skills, notably the Necromancy skills, consume HP to use.

* [[Funbag Airbag]]: In her sidequest, Rami literally throws herself off the summits of mountains. Thanks to this trope, she survives with no injury.

* [[Gag Boobs]]: A few monsters, notably Rami and Nuruko.

** 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.

** The Seraphs, Zion and Gnosis, who seem to come from an alternate world in which the angels won the Great Monster Wars. They also appear to be trying to preserve the world, and if Zion is any indication, are directly opposed to the Lilith Sisters.

** A figure calling herself Alice VIII, the supposedly-dead tyrant who had once terrorised the world, is aiming for the seat of Monster Lord. Many anti-human monsters have gathered to her cause. {{spoiler|She turns out to not only be the real thing, but is apparently the same Alice VIII who should have died in the original game. On top of that, she has the support of the legendary puppeteer Kagetsumugi, through whom she has gained access to legendary monsters and even former Monster Lords as allies}}.

* [[Guest Star Party Member]]:

** {{spoiler|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}}.

* [[Hammerspace]]: As typical for an RPG. You can have up to 99 of any particular item.

* [[Harder Than Hard]]: Paradox difficulty. Suffice to say, there's a reason it's named for the game itself.

* [[Monster Progenitor]]: Alice I created the Six Ancestors, who each gave rise to a lineage of monsters: succubi (Minagi), slimes (Kanade), plants (Kanon), beasts and kitsune (Tamamo-no-Mae), scyllas (Hiruko) and harpies and lamias (Saja).

* [[More Friends, More Benefits]]: You can recruit as many companions as you want (barring mutually-exclusive ones) with no penalty. That said, trying to level up over a hundred companions...

* [[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.

* [[Notice This]]: Places that you should investigate are marked with sparkles.

* [[One Hit KO]]: There are four types of instant death in the game: 'normal' Instant Death, Ascension, Climax, and Predation.

* [[One Man Army]]: Neris. In one day, she manages to conquer Plansect Village, defeat Cassandra (considered the equal of Alice XV), defeat the entire Arachne faction, and fight Granberia to a draw. And after fighting the last of these, she claimed to be holding back.

* [[One Size Fits All]]: Played with. All characters of the same race can all wear the same armor, even if they vary in size (e.g. Ilias can wear the same armor as Promestein, despite the former having a child's body, because they're both angels). However, different races have access to different combinations of armor types. Races with drastically inhuman shapes, like Slimes or Insects, can't wear many types of armor.

* [[One-Time Dungeon]]: The Administrator's Tower, due to {{spoiler|the entire universe it's located in being consumed by Apoptosis}}. Partially subverted, as you can enter the ruins {{spoiler|of the version in the Paradox universe}} and encounter the same enemies, so nothing there is potentially [[Lost Forever]].

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: Lily and Lucia, if fought as bosses, transform their arms into masses of giant worms.

** After leaving the Puppeteer's Tower, Kagetsumugi seems to be speaking to herself... {{spoiler|then Black Alice is revealed behind the throne. Moreover, Black Alice hints that she came from the world of the original game. Kagetsumugi then unveils a powerful army, made up of legendary monsters and the puppets of former Monster Lords, all at Black Alice's beck and call}}.

** The world accessed from the third Tartarus {{spoiler|has been almost completely devoured by the Apoptosis phenomenon. You encounter an alternate La Croix, who explains the true nature of Chaos - a threat to the entire multiverse. As you try to escape, the high-ranking Apoptosis Adramelech pursues, and nearly drags off Luka, only for Marcellus to suddenly appear and cut her in half. But Luka doesn't have the chance to properly reunite with him, as Marcellus simply advises him to protect the world, and leaves}}.

* [[What the Hell Hero]]: If Luka gives in to temptation (and loses all of his HP) or surrenders, his companions will be disgusted with him and leave him to his fate.

* [[Whip It Good]]: A weapon type, which Plants specialise in.

* [[World Tree]]: Mentioned by Nero, with its fruit being a medicine capable of curing any disease. It can't be accessed in Part 1, however.

* [[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.

** Nero and Neris also fit, {{spoiler|likely due to their lineage}}.

** {{spoiler|Black Alice, being from the original universe, is another example}}.