Mutually Exclusive Party Members: Difference between revisions

== Fighting Game ==

* In ''[[Soul Series|Soul Calibur 3's]]'' Chronicles of the Sword mode, there are 2 sets of 2 party members that will join you after defeat at the end of the level, with the first one of the pair that is defeated joining the party. One interesting effect of this is that when a character joins, you unlock their customization items, requiring the mode be beaten at least twice to get all the items.

 

== Role Playing Game ==

* ''[[Chrono Cross]]'', with its [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], has a few examples: Early in the game there are three ways to sneak into Viper Manor, each of which nets you a different party member. Immediately afterwards, you can acquire one of two groups of party members depending on whether you choose to save Kid or not. However, through the use of [[New Game+]], it was possible to get everyone on the team at once.

* In ''[[Dragon Age|Dragon Age: Origins]]'', Alistair will leave your party if you spare and recruit {{spoiler|Teyrn Loghain.}}

* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic II]]:''

** PC gender determines availability of the Handmaiden or the Disciple.

* Subverted in ''[[Septerra Core]]'' you can recruit all the possible characters, but if you try to put Selina & Corgan or Led & Lobo in the same party, they'll occasionally shoot at each other instead of the enemy. However you can do a sidequest to befriend them.

* In ''[[Star Ocean the Second Story]]'', there are several examples of this.

** While Precis is easily picked up once you reach her hometown, Bowman will not offer to join if she's in the party.

** Leon and Dias are also mutually exclusive, though not because they cancel each other out; Dias will only offer to join if Rena is the main character, while Leon remains a [[Guest Star Party Member]] unless Claude is the main character.

* A somewhat unusual example in ''[[Mana (series)|Legend of Mana]]'': If you complete the Matilda/Irwin arc, you reach a point where you must fight either [[Catgirl|Daena]] or [[Knight Templar|Escad]] with the help of the other. Though you can bring either one along with you for most of the arc up to that point and switch freely, the one you fight is [[Killed Off for Real]] and is [[Lost Forever]]. (In fact, it's possible for ''both'' characters to be [[Lost Forever]], but it will always be at least one of the two.)

* In ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'', it is impossible to have both Odin and Gilgamesh. If you get Odin before the end of disc 3, he is replaced by Gilgamesh during the battle against Seifer. If you wait until disc 4 to get Odin, Gilgamesh is lost.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

 

== Turn Based Strategy ==

*** Also in ''Blazing Blade'', certain actions you take in the chapter "Pale Flower of Darkness" determine whether Harken or Karel will appear.

** In ''Path of Radiance'', there is a [[Duel Boss]] against {{spoiler|The Black Knight}}. If you fail to win but survive for five turns, Ena joins the party. If you beat the boss, Nasir joins instead. Then, during the final level, you are given the option to recruit between one of three powerful new characters. However, once you've picked one, the other two are unavailable for the rest of the game.

* ''[[Jagged Alliance]]:'' Some mercs will refuse to work with others, either turning down your offer on the ground that you have their personal enemy or leaving the party. Though this feeling is not always mutual, so hiring people in right order you can sometimes hire both of them.

** In the first game, failing to listen to the complaints of your mercs can have terrible consequences: Fidel does not like working with Hurl, for example, and failing to fire one or the other will result in Hurl disappearing in the middle of the night (the implication is that Fidel killed him), and you'll lose all Hurl's equipment.

* In ''[[Odium]]'', if you go into an optional side-area to recruit Slavsky, one of your teammates, Medusa, goes insane first and must be killed. Technically, that's also [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]] in play, since having both Medusa and Slavsky would exceed your limit of 5 members.

* In ''[[Yggdra Union]]'', you recruit either Roswell or Rosary after killing one of them. The survivor joins your army.

** Similarly, in ''[[Gloria Union]]'' your REP value determines whether you get Yggdra or Gangr in Chapter 4, and whether Eater or Pamela is available in Chapter 5.

 

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