Ogre Battle 64: Difference between revisions

 

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* [[Actually Four Mooks]]: Or three, or five. Sometimes two, in the earlier missions.

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: In-game dialogue between Magnus and Yumil would seem to indicate this.

* [[Guys Smash, Girls Shoot]]: The base male class is a Fighter, that uses swords. The base female class is an Amazon, that uses bows.

* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Not just Magnus, but Ankiseth, Dio, {{spoiler|Destin and Debonair}} too.

* [[In-Universe Game Clock]]: Night and day. [[NPC Scheduling|Some events can be triggered only during certain times of the day, too.]]

* [[Invisible Wall]]: Even though some maps are linked (where the final fortress of one mission will become the starting point of the next one), you can't go from region to region without accessing the overworld. This actually proves beneficial for hunting down leaderless units.

* [[Job System]]: As long as a character fulfills the statistical and alignment requirements, they can change classes between missions or while not deployed.

* [[Plunder]]: Most enemies drop stuff after they die. Some items are rare weapons or components to unlock special classes.

* [[Point of No Return]]: Happens temporarily several times, though you can usually return much later in the game.

* [[Prestige Class]]: Most classes have an advancement that gives them better statistical upgrades during level ups, access to more gear, and more frequent or different attacks. Subverted though in that a character can change to any class whose prerequisite they match, even if it is not the improved version of their current class. The prestige classes are:

** Knight -> Paladin

** Berserker -> Black Knight

** And it's not counting the various monster evolutions.

* [[Puzzle Pan]]: Not a perfect example, but the game will show you the stronghold you need to liberate at the beginning of each mission.

* [[Random Encounters]]: They're a bit uncommon, but they're the only way to get nonhuman characters into your army.

* [[Rival Turned Evil]]: {{spoiler|Dio, but only if you choose to stay silent at Frederick's execution. Dio will be thought to be dead, but then a chapter later, you see him take out Rhade, and then you finally meet him face to face two chapters after!}}

* [[Save the Princess]]: A gender inversion with Yumil during the second mission.

* [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]]: The story has its moments, but basically as the player you can choose either one, and you will be right either way!

** This is shown in canon with Xevec, who argues with Magnus over whether they should work with defectors or kill 'em all.

* [[Straw Hypocrite]]: The Holy Lodis Empire. These guys secretly give Godeslas the ability to summon Ogres just to test out how much power he could attain. This comes to bite Palatinus in the butt later as they come back and take away the kingdom's power of nobility under the claim they were ''using'' ogres, and they are to step in to take care of a land of "heretics". This gets even more hypocritical as right after that, they search the Eastern division for the gate to the underworld to summon MORE Ogres.

** Stupid mistake or [[The Plan|deliberate plan]]?

* [[Traveling At the Speed of Plot]]: You can spend years traveling from region to region between missions, and nothing in the plot will change. In fact, since Magnus receives rare items for every birthday that's a multiple of 10, it's beneficial to wander around until Magnus is 99 years old.

* [[Units Not to Scale]]: Towns are like little sandboxes for your units to wade in.

* [[Visible Silence]]: Magnus does this often.