Oracle of Tao: Difference between revisions

* [[Break-Up Bonfire]]: Averted. She keeps his personal items, like his diary.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: Ambrosia herself, in a moment of doubt (she later is talked into "realizing" she's real again).

* [[The Butcher]]: Oddly subverted, and made into one of [[Acceptable Feminine Goals]]. Lilith being from a race of violent demons, wants to be a cook because she likes cutting things up.

** Later gets training from the [[Chef of Iron]].

* [[Heroic Neutral]]:

** Nevras actually quotes from [[The Godfather]] when he hears of his new quest:

** Also Lilith, despite being a demon. She's locked her house until Ambrosia enters her life, then gets persuaded by her earnestness.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Ambrosia can have one at about two or three different points, since she doesn't really want the quest in the first place.

* [[In Universe Game Clock]]: Theoretically, we have days/nights, weeks, and months, which are also tied to the weather in seasons.

* [[I Lied]]/[[False Reassurance]]: [[Played for Laughs]] with a demon. Twice, and the wizard working for him falls for both.

'''Belial''': I promise, on my [[No Honor Among Thieves|honor as a demon]] to grant any wish I am capable. }}

* [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]: One of the final bosses gets run through with a heavy spear.

* [[Lazy Backup]]: [[RPG Maker]] has it designed this way, barring massive coding. Subverted in one bonus castle that actually [[Plot Tailored to the Party|requires teamwork]] from the multiple parties. But still, they won't actually help in battle if your party dies.

* [[Lemony Narrator]]: [[The Hero|Ambrosia]] is also the narrator. She goes on [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny|side topics]] about her family or personal history, glossing over what a normal narrator would consider the main story. It somehow manages to avoid [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]], since Ambrosia has no real illusions of her own righteousness. But she talks a great deal about her personal interests in the story at hand (if she's interested in it), her failings in knowledge legends and history, and her overall skepticism in the story's plot.

** Ambrosia mainly narrates in the opening parts of either the main game or the [[Playable Epilogue]], and seems to care ''even less'' about the main story the second time, preferring to instead talk about her marriage and subsequent child.

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: Two distinct versions of this, one a [[Knight Templar]] who is a party member, the other an [[Endgame Plus]] final boss.

* [[Masquerade]]: Subverted. There is a lot of freaky stuff that goes on in this world, and for the most part the general populace (at least, the educated general populace, Ambrosia seems to need to be explained things) knows about them, and doesn't care. Except for the one big secret: {{spoiler|that the world and everyone in it but Ambrosia, don't exist, at least not until after her help.}}

* [[May-December Romance]]: Averted. Thank God.

'''Tamashii''': Look Mommy, this man is a pedophile. }}

* [[Mayfly-December Romance]]: Two, actually. One with a man and an [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|half-elf girl]], the second between the same half-elf girl and an immortal demon.

** Sera and Phim can either be fought to the death for a gruesome scene, or talked out of fighting.

* [[Space Whale Aesop]]: Likely many of the morals taught by the game. One [[Green Aesop]] is:

** And then you have [[The Chain of Harm]] as an aesop:

* [[Split Personality Merge]]: Ambrosia does this after a mountaintop scene.

* [[Standard Status Effects]]: Everything including from Poison, Silence, Sleep, and Death, to less common ones like Berserk, Confuse, Petrify, and Curse, to rare effects like Burn, Frozen, and X-Zone (can retrieve by changing party). There's even two extra effects: Seal, which is a curse type effect and heals fully after each turn, but otherwise like petrify, to Soulless which is a [[Deader Than Dead]] status.