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[[File:phantasy_star_zero.jpg|frame|The main player classes and lead female protagonist, Sarisa. [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|Getting]] [[Phantasy Star Online]] [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|flashbacks yet?]] ]]

 

 

 

 

That leaves the third race spoken of in the records from before the Great Blank--the newmans. No one knows what's become of them, and they are assumed to have all perished during the Great Blank. The CASTs might know, if it weren't for the fact that none of them can [[Selective Memory|remember anything about what the world was like]].

It turns out that the newmans have been living on the moon; and, at the start of the game, they're making a return to the earth, setting into motion the the game's plot ...

 

* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|Mother Trinity. Subverted, because she's the host of Dark Falz itself.}}

* [[Art Evolution]]: Initially, ''Zero'''s artwork was done in the same style as ''PSO'' and ''PSU'' (example pictured above). However, shortly after its announcement, the artwork was changed to something more generic and evocative of anime styles since the [[Turn of the Millennium]].

* [[Ass Kicks You]]: The Funny Dive Photon Art for wands. The character using it propels themselves into the air by twirling their wand, then comes crashing down on their rear, causing a sparkly shockwave that hits enemies in an area of effect.

* [[Disaster Scavengers]]: Together with hunters and cable runners, these guys make up an important triad of important out-of-city occupations in ''Zero's'' society.

* [[Disney Death]]: {{spoiler|Kai, who appears to sacrifice himself fighting off monsters in the Makara Ruins. He sets up the [[Big Damn Heroes]] and [[Big Damn Army]] moment toward the end of the story.}}

* [[The Drifter]]: After his [[Dark and Troubled Past]], Kai became this before he settled down in Dairon City and joined the Hunter's Guild there.

* [[Dual Boss]]: Chaos and Mobius, Reve's personal combat vehicles.

* [[Earth All Along]]: A [[Double Subversion]]-- {{spoiler|when ''Zero'' was first announced, the game was expected to be a continuation of the ''[[Phantasy Star Online]]'' series. Then, Sega announced it would have no connection at all to any previous [[Phantasy Star]] game whatsoever ... and yet, aside from all the subtle references to ''PSO'', the side quest "Mother's Memory" blatantly states that the "earth" of ''Zero'' is the very same Coral that was the homeworld of ''PSO's'' setting!}}

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: To the people of ''Zero's'' contemporary society, the planet they live on is simply called "the earth" and its one moon "the moon." {{spoiler|It wasn't always like this.}}

** Frequently also counts as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Crowning Moment of Funny.]]

* [[Fairy Battle]]: Booma Origins et al, Rappies et al. They even have their own battle theme for each area.

* [[Friendly Sniper]]: Professional though he is, Ogi is also rather personable. Kai comments on Ogi's glibness in the Human mission "Clockworks," {{spoiler|where Ogi doesn't seem all that bothered by the fact that Octo Diablo had just eaten his entire body save for his head just earlier}}.

** He shows the same attitude in the newman and CAST versions of said mission too. He ties with Kai for the title of 'Most Personable NPC'.

* [[God of Evil]]: {{spoiler|Dark Falz. In ''Zero,'' he can manifest in the body of someone or something with enough darkness in their heart. That includes [[Artificial Human|Artificial Humans]].}}

* [[Gun Twirling]]: RAmars will do this after firing a salvo from a handgun.

* {{spoiler|[[Identical Grandson|Identical Descendant]]: The human character in a nutshell, compared to the human hero of the Great Blank. [[Villainous Breakdown|Mother Trinity takes this just about as well as you'd expect]].}}

* [[Kaizo Trap]]: Here's a tip--''don't stand under the [[Our Dragons Are Different|Reyburn]] when it dies.''

* [[Kick the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Mother Trinity}} to {{spoiler|Reve.}} And it's a particularly cruel one at that. {{spoiler|While attacking the Arca Plant, Trinity sets Reve on you to stop you from damaging her power supply. You beat him, only for her to toss him away as useless after revealing that she didn't even NEED the Arca Plant at that point. He's utterly devastated.}}

* [[Kid Hero]]: Sarisa doesn't seem all that old. The default HUmar looks to be about her age as well.

* [[La Résistance]]: Ana is the leader of the {{spoiler|newman}} resistance {{spoiler|on the moon}}.

* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: Every CAST that awakens suffers from some form of this {{spoiler|due to being forced offline before the Great Blank by Mother Trinity's Photon Noise.}}

* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: The Shield weapons you can equip in the game give you a slight defense bonus, but more importantly, holding down the L Button will raise the Shield. As long as you're faceing whatever is trying to attack you, the Shield will negate ALL damage and status effects for the cost of some TP (usually less than it would cost to heal yourself with Resta anyhow). If you aren't good at Rolling to avoid attacks (or even if you are, since some attacks are very difficult to roll out of safely), you'll be relying on your shield A LOT from late Normal mode onward.

* [[Magical Girl Warrior]]: Sarisa's much like this, considering that she ''is'' a soldier of the newman race ... yet often comes off like a [[Magical Girl]] in combat. That her rod looks like something right out of a [[Magical Girl]] anime only enforces this.

* [[Master Computer]]: {{spoiler|Mother Trinity.}}

* [[Moon Rabbit]]: The newmans in this game have a distinct "rabbit" motif to their outfits -- many items of headgear for player characters or NPCs have ear-like extensions, and one female PC newman hat is outright designed after a rabbit, with ears and a cottontail.

* [[Nominal Importance]]: In an odd twist, the only people who ''don't'' seem to get names in ''Zero'' are people you only meet briefly in quests, as well as those who work the Hunter's Guild mission counter and storage bank. Other NPCs will eventually give you their name, if not outright.

** You'll also notice, both here in this article and in the game, that "earth" and "moon" are never capitalized ...

[[Dialogue Tree|"I'll save you!"]] }}

** Pretty much EVERY time Sarisa and Octo Diablo are involved in the same scene, regardless of which story you follow.

* [[Neuro Vault]]: CAST bodies have a "sub-memory" system. If another CAST assumes control of the body, they have access to whatever was in the sub-memory.

** [[Memory Gambit]]: {{spoiler|1=One of the CASTs who lived on the moon during the Great Blank pulls a form of this before he died; he committed all he knew about Mother Trinity and her actions to the sub-memory in his body, in hopes that a CAST in the future would find his body and [[Exposition Beam|download the knowledge]].}}

* [[Never Trust a Hair Tonic]]: The concoctions Mayor Dairon tries may or may not be effective, but they certainly stink to high heaven.

* [[The Obi-Wan]]: {{spoiler|Kai}}; if your character is human, {{spoiler|he's}} [[Mentors|the one who trained you]] prior to your official acceptance into the Hunter's Guild.

* [[The Pioneer]]: Kai happened to be this in his childhood. He related his [[Dark and Troubled Past]] in the form of an unrelated story to the player character and Sarisa. Only Ogi realizes that Kai was talking about himself.

* [[Relationship Values]]: The choices you make during conversations and cutscenes affect what your [[Nakama]] and other characters think of you. Mostly, this affects who talks to you and what they say after the main story finishes.

* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]]: CASTs, though perhaps less human than the ones in ''Universe.''

* [[Ruins of the Modern Age]]: Paru ("Oblivion City").

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=YcFqTEoEmmk One of the battle themes for the Eternal Tower] contains the opening beat of [http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=K3AdN80WKXw Olga Flow's first form theme from PSO] slowed down.

** The Finjers of Arca Plant are clearly miniaturized [[Eureka Seven|Nirvashes]].

** Booma Origin and Gigobooma Origin monsters... enough said.

** And indeed the Rappies themselves, the little yellow fellas being the series equivalent of chocobos or moogles.

** If you're careful, you can locate and wield [[Valkyria Chronicles|Selvaria's spear and shield]].

* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Phantasy Star Zero's name. If abbreviated to PS0, it can be hard to distinguish it from ''[[Phantasy Star Online|PSO]]''. [[Nominal Importance|Keep that in mind.]]

* [[Transformation Sequence]]: When Ogi [[Body Surf|gets himself a new body]] {{spoiler|on the moon}}, he ''really'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_e1UTG_SaI&translated=1 likes it].

* [[Transforming Mecha]]: Humilias, made of {{spoiler|the [[Dual Boss]] Chaos and Mobius}}.

** {{spoiler|[[Cloning Blues]]: Turns out you're the clone of the newman hero of yore whose power Mother Trinity wanted to utilize for her own ends, and you turned out like the original after all. [[Villainous Breakdown|She literally bugs out over this one]].}}

* [[Turns Red]]: [[Our Dragons Are Different|Reyburn]] does this, both tropewise and literally.

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