Pier Solar and the Great Architects: Difference between revisions

* [[Adam Smith Hates Your Guts]]: Played straight with better weapons, armors, accessories and medicines. A stay at the inn is always 10 gold coins though.

* [[The Archer]]: Alina's weapons are bows.

* [[Bigger on the Inside]]: Typical for an [[Eastern RPG]].

* [[Blackout Basement]]: The maze under {{spoiler|Ludon city}}.

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Played straight with Alina's bow/crossbow/speargun that never runs out of arrows/quarrels/spears. Averted with Edessot's thrown weapons that are in limited supply, take room in your limited inventory, and can (usually) only be found in limited chests, not bought.

* [[Bounty Hunter]]: You meet one early in the game. {{spoiler|Zellini}} also disguises as one at some point in the game.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: Alina to Edessot.

* [[Critical Existence Failure]]: Whether at full health or nearly dead, the characters perform just as good. However, their combat portrait and sprite will reflect their condition.

* [[Distress Ball]]: Subverted. Early in game, Alina leaves to go forth on her own, but Hoston and Edessot quickly catch her up, and she did not need to be rescued either.

* [[Drop the Hammer]]: Rudy's weapons are hammers and maces. One of his special attacks involve a [[Hyperspace Mallet]].

* [[Elemental Powers]]: Enemies and characters alike can have elemental (fire, water, earth and air) attacks, magics and/or resistances. Typically, Hoston's and Rudy's attacks are earth-based, Alina's water-based, Edessot's and Zellini's fire-based, and Kruller's air-based. Equipping accessories can give elemental resistance, while only enemies can have elemental weaknesses.

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: The city of Oasis.

* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Hoston's weapons are swords.

* [[Identical Grandson]]: Subverted. Some people notice that Hoston looks like his father Rudy, but no one ever mistakes them.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Edessot's weapons are tools (ranging from lighters to chisels to saws...), while Kruller's attack animation pictures him fighting with... juggling balls!

* [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]]: Of course, there are treasure chests hidden in forests, jungles, mountains, etc. And their content will never be spoiled or rotten either, however long they've be stored there...

* [[Kleptomaniac Hero]]: And how! A Timpo citizen even blames you for this, but without consequence.

* [[Level Grinding]]: Leveling up is slow and hard at first, but it gets better.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Played straight, though Alina tears a part of her jacket at some point. That doesn't show anywhere.

* [[Lost Forever]]: What can happen for some items if you're not careful enough, as several places can only be visited once and/or before a certain point in the plot. Made worse by the fact that some chests can only be opened by backtracking to them much later in the game once you have the necessary skill/key to open them... and they contain some of the most important treasures.

* [[Mini Game]]: There are some in the game. Played with when you're getting ready to help a farmer harvest watermelons, but eventually... not.

* [[Money Spider]]: Most enemies are animals, yet you still earn gold when you defeat them. Subverted with Ryan the lion, since it's an arena bet.

* [[Palette Swap]]: For some enemies. They keep the same name though, only their stats change.

* [[Pamphlet Shelf]]: Book shelves are neither overly common nor contain lengthy texts, but they may be critical to the plot's advancement. Some spell books can be bought in stores, read, then sold.

* [[Random Encounters]]: Yup. Exceptions (fights YOU can decide to start) are very rare.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Lots:

** Rudy's ''Hector Hammer'' attack is a reference to Sir Hector, the Mascot of the heavy metal band [[Hammerfall]].

** Kruller's ''Wind of Change'' spell is a reference to [[Scorpions]].

** At some point in the game, if you play with the cartridge inserted into a [[Other Sega Systems|Sega 32X]], someone will give you the {{spoiler|[[Sonic the Hedgehog]] shoes}}. Doubles as [[The Dev Team Thinks of Everything]].

* [[Sidequest]]: There are some of them in the game, with varying degree of complexity. Examples include delivering a letter, grabbing bunnies in {{spoiler|Reja forest}}, collecting some stuff for a bounty hunter, fighting a lion for a prize in an arena, and navigating a maze in {{spoiler|Ludon city}}.

* [[Simple Staff]]: Mohu's weapon is a staff. Kruller's weapons are staves too, although his fighting animation shows him using juggling balls.

* [[Trauma Inn]]: Usually one per village. Some other places also allow you to rest, either one time or at will (e.g. the Goaman's hut, a given spot while climbing up Meho moutains, or the Ice Castle), while some others do NOT have any while you could really use one (Hunting Lodge anyone?). Sleeping at or visiting the inn is sometimes needed to advance into the plot.

* [[Universal Driver's License]]: Averted. Only Edessot barely knows how to drive the train he just repaired... and even fails the first time he tries!

* [[Urban Segregation]]: The Timpo district of Verahansa is poor, while another district gathers the noble folk.

* [[Welcome to Corneria]]: Downplayed. The programmers usually made the effort that NPCs get two or three different things to say before starting again. What they have to say may even be real-life information or hint.

* [[We Sell Everything]]: Subverted. Smaller hamlets may have only one or few shops, but bigger cities have several shops or market merchants that may sell the same goods at different prices. Shops are usually specialised in weapons, armor, or accessories/potions/miscellaneous stuff.