Record of Agarest War: Difference between revisions

* [[Artificial Stupidity]]: Auto-battle, why did you just have the squishy mage jump into melee range and physically attack an opponent who can counter? Why did you spend everyone's AP to ensure an overkill against one monster when there were seven others still on the battlefield? Why did you use an attack that was completely ineffective against/healed the enemy?

** However, auto-battle ''is'' good at moving (since it knows where the computer is going to move, also being the computer), as well as setting up Extended Area Combos. Just don't let it do the attacking as well.

* [[Babies Ever After]]: {{spoiler|Each and every love interest you choose in the True ending. (Yes, Even [[Older Than He Looks|Plum]] and Dyshana)}}

* [[Badass Boast]]: Rex loves doing this to keep reminding us the players that he is the real hero.

* [[Dual Boss]]: In Fifth Generation, the Gurgs start appearing in caster/melee pairs.

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: It took 5 generations but you finally did. Or [[Bittersweet Ending|did you?]]

* [[Episode Zero the Beginning]]

* [[Erotic Eating]]: Happens at least one in every game. Bananas, sausages and other things.

* [[Evil All Along]]: {{spoiler|Vashtor}}

* [[Fake Longevity]]: All games in the series are long enough with the passing through generations aspect of it, but the sheer number of obligatory fights in each one of them makes it longer than it really is, ''really longer''.

** However, in the True Ending Route of the Digest mode of Agarest ZERO, {{spoiler|while he does ask for forgiveness from his descendants, he never once regretted his decision on that day to become a Soul Vessel for Dyshana. And besides, if Dyshana never showed up, none of his descendants would be alive anyway.}}

* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Leonhardt uses swords. Soul breeding will typically result in his descendants using them as well.

** [[Takashi Kondo|Leonhardt]] would like you to know that [[Black Cat (Manga)|he comes to deliver bad luck]].

* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: Present throughout the generations. Totally worth the dark karma.

* [[More Friends More Benefits]]: It is possible, [[Guide Dang It|with judicious use of a guide]] to have all 3 love interests at intimacy 5 (blushing) at the end of every generation. It's even required to unlock some events.

* [[Multiple Endings]]: Three endings: True, Normal, and Bad.

* [[Ninja]]: First generation love interest Fyuria fits this trope.

** Beatrice fits this better, considering two of her unique abilities specifically state that they're Ninja Arts.

* [[We Are As Mayflies]]: Of all the races presented in-game, humans are the only ones that noticeably age over the generations.

* [[We Have Reserves]]: Have to {{spoiler|sacrifice your life to seal one of the five towers in the world?}} No worry! Make children and let them carry on your task!

* [[Wife Husbandry]]: Most of Rex harem consists of the girls that raised him ever since he was born.

* [[Wolfpack Boss]]: Once you're used to killing [[Dual Boss]] Gurgs, the game throws four of them at you in one fight.

* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]: {{spoiler|Bad ending has this.}}

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]: Congratulations! {{spoiler|After dozens upon dozens of hours worth of playtime, you've finally reached the end of the fifth generation and have defeated the [[Final Boss]] who was responsible for the evil that occurred throughout the game. Time to sit back and enjoy the ending? No! Now you have to take care of 5 sealed gods and the ''real'' [[True Final Boss|final boss]]}}.

Decimal: "Buh...Buk... (Translation: [[Marshmallow Hell|Y-You are choking me, evil woman!]]" }}

** The scene goes on like that for awhile, ending with a [[Fade to Black]] and Friedelinde telling everyone;

* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: Happens as an event no less!

* [[Les Yay]]: Happens during many of the "[[Fan Service]]" type scenes ([[Beach Episode]], [[Hot Springs Episode]], ...).

* [[Sex Sells]]: Averted oddly, considering this is released by the guys who made the first game look like an over-the-top [[Fan Service]] game.

* [[Shameless Self Promoter]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv0oMeeVnCI&feature=player_embedded Aksys Games'] response to the [[Catherine]] promo video.

** On that note, a number of achievement/trophy names are shout-outs. Among others, there's [[Star Wars|'It's a Trap!']], [[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy|'Stay Classy, Kraltarla']], [[Blaz Blue|'Nirvana...?']] (earned for creating a marionette; it is worth mentioning that Aksys localized both Agarest and [[Blaz Blue]]), [[Three Hundred|'Fight in the Shade']], and [[Fist of the North Star|'You're Already Dead!']].

** There's a smithing item called the [[Harry Potter (Literature)|Mirror of Erised]].

* [[Skinship Grope]]: Mimel does this to Sayane during the [[Hot Springs Episode]].

* [[Spiteful AI]]: Hope you've stuck range-5 moves or gotten Alice up to level 25 by mid-late generation 1. Otherwise you'll be stuck chasing enemies around that run away for the sole sake of lowering your combat rating, in turn reducing the amount of EXP, money, EP, and TP gained.

* [[What Happened to The Mouse?|What Happened To The Dark Elves?]] The first game had stated that the Dark Elves served Summerill, and yet they're nowhere to be seen and never mentioned. This makes [[The Reveal]] about what the Syrium are all the more irritating, as it seemed like that was going to be the Dark Elves' thing.

* [[You Don't Look Like You]]: Some of the 3D enemies have had their models replaced. Most noticeable with with the Jumbo Cock, who is no longer a giant chicken but rather a Griffon thus ruining the joke, and Tyrant type enemies going from massive armored enemies to using the model for spirits from [[Hyperdimension Neptunia]]. This is not only present in Zero's battles, but the battles in the game's abridged version of the first game as well.

* [[Flechette Storm]]: The level 3 final animation of [[Combination Attack|Thousand Kill]].

* [[Forced Tutorial]]: There should be no reason why the hell Weiss needs a tutorial when he kills the [[Warmup Boss]] because ''he's already level 99!'' He should already know the basics on how to fight!

* [[Gainaxing]]: Oh boy. Notable for the fact that even just a simple sentence, somehow the women must move their avatars just so they can get their point across complete with [[Gainaxing]].

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Despite the fact that there are implied torture, [[Erotic Eating]], [[Hot Springs Episode]], {{spoiler|murder by [[Back Stab]] ''on screen'' (though there's no blood)}}, and almost full-blown stuff that happens in here {{spoiler|(Eva's CG comes to mind)}}, it's still [http://www.siliconera.com/2012/04/23/record-of-agarest-war-2-as-described-by-the-esrb/ Rated T by the ESRB.] And Aksys one ups it by having the limited edition [http://www.siliconera.com/2012/04/23/record-of-agarest-war-2-as-described-by-the-esrb/ come with a] ''blow-up doll'' <ref>for the record, the Japanese limited edition just came at ''worst'', a handkerchief that had a naked Eva and Fiona young and adult.</ref>

* [[Handsome Lech]]: The father-son duo, Janus and Jude. Being the [[Expy|expies]] of both Winfield and Thoma will turn anyone into this trope.

* [[The Hero]]: Weiss, and his descendants as usual.

** Faz is voiced by [[Yuuki Tai]], the famous [[Super Robot Wars|Time Driver, Cobray Gordon]] himself. {{spoiler|Wait a minute...Holy shit! Compile Heart you're a genius!}}

** Fans of ''[[School Rumble]]'' might point out that Hanai has the same seiyuu as Gray. Better yet, he's ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]'' in ''[[Tatsunokovs Capcom (Video Game)|Tatsunokovs Capcom]]''.

* [[Lazy Backup]]: Despite the fact that you can switch party members, if all four main party members die on the battlefield, it's a game over even though you have a lot of characters to choose from.

* [[Leaked Experience]]

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Definitely applies to the guys. For the girls, well it also does apply unless you bought the DLC costumes, in which you can switch their costumes.

* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: Not as bad as other examples, but it's still there unfortunately. Compile Heart has not released an "Install" option to be able to play this game faster either.

* {{spoiler|[[Satan Is Good]]}}

* [[Selective Obliviousness]]: The flashbacks have a lot of fun with this, like remember that blood on the screen? {{spoiler|It's not Chaos's it's Weiss's blood.}}

** The final animation of Annihilate Circle really looks like [[Super Robot Wars Gaiden|Cybuster's Akashic Buster.]]

* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Even though one of the first few official trailers has Eva's name in English language, some still refer to her as Iva for some weird reason.

* [[Spoiler Opening]] / [[Foreshadowing]]: During the opening, you see Weiss holding a sword with someone ominous at the background who is pretty much Chaos. At first since Weiss kills Chaos, you get to assume that it is a set up for an epic rivalry between Chaos and Weiss himself. {{spoiler|Then you get to [[The Reveal]].}}

* [[Sword of Plot Advancement]]: The significance of Veldafard is pretty big in this story? Do you get the sword itself just like how you got Leo's Sword/Treasure Sword of Oath in [[Agarest Senki]] if you can obtain the True End? Nope, off to [[Item Crafting]] for you.

* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Aside from the fact that overkilling will give you items, this game takes it [[Up to Eleven]] with an Ultimate Strike where your selected party (enemy must be in "Break" state, and you choose whether you attack an enemy with everyone or with just a certain number of people) will attack the enemy with all they've got, and finish them off with a [[Finishing Move]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXJq7akpeYc where two or more people will do their EX Combo provided there's one.]

* [[We Help the Helpless]]: The party is after all, a group of [[Hired Guns]] helping the various NPCs of Flens Berge.

* [[What Happened to The Mouse?]]: Exactly what happened to Chloe after {{spoiler|Janus died?}}. Or Cynthia after marrying Ignis? Both women (except Chloe for one scene only) never appeared to the party in the third generation.

* [[You Fail Biology Forever]]: In cutscenes, you see characters talking while they're breathing heavily. Talking in real life does not work that way.

* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Let's see, we've got violet, aqua blue, [[Rose-Haired Girl|pink]], red, gray-ish violet, green, and dark blue just to name a few.