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[[File:Riviera.jpg|frame| Rose (cat), Serene (blue), Cierra (red), Lina (orange), Fia (green), Ein (<s>gray-brown-purple</s>''[[The One Guy|male]]'')]]
[[Role-Playing Game]] produced by [[Sting Entertainment]]; Episode I of ''[[Dept. Heaven]]'' and chronologically the final story in ''[[The Verse]]'' thus far. Originally for the Wonderswan Color, remade for the [[Game Boy Advance]] and then for the PSP. Both the Gameboy Advance and PSP versions were published in the US by [[Atlus]].
One thousand years ago, [[Gotterdammerung|the gods and the most powerful demons enacted an extremely destructive war called Ragnarok]]. The gods, who otherwise would have lost, broke the taboo that mortal creatures must not have godly powers in order to create the Grim Angels, incomplete yet extremely powerful beings who were able to turn the tide. Afterward, the gods vanished, sealing their powers within the recently liberated land of Riviera and entrusting the rule of Asgard to seven proxies called the Magi. The Grim Angels
In the present day, Hector, one of the Seven Magi, has discovered great demonic activity within Riviera. For the sake of Asgard, a pair of Grim Angels named [[The Fool|Ein]] and [[The Stoic|Ledah]] are awakened and sent down from Asgard to Riviera to actuate the Retribution, using the power of the lost gods to destroy Riviera and take the demons with it. However, this will also wipe out the Sprites, the natural inhabitants of Riviera
''Riviera'' combines turn-based RPG battle systems with a [[Dating Sim]]-influenced [[Relationship Values|affection system]], minigame-influenced "[[Press X to Not Die|AT screens]]", point-and-click style exploration, and a clever [[Inventory Management Puzzle]] integral to mastering the game. It is considered both the easiest ''[[Dept. Heaven]]'' game and the best entry point to the series, as it explicitly portrays the background conflict between [[Order Versus Chaos|Asgard and Niflheim]] that subtly influences all the other episodes.
In addition to the original game and its remakes, there are two spin-off cellphone games available in Japan. There are also [[Audio Adaptation|two drama CDs]], both of which provide important background for the characters. Other background information on Riviera and its world can be found in the [[Dept. Heaven]] canon bible
▲In addition to the original game and its remakes, there are two spin-off cellphone games available in Japan. There are also [[Audio Adaptation|two drama CDs]], both of which provide important background for the characters. Other background information on Riviera and its world can be found in the [[Dept. Heaven]] canon bible, ''Dept. Heaven Episodes World Guidance''.
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* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Ein, though occasionally, he's a pervert on purpose (ironic as he's an angel, albeit a wingless one).
* [[Action Commands]]: Apparently the entire basis of dungeon crawling. They're used for everything from dodging arrows to untrapping treasure chests to throwing rocks.
* [[Action Girl]]: Serene, although Lina also counts to some degree.
* [[Adults Are Useless]]: In fact, they will hinder you until you prove yourself.
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The dramas and ''Dept. Heaven World Guidance'' book clear up a ''lot'' of background information.
* [[Alternate Continuity]]: The Epilogue Disc provides the series with a ''[[High School AU|high-school AU
* [[Amazing Technicolor Battlefield]]: Riviera is actually pictured in the trope example. The entire [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon|second half of the last dungeon]] is a pretty trippy place.
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in that there isn't room for more than three.
* [[Arcadia]]: Elendia.
* [[The Archer]]: Also subverted: Lina is whimsical and immature. Fia, who uses bows as a secondary weapon, could be considered a straight example.
* [[Art Evolution]]: From Wonderswan Color to GBA. And PSP make it even better with extra shadings.
* [[Ascended Demon]]: Red Sage and Blue Fool, as long as you don't decide to be a dick and kill them.
* [[Attract Mode]]: A narration of the storyline before the title screen and introductions for each playable character after it.
* [[Audio Adaptation]]: Three of them.
* [[Badass Adorable]]: Lina! She's short, [[Kawaiiko|cute]], has [[Girlish Pigtails]], [[Third Person Person|talks in the third person]], and uses [[Small Girl, Big Gun|longbows twice her height]] to [[Person of Mass Destruction|annihilate squads of enemies]].
* [[Bee-Bee Gun]]: The beehives, of course.
* [[Black Mage]]: Cierra.
* [[Boke and Tsukkomi Routine]]: The Red Sage and the Blue Fool in
* [[Bokukko]]: Rose and, though she only uses it while introducing herself, Lina.
* [[Bonus Boss]]: {{spoiler|Hades
* [[Bonus Stage|Bonus Chapter]]: Chapter 8, Parveeju Temple
* [[Breakable Weapons]]: Except for the Diviners.
* [[Broken Bird]]: {{spoiler|Lulu and Malice
* [[Buxom Is Better]]: Cierra is the largest of the girls. If Ein failed to catch her from falling off the bridge in
* [[Can't Drop the Hero]]: Nope, though Ein is rather useful, especially since he's the only one who can use Einharjar with its infinite usage. Run out of items in a fight without said Diviner, and you're screwed.
* [[Catgirl]]: {{spoiler|Rose, in her true ending}}. Elendia's resident catgirl Mursya.
* [[Celestial Bureaucracy]]: Asgard.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: As the series progresses,
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: The way Fia is portrayed in the voice dramas. She shows hints of it in the game, but then all the characters' personalities are exaggerated in the dramas.
* [[Competitive Balance]]: As follows.
** [[Mighty Glacier]]: Ein.
** [[Fragile Speedster]]: Lina.
** [[The Medic]]: Fia.
** [[Glass Cannon]]: Serene (mostly due to low MDF and elemental weaknesses).
** [[Squishy Wizard]]: Cierra, as Ein had experienced firsthand on the first meeting!
** [[Crutch Character]]: Ledah, the whole point of whom is to keep Ein from dying in the [[Prolonged Prologue|Longest Tutorial Ever]]. He progresses to more of [[The Mario]] if you get him again in the [[Bonus Dungeon]].
* [[Covert Pervert]]: A common interpretation of Cierra, thanks to some unusual dialogue choices that raise her [[Relationship Values]] (answering "Don't worry, you're soft" after her [[Crash Into Hello]], for instance
* [[Crash Into Hello]]: Cierra does this admirably, though it's not so much a "crash into" hello as a "Fall onto" hello.
* [[Curtains Match the Window]]: On nearly ''every'' character.
* [[Cute Mute]]: Meute (who else?) if you don't cure her illness after
* [[Cute Witch]]: Cierra and Soala.
* [[Death Is a Slap on The Wrist]]: One of the options offered at death may actually make the game easier.
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: You can choose to spare Sage and Fool after defeating them both in Chapter 4. Also the thief in Chapter 5 who stole Lina's backpack, who gives a thief manual in return.
* [[Detached Sleeves]]: Lina.
* [[Disc One Nuke]]: If you've ever [[Rank Inflation|S-ranked]] the final battle, {{spoiler|a Longinus x01}} will be sitting where the Rosier x01 formerly was in Chapter
* [[Disney Death]]:
** It helps that [[All There in the Manual|technically]], {{spoiler|she isn't dead
* [[Dub Name Change]]: "Ecthel" to "Ein" and "Lyuri" to "Lina" are the best-known ones, but there were others
* [[Emergency Weapon]]: Einherjar, for the girls. Ein, on the other hand, can use it to devastating effect.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: Ein. Reiche not-so-subtly hits on him throughout the game.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: There are many points in the game where you ''have'' to lower your [[Relationship Values]] for one of the party members, although the game gives you a choice which one.
* [[Fan Service]]: Hellooo, secret [[Furo Scene|
* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Just... do a little research on how Grim Angels live during times of peace. It's practically [[Player Punch]] material.
* [[Five-Man Band]]: Okay, four girls and [[The One Guy]].
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** [[The Big Guy]]: Serene (damage-wise, she's the strongest of the girls).
** [[The Chick]]: Lina.
* [[Fusion Dance]]: {{spoiler|Hector and Seth; Seth-Rah, the result, seems sexless
* [[Gay Option]]: Played with using Ledah and Reiche.
* [[Gender Flip]]: Ekukko and Malisuke are somewhat popular fanart subjects.
* [[A God Am I]]:
* [[Godiva Hair]]
* [[Gosh Hornet]]: The team disturbs a Kredna Beehive early in the story and somehow manages to forget the incident in time to anger some killer bees later in the game. Failing the quicktime sequence results in stings and HP reductions for the whole party, but humorous dialogue makes up for it.
* [[Guide Dang It]]:
* [[Hand in the Hole]]: In
** This could also be turned into "cat in the hole" if Ein tries to put ROSE into the lion's mouth instead, resulting in a scratchy retaliation.
* [[Harem Genre]]: Many girls in Elendia, and even Reiche, are implied to have feelings for Ein
* [[Have You Seen My God?]]: Asgard, after Ragnarok.
* [[He Knows About Timed Hits]]: Rose and Ledah spend a chunk of the tutorial level teaching Ein how to attack, drink potions, and [[You Have Researched Breathing|use his eyes
* [[Heroic Resolve]]: Ein,
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]:
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Fia and Lina.
* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: the first encounter with the Black Dragon in Chapter 2.
** And the first fight with {{spoiler|Malice}} in the same chapter. And round one against Isher.
* [[Hot Springs Episode]]: Twice, with the second largely topping the first.
* [[Idiot Ball]]: Several occurences, all of them lampshaded in Didja Redo's [[Let's Play]] (
* [[I Found You Like This]]: Fia and Lina find the temporarily amnesiac Ein on the outskirts of town and take him to their home to recover. ...And then strip him so they can wash his clothes.
** [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|Fia didn't peek. She swears
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: '''Fanelia, bitch!'''
** Elaborating, it's easy enough to find if you know where it is. If not... tough luck. Some people save it for the second-to-last boss battle.
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* [[Demoted to Extra|Isn't It Sad?]]: Ledah and Malice (and even Rose, to some degree) are often noticeably absent in the extras (the drama CD ''The Precious Chapter'' in particular is guilty of this).
* [[Japanese Pronouns]]: How Ledah shows his opinion of other characters, primarily Ein. Sadly, a lot of the connotations (and thus an important part of Ledah's character) are lost in the English script.
** Also a large part of Ein's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]
* [[Kawaiiko]]: Lina.
* [[Keigo]]: Fia.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Ledah and Malice
* [[Lady of War]]: Fia.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: In order to convince Ein that the Sprites need protecting, Ursula seals his memories and powers and dumps him in the middle of Elendia; until she removes the seal, the only thing Ein remembers about himself is his name
* [[Last of His Kind|Last Of Her Kind]]: Serene, after
* [[Lazy Backup]]
* [[Let's Play]]: A particularly funny one by Didja Redo that can be found [http://lparchive.org/Riviera-The-Promised-Land/
* [[Light Is Not Good]]
* [[Limit Break]]: Almost every weapon has one.
* [[Loads and Loads of Loading]]: PSP version.
* [[Magikarp Power]]: Fia has to use a Rosary over fifteen times in order to master them
* [[Moral Dissonance]]: {{spoiler|Serene's ending where she and Ein decide to kill all the monsters in the world.
* [[More Dakka]]: Certain monsters--and Lina, when she has her most powerful weapons--are capable of projectile attacks that count as the medieval version.
* [[Multiple Endings]]:
** Although, as [[Word of God]] would have it, {{spoiler|Rose's ending is the one that's canon
* [[Muscles Are Meaningless]]: Serene and that giant scythe. The blade's almost bigger than she is!
* [[Named Weapons]]: Einherjar, Lorelei
* [[Obviously Evil]]: {{spoiler|Hector}} (barely) tries to come off as a good guy at first, but his appearence and theme says otherwise.
* [[Odd Couple]]: Fia and Lina.
* [[Older Than They Look]]: {{spoiler|Lina. The jury is still out on whether she's actually older than Fia, but she's ''definitely'' older than she appears to be (her original character design, in fact, showed her with bigger breasts than Serene!)
** {{spoiler|Confirmed later, when her age is brought up and she defiantly states, "I'm a year older than Fia!"}}.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]:
* [[The One Guy]]: Unless you count Ledah, Ein is the only male player character.
* [[One Hit KO]]: Fia's Exorcise skill.
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* [[Our Angels Are Different]]
* [[Perpetual Molt]]
* [[Pettanko]]: Lina, Serene
* [[Petting Zoo People]]: Quite a few of the villagers.
** And to answer the question of ''what the HELL is Ladie?!'' where all the other townspeople's Sprite species are clearly stated, [[All There in the Manual|the drama CDs say she's a valkyrie]].
* [[Power Perversion Potential]]: Okay, so it was inevitable for the plant monsters, whose vines resemble tentacles. But the spiders? The ''[[Squick|slimes?!]]''
** And let's not even get started on Hector's weapon, the Tentacle Rod...
* [[Press X to Not Die]]: This trope's variations and [[Smashing Survival]] are required in many events.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Subverted with Ledah and Malice in every way but elementally
* [[Relationship Values]]
* [[Rie Kugimiya]]: [[Cross-Dressing Voices|Ein's seiyuu]].
* [[Say It with Hearts]]
* [[Shout-Out]]
* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Serene, although others can use them too.
* [[Skippable Boss]]: Golem ZK-III in Chapter 4-6. You can get past it if you use the code in the Golem Manual.
* [[Spank the Cutie]]:
** The line in question being a [[Bowdlerization]] of a conversation about [[Pettanko|breast size]]
* [[Spanner in the Works]]: Ein, with a little help from Ursula.
* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Subverted; Cierra has poor defense, but the most hit points of anyone.
* [[Standard Female Grab Area]]: In the PSP version, Malice does this to any one of the girls save Lina, whom she picks up instead.
* [[Stock Weapon Names]]: Excalibur, Gae Bolg, Longinus... the list goes on.
* [[The Stoic]]: Ledah, who's {{spoiler|literally an [[Emotionless Girl|Emotionless Guy]]
* [[Super Move Portrait Attack]]: Level 3 Overskills use this.
* [[Surprisingly Good English]]: The Riviera "calendar discs" [http://blog-imgs-31-origin.fc2.com/j/a/j/jajanote/20061018.jpg featured some].
* [[Talking Animal]]: Rose.
* [[Tarot Motifs]]: Tarot cards are a possible weapon, and each character uses their "favorite"
* [[A Taste of Power]]: Ledah makes losing the first chapter almost literally impossible.
* [[Third Person Person]]: Lina.
* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: Ein's reaction to {{spoiler|Hector}}'s actions near the end.
* [[Those Two Guys]]: Randy and Levin, in the dramas
* [[Throw the Book At Them]]: Lina and the male mages do this.
* [[Tomboy]]: Serene. {{spoiler|Although she's secretly extremely feminine
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Fia (girly girl) and Serene (tomboy).
* [[Trauma Inn]]: Subverted.
* [[True Companions]]: Ein's party. [[The Power of Friendship]] is explored in Chapter 6, when Fia gets ''very angry'' with Ein for {{spoiler|keeping to himself in order to [[Wangst]] about having to fight his former ally Ledah}}.
* [[Tsundere]]: Lulu. {{spoiler|Though it seems childhood trauma is as much a part of her attitude as typical ''tsuntsun''
* [[Unusual Ears]]: Serene and the Arcs.
* [[Victory Quote]]: Each character has one, depending on who landed the final blow on the last enemy and if it was a normal attack or an overskill.
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Hector gets one after Ein defeats him as Seth-Rah, complete with a '''"WHAT ARE YOU?!"''' also making it a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]
** He has a slightly less severe one {{spoiler|when Ein and the girls beat him the first time around
* [[Wasted Song]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJowBVj81rg&feature=related "All You Have To Do Is Practice!"] is one of the best songs on the soundtrack. It only plays during - you guessed it - Training battles.
** If you are playing the game as it's meant to be played
* [[Weapon of Choice]]: Each party member has one type of weapon they can gain a [[Limit Break|Level 3 Overskill]] for
** And nobody but the Grim Angel who owns it can use a Diviner.
** Only Ein himself can use {{spoiler|Longinus}} and the infamous [[Infinity+1 Sword|Fanelia]].
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