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* [[All That Glitters]]: The "gold-paved" kingdom of Rixis. If Aika could punch an entire city in the face, she would do it.

* [[All Your Colors Combined]]: The Prophecy special.

* [[Animated Armor]]: Guardian, the boss of Shrine Island. A tough cookie in its own right -- and you face [[Degraded Boss|more of them]] in the final dungeon, except this time, they're in mint condition.

* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: After getting your own pirate base, you can design the buildings in various styles depending on the carpenter you choose to build them.

* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Alfonso is the only Valuan Admiral without any sense of honor (except De Loco, who is demonstratively insane), and it's made clear that the only reason he even got the job is because he comes from an extremely prominent family. [[Averted Trope|Averted]] with Enrique, the Prince. Also averted by Illchymis who wants to heal the sick. This trope is also what causes Ramirez to go mad. Ironically, he ends up siding with the most sinister of the bunch.

* [[Arm Cannon]]: The Guardian robots have cannons that extend out from their palms.

* [[Atlantis]]: Soltis. Also serves as [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]].

* [[Attempted Rape]]: By Vigoro on Aika. Of course, this being a T-rated game, he didn't get far and the dialogue was not explicit.

* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: For her ''Omega Psyclone'' attack, Aika throws her boomerang into the air, jumps up maybe one hundred feet to grab it, somersaults, and throws multiple copies of it into the ground, which creates the fiery outline of a hexagon, which then explodes and turns every bit of ground as far as the eye can see into a pit of magma. Then ''that'' explodes, dealing... half as much damage as Vyse whacking someone in the face with the Vorlick blade would. It's useful while you're grinding until you get your spirit levels high enough to be able to use Rain of Swords on the first turn, as it will clear out most weak enemies and do a decent chunk of damage to stronger ones.

* [[Bamboo Technology]]: The Ixa'Takans use this.

* [[Beehive Barrier]]: The Dome of Light that protects {{spoiler|Soltis}}

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] and arguably [[Averted Trope|averted]] because neither girl actively pursues Vyse.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Rupee Larso. Nice kid, [[Father, I Don't Want to Fight|doesn't like violence]]... But when you get his HP down below half, he can pull out his Berserk Rupee attack for devastating damage.

** Getting all the moonfish in the Gamecube version. You get awesome rewards and backstory for every few fish you bring, so it's not too frustrating most of the time.

* [[Fight Woosh]]: The screen breaks when you hear the woosh. In the Dreamcast version, this woosh was preceded by the console's trademark loading noise; since the random encounter rate is ''ungodly'' high in the Dreamcast version, this was something of a godsend. Simply opening the menu and changing a weapon when you heard the fight load would stop the fight from happening.

* [[Finishing Each Other's Sentences]]:

{{quote|''''THE TIME HAS COME...''''

* [[Handsome Lech]]: One hero, Gilder, and one villain, Vigoro.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Prince Enrique, Admiral Belleza, Admiral Gregorio, the Elders of the Silvite Civilization.}}

* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Vyse wields two swords.

* [[Homage]]: As the game opens, Fina is captured by a Valuan ship in a sequence reminiscent of ''[[Star Wars a New Hope]]''.

* [[Hufflepuff House]]: Different varieties of Blue Pirates, from the Dyne family to Centime, Gilder, and Clara. All of them join {{spoiler|the final fight against Galcian}}.

* [[Improbable Power Discrepancy]]: The [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Bosses]] in ''Legends'' are a particular [[Egregious]] example, but there's plenty of lesser examples too.

* [[Industrial Ghetto]]: Lower City. They built the warships here, and workers are treated like dogs.

* [[Inexplicable Treasure Chests]]: Justified in the sewers, of all places. The weapons merchant in Maramba knows the story of how they came to be there.

* [[It's the Journey That Counts]]: Daccat's "treasure"... Or so it would seem, at first. Actually [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] since you can sell the "treasure" later for 20,000 gold.

** The real point of the exercise is to reunite Vyse, Aika, and Fina. See? Greed really ''is'' good.

* [[Last Villain Stand]]: As long as Galcian has Soltis, he's still in the game, even with his fleet destroyed.

** Once he's killed, {{spoiler|Ramirez}} decides the world must burn for not accepting Galcian as its rightful ruler.

* [[Leave No Survivors]]: Let's just let Galcian explain:

{{quote|'''Galcian''': I don't think they're foolish enough to resist. However, if something should happen... Burn the village and kill them all. Let the bodies rot in the sun and leave one of our flags to set an example for others who may defy us.}}

** Subverted, however, {{spoiler|in that they ''weren't'' foolish enough to resist: the noncombatants were left alone and the Rogues were taken prisoner and later rescued.}}

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: This game was released during a time when companies were pumping out nothing but uberdark ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'' clones. Mind, there are still many dark and/or poignant moments in the game, but they don't dominate the story as a whole.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: Many of whom can be recruited into your crew.

* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]: With [[Steampunk]] and [[Schizo-Tech]] thrown in for flavor.

* [[Mega Twintails]]: Maria in ''Legends''.

* [[Mind Control Eyes]]: Characters who are confused in battle get these. Also happens to characters who are hit by Ramirez's "Silver Nightmare" S-Move in the final boss battle.

* [[Mix-and-Match Critters]]: The Dheerse, Alupas and Rabbats discoveries. The Dhabus used for transport in Nasr seem to be a mashup of camels and T-Rexes with a dash of elephant thrown in.

* [[Mordor]]: The Valuan continent is a craggy, crater-pocked hellhole under the oppression of permanent thunderstorms. The ruined landscape is also partly due to rampant moon stone mining. So in a sense, it qualifies as Types 1 ''and'' 2.

* [[Nerd Glasses]]: Kalifa the Fortune Teller.

* [[New World Tease]]: Upper City. You have just enough time to window shop (Aika: This is no time for '''tea'''!!), get insulted by the locals, and gape at the glamorous buildings in the middle distance. However, as soon as you're over the first bridge, Vyse is diverted into a train leaving the city -- never to return.

* [[One True Sequence]]: Due to the game's linearity, it looks like this is going to be the case at first. {{spoiler|But in reality, Valua is nowhere to be seen when the Purple and Yellow Moon Crystals are found, Belleza leaves Vyse's team alone to [[MacGuffin Delivery Service|recover the Red one for her]], the Green Crystal was recovered by the very civilization that was guarding it, Valua only attacked Yafutoma after Vyse came back with the Blue Crystal, and the Silvites always had their own.}}

* [[Only One Name]]: Everybody.

* [[Overly-Long Fighting Animation]]: Every special attack in the game. Subverted in that skipping your own characters' moves is optional (except for Prophecy)... but played straight against bosses, which can be irritating by the end of the game since the bosses have even cooler and longer special moves, which are really annoying the twentieth time they're used. Also played straight in ship battles - you can't skip anything.

* [[Padded Sumo Gameplay]]: Due to the increasing health and and defense of certain types of enemies, it can actually be faster to have your entire party charge up the spirit gauge in order to use Prophecy anytime you come across one such foe.

* [[Palette Swap]]: Largely avoided by having completely different enemies in each area, but upheld by the [[Metal Slime|Loopers]] as well as a few other enemy types that come in two or three colors. [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by the influence of the six moons -- you get red Loopers in Nasr, blue Loopers in Yafutoma, etc.

* [[Reconstruction]]: Of traditional fantasy RPGs after ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'s'' deconstruction. Its idealism stands in stark contrast to the cynicism of other high-profile RPGs of the time.

* [[Recurring Boss]]: The Zivilyn Bane band of grave-robbing bandits.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Belleza, who performs a [[Heel Face Turn]] and a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in the same moment by crashing her own airship into Galcian's escape pod and killing them both. Admiral Gregorio pulls this earlier on to buy the heroes time to escape.}}

** {{spoiler|The Silvite Elders, who sacrifice their colony to prevent Ramirez from using the Rains of Destruction and break the barrier surrounding Soltis.}}

* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Cupil, the huskras (especially Pow), and Piccolo.

* [[Riding Into the Sunset]]: The final shot before the epilogue.

* [[With a Friend and a Stranger]]

* [[X Meets Y]]: In terms of character design, Aika is what resulted when [[Pippi Longstocking]] [[Took a Level in Badass]].

* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: Mostly accurate, though played with. {{spoiler|Galcian is killed after he successfully raises Soltis. Ramirez, shattered by his death, assumes control and decides to destroy the world rather than rule it}}.

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