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* [[100% Heroism Rating]]: One of the few benefits of a high Swashbuckler Rating is that NPC shopkeepers- especially on Sailors' Island- will gush over your celebrity status. Still won't give you a discount though. In addition, getting the title Vyse the Legend - which involves getting [[100% Completion]] - unlocks an optional boss fight and a few other perks.
* [[Abusive Precursors]]: {{spoiler|The Silvites. Twice.}}.
* [[Advanced Ancient Acropolis]]: Shrine Island and {{spoiler|Soltis}}.
* [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier]]: The Hydra, though is no need for runways since ''Skies'' lacks fighter ships.
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* [[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.
* [[Anti-Grinding]]: The bounties level up with you, and exponentially besides. Best not put off fighting them too long...
* [[Apocalypse How]]: The Rains of Destruction that stopped the Ancient Civilizations' endless wars [[Captain Obvious|by destroying them]] happened a few thousand years before the game begins and were a class 2. A few Silvites managed to escape this by flying into space, {{spoiler|primarily because ''as the people who caused it'' they decided not to use the appropriate superweapon on their own moon. Their decision to call the Rains a second time resulted directly in modern-day Valua being hit with a Class 0.}}.
* [[Arbitrary Headcount Limit]]: Four characters at a time, three of which are always Vyse, Aika, and Fina. For most of the game, this is [[Justified Trope|justified]] by having the characters come and go as the plot demands, but even after [[Gondor Calls for Aid|Gondor has called for aid]] you can still only bring four people with you, with the rest stuck doing nothing on your airship.
* [[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]].
* [[Attack Animal]]: The Gigas, and Cupil.
* [[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.
** Prophecy and Blue Rogues. The former [[Colony Drop|calls down a moon on your opponents]] for a huge amount of damage to all enemies. The latter calls members of your crew to either deal damage to your enemies or heal your party. Either attack also makes enemies skip their turns. However, you can only use these attacks after the story event where you get [[Cool Ship|the Delphinus]], you have to charge your spirit points to max, and the attack takes all your spirit points. By the time you've completely filled the spirit bar, you could've probably done comparable damage just whacking your enemies with basic attacks and a few special moves.
* [[Badass Spaniard]]: Since Valua is an expy of Spain, this trope fits a number of characters, including Galcian, Enrique, and Gregorio. Oddly, despite his Spanish name, Ramirez is not actually Valuan.
* [[Bamboo Technology]]: The Ixa'Takans use this.
* [[Beehive Barrier]]: The Dome of Light that protects {{spoiler|Soltis}}.
* [[True Companions|Best Friends]]: Vyse, Aika and Fina.
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Played with]] and arguably [[Averted Trope|averted]] because neither girl actively pursues Vyse.
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** "Ready the Hydra Cannon."
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: The name of Ramirez's flagship, the Monoceros, is in fact Greek for [[Fluffy the Terrible|unicorn]].
** Given that the Valuan Empire draws heavily from the era when Spain was an absolute world power, this occurs. Alfonso, Gregorio, Enrique, and Teodora are typical Spanish names. "Belleza" means "beauty,", and the "loco" in De Loco's name means "crazy.". Also, Gordo the Round's name, "gordo", is actually Spanish for "fat,", while "Domingo" is the Spanish word for both "Sunday" and the name "Dominic.".
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: Thankfully not the game itself, but the instruction manual for ''Legends'' is... something.
* [[Blinding Bangs]]: A little girl standing on the balcony of Sailor Island's inn.
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* [[Body to Jewel]]: Silvites carry {{spoiler|Silver moon crystals}} in their bodies.
* [[Bonus Boss]]: The Bounties in the remake; special mention should go to Lapen, Daikokuya, and Lord Bane. Piastol is an example of [[That One Boss|That One]] [[Bonus Boss]], since she has to be fought four times before finally giving up, and she gets ''much'' stronger with each iteration. And then there's {{spoiler|Air Pirate Vigoro}}.
* [[Book Ends]]: {{spoiler|The game starts with Vyse and Aika retrieving the Moon Stone from Shrine Island, which turns out to be the entry way to the final dungeon.}}.
* [[Bowdlerize]]: The original Japanese version of the Dreamcast game had rum as the mainstream drink, which was changed to juice called "loqua" in the U.S version, several drunken characters (namely a bald man on Sailor's Island with what appears to be vomit stains on his mouth) were removed, a character's outfit ("Bellena" the dancer, {{spoiler|actually Admiral Belleza in disguise}})was censored somewhat, and Aika almost getting raped by Vigoro in a [[Prison Rape|Valuan prison cell]] was toned down heavily. {{spoiler|Before the final battle, there's also when Ramirez grips his sword's blade, making his hand bleed, emphasizing his rage.}}. This was also taken out. All of these changes were carried over to the GameCube remake.
** All of these changes were also carried over to the Japanese version of the aforementioned remake as well, ironically. There was also the replacement of a lot of kanji with hiragana so that younger players could read the dialogue.
* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: All of the quests to earn the Three Secrets, which also includes ''another'' boss fight.
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* [[Captain Obvious]]: In the Moonstone Mines:
{{quote|Alfonso: Sorry if I was interrupting one of your monologues, but I came to inform you that Vyse has infiltrated the mines.
De Loco: [[Sarcasm Mode|Did you figure that one out all on your own? What gave it away, the blaring sirens?]] }}
* [[Chef of Iron]]: Gordo and his bistro.
* [[The City Narrows]]: Valua's Lower City.
* [[Cleavage Window]]: Fina, although a small one. It even has a non-fanservice purpose: {{spoiler|the exposed skin is right above Fina's shard of the Silver Moon Crystal}}.
* [[Colony Drop]]: The Prophecy Crew Special command drops one of the moons onto the enemies Vyse and Co. are facing. {{spoiler|The Silvite Elder do this with the Silver Shrine in order to help Vyse and Co. past the [[Beehive Barrier]] and into Soltis.}}.
* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]:
** ''Blue'' Rogues and ''Black'' Pirates. Guess which faction of Air Pirates are [[Just Like Robin Hood]] and which are the evil cutthroats.
** The moons, moon stones, and civilizations.
** Galcian's admirals. It's like watching a Gothic reenactment of ''[[Dick Tracy (film)|Dick Tracy]]''.
** During the Blue Rogues special attack, the back ground color seems to indicate whether the featured crew member is attacking or healing.
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* [[Compensating for Something]]: Vigoro's ship has one ''very'' large cannon.
{{quote|'''Vigoro:''' Hey Vyse! My cannon's bigger than yours!
'''Aika:''' Talk about trying to compensate... That guy's got a complex. }}
* [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard]]: The reason why you'll be using Delta Shield every turn for the last third of the game is because if an enemy uses a Silver [[One-Hit Kill|Instant Death]] spell, it ''will'' wipe out at least two of your four party members. Worse still is that even though you choose your actions at the start of each battle round, the computer is under no such restriction: therefore, it ''will'' use an instant death spell the second you decide not to use Delta Shield.
** This is why the optional Gamecube battles are so time-consuming. Most of your skill points will likely be spent on re-casting Delta Shield, Justice Shield et. al over and over again.
* [[Contrived Coincidence]]: The Duccat's Island portion overall.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: The final part of the [[Convection, Schmonvection]] dungeon involves you dumping water on a [[Lava Pit]] to cool it off ''so that you can walk on top of it.''.
* [[Cool Ship]]: The Delphinus has elements of both a [[Cool Boat]] and a [[Cool Plane]], given how ships work in this game.
* [[Crystal Prison]]: The Silvite Elders [[Inverted Trope|intentionally]] seal themselves in these as a form of {{spoiler|life support}}.
* [[Cutscene Boss]]: You'd think that if there were just ''one'' enemy in the entire game that you should be allowed to fight, it would be that smug jerk Alfonso. Instead, {{spoiler|he goes out with the Empress when Valua gets totaled.}}. Of course, by then, you've put him through the [[Humiliation Conga]] so many times, a boss fight with him would probably be a joke, anyway...
** Hell, Teodora herself qualifies for this. She's the main antagonist {{spoiler|well, until [[Colony Drop|it starts to rain]], that is}}, yet she is never even shown in anything but her throne. Not only that, but {{spoiler|she never even meets Vyse and the gang in person before she is smashed.}}.
* [[Dirty Coward]]: Alfonso would have you believe it's just egotism, but no.
* [[Dual Boss]]: Sinistra and Destra, Jao and Mao.
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* [[Finishing Each Other's Sentences]]:
{{quote|''''THE TIME HAS COME...''''
''''[[Single-Minded Twins|...FOR YOU TO DIE.]]'''' }}
** "IN DIRE NEED!" "WE CALL FORTH!" "THE POWER!" "OF THE ANCIENTS!"
* [[Five-Bad Band]]: Galcian and his roundtable of Admirals.
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** [[The Hero]]: Vyse.
** [[The Lancer]]: Aika.
** [[The Smart Guy]]: Gilder & Enrique takes turn at this trope (Overlapsoverlaps with [[Sixth Ranger]]).
** [[The Big Guy]]: Drachma.
** [[The Chick]]: Fina.
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* [[God Guise]]: Fina is treated as a goddess upon stepping into Ixa'taka territory. This stems from the fact that an [[Identical Grandson|ancestress who looked just like her]] and helped subdue the Green Gigas was in their cave paintings
* [[Goggles Do Something Unusual]]: Vyse's "eyepatch".
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: The ending, {{spoiler|when absolutely ''everyone'' you met that has a ship shows up to help Vyse and friends.}}.
** This particularly impressive as Gondor did not even call for aid. When the events that lead Vyse into a Heroic BSOD occurred, {{spoiler|Drachma, Gilder's crew, as well as all the Air Pirates in the game, both Blue Rogues and Black Pirates alike, as well as the Yafutoman navy and the Tenkou, and finally Vyse's father all just show up unnannounced at Vyse's base because they know he is the only guy crazy and determined enough to take on Galcian's Armada.}}.
* [[Gotta Catch Em All]]: The [[Mineral MacGuffin|Moon Crystals]], the quest for which forms the bulk of the plot; Moonfish, a sidequest; Chams, to get the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Blob]]; the discoveries; getting 1000 fish for one of Vyse's ranks; hunting down the 8 bounties...
* [[Green Rocks]]: Moon Stones, also available in Red, Blue, Purple, Yellow, and Silver. Also the mysterious Black Moon Stones with the power to reverse energy; they're only mentioned in passing and have been a fertile ground for [[Epileptic Trees]] in the fandom.
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* [[Gun Slinger]]: Gilder. He even has a move by this name.
* [[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.
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Admiral Belleza, Admiral Gregorio, the Elders of the Silver Civilization}}. [[Redemption Equals Death|Note a pattern]]?
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* [[Just Like Robin Hood]]: The Blue Rogues.
* [[Kill Sat]]: After a fashion.
* [[King Mook]]: Elcian and the Giant Looper.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]:
** One interesting example: {{spoiler|After defeating Galcian on the Hydra, Galcian retreats into the control room, [[Villain Exit Stage Left|which detatches itself from the rest of the ship.]] Vyse comments, "I thought he was too arrogant to have an escape pod!"}}.
** A girl in Yafutoma, after giving you some random fact, remarks on how she finds it strange that she would [[Welcome to Corneria|say something so obscure to someone that she doesn't even know.]]
* [[Last-Disc Magic]]: Once Vyse acquires his own ship, "Prophecy" and "Blue Rogues" appear in the battle menu (but only if your Spirit's at max). Not exactly "last disc" magic since it's unlocked roughly at the game's halfway point, alleviating its cheapness.
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* [[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.}}.
* [[Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club]]: To outsiders, Pirate Isle is listed on maps as "Windmill Isle.". A heroic example.
* [[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.
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* [[Loveable Rogue]]: Vyse, Aika, Gilder, Dyne...
* [[Love Triangle]]: Possibly one of the few love triangles in an RPG where the participants don't ''care'' about resolving it- and don't. In fact, it's easy to argue that since only ''one'' person seems to express a romantic attraction, it's pretty much non-existent. Romantic relationships and [[Ship Tease|hints]] between characters certainly do exist, but very little emphasis is put on them, and the role they play in the plot is minimal to nonexistant.
* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]: Happens so often with the Moon Crystals that it's a surprise whenever you manage to hang onto one. The last couple crystals do not have this happen, {{spoiler|but that's only so you can find all five of the non-silver crystals, and then Ramirez ambushes you by surprise and takes all of them anyway.}}.
* [[Magic Skirt]]: Fina's skirt only flutters up to her knees when she uses magic. (Aika's goes higher, but she has shorts.).
* [[Magitek]]: Those previously mentioned [[Green Rocks]] power everything even vaguely mechanical in this game, with the exception of a few scattered windmills.
* [[Medieval European Fantasy]]: With [[Steampunk]] and [[Schizo-Tech]] thrown in for flavor.
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* [[Not in Front of the Parrot]]
* [[Ocean Punk]]: In the sky...
* [[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.
* [[Our Founder]]: One of the carpenters offers to chisel your face, Mt. Rushmore style, on your pirate HQ.
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** The Delphinus proves incredibly adaptive, incorporating tech from the far east to break the cloud barrier. Normally, only the Yafotuman junk ships can sail that high.
* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Aika was rather annoyed when Daccat's treasure turned out to be this.
* [[Power Trio]]: Vyse, Aika, and Fina.
** [[Required Party Member]]: Each of the above characters leaves the party at some point. Once they rejoin, though, there's no swapping them out.
* [[Puzzle Boss]]: Practically all the ship fights, especially the Gigas. The Wanted battles also tend to be so hard that you'll need to plan a very thorough strategy to survive them.
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* [[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.}}.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: The Tenkou Pirates Jao and Mao.
** Strangely enough, Vyse and Aika fit this description as well. While they are both prone to commit crazy actions, Aika tends to be more impulsive and expressive (she also favors fire based magic and specials), while Vyse is the calmer and more level-headed of the two. This also applies to their appearance; first thing you notice about Aika is her vibrant red hair, while Vyse typically wears a blue coat.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]]: Cupil, the huskras (especially Pow), and Piccolo.
* [[Riding Into the Sunset]]: The final shot before the epilogue.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: {{spoiler|Following Galcian's death, Ramirez decides to unleash Zelos on the world, because the party and Belleza killed him, and it's "what he would have wanted"."}}
* [[Ruins for Ruins Sake]]: Rixis. The entire city is covered in an [[Ominous Fog]].
** [[Averted Trope|It also used to be an inhabited city with a navigable floor plan, complete with walls to keep out the cloud layer that covers the city in Vyse's time period.]] [[Apocalypse How|But then it started to rain...]]
** This trope's also averted with every other ruin in this game ever. Shrine Island? {{spoiler|[[Book End|Part of the continent that becomes the final dungeon.]]}}. Temple of Pyrynn/Maw of Tartas/Mount Kazai? Built specifically to make it hard to get the Moon Crystal. Daccat's Island? [[It Amused Me|It was all an elaborate prank.]] Glacia? You came in through the visitor's entrance, of course you'll be taking a path specifically designed to be [[Scenery Porn]]. Great Silver Shrine? ''[[Subverted Trope|It's still inhabited.]]'' {{spoiler|Soltis}}? Spent a couple millenia broken into large chunks in the most caustic environment on the planet.
*** The only time this trope's played straight is in the case of the [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer|Catacombs.]]
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Just look at the way that Vyse holds his left sword. Also, many of the special moves.
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* [[Sobriquet]]:
** Vyse gets several throughout the game, culminating in things like ''Vyse King of Rogues'' or ''Vyse the Legend''. There's also ''Vyse the Coward'' if you ''really'' screw up the Swashbuckler system, and ''Vyse the Fallen Pirate'' during a sidequest in ''Legends''.
** The wanted list on Sailor's Island shows a name for pirates wanted by Valua including ''Lone Wolf Lawrence'', ''Angel of Death Piastol'', and ''Gilder the Unfettered''.
** The bounties, ''Baltor the Blackbeard'', ''Goumet Pirate Gordo'', ''Loose Cannon Lapen'', ''Vize the Fallen Pirate/Legend'', and ''Daikokuya the Wealthy''.
* [[Space Whale]]: Rhaknam.
* [[Space Zone]]: The Great Silver Shrine.
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* [[Technicolor Blade]]: All weapons are forged from moonstones, and change color accordingly. This applies to Dyne's & Gilder's gun barrels, too.
* [[That's No Moon]]: Vyse and Aika mistake Rhaknam for an island when they first encounter it. Eep.
** {{spoiler|Zelos the Silver Gigas}}, which turns out to be {{spoiler|''the transformed central tower of the Soltis continent'' and is possibly as large as the [[Trope Namer]]!}}!
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: Music during [[Boss Battle|Boss Battles]] responds to whether you're winning or losing, becoming tense and dramatic when the party is at low HP, and triumphant when the boss is at low HP. Hearing the shift when using a powerful attack or timely heal is highly satisfying.
* [[Theme Naming]] : Many of the Air Pirates - Drachma, Gilder, Daccat - are named after defunct forms of currency. Clara was named Krone in the Japanese version. The latter three are named after ''the same coin'' in different time periods. The Valuans all have Spanish names to improve their "Spanish Armada" flavor - even Ramirez, {{spoiler|who is actually a Silvite}}. All of the named ships in the Valuan Armada are named after constellations.
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* [[Trauma Inn]]: Inns heal all wounds!
* [[Tron Lines]]: The inner ring of Soltis combines these with some sort of [[Matrix Raining Code]]. Once reactivated, {{spoiler|Shrine Island}} uses the same effect, only with a decayed, dull green instead of bold red.
* [[Unexplained Recovery]]: The {{spoiler|entire [[Doomed Hometown]].}}.
* [[The Unfettered]]: If you're playing right, Vyse becomes this. Also Gilder's epithet is ''Gilder the Unfettered''.
* [[Unstable Equilibrium]]: A particularly bad case; worse than most. The game becomes ''much'' easier the further you progress and the stronger you get. [[Money for Nothing]] comes into full effect around the halfway mark, later skills are far too overpowered for the enemies to provide challenge simply by making them stronger and tougher, and once you get the Delphinus, ship-to-ship combat becomes a joke even against bosses.
* [[Updated Rerelease]]: ''[[Skies of Arcadia]] Legends'' for the Nintendo Gamecube.
* [[Useless Useful Spell]]: All of the Silver instant-death spells have a pathetically low chance of success ([[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|except when the computer uses them]]), with the exception of the strongest Silver spell, which has a 100% success rate and inflicts damage on immune enemies.
** Actually ''subverted:'' On very rare occasions, a boss will just happen to not be immune to one of the [[Standard Status Effects]]. For instance, {{spoiler|the Rik'Talish is not immune to Stone, and Vigoro II is not immune to Confuse.}}. Of course, finding out which bosses aren't immune to which status effects [[Guide Dang It|takes a while.]]
* [[Variable Mix]]: The music on the world map changes instrumentation depending on what parts of the world you're in. Boss fights also change the music depending on how much HP you or the boss has.
* [[Video Game Geography]]: The world isn't quite as round as the discovery would have you think.
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** [[Broken Bridge]]: The "Iron Gate", a big honkin' fence stretched between a canyon. The Valuans finally unlock it when you beat Grendel.
** [[Bleak Level]]: Soltis.
** [[Build Like an Egyptian]] / [[Lethal Lava Land]]: The Temple of Pyrynn.
** [[Chokepoint Geography]]: Until Vyse gets the Delphinus, sky rifts ensure that there's only one path out of each "ocean." The Dark Rift cannot be breached at all, effectively carving the planet into quadrants. (Youyou can eventually fly over it).
** [[Derelict Graveyard]]: The Dark Rift is littered with ruined ships that tried to pass through it. Have fun!
** [[Doomed Hometown]]: Though it gets un-doomed.
*** Inverted. Galcian {{spoiler|dooms HIS hometown.}}.
** [[Down in the Dumps]]: The trash heap of Moonstone Mountain. As the dungeon is full of trapdoors, you'll be seeing a lot of this room.
** [[Dug Too Deep]]: Moonstone Mountain.
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** [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]]: Soltis.
** [[Wutai]]: Yafutoma.
* [[Villains Never Lie]]: Every word of Belleza's backstory, told in order to manipulate Vyse, is true, she just left out {{spoiler|which side of the war her father was killed fighting for.}}.
* [[Violation of Common Sense]]: {{spoiler|Belleza's reveal at the end of the Pyramid has her take off her dancer disguise to reveal... a general outfit consisting of more clothing then before?}}?
* [[Voice Grunting]]: Each major character has a few lines of random text played over specific high-energy moments to match the spirit of the text scrolling by. The battles have a lot more lines.
* [["Wake-Up Call" Boss]]: The Valuan Executioner is plenty tough, though his [[Wolfpack Boss|status-buffing flunkies]] are the real danger.
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** The only way through the Dark Rift (apart from flying over it, once you get the Yafutoman tech) is the storm's eye, which is relatively calm.
* [[Warmup Boss]]: Alfonso's [[Right-Hand Attack Dog]], Antonio.
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: Quite a few of them.
** {{spoiler|De Loco's and}} the Delphinus' Moonstone Cannons;.
** Recumen's Red Ray;.
** Yeligar's Voltigar and Thunder Crash;.
** The Hydra's main Cannon: Hydra Cannon;.
** Zelos' Moon Ray and Great Moon Ray.
* [[Weapon of Choice]]:
** [[Cool Sword]]: Vyse.
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* [[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}}.
* [[You Must Be This Tall to Enter]]: Your ship will need to be made of sturdier stuff to surmount the rock barriers, sky rifts, tornadoes, howling vortexes, [[Department of Redundancy Department|even bigger sky rifts]], and glaciers.
 
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