Legend of Mana: Difference between revisions

* You can have one of various [[Non-Player Character|NPCs]] join your party, each of which have different synchronization effects. You can swap NPCs whenever you like, provided you know where they are.

 

 

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* [[But Thou Must!]]: Averted most of the time, as you could refuse any NPC if you didn't want to play their subquest, but in the Dragon Lord Arc you're not even given the option to refuse Vadise once said Dragon Lord {{spoiler|takes over hell}}. (But then, you're the one that helped the Dragon Lord to power in the first place...)

** {{spoiler|1=In fact, you can kill (directly or indirectly) a handful of the major NPCs with a little willful mischief.}}

* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: Gilbert.

* [[Changeling Fantasy]]: Rachel hates her life and wants something more exciting; she eventually gets her wish when she {{spoiler|switches bodies with a student at the Geo academy}}.

** Additionally, Florina's current guardian ( {{spoiler|Alexandra}}) believes that her previous one ( {{spoiler|Blackpearl}}) was willing to consign Florina to sacrificing her life force to produce healing tears, and carries a huge grudge because of that.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Niccolo towards the Sproutlings.

* [[Frying Pan of Doom]]: Bud's weapon.

* [[Gender Blender Name]]: Larc, Alex (which is plot-relevant), and Elazul [[Dub Name Change|in Japanese]] (his original name was Ruri).

** Alexandrite (the stone) changes color depending on the kind of light it's in.

* [[Hive Mind]]: The Sproutlings and Flowerlings.

* [[Idiosyncratic Difficulty Levels]]: Normal, Nightmare, and No Future.

* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]: Worn by the female protagonist, called "hair pipes" in game.

* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Irwin and Escad both have a thing for Matilda; Daena seems to have some form of feelings for both Matilda and Escad. It doesn't end prettily.

* [[Love Makes You Evil]]: Larc (sold his soul to be as strong as his sister), Alexandra (pushing the Jumi into extinction to save Florina from dying), Irwin (plotting world destruction to free Matilda from her duties), and Escad (''says'' he wants to kill Irwin because the latter is a demon, but comes off as wanting to [[Murder the Hypotenuse]]) all do what they do because of love.

* [[Magic Music]]: Enchanted instruments conjure elemental spells when played; additionally, harpies can cause nautical disasters whenever they sing.

* [[Man Behind the Man]]: The Lord of Jewels behind Sandra. Probably. The Lord of Jewels was conspicuously absent from the character profiles, and no one knows exactly what he wanted out of the whole deal.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: After the end of the Jumi story arc, {{spoiler|Alexandra throws a note to the player just like the ones she'd been leaving during her cat and mouse jewel stealing, Jumi killing game. The note reads "Please take care of Florina for me."}}

* [[The Power of Love]]: Subverted, as [[Love Makes You Evil]], and it's Matilda's love for Irwin that makes her reluctant to act (but she's similarly bound by her duties, so she refuses to leave them, either); by the end of her arc, Irwin has decided to reincarnate himself without any of his memories so that he doesn't have to deal with the tremendous mess that their relationship became.

*** Unless you screw up the cure so terribly that he blows up. Yeah.

* [[The Power of Rock]]: The right tune will charm the mana elementals into approaching you and drop a silver or gold elemental coin.