Level Up At Intimacy 5: Difference between revisions

* In ''[[Star Ocean]]'' (really, any of them), various bonuses you can pick up from having good relationships include (in the second one alone): special techniques, random items, improved item creation, and if in battle, doubled attack power.

** Having a good rapport between your party members is essential to teamwork. For example, in The Second Story, if you choose to have your B team fight, it's likely the AI-controlled members will just do their own thing, even if they are assigned to healing duty. If Noel doesn't particularly care for Dias, he'll probably take his sweet time casting Dispel to cure Dias' paralysis.

** Also, if your relationship isn't high enough with any of your teammates (if you haven't finished their character quest and talked with them in the final chapter) you'll end up with the bad ending as {{spoiler|the only reason Vayne doesn't go through with his original despair driven suicide is that the character you have the highest [[Relationship Values]] with snaps him out of it}}

* ''[[Valkyria Chronicles]]'', while not elaborating much on romance between the various secondary members of Squad 7, has the abilities 'Fancies Men' and 'Fancies Women', which increase a character's effectiveness when around males or females, respectively, because they want to 'show off'. [[Ho Yay|Yes, there are female characters with 'Fancies Women' and males with 'Fancies Men',]] [[Bi the Way|and even one who has both of them]]. Also, one (female) character gets an extra boost around the female lead.

 

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* The tabletop RPG ''[[Bliss Stage]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]]: In that game, your primary weapon against nightmarish aliens is the Alien Numina Inversion Machine, or [[Applied Phlebotinum|ANIMa]] - it uses [[Psychic Powers]] to create a [[Humongous Mecha]] for the player characters out of their relationships. 5, the highest possible score in a relationship, requires you to have sex. There is a drawback: Unless you also improve the relationship's Trust stat, [[You Lose At Zero Trust|the relationship could easily be broken off.]] And breaking a high Intimacy relationship is a '''[[Heroic BSOD|Very]] [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|Bad]] [[Mind Rape|Idea]].'''

** [[Bliss Stage First and Final Act]] takes this to its logical conclusion: having sex with a partner gets you an [[Infinity+1 Sword]], with special abilities that break the rules of the (tabletop) game.

* ''[[Weapons Of The Gods]]'' has you improve your kung fu by consummating your love. However, it only works in heterosexual interactions - for homosexual interactions, you need a special kind of kung fu to improve your kung fu. It doesn't sound this offensive once you read the book.

** To clarify, it's based on Taoism. Heterosexual intercourse allows for the unity of yin and yang, male and female, which is a major theme in Taoism.