Another Century's Episode: Difference between revisions

* [[Boss Rush]] - Two [[Secret Level|secret levels]] in the latter two games are devoted to this

* [[Bottomless Magazines]] - Played with in R: a mecha's main weapons (its primary ranged, melee and shield, if applicable) have infinite ammo, but everything else runs on "Tension", which you gain by attacking, taking damage, and from some support abilities, such as [[Code Geass (Anime)|Zero's Geass]]

* [[Breather Level]] - Subverted in 2, where a back-to-back set make up the game's ''final'' two levels

** Also subverted earlier in the same game, where the player must play through two back-to-back levels: one involving an [[Escort Mission]], the other involving a boss battle, who you must face with damage carried over from the last mission

* [[Call a Hit Point A Smeerp]] - Hit points in all three games is referred to as "AP" or "Armor Points", as a reflection of [[Armored Core (Video Game)|Armored Core]]'s system

** Also of note (usually only calling one attack out of many) are [[Metal Armor Dragonar|Kaine Wakaba]] (DRAGONAR SANMAI OROSHI!), [[Overman King Gainer|Gainer Sanga]] (OVERHEAT!), [[Eureka Seven|Renton Thurston and Eureka]] (CUT-BACK DROP TURN!), [[Turn a Gundam (Anime)|Gym Ghingnham]] (GEKKOU CHOU [[Verbal Tic|DE ARUUUU]]!); and [[Aura Battler Dunbine|Cham Fau]] (HISSATSU! HYPER AURAGIRI!)

* [[The Cameo]] - Near the end of R, the head of Season sics {{spoiler|[[Armored Core (Video Game)|Nineball Seraph]]}} on you.

** 3 plays this one to the very end, as in the second-to-last level, you're faced with [[Chars Counterattack|Gyunei Guss and Quess Paraya]], piloting a [[Elite Mook]] and [[Lightning Bruiser]]-class mecha. When you're done with them, you find out they're just part of a [[Boss Rush]], and now '''Char Aznable''' is coming at you in his Sazabi...

** The [[Boss Rush]] levels effectively live off this trope. It's at its very, ''very'' worst in 2 when the [[Gundam 0083|Neue Ziel]] (already [[That One Boss]] on its own) gains a dream-team partner in the Sazabi

* [[Escort Mission]] - Quite a few, but the most frustrating is the final [[Eureka Seven]] mission in 3, due to being surrounded on all sides by infinitely respawning Corallians who can literally start taking chunks out of the Gekko

** Until you realize the large Coralians on the far sides of the map are [[Mook Maker|Mook Makers]]

* [[Hannibal Lecture]] - Before fighting the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Dr. Shiki}} in R, the heroes are treated to a long speech on the rationale behind everything that has transpired, {{spoiler|including the Seasons' extermination campaign against human colonists on Eria: 1.) Shiki began thinking of [[From a Certain Point of View|"liberating the colonists from the misery of war"]] upon conclusion that breach of the A.C.E. system by the Aggressors might take a long time but is ultimately inevitable, 2.) defending billions of human beings is not as efficient as defending a boxed collection of sperms and eggs, and 3.) removing the human presence means no more man-made pollutions or catastrophes, thereby preserving Eria's Eco-system}}. He then goes on to portray his actions as an act of mercy, but, naturally, the heroes just don't at all buy into it

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]] - Marina's whole reason for being in 2 seems to be to attempt these for the sake of Tak, but he insists it would NOT [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|make him happy]]

** 2: [[Daisuke Kishio]] as Tak and [[Naomi Shindo]] as Marina

** The Final: [[Daisuke Namikawa]] as Barrel and {{spoiler|Belkt}}, [[Mie Sonozaki]] as Fei

* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]] - All over the place, with the most glaring example being the [[Getter Robo|Shin Getter Robo]] in The Final. The [[Super Robot]] capable of cutting ''stars'' in half in its home series is FAR outclassed by the likes of Kira "[[Fan Nickname|Jesus]]" Yamato and Heero

** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] since the Shin Dragon isn't there to pump up its energy and the machine got trashed a few times, anyways

* [[Preorder Bonus]] - R has Amuro's custom Zeta Gundam, originally seen in the IMAX film ''Green Divers'' and later in ''Gundam Evolve''

** To be more specific, everyone can unlock it. The pre-order code just let you get it earlier than normal.

* [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] - {{spoiler|All of the [[Original Generation]] characters appearing in R, Autumn Four included}}

* [[The Rival]] - When [[Macross Frontier|Mikael Blanc]] introduces himself as a sniper, [[Full Metal Panic|Kurz Weber]] cheerfully remarks "I guess that makes you my rival," which Mikael cheerfully confirms.

* [[Saving the World]] - The first two games

** [[Save Both Worlds]] - 3

* [[Scrolling Text]] - Done in order to get the exposition out in The Final

* [[Secret Character]] - Half the fun is collecting them all

* [[Set Swords to Stun]]- Mostly only on bosses

* [[Something Only They Would Say]] - In R, Zero's attempt to convince [[Code Geass (Anime)|Suzaku Kururugi]] to join up with the "Irregulars" rather than Season includes a thinly-veiled reference to their mutual past (saying they mustn't repeat their past mistake of ignoring the situation to focus on each other), which confirms to Suzaku this Zero is indeed Lelouch.

* [[Title Drop]] - R's plot heavily involves "System A.C.E.". In fact, it's {{spoiler|the second-last boss}}. In the epilogue, Autumn {{spoiler|prepares to seed life on mankind's new home, saying that it's the beginning of "Another Century's Episode", while speaking in [[Gratuitous English]]}}. However, this could be what System A.C.E. was intended for, in the first place...

* [[Took a Level In Badass]] - In the first game, the Gespenst MK II M is almost useless. Say hello to its [[Mid-Season Upgrade]] in ''Portable'', ''all three'' of them.

** A literal example in ''R'', as, for whatever reason, every mech turns red when using a [[Limit Break]] (and yes, they do call it that).

* [[Unexpected Gameplay Change]] - The "Swift Chase" segments introduced in R, which turn the game into a [[Rail Shooter]] with fairly bad targeting.