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This game takes place on the wartorn Continent of Eptina. In the midst of the conflict archaeologists in the Pharastia Kingdom discovered giant armored mecha that they called [[Robot Names|All Terrain Armored Combatants]], that could be controlled by the thoughts of the pilot seated inside the unit's head. The Kingdom used the power of these ATACs to assume control of the entire continent, and then decided to use them to keep the peace in their new territories. Unfortunately as the ATAC technology began to spread, the kingdom lost hold of their place and went from managing the continent to trying to survive. The rebels turned into a superpower of their own and now the [[The Empire|Junaris Empire]] is poised to take over the continent themselves. During the chaos a young warrior named [[The Hero|Bastion]] begins to fight against the Empire and his journey will shape the face of Eptina.

* [[Absurdly High Stakes Game]]: Lord Alden bets his prized Altagrave ATAC on the outcome of a chess match. A game where he's undefeated. {{spoiler|He loses the rematch game and the girl who beats him happilly runs off with the machine.}}

* [[Ace Custom]]: The TIC-TAC.

* [[Action Girl]]: Pretty much any female character.

* [[An Ice Person]]: Anyone who uses a Water Stone gets access to Ice attacks. But special mention goes to Lord Alden, the Ice Wolf. His ATAC has a unique attack called Blizzard Break which is one of the strongest attacks in the game.

* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Happens to {{spoiler|Milea}} on the Empire Branch. Every other character from before the split gets accounted for, even the few that only existed in one mission on the Kingdom Branch. {{spoiler|Devlin}} gets this treatment too on the Ruin Branch, not appearing even after giving a speech about how {{spoiler|--he}} wanted to keep fighting, while nearly every other character gets seen or mentioned again.

* [[The Empire]]: Junaris Empire, though there are couple of good people you will be fighting primarily Imperial tropes in nearly any fight. That and Faulkner... Just Faulkner.

* [[Evil Weapon]]: Zulwarn, Faulkner's ATAC. {{spoiler|On the Ruin path, Puck pilots it in the final battle... and in the Ruin ending, it turns him evil.}}

* [[Fat Bastard]]: Radcot, Leader of the Muspel Nation. Even the soft spot for his daughter does little to offset this.

* [[Magitek]]: The ATACs are piloted by the thoughts of the pilot and powered by magical crystals.

* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|Ganlon}} on every path, {{spoiler|Cecelia}} on the Empire Path.

* [[New Game+]]: Nothing carries over, but you can only reach the Ruin path on a second playthrough.

* [[Ninja]]: Andrew and Cecilia, no matter which path you choose you'll have a ninja to back you up.

* [[Royal Brat]]: Duyere on any Branch, Sadira on the Ruin Branch.

* [[Schizo-Tech]]: Middle Ages. [[Humongous Mecha|Giant robots.]]

* [[Single-Stroke Battle]]: The Wind Strike attack does this.

* [[Spoiler Opening]]: With three Openings it was bound to happen. The first is relatively free, other than perhaps the obvious conclusions that the main character and main villain get their own unique ATACs. The second opening however, which doubles as a gameplay demo, shows multiple scenes late in the game and spoils a fair bit. The third Opening, which can only be accessed after already beating the game, is a Gag Opening that can spoil you on the Ruin Branch of the game.

* [[Vestigial Empire]]: [[The Kingdom]].

* [[Villain Override]]: The specialty of Faulkner while piloting the Zulwarn ATAC.

* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: In the Empire path, if you pick Cecilia over Sadira, the rest of your companions will call you out for hurting the Princess' feelings.

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: After every battle Faulkner changes his plan to compensate for whatever advantage the heroes have earned. Enemies recover legendary ATAC? Force them to delay offensive use by dealing with internal matters. Enemies ally with another country? Convince your battle-hungry ally to fight them, then wipe them all out once they've weaken each other enough. And recover all their Excavated ATACs in the process.

 

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