Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen: Difference between revisions

The game is a strange RTS. The player controls squads who travel the world map. When two squads meet, the battles are resolved automatically.

 

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=== ''Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen'' contains examples of: ===

* [[Abdicate the Throne]]: Tristan in some of the endings.

* [[Anti-Grinding]]: Done innovatively. There isn't a limit to how high you can grind a single unit, but there are consequences to doing so. First off, if a unit kills another unit that's weaker than it is, it can lose ALI and CHA. A unit with low CHA is often prevented from advancing to a higher class (as such classes represent positions of leadership), and a unit with low ALI damages your army's reputation when it liberates a town. In addition, each level fields a limited number of enemy units (though [[Random Encounters]] with wild monsters are unlimited), so if you use one unit extensively, you can end up with a [[One Man Party|One Unit Army]] that you ''have'' to use because the rest of your army [[Can't Catch Up]], which means that you may as well write it off as a permanently zero-alignment unit.

* [[Black Knight]]: Prince Gares. His introductory chapter is called such. He is often refered as "The Dark Prince" or "The Black Knight".

* [[Black Magic]]: Wizardry. Yes, the traditional fantasy magic is evil: you need to have a low alignment to take the class in the first place (though don't go ''too'' far or you can't advance), it allows you to summon and make deals with demons, and can even lead you down the path to necromancy and eventual lichdom. [[Dark Is Not Evil]] and [[Bad Powers, Good People]] ''can'' apply, however; the most notable example of this is Saradin, who has a low alignment in-game, but not only doesn't act it, explicitly calls out Albeleo as [[A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil]].

* [[Dark Horse Victory]]: The Hierophant ending of the original game. {{spoiler|Rauny becomes queen as heir to Zeteginea, your hero marries her, and Tristan goes off to fight Lodis. This is the only ending in which Rauny rules in her own right.}}

* [[The Dark Side Will Make You Forget]]: [[Double Subverted]]. {{spoiler|Empress Endora's [[Start of Darkness]] was when she tried to form a continental alliance to protect against Lodis, got her kingdom invaded for her trouble, and allied with dark forces to protect her kingdom and conquer the continent. When you reach Zeteginea, she tries to get you to join with her against the threat of Lodis, which ''would'' be an aversion...except that she's doing this solely as a con to maintain her own power.}}

* [[Death Seeker]]: Yushis' sister Mizal, and the shaman Norn. {{spoiler|If your reputation is high enough, you can talk Norn out of it by telling her that her boyfriend isn't dead, as she believed. Mizal... not so much.}} Tristan is infered to be doing this before you recruit him.

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Under the right conditions, you can get some of the level bosses to join your cause if you send the right allied units to their castle. You can also get Deneb to join your side in the first game, but doing so delivers a '''[[Critical Hit]]''' to your Reputation meter, and it has to ''already'' be low just for her to agree to join.

** Generally speaking, the element opposition is Fire - Cold, Light - Dark, Thunder - Physical. Generally one is only strong in one element of each pair.

* [[The Empire]]

* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Rashidi

* [[Fake Ultimate Mook]]: The Golem units in most of the games. They have inherently high strength (and, in the front row, deliver three crushing punches) and can easily withstand most physical damage. However, they have pitiful HP, and are easily slain by one or two Fire-elemental spells.

* [[Revive Kills Zombie]]: Undead units (skeletons and ghosts) are dusted with one hit from a holy attack, usually delivered by [[The Medic|cleric classes]].

* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]]/[[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized|Civilized]]: Is the rebellion good or evil? Well, you're the one running it, so it's whatever you [[Karma Meter|want it to be]]. You can be a shining beacon of hope, worse than the empire ever was, or somewhere in between.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Yasumi Matsuno loves the band Queen. Both "Ogre Battle" and "March of the Black Queen" are named after Queen songs, and the stage "The Rhyan Sea" is a reference of the Queen song "Seven Seas of Rhye". The subtitle of ''Tactics Ogre'', "Let Us Cling Together", is from another Queen song.

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Wizard units deal excessive amounts of damage, but tend to die easily. ''Not'' the case for [[Our Liches Are Different|liches]].