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The third game in the ''[[Star Ocean]]'' series, ''Star Ocean: Till{{sic}} the End of Time'', is set hundreds of years after the previous installments. Fayt Leingod, an [[Ordinary High School Student|Ordinary College Student]], is vacationing on a resort planet which suddenly gets attacked by aliens. A few escapes later, his escape pod crash lands on an undeveloped planet, he gets rescued by a member of [[La Résistance]], they crash on ''another'' undeveloped planet, and they get caught up in local politics. The repercussions of the alien attack - and the reasons for it - are going to catch up with Fayt again....
It's possibly most famous (or infamous, depending on your viewpoint) for the '''huge''' plot twist that comes about halfway through the story that completely changes the scope of not just the game, but the entire series itself.
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** It's even more hilarious when you realize [[Petting Zoo People|Roger]] is the one who would be most out-of-place on modern Earth.
* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|Luther's gotten a ''little'' too obsessed with running the Eternal Sphere.}}
* [[
* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]: {{spoiler|[[Tomato in
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Belzeber, based on his appearance and voice. However, being a minor boss character, this is actually never said [[Incredibly Lame Pun|straight]] out.
* [[Apocalypse How]]: Class X-3. {{spoiler|Earth and Vendeen both go silent, Aldian is destroyed, and varying levels of destruction/attacks by Executioners hit all the other planets in the Milky Way as well. Luther eventually pulls a Class X-4 on the whole Eternal Sphere.}}
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* [[Counter Attack]]: Both Peppita and Albel can do this.
* [[Crapsack World]]: Believe it or not, {{spoiler|the "real" world that Fayt and co. venture into fits this trope. Let's face facts: a world that's all play and no work is not as pleasant as it sounds. Especially when you consider that, as Maria points out, it's mostly a ''very'' effective ploy for Lucifer and his cohorts to essentially be the overlords of the 4D cities.}}
* [[Cursed
* [[Cutscene Power to
** The Enforcers can delete entire battleships, yet never use that ability in battle. Fayt's and Maria's powers, in turn, are this trope subverted. The actual attacks can be found for battle in a bonus dungeon... after beating the main story.
* [[Dance Battler]]: Peppita.
* [[Dark-Skinned Blond]]: Peppita Rossetti.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Fayt, mostly at the beginning to Cliff.
{{quote|
'''Fayt''': ''A turtle dropping out of orbit...''
'''''OR'''''
'''Cliff''': ''These restraints are pretty solid. Damn… They’re too tight, I can’t move at all...''
'''Fayt''': ''Um... that's why they're called 'restraints{{'}}''.
'''''OR'''''
'''Cliff''': ''True enough. But I bet you that Mr. Super-Square, champion of the UP3 would disagree with you.''
'''Fayt''': ''Hah hah, very funny.''
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: Albel and Nel, once they become [[Optional Party Member|Optional Party Members]].
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: Everything in Ameena's subplot.
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* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]]: The in-game dictionary is seen by some fans as better written/more interesting than the game script itself.
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Cliff, Fayt, and Albel.
* [[Expy]]: Ameena, a young, [[Innocent Flower Girl|pretty flower girl]] whose [[Conveniently an Orphan|parents are dead]] and later {{spoiler|[[Tear Jerker|in possibly one of the saddest moments of the game]], [[Ill Girl|dies as a result of overexertion and her illness]]}}. [[Final Fantasy VII
* [[Explosive Overclocking]]: Early on, Fayt turns his communicator into an improvised explosive by overloading it's power supply.
* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]]: Albel, though justified as the gauntlet is either {{spoiler|a prosthetic, or something that covers a severely disfigured arm.}}
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: In the story, Fayt agonizes for a long time over whether to break the [[Alien Non-Interference Clause]] by sharing his advanced technology with the Aquarians. Long before he does so, however, all the stores are likely to be selling bombs and other gadgets he and his party cheerfully designed and distributed via the invention system.
** Note that bombs and such have already existed, but only to the continent of Greeton.
** Cliff claim's Norton's gun won't do much damage to a member of his species, but it does exactly as much damage to him in battle as it does to Fayt. Giving he [[Prince of Space|dodges the weapon that won't effect him]], there is always the option he is bluffing or referring to his ability to dodge it.
* [[God Is Evil]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|Luther is ''not'' a deity, but he [[A God Am I|sure as hell thinks he's one]].}} In the original Japanese version, he's called {{spoiler|Lucifer, making him more like Yaldabaoth in [[
* [[Genki Girl]]: Peppita.
* [[Genius Bruiser]]: Cliff Fittir, probably. When he's not busy pulverizing Mooks with [[Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs]] and [[Sphere of Destruction]], he's also {{spoiler|the very capable (former) leader of [[La Résistance|Quark]]. In fact, he stepped down when he witnessed Maria's capacity for destruction surpassing his own...}}
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* [[Guide Dang It]]: The item creation system. There are so many items and equipment that you need a guide and a couple hours to get just a handful of items you want. It's also partially [[Randomly Drops]].
** Also, making two of the following characters permanent members of the party: Nel, Peppita, Albel, and Roger.
** Despite being a [[
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Albel}}; starts out as more of an [[Enemy Mine]], but if you recruit him as one of your [[Optional Party Member|Optional Party Members]], he definitely becomes this.
* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Fayt. Expressly to fit in on the underdeveloped planets he lands on. And he plays a warrior archetype in the video game simulation he plays with.
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* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons]]: Crosell, complete with {{spoiler|makeshift [[Magitek|magical]] [[Wave Motion Gun]] strapped to his back}}.
* [[Jerkass Facade]]: Albel is arguably putting up one of these, due to a [[Freudian Excuse]].
* [[Jerk
* [[Kamehame Hadoken]]: Cliff's Battle Skill Max Shockwave, as well as Albel's Fist of Destruction.
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Albel and Adray, for starters. Adray in particular is strange because [[Ornamental Weapon|he never unsheathes his weapon.]]
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* [[Luck-Based Mission]]: The Bunny Races.
* [[Magic Genetics]]: What Symbological Genetics entails.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Fayt Leingod and Maria Traydor. It should be noted, though, that Maria's surname (literally spelt "Traitor" on the Japanese official site) {{spoiler|is actually a misnomer, since she never behaves traitorously in any way at all.}} Sophia gets in on the act too, if you know anything about Gnosticism (or played [[
** Maria could be considered a traitor; she was originally a human from the Federation, but later joins Quark, an anti-Federation group.
* [[Mind Screw]]: Just try to understand how the ending works. Go ahead, just try.
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* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]]: Completely averted when Fayt, when getting a mature and unwanted woman to leave him alone, claims that Sophia is his girlfriend when she asks if she's his sister. Sophia practically plays this straight until Fayt begs her to play along with him. Not like she minds.
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Fayt and Cliff. "Engineers from Greeton", indeed.
* [[Shout-Out]]: You meet two brothers named Lucien and Lezard in Lost City of Surferio. For those who don't know, Lucian is also the name of Lenneth's love interest in [[Valkyrie Profile]] and Lezard is the name of her [[Love Makes You Crazy|insane]] [[Stalker
** Lenneth and Freya also make appearances as super bosses. Interestingly, like Lucian and Lezard, Lenneth was also turned into a little kid and has small animal-like ears.
** There's also the Lezard flask, also a reference to Lezard.
** Given the name and description of the Sunrise Dictionary, it may be a reference to the [[Sunrise (company)|Sunrise]] company, well known for the [[Gundam]] [[Humongous Mecha|mecha]] series.
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness]]: In a particularly odd example, Cliff's futuristic muscle-enhancing "Mighty Gauntlet" weapon is his weakest weapon in the game, not counting crafting failures, ''because'' it's his starting weapon. Even run of the mill iron gauntlets are stronger.
* [[Spam Attack]]: Cliff's "Fists of Fury" and Albel's "Air Slash of Fury" and "Double Slash of Fury".
** Fayt's "Side Kick." Well, [[Spam Attack|Spammed Attack,]] anyway. Once he gets it, he spends an ''awful'' lot of the game flying foot-first at one enemy or another.
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Taking the Bullet|Taking The Laser Blast]] {{spoiler|This is how Fayt's father dies, trying to protect him from being killed by Biwig.}}
* [[Take That]]: A very subtle upwardly-aimed one. ''Till the End of Time'' was one of the first games [[Square Enix]] published after their merger back in 2003. The game's [[Big Bad]] and his [[Goldfish Poop Gang]] of flunkies are all part of a videogame company, a company known by the shorthand "Sphere". What's that remind you of?
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** If you do not get the Fayt/Maria ending, Maria will hook up with Lieber, making Marietta Lieber's unlucky childhood friend.
* [[Wave Motion Gun]]: {{spoiler|The Executioner's method of attack, as well as the Creation Cannon on the Federation Battleships.}}
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: The motivation of the ''antagonists''. Since the whole universe is {{spoiler|an MMORPG}}, the [[Big Bad]] doesn't see a problem with eliminating {{spoiler|the protagonists, since to him, they're just examples of [[
* [[When Trees Attack]]: There's a number of treant-like monsters you'll come across. While most of them can be killed using MP damaging attacks easily, you can also [[Kill It
* [[Whip It Good]]: Belzeber. Roger has one as well, but only uses it in a single move.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Fayt and Maria.
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