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{{quote| ''Who are the people you surround yourself with? Are they the friends of who you are now, or the enemies of who you once were?''}}

Other characters include Spada Belforma, a [[Hot -Blooded]] swordsman and reincarnation of Durandal; Hermana Larmo, a young girl who runs a shelter for runaway Avatars, and reincarnation of Asura's steed Vrtra; Ange Serena, a kind but quirky nun from the city of Naos, and reincarnation of Ratio tactician Orifiel; and Ricardo Soldato, a [[Cold Sniper|cold mercenary]] who is the reincarnation of Hypnos himself.

''[[Tales of Innocence (Video Game)|Tales of Innocence]]'' is a 2007 video game, the second game in the ''[[Tales Series(series)]]'' to be released for the DS, developed by Bandai Namco and Alfa System. The game is short and regrettably lacking in puzzles, or indeed interesting stages at all. However, it's clear that love did go into the game, and was merely concentrated into the combat system. The so-called Dimension Stride LMBS is a fusion of ''[[Tales of Destiny (Video Game)|Tales of Destiny Remake]]'' and ''[[Tales of the Abyss (Video Game)|Tales of the Abyss]]'', and focuses on fast-paced action and nigh-endless comboing. The engine uses the same plane-of-motion control as ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'', but with the added option of free-run, making the fighting intuitive and versatile.

[[No Export for You|Namco decided to not let the game leave Japan]], but a competent [[Fan Translation]] by [https://web.archive.org/web/20110707075552/http://www.absolutezerotranslations.com/ Absolute Zero] is [https://web.archive.org/web/20110707075848/http://www.absolutezerotranslations.com/2010/06/29/tales-of-innocence-patch-released/ available].

{{quote| '''Iria:''' Hot damn! She just stepped on a land mine!!}}

{{quote| '''Ricardo:''' Goodness, our gluttonous female members never cease to amaze me.}}

* [[Calling Your Attacks]] -: A time-honouredhonored Tales tradition.

* [[Captain Obvious]] -: Played straight and lampshaded at the end of Regnum Cavern.

{{quote| '''Spada:''' Dogs.<br />

'''Ricardo:''' We can see that. There are two of them.<br />

* [[Combat Medic]] -: Ange, Iria, and Ricardo all learn a fair amount of healing and support spells, though Ange displays this trope the most.

* [[Dogged Nice Guy]]: ''[[Hot -Blooded|Spada]]'' of all people. It's painfully obvious he likes Ange, but she is oblivious to it and he [[Cannot Spit It Out|avoids actually telling her directly]].

* [[Final Boss]]: Actually a bit of an inversion for a [[Tales Series(series)]] game. While it still does have a final boss, said final boss is actually {{spoiler|a large demonic monster instead of the standard human or humanoid}}.

* [[Jump Cut]] -: In the edit of "Follow the Nightingale" that plays during the game's intro, about 55 seconds in.

** It actually becomes a [[Double Subversion]] according to additional info in [[New Game Plus+|subsequent playthroughs]] <ref>Talk to Chien in Sania after the Sky Castle.</ref>. {{spoiler|It's not that Cerberus looks like a cute critter ''forever''; when he dies, he's reborn as the same being in the same place, and the flashback cutscenes showing him throughout the game happen to be around the time when he was just a puppy.}}

* [[Magikarp Power]]: As mentioned above, the Versus style provides no bonuses and all its abilities cripple your stats, effectively making it a [[Self-Imposed Challenge]] difficulty level...until you level it up to level 45 or so, at which point you get large boosts to stats and post-battle rewards. This is mostly useful for playing on a [[New Game Plus+]], however, as leveling a style to 45 generally takes a full playthrough of concentrating entirely on that style.

* [[Names to Know Inin Anime]]: Lots:

* [[Path of Inspiration]]: Arca, the [[Cult|cult]] led by Mathais, who is trying to [[Omnicidal Maniac|destroy the world]], which she believes will make everyone truly equal.

* [[Saving the World]] -: A given, but rather than winning fame and adoration, the heroes stay pretty anonymous. They don't consult world leaders, they don't lead military battalions, they just do their hero jobs completely under the radar of everybody but the [[Big Bad]]. This is commented on at the end. "We changed the world, and nobody will ever know it was us." They then all go on to [[Normal People|lead fairly normal lives]].

* [[Scare Chord]] -: A well-placed one hits at various moments, like when an Avatar transforms into a Ratio.

* [[She Is Not My Girlfriend]] -: Luca points out to Ricardo at one point that his statements about Ange are very romantic [[Defied Trope|when they're taken out of context]].

* [[Shipper Onon Deck]]: Everybody knows about Luca and Iria, but Spada is the one that supports them the most (altoughalthough how much of it is support and how much of it is tease is arguable).

* [[Shout -Out]]: Surprisingly western ones, mostly with minor NPCs. For example, there is an old man (who is a bit of a poet) who tells the party about Chien's backstory. His name is [[Edgar Allan Poe|Edguar Allen Pwo]].

** And how about the guild mission where you gather [[Super Mario Bros.|1UP shrooms]]?

* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Absolute Zero's translation follows official localizations' footsteps - that includes re-romanizing some names to their probable original intent (Namco has a reputation for choosing foreign-sounding names that are actually pretty gibberish-y). Therefore, some differences between the translation and the "official" romanizations - Ruca/Luca, Asras/Asura, Sian/Chien, Matias/Mathias, Latio/Ratio etc. While Ruca/Luca tends to get some flame, the other "changes" (note quotations) are generally agreed to be for the better.

* [[Steampunk]] -: The setting is more industrialized turn-of-the-century than [[Medieval Stasis]] with [[Lost Technology]], a rarity for the series.

* [[Unlikely Hero]]: All 6 playable characters embody this trope pretty well. The only connection any of them have to the evil plot du jor is their past lives, which they start to distance themselves from as the story goes on and they deicdedecide that they'd rather define themselves by who they are now than who they once were. They manage to fly under the radar of all the villains but the [[Big Bad]] (they're noticed but never really singled out, except by [[Big Bad|Matthias]]), they're quite happy to have saved the world completely anonymously, and after the end they go their separate ways and go back to their normal lives.

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