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A Wii-exclusive [[Eastern RPG|JRPG]] developed by Mistwalker and published and owned by [[Nintendo]]. It is directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, who regards it as a [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Final Fantasy]]''.

 

 

 

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* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Zael can choose to either go to the bathroom where Syrenne and Calista are bathing, or not go in and listen to some very suggestive conversation instead. Going in ends up with a black screen, angry screaming and Zael being hit in the face with a towel. Not going in leads to a more interesting conversation.

* [[An Axe to Grind]]: There's the joke weapon axe you get, and then there's the Para Axe, once fully upgraded becomes the Raijin Axe and serves fairly well as a mid-game to end-game weapon until you find a Chaos Blade.

* [[An Ice Person]]: Lowell.

* [[Anime Hair]]: The characters in The Last Story don't have particularly outlandish hairstyles, but they are pretty non-standard, with various spikes, braids and whatnot.

** You start the game playing as Dagran, and later on when {{spoiler|Zael runs away with Calista}}, you control Lowell for a while.

** Then during one of the last chapters, you even control Syrenne and Yurick for a bit. Each character has a slightly different playstyle, and the game helpfully provides tutorials when you take control.

* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: In the case of the armor you receive. Each armor and leg armor set you have serve as different sets of clothes for your characters. If you upgrade each piece to +9 the clothing gets more and more ridiculous with the addition of chains, armor pieces over shoulders/legs, capes and other fancy bits. Furthermore, you can fully customise the armour as you see fit, colouring or removing pieces of armour as you like, or even making the character go in underwear!

** You do get three other sets of clothes later on however that serve as "costume" armor. They have abysmal stats and cannot be customised, but when fully-upgraded grant some incredible effects.

* [[Arranged Marriage]]: Initially before the game starts, Calista was engaged to Jirall. She meets Zael and things change.

* [[Artificial Limbs]]: When you first meet Count Arganan, you notice that on the left side of his body, his arm and leg are in armor. Looks like he lost them or got them replaced in some unfortunate accident.

** General Asthar is the leader of the Lazulis Knights. He kicks ridiculous amounts of ass.

* [[Female Gaze|Baby Got Back]]: Zael and his nice ass, as noted by the women of Lazulis Island.

* [[Back-to-Back Badasses]]: Near end-game, Zael and Therius do this as they fight off the invading Gurak troops.

* [[Bodyguard Crush]]: Zael has a thing for Calista, even though she's already engaged. This changes however.

* [[Booby Trap]]: Exploring the underground ruins and choosing to 'check' the doors for hidden switches yourself instead of having Horace help you leads to the door blowing up Zael or causing him some pain in some other manner.

* [[Boss Battle]]: There's usually one at the end of every chapter that has lots of combat. Sometimes multiple bosses in one chapter!

* [[Bottle Fairy]]: Syrenne, one of female characters, is a heavy drinker. One of the weapons in the game is a wine bottle. Give it to Syrenne and it's hilarious.

* [[Boy Meets Girl]]: In some very odd circumstances, as boy finds girl hiding in a horse-drawn cart of all places.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: Lowell. His attempt to flirt with Ariela is completely rejected when she replies with 'What would like to order?' and 'Call me when you've decided what you want to have'. He then says something to Syrenne and gets pushed over the balcony and when the screen goes black, it sounds like he lands on a table. Hard. He gets beat up by Syrenne constantly. Even in cut-scenes he gets the short end of the stick. While examining a mirror he gets abducted by an evil spirit. He is the victim of a groin attack. All sorts of horrible things happen to Lowell, but he doesn't seem to complain. Much.

** The Gurak Captain also gets the short end of the stick. Each [[Monster of the Week]] he tries to sic on the party ends up squishing him or slapping him into a wall before turning to the party. His presence is pretty much denied by Zael, when Lowell and Syrenne ask if he ''knows' the Captain. Zael kind of thinks about it, shrugs and says no. He then remembers once he sees the Captain getting squished by a monster.

* [[Can't Act Perverted Toward a Love Interest]]: Averted, as Zael goofs and walks in on the girls bathing.

* [[Cherry Blossoms]]: The Katanas make cherry blossoms fall when you swing them. From their blades.

* [[Chick Magnet]]: Zael does pretty well for himself, considering he only has eyes for Calista. When you bump into some of the female NPCs in the city, some of them will comment that Zael has a nice ass.

* [[Chivalrous Pervert]]: Lowell. He hits on the ladies. He usually fails however.

* [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]: Blue and white for the good guys, and black and red for the bad guys.

* [[Cool Sword]]: Some the sword designs are a little extravagant, to put it simply. Some of them get pretty ridiculous and have their own flaming aura in various colors.

* [[Disposable Fiance]]: {{spoiler|Jirall, after a turn of events, Count Arganan tells Zael that he can marry Calista, effectively removing Jirall from the equation. This causes Jirall to get ''really'' pissed.}}

* [[Dissonant Laughter]]: Asthar loves to have a good laugh. Sometimes for no reason at all.

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Syrenne uses two swords/daggers/whatever she gets her hands on. Also {{spoiler|Zefa and Zesha, you get their swords the North, East, West and South Wings when you defeat them.}}

* [[Duel Boss]]: Four, in total. {{spoiler|One against Asthar, then against the [[Laughing Mad]] Jirall, later one against the first form of Zangurak and, in the Epilogue, a duel against Therius.}} Notably, three of them all use quick-time events at set intervals throughout the fight.

* [[Dull Surprise]]: The slack-jawed look on Lowell 's face as a ghost pops up in front of him, and proceeds in abducting him.

* [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors]]: Between the limited magic the party has access to; Fire, Ice, Wind, Plant, Light, Darkness, using the wrong one on enemies will heal them. Using the right one... Well, it wrecks their shit.

* [[Elite Mooks]]:

** Some Mooks have the word 'Elite' after their name.

* [[Evil Eye]]: {{spoiler|It turns out that Yurick has replaced one of his eyes with a magical stone that greatly amplifies his fire magic. He does not regret exchanging his depth perception for raw magical power}}.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Humans seem to hate the Gurak, a lot. And likewise the Gurak hate humans.

* [[Feel No Pain]]: One cut scene has Zael giving an armored knight a left cross, with his bare hand if you haven't upgraded your armor much. This knight is also wearing a helmet.

* [[Fetch Quest]]:

** In order to get a rare katana weapon, Zael has to...

Finally: Go to the jail to find Zola and give him back his journal for his sword. }}

* [[Fiery Redhead]]: Syrenne, who can get pretty riled up when people talk down about mercenaries.

* [[Flash Back]]: The game has some cutscenes which go back to Zael 's past when he's a child. One is where he first meets Dagran. The others are a bit darker.

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: A few characters have very noticeable scars:

** Lowell has a very large four pointed star shaped scar on the right side of his neck, which you don't see very often due to scenes where he talks you usually see the left side of his body, as well as his initial equipment has him wearing a scarf/kerchief that covers his neck.

** Count Arganan has a particularly nasty scar/burn wound behind his eyepatch.

* [[The Great Escape]]: Subverted. The party is put in jail after being accused of kidnapping royalty by Jirall. They plan to escape via the underground ruins in the jail. They end up failing miserably after they fight their way through the undead hordes to find that they've reached a dead-end, so they give up and go back to the cell.

* [[The Grim Reaper]]: The 'vampire' boss Nebirous, which looks more like your classic grim reaper than a vampire. It is actually a coffin with a grim reaper motif.

* [[Groin Attack]]: A wall retaliates at Lowell for kicking it by slamming itself into his groin. Syrenne laughs at him and she gets smacked upside the head by the wall as well.

** Some chapters can be missed as well if players fail to find the correct NPC that initiates it.

* [[Haunted House]]: One chapter takes place in a haunted house. Or rather a haunted manor belonging to some long dead noble.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Very early on when Syrenne catches an arrow in the chest. Zael freaks out and has a [[Flash Back]]

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Lowell jumps in the way of a sword of light that was meant for Syrenne, the music that plays during the rest of the fight is a [[Tear Jerker]].}}

* [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]: When you first meet Zangurak, he simply Perfect Guards all your attacks and then slaps you across the battlefield.

* [[Iaijutsu Practitioner]]: Performed by General Asthar, a Knight of all people. His sword draw is used to take out an incoming griffin.

* [[Imagined Innuendo]]: When you first go to the Arena, Syrenne uses some very interesting words to describe the 'activities' that occur there. Zael misinterprets the place for a brothel or love hotel.

** A wine bottle

** Apparently anything that isn't a sword or something similar makes for a poor weapon in ''Last Story'', as the following: a lance, a sledgehammer, an axe and a kitchen knife have incredibly low stats.

* [[Infinity+1 Sword]]: Once you've cleared the game the first time around, you can upgrade you weapons to +99. You however need to cash to do so first. And gold caps at 999999. Upgrades start costing the 10000s once you've gone past +5. +90 Upgrades start costing around 100000.

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: Once the Epilogue hits, {{spoiler|the Gurak end up living on Lazulis island, as Gurak island gets destroyed. As Zael wanders through Lazulis City, he finds there's a Gurak man asking a human male to introduce him to some human girls; in another location a human girl is flirting with a Gurak male.}}

* [[Joke Item]]: See above.

* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]:

** You receive Zola's katana as a side-quest reward. It upgrades to one of the better katanas in the game, but compared to some of the other swords, it's still fairly low on the list.

* [[Kiss Diss]]: Lowell tries to get some from Syrenne after catching her (and then groping her). She proceeds in punching him in the gut.

* [[Knight in Shining Armor]]:

* [[Lethal Joke Item]]:

** The above joke items when in New Game+ can be upgraded to ridiculous levels. So who wants a piece of the Leek+99?

** Finally, a use for the Prank banana. {{spoiler|Using them on Zangurak makes the fight a lot easier as he will trip, fall and drop his sword. Which you use on him.}}

* [[Limit Break]]: Around the level 30-40 mark, the characters gain a Spirit Bar and when filled allows them to use their Spirit Arte.

* [[Living MacGuffin]]: {{spoiler|Zael, once he acquires the power of the Outsider. And Calista, whose Arganan bloodline can awaken the Outsider's full potential}}.

** At one point, you can explore Lazalis City at night time. There are a handful of sidequests that are ''only'' active during this brief time period.

** The game ''does'' offer a small condolence in allowing you to repeat any dungeon you have already completed. You don't gain any XP, but the rare drop rate is increased and you can claim both the treasures you missed and new treasures you can only get on a replay.

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]:

** Syrenne, who wears significantly less clothing than the other mercenaries (mainly in flashback cutscenes).

* [[My Own Private I Do]]: Played with. {{spoiler|Post Epilogue, Zael and Calista go visit her parents' tomb. But they have to go through an army of monsters first. They're about to have their own little private moment, Zael 's friends have been following them the whole time. Syrenne and Mirania even brought Calista 's wedding dress for her.}}

* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Calista when Zael first meets her. She's hiding in a wagon.

* [[Not So Different]]: The humans and the Gurak tribe hate each other rather equally, taking civilians prisoner and the like. This is made even more so obvious as in the first half of the game, the Gurak have human slaves. When the tables have turned, humans raid the Gurak Castle and start killing civilians and taking them prisoner without second thought.

* [[Not So Stoic]]: Yurick after some events. Lowell will tease him about his somewhat childish fears.

* [[Old Master]]: Although not that old, Asthar falls under this category of Mentor.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting|Ominous Japanese Chanting]]: The final battle theme, "The One Who Rules All." Potential spoilers.

{{spoiler|Lost in solitude, one seeking an end to the fight.}} }}

* [[Only a Flesh Wound]]: Whenever one of the characters gets a foreign pointy object lodged in them. Not so much when a non-player character gets something pointy lodged in them.

* [[Orphan's Plot Trinket]]: Zael 's Lens, which serves as a telescope. He received it from his parents.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: The vampire boss Nebirous resembles the Grim Reaper-shaped coffin more so than a vampire. He is however weak to Silver arrows, which are conveniently given to you during the battle by a ghost. Nebirous also happens to drop the weapon 'Death', which resembles a scythe.

** Meanwhile, Zael has ''no'' excuse when a mysterious cloaked figure (in the same cloak!) appears to help spring him from jail.

* [[Pimped-Out Dress]]: Calista has a number of fancy dresses. Two of them you get as armor items for the other female characters. The last one is her {{spoiler|Wedding dress}}

* [[Power Glows]]: Any weapon that has been upgraded to a higher level will start to have a colored aura.

* [[Press X to Not Die]]: A few fights require some extra 'actions' like freeing yourself from spider webbing, jumping onto monsters and stabbing them, sword clashing and other fun stuff so that the players don't get all complacent.

* [[Protagonist Journey to Villain]]: One of the main themes of the game, according to [[Word of God]]. {{spoiler|The character in question is Dagran, whose single-minded pursuit of revenge and determination to protect himself from reprisal drives him further and further down the slippery slope}}.

* [[Rainbow Pimp Gear]]: Nobody's stopping you from making the characters wear nothing but [[Real Men Wear Pink|hot pink clothing]] or other, similar garish color schemes.

* [[Running Gag]]:

** Both Lowell and Syrenne comment on Zael 's less than tactful method of 'opening' rock doors by kicking them. Calista joins in later.

''' Calista ''': "Wait, you're kicking it!?" }}

** Lowell pulls an Zael by kicking a wall. The wall retaliates with a [[Groin Attack]].

* [[Sea Monster]]: Some of the bosses are sea monsters. Very annoying ones at that.

** Muruu, a giant sea turtle that can shoot electricity and paralyzing spines. He also has later incarnations as: Sumuruu, Dark Muruu, Domuruu.

* [[Shock and Awe]]: The Raijin Axe drops lightning bolts on enemies when you attack with it.

* [[Shockwave Stomp]]: Zael {{spoiler|and Dagran in New Game Plus}} can do the Vertical Slash, which involves running up a wall and then slamming down his sword, creating a shockwave, which does area damage and has the same effect as the Wind ability.

** Some of the events in game are reminiscent of other games.

*** Have Zael sneak by some guards and then calling the rest of the party is akin to an event a la [[Final Fantasy VII]] in the Shinra Building

*** One of the Muruk incarnations (a giant turtle) comes flying into the Arena, spinning like [[Gamera]]. The citizenry is completely horrified, while the party is baffled as to how a turtle that big could fly by spinning.

* [[Sidequest]]: Some of them are dead easy, like fetching ingredients for NPCs to plain weird.

** In order to learn how to dive into the water (you know how to swim however...) you have to catch three frogs. And in order to find said frogs, you must talk to a fortune teller who tells you where the frog is.

* [[Skinship Grope]]: Syrenne starts to check out Lisa/ Calista while they're in the bath. Leads to some [[Les Yay]]. Later Syrenne says that she wants to take a bath with Mirania and her wonderfully smooth skin.

* [[Slasher Smile]]: Yurick, {{spoiler|gives a particularly nasty one to Zefa as he prepares a spell to kill him. Instead he throws his father's knife at Zefa, and it kills him}}. Zael has one {{spoiler|during an 'episode' he has when he encounters the Last Cocoon, which feeds off of his memories. He ends up during the time when his village was attacked as a child and starts cutting down the bandits (who turn out to be his friends). The smile on his face as he cuts down Mirania without realizing is horrifying.}}

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Your spell casters don't really do much for defending themselves. They'll start casting a spell, get knocked out of the air and onto their butts, and then try again. Until they die. The idea is you're supposed to protect them while they're casting so that someone, namely the bad guy, gets nuked.

* [[Stat Grinding]]:

** It is actually a bit easier. Once you are allowed to free-roam in the castle town, Zael can find blue item bags littered along alleys and other obscure locations in town. They're random, but will give various stat bonuses to the entire party.

** Zael can grind his crossbow/arrow damage in order to make it more effective in battle. This involves either doing quests that give you Arrow damage improvement, or hanging around a windy alley, grabbing feathers that increase arrow damage in 0.1 increments.

** Zael seems to do a lot of the legwork for the party in the stealth department anyway.

* [[The Stoic]]: Yurick in the early game. Later on he starts to loosen up.

* [[Straight Man]]: Zael can be really blunt at times.

''' Zael ''': Huh... so you're a thief? }}

* [[Stripperiffic]]: Any customization of the female characters' outfits leading to them being much less than modest.

* [[Sword Plant]]: Some bosses require Zael to run up walls or perform a Quick Time Event action to kill them by jumping and planting his sword into their head/chest.

** This is taken to a ridiculous level against the Last Cocoon boss if Zael can successfully drop a ginormous sword on it, skewering it to the ground, so that Zael can the climb up the boss and [[Attack The Weak Point|stab it in the face]] [[For Massive Damage|for 99999 damage]], which he repeats until it is dead.

** Enforced in a cutscene in Chapter 40 by Lowell during the Zesha fight. *wink*

* [[Traveling Landmass]]: {{spoiler|Lazulis Island, once powered by the Foreigner's Power starts to move and Zael can control the whole damn thing when he's in Arganan Castle. The Gurak also have their own moving island which they use to invade Lazulis Island.}}

** Also making Zael bash his face against signs is hilarious. Making him slip and fall is equally hilarious.

** During one boss battle, three doppelgangers of your party members appear. If you hit the wrong person (your own friends) they will whine and complain to you.

** Any of the New Game Plus bosses are this as some are at least 50 levels stronger than they were the first time around.

* [[Wall Jump]]: One of the skills Zael learns is the ability to run up a wall, jump from it and slam his sword down, creating a shockwave. This can also be used to improve spell effects on magic circles.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: {{spoiler|Dagran, his means to get revenge on his parents' killers involves helping them up to the point where he can conveniently find the right time to stab them.}}

** {{spoiler|That tiger comes back... near the end of the game. It turns out to be a Guardian Spirit of Lazulis island}}

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Yurick

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Yurick is deathly afraid of ghosts, despite having no problem (in earlier chapters) blasting undead skeletons. He happens to be one of the party members on your excursion to a [[Haunted House]] and he is scared stiff. Getting shoved into a coffin doesn't help his fear either. Most of chapter at the [[Haunted House]] is spent listening to Yurick freak out.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: {{spoiler|Dagran to Zangurak, after Zangurak loses to the party and releases his arm, which has the power of the Foreigner and the Arganan Bloodline. Dagran kills the arm and takes the power for himself.}}

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