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Line 1: {{work}} * [[Anticlimax Boss]]: * [[Complete Monster]]: {{spoiler\|Weissman}}. ** Loewe used to be this, but after Falcom released a patch to upgrade him, he's sometimes considered to be harder than even the ''last boss''. * [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler\|Loewe vs Joshua}}. Multiple people have called the fight, without irony, even more epic than the entire climax sequence of ''[[Advent Children]]''. Made even more impressive by the fact that it's all done ''WITH SPRITES'', and it ''still'' manages to be completely awesome. The [[Final Boss]] of ''The 3rd'' is basically a preemptive strike for the party, meaning they'll have enough turns to cast their buffs before the boss can even act. {{spoiler\|Villains may they be, you've gotta admit the scene when the Legions storm the Grancell Castle is completely awesome; it's four [[Badass\|Badasses]] versus one [[Badass Army]] and our dear villains proves to be the more badass force.}} * [[~~Crowning~~Awesome Music ~~of Awesome~~]]: Metric tons of it. There is no ''bad'' music in ''Trails'', only tracks that are marginally less awesome than others.▼ ** Both of the [[Storming the Castle]] events in the final chapter of FC. Made even more awesome in that both times the heroes are able to pull it off with a group of less than 20 people! ▲* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Metric tons of it. There is no ''bad'' music in ''Trails'', only tracks that are marginally less awesome than others. "Silver Will" is more than worth mentioning, since it isn't an overstatement to say that this music may be even more popular than the game itself. Hell, it's even listed as the Best RPG Battle theme on 2ch ''and'' Youtube! * And then there's the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSHVVj0aWJs vocal version], which takes it even ''further''. ** "Hoshi no Arika" or "The Whereabouts of the Stars", ranked first on several "Best Game Theme Song Ever" lists in Japan. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyTwnoOkvoE Give it a gander.]. * [[Complacent Gaming Syndrome]]: In ''The 3rd'', it's easy to end up sticking to the same party members for most of the game, especially those listed in [[Game Breaker\|Game-Breaker]], at least until the final dungeon makes the player use all of them. * [[Die for Our Ship]]: surprisingly [[Averted Trope\|averted]]. While this series has [[Ship Tease]] for most of the cast (even the [[Ho Yay]] and [[Les Yay]] variants), the [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] is mostly civil and near to no-existance. This naturally leads to [[Ship Mates]], as explained below.▼ * [[Complete Monster]]: {{spoiler\|George Weissman, the [[Big Bad]] of both ''FC'' and ''SC'', starts off as a seemingly kind and helpful archaeologist named Professor Alba. This falls away at the end of ''FC'', when he reveals himself as an evil wizard who was manipulating Joshua and the other protagonists even before the game started. A high-ranking member of the secret organization of Ouroboros, Weissmann has the desire to remake the world damaged by the cruelty of humans in his own image. He was behind the massacre of the village of Hamel, which claims the life of Joshua's sister and Loewe's lover Karin. This in turn sparked the Hundred Days War, which affected the life of the main protagonist Estelle and created the events of the game. Weissmann then had Joshua brainwashed to become a ruthless, cold-blooded assassin, who slaughtered countless politicians and other influential people who were in Weissmann's way. After failing to assassinate Estelle's father Cassius, Weissmann attempted to have Joshua himself assassinated for his failure. At the end of ''FC'', Weissmann restores Joshua's lost memories and gleefully observes as he goes through an emotional trauma. Towards the end of ''SC'', Weissmann pursues the ancient city of Liberl Ark in the hopes of obtaining the ancient artifact Aureole and merge himself with it. Manipulating Joshua's mind once again, Weissmann attempts to have him execute Estelle so that he can free him from his mind spell and enjoy seeing him break emotionally. Despite considering himself as the savior of all mankind, Weissmann is completely blinded by his own sadism and hypocrisy, even to the point where he doesn't even realize that most of the events caused by the humanity are the cause of his own actions}}. ▲* [[Die for Our Ship]]: ~~surprisingly~~Surprisingly [[Averted Trope\|averted]]. While this series has [[Ship Tease]] for most of the cast (even the [[Ho Yay]] and [[Les Yay]] variants), the [[Ship-to-Ship Combat]] is mostly civil and near to no-existance. This naturally leads to [[Ship Mates]], as explained below. * [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Renne. She was popular enough to have one of the Drama CDs focus on her, which ''wasn't'' planned originally. Apparently Loewe was popular enough to appear in Alternative Saga as a playable character. His [[Leitmotif]] [[Crowning Music of Awesome\|really helps his popularity...]] * Naturally, Renne's popularity led to her being playable in Alternative Saga, too. * [[Epileptic Trees]]: One's worthy of noting outside the WMG page, with the speculation that this game may take place in the future of the world ''[[~~Ys (Video Game)\|~~Ys]]'' is set in. Of course, this crops up with other Falcom games and is usually scoffed at... but then ''Alternative Saga'' came out, and the shaking trees '''caught fire'''. The [[Word of God]] hasn't explicitly clamped down on this or confirmed it... yet. Another popular option is that it takes place in the far, far future of the same world as the Gagharv trilogy. ** The idea that the ''Kiseki'' world is the future of ''Ys'' seems exclusive to the English-speaking (and non-Japanese-reading) fandom; the game itself says the characters were drawn from different worlds (the setting is also largely derived from ''Xanadu Next'', but nobody seems to think that it's the same world as the ''Ys'' or ''Kiseki'' games), and it's pretty clear from {{spoiler\|the [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight\|lack of reaction]] to [[Back ~~From~~from the Dead\|Chester and Loewe]] and Lloyd not recognizing Renne or the Brights in ''[[Zero no Kiseki]]'' that the events of the game didn't 'really' happen.}}. The connections to Gagharv are much more solid, mostly centered around the Doll Knight novels from Cagesong of the Ocean. * [[Even Better Sequel]]: While the backstory and setting of ''FC'' is sweeping in scope, the combat is fun and the characters likable, ''FC'' ultimately plays a fair number of tropes relatively straight {{spoiler\|at least up until its very last act}} and even comes across as a little cliche at times, and really serves as more of a setting-establishment piece. It was ''SC'' that completely blew the lid off of player expectations (and a whole mess of tropes) across the board and cemented ''Trails''' place in history and the Japanese gaming zeitgeist. (~~Given~~given what [[One Game for ~~The~~the Price of Two\|initial reactions to ''SC'''s announcement were]], there's a level on which this is intensely amusing.). ** This could be applied to the previous ''Legend of Heroes'' series too, taking the best aspects of those games [[Up to Eleven]]. * [[Evil Is Sexy]]: Lucciola. * [[Fashion Victim Villain]]: The Lord of Phantasma, anyone? * [[Game Breaker]]: ~~Agate in SC, {{spoiler\|Alan}} in 3rd.~~ Agate in ''SC'', {{spoiler\|Alan}} in ''The 3rd''. In ''Alternative Saga'', Loewe. His Arc Drain has the ability to drain the enemies SP, if it hits 3 enemies, it would refill the skill's AP cost and add an extra for it so the skill pays for it's own cost. Not to mention his Kienzan is not only fast, but also has the power that rivals an Extra Skill. * [[God Mode Sue]]: Cassius, just... Cassius... * [[God Mode Sue]]: Cassius is OP, both as an NPC and when he is playable. When he appears, you can very much assume that the heroes' behinds have been saved from whatever impending doom might befall them, no exception. * [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: Man, by the end of the main plot a ''lot'' of characters have generous helpings of this in their backstories. The younger Ouroboros members {{spoiler\|like Joshua and Renne}} have it ''particularly'' bad. {{spoiler\|And then there's what Weissman does during the game, and what ends up ''happening'' to him}}...}} Needless to say, despite being ultimately optimistic, this game gets ''really, really '''dark''''' at times. * [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Cassius. A rare case where such a character is on the protagonist's side. {{spoiler\|Mostly.}}▼ * [[It Was His Sled]]: {{spoiler\|The fact that Renne's a villain, at least for a while, is actually kind of hard to avoid now that ''SC'''s been out for half a decade in Japan. ''Alternative Saga'' practically references it wholesale, never mind all the videos and whatnot spread all over the Internet}}. * [[Memetic Mutation]]: Among the Japanese fanbase - <s> DRAGON</s> [[Lolicon\|LOLICON]] DIVE!!!▼ ▲* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: Cassius. A rare case where such a character is on the protagonist's side. {{spoiler\|Mostly.}}. * [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Weissman crosses this when he reveals that {{spoiler\|not only did he [[Brainwashed and Crazy\|mind control Joshua and turn him into a puppet]] but also indirectly cause the attack on Joshua's village that led to Joshua's sister's death and made Joshua and Loewe's lives a living hell}}. ▼ ▲* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Among the Japanese fanbase - <s> DRAGON</s> [[Lolicon~~\|LOLICON~~]] DIVE!!! * [[Moe]]: Tita. Just ask [[I'm Taking Her Home with Me\|Estelle]]. ▲* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Weissman crosses this when he reveals that {{spoiler\|not only did he [[Brainwashed and Crazy\|mind control Joshua and turn him into a puppet]], but also indirectly cause the attack on Joshua's village that led to Joshua's sister's death and made Joshua and Loewe's lives a living hell}}. * [[One True Threesome]]: It's not unheard of for some fans to ship the [[Official Couple]] of Estelle and Joshua with Kloe, since she already had a crush on Joshua to begin with and develops a close friendship with Estelle. * [[Sequel Displacement]]: The trilogy-cum-franchise has proven to be so popular that it's basically supplanted its parent Legend Of Heroes franchise; the following two games are ''[[Zero no Kiseki]]'' and ''Ao no Kiseki'', both of which still technically keep the "Legend of Heroes" franchise title but practically as a footnote, and don't even bother with numbering any longer. And the next one, aka ''Nayuta no Kiseki'', drops "The Legend of Heroes" altogether. * [[Ship Mates]]: Joshua/Estelle shippers tend to support Agate/Tita and Olivier/Schera as well. As sequels popped out, they add these ships in their list: Zane/Kirika, {{spoiler\|Loewe/Karin}}, {{spoiler\|Lechter}}/Kloe and Kevin/Ries. Those who ships [[Ho Yay\|Olivier/Mueller]] pairs [[Les Yay\|Schera with Aina or Lucciola and Julia with Kloe]]. * [[That One Boss]]: * [[Tear Jerker]]: Mother of ''God''. You have no soul if some of these scenes don't elicit ''at least'' [[Manly Tears]] from you. * ~~[[That One Boss]]:~~* Loewe in ''SC'', {{spoiler\|Cassius and the Black Knight}} in ''TC''. Loewe takes the cake though, he is so hard, the game actually let you choose to proceed the game without defeating him! {{spoiler\|Renne}} also tends to make people pull their hair out in ''SC'', {{spoiler\|1=particularly the last fight with her when she's accompanied by Pater Mater. It's bad enough that she can use her reaper-esque S-Crafts to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg0KvcpNi78 one shot your entire party] if you're positioned badly. When she's accompanied by a mountain of steel and HP that can punt you across the arena and ''revive her'' when she's knocked out? The suffering never ends.}}. {{spoiler\|Grimoire!Kevin and his cannons}} from ''The ~~Third~~3rd''. For starters, {{spoiler\|he likes to spam Grail Sphere EVERY TURN. And the cannons... OHMAIGAWD THE CANNONS. Unless you bring Kloe for her +50% Def S-Craft bonus, you won't survive against their 3-hit cannonballs}}. ** The spider boss in Chapter 5 of ''The ~~Third~~3rd'' might qualify too. {{spoiler\|Let's say that [[Mama Bear\|you hurt its children too much]].}}. * [[That One Sidequest]]: * [[Too Cool to Live]]: {{spoiler\|[[Master Swordsman\|Master]] [[That One Boss\|Swordsman]] with a [[Bling Bling Bang\|Golden]] [[Cool Sword\|Sword]]? Rides on a [[Humongous Mecha\|black metal dragon]]? [[White-Haired Pretty Boy\|Silver-haired]] [[Purple Eyes\|purple-eyed]] [[Aloof Big Brother]] for the male lead? Has the most awesome [[Leitmotif]]? Voiced by [[Hikaru Midorikawa]], named [[Awesome McCoolname\|Leonhardt]] and known as [[Red Baron\|The]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast\|Sword Emperor]]? Admit it, it was the only way for the Sora no Kiseki world to not to be frozen by Loewe's epic coolness.}}▼ Some of the doors in ''The 3rd'' will involve flashback battles, where you're stuck with limited arts, items and equipment. In some cases, you don't even get to use arts. {{spoiler\|Although his subsequent appearence in 3rd and his [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight\|apparent]] [[Back From the Dead\|resurrection]] in Alternative Saga suggest that Falcom might consider him Too Cool To Die.}}▼ Star Door 6 ("Training - Agate-style") stands out in particular, as you're using three [[Joke Character\|Joke Characters]] with weak stats, no Arts and a heavy reliance on CP, have very limited healing items and have to take on a ''full dungeon'' rather than a single fight. The fishing minigame door is dreaded by many for the difficult timing mechanics and the AI opponent's luck in getting larger fish. ▲* [[Too Cool to Live]]: {{spoiler\|[[Master Swordsman\|Master]] [[That One Boss\|Swordsman]] with a [[Bling Bling Bang\|Golden]] [[Cool Sword\|Sword]]? Rides on a [[Humongous Mecha\|black metal dragon]]? [[White-Haired Pretty Boy\|Silver-haired]] [[Purple Eyes\|purple-eyed]] [[Aloof Big Brother]] for the male lead? Has the most awesome [[Leitmotif]]? Voiced by [[Hikaru Midorikawa]], named [[Awesome McCoolname\|Leonhardt]] and known as [[Red Baron\|The]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast\|Sword Emperor]]? Admit it, it was the only way for the ''Sora no Kiseki'' world to not to be frozen by Loewe's epic coolness.}}. ▲** {{spoiler\|Although his subsequent appearence in ''The 3rd'' and his [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight\|apparent]] [[Back ~~From~~from the Dead\|resurrection]] in ''Alternative Saga'' suggest that Falcom might consider him Too Cool To Die.}}. * [[Toy Ship]]: Harry and Mina in Bose city. Somewhat hard to notice as they're non-essential NPCs that the player has to talk to on their own initiative. * [[The Untwist]]: The [[Black Knight]]'s identity is so obvious, [[Lampshade Hanging\|even the characters weren't surprised when they saw his true face]], and in case you haven't figured it out , {{spoiler\|it's Loewe.}}.▼ * [[The Woobie]]: Joshua, Loewe, Kevin, and Renne. ▲* [[The Untwist]]: The [[Black Knight]]'s identity is so obvious, [[Lampshade Hanging\|even the characters weren't surprised when they saw his true face]], and in case you haven't figured it out {{spoiler\|it's Loewe.}} {{worksubpagefooter}} ~~{{reflist}}~~ ~~[[Category~~{{DEFAULTSORT:Legend Ofof Heroes: Trails in the Sky, ~~VI]]~~The}} [[Category:~~YMMV~~Legend of Heroes VI]]