Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria: Difference between revisions

* [[Eleventh Hour Superpower]]: Alicia {{spoiler|merging with the other valkyries and getting the Glance Reviver}}.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Alicia manages to get {{spoiler|Hrist and Brahms}} to work together to keep {{spoiler|Lezard from destabilizing both Midgard and Asgard and get Lenneth's soul back from him.}}

* [[Expy]]: Arngrim appears to be an [[Expy]] of himself from [[Valkyrie Profile|the previous game.]] According to the [[Valkyrie Profile Covenant of the Plume|the third game]], this Arngrim is a previous incarnation of the original.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Lezard Valeth... It's not like he did anything obscene or disturbing in any Tri-Ace game he's ever appeared in.

* [[Grand Theft Me]]: Silmeria does this every so often to Alicia. You can tell who's in control by looking at her eyes or by listening to her voice; they sound rather distinct from each other.

** Additionally, this is what Odin plans to do to {{spoiler|Rufus}} if his body gives out.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Eventually, Hrist comes around.}} It's that or an [[Enemy Mine]], depending on your viewpoint.

* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Karma finally catches up to Lezard Valeth.}}

** Compared to its [[Valkyrie Profile|predecessor]], the first half or so of the game is much more colorful and cheerful, with bright colors all around, and generally cheery music in towns as opposed to the drab colors and depressing score of the original game. Things take a nosedive in the latter parts of the game, of course.

** Interestingly, the [[Lighter and Softer]] feel is justified in-game. {{spoiler|Odin's theft of the Dragon Orb}} is directly responsible for the world becoming [[Crapsack World|crappier]] by the time the first game happens.

* [[Magikarp Power]]: {{spoiler|Dylan}} in the Seraphic Gate. He rejoins at the same level he was at when he left the party when {{spoiler|you defeat Gabriel Celeste}} while everyone else is hovering around the 40s and 50s, making him pathetically weak. He eventually learns an attack with one of the highest damage multipliers in the game, however, can use {{spoiler|the Tyrfing}} to boost his damage even further, and with the right Sealstones and Skills he can start doing ridiculous amounts of damage.

* [[Memento MacGuffin]]: Rufus gives the ring that is initially used to keep Rufus as a host for Odin {{spoiler|to Alicia to keep her alive as a Ghoul during their journey to Yggdrasil. It becomes Alicia's "good luck charm," and it soon becomes a trinket of their relationship, especially when Alicia (as the Valkyrie) [[Something Only They Would Say|kisses the ring]] to show Rufus that she's still there. Alicia also uses it as the conduit to manifest Rufus as an Einherjar after Lezard displaces his soul from his body.}}

** [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]], as Tri-Ace took a look at how lousy archers were in the first game and seriously built up the class. Now, they're much more accurate to go with their more-hits-per-attack, so the fact that their hits do less damage than others' strikes is quickly mitigated. And as the game is heavily [[Combo]]-based, and their Soul Crushes do the most hits, they basically went from "Why would anyone ever use an archer?" in the first to "Why doesn't everyone use multiple archers?" in the second. Using them is also necessary if you want to perform an infinite combo, thanks to one of their attacks that hits large enemies repeatedly and recovers more AP than it costs to use.

** Played straight with the mages, however. In the first game, magic was very powerful, likely to make up for the fact that mages had to recharge after each cast. Their Soul Crush finishing moves in particular went from the most powerful attacks you could do for the vast majority of the game to about the same strength as anyone else's Soul Crush or, in some cases, weaker.

* [[Non Linear Sequel]]: The game's location in the timeline is complicated at best.

* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]

** {{spoiler|The epilogue implies that these events resulted in an [[Alternate Timeline]].}}

* [[Timed Mission]]: Reaching the Rainbow Bridge {{spoiler|before Rufus' body fades away.}}

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: {{spoiler|You know Alicia has stopped being the weepy and cowardly princess when her solution to Odin's theft of the Dragon Orb and Silmeria's soul is to ''become undead'' and storm Asgard to get both back.}}

** Complete with an upgrade to {{spoiler|her}} [[Limit Break]] a few gameplay hours later and generally more [[Badass]] battle-quotes.

* [[Vendor Trash]]: Certain items are available only if you sell the right amounts of this to vendors. Plus, what trash you get depends on what you break off of enemies. While the "trash" items ''do'' give stat boosts when equipped, they tend to be non-runic (and thus don't contribute to the linked-equipment boosts), and the items you can get by selling them tend to be powerful weapons and accessories, although some of them are still worth using as accessories since they give large stat multipliers.

* [[Weapon of X Slaying]]: They're still around, but rather than the [[One Hit KO]] weapons they were in the first game, [[Nerf|this time they just allow critical hits]].

** It probably refers to her {{spoiler|returning to her own [[Alternate Timeline|timeline]].}}

** Also, the game confirms that the original game's [[Golden Ending]] is canon, so what happened to Lucian?

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