Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

** Also, {{spoiler|Arngrim}} is forced into this; {{spoiler|Hrist kills him and transforms him into her einherjar, thereby forcing him to fight Alicia}}. This is reversed later on, though.

* [[Flat Earth Atheist]]: One NPC mentions early on that she only believes what she sees with her own eyes, and this apparently does not include the gods, despite the supernatural being fairly commonplace in the setting. She changes her tune, however {{spoiler|after the gods flatten Dipan, after which she decides she's definitely going to the chapel from now on.}}

* [[Foreshadowing]]: The first half of the game is ''filled'' with {{spoiler|Leone, Lezard, and Rufus}} giving each other looks that get a ''lot'' more significant once you know what the twists in the plot are.

** [[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]]

* [[Rage Against the Heavens]]: The start of Barbarossa's plan. Also, one chapter of the game has Alicia and Rufus {{spoiler|storming into Asgard and just about wiping out the Aesir that try to stop them.}}

* [[Randomly Drops]]: Most annoyingly, the recruitable characters are completely random, which can be annoying if you're hoping to get a particular mage (and thus a particular Great Magic spell).

* [[Slouch of Villainy]]: Odin's standard pose.

* [[Soul Jar]]: Alicia's old einherjar are trapped in their weapons, and can be recruited by letting them out.

** Actually they are trapped in Silmeria, who is trapped in Alicia (russian doll Soul Jars?) The weapons they once owned act as physical conduits to release them.

* [[Spam Attack]]: The game's combo system encourages you to carefully time your attacks to conserve AP and the number of attacks, and to make sure they all land. But when Break Mode activates, you have infinite AP and attacks for about 10 seconds, which will result in this.

* [[Surprisingly Easy Mini Quest]]: In Yggdrasil, at one point, Alicia is left as the only available story-centric party member, and has to backtrack through the place to retrieve something. Probably just in case you dismissed all your Einherjar, all the monsters and bosses are significantly nerfed. But chances are you'll have at least a full party's worth of Einherjar, meaning you're going to [[Curb Stomp Battle]] anything up to and including the area's boss.

* [[Tear Jerker]]

* [[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?