Wild ARMs 1: Difference between revisions

* [[Cosmic Keystone]]: The Teardrop and the Leyline.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: The demons' assault on Arctica. The humans never stood a chance.

* [[Death Course]]: Jack's introduction.

* [[Disc One Final Dungeon]]: The Photosphere

* [[Dub Text]]: In one of the more hilarious typos in the [[They Just Didn't Care|Agetec-translated]] remake, Alhazad gets called a "she" in his first appearance in the prologue. What makes this hilarious is that one of Al's defining traits is his creepy advances towards [[Dark Action Girl|Lady Harken]], so Agetec ''accidentally turned him into a [[Psycho Lesbian]]'', making it apparent that they never bothered to check up the plot of the game beforehand since Alhazad shows this part of his nature ''at the end of the same prologue''. They caught on later, having the next reference to his gender being a comment from Magdalen about that "fellow." However, that one "she" was never fixed, making this also an example of [[Inconsistent Dub]].

* [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]]: {{spoiler|Alhazad's true form has a single eye. In his ''mouth''.}}

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|Lucied, Guardian of Desire, is said to have defected to the demons during the war. She actually became the partner to [[Blood Knight]] Boomerang, who [[Wild Card|served no one.]] }}

* [[Fake Difficulty]]: In order to get the player to manage their resources, there were no MP- or special cartridge bullet-restoring items programmed into ''Alter Code F'' - the only way to restore either is by leveling up or sleeping at an inn.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Relations between humans and Elw are less then rosy.

* [[Five-Bad Band]]: Mother and the Quarter Knights.

* [[For the Evulz]]: Most, if not all, of Alhazad's various atrocities were done solely for his own amusement.

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: Averted to varying degrees. For example, Jack's special ability is the Fast Draw, based on his ability to create magical effects from drawing his sword quickly. He's all about speed. In gameplay terms, he is pretty much the fastest character, friend or foe: he almost always goes first. There is pretty much only one enemy that's faster: Lady Harken. This is in fact a plot point: she also uses the Fast Draw, and is {{spoiler|Elmina, one of the Fenril Knights who sacrificed herself for Jack.}}

* [[Game Breaking Bug]]: In the original, an item-duplication glitch renders resources almost completely trivial. Unlimited Crest Graphs means Cecilia's balancing factor (limited number of spells available) is gone, while unlimited [[Interchangeable Antimatter Keys|Duplicators]] means getting access to high powered stuff way too early.

* [[The Gunslinger]]: Rudy.

* [[Hammerspace]]: Where ''does'' Rudy keep that huge shotgun when he's not using it? And how did the villagers miss it before he used it to protect them?

** In answer to the first... well, [[Hammerspace]]. In answer to the second, apparently it was hidden amongst his belongings - one of the villagers admits to having found it when he searched them!

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Mother gives one during the first confrontation with her. It basically boils down to, "All things are meant to come to an end, [[Omnicidal Maniac|and what better way to have it end then me]]?"

* [[Heads I Win, Tails You Lose]]: Lose to any Quarter Knight in the remake and its game over. ''Win'', and the after fight cutscene acts like you lost anyway.

* [[Heroes Prefer Swords]]: Oddly, in the original, Rudy used a sword, despite him wielding a pistol-looking weapon in all official art. ''Alter Code F'' changed it so that he used the above-mentioned [[BFG]] for normal attacks as well as his special moves.

* [[Important Haircut]]: Cecilia cuts off her hair to prove to Jack that she's serious about going after the demons.

* [[In-Game Novel]]: Only present in the remake.

* [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain]]: Zed, while not exactly a pushover in battle, is largely viewed as a joke that can't do anything right, both by the heroes and his fellow villains. Which makes the [[Bonus Boss|optional battle]] against him late in the game much more alarming when he proves surprisingly capable of handing you your ass...

* [[Innocent Flower Girl]]: Mariel

* [[Interchangeable Antimatter Keys]]: Duplicators, although it is justified because they're actually magic keys that can only take on one shape once, and thus only unlock one lock.

* [[Leitmotif]]: Each Quarter Knight has their own unique theme in the remake, and they are ''[[Crowning Music of Awesome|awesome]]''.

* [[Ley Line]]: Infamously [[Blind Idiot Translation|mistranslated]] as Ray Line in the original.

* [[Life or Limb Decision]]: Rudy {{spoiler|cuts off (or blows off, in the remake) his own arm to save himself.}}

* [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]]: Boomerang's explanation when he returns as a bonus boss.

* [[Lost Forever]]: Played straight in the original with several items (including Crest Graphs and one Rune) in numerous one-shot dungeons. Averted in the remake as all items in one-shot dungeons are required to obtain or dropped by the boss while monsters in those dungeons can appear in the Forest Prison.

* [[Love Triangle]]: Both Cecelia and Jane have a thing for Rudy but Rudy seems to either be going for the harem ending or is just [[Oblivious to Love]].

* [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]]: Quite literally -- [[Stupidity Is the Only Option|you actually go to great lengths in order to do just that, fully aware of whom you're giving it to and how much of a bad idea it is]], although it's basically the heroes being unable to [[Take a Third Option|Take (or Think Up) a Third Option]] on the [[Sadistic Choice]]. This essentially sets up the plot for the first half of the game.

** In the remake it doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Mother. Apparently, Zeikfried and the other Quarter Knights were ''not'' aware of this, and are understandably [[Even Evil Has Standards|shocked/horrified]] when they find out.

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: {{spoiler|Zed, Boomerang, Alhazad and Zeikfried.}}

* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: The demons are from the planet Hyades and made of metal. {{spoiler|Lady Harken is the exception, as she is from Filgaea and was human.}}

* [[Our Homunculi Are Different]]: {{spoiler|Rudy}}. He's made of living metal, for one thing.

* [[Plaguemaster]]: Alhazad

* [[Powers as Programs]]: Emma can download enemy skills to learn them in the remake.

* [[Precision-Guided Boomerang]]: Hanpan serves the role of one.

* [[Puzzle Boss]]: The Shadow and Alhazad in the remake.

* [[Rare Candy]]: Apples. They increase various stats in the original and give an automatic level up in the remake.

* [[Robotic Reveal]]: {{spoiler|Rudy, after he cuts/shoots off his own arm.}}

** The character in question is not really a robot (and is, in every sense, a living being). They are, however, artificially created.

* [[Sadistic Choice]]: The main plot is started by one.

* [[Scavenger World]]

* [[Sealed Evil in a Can]]: Mother.

* [[Shadow Pin]]: Jack's Shadowbind.

* [[Shifting Sand Land]]: The Sand River dungeon.

* [[Shoot the Dog]]: {{spoiler|Quite literal. At one point, the party has to kill a dog mutated by Alhazad's Demon Seed.}}

* [[Solve the Soup Cans]]: There was a puzzle involving five chests on one side of a dungeon and five bookcases on the other side of the dungeon. You had to somehow read the books in the bookcases to tell you whether or not to leave it's respective chest open or close. It may have been [[Lost in Translation]]. And it returned in the remake, and was [[Guide Dang It|still freaking hard to understand!]] But fortunately, this time it was optional.

* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: Sort of averted in that Belselk is the first Quarter Knight you face. As [[The Brute]], he's actually the strongest of the bunch, and in the remake {{spoiler|is resurrected right before the final battle}}.

* [[Sprite Polygon Mix]]: In the original.

* [[Squishy Wizard]]: Cecilia. Emma in the remake is even squishier, though it's more accurate to call her a Squishy Scientist.

* [[Taking You with Me]]: {{spoiler|Arguably the entire point of Zeikfried's [[One-Winged Angel]] form.}}

* [[Talking Animal]]: Hanpan.

* [[Ten-Minute Retirement]]: Rudy after he {{spoiler|loses an arm and finds out he's an [[Artificial Human]].}}

* [[That Man Is Dead]]: Jack does not like being reminded of his old life of being {{spoiler|Garret, a guard of Arctica Palace.}}

* [[Video Game Remake]]: They went all out: new sidequests, new characters, clarified plot points, the whole nine yards. Now if only the translation was updated too...

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|When Mother is defeated the first time, she starts to break down because she can't understand how she could be defeated if she's the "destined destroyer" of reality. Its made more explicit in the remake.}}

* [[The Virus]]: {{spoiler|Alhazad's Demon Seed parasite.}}

* [[Walking the Earth]]: What Rudy and Jack were doing before the game opened. All Wanderers do this, to some extent.

* [[Wild Card]]: Boomerang pretty much only cares about fighting, so much so that his strong desire for battle seduced {{spoiler|the Guardian of Desire}} to follow him. At one point, he even protects the party from his supposed allies in order to be able to fight with them again.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Boomerang and Lucied

** Several human characters had several changes as well. Magdalen is much older. Bartholomew actually looks like a sea captain (while Drake looks like a typical pirate). Jane mostly retains her appearance but her personality is refined to make her a much bigger tomboy while retaining her tsundere nature. Zepet looks more like the adventurer he was. And finally, Nicholi actually looks like Jane's father.

*** This could apply during the end credits art montage in the original. While Jane was a blonde during the game, at the very end her hair is suddenly brown.