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* [[Ascended Extra]]: You'll be surprised to see how much Tony took Marina's screen time in the Drama CD.
* [[Badass Long Hair]]" Brad definitely, Anastasia back in the day {{spoiler|and in the [[Final Boss]] fight, Ashley when he wields Argetlam against Lord Blazer.}}
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Irving and his sister both had to die to destroy the Kuiper Belt. And, as always, Filgaia is still a wasteland that is slowly recovering.}}▼
* [[BFS]]
** Ashley's weapon isn't actually a sword, but a rather normal rifle...equipped with a ridiculously large bayonet that may as well ''be'' a sword.
** The sword Argetlam might as well count. While it won't rival some other BFSes, it's as large if not larger than Ashley's bayonet.
▲* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Irving and his sister both had to die to destroy the Kuiper Belt. And, as always, Filgaia is still a wasteland that is slowly recovering.}}
* [[Blind Idiot Translation]]: The game script has signs of this throughout and it's jarring when one comes upon them, but overall the translation is actually fairly decent for a Playstation-era Japanese RPG. Not to say it's great, but it's definitely better than both versions of ''[[Wild Arms 1]]''.
* [[Block Puzzle]]
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* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: The American Old West combined with the Modern World.
* [[Free Rotating Camera]]
* [[G-Rated Sex]]: {{spoiler|Ashley and his girlfriend}}. The scene does a [[Fade to Black]], but the subtitles that stay are pretty much [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].▼
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: See [[G-Rated Sex]] below. Also, [[spoiler:Irving and Altaecia are very strongly implied as [[Brother-Sister Incest|being in a relationship]].
* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: {{spoiler|The Kuiper Belt}} is not even hinted at for the entire first disc, and is the focus of the second.
** On a smaller scale, there are also plenty of random giant monsters for the party to fight throughout the story.
** Played with by {{spoiler|Lord Blazer}}. It was obvious {{spoiler|he and Ashley would eventually fight}}, but not many expected {{spoiler|him to be the ''[[Final Boss]]''.}}
▲* [[G-Rated Sex]]: {{spoiler|Ashley and his girlfriend}}. The scene does a [[Fade to Black]], but the subtitles that stay are pretty much [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]].
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Some of the puzzle solutions, especially on the second disc, are quite obscure and would have required references on [[The Other Wiki]] if [[The Other Wiki]] had ''existed'' back then. Also, if you don't receive recommendations on which Personal Skills to pour your points into ([[Point of No Return|which you can't take back, by the way, unlike the games that followed]]), it's very easy to have an underpowered party and struggle through the game.
* [[Hello, Insert Name Here]]: To a rather ridiculous extent; you can name not only the party members and Lilka's spells, but almost every single plot-important NPC ally in the game.
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** {{spoiler|Brad left in what appeared to have [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]], but it was really [[Faking the Dead]] as the sacrifice was actually one of his [[Doppelganger]]s.}}
** {{spoiler|Irving and Altaecia.}}
* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Kanon is obsessed with her family honor, as is Irving. {{spoiler|Not particularly surprising as they are in the same family, after all.}}▼
* [[Homoerotic Subtext]]: Caina and Vinsfeld (Caina was [[She's a Man In Japan|male in the Japanese version]]); definitely also Billy Pilder and Brad Evans, who are more [[Ambiguously Gay|ambiguous]] but definitely more [[Manly Gay|masculine]].
** Caina is male for the ''entire first disc'' of the American version, as well. And part of the second.
▲* [[Honor Before Reason]]: Kanon is obsessed with her family honor, as is Irving. {{spoiler|Not particularly surprising as they are in the same family, after all.}}
* [[Humongous Mecha]]: Marivel uses these as her summons. Some of the Bosses are Mecha as well.
** "Dragons" in this game are essentially Humongous Bio-Mecha, but especially Lombardia, who can [[Transforming Mecha|turn into a jet]]. {{spoiler|He even gets a Gundam-esque "launch sequence" when you first recruit him as your [[Global Airship]].}}
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