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The fourth instalmentinstallment in the [[Desert Punk]] ''[[Wild Arms (Franchise)|Wild ARMs]]'' series, released as ''Wild ARMs: The 4th Detonator'' in Japan. Notable for combining [[Platformer]] elements with a experimental strategic RPG battle and stat growth system.
 
''Wild ARMs 4'' follows the story of Jude, a child who has grown up in the small, peaceful village of Ciel. At least, it's always seemed to him to be a small, peaceful village.
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With him is Yulie Ahtreide, [[The Chick|a young girl]] victim to horrific army experiments that have left her with the ability to control ARMs; Arnaud G. Vasquez, [[The Smart Guy|a cocky but intelligent Drifter]] who fights with powerful magic; and Raquel Applegate, [[The Big Guy|a swordswoman]] and artist searching the world for its last remnants of beauty.
 
The gameplay of ''Wild Arms 4'' mixes together RPG and platforming sections, and an experimental new battle system based upon hex grids. While interesting, the system had a few balance issues that were straightened out properly in ''[[Wild Arms 5 (Video Game)|Wild ArmsARMs 5]]''.
 
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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: Though present in the game, there are many instances that subvert this trope.
** Nearly every boss in the game is an adult that your party barely beats 4-on-1. Later they all have [[Game Breaker]] abilities that you have to find the [[Achilles' Heel]] of in order to even damage. If anything the message is that kids are useless (but plucky).
** Lambda specifically states that the problem is that his team forgot the value of teamwork, which is the entire reason they lose.
*** If anything, this game seemed to be trying to create an ''Adults Are Evil'' variant in its place.
* [[The Alcatraz]]: Ilsveil Prison, which appears in most of the games. Also doubles as the [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon]].
* [[Anti-Villain]]: Kresnik and {{spoiler|Gawn}}. Depending on your point of view, this could be stretched to all of Brionac as well, apart from [[Ax Crazy|Jeremy.]]
* [[Ax Crazy]]:
** Belial is nuttier than a fruitcake.
** Jeremy shows traits of this as well early on, but once {{spoiler|he becomes a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] with his ARM}}, he's even ''more'' crazy then Belial was.
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** In the main group, Arnaud seems to fill this role. He has no connection to arms and no combat experience. Just his brains and knowledge of spells.
* [[The Big Guy]]: Raquel as a class 2.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Raquel eventually succumbs to her condition and dies after giving birth to Arnaud's daughter, having finally found true beauty.}}
** Also, despite having promised to help build up Halim, {{spoiler|Jude ends up living alone out in the wilderness.}}
* [[Block Puzzle]]: It ''is'' a Wild ARMs game, after all.
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* [[Camera Screw]]
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: If you take the time to fully investigate the White Orphanage and Aerial Fortress Eulalia, you can find a veritable armory of these lying around.
* [[Combination Attack]]: One for each pair, set of three, and a hidden one for the whole party.
* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B43AuRlR1e0&fmt=18 Buried City]
* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Some of the officers in Brionac.
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Jude's father.
* [[Doomed Hometown]]: Ciel.
* [[Duel Boss]]: Jude vs. Kresnik.
* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: The scientists who ran the White Orphanage. They took orphaned children and used a variety of cruel methods to attempt to mass-produce artificially evolved humans who were Gene Drivers. Of all their subjects, only 19 survived the initial experiments, and only Yulie and Kresnik were not eventually killed or turned into mutated horrors.
* [[Floating Continent]]: Ciel, although it's only a town (and the surrounding forest) rather than a whole continent.
* [[Forgotten Superweapon]]: The Divine Weapon
* [[Fridge Horror]]: Occurs ''to the party'' at one point near the end of the game - "If this is a prison... ''where are all the prisoners?''".
** And while [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on how well the writing team managed to do this - it's meant to occur to you, the player. Think about what ''78 years'' of war with technology of a level [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] from 2010's would do to a planet and the people living on it.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Gawn and Kresnik. The latter may still be alive at the end, but as for the former...see below.}}
* [[Hero Stole My Bike]]: Jude borrows one to chase a train down.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9KFOJzn3u4 There's a reason why Gawn] [[Norio Wakamoto|is so badass.]]
* [[Human Aliens]]: It's a Wild Arms game, so this is standard.
* [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]: {{spoiler|Hauser}} is eventually driven insane by this belief.
** Couple this with [[Generation Xerox]], and {{spoiler|that interpretation of the epilogue in which Jude is assumed to have become a hermit doesn't look so improbable after all.}}
* [[Ill Girl]]: Raquel. {{spoiler|Implied to be dying of radiation poisoning}}
* [[Inferred Holocaust]]: {{spoiler|So, what happened to all those Wild ARM monsters rampaging throughout Filgaia?}}
** This is also how quite a few people view {{spoiler|Jude's ending in the epilogue. The game ''says'' he simply became a forest ranger, but [[Trauma Conga Line|considering all the horrors he went through]], it's possible the "forest ranger" part was just an excuse for him to ''abandon humanity and civilization''. ''Forever''.}} [[Angst? What Angst?|Then again...]]
*** [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on whether such an interpretation is truly intended or a case of [[Unfortunate Implications]].
** There's also a certain story told by Amengard (May 7th) about the Telepath Mages....
* [[Item Crafting]]: Rare weapons and accessories can be obtained this way.
* [[Ley Line]]: The ley points.
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* [[Morph Weapon]]: Jude's "Shapeshifter" ARM.
* [[People Jars]]: In the White Orphanage.
* [[Prequel in Thethe Lost Age]]: It seems to be set during a period of time constantly alluded to in other games in the series of a massive world war where cyborgs and nanomachine monsters freely roamed the lands. Many of the world's bigger cities have been destroyed in the chaos and are slowly turning into the types of locations you see in games such as ''[[Wild Arms 3 (Video Game)|Wild ArmsARMs 3]]''.
* [[Recurring Boss]]: Surprisingly averted, considering the series. Only two members of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] are fought more then once.
* [[Sea Monster]]: The Sapphire Drake.
* [[Sliding Scale Longof NameIdealism Versus Cynicism]]: The only happy people are the ones who died horrible deaths.
* [[Sorry I'm Late]]: There are a series of battles in which the four protagonists are supposed to fight alone. However, Yulie ends up against impossible odds since it was a ploy to split them up and capture her. About two rounds into the fight, assuming you survive that long, the rest of the party will show up to rescue her.▼
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Arnaud.
▲* [[Sorry I'm Late]]: There are a series of battles in which the four protagonists are supposed to fight alone. However, Yulie ends up against impossible odds since it was a ploy to split them up and capture her. About two rounds into the fight, assuming you survive that long, the rest of the party will show up to rescue her.
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]]: Played straight until you face Belial, then subverted in that each member of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] after that seems to be ''weaker'' than the last.
* [[Talking Is a Free Action]]: Taken to an physics-defying awesome degree in Gawn's final inspiring speech.
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* [[Trauma Conga Line]]: The second half of the game seems bent on making Jude suffer as much as possible.
* [[The Wall Around the World]]: The barrier surrounding Ciel.
* [[What Happened to Thethe Mouse?]]: Several members of Brionac whom the party defeats but doesn't kill.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?|What The Hell, Villain?]]: {{spoiler|Gawn is ''pissed'' when he finds out Lambda murdered the Cabal.}}
* [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]]
 
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