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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
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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.
* [[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
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