History VideoGame / AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky

--> [[spoiler:'''Oliver:''']] Look into my eyes: do you see a soul there?\\

* AnimalThemeNaming: Rings that protect against multiple status effects are named after snakes; the best one is the Ouroboros Ring, which stops every status effect except instant death and stun.

* DropTheHammer: The hammer weapons, like the Giant Hammer, and the Thor's Hammer that can be made from it.

* EverybodyHatesMathematics: After recieving Amos's Book of math, Ivy's face is not happy. Instead, she's neutral and speaks stiltedly, pausing after each ellipsis:

* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The Major Update increased the rate of [[RandomlyDrops random item drops]], as well as making it possible to disable RandomEncounters from the very beginning. One wonders how many players RageQuit during the first forest, without these features. Additionally, from the very beginning, there have been ways to easily regenerate MP, without the need for a SavePoint or HealingSpring.

* HedgeMaze: In front of Brunhilde and Solomon's mansion in Silver Spring, where {{Brick Joke}}s happen with people trapped inside:

* RefugeInTehWest: The place of safety that's founded by the endgame is located in the western part of the FloatingContinent it's on.

* WorldOfNoGrandparents: Cyril is the only grandparent that appears in the story, being the grandparent of the main characters. His wife's name, is only known after the TimeSkip, and that's through her gravestone.

* MinovskyPhysics: The properties of saecelium are remarkably well-defined: As Solomon says in his third message, it exists in the "when properly refined, [it] exists in a liminal space between realities", and as such is fixed in spacetime relative to other saecelium; it outputs a fixed amount of power for a stable crystal of a given size; and fallout from unstable saecelium has (for the most part) known effects.

* MinovskyPhysics: The properties of saecelium are remarkably well-defined: it exists in the "liminal space between realities", and as such is fixed in spacetime relative to other saecelium; it outputs a fixed amount of power for a stable crystal of a given size; and fallout from unstable saecelium has (for the most part) known effects.

I've found little ways to keep my sanity, but, when I met [the Bandit King], it was the first time I'd found someone who I thought could really change things.

* BonusLevelOfHeaven: The Shrine of [[CrystalDragonJesus the Mother]] sub-dungeon of the Temple of the Elder Gods. {{God}} can also be fought as a BonusBoss in the main temple. However, in a subversion, you are not ''literally'' visiting {{Heaven}}, but rather a projection of it formed from the collective subconscious. See also the entry for PlanetHeck.

* InterfaceSpoiler: Darius is resistant to dark and weak to holy. [[spoiler:This is because he's a ghost, but you only find this out if you track him down for his BonusBoss battle, late in the game.]]

** Some {{Bonus Boss}}es have an attack called "I'll kill you all!" that [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin tries to instantly kill the whole party]]. It has a low rate of success and you can get instant death protection at that point, but its still dangerous.

* NewGamePlus: You can start one any time after beating the FinalBoss. In addition to the standard carry-overs, it also gives you the ability to disable RandomEncounters and to fight the FinalBoss at various points in the story for additional endings (the developer says the latter part was directly inspired by ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''). However, one stipulation is that certain treasure chests (mainly those containing the rare crystals and Nightmare Dimension rewards) do ''not'' reset, so you can only ever have one copy of their contents. This is likely because four copies of the [[NoSell Luminous Armor]] would be a GameBreaker. {{Sidequest}}s don't reset either, so you can't farm the {{Bonus Boss}}es or the pig arena for their special equipment.

** Rutger is fought three times over the course of the story. [[spoiler:A version of him from another timeline can also be fought as a BonusBoss in the expert arena]].
** Darius is fought twice over the course of the story, and can be fought once more in a final showdown as a BonusBoss.

** The penultimate BonusBoss drops a nice piece of armor that grants both dark resistance and instant death immunity. Guess what spells the ''ultimate'' BonusBoss loves to use?

** The {{Bonus Boss}}es love this:

* LongTitle: The title has 11 words.